what is "malus"?

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by capnq

I've seen the word used on other gaming boards, but never by someone whose first language was English (AFAIK).

Hmm, interesting. My first language is English, so you've seen it now. (Although I don't use it consistently, and usually would use a real word like "penalty". I'd probably only say "malus" if I had used "bonus" in the same paragraph.)

-Max

[Gandalf Parker]

Thats what we need in this game.
More Latin, and Sanskrit, and Celt!
(like there isnt a ton of it already)

Sometimes I feel like Ive learned more history and mythology from this game than I ever did in school.

[archaeolept]

the word is commonly used in French, probably other European languages as well.

[Dedas]

Malediction and Malicious?

[lch]

What troubles me most is that the plural of the English "bonus" is "bonuses" instead of "boni". Brrr.

Some game system used "boon(s)" and "bane(s)" instead of "bonus" and "malus".

[Archonsod]

Originally Posted by lch

What troubles me most is that the plural of the English "bonus" is "bonuses" instead of "boni". Brrr.

Blame William. When the French Vikings were imposing Latin on the Germanic tongue of the Britons his advisors suggested grammatical rules were more important than unifying the lexicon.
Little known fact, but the rebellion in the North was entirely an attempt to avoid generations of British schoolboys being forced to spend five years of their life attempting to distinguish between nouns, pronouns, gerunds, participles and infinitives.