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Okay, guys, today's topic, sorry, today's topic is based on something from my blog, blog-tog.

Okay, so the topic is, how and when do we decide to keyword something? so i'm going to talk today about sort of what

the key is to when we choose to keyword things so i'm going to start from the very beginning of

exploratory design and go through the end of vision um usually when we hand over stuff from vision

we we are making a suggestion of what things are supposed

to be keyword in the set. Not that in set design, it can't change, but usually vision is

establishing what we think the keywords are going to be. Okay, so in the beginning, in Exploratory

Oh, sorry, before I get to that, let me do a little, a little vocabulary setting for people.

Okay, so there are actually three things, when we talk about mechanics, there's three things that

get named, if you will. There are keyword abilities, there are keyword actions, and there are

ability words. Let me talk a little bit about what those are. So a keyword ability is probably what you think of when you think of a keyword,

which is things that go on creature.

So a keyword, what a keyword means is that you're taking a bunch of text

and replacing that long bunch of text with a short, usually one, two or three words,

a keyword. So instead of saying blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, usually one, two or three words, a keyword.

So instead of saying blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, you say keyword.

So it's a means in a ways to sort of save some space.

So instead of saying, this creature can only be blocked by other creatures that, you know,

blah, blah, blah. It's like flying.

And so keyword abilities are abilities to go on the creature that are shortened.

Now, remember, for the keyword to work, everything has to have the exact same words.

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