System Name Candidates
Potential names for the game system (not the world — Abeceus is the setting).
Current Favorites
Crucible
A container in which things are subjected to extreme heat and pressure. Transforms what’s put into it. Reveals what something is actually made of. Fits the design philosophy: combat as a test that forges and changes characters, burning away everything that isn’t essential. Clean, one word, evocative.
“We’re playing Crucible tonight.”
Other Candidates
Substrate
The underlying layer everything else is built on. Fitting for a VTT-native system where the engine is the game. Also carries a biological/chemical connotation — the substance an enzyme acts on, the foundation a culture grows from.
Caliber
Both a weapons measurement and a measure of a person’s quality. Double meaning that fits a system about both ballistic reality and character under pressure.
Open Slot
(Add more as they come to mind.)
Decision: Not yet. Sleeping on it.