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Posted by: vinsane Jun 24 2011, 07:05 PM

I am curious as to what other think of when they here the different terms for a 'round'. Do you like time-frame to be called rounds, turns, segments, moose calls, etc. This is stating that everything is the same amount of time and merely semantics for a game.

Posted by: Yerameyahu Jun 24 2011, 07:15 PM

I guess 'Turn', while inoffensive, is kind of inaccurate. A turn is a single person's bit, not the whole collection of everyone's total IPs.

Posted by: Sesix Jun 24 2011, 07:16 PM

I have to say rounds. Mainly because to me I been playing a lot of games that a single TURN can be made up of multiple different ROUNDS.

Posted by: vinsane Jun 24 2011, 07:36 PM

Yeah, I lean more to wards that myself, but I think this from the old school AD&D days when 10 rounds = 1 turn. Different games have thrown them around and they're more or less synonymous, but I think there is still some lingering feelings that rounds are a subset of a turn. But Shadow run uses Turns/Phases.

Posted by: vinsane Jun 24 2011, 08:10 PM

hmmm, depends on how you look at it. The term 'turn'; is the revolution around an axis. If you imagine the rotation of each person around a table, the center being the axis, then when everyone has gone, you have '1' full turn. But your point is valid as every associates it with taking 'their turn' and that in itself make me want to discount it as an option .

Posted by: Gibbersan Jun 24 2011, 08:29 PM

Had the same problem with turns, rounds and phases, when I first got started with SR back in the day, coming from D&D.

Posted by: pbangarth Jun 25 2011, 02:36 AM

Round works for me. Going around the table as opposed to each individual taking her turn.

Posted by: Epicedion Jun 25 2011, 05:38 PM

"Round" and "turn" mean pretty much the same thing in a game, and if both are used (noninterchangeably) one is generally a subset of the other (and based on my experience, Turn usually encompasses a number of Rounds). That can be confusing, so I like it when games stick to one or the other.

I generally like Shadowrun's terminology:

Turn - complete segment
Pass - partial segment
Phase - individual segment

In common speech, though, we generally tell people things like "it's your turn" to indicate that it's time for them to do something, though to do so in a game is generally imprecise.

Posted by: Yerameyahu Jun 25 2011, 06:13 PM

See, I feel very much the opposite: a round has turns in it. As in, Round 1, Fight! In general, obviously.

Posted by: KarmaInferno Jun 27 2011, 04:22 AM

Been playing Arcanis RPG so for the moment I am thinking in terms of Ticks. As in Clock Ticks.






-k

Posted by: Adarael Jun 27 2011, 04:34 PM

I use "turns" when I speak to players, because many of my players are not old-school gamers, so they understand "turns" better than rounds - especially since that's what's printed in the book.

But old school gamers know that one "turn" is ten "rounds".

Posted by: X-Kalibur Jun 27 2011, 05:07 PM

I change my terminology based on the game.

In SR I'll refer to it being someone's Pass in the Turn.

Whereas in D&D I will refer to it as being someone's Turn in a Round.