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Very Heavy Chess. A lot of firepower with all compounds of classical chess pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, May 4, 2022 04:33 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 08:56 AM:

There are a few problems with the name Popess:

  1. Unless you're counting Pope Joan, there has been no such thing.
  2. Presumably, there would be only one Popess if there were one, because it would be a female Pope, but your game gives each player two of them.
  3. The word derives from a word meaning father. Presumably, the word for a female equivalent of a Pope should derive from a word for mother.

Here are some possible alternatives:

  • Mother Superior - the highest rank reached by nuns in the Catholic Church.
  • High Priestess - a common term for a high ranking female cleric, and it is used in the major arcana of the Tarot.
  • Bokononess - a made-up word formed from the name of a fictional religion portrayed in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle.