Oh man, the [Bard's Tale] spell system. Those abbreviations were so ingrained into my memory that the letters would jump out of text I'd see on newspapers, magazines, signs, wherever. Instead of "dill" on a jar of pickles, I'd see DIIL. "In" on a sign? Of course you'd see WO after it. (I think that was probably my favorite spell system for a computer game until I played Dungeon Master on the Apple IIGS. The organic system of combining runes to discover and create spell effects in that game still influences me when I'm working on games today.)
Seth Johnson, HeroClix World Interview (2009)