I can's resist a little silliness in my character's name but it's usually buried in a longer name so I get a little chuckle out of introducing myself and then get on with the game. I played a bard named Friggan Dezibel Ecksess but everyone just called her Dezi.
Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.
Jayne ,'The Message'
Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
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Laga - Aug 06, 2008 8:38:49 am PDT #1157 of 26132
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
billytea - Aug 06, 2008 4:27:15 pm PDT #1158 of 26132
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
My naming conventions are all over the map. My first Living Greyhawk character I named with the help of that character creation CD that came with the 3.0 PHB, he became Kerrick of Nyrond. His entire backstory then came out of how he got from Nyrond to Keoland. Then there was a Bakluni called Eccan al-Nahr'eysh, this being rough Arabic for 'Water of Life'. My first Perrenland character I named under time pressure. Perrenland uses Dutch for a lot of place names and all, so I called him Van der Valk after a 70s detective show set in Amsterdam.
After that my gaming group suggested thatwe all create wood elven characters and call them the Fiercecheese clan, like Brie Fiercecheese and Gouda Fiercecheese. I made a ranger called V. B. Fiercecheese (the V. B. stands for Venezuelan Beaver). Then came a dwarven monk called Duncan Dönitz, and a halfling marshal called Napoleon, Lord of the Undergrowth. I also had plans for a dual bastard sword-wielding fighter called Julien Fryze (his bastard swords would be called Sexy and Magnificent, respectively), and a half-orc monk named Mother Farquhar.
I'm back on more serious names now, and have a wizard called Pericles Architeuthis and a dwarven barbarian called Canaan Granitehand.
JoeCrow - Aug 06, 2008 5:31:37 pm PDT #1159 of 26132
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
Ya know, that's like the third paladin of the Raven Queen I've come across in actual play stories. Interesting how that's gotten to be such a popular choice.
Laga - Aug 06, 2008 5:35:57 pm PDT #1160 of 26132
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
it was the natural choice to fit into our adventure as we've already encountered some followers of Orcus.
Volans - Aug 07, 2008 1:46:57 pm PDT #1161 of 26132
move out and draw fire
My favorite naming plan dates from about 6 years ago: psychopharmaceuticals. Zoloft was the evil sorceror, Celexa was the female elf ranger, Ritalin was the assassin-flavor rogue. The cleric was Cialis, even though that's not directly a psych med.
billytea - Aug 07, 2008 5:21:38 pm PDT #1162 of 26132
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
My favorite naming plan dates from about 6 years ago: psychopharmaceuticals. Zoloft was the evil sorceror, Celexa was the female elf ranger, Ritalin was the assassin-flavor rogue. The cleric was Cialis, even though that's not directly a psych med.
It could be if you switch it with a placebo. "I don't-- I don't know why this isn't working." "Psych!"
Laga - Aug 07, 2008 9:09:07 pm PDT #1163 of 26132
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
That's funny. I played 1st Edition with a rogue named Dexedrine.
Volans - Aug 08, 2008 5:13:15 am PDT #1164 of 26132
move out and draw fire
New games arrived yesterday:
- San Juan, the card game version of Puerto Rico. PR is a brilliant game, but we often don't play it because it has a really fiddly setup. So maybe the card game will get more play.
- Power Grid. I'm unsure about this one.
- Ticket to Ride. The DH is hoping that Mallory will be ready to play board games, oh, next week I think.
- Amun-Re. Purchased completely because of the brilliant play report billytea linked to here. Plus, plastic pyramids!
Ailleann - Aug 08, 2008 5:37:30 am PDT #1165 of 26132
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Power Grid. I'm unsure about this one.
A friend of mine got Power Grid a few weeks ago and they like it.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Aug 08, 2008 5:20:15 pm PDT #1166 of 26132
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Power Grid is actually one of the highest rated boardgames ever. I haven't gotten to play it yet but a few of my friends swear by it. Or at it. Hmm.