What's your screenname mean?

What is the inspiration for your screenname? Where did you get it? To what, if anything, does it refer?

As for me:
The first plot important NPC I ever crafted for my campaign is a wizard who maintains relative peace between all of the world's dragons. He offers some protection against dragon hunters and makes sure that nobody impinges on anybody else's territory or minions.

His name is Specgam Al Garbetts, and he is widely known amongst dragons as The Arbiter of Wyrms

Honestly?

Hell if I know.

Creamsteak said:

Honestly?

Hell if I know.

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I don't think any answer will ever top that one.

As for mine. Fairly self explanatory if you've read any of Pratchett's Discworld novels(and if you haven't...BAD! Off to the bookstore with you! OFF, I SAY!). One of the few, the useless, the annoying, Nightwatch of Ankh-Morpork.

It means that my need for a name was greater than my creativity.

Bump!

BTW, Darkness, I've long thought that the "hand and eye of PC" was funny.

Mine is stolen lock, stock and barrel from Knights of the Dinner Table (it's Brian VanHoose's dwarven wizard PC)

Mine is short for my second BBS handle back in the days... in 1988, I settled on the handle "The HellHound >101<" on the BBSs in Ottawa, Ontario (and then on the old FIDOnet and eventually on the newsgroups... there are still old posts from that address in some truly ancient newsgroup archives). Before that, in 1986, I used the handle "J'son BlackHammer" - J'son being the dragonrider form of Jason. Yep, always been a fantasy geek.

Well, anyways, The HellHound >101< was originally just a name and someone asked me what it meat, so began the story of an information-gathering software that was operating out of a satellite in LEO (Low Earth Orbit) that had slowly become an AI... and that was I.

So The HellHound >101< stuck around for many a year, both as my screen name and as an AI in my CyberPunk game (and J'son BlackHammer is still around as an old netrunner in the same Punk games).

A few FIDOnet meetings later, and I've got this new nickname... "Hound". In fact, to this day, more friends and acquaintances call me Hound than Jason. Which is cool.

Somewhere along the way, the "The..." and "... >101<" got dropped from the handle, and HellHound stuck it out.

It's my mother's maiden name. I chose to use it because the Scottish is strong in me.

I chose mine because I wanted something easy to remember.

Good, good, good. The world is not ready for a Dave Stebbins. *wipes sweat from brow*

Me, I fall in the uncreative category. What I see in the mirror is what I call myself online. I'm getting older, yet am not lacking hair. One half of my head is apparently aging faster than the other, however.