'Origin' of Your User Name

[Imaculata]

I spend several years surviving in the wilderness of South Holland with the Brabant people, who gave me this name, which roughly translates to "He who inspects floors really well".

 

[DammitVictor]

Shroompunk is my life's work, both trying to reinvigorate higher-level cosmic play in the OSR, and a meta-setting that's designed to feature and emphasize that playstyle by marrying good old fashioned Appendix N blood and thunder with Super Mario Bros and Masters of the Universe.

Warlord is to differentiate me from the other Shroompunk, who seems like a pretty cool artist but isn't related to my work at all.

 

[pming]

Hiya!

Er... I'll give you a hint... "its in my name"


^_^

Paul L. Ming

PS: Bonus...I often use "Plum" and "Plum_Fun". Basically, my initials but 'spoken as a word'; "PLM"...say it out and it sounds like "Plum". And Plums are purple; I like the colour purple. I also use "Denakahn" on some other forums...my highest level PC ever, a 20th level 1e Magic-User grey elf.

 

[Erekose]

So long ago it’s hard to remember - I believe it was chanting in a dream

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Most people assume it is based on SnarfQuest, the Elmore comic that was a mainstay of Dragon Magazine in the 1980s, combined with Zagig Yragerne after he ascended to godhood (ZAGYG!), thus making me an insane zeetvah.

Those people would be wrong! It is, in fact, a tribute to Roland Barthes.

 

[CapnZapp]

I don't remember exactly except I can refute the connection to Futurama, a show I was not yet aware of at the time.

If I had to guess, I took my inspiration from Snoopy the WWI ace fighter and Spiff the Spaceman.

 

[Davies]

Apparently it derives from the anglicized name of the patron saint of Wales, St. Dewi (aka St. David.) UK sources, and most Canadian ones, pronounce it "day-VIZ"; American sources, and my family, pronounce it 'DAY-veez', which is how the name 'Davis' is pronounced in the UK and Canada. I sometimes find the implications of that fact disturbing.

 

[The Green Hermit]

My best friend once told me that I would be happy staying at the top of a mountain with all the animals, hence "hermit." And forests are green, so when somebody had already claimed "Hermit," I added the green part as well.

 

[CleverNickName]

Someone told me that if you're gonna give yourself a nickname, it should at least be a clever one.

The origin of my avatar? I just played waaay too much Final Fantasy VI.

 

[Elf_flambe]

My group hadn't been playing 1E D&D very long. We entered a room with stairs descending to the floor of the room, where a red dragon was curled up on his pile of treasure. The monk whooped and rushed down to start whacking it on the nose. Staying on the balcony, my elvish fighter/magic user started preparing a spell. The inexperienced DM decided he would roll a die to see who the dragon attacked, to be fair. My number came up, and the dragon breathed on my low-level character. Hence... Elf flambe!