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<blockquote data-quote="coyote6" data-source="post: 1973801" data-attributes="member: 1225"><p>So, say you have a demon lord -- call him Gazalnoir, known as King Skyfire by the orcs, and the Lord of the Gulf by human scholars. He's a dread being, with great power, who once nearly slew the chief god of the elves before he was driven off by Bahamut; Truly Badass, in other words. However, the GM is lazy, and his stats are those of an advanced balor, with extra HD, a unique weapon, a body sheathed in lightning rather than fire, a couple of extra spell-like abilities, and a different description.</p><p></p><p>So, does he get to choose whether to answer a <em>gate</em>? He's got a name, and a title ("demon lord"), but he's really just a beefy balor in drag.</p><p></p><p>Or let's say you can <em>gate</em> him (for instance, he really is just a tough balor that the GM has bothered to think up a name for) -- what name do you have to use? Gazalnoir? Or will King Skyfire or Lord of the Gulf do? What if Gazalnoir is just Abyssal for "Don't Mess With Me, %*#&@#", and not at all the name his parents/creators gave him? D&D doesn't actually use the "true name" concept, so what does it matter which name you use, as long as it's his?</p><p></p><p>---</p><p></p><p>IMO, the coolest answer would be: using a creatures true name means it has to respond*; using a non-true name gives the creature a choice to respond or not. But, again, true names aren't really supported by the rules-as-written, AFAIK.</p><p></p><p>*Deities & demon princes included. But how are you going to know their true names? And even if you do, just uttering that name may destroy you...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="coyote6, post: 1973801, member: 1225"] So, say you have a demon lord -- call him Gazalnoir, known as King Skyfire by the orcs, and the Lord of the Gulf by human scholars. He's a dread being, with great power, who once nearly slew the chief god of the elves before he was driven off by Bahamut; Truly Badass, in other words. However, the GM is lazy, and his stats are those of an advanced balor, with extra HD, a unique weapon, a body sheathed in lightning rather than fire, a couple of extra spell-like abilities, and a different description. So, does he get to choose whether to answer a [i]gate[/i]? He's got a name, and a title ("demon lord"), but he's really just a beefy balor in drag. Or let's say you can [i]gate[/i] him (for instance, he really is just a tough balor that the GM has bothered to think up a name for) -- what name do you have to use? Gazalnoir? Or will King Skyfire or Lord of the Gulf do? What if Gazalnoir is just Abyssal for "Don't Mess With Me, %*#&@#", and not at all the name his parents/creators gave him? D&D doesn't actually use the "true name" concept, so what does it matter which name you use, as long as it's his? --- IMO, the coolest answer would be: using a creatures true name means it has to respond*; using a non-true name gives the creature a choice to respond or not. But, again, true names aren't really supported by the rules-as-written, AFAIK. *Deities & demon princes included. But how are you going to know their true names? And even if you do, just uttering that name may destroy you... [/QUOTE]
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