D&D General A Rose By Any Other Name: Names in Greyhawk and a Little Judgin'

[mamba]

I learned that the joy you receive from the misery of others was the best joy that could be had; truly, why else would you go to law school? When people tell you that law school is to teach you to think like a lawyer ... that's exactly what they mean.

love this part

 

[Paul Farquhar]

As much as I love the slaad, I always have to do a double take because I immediately want to read them as salad.

DM: Lo, you have met your doom. For it is I, Caesar, the Slaad Lord!

Players: So you're ... Caesar Slaad?

DM: .... shut up.

So you are the person responsible for auto-correct!

But the Caesar Slaad joke is actually in one of the 1st edition modules. The Celtic-ish one with the wacky wizards tower.

 

[Voadam]

As much as I love the slaad, I always have to do a double take because I immediately want to read them as salad.

DM: Lo, you have met your doom. For it is I, Caesar, the Slaad Lord!

Players: So you're ... Caesar Slaad?

DM: .... shut up.

C5 The Bane of Llewellyn in the tower of a dead pun and puzzle obsessed wizard

8. The area is a 60-foot-square room with a 30-foot-high ceiling. Facing the party is a 10-foot-wide stairway leading up to a portico flanked by four Corinthian columns. All the stonework is of white marble. Seated upon a throne within the portico is a man of noble visage, dressed in a white garment, trimmed with purple, a portion of which is draped over his left arm, leaving the right bare. His head is crowned with a laurel wreath, and his right hand is adorned with a ring set with a large gem.
The man is a green slaad.
It is using its polymorph self ability to appear as a human or, in this case, a caesar slaad.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

C5 The Bane of Llewellyn in the tower of a dead pun and puzzle obsessed wizard

8. The area is a 60-foot-square room with a 30-foot-high ceiling. Facing the party is a 10-foot-wide stairway leading up to a portico flanked by four Corinthian columns. All the stonework is of white marble. Seated upon a throne within the portico is a man of noble visage, dressed in a white garment, trimmed with purple, a portion of which is draped over his left arm, leaving the right bare. His head is crowned with a laurel wreath, and his right hand is adorned with a ring set with a large gem.
The man is a green slaad.
It is using its polymorph self ability to appear as a human or, in this case, a caesar slaad.

That's the one! And while we are at it, how are you pronouncing Llewellyn?

 

[Voadam]

That's the one! And why we are at it, how are you pronouncing Llewellyn?

Lew Ellen. Or Lew Well En.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Lew Ellen. Or Lew Well En.

Loo-EHL-in

 

[mamba]

Those names are that different to real world names like Hravatska or Kryvyi Rih let alone all the weirdly spelt placenames in England - yeah I'm looking at you Leicestershire

and don’t even bring up welsh town names

 

[Paul Farquhar]

and don’t even bring up welsh town names

Such as Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

So you are the person responsible for auto-correct!

But the Caesar Slaad joke is actually in one of the 1st edition modules. The Celtic-ish one with the wacky wizards tower.

You know, for all of the borrowing I do*, I actually thought I had created that one on the spot!


*Which, alas, only makes me good. If I was great, I would steal. But then again, I would have died a long time ago after messing up a find/remove traps roll.

 

[James Gasik]

You know, for all of the borrowing I do*, I actually thought I had created that one on the spot!


*Which, alas, only makes me good. If I was great, I would steal. But then again, I would have died a long time ago after messing up a find/remove traps roll.

A similar joke was used in the infamous Castle Greyhawk with a group of Green Slaads: Shef Slaad, Toonah Slaad, Seezar Slaad, and Lohkal Slaad (who is dressing when encountered).