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<blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 9732952" data-attributes="member: 6906155">You mean it's not a reference to tiny peas served in the pod?!If you are using names of meta-significance you have to consider if your audience will pick up on the reference; if you want them too, or if you want it to remain a private joke. This one, would have passed a lot of people by I think, if Google didn't exist. The danger is, does your clever-clever name take people out of the fiction? In-universe, why would anyone choose that name? Nostromo was fine, we can imagine someone was just going through a list of old book titles.In RPGs, it goes further and can give players meta-information they shouldn't have. In the example given by [USER=11760]@Whizbang Dustyboots[/USER] , I doubt it would break anything if the players anticipated striking miners, but I remember once, whist playing FASA Star Trek, we were approached by a ship called The Alucard. So of course I immediately gave the order &quot;Stand by to receive vampires&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Paul Farquhar, post: 9732952, member: 6906155"] You mean it's not a reference to tiny peas served in the pod?! If you are using names of meta-significance you have to consider if your audience will pick up on the reference; if you want them too, or if you want it to remain a private joke. This one, would have passed a lot of people by I think, if Google didn't exist. The danger is, does your clever-clever name take people out of the fiction? In-universe, why would anyone choose that name? Nostromo was fine, we can imagine someone was just going through a list of old book titles. In RPGs, it goes further and can give players meta-information they shouldn't have. In the example given by [USER=11760]@Whizbang Dustyboots[/USER] , I doubt it would break anything if the players anticipated striking miners, but I remember once, whist playing FASA Star Trek, we were approached by a ship called [I]The Alucard[/I]. So of course I immediately gave the order "Stand by to receive vampires". [/QUOTE]

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