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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 940059" data-attributes="member: 158">My advice is to not let it bother you so much. If a player won't be obliging enough to come up with a serious name, then FORCE one on them. (&quot;Brian&quot; or &quot;Bill&quot; or &quot;Dougie&quot; are fine enough - just have NPC's that know them refer to them as Brian, or William, or Dougal/Douglas. I'm talking about the &quot;Deathmonkeys&quot; and the &quot;Pimp-Daddy Bills&quot; of the gaming world.)&quot;Deathmonkey the&nbsp; Dwarf&quot; becomes &quot;Turrsrengill Alaquinnor of Clan Stonegrinder.&quot; With a given name like that, NO WONDER he left home and changed his name! Have all the NPC's look strangely at &quot;Pimp-Daddy Bill&quot; when they ask his name, and have NPC's show up occasionally that know him from &quot;back home&quot; and who ain't down wit' dis Pimp-Daddy bizzness. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> &quot;Pimp-Daddy? Who do you think - wait a minute! Algernon? Little Algernon Thristlequisp, IS THAT YOU??? My, how you've changed, I almost didn't recognize you! Have you seen your sister lately?&quot;If a player isn't accomodating with a semi-reasonable name, don't let it derail you, MAKE IT YOUR OWN!My players know one thing - I want at least a paragraph of background - I'm not a &quot;background nazi&quot; who requires 4 pages of backstory for a 1st level character <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> but I require at least a plot thread or two. If a player refuses to give me even this, that's fine too - but their background is MINE. If they don't want embarrasing relatives, family secrets, embarrasing middle names, and former kissing cousins in their backgrounds, they need to give me something else to occupy my wicked little mind. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 940059, member: 158"] My advice is to not let it bother you so much. If a player won't be obliging enough to come up with a serious name, then FORCE one on them. ("Brian" or "Bill" or "Dougie" are fine enough - just have NPC's that know them refer to them as Brian, or William, or Dougal/Douglas. I'm talking about the [i]"Deathmonkeys"[/i] and the [i]"Pimp-Daddy Bills"[/i] of the gaming world.) [i]"Deathmonkey the Dwarf"[/i] becomes "Turrsrengill Alaquinnor of Clan Stonegrinder." With a given name like that, NO WONDER he left home and changed his name! Have all the NPC's look strangely at "Pimp-Daddy Bill" when they ask his name, and have NPC's show up occasionally that know him from "back home" and who ain't down wit' dis Pimp-Daddy bizzness. :) "Pimp-Daddy? Who do you think - wait a minute! Algernon? Little Algernon Thristlequisp, IS THAT YOU??? My, how you've changed, I almost didn't recognize you! Have you seen your sister lately?" If a player isn't accomodating with a semi-reasonable name, don't let it derail you, MAKE IT YOUR OWN! My players know one thing - I want at least a paragraph of background - I'm not a "background nazi" who requires 4 pages of backstory for a 1st level character ;) but I require at least a plot thread or two. If a player refuses to give me even this, that's fine too - but their background is MINE. If they don't want embarrasing relatives, family secrets, embarrasing middle names, and former kissing cousins in their backgrounds, they need to give me something else to occupy my wicked little mind. :D [/QUOTE]

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