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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 1338181" data-attributes="member: 3887">I used to be pretty, well, uptight about character names. I encouraged players to follow my fairly loose cultural/racial naming conventions. But really, all I wound up with, and created myself, were pretty generic sounding fantasy name [though I loved some of them, like the so-lawful-good-he's-practically-evil high priest Koram Mallenian...]Time changed all that. Nowadays, anything that makes the game fun for the players is OK by me. I trust in my DM'ing/storytelling skills to imbue the game with drama.Lately, I've found making terrible puns has given me a tremendous creative boost. Its a bit of a game, a challenge; start with a obnoxious/obscure joke and then dignify it with actual story. I've found this to be really inspirational. So far this method has produced...The Dread Pirate Brad [aka Bradento of Bradento] --a villanous pirate and kidnapper who claims to hail from a legendary lost city.Spring-Veal Jack [aka Saucy Jack, Jack a'Knives] --a famous chef. Works at the Palm D'Whorl in the Narayan Arms Hotel, which is said to be the home of an immortal sorceror [or the Devil] for the past 200 years.Brak Ton Golok [aka "El Breako"] -- a revolutionary half-ogrish painter of abstract religions scenes, famous for beating up his wife and friends. Sometimes associate of Clement Greensward, a former druid and art critic.Vasco De Texaco and Sing Sang Soong [aka "Wrongway Soong"]  -- a pair of famous explorers who attempted to sail east until the reached the past in order to prove their world was a tesseract. Actually discoved the artic circle and an ancient magical library.Hee Tai Chee -- a famous warrior-monk and poet. Wrote an epic about his peoples war with alliance of horse nomads and Yuan-Ti which begins "The Union of the Snake is on the prowl." The Right Reverend Don Magic Wand -- a pimp with a magic wand, which contains an imprisoned demon who feeds of the unpleasant memories of his harem.</blockquote>

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