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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralif Redhammer" data-source="post: 7004678" data-attributes="member: 30438">Joke names have increasingly bugged me – if you don’t take your characters seriously, why should I, and by proxy, the NPCs of the world?That being said, a character concept can be played for laughs, but you have to be true to the concept for it to work. My painfully awkward, cloistered dwarf gets laughs at the table, but the authenticity of the character still matters to me. They have to have an internal consistency, and my dialogue and actions have to be something my character would do, not something that I as a player would do “for the lolz.”Now, in my Out of the Abyss game, I’ve definitely embraced some silliness. Not only is it again, authentic to the tone of the module and its Alice in Wonderland influences, but it counteracts what could otherwise be an oppressive, dark tale of demons and madness. So yes, there’s Glabagool with his googly eyes and funny voice. The answer to a riddle involved fish & chips. Maybe that demon has a Brooklyn accent. This list goes on. But again, I strive for consistency. The Underdark is a strange place, bizarre and threatening.</blockquote>