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<blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 2615069" data-attributes="member: 2013">Well, my given name is &quot;Spencer.&quot;&nbsp; I've been called &quot;Spence&quot; a couple of times, but I absolutely detest that and a withering look has always stopped any one person from repeating it.Growing up, when I was in the drug stores, and they had the &quot;pencils with your name on it&quot; or &quot;mini-license plates with your name on it&quot; or &quot;mugs with your name on it&quot; I could NEVER find one that said &quot;Spencer&quot; and one day in frustration (I was probably about 10 or 11) I told my mom, &quot;you know what, just call me 'Bob' - then I could actually find something with my name on it!&quot;&nbsp; And within my family, anyway, the nickname stuck.&nbsp; I even expanded on it, going by Robert Q. Generic (a play on &quot;John Q. Public&quot;) with my family sometimes.&nbsp; Of course, a couple of years later, the cartoon &quot;Bobby's World&quot; - with &quot;Bobby Generic&quot; started running, so sometimes I'd get &quot;Bobby&quot; as well (which I hated).To this day, my family (parents, brothers and sister) still call me &quot;Bob&quot; about half the time... except my youngest brother, who has called every member of the family &quot;Steve&quot; (I think it has something to do with the movie &quot;Multiplicity&quot;) for the last couple of years.And, of course, most people here at ENWorld know me as &quot;The Sigil&quot; - a nickname I picked up in high school because I always initialled things, and my initials looked kind of like a wizard's sigil (nobody could actually read the &quot;STC&quot;)... since all my stuff had &quot;my sigil&quot; on it, my D&amp;D buds started calling me &quot;The Sigil&quot; - and I adopted that as a pseudonym when I wrote for a literary publication for the school in 1993, and started using it as an online handle on some local BBSes even before that... it later became my primary internet handle.According to pen-paper.net, the Planescape campaign setting was published in 1994, so it was &quot;parallel development&quot; at the worst, and I actually used the name before TSR did... so no, my handle has NOTHING to do with Planescape (a common misconception on the boards here). <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=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Sigil, post: 2615069, member: 2013"] Well, my given name is "Spencer." I've been called "Spence" a couple of times, but I absolutely detest that and a withering look has always stopped any one person from repeating it. Growing up, when I was in the drug stores, and they had the "pencils with your name on it" or "mini-license plates with your name on it" or "mugs with your name on it" I could NEVER find one that said "Spencer" and one day in frustration (I was probably about 10 or 11) I told my mom, "you know what, just call me 'Bob' - then I could actually find something with my name on it!" And within my family, anyway, the nickname stuck. I even expanded on it, going by Robert Q. Generic (a play on "John Q. Public") with my family sometimes. Of course, a couple of years later, the cartoon "Bobby's World" - with "Bobby Generic" started running, so sometimes I'd get "Bobby" as well (which I hated). To this day, my family (parents, brothers and sister) still call me "Bob" about half the time... except my youngest brother, who has called every member of the family "Steve" (I think it has something to do with the movie "Multiplicity") for the last couple of years. And, of course, most people here at ENWorld know me as "The Sigil" - a nickname I picked up in high school because I always initialled things, and my initials looked kind of like a wizard's sigil (nobody could actually read the "STC")... since all my stuff had "my sigil" on it, my D&D buds started calling me "The Sigil" - and I adopted that as a pseudonym when I wrote for a literary publication for the school in 1993, and started using it as an online handle on some local BBSes even before that... it later became my primary internet handle. According to pen-paper.net, the Planescape campaign setting was published in 1994, so it was "parallel development" at the worst, and I actually used the name [b]before[/b] TSR did... so no, my handle has NOTHING to do with Planescape (a common misconception on the boards here). ;) [/QUOTE]

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