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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7026955" data-attributes="member: 29398">Side note: Kalvin's player has gone on to a reasonable career in the industry: he now co-owns Moon Design/Chaosium/Runequest/whatever-it-is-this-week. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />OK. let's look at what else was in the party when dear old Kalvin showed up: (note I allowed players to run two characters at a time...still do, for all that; also note the party had just gone through some massive turnover due to deaths, retirements, and player changes; only 4 characters held over from the previous adventure)Dwalin the Steadfast - Dwarf Fighter/WarCleric, senior surviving member of the partyJudah MacAbee - Dwarf Assassin, named - I think - after a comic book characterTabatha Greenbuck - Hobbit NatureCleric (Druid), party NPC healer-type, was originally Dwalin's henchThorn - Dryad WarCleric/MagicUser - same player as Kalvin (oddball character that had just joined before the previous adventure)Jack Napier - Elf MagicUser - same player as Judah and same source for name I think (just joined now)Lorithen of Ravenwood - PartElf Ranger/Illusionist (dead, revived just before Kalvin's first appearance)Moth - Elf Fighter/Assassin, sent by Judah's guild to spy on him, same player as Lorithen (just joined now)Steng, Pira and Boregod - all NPC warrior types just now recruited by the party as a front line.  I played Boregod as a joke; Steng and Pira were more seriousand last but not least, the module I was running (WG4 Forgottem Temple of Tharizdun) gives the party an NPC with a pun name who they'd met just before Kalvin was found.And then in comes Kalvin.  Sir Kalvin of Hobbes, found chained to a wall deep inside the dungeon.Well, one of the tests I'm going to do if-when joining a new group is to try a bit of humour...the results will go a long way to determining whether I come back, for in my eyes a game without humour is a game without life.  If that makes me a wankpuppet, well...can't help you there.Elena = ELENA = Elf Lawful Evil Necromancer Assassin.  She came in as a Thief/Magic-User (thus hiding both her real classes); when she was recruited and someone asked what she was all about her answer went something like "It's all in my name, mate" - took 'em ages and a few "Charm" spells to figure it out. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Somewhat amazingly, now I think of it, I've never had or seen a character named Bob.  Haven't had a Fighty either, though close: Fightsky went by early in my current campaign.And yes, my tolerance for names does have a limit, somewhere way out there.  A character played in another game had the dubious moniker of "Mr. Giggles", which goes beyond even what I'll put up with.Have a good game, eh! That sounds like the type of game I tend to run, play in, and enjoy.Which is already much more serious than anything I've ever run, or am ever likely to.Side observation: you've managed to do in reverse what's always been my perception of how home games (fun) and AL games (serious) relate to each other.  Neat trick! <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Put another...perhaps kinder...way, it's about being the right player for the right game.Lan-"my only regret about the name 'Sir Kalvin of Hobbes' is that I didn't think of it first"-efan</blockquote>

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