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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jacob Marley" data-source="post: 7027573" data-attributes="member: 89537">How does the name Hudson not fit with Ripley, Hicks, Bishop, or Burke. Seems to me like Hudson's player understood the tone. Now, if you are referring to how Hudson was played, then you've exceeded the context of this thread - which was discussing awesome versus serious NAMES.Indeed. Hence: If the game is serious, play serious; if the game is humorous, play humorous. This is a reference to names.At the start of any campaign I have run there has been a discussion among the players and myself as to how we want the campaign to feel. Do we want beer and pretzels or Game of Thrones or whatever. As the game emerges there will absolutely be moments of levity in a serious campaign and moments of sadness in a humorous campaign. That's to be expected. The problem comes when you have one player who insists on making Fighty McFighterface when the rest of the group wants Game of Thrones. That person is being the jerk.The name "Fatty" was given to him by his classmates. My first post in this thread I said I am entirely fine with nicknames being given to characters, even humorous ones within an otherwise serious campaign.The group I play with frequently laughs and jokes throughout a campaign. And yet our PC names are serious. Do you come back?</blockquote>