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<blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 954594" data-attributes="member: 259">Re: Re: Re: Do you think that it's alright for a DM to do this?With that said, lemme modify my point:&nbsp; this does sound like a reasonably fun running gag, as long as you keep to the premise.Somebody who's heard names like &quot;Elminster&quot; and (I don't know any more FR names, sorry) &quot;Bigby&quot; and &quot;Mordenkainen&quot; but isn't good at recognizing others might start coming up with fake names like, &quot;Elmee...igby?&quot; and &quot;Morkaduh...inster?&quot; and such.&nbsp; In other words, base your poorly-made-up names off Forgotten-Realms names, not off real-world names.&nbsp; Somebody who's heard &quot;Elminster&quot; isn't likely to come up with the name &quot;Ted Nugent&quot;:&nbsp; to do so gets away from the (actually kind of funny) joke in his character background, in favor of making another (not very funny to me) joke involving breaking suspension of disbelief.Daniel</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pielorinho, post: 954594, member: 259"] [b]Re: Re: Re: Do you think that it's alright for a DM to do this?[/b] With that said, lemme modify my point: this does sound like a reasonably fun running gag, as long as you keep to the premise. Somebody who's heard names like "Elminster" and (I don't know any more FR names, sorry) "Bigby" and "Mordenkainen" but isn't good at recognizing others might start coming up with fake names like, "Elmee...igby?" and "Morkaduh...inster?" and such. In other words, base your poorly-made-up names off Forgotten-Realms names, not off real-world names. Somebody who's heard "Elminster" isn't likely to come up with the name "Ted Nugent": to do so gets away from the (actually kind of funny) joke in his character background, in favor of making another (not very funny to me) joke involving breaking suspension of disbelief. Daniel [/QUOTE]

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