Do your Enworld name and avatar reflect who you are?

[Ferret]

My name came from another persons name; weasel. He became my mentor, and the whole deal is blurry though.

My Avatar is nothing like me (duh), it just came from an picture I messed with in paintshop pro 7. If you want to know where the hat is from, it's from PVPonline.

[edit: I've just change me avatar....

 

[Kesh]

My name is just a random thing I plucked out of the air one day. I use it everywhere on the 'net. Unfortunately, some other people use it too. Apparently it was used in some fantasy novel series I've never read.

As to the picture... I just like gnolls. I've used a few different pictures on the old boards, until this one came to be.

As to the signature, back on the old ENWorld boards, there was a bit of a joke going around about the D&D iconics. Some folks picked up the real ones (Lidda, Tordek), others started making up their own. So, the minute the d20 Modern pictures got uploaded, and I saw the Gnoll Pimp...

 

[Richards]

I decided to just go with my real last name. And I sign each post with my first.

Johnathan

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

My username is, well, my name. I've also used the name Flynn Stormshadow on the old boards, he was a PC of mine. The avatar is the cover of KMFDM's What Do You Know, Deutschland. The title is because, well, I'm an Anglophile.

 

[Cheiromancer]

I've got a good post hoc explanation for my name. Cheiro is pronounced like the greek letters "Chi" and "Rho" which stand for the letters that begin the words "Challenge" and the word "Rating", respectively, but which look like an "X" and a "P." So when I got into a long discussion with Wulf Ratbane and others about the relationship between Challenge Ratings and XP, it seemed like my name was spookily appropriate.

-mancer, of course, is a kind of wizard in DnD, but the classical meaning had more with telling the feature. I am the DM of my group, so I determine what kind of CRs the future will bring for them, and how much XP they will get. Again, a good fit.

In what folks like to call "real life" I would tend at the letters Chi and Rho in their Christian symbolism, and look at "-mancer" as being prophetic in the Judaeo-Christian sense, rather than the fortune telling sense. But that is an aspect of me, too, as I am a member of the Roman Catholic clergy. Funny thing, that: the first character I ever played in DnD was also a cleric...

The avatar, though, I don't particularly like. I used to go with a kobold samurai, but then the name "tome archon" struck me as a nice custom title, and that's what the avatar is of. I wouldn't connect that picture with me in any symbolic sense, much less a literal one.

 

[cybertalus]

Talus is my real and legal first name. "Cyber" is just something I started tacking on cuz Talus is usually taken.

My avatar is a self-portrait I did in crayon several years back. My beard is significantly longer now, but otherwise it's still pretty close.

And my sig is just a placeholder so that if I wanna pimp something in the future I can change my sig and have instant pimpage across all my old posts.

 

[RogueRonin]

Ok, here's the truth: I am not a masterless samuri, nor am I a skeleton. So I guess my avatar is inaccurate. If I wanted an accurate representation of myself, I would name myself ALMIGHTY_JIM! and my picture would be me killing some badass D&D monster... Or maybe it'd just be Jim with a picture of me.

 

[GnomeWorks]

Several years back, I was trying to form a publishing company with some of my friends. After a small amount of discussion, we decided to name it GnomeWorks Publishing.

When I came to the boards, I was still planning on making it a reality, so I used the name of the company as my username - hence, GnomeWorks.

Since then, the idea of the company has fallen by the wayside... I moved, and I don't talk to those people anymore. However, GnomeWorks has become my name on various boards, so it's here to stay.

As for my avatar... well, it sort of looks like me, but not really. I have long hair, but it's not all hanging down like that, just tied back into one ponytail. And I wear normal glasses, not goggles.

 

[Ferret]

Ok, I've just changed my avatar (courtesy of DMAC, who rocks). I don't know how he made it, but I like it lots. It still doesn't look like me.

I dunno about it reflecting me.... I am curious, and I can learn tricks.... Maybe.

 

[Ironclad]

The nickname is an old nickname I had about 10 years ago. The origin of it is well a little ... lurid. I used to use it when I haunted chatrooms a few years ago and startled a few people with its origin.

The avatar is just one I liked that fit well with the nickaname.

The sig is one I heard a few years ago and liked it. I am always reminded of it when I come home by taxi as it takes 3 right turns to get to my place from the city. Kinda stuck that way....