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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nish" data-source="post: 2072" data-attributes="member: 145">What's your favorite name you've ever come up with for a character? Whether it is something that you feel has a particularly high level of depth, something you feel fits the character especially well, or something that just sounds downright cool...My personal favorite is the character I'm currently playing: a halfling necromancer named Eldon Blackleaf. Almost a year ago I was sitting around telling my DM about the old Dark Dungeons tract, where a girl kills herself because her character, a thief named Black Leaf, dies. It then occurred to me that it would be great fun to name a character after that poor PC who failed to find that poison needle trap. Like most ideas that begin with the words: "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if I..." it was forgotten reasonably quickly.However, a few months later my DM started up a Greyhawk campaign. I decided to play a wizard because I had never played one before, and I really liked the new 3e halflings so my character choice was pretty easy (halflings make great wizards<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=":)" />). And since its fun to be unconventional, I decided to go with a necromancer because: a)it is a really unusual thing for a halfling, b)Necromancers have double plus style, c)I have a penchant for playing dark and tragic anti-heroes (he's Neutral BTW). I immediately liked the character, but since I'm horrible at coming up with names (I pretty much always end up stealing one from somewhere), much furrowing of the brow did ensue. Eventually I remembered that old silly idea I had about making a tribute to one of the greatest enemies of rational thinking, Jack Chick. Checking the PHB halfling entry, Black Leaf, when combined into a single word, appeared to fit the conventions for halfling surnames reasonably well, which settled that. While I was there I also checked out the male first names, and grabbed the coolest sounding one on the list, which turned out surprisingly well since Eldon just like a wizardly name to me. Now his full title that he might give to someone is: Eldon Blackleaf Arch-magus of Stahzer of the Champions of Stahzer. The whole Arch-magus thing is mostly a personal joke to himself, since in our game he is the only surviving wizard from the ruined city of Stahzer, thus making him the most powerful by default <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> (even though he only just now made level 6). the Champions of Stahzer bit is the title the party received after being at least marginally successful in saving the last survivors of the destruction of Stahzer from the minions of Iuz. Although, only one other current party member was there for that, as our fatality and player turnover rates have been annoyingly high.Anyway, the name is my favorite because I feel it fits the character inordinately well(dark, but not too dark, and very halfling-y), its fun because of the reference to Jack Chick (and everything involving Mr. Chick is pretty laughable <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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ), and frankly it just sounds cool!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> And I'm very interested to hear others favorites and associated stories!</blockquote>

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