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<blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 3940728" data-attributes="member: 40961">A more apt comparison would be if you objected, loudly and strenuously, to the name &quot;EN World&quot; because you felt the site should be called &quot;Website for gaming including a popular forum started by Eric Noah around the time of the 3e D&amp;D release and with a focus on discussing D&amp;D issues but by no means an exclusive focus.&quot;&nbsp; I mean, EN World?&nbsp; How is someone reading that supposed to know anything about what that describes?&nbsp; A world of ENs?&nbsp; What's an EN?&nbsp; Its an acronym for something.&nbsp; I'm pretty sure it stands for &quot;Enrolled Nurse,&quot; actually.&nbsp; Acronym lookup tells me it also stands for &quot;Explosive Neutralization.&quot;Now once you know that websites are sometimes called &quot;World&quot; if they have a lot of content on them, and that &quot;EN&quot; is short for &quot;Eric Noah,&quot; AND who Eric Noah is and why he might have his own world, you can decipher the site name.&nbsp; But not until then.You're right that it doesn't address the world building objections.&nbsp; I tend to consider those overblown, as its just as easy for me to ignore deity portfolios as it is for me to ignore feat names.&nbsp; I can't tell you how many times I've had players of Paladins come to me and say that they've rolled up a Paladin of Hieronymus Bosch or whatever that guy's name is.&nbsp; I just say, &quot;we're not using the deities from the book, but you can certainly be a Paladin, and just describe your ideals how you feel is appropriate.&quot;&nbsp; And they say, &quot;ok.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cadfan, post: 3940728, member: 40961"] A more apt comparison would be if you objected, loudly and strenuously, to the name "EN World" because you felt the site should be called "Website for gaming including a popular forum started by Eric Noah around the time of the 3e D&D release and with a focus on discussing D&D issues but by no means an exclusive focus." I mean, EN World? How is someone reading that supposed to know anything about what that describes? A world of ENs? What's an EN? Its an acronym for something. I'm pretty sure it stands for "Enrolled Nurse," actually. Acronym lookup tells me it also stands for "Explosive Neutralization." Now once you know that websites are sometimes called "World" if they have a lot of content on them, and that "EN" is short for "Eric Noah," AND who Eric Noah is and why he might have his own world, you can decipher the site name. But not until then. You're right that it doesn't address the world building objections. I tend to consider those overblown, as its just as easy for me to ignore deity portfolios as it is for me to ignore feat names. I can't tell you how many times I've had players of Paladins come to me and say that they've rolled up a Paladin of Hieronymus Bosch or whatever that guy's name is. I just say, "we're not using the deities from the book, but you can certainly be a Paladin, and just describe your ideals how you feel is appropriate." And they say, "ok." [/QUOTE]

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