Gygaxing people's names

[Herobizkit]

World of Warcraft is full of that, as well. I just yesterday ran into Dran Droffers the Orcish junk dealer, and his son Malton Dran even has a beard...

I don't get the joke here...?

 

[Desdichado]

It depends on the tone of the game. Though I think I tend to prefer them to wholly alien names made from whole cloth. My biggest criteria for names in a game is that they be easy to remember & easy to pronounce, no matter how they were inspired.

And Gygaxian names tend to be neither. Verbobonc? Drawmij? Zygag? Flaenaes (sic?)?

In any case, you'd be hard pressed to come up with names that were less alien and bizarre that most Greyhawk names.

 

[RFisher]

And Gygaxian names tend to be neither. Verbobonc? Drawmij? Zygag? Flaenaes (sic?)?

Despite plenty of examples, I don't think that's an overall tendency when you look at the whole corpus.

Or, perhaps it's just that when I apply the Gygaxian methods, I tend to reject more of those, so I don't notice the tendency so much.

In any case, you'd be hard pressed to come up with names that were less alien and bizarre that most Greyhawk names.

So I would have thought. Yet I've seen it happen much too often.