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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 3797073" data-attributes="member: 926">I used an anagram generator utility with my real name for my latest character (for a 1E Greyhawk game no less!) to get a nice Gygaxian name.  I picked Izar Talon from the list of possibilities (from Aaron Litz.)  I think it sounds rad <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=":)" />My brother, Austin, has used the reverse of his name, Nitsua, frequently.As an aside, we once used an anagram of a character's name once.  The character had been killed and resurrected and cursed in the process, magically scrambled.   His name was Lord Whistlingwind (his first name was actually Lord) but he was reborn for a time as Roldwhin Stilwingd.  When the character finally realized that his name had been altered (Lord was a legendary figure in the world and his name was widely known, and there were scattered hints that "Roldwhin" didn't really exist) the curse was broken and he returned to his true self.  It was a great game arc, and it didn't matter that me and Lord's player (my younger brother) came up with the whole anagram idea ourselves.  The DM loved it and went with it.  Of course, we play a fairly interactive game, with the DM regularly asking what kinds of story-arcs and themes we'd like to have included for our characters... a lot like the old DC Heroes RPG with it's "sub-plot" mechanic, which includes the player coming up with story elements for his character to role-play out during the course of the campaign, and getting Hero Points (essentially XP and Action Points rolled into one) for successfully portraying and completing the sub-plot during the game.  Wow... I've really been tending to ramble on lately.</blockquote>

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