"I was walkin' in Menthis!"

[Baron Opal]

Always pronounce the names you make

One time a good friend of mine was designing a new campaign and he mapped out the family tree of the gods, particularly the elvish ones. When he showed this to us, I asked "So, who's this one?"

He pointed to Mahtrys, "This one?"

"Yeah"

"Oh, that's the elvish goddess of fertility."

With a smirk I said, "Well, 'Matress' would be a good name for a sex goddess."

He yanked the paper away, said it a couple of times, and nodded and and said "Yep, she's gotta go."

 

[shilsen]

This kind of stuff never bothers me. Just about any name you can come up with is going to have some resemblance to a name I've read or heard of somewhere else. Short of having an NPC called Darth Vader walking around Sharn, it's just another name to me. And maybe even that wouldn't bother me after the first encounter. Heck, the Greyhawk Gazetteer has an NPC called Imran Tendulkar, and after an initial guffaw, I'd have no problems using him in a game full of cricket fans.

 

[hong]

The party IMC currently has 3 witch hunter NPCs in tow, designed by yours truly, called Malcolm*, Randall and Bishop. Malcolm dual wields 2 shortswords, Randall has a bow, and Bishop has spell turning. I guess I could have given Mal two hand crossbows and made Bish a spellfire wielder, but that might have been taking things too far.

Quote from a player when they were giving their names to the evil city guards: "Bishop calls himself Cable".


* technically Mal got killed last session, but who's counting

 

[ssampier]

Menthis, the fresh maker.

gaming and corny jokes, it goes together--like nuts and gum