I'm naming my NPCs from my spam.

[CarlZog]

Testing new spam software the last couple weeks, I've been paying closer attention than normal to who my email is coming from -- to set up the filters.

The "sender" names being used by spammers these days (randomly generated, I believe) are leaving an amazing cast of characters in my mailbox!

This is my new source of names for NPCs, not mention possible new characters and even adventure ideas. Here's a few of the "folks" that have shown up in my mailbox just in the last couple days:

Leandro Mazur
Damien Longoria
Jewel B. McElroy
Bobby Mock
Dee McGee
Johnny Meek

Great stuff......


Carl

 

[eris404]

Yes! I love doing this, and those are beautiful, BTW. One of my characters, a cleric, had a mentor named Father Pingrey Tollman, which was swiped from spam I received. I believe the "real" Mr. Tollman was trying to sell me Viagra.

 

[Terwox]

This is great! What a good idea... hah. My hotmail account just became useful once again.

 

[Dirigible]

Is it too late to insert a joke about an NPC called "|ncr3ase UR S1zE"?

 

[Henry]

Rel here on ENWorld has been doing this since early last year.

As for me, I recently had the pleasure of knowing:

Granya Barger
Cilian Wise
Jabr Shepard
Daly Hope
Labhra Short
Lesa Neal
Merlyn (yes, MERLYN!)
Zena (yes, ZENA!)
and Daphne Mercado.

 

[Khayman]

The best I've ever received was from Jesus Mercado. He promised me some cheap Canadian meds, but I live in Canada and already get them...

Check out this list.

 

[BOZ]

what about the nigerian accountants of deceased royalty?

 

[NewJeffCT]

Good idea. I did something similar in the past... used my company email directory. I used to work in a huge corporation - 40,000+ employees - so, if I needed an NPC name, I'd just say, "I want a name that begins with M" and then my email directory would start at M and I'd start scrolling through names with beginning with M. (or, if I was really picky, I'd say, "well, I want something beginning with "Th" or "De" or "Go"...)

 

[demiurge1138]

I think that such characters as Minotaur H. Bollas are going to appear in my game sometime soon now...

Demiurge out.

PS: Minotaur? I mean, really? Why would spammers send out stuff under the name Minotaur?

 

[CarlZog]

Rel here on ENWorld has been doing this since early last year.

Check out this list.

I knew I couldn't have been the first to notice this. That's excellent!


Carl