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<blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 2167822" data-attributes="member: 30035">Somewhere back on the first page someone referred to Cao Dung as a funny name - sorry to spoil your fun, but Cao is pronounced &quot;so&quot;.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> &nbsp;I have a pet peeve about using &quot;real world&quot; names in fantasy games.&nbsp; Destroys part of the sense of immersion in the game world for me.&nbsp; We're getting ready to start a new FR game and the GM is planning to introduce a NPC named Percy.&nbsp; He already knows of my distaste for that.&nbsp; My fiancee was planning to name his PC Alphonse but I talked him out of it.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> &nbsp;Here at work I have a coworker whose email alias is 'aschmuck'.&nbsp; There's also an 'afagg' somewhere in the office.&nbsp;A few years ago my fiancee and I decided to play rogues who were brothers.&nbsp; We weren't really trying to be silly, but we named them Simolean and Geadus Spondulix.&nbsp; How many of you are old enough to get the joke?&nbsp; (BTW, the GM played along and named their father Lucre.&nbsp; We also had a fighter in the party named Tarfu).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="sniffles, post: 2167822, member: 30035"] Somewhere back on the first page someone referred to Cao Dung as a funny name - sorry to spoil your fun, but Cao is pronounced "so". :p I have a pet peeve about using "real world" names in fantasy games. Destroys part of the sense of immersion in the game world for me. We're getting ready to start a new FR game and the GM is planning to introduce a NPC named Percy. He already knows of my distaste for that. My fiancee was planning to name his PC Alphonse but I talked him out of it. :D Here at work I have a coworker whose email alias is 'aschmuck'. There's also an 'afagg' somewhere in the office. A few years ago my fiancee and I decided to play rogues who were brothers. We weren't really trying to be silly, but we named them Simolean and Geadus Spondulix. How many of you are old enough to get the joke? (BTW, the GM played along and named their father Lucre. We also had a fighter in the party named Tarfu). [/QUOTE]

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