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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gnome Quixote" data-source="post: 3196768" data-attributes="member: 41433">My current PC, a gnome cleric of Garl Glittergold, is named Ebuferpaly Whitethatch Malpractice Bearscave Fancypants Potentloins. I suspect my DM let me get away with this becausea) I actually had a rational in-story explanation for the name (e.g. if you have a familly of gnomes who reproduce faster than drunken jackrabbits, what do you think society's going to name them?);b) from prior experience, it was pretty well an unspoken understanding among the group that I was going to serve as the party's smartass comic relief, no matter what class or race I played, or what the character was named, as I personally come from the Xander Harris/Peter Parker school of adventuring and heroism;c) also from prior experience, it was fairly well understood by the group that my PC would invariably possess an underlying emotional complexity that belied his 'surface persona' as a wisecracking misfit, as I personally come from the Xander Harris/Peter Parker school of adventuring and heroism;d) I established pretty early on that the gnome in question actually had a secret name--a kobold name, in matter of fact--that he only revealed to those he trusted (only one other PC so far, although he's warming up to a second); ande) when you get right down to it, it really isn't that funny to begin with.</blockquote>