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<blockquote data-quote="The Shaman" data-source="post: 1988856" data-attributes="member: 26473">Well-said.&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" /> Lotto Rumblebottom was funny the first three or four times I said it, but after that the joke wore pretty thin - I was almost relieved that he got spitted on an orc spear on our first adventure.The Garnet twins on the other hand alway make me smile, and they still appear as NPCs in my Wild West games, along with their stable hand, Slim Chance. Subtlety may be the name of the name-game.Wuffa Weirdbeard? I never had a chance to run the character, so I don't know how well that one would play out over time, but as noted earlier, it's more of an exotic name than a silly one, so I don't think of it as a joke so much as it just sounds odd.Again, very well-said.&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; <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" /> For a one-shot or a really limited, narrow focus campaign, sure, I can blow off my sense of disbelief, but if the character is going to last more than a few sessions, then a nickname should at least fit the millieu.**Oh lawd, like an illithid's writing tentacles the thread on writing like Gygax has pierced my braincase!&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :eek:"&nbsp; data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Shaman, post: 1988856, member: 26473"] Well-said. :D Lotto Rumblebottom was funny the first three or four times I said it, but after that the joke wore pretty thin - I was almost relieved that he got spitted on an orc spear on our first adventure. The Garnet twins on the other hand alway make me smile, and they still appear as NPCs in my Wild West games, along with their stable hand, Slim Chance. Subtlety may be the name of the name-game. Wuffa Weirdbeard? I never had a chance to run the character, so I don't know how well that one would play out over time, but as noted earlier, it's more of an exotic name than a silly one, so I don't think of it as a joke so much as it just sounds odd. Again, very well-said. :D :D For a one-shot or a really limited, narrow focus campaign, sure, I can blow off my sense of disbelief, but if the character is going to last more than a few sessions, then a nickname should at least fit the millieu.* *[size=1]Oh lawd, like an illithid's writing tentacles the thread on writing like Gygax has pierced my braincase![/size] :eek: [/QUOTE]

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