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Message: <blockquote data-quote="d4" data-source="post: 1128839" data-attributes="member: 12699">i also use the "different cultures use lists of different names" schtick in my homebrew, except all the lists are from real-world cultures. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />so Subays all have Arabic names, Cormayans have French names, Pretans have English names, Ristalians have Spanish names, Sakashians have Turkish names, etc.it gives a nice feeling of consistency to everything.i personally wouldn't have a problem with a PC named David (as long as he came from a culture where such a name is common <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ). however, since this is your campaign world, i also don't have a problem with you telling the PC to pick a name more suited to the world the character actually lives in.i've only had the chance to run two characters in 3e, both dwarves, and i chose Scandinavian names for both of them because i felt it sounded "right" for a dwarf.the first was Thorfinn the Hammer Priest and my latest has the carefully-earned and wholly-accurate name of Hrothgar Ratbane Bearkiller Girallonslayer the Twice-Dead. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> (he earned the "Twice-Dead" moniker in Nightfang Spire...)</blockquote>

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