'Origin' of Your User Name

[Anselyn]

Name of a paladin that I played 20 years ago - misspelled version of Ancelyn

And - interestingly (to me) - from an episode of Dr Who written by Ben Aaronovitch

 

[dragoner]

Used to design wargames ~20 years ago; one campaign I made for Panzer General 2, "The Great Patriotic War" depicting the Soviet side using Russian, Polish, Romanian, and other sources, was recently added to a browser game from somebody in Czechia.

On the forums, I decided to call myself "dragoner" because it sounded cool, my great grandfather was a captain of dragoons in the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, and it means "dragoon" in German.

 

[Ulfgeir]

My username is from when I was a member of a mediaeval club and needed a name for my persona. Ulfgeir is of old Nordic origin, and can best be translated as Wolfspear.

So ended up using that on a number of forums. On Discord (and the global name on City of Heroes) I use Red Gazelle. That was based on a character I played in Mutants & Masterminds 2e.

 

[generic]

My username is an inside joke of sorts which arose as a result of linguistic tomfoolery amongst my comrades. The name "Abeir-Toril" was consistently pronounced as both ABE-er-TOR-ill and A-beer-TOR-ill, to the great annoyance of the DM, the group, and everyone. While this argument raged online and in person, I jokingly uttered something that sounded like ABBER-TOR-ill. The letter AE was chosen, and the name stuck.

So, it's AE-burr-TOR-ill.

 

[FrogReaver]

Part High School nickname and favorite StarCraft 1 unit.

 

[sgtnasty]

They could not pronounce my name in the Army, so I was always known as "nasty" regardless of rank. It stuck, and my older brother had the same name in the Air Force.

 

[Campbell]

It's my mother's maiden name. When I choose it at the age of 14 or so I was pretty into my Scottish heritage.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

Strangely, it looks like I've never posted to this ancient thread. My user name comes from one of Mike Myers Lothar of the Hill People skits on SNL.

Watch Saturday Night Live Highlight: Lothar of the Hill People - NBC.com

 

[ccs]

CCS is just my real life initials.

 

[billd91]

There's either another thread about this here or on another message board I've visited - because I'm sure I've answered this before but I don't seem to be in this thread.
Anyway, my real name is Bill and my last name starts with D. And since that's a reeeeeeeeeeeel common combination in lots of places and I was tired of having to come up with unique names everywhere, I appended a number meaningful to me (graduated from college in 1991) and that was less likely to be duplicated.