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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Feathercircle" data-source="post: 1638108" data-attributes="member: 11266">Obnoxious names I've seen in campaigns I've been in:Bruce Li, pothead monkAsh itaka, pyromaniac druid (Punctuated to avoid the stupid filter which doesn't realize that I'm not attempting to swear...  Anyway, if you know Miyazaki, you'll see why it was so jarring)Baughb (ie, 'Bob'), whiny rangerCarl Malone, orc barbarianSynn, a villain in a BESM campaign (Which would not have been a problem had the DM taken more care not to paralell Final Fantasy X.  It got so bad that even WITHOUT Synn's name, the other players were calling me "Yuna".)I've only done two myself, though the first is so subtle that you'd never notice it without being told.  My homebrew campain features a race of "umbral" elves who are distant and non-evil descendants of drow (who have vanished pretty much into extinction)...  I've had two payers (who coincidentally never really joined the campaign due to real life getting in the way) who created umbral elf characters...  and they both chose the same class.  Yeah.  Somehow, all the dark elf characters were rangers, and all the rangers dark elves...  and these were people new to D&D who wouldn't know Salvatore from Cordell from a hole in the ground.  It was as if there was some kind of cosmic conspiracy....    and thus the creation of the NPC Yader...  whose name isn't at all punnish if you don't know that it's an acronym for Yet Another Dark Elf Ranger.The other...  was completely inadvertant on my part.  I'm currently in a Planescape campaign with a rather unusual party (how often do you get a gnoll lich, a succubus, an ethergaunt, and a modron travelling together?  And on top of that, no one is evil!)  My character is an illithid name Ikanthilossk, who mostly goes by the easier-to-pronounce nickname, Ika.  Which, I found out later on a visit to a sushi restaurant, just happens to be Japanese for "squid".</blockquote>

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