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<blockquote data-quote="cignus_pfaccari" data-source="post: 1640645" data-attributes="member: 14557">Coming from the Silly Names thread, that got me wondering.&nbsp; How do people name their characters?I use a variety of methods, myself.&nbsp; For our Shadowrun game, I was playing a fomori (Celticy troll) Secret Service Agent, so I started digging through common Irish names, and came up with Agent Sean O'Halloran.I played an anthropomorphic half-dragon tyrannosaur in our epic game, and while his project name* was Bitey, that wasn't going to be his actual name.&nbsp; I eventually started rolling syllables around in my head until I came up with something that sounded particularly in his style, and came up with Tolthrak.* - That's for my &quot;proof of concept characters&quot;, who're built for the express purpose of seeing how an idea I have translates into a character.&nbsp; The first was for Shadowrun, and was expressly built to fire an assault rifle in full auto mode with no penalty due to recoil...that was Sid.&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />For our Birthright campaign, I chose my first character's name from the list of Anuirean names, and then started casting about for a last name that'd seem to fit in.&nbsp; I eventually decided to play a little joke and build his last name off of Moron...taking out the vowels, that gives us Mrn, and I added different vowels and an s on the end, and came up with Aeric Miranys.How do other people name their characters?Brad</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cignus_pfaccari, post: 1640645, member: 14557"] Coming from the Silly Names thread, that got me wondering. How do people name their characters? I use a variety of methods, myself. For our Shadowrun game, I was playing a fomori (Celticy troll) Secret Service Agent, so I started digging through common Irish names, and came up with Agent Sean O'Halloran. I played an anthropomorphic half-dragon tyrannosaur in our epic game, and while his project name* was Bitey, that wasn't going to be his actual name. I eventually started rolling syllables around in my head until I came up with something that sounded particularly in his style, and came up with Tolthrak. * - That's for my "proof of concept characters", who're built for the express purpose of seeing how an idea I have translates into a character. The first was for Shadowrun, and was expressly built to fire an assault rifle in full auto mode with no penalty due to recoil...that was Sid. :) For our Birthright campaign, I chose my first character's name from the list of Anuirean names, and then started casting about for a last name that'd seem to fit in. I eventually decided to play a little joke and build his last name off of Moron...taking out the vowels, that gives us Mrn, and I added different vowels and an s on the end, and came up with Aeric Miranys. How do other people name their characters? Brad [/QUOTE]

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