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<blockquote data-quote="Fenes 2" data-source="post: 502628" data-attributes="member: 6166">I don't let players choose inappropriate names - and I consider anything inappropriate that I would hate to use in my campaign as an adress. I am pretty tolerant however.As far as the most stupid name I ever encountered (and the first and so far only I banned), here is the story:We were (and are) playing a campaign in the Mulhorand/Unther region of the Forgotten Realms, heavily modified. The culture is very much sculpted according to historical egypt, only with real gods walking the earth, or at least residing in the city of gods. The priest-caste and the churches dominate Mulhorand and the occupied territories of Unther, running then governement under the pharao and the army. Priests of other faiths than those of the Mulhorandi pantheon may not attempt to convert the people or risk th death penalty (and diplomatic incidences among the gods).The players have close ties to a faction of the church of Isis, with one PC a (fresh converted and therfore multiclassed) priestess of Isis in high standing. The rest of the PCs is in her employ.Enters a new player, fresh from Neverwinter Nights. The background is known, at least to the player and occasional DM that helps him with his PC. Still, what they came up with:A rasta-headed priest of &quot;Jah&quot;, a nature god from Jamaica (sic!), named &quot;Mr. J. Jackson&quot;.To add injury to insult they were unable to understand why I did not want that name to sully my campaign.(We renamed the PC Moses, priest of Osiris for the few sessions he attended.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fenes 2, post: 502628, member: 6166"] I don't let players choose inappropriate names - and I consider anything inappropriate that I would hate to use in my campaign as an adress. I am pretty tolerant however. As far as the most stupid name I ever encountered (and the first and so far only I banned), here is the story: We were (and are) playing a campaign in the Mulhorand/Unther region of the Forgotten Realms, heavily modified. The culture is very much sculpted according to historical egypt, only with real gods walking the earth, or at least residing in the city of gods. The priest-caste and the churches dominate Mulhorand and the occupied territories of Unther, running then governement under the pharao and the army. Priests of other faiths than those of the Mulhorandi pantheon may not attempt to convert the people or risk th death penalty (and diplomatic incidences among the gods). The players have close ties to a faction of the church of Isis, with one PC a (fresh converted and therfore multiclassed) priestess of Isis in high standing. The rest of the PCs is in her employ. Enters a new player, fresh from Neverwinter Nights. The background is known, at least to the player and occasional DM that helps him with his PC. Still, what they came up with: A rasta-headed priest of "Jah", a nature god from Jamaica (sic!), named "Mr. J. Jackson". To add injury to insult they were unable to understand why I did not want that name to sully my campaign. (We renamed the PC Moses, priest of Osiris for the few sessions he attended.) [/QUOTE]

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