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<blockquote data-quote="Shard O'Glase" data-source="post: 504015" data-attributes="member: 1134">I'm glad for you and your players that you all have the same likes.(IMO)It is anal.(IMO)And DMs like that deserve crap for it.Oh and It's not, Yes, No.Cultural standards exist, but not everyone follows them blindly.&nbsp; Some people might of had Radicals as parents who dared to give a child a name that wasn't the cultural norm, or maybe they met a traveling salemsan and said hey that's a neat name.&nbsp; Crap I know a lady who voted for and named her son Regan because he had nice hair.&nbsp; People IRL don't follow their culture to a T(even when naming their kids), so I wont enforce the PCs to follow their culture to a T.Cultural backgrounds are great, distrubingly enforced cultural standards are DM bullying.&nbsp; It's one thing to let a player know that his name/persoanlity is unusual for the race/region, and that he/she will be treated differently for it.&nbsp; It's another to say no you can't do that.(of course totally silly names like Smoky McPot are player bullying and crap as well and any player who pulls this deserves crap for it, though I'd make a distinciton between actual names and names a player gives himself in game or background as an Alias or working name)But hey if most of the group either agree to silly names or strict cultural names it isn't bullying.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shard O'Glase, post: 504015, member: 1134"] I'm glad for you and your players that you all have the same likes. (IMO)It is anal. (IMO)And DMs like that deserve crap for it. Oh and It's not, Yes, No. Cultural standards exist, but not everyone follows them blindly. Some people might of had Radicals as parents who dared to give a child a name that wasn't the cultural norm, or maybe they met a traveling salemsan and said hey that's a neat name. Crap I know a lady who voted for and named her son Regan because he had nice hair. People IRL don't follow their culture to a T(even when naming their kids), so I wont enforce the PCs to follow their culture to a T. Cultural backgrounds are great, distrubingly enforced cultural standards are DM bullying. It's one thing to let a player know that his name/persoanlity is unusual for the race/region, and that he/she will be treated differently for it. It's another to say no you can't do that.(of course totally silly names like Smoky McPot are player bullying and crap as well and any player who pulls this deserves crap for it, though I'd make a distinciton between actual names and names a player gives himself in game or background as an Alias or working name) But hey if most of the group either agree to silly names or strict cultural names it isn't bullying. [/QUOTE]

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