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Message: <blockquote data-quote="med stud" data-source="post: 511433" data-attributes="member: 1211">The worst names of my games:- Halfling thief named Kellogg (as in cornflakes)- Black duck (player race in Runequest and a Swedish game) named Sodium Steelfeather- Fighter named Senilix (from Asterix the Gaul comic)- Fighter named "Wakisashi man" because his player never came up with a name.- Fighter named "Two weapon man" because his player never bothered to come up with a name (this was his favorite character; he played with him for over a year, but still didnt name him).- A duck pirate named "The duck" because the player didnt bother to come up with a name (this is sort of a trend in my group <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )- A half-elf fighter named Dunseith. This wasnt so bad until we got to know that there actually is some small town in USA named Dunseith :-/ Pretty cool coincidence though <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />But I cant understand why certain DMs have problems with strange names. Even though some of those names sounded strange from the beginning, they became natural after a while. Right now, though, we tend to use real world names on characters. It makes it easier for me (DM) to create distinct cultures without much problem; people of the east have Anglo-Saxian names, people in the South have Italian/Spanish names, and so on.</blockquote>

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