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<blockquote data-quote="ninthcouncil" data-source="post: 515841" data-attributes="member: 2566"><p>My old group (before I moved to London) used to be pretty sensible with names, but for some reason this slipped a little in Call of Cthulhu; perhaps we needed a bit of silliness to offset the eldritch horror <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=":)" /> Usually these were just real but amusing sounding names, like Polkinghorne or Drax-Plunkett, but some were more explicitly jokes. So there was a Scotland Yard detective called Armitage Shanks (which is the name of a well known brand of toilet in the UK), the medic Dr. Martin Boots, or that crusty old military type, Colonel Hammond Mustard. I should really, though, have known better than to call a character Arthur Totenkopf (&quot;death's head&quot; in German); he lasted all of 15 minutes playing time, the shortest lived character I have EVER played <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=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="ninthcouncil, post: 515841, member: 2566"] My old group (before I moved to London) used to be pretty sensible with names, but for some reason this slipped a little in Call of Cthulhu; perhaps we needed a bit of silliness to offset the eldritch horror :) Usually these were just real but amusing sounding names, like Polkinghorne or Drax-Plunkett, but some were more explicitly jokes. So there was a Scotland Yard detective called Armitage Shanks (which is the name of a well known brand of toilet in the UK), the medic Dr. Martin Boots, or that crusty old military type, Colonel Hammond Mustard. I should really, though, have known better than to call a character Arthur Totenkopf ("death's head" in German); he lasted all of 15 minutes playing time, the shortest lived character I have EVER played :) [/QUOTE]

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