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<blockquote data-quote="Grydan" data-source="post: 5453818" data-attributes="member: 79401">Unless your game involves a lot more written elements than anything I've ever played, how you spell something is usually going to be pretty irrelevant. It could be spelled &quot;Arthur&quot;; in many cases, the players won't need to know, or remember/care if told. It all comes down to how it's pronounced. You, and they, are going to need to say it far more often than write it.In any group I play with, yes, something pronounced &quot;She&quot; would lead to fairly constant jokes (probably especially from the women in those groups). This may be different for some groups, especially those in which the use of the word Xi is familiar, but given your desire for something that sounds foreign, that's probably not your group.Even if it's not a source of humour, it seems ripe with the potential for confusion. A name that sounds identical to a pronoun that will likely come up every time a female character (whether PC or NPC) is the topic of discussion? &quot;She's Xi, isn't she?&quot;I'd try and find something else, that doesn't sound like a (very) common word in your players' primary language.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Grydan, post: 5453818, member: 79401"] Unless your game involves a lot more written elements than anything I've ever played, how you spell something is usually going to be pretty irrelevant. It could be spelled "Arthur"; in many cases, the players won't need to know, or remember/care if told. It all comes down to how it's pronounced. You, and they, are going to need to say it far more often than write it. In any group I play with, yes, something pronounced "She" would lead to fairly constant jokes (probably [I]especially[/I] from the women in those groups). This may be different for some groups, especially those in which the use of the word Xi is familiar, but given your desire for something that sounds foreign, that's probably not your group. Even if it's not a source of humour, it seems ripe with the potential for confusion. A name that sounds identical to a pronoun that will likely come up every time a female character (whether PC or NPC) is the topic of discussion? "She's Xi, isn't she?" I'd try and find something else, that doesn't sound like a (very) common word in your players' primary language. [/QUOTE]

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