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Message: <blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 9401222" data-attributes="member: 11">My original name on here was Nemmerle - you know, the Archmage of Roke who basically gave his life to save one very foolish and talented young student named Sparrowhawk/Ged when the latter cast a spell he shouldn't have (and if you don't know, turn off your computer and go read some Ursula K. LeGuin - or keep your computer on and order a copy of A Wizard of Earthsea - but whatever you do don't watch the literally whitewashed and terrible animated version).But I guess back when I joined the boards in 2000 enough people were unfamiliar with the name that, for some reason, I kept getting misgendered - which is not that big a deal for me but decided I didn't want to even unintentionally mislead anyone. So when the boards went through one of its many iterations, I chose to change it to THE reverse and emphasis on the "EL" (given my latino-american roots). And so I became "el-remmen" (I think capitalized names look weird as handles - not sure why I included the hyphen).The funny thing is people who remember me from the before times still sometimes refer to me as "Nemm."As for my avatar. In the early days I also developed a reputation as a Bullywug lover (not gonna deny it) because my earliest thread to get a lot of attention was soon after the release of 3E's Monsters of Faerun in 2001, which included the 3E stats for them, which I entitled "BULLYWUGS GOT THE SHAFT!" (yes, all caps, sorry 24+ years later) because they did not have what I considered (and still consider) a defining trait - the hop attack! (something they still don't have). So I fixed it then (now lost to the ether) and <a href="https://how-i-run-it.com/2023/12/12/wugs/" target="_blank">have fixed it now</a>.Anyway, a friend on the boards, whose handle I have forgotten, in part b/c he moved on from the boards pretty early on and in other part b/c we became real life friends and so soon moved on to addressing each other by our real names and often jamming on guitar together - you might also know him as the man who as the one-man band called "Ettin" put out a song called "Eric Noah is my Half-Fiend Love Child" - drew me the avatar: a bullywug playing guitar and when I switched my handle, he edited it change the "NEMMERLE" to "EL-REMMEN."We have unfortunately been out of touch maybe 15 years now.Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking with it.</blockquote>

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