User names that are like your actual name

[Hand of Evil]

A handle of Tracy on the board, mmmm, wonder who people would think I was?

 

[Gez]

The reasonings (there are several) behind my screen name are kinda twisted. Here's one interpretation-

"Chi" and "Rho" are greek letters- they are written "X" and "P" respectively. "-mancer" in game speak means a kind of wizard who deals in a kind of magic the prefix describes (a pyromancer deals with fire magic, for example).

Well, I'm a DM, and I create situations where my players' characters gain XP and go up levels. I'm an XP-mancer.

I didn't know it was a pun. Nice one!

I thought it merely meant "palmist" (we French call palmistry chiromancie). Chiro meaning hand (seen also in chiroptera, litterally hand-wing; or chirurgy and chiropratics, work of hands), and mancy properly means divination rather than magic (but raising hordes of putrefied zombies is so much more fun than asking questions about the future to ghosts...).

 

[diaglo]

A handle of Tracy on the board, mmmm, wonder who people would think I was?

so you went with Hand of Evil instead of Dick?

 

[JoeBlank]

Mine is my first name and part of my last name.

I thought it was clever, been using it for years. Can be read as if there is a __________ for my last name. Then some Home Depot founder with the last name of Blank has to go and buy the Atlanta Falcons football team.

Who would have thought Blank would be a real last name?

 

[johnsemlak]

I wasn't really serious when I choose my enworld handle. I hadn't used messageboards much previously and just wanted ot make a few posts. So I didn't put much thought into it.

Now I am using the handle johnsemlak, my real name, at at least a dozen websites. Just never invent something.

At canonfire.com I am Aeneas

 

[Hand of Evil]

so you went with Hand of Evil instead of Dick?

yep

and the short form of HoE...

Hand of Evil came from not being able to think of something and playing Dungeon Keeper 2, the curser was called the Hand of Evil and you used it to slap around your army.

 

[tburdett]

obviously I wasn't very creative with my user name.

Nothing wrong with that.

 

[Tallok]

Mine has no relation whatsoever to my real name....
It was just an old D&D character, I use it for everything now.
And no, I look nothing like my avatar

 

[William Ronald]

My user name is my name. In my case, I guess it is because I am comfortable with who I am. Also, when I joined EN World, it was relatively rare for someone to use his actual name. So, I guess I wanted to be upfront and stand out.

Gez, do not knock the necromantic ability to question the dead. It can provide for humorous situations in game.

Player character: Where did you bury the treasure you took from the giants, great-grandfather?

Ghost of PC's great-grandfather: I took it with me! How else would they let me in here!?

 

[Gez]

Maybe I should say the stuff about mine. In a way, it's my name. It's my initials.