What does your ENWorld name mean?

[Steel_Wind]

The name is Wind, Steel_Wind. *queue 007 theme music*

Ah well. If only life were really like that!

"Steel Wind" is from a Japanese haiku ca. 1944-45, where "steel wind" is a reference to shrapnel in the air resulting from allied bombs.

I liked the phrase for use as a nickname and in the past have used the underscore bwtween the two words as a connector so that a two word term can be used on a "one word" systems.

 

[Remathilis]

Remathilis was the second PC I ever rolled up; an elf thief who I played from 1996-2008 off-and-on. Got him to 20th level (starting in 2e and finishing in 3.5). He's been my handle on various things across the interwebs.

His name actually came from "Remy" which was the real name of the X-Man Gambit (a thief and the original inspiration behind the character). The rest of it is "elvenization" to make Remy seem more Tolkien.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

Thornir Alekeg was a memorable dwarven cleric I played in a D&D campaign in college. After graduation I stayed in touch with some of my college friends via IRC. The name was instantly recognizable to my friends when I joined a chat room and almost never taken by somebody else, so it became my online name for IRC and later on other internet forums.

 

[crazy_cat]

crazy_cat comes from what my daughter (very young at the time) used to call her favourite character in her favourite bedtime story. The Cat in the Hat, or the crazy cat as he was known.

The underscore was initially there to make the ID work in systems that don't allow spaces in usernames, and has just become a standard part of the way I spell the ID now given the chance. I think my first major usage of this name was with multiplayer Neverwinter Nights, which is what got me back in to RPGs, and I try and use this ID on all RPG related boards I now frequent.

 

[Diamond Cross]

I had a Magic User character in 2e that came across a cross made entirely out of red diamonds. It was a present from a gold dragon he and the party saved the life of. It was an exceptionally rare item, and I think the only one like it in the entire world. It didn't have any magical properties for it, he simply prized it for it was a symbol of friendship with a gold dragon.

However, the thief of the party was always trying to steal it from him so he eventually develop a spell called Hallucinatory Object. It was much like hallucinatory terrain, but instead it obscured objects and made them seem less valuable than they actually were.

The thief eventually stole it anyway and sold it for his own interests.

After he did that though the entire party laid the smack down and beat the thief character to a bloody pulp. That person never played with the group again.

For some reason, that player never liked me and used his thief character to steal anything of valuable from me, and only me, in order to punish me for something. I never saw him after that last time we played.

And my character finally recovered the cross a few months later when he explained that it was stolen. It led to retrieving another item for the noble from whom it was stolen and they learned it was being kept in a small dungeon in which Orcs were hiding out in in order to raid the town. When he retrieved the item, he returned it, and the noble returned the cross.

 

[Stoat]

What does my ENWorld name mean? It's in my status.

Stoat: The common Holarctic ermine (Mustela erminea) especially in its brown summer coat.

 

[jimmifett]

Jim, the obvious part, fett from Boba Fett, specifically the older EU version of him as the Mandalore. I like the individualist frontiersmen selfsufficiency of the mandalorian culture.

 

[Klaus]

Mine would have been Armmar...a natural palindrome! And it rhymes with Armor. I'll have to remember that for a character some day. I'll make him a Knight and call him the "Palindrome Paladin"...



edit: Not a palindrome...just a tad dyslexic today I guess I'd have to call him the "Almost Palindrome Paladin"...

Hmm... This formula yields Pozcla for me. Sounds like some Russian dirty word.

 

[Someone]

Mine is true but uninformative. I like that kind of math and language jokes ("Do you want vanilla or chocolate?" "Yes")

 

[pawsplay]

paws play = as in pausing or playing a movie, or as in pausing to play

paw splay = paws spread apart, or paws unusually wide

I am the only cat of my kind.