What does your ENWorld name mean?
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UngeheuerLich
Legend
A little pun.*
After TPKing my group with a Lich - they "killed him" and put his phylactery in their bag of holding, getting killed when they wanted to take it out and identify it - using words with "lich" at the end was funny.
Like "SchreckLich" "JaemmerLich" "FeindLich" "FreundLich"... we then created warcraft3 names, reminding us of this "funny" and "dramatic" ending of the campaign. Some of them still use them for that regularly, I just took this name and made it my regular Forum/Game name.
edit: actually it was no TPK... the barbarian, who survived the blasphemy, drank a haste potion, enraged himself, and... turned is tail and ran...
*edit2: for those not speaking german:
both words make sense seperately and together: "Ungeheuer" = "Monster", "UngeheuerLich" = "outrageous"
So I am the "outrageous monster lich" who killed nearly the whole party...^^
After TPKing my group with a Lich - they "killed him" and put his phylactery in their bag of holding, getting killed when they wanted to take it out and identify it - using words with "lich" at the end was funny.
Like "SchreckLich" "JaemmerLich" "FeindLich" "FreundLich"... we then created warcraft3 names, reminding us of this "funny" and "dramatic" ending of the campaign. Some of them still use them for that regularly, I just took this name and made it my regular Forum/Game name.
edit: actually it was no TPK... the barbarian, who survived the blasphemy, drank a haste potion, enraged himself, and... turned is tail and ran...
*edit2: for those not speaking german:
both words make sense seperately and together: "Ungeheuer" = "Monster", "UngeheuerLich" = "outrageous"
So I am the "outrageous monster lich" who killed nearly the whole party...^^
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Fifth Element
Legend
When I started publishing d20 stuff I needed a name, so I picked Fifth Element Games because....well, you got me. No idea. I think I was researching alchemy at the time, and I liked the sound of it. The fifth element is aether, of course, if you haven't checked my status.
So when I started posting on RPG messageboards I figured the username would be a cheap and easy way to pimp my crap. So there you go.
It doesn't have anything to do with the Bruce Willis film, although I do enjoy that flick immensely.
So when I started posting on RPG messageboards I figured the username would be a cheap and easy way to pimp my crap. So there you go.
It doesn't have anything to do with the Bruce Willis film, although I do enjoy that flick immensely.
Mallus was my old 3e gin-swilling, lost-love reuniting, city-slicker kinda-knight PC. The name's supposed to suggest both 'malice' and 'malleus/malleable', which fit him to a tee, being a not-so-nice bastard son of gold and silver mine-owning nobility.
He and I share a love of gin and cities.
He and I share a love of gin and cities.
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Abraxas
Explorer
Abraxas is the first 1st edition Paladin I ever played - because getting a 17 in charisma with 3d6 rolled in order doesn't happen very often. I have recreated him twice - once each in 2E and 3E. He was/is a two weapon fighting, light armor wearing paladin of a vaguely Egyptian origin.
It is also the name of a God-like or Demonic being in Herman Hesse's novel Demien and Seven Sermons to the Dead by Jung, part of John Sheridan's password to arm the nukes on his ship in Babylon 5, the title to Santana's second album - all of which entertain me as does the name.
Unfortunately - it is often already in use and I have to use Saxarba instead...
It is also the name of a God-like or Demonic being in Herman Hesse's novel Demien and Seven Sermons to the Dead by Jung, part of John Sheridan's password to arm the nukes on his ship in Babylon 5, the title to Santana's second album - all of which entertain me as does the name.
Unfortunately - it is often already in use and I have to use Saxarba instead...
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Nifft
Penguin Herder
"Nifft" is the protagonist of a Sword & Sorcery book that I liked.
http://www.amazon.com/Incompleat-Nifft-Michael-Shea
Cheers, -- N
http://www.amazon.com/Incompleat-Nifft-Michael-Shea
Cheers, -- N
Mercutio01
First Post
Mercutio - My favorite character from Shakespeare. 01 because "Mercutio" was taken and because it's the year I graduated college.
Philosopher
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Quite simply, I'm a professional philosopher.
Twowolves
Explorer
Twowolves Howling was the name of my barbarian shaman in Everquest back in 1998. He was a founding member of the original guild The Bears of Oboo, and would announce his presence in a zone to all by /shouting "HooOOOooowwLL!!", to which the other guildmates (and many allies) would reply /shout "OBOOooOOOOooOO!!"
He eventually became guildleader, and as other members pealed off into other MMORPGs, the Bears of Oboo (or BoO) spread like Kudzu to every other online game imaginable, and most all use "OBOOoooOOO!!" as a rallying cry.
Twowolves (aka: "The Old Man") has been my username for every online board I've joined ever since.
He eventually became guildleader, and as other members pealed off into other MMORPGs, the Bears of Oboo (or BoO) spread like Kudzu to every other online game imaginable, and most all use "OBOOoooOOO!!" as a rallying cry.
Twowolves (aka: "The Old Man") has been my username for every online board I've joined ever since.
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