What does your ENWorld name mean?

[Theo R Cwithin]

"the orc within" is an anagram of "wet rhino itch", a foul (and foul-smelling) disease I contracted during a stint as a naugahyde smuggler in the Congo basin during the mid-90s.

To this day I still walk funny on account of the scars.

 

[Askaval30]

The name of a Scandinavian Eagle from a William Horwood novel

 

[jonesy]

"the orc within" is an anagram of "wet rhino itch", a foul (and foul-smelling) disease I contracted during a stint as a naugahyde smuggler in the Congo basin during the mid-90s.

To this day I still walk funny on account of the scars.

And here I thought it was an anagram of Tin Witch Hero.

 

[Kannik]

Kannik's the name I've gone by online for ages. Long ago I was choosing a name for my alter-ego and needed a good name for a canadian lynx, so I hit up one of the Inuit-English dictionaries at the university library. I chose one of the words for snow in one particular dialect of Inuktitut, bastardized it a bit, and ended up with Kannik. I just liked the sound of it. I then simply adopted it for the whole of my online identities.

Humorously I now live in an area where many of the people I know I met online, so I answer to Kannik off-line as readily as my given name. It's become part of my identity overall.

Years later I would come to find out that Kannik is a semi-common name in Norway. Who knew?

peace,

Kannik

 

[Crazy Jerome]

At some point I decided that it would make sense to use the name of one of the only two recurring characters from campaigns I run. CJ was the absent-minded, planar traveling wizard-merchant. Smitty was the loyal but guillible and literal-minded gate guard--who always managed to get hired easily in time to irritate the players at the next town, but too annoying and trusting to keep the job--and thus be available for the next. Smitty's didn't seem like good characteristics for a forum.

So I took the "other" name, and much to my surprise found that it was always available no matter where I went ...

 

[jdrakeh]

Mine is the first letter of my first name, my whole middle name, and the first letter of my last name. It'si also a super unique ID that I can use pretty much anywhere online withassurances that somebody else isn't already using it.

 

[Nikosandros]

Nikosandros was the name of a magic-user NPC in my longest running campaign (19 years). When I become active on the Internet (in the late '90s), I decided that I really liked the name ans started using it as my handle almost everywhere.

Possibly the name was originally at least somewhat inspired by the name Nicodemus, a wizard in the Fighting Fantasy game-book City of Thieves, but it's hard to be sure after all this years...

 

[A flannel shirt]

Do I need to explain?

I like wearing flannel.

There you beat it out of me.



I mostly use it due to when playing counter strike when I kill somoene it will say "You have been killed by A Flannel Shirt."

 

[tenkar]

It was the name of a party henchman when I DMed AD&D 2e back in the day. A Dwarven Fighter, the party got pretty attached to him, and in the end, he was the only henchman / hireling they had left.

Years later, when the old gaming group played Everquest, he became my Dwarven Paladin. The rest, as they say, is history

 

[Nellisir]

Mine is the first letter of my first name, my whole middle name, and the first letter of my last name. It'si also a super unique ID that I can use pretty much anywhere online withassurances that somebody else isn't already using it.

First letter of my first name, my whole middle name, and the first TWO letters of my last name.

Ditto the rest. And I will answer to Nell in real life.