What's your screenname mean?

[Wolf72]

nickname picked up from my mate's. Apparently when I'm scruffy looking (unshaven) I look kinda wolfish ... and there was an awkward situation with a columbian chick (I was just helping her with her english homework!) ... but they were all English (+1 Welsh, +1 scot) ... so their judgement is suspect

 

[Humanophile]

For almost all of my gaming career, I've seen demihumans as being cheap, silly, and poorly played. (This admittedly has much to do with the groups I've played with and their search for the newest and most powerful, as well as the lack of game balance back in the day.) So I kind of settled on "I'm a human, I'm surrounded by humans, this is what I understand" and developed a tendency to play them almost exclusively. So when I decided to sign up here, I figured that the name was probably unique, and expressed my RPG/D&D personna as well as anything could.

 

[Achan hiArusa]

Screen Name

My original name back in the days of online BBSes (still have a membership at telnet://whip.isca.uiowa.edu) when Mosaic was still in development (it was the college project of the guys who invented Netscape) was Trajan, but when I went to use it on Yahoo it had already been taken and so I went in search of a name that hadn't been taken. My obsession du jour just as I was starting grad school was Empire of the Petal Throne (http://www.tekumel.com) and I wrote a conversion. Looking through the list of names I chose the first name on the list "Achan" and the first lineage name on the list "Arusa" the hi- prefix is an honorific approximating the German "von" for someone of high or very high clan status. Because of my mixed Irish, Cherokee, and Korean heritage I look very much like a Tsolyanu (the base nation for the game) and I love the game world (I can't get my players to play because its too "exotic", sigh). I should add a proper clan name lest I be mistake for nakome.

And sigh, I just realized that I have been playing D&D for 20 years now also.

 

[The_Universe]

Mine's a reflection of egotism, as well as the same "name" I use to describe my role in the RPGs that I run.

Game Master too often sounds like "Gay Master," and "Dungeon Master" sounds - well - ridiculous. I was never a big fan of referee, since I don't come from a wargaming background. So, in telling others what *I* do in the game, since I don't have a single character, I would tell them, "Well, I'm the universe - everything and everyone that you are not. I represent the laws of reality, magic, etc. as well as all of the people and history, etc. that aren't you."

Also, it looks neat on messageboards and chatboxes when it says, "The_Universe says: x." Lends it a certain gravity.

 

[Lalato]

It's my childhood nickname...

 

[Toj]

Toj Akkhari

Book(s) - Conan and the Grim Grey God (Sean A. Moore)
Build - Slight and slender
Favorite weapon - shaken stars (thin, 6-pointed pieces of razor-sharp steel)
Favorite curse - unknown
Homeland - Zamboula
Occupation - Master of Assassins in Zamboula
Physical features - A pale and drawn face with eyes like fierce, shiny-black slits. Half of his small, flat nose is sliced away; the scar from the wound travelling across the his cheekbone to the jawline. His lips are thin and cruel. Toj's left ear is notched from lobe to center, with 3 hoops of brushed silver holding the pieces together. His visage is fearsome, and at the same time repulsive.
Personality - A cold-blooded killer. His voice is soft and well-spoken. Throughout his career as an assassin, he has slain upwards of 200 people. Toj will do just about anything, as long as it is to his own advantage.
God(s) - Bel
History - Toj Akkhari is known throughout the realms as one of the most respected, highly trained assassins of all time. In Conan and the Grim Grey God, he was persuaded by Jade, the infamous Crime Mistress to follow Conan to the ancient City of Brass and obtain the statue of the Grim Grey God.

 

[vulcan_idic]

Mine is derived from the species from Star Trek (Spock is a Vulcan in case you're not familiar with it much) who I admire for their logical perspective on things. The second portion refers to the Vulcan philosophy of Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations - basically a heterogenous group of people working together are stronger than a homogenous group due to the way their strengths combine to cover individual weaknesses. I like to relate it to the old nursery rhyme, "Jack Sprat could eat nofat, his wife could eat no lean, but between the two of them they licked the platter clean." Basically they could do together what neither of them could do alone... or with another person just like them - it was their differences that lent strength to the group. An idea very applicable in many scenarios... not the least of which is RPGs. It's (generally) easier to get through obstacles when you have a variety of talents in a party (mage/cleric/rogue/fighter) than many of one skill set (all fighters for instance)

 

[Harmon]

Favorite current character's familar.

 

[Algolei]

My name means, "Wise counsel from the cornered hill providing safe passage between offshore islands." Thankfully I found a shorter version of that.

--Algolei

 

[knitnerd]

It means that my need for a name was greater than my creativity.

Creativity is in short supply at 3 A.M. when you have rearranged most of the furniture in the house to put the new computer near both electrical outlets and working phone lines, assembled the computer desk and the computer and set up your first internet service account. I am a nerd who knits.