What's your screenname mean?

[Darth Shoju]

Darth- The name attached to Sith (Darth Vader, Darth Sidious, Darth Maul, etc.)
Shoju- From the CCG Legend of the Five Rings (my favourite CCG of all time), the Champion of the Scorpion Clan (full name Bayushi Shoju).

I'm a big fan of both Star Wars and L5R and like many others was trying to find a webmail address that wouldn't have a bunch of stupid numbers in it. As far as L5R is concerned, I'm actually more of a Dragon clan kind of guy, but Shoju is such a neat sounding name. Despite the fact I'm a Star Wars fan myself, the name is also kind of a dig at people who call themselves Darth anything online (well, at least to those who take themselves too seriously about it).

 

[Hellzon]

My last name, edited so anglo-saxon servers don't choke on it, since the real spelling is Hällzon. However, due to screw-ups in name registry (a few generations back), what the Swedish state has in their registries for my family's last name is actually Hellson. Not very PC.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

Mine's a palindrome. Egad, a base tone denotes a bad age... etc.

 

[Greylock]

Nice. Very nice. I missed that little trick even though something about your screen-name always tugged at my feeble left brain.

I've explained my screen-name before, but I am considering changing it to something more appropriately descriptive, like Kane or maybe Eileen.

 

[Desdichado]

Mine shouldn't need any explanation. I'm enough of a jerk as it is; being anonymous would only make it worse.

I think I may have posted at Eric's old site as Raolin Darksbane for a while; he was an infamous false Dragon from the Wheel of Time. Of course, I had settled on that screen name something like seven years ago; long before I realized that the Wheel of Time would eventually suck.

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

I only use BigFreekinGoblinoid here and a few other D&D boards. I also use "Nonokrion" ( Privateer Press' boards ), "Judge Gabberslug" ( Planescape boards ), "morphic trait", and several others, including "Moderator" at the WotC boards! I am also Demogorgon here. Shhh, don't tell. I have been known to bump my own threads. Don't worry though, I stopped using that PirateCat clone alt ID when I forgot the password over 6 months ago.

Many people think BigFreekinGoblinoid is a non sequitur. Perhaps it is, but I prefer it to be a reminder that the pervasive goblinoid races should not be treated mearly ( uh, make that "merely" - Mearls, get outta my head! ) - as fodder for the mid-level PC, or relegated exclusivly to low level adventures. Raise your hand if you never use the monster progression rules, apply class levels or templates. Yes, this song is about you. Golblinoids are versatile. Replace gnomes and or halflings with a goblinoid race in your next hombrew!

I also puposefully spelled it "freEkin", as apposed to the more common "freAkin", so that it would have hopefully have a good connotation as opposed to an oddball streaker/social misfit type meaning.

Friends can call me "BFG"! Yes, that's you too.

PS - I remember a long thread similar to this a good while back, although there was no poll. Interesting reading. Perhaps we can merge them at some point...

 

[Acquana]

Holy Crap! This one's got an image!

Yet another one of those "I made it for email first" kinda deals. In 8th grade I came up with a character for my sci-fi setting named Acquana Byol. The first name is pronounced "uh-Kah-nuh," not "uh-Kwah-nuh."

When I first started using email I had another name with another story, but then I decided if I was going to name myself after a character it should least be a female one. For some reason I don't have a lot of female characters, even though I am one, so choosing one became a hassle. But Acquana has treated me well, and no one has ever already had the name anywhere else on the net.

One day I plan to getting around to her story. And for those of you who are curious, she looks like this:

 

[Desdichado]

Yet another one of those "I made it for email first" kinda deals. In 8th grade I came up with a character for my sci-fi setting named Acquana Byol. The first name is pronounced "uh-Kah-nuh," not "uh-Kwah-nuh."

My username is pronounced "Eliza Doolittle." Just ignore the letters of the username, they're irrelevent.

"Just yoo wite, 'enry 'iggins!"

 

[Acquana]

My username is pronounced "Eliza Doolittle." Just ignore the letters of the username, they're irrelevent.

And by the way, it's "kuh-TOO-Loo" not "kuh-Thoo-loo."

 

[Wellstar]

Mine has a bit of a story to is as well. Wellstar is the name of the healthcare system one of my parents works for. The "you are wellstar" in my avatar photo is from a promotional mug that was given to me for use in my first year at college. I didn't think too much of it until about a year or so ago when I was drinking some coffee and my then roomate looked at me with a strange, awestruck stare and said " You!...you're...you're Wellstar Aren't you??" and then went on a rant about how the line of wellstar was prophesied to destroy the evil empire...(belive me. he was a very, very strange man) and for a while, it stuck. I decided to use it as a name for the EN forums mostly because it sounds neat.


edit: spellcheck