What's your screenname mean?

[barsoomcore]

My name is Corey, which is not super-common, and I run a campaign setting called Barsoom, which is not super-common -- and so by combining them the thought was that I would have a foolproof name that would be unlikely to show up anywhere else.

My original online nick was "Bullroarer", which I got over at TheOneRing.net's forums in the heady days leading up to the movies (so you can see I was a pretty early member there), but that was too well-known to serve around the internet, which is why my email address isn't at "bullroarer@yahoo.com".

Nor is it "barsoomcore@yahoo.com", but that's because I'm lazy.

 

[reanjr]

Back in BBS days (c. '89-90), because my name is Rich, and at the time Ranger Rick seemed like a fun idea, I ended up with Ranger. Well, as time went on, I found that I wanted something a bit more special.

Prior to this, my friend Tony and I had been playing a sword and sorcery fantasy RPG (this is before I ever heard of D&D or formal role-playing, we just made it up and played free form). I did a little conlanging (making up languages) and in the language I made up, the pronunciation of the word ranger would have been spelled reanj'r. So I started using this. Once the internet (actually the world wide web...) hit, it seemed the world hated my apostrophe (') (I don't know of any reason why, but ISPs do not allow an apostrophe in your username). So I dropped the apostrophe and was left with reanjr. At some point, it became customary to always write this lowercase. This takes precedence over normal capitalization. For instance at the beginning of a sentence, reanjr would still be lowercase.

So there it is. The long, convoluted, and possibly very boring account of the username reanjr. (Final note: I bet 99% of the people who ever saw it pronounced it something along the lines of reign-junior, so in chat rooms I tend to respond to junior or jr as that's usually me).

 

[khyron1144]

I am named for the Khyron of Robotech, back when I was a teen I was into a villains are cool phase, so I admired Khyron the Backstabber from the Robotech novels I was reading. Then I appended the number 1144 for easy memorability and in case there was already a Khyron on that particular forum.

This is also my name on wizards.community, Shadow of the Dragon, my own forum, palladium books, White Wolf forums, and certain others.

 

[Krieg]

Kriegspiel is generally recognized as the "first" wargame and literally means "wargame".

I was a wargamer before I was an RPGer.

I used Kriegspiel on the old incarnations of this board. When the switch was made to this board I discovered that Kriegspiel was already taken so I shortened it to Krieg.

I later realized that the individual who had already registered Kriegspiel was in fact....me.

Doh!

By that time I had posted enough under Krieg that I decided to just go ahead & stick with it.

 

[Arkhandus]

For a long time I played a blue mage called Mist Phantom in the Beyond Dominia Roleplaying Mill (essentially a sort of play-by-post community thing based in the setting of Magic: The Gathering), and came up with Mist Phantom as a moniker/character because it fit the trend in names there at the time (folks used names like Defender, Sage Advisor, Elrohir, Shadow, Jake the Atog God.....those were the days....).

Eventually my meandering storylines with Mist Phantom got around to the point where he finally found a spell to return his human body, after so many years as a half-corporeal phantom (his mentor's botched attempt to ressurect him after taking a Fireball (M:TG style) for his mentor when his mentor's rival came by and attacked....). He regained his original human body, and took up his original name, or rather the name I just wrangled together at the moment that sounded fantasy-ish enough and fit with what little family background I already had for Mist Phantom.

Since then I've grown fond of the moniker Arkhandus and used it for my screen name online in games and message boards, as well as in Starcraft and Ultima Online, and once or twice in play-by-email games of D&D. I have a tendency to re-use character names because I have such trouble coming up with new ones. :\

 

[Y.O.Morales]

Mine is an abbreviation of my first and last name, and the 'Morales' is actually my mothers' maiden name. The reason is that 'Yamir Ortiz' sound pretty awful both in English and Spanish.

 

[Kriegspiel]

Kriegspiel is generally recognized as the "fist" wargame and literally means "wargame".

I was a wargamer before I was an RPGer.

I used Kriegspiel on the vast incarnations of this board. When the switch was made to this board I discovered that Kriegspiel was already taken so I shortened it to Krieg.

I later found out that the individual who had already registered Kriegspiel was in fact....me. Doh! By that time I had posted enough under Krieg that I decided to just go ahead & stick with it.

What he said

 

[Tinker Gnome]

Mine was originally a deity of the undead I made up for a D&D campaign, but I never did use him.

 

[Imret]

Originally, it's half of one of the named Boneguard - Bast-Imret - from Tailchaser's Song which is an excellent book if you like Watership Down-style novels - it's about cats. And ancient evil. The Boneguard are never fully explained, but appear to be undead cats. Hey, it's probably scary if you're a cat too.

Just liked the sound of it and needed a screen name.

Later, Imret was a mid-range fiend whose minions and plots plagued the PC's from one corner of the world to the other. I should dig up his stats some time...they never did kill him...

 

[Ferret]

Mine was a fairly random nickname I gave myself, after swearing allegence to a guy called Weasel. He was my mentor and I his student, well not exactly.