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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heathen72" data-source="post: 939914" data-attributes="member: 7029">Are you sure you're all posting on the right thread?It's funny given how many of the names in Mark's thread should be on this one, (I'm not naming names here!) and how some of them on this thread seem quite okay! It reminds me that the respect a name eventually acquires is highly dependant on the character of those who take it. For instance, who would have picked Smashing Pumpkins as being the name of highly successful rock band when they first started? And yet now no one blinks an eyelid when they talk about them. And having bagged George Lucas, the same goes for Han Solo. A dumb name (I guess he's a bit of a loner, hey George?) that ended up sounde cool.It's the same with character names. Someone mentioned a Cornelius in this thread. Well, one of our gang played a Cornelius, and he was such a cool character that when I reflect upon the name it seems cool too.That said, there are some really sad names in these threads, and I'd place and odds on bet that a lot of them were from the players' earliest characters. My first character's name was Griffin, for crissakes (I think I stole it from Dream Park) and another early one was called Peregrin <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> (although everyone called him Grinner due to his manic expression.) We have a book of character names in our house now, with a history of the names given for each one. That has helped us quite a lot when searching for cool names for our characters.I still find villain names tricky, though, and If you don't get them right straight off, then the players will never let you forget it (unless you make them really nasty <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )EDIT - to chuck in a couple more examples...</blockquote>

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