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<blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 5548033" data-attributes="member: 54846">A long while ago there was either a blog or forum post that players cannot remember the details of the adventure or the campaign. Names, where they're going, who they're fighting. Either during, or years later when recounting the stories. So to paraphrase the poster's solution:&quot;If the PCs were under a quest given by Queen Latifa, to save Philadelphia from the the Detroit Lions, and needed Steven Hawking's help to get the Oscar trophy from the dread warlord Donald Trump, they'd remember that freaking campaign.&quot;Fast forward to now. I'm reading a fantasy series written by Alex Bledsoe. The setting is fantasy with very little FANTASY elements (or rather, the stories are about the existence of those elements). They are written like fantasy Detective novels.The thing that stands out the most (aside from the less-fantastic elements) are People's names.The main character is named Eddie Lacross.Other characters have been Clive Clemens, King Mark Drake, Queen Jennifer, Princess Janet, Eliot Spears, Iris Gladstone, Gary Bunsen, Buddy Ims, Jack, Tom Gillian, Ted Maerks, Megan Drake, and Sir Bob Kay.They're all modern names. I think that if all NPCs in a game world had fairly modern, easy to remember names, players would be more likely to remember who their allies and enemies are, instead of hard-to-pronounce fantasy names. And as a DM it'd be easier to come up with a modern name on the fly.However, putting Modern names into a fantasy setting might make it feel less like a fantasy game. Would that affect your suspension of disbelief? Would it feel the &quot;same&quot;?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rechan, post: 5548033, member: 54846"] A long while ago there was either a blog or forum post that players cannot remember the details of the adventure or the campaign. Names, where they're going, who they're fighting. Either during, or years later when recounting the stories. So to paraphrase the poster's solution: "If the PCs were under a quest given by Queen Latifa, to save Philadelphia from the the Detroit Lions, and needed Steven Hawking's help to get the Oscar trophy from the dread warlord Donald Trump, they'd remember that freaking campaign." Fast forward to now. I'm reading a fantasy series written by Alex Bledsoe. The setting is fantasy with very little FANTASY elements (or rather, the stories are about the existence of those elements). They are written like fantasy Detective novels. The thing that stands out the most (aside from the less-fantastic elements) are [B]People's names[/B]. The main character is named Eddie Lacross. Other characters have been Clive Clemens, King Mark Drake, Queen Jennifer, Princess Janet, Eliot Spears, Iris Gladstone, Gary Bunsen, Buddy Ims, Jack, Tom Gillian, Ted Maerks, Megan Drake, and Sir Bob Kay. They're all [I]modern names[/I]. I think that if all NPCs in a game world had fairly modern, easy to remember names, players would be more likely to remember who their allies and enemies are, instead of hard-to-pronounce fantasy names. And as a DM it'd be easier to come up with a modern name on the fly. However, putting Modern names into a fantasy setting might make it feel less like a fantasy game. Would that affect your suspension of disbelief? Would it feel the "same"? [/QUOTE]

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