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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Haltherrion" data-source="post: 5553724" data-attributes="member: 18253">That's a fair point but there are still those players who try to make something that seems fitting, given what little they may know about the setting and those that just pick discordant names to be cute. To tie back to a few relatively recent threads: campaign setting notes before character generation can help with this problem if they either provide a list of setting appropriate names (much as 4E PHB does for common racial names) or provide enough history with named people in it to provide the flavor. In both cases, there is no need to use one of those names but having some idea how elves are named in this world should give you a basic idea. In the end, for a player to pick a discordant name is just disresectful of the ref and other players unless it is understood that the game is whimsical. Similarly, I find it disrespectful of the author to do the same in a serious fantasy book. As an aside, my group has been using a draft process for PC creation that has the PCs choose painted figures. In the most recent draft paperwork, my co-ref and I just referred to the figure name by the manufacturer's names (in drafts past, they were referenced by a serial number). These are, as one might imagine, perfectly reasonable fantasy sounding names and several players actually used the figure name as their PC name. Why create a new one if the label applied already seems nice? I didn't have any issue with it.</blockquote>

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