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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Skyscraper" data-source="post: 6964090" data-attributes="member: 48518">I've read a number of replies about puns in RPG character names in this thread.That is certainly a pet peave of mine, although it now rarely happens anymore.One writer once wrote "puns are the excrement of conversation".(My translation, the sentence was elegant in the original version). Puns are usually bad jokes. They're so easy. With the upcoming Christmas festivities coming, think about that loud uncle that uses puns all the time that nobody laughs at, usually with not so subtle elbow jabs for his neighbor on the couch, as if the person didn't get the obvious joke because they have an IQ below freezing temperature. I have a brother like that.Really. Puns on PC and NPC names are old, predictable, easy, not funny, a crutch for humor; they torpedo immersion at least for a while. If your players have that habbit, I strongly urge you to have this pet peeve discussion with them and simply agree that you are all intelligent enough to find a more subtle, unpredictacle and intellectually stimulating humor from now on. And maybe one day, we'll be cured of puns in RPG names if we all work hard on fighting this affliction <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>