The Superfluous Name Thread

Reginald de Curry · Post by **Reginald de Curry** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:22 pm

Darkknight wrote:Nothing to do with Ravenloft... Taken from a past life. Not my real name, but what I was.

You're Adam West? Cool!

Darkknight · Post by **Darkknight** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:27 am

Sadly no... not the batman... Just a crusader who went too far.

VAN · Post by **VAN** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 7:19 pm

I use this nick in almost any occasion I need one and it’s also the name I use to almost all my characters. My brother used this name first, many many years ago; it was the name of a toy. I liked it because is a bit similar with my real name.

Yattara · Post by **Yattara** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 7:48 pm

Mine is from a character I played online. She looked like an Elf, but was actually a Succubus sent by a demon-prince to seduce another PC to the path of evil (actually, she had to kill him when the seducing didn't go fast enough for the prince's tastel.) She was fun to play. The other PC did manage to get her to try and Ascend, making her even more fun to play as she now tries to understand these mortals running around, and doing good.

I love her

Dominique · Post by **Dominique** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 8:55 am

Miriel Ithildin wrote:Mine is from a character I played online. She looked like an Elf, but was actually a Succubus sent by a demon-prince to seduce another PC to the path of evil (actually, she had to kill him when the seducing didn't go fast enough for the prince's tastel.) She was fun to play. The other PC did manage to get her to try and Ascend, making her even more fun to play as she now tries to understand these mortals running around, and doing good.

That sounds kind of like a character I played online at one point, Mariamne Kyvaerin. After she died, her old lover started seeing her ghost for fleeting moments and trying to find some way to contact her. He succeeded. Unfortunately, she wasn't a ghost so much as an erinyes with a very elaborate plan . . .

Joël of the FoS · Post by **Joël of the FoS** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 11:26 am

My usual nick before I became "of the Fraternity" is Gotten Grabmal. It is a first edition cavalier PC I created in 1987 and still play with these days.

It is from german, of course: gotten = god, grabmal = tomb.

Gotten slowly went from 3rd level in 1987 to 15th level in 2004, where he got converted to 3.5 ed. and retrofitted to 7th level.

In our D&D gang, we have 2 DMs - in my game, we are playing Ravenloft of course, while in the other game Gotten is now adventuring in Cauldron (the Dungeon mag adventures).

Joël

Yattara · Post by **Yattara** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 11:45 am

Joël, is that the Adventure Path-series?

Joël of the FoS · Post by **Joël of the FoS** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 11:51 am

I don't know. There was a serie of 8? adventures in Dungeon mag finishing a few months ago that was based in a city called Cauldron.

From what I heard, it is pretty killer

but Gotten will stand tall and proud amidst the chaos of this adventure

Joël

Yattara · Post by **Yattara** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 12:27 pm

*slaps forehead.*

Sorry, it's the Shackled City adventure path-series. I should have known, my boyfriend collected those issues so he can inflict it on his group some time. Thus, I never read them, since I have some hopes of being able to play with them then, but he said it was quite interesting.

sabbattack · Post by **sabbattack** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 4:17 pm

Well, my nickname is a trick of words.

My favorite musician is Martin Walkyier. Martin is known for his great skill in metaphors and word-plays. Anyway, I was fooling around one day and thinking of his band "Sabbat" made me combine "sabbat" with "attack" hence "sabbattack"

midnightcat · Post by **midnightcat** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 9:31 am

Well my name is easy to figure out where it came from. I love cats in general. Both the monsters the Midnigh cat and the paka have always intrigued me. So, when it cmae time to pick a name I used one of the cat related monsters.

Le Noir Faineant · Post by **Le Noir Faineant** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 10:54 am

My name on this boards is an allusion to Walter Scott's *Ivanhoe*. I. uses that name when he fights in disguise at the Sheffield tournament and is badly wounded.
I picked *Desdichado*, because it actually refers to my love for medieval fantasy and to my Spanish origin. *The best name I ever picked as a nick, IMO; I think I will use it always from now on.*
BTW, no offense please, Dark Knight, but my other choice was actually Adam West...

Besides, I am known as Ivid (the Bowman) or as Zeraph,
but I feel most comfortable if you simply call me by my name,
Rafael.

hidajiremi · Post by **hidajiremi** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:06 am

Mine is a reference to the collectible card game Legend of the Five Rings. As a long-time fan of the Rokugan setting as well as the CCG itself, I think that my adoption of the handle is only natural.

"Hida" is the head family of the Crab Clan, the clan of defense, set against the Shadowlands Horde since the beginning of the Empire, destined to fight against an unbeatable enemy so that the people of the land can mock them behind their backs as uncultured and crude... I feel like that sometimes myself, so I sympathize.

"Jiremi" is just a Japan-ization of my real name, Jeremy. The "Je" sound doesn't exist in Japanese, and "-my" becomes "-mi". I had originally wanted to go with "Kamui", because it's a literal translation of my real name's original meaning ("power of god") but I came to the conclusion that people would think it was an X/1999 reference, and decided against it.

Before Hida Jiremi, I used Cutter Kinseeker (a reference to the amazingly great comic ElfQuest). I decided to be slightly more original for my handle after I got tired of that one. I've been thinking lately about changing it again, but I'm not sure I'm ready to give up the small amount of cred I've managed to accumulate with this handle.

Hida Jiremi
(Jeremy Puckett)

Scipio · Post by **Scipio** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 1:58 pm

hida_jiremi wrote:Before Hida Jiremi, I used Cutter Kinseeker (a reference to the amazingly great comic ElfQuest). I decided to be slightly more original for my handle after I got tired of that one. I've been thinking lately about changing it again, but I'm not sure I'm ready to give up the small amount of cred I've managed to accumulate with this handle.

Hida Jiremi
(Jeremy Puckett)

Nice, I loved Elfquest. I still have my copy of Blood of Ten Chiefs sitting around here somewhere.

My name is from when I was taking Latin in high school. Scipio was the name of a Roman general. He defeated Hannibal in the second punic war. Since then I've picked up the name for one of the NPCs in my games, Dr Cornelius Scipio.

Troile · Post by **Troile** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 3:53 pm

My name is stolen from White Wolf actually.

Troile is a character in Vampire: The Masquerade.

I started using it in a text based roleplaying game then it became my handle for a while.

This is one of the only places I still use it I think. I mostly just use my real name now. I guess I'm not as much of a geek as I used to be.

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The Superfluous Name Thread