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hamster: cute, small furry animal which likes desert dwellings, can go for long distances without water or other supplies, and carries snacks in his cheek pouches.
my totem animal, if i am to believe my friends
psionic: mental power, crystals, creation of things from ectoplasmic nothing. and massive energy blasts without warning.
yeah, that's me
http://www.flashplayer.com/animation/hamstersrevenge.html
(note: not really workplace appropriate...cartoon animation violence and interesting music...)
namaste'
the hamster
When I started playing fantasy football I named my team the Wampus Cats and started using it as a handle on various message boards.
The idea came from a little league football team that we named the Wampus Cats, for reasons lost in antiquity. We won the championship that year, and the next year as "The Turkeys".
Pretty radical stuff for 12-year-olds in 1968.
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When I was a wee lad growing up, one of my favorite movies was "The Secret of Nimh." I always thought the BBG - Jenner - was really cool, and a neat name as well.
Several years later in middle school when Shadowrun first came out, I used the name for my character (a street samurai.) Unfortunately, I found the name "Jenner" was quite popular on the messageboards I frequented and I needed an addition. Thus the 2057 - the current year of our Shadowrun campaign at the time. I've just been using that ever since.
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When I started playing fantasy football I named my team the Wampus Cats and started using it as a handle on various message boards.
The idea came from a little league football team that we named the Wampus Cats, for reasons lost in antiquity. We won the championship that year, and the next year as "The Turkeys".
Pretty radical stuff for 12-year-olds in 1968.
Hunt the Wampus was a game on the TI994a computer back in the early 80's-ish. Maybe you got it from there.
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My avatar name? Well... I very much like the idea of luck and fate as it pertains to D&D games. Whenever I'm given the option, I prefer to play clerics who have Fate, Luck, or Time as one of their domains because I like being a little enigmatic and kooky. The other big reason is that I'm usually a DM and, as a DM, I literally CONTROL the fate of the characters and they live or die by my whim alone.
Also, the Fatespinner prestige class looks really cool and I can't wait to get a chance to play one sometime.
As for the avatar picture, it looks like the guy in the picture is wearing little reading glasses and I find that very amusing since I'm envisioning this very sophisticated goat/demon thing sitting down, reading Voltaire, and sipping some Earl Grey tea.
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I could have sworn I posted here before but now that I can't find it... perhaps I only intended to.
I started roleplaying in online chat rooms, and had just read a novel about a Mithril Hall and some drow guy. *chuckle* Well, I took a liking to the wizard of the story, fudged his name a little, and declared myself a distant relative. Thus was born Vendle Harkle. I have used the name for a long time on other boards and freeform sites. I still play on myrealms.net if you care to see a description of my 9-years-running mage.
P.S. Although I used to play the comic relief, the character has outgrown that kind of behavior for survival's sake.
Um...it's my name?
Mechwarrior 4. The Raven is a sensor mech that scouts, jumps, and fights as well as a kobold with its shoes tied together. The Atlas is the assault mech more like a pissed off Titan in D&D terms. I merely combined the names to show how well the two can work together.
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Baracutey is a character from a Puertorican comic book called "Turey el Taino", about the adventures of a Taino warrior (Caribbean Native). Baracutey was the village Bohique or Witchdoctor and his name means loner or lone one. He was dark, brooding and had knowledge of the spirit realm and of Huracán, the evil destructive deity that manifested itself in the form of terrible Huricanes. He left quite an impression on my 8 year old mind.
I'm Ty's dad. I started using that name when he was first born, over twelve years ago, and have used it ever since. Now that I have four kids, though, the rest are a bit jealous.
Fang was my favorite 2e character--a gnome fighter who redefined the word "stupid". I really enjoyed playing Fang, and I know he gave the DM nightmares. When a Dragon article about barbarians and roleplaying stupidity came out (a long time ago, don't ask me when...), my gaming group decided they must have interviewed Fang for the article.
--Fang
A friend of mine gave it to me because I use to spend my time at porn conventions in Vegas and strip clubs in my younger days.
It's very simple... i was choosing my avatar image before the name... look at this guy... I don't think he's having a good time... soooooooooooooooooo boooooooooring...
So, waaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy back in the day (okay, 1996). I had one of the versions of AoL, and had some RPG experience. I was trying to come up with a good name, and Darkmeer was born. I don't know where it came from (maybe a smashing of Dalamar...), I just know I've used it for 10 years, and don't plan on stopping.
Various incarnations:
Darkmeer
Darkmeer the Dark
DTD
I've run into a couple of places throughout the net where someone was already using my nick, specifically gmail & yahoo, and I don't know why.
/d
Mine comes from one of my favorite NPCs I ever made up. It has appeared somewhere, in some incarnation, in every campaign I have run since 1996 or so.
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While the spelling is off due to popularity, I pulled it from the old, at least by my standards, Conan cartoon. Greywolf was a wizard type whose brother and sister were turned into wolves by the evil snake sorcerer dude, can't recall his name. I used it for my first Vampire the Masquerade character, which was also a victim character, and it stuck.
Although lately I've been considering Ranger X as that was my first D&D character back in '88, I had issues coming up with a name, and finally gave up so it was decided he had amnesia and there it was. Yes he was a ranger.
Corean -- the God in the longest campaign I played, in which I was the Cleric. This was also the highest level Char I've ever managed Level 1 - 16.Death was self inflicted, my own Destruction spell reflected back at me!
the wu tang clan has two members who refer to themselves as the RZA and the GZA. RZA stands for 'razor' as in 'razor sharp' meaning 'on point.' the GZA is the genius, cause the wu form like voltron and GZA happens to be the head. so my name, the DZA, stems from these two names. every group of friends i've had has called me by a dozen nicknames, and never just dustin. so my friend adam, who is a wu tang fan, gave me this one and it stuck. like boogers under desks.
*copies from Wikipedia for ease*
According to Bulfinch's Mythology, Syrinx (Greek Óõñéãî) was a nymph and a follower of Artemis, known for her chastity. Pursued by the amorous Greek god Pan, she ran to the river's edge and beseeched succor from the river nymphs. In answer, she was transformed into hollow water reeds that made a haunting sound when the god's frustrated breath blew across them. Pan cut the reeds to fashion the first set of pan pipes, which were thence forth known as syrinx. The word 'syringe' orignated from this word.
The more TRUE reason though, is this -
The Canadian rock band Rush wrote "The Temples of Syrinx", part of their twenty-minute epic track, 2112. The name is ironic because the Priests of the Temples in the dystopian society depicted in the lyrics are opposed to music and advocate the destruction of musical instruments.
That being said, I loved the name (and the idea of having a character who had a temple devoted to her), and instantly, my concept of a non-Drow black-skinned elf barbarian culture that worshiped the four winds and had only five "paths" ("classes" as they are called in D&D, though she was created when I was heavy into GURPS and thus class-less). Hers was "Sword Dancer" which was little more than an excuse for me (at the time, single and lonely) to depict a stunningly gorgeous female dark elf dancing naked with a shining greatsword.
Strangely enough, she became everyone's best friend, due to the fact that, despite her incredible combat prowess, she was as clueless as a child about issues in the real world - like walking mostly unclothed through city streets, being accosted by drunken guys in taverns and the general evilness of society outside the far-distant prairie her people lived on (she was a self-banished wanderer, but that's another story - if you're interested [which I doubt], go to http://fcneko.deviantart.com and look for the piece titled "Syrinx Ladrethalin Morithai."
Syrinx
Mine is also a favorite character from a special game.
My "gaming group" (3 friends I met in college) Began a campaign in a new fantasy world. My friend the DM was always trying new things, so he asked me to make my character as normal, and then, (secret from the rest of the party) I would also be a werewolf, trying to control his lycanthropy. (He gave each of us different backgrounds, but wanted me to play this, knowing that I would enjoy it to the hilt.)
So, I created a mage ( I LOVE magic, Sorcerer is now my favorite class) who at the start of the game looked like a typical, bearded old man with no memory of his past.
He was once a young, powerful mage on the verge of redefining how magic worked. (In our world, all mages were "specialists" and he was blasphemous by insisting that magic was merely a force to be manipulated at will-IE metamagic) The powers that be decided that he must be silenced, and tried to do so with overwhelming force.
My would-be hero not only survived the treacherous attack, but destroyed all of his attackers by turning their own spells and creatures against them. But the terrible battle shattered the mind and body of my new hero. (Ironically, the DM and I decided that contracting lycanthropy during that battle was what saved his life).
So, at the beginning of our game, an unrecognized, insane, and battered old man in tattered robes stumbled up the steps of the College Arcanum, and RAGADOLF the Mad Mage was born!
My DM was so happy,....
By the end of the game, (2 years later) My Dad had joined, as well as my little brother, and about 4 or 5 of his friends.
My dad is now gone, but the rest of us are all still friends, "old" gamers and "new" gamers alike.
Now THAT was a game!
Ragadolf-"Meddle not in the affairs of wizards, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup!"
Abinadi (ah-been-ah-dee) (spoken in a hushed voice) is only used on this sie. It is really from the Book of Mormon (pronounced a-been-a-die).
I mostly use Falen everywhere else. This is the name of Denis Leary's character in Judgement Night. It wasn't until a few years later that I found out the spelling was really Fallon. I kept it because that is what people knew me by from MUDDs and such. I have had it for about 13 years. Sometimes it will be FalenKU (University of Kansas, where I went to school).
I do get upset when it is taken. I don't know what happened on these boards. Maybe I finally felt like a change.
Haerthguard represents not my love for a character or NPC, but rather the act of world creation. Haerthguard is the name of a city with probably the most history I've laid down for my home-brew D&D world and certainly the one I've fleshed out the most. It's got... stuff in it. It's cool... I think maybe a hearth that someone might, uh... guard. Just a thought
Haerthguard represents not my love for a character or NPC, but rather the act of world creation. Haerthguard is the name of a city with probably the most history I've laid down for my home-brew D&D world and certainly the one I've fleshed out the most. It's got... stuff in it. It's cool... I think maybe a hearth that someone might, uh... guard. Just a thought
Oh bummer; I thought you were Hearthguard as in Squats in 40k;
LONG LIVE SQUATS!!!
Mine comes from a three part Slayers! fanfic written by a guy calling himself Twoflowers. Up to a few years back, I played on a MUSH (Multi-User Shared Hallucination - text based chat game used for roleplay) with the guy's sister, who turned me on to his fanfic since I liked the Slayers! series so much.
Part of this fanfic included a backstory for Xelloss, in which he began life as a human named Xellan before he joined up with the Monster race.
I loved the story so much, I swiped the name for several characters I based more or less on Xelloss, and continued to use it as my moniker on various boards.
I've tried using other character names, such as Elkantar (a favorite D&D character - an albino drow before one was ever written about in the realms), or Oni, who is a half-demon from the above mentioned MUSH, named because A) he's a half demon, and B) it suits him. Unfortunately Oni is almost always taken, and Elkantar is swiped more often than I care for. Xellan tends to be particularly obscure. :)
I recently discovered that an old friend of mine still uses his original character name (from my very first campaign) as his main email id. I've been DMing a long time and we have all had a lot of characters over the years. It's funny though, how we never see to forget our very first. I suppose we were just impressionable back then. It seemed appropriate to use mine here.
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Well, my first name is Max, so I put that down. I randomly picked the number 26 to add to that. However, Max26 sounded a bit dull to me, so I just added in some random word that sounds kinda' cool.
Slasher.
Yep, it still sounds dumb. :P
But not as much. ;)
Mines an easy one,
I'm partially-sighted & use the title sightless for toon name in some games.
"In the fridge, duh!"
"In the fridge, duh!"
Where are the Cheetos?!?!
Where are the Cheetos?!?!
They're right next to you!
Where are the Cheetos?!?!
They're right next to you!
Ogres! Man, I got an ogre-slaying knife...
Callak Remier is the name of my first DnD character a elf wizard i have since used variations of the name on several gaming communitys and well though the character didnt live long he shall be remembered to a testament to those players who believe they are unlucky for they are not. cause Callak Remier met his end in the first of 5 surprise rounds against a horde of 50 rats.
Mine comes from the 'title' of one of Faerun's "Wyrms of the North" articles that Ed Greenwood did, he was a blue dragon (which is what I thought this image was at first) and his full name escapes me at the moment. It's something like "Olothontar", and like I said he's a blue dragon with an ear for music.
besause it reminds me that some things are just useless and just because your friends like it doesnt mean you will.
as for the avatar(Belkar) he reminds me of my first 3rd Ed charcter a crazed hafling rogue/ranger
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I've been DMing for 26 years now and other than saying "You die. Roll up another character." I tend to mutter, "Roll for initiative" quite often each game.
Funny thing is that I was just thinking about my Paizo name just a few minutes before seeing this post and was thinking about changing it to DungeonCollector because I spent years collecting back issues while playing 2nd Edition in the 90's.
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I just found this OLD thread. It is fairly interesting. Although, I really was surprised by Mike McArtor's avatar name. I notice that Saern, Sebastian, Heathenson and Cosmo have not added their info or I purposely decided to ignore their entries. Kata is a character I have recently played. I am generally poor at coming up with names and have often chosen odd last names, etc for my characters. So, Kata comes from Matt Kata, formerly of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
And oji040870, I think someone called you on a different thread. BTW, shouldn't it be Oscar Juliet India (followed by your b-day).
Abinadi (ah-been-ah-dee) (spoken in a hushed voice) is only used on this sie. It is really from the Book of Mormon (pronounced a-been-a-die).
Wow. I about fell outta' my chair when I saw your screename. We should totally get you a custom Arnold Freeburg pic! *winks*
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My avatar name is a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong story. The name was originally conceived as a joke/midnight rambling by one of my friends, who at the time was obsessed with both Firefly and H.P. Lovecraft. I, being obsessed with both of those subjects at the time as well, actually thought the name was cool, and immediately created a superhero on City of Heroes named Mr. Shiny. Myself and my friend are in the process of developing a Mr. Shiny comic book, and I now use the alias Mr. Shiny, or various permutations of it, all over the web. I just picked the picture beacuse it looked cool.
-Mr. Shiny
Hrmph.
Well, I'm a sailor and I've been teaching celestial navigation for a number of years now. Eltanin is one of the navigational stars in the constellation Draco, the dragon.
The avatar was one of a few that looked appropriately nautical and not many people had picked it. Probably because he's got a valley-girl side ponytail. Ah well.
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Why Aberzombie? It became my nickname in my original gaming group, because I'm a skinny, pale guy and it worked with my last name. I decided to start using it again when I started needing usernames on various websites. I chose the image because I thought it was a good enough zombie and there weren't a lot of folks using it.
Oh, I haven't answered yet in this thread...
Magdalena Thiriet is name of a character I was playing when I joined this board. And curiously enough, it was a fake name also for the character...
A daughter of one of the oldest and most isolated elf noble families, she was always fascinated by exotic beings that are humans and eventually she ran away to study wizardcraft amongst humans, claiming she was half-elf and picking the first human-sounding name she came across.
Out-of-character reason: I like the sound of the name.
Tatterdemalion is a reference to the Tatterdemalion King, or King in Yellow -- an avatar of Hastur.
I just think the Cthulhu Mythos is really cool, and Hastur has (in all its incarnations) held special fascination for me.
So, have you seen the Yellow Sign? :)
One of my favourite mythological figure is the Irish hero Cu-Chulainn, but I messed with the spelling to make it actually represent how I say the word. That's about it...
Tatterdemalion is a reference to the Tatterdemalion King, or King in Yellow -- an avatar of Hastur.
I just think the Cthulhu Mythos is really cool, and Hastur has (in all its incarnations) held special fascination for me.
So, have you seen the Yellow Sign? :)
Careful, there - one more mention of the King and you might be in trouble. :)
This is my real name. I an an extraplanar entity from five million years in the future, when only omni-conscious ascendant eidolons will hold dominion over the inner circle of the cosmos.
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Or, this isn't my real name. We'll go with that...yeah, not...real.
I just like amalgamating words, and took "hierophant" (originally from the tarot deck's major arcana, not the prestige class) and "phantasm" (as you all know from the PHB is a delusion, or an illusion 'in the minds of the subjects.'"
I use this handle for most of my internet-related activity.
I've always had my hands on a book or up a skirt. Tail or tail, works both ways.