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It's so you can talk to yourself and not look weird.
Mostly for PbP I'd imagine, since you can have a basic character sheet stats page with each alias.
I use the aliases to stat out character concepts when I'm away form my books(I have dice-roller programs on this computer for stats). I'll email a link to my character bio to a DM before a game starts so they have an idea of what character I'm bringing.
Aliases are also used for jokes such as Vomit Guy, or to denote a different person than yourself speaking, such as AM.
I only use my actual name when dealing with official business with Paizo, which is quite rare. I use Lathiira as my standard alias. My Champion of Justice alias is reserved for silly Off-Topic threads on my part. Morag was the alias I used to narrate our campaign journal for 2 1/2 years and I'm holding in reserve in case I need her. Since I don't do PbP, I really don't use many aliases; I can say what I need to say with just one or two. But some people accumulate them :)
I like to use this username for coming up with extreme ideas or ideas that could get me construed as stupid (usually an idea involving alignment, Paladins, or both), and my alias for everything else.
Aliases are also used for jokes such as Vomit Guy, or to denote a different person than yourself speaking, such as AM.
You called?
Some are made as characters in a "cult".
Gatorade!
What cult?
Some aliases are done just because I found a neat picture.
Edit: Then get used to occasionally call out suspected sock puppets.
Some have no purpose whatsoever, and result from a funny thought.
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runs through thread with a torch
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+1!
BWAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
Some are just clones of other posters.
Some are just clones of other posters.
+1
Or posters of others clones.
NOW GET OFF MA LAWN!
Some are just clones of other posters.+1
+2
+2Some are just clones of other posters.+1
+3
And some are superior clones who maintain the original, bad-ass avatar pic instead of allowing someone to change it to the frilly, rainbow-s$!+ting, happy pony pic.
And some aliases just are......
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Aha.
I like that you can include international characters. It seems to at least support some unicode.
I'm curious if you can use Chinese characters.
Hmm. It seems Chinese characters are out. No 黑暗胰島 for me. :( lol.
However, it supports some Unicode (or ASCII has more in it than I thought it did), as my goofing around suggests it supports cyrillic and greek letters.
Good God Man! That's too many Aliases!
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You know;
In 35 pages of Avatars, the only ones I really liked are this mongolian nightelf, the Cayden Cailean one I've been using forever, and the miscellaneous smug bald old professor guys-(think Treantmonk)-Specifically for the purpose of being able to use a different expression depending on the tone of my posts.
there were lots I really liked, but I find crossplay a little weird, so I generally avoid female avatars (My avatar on ENWorld (Blink, from Marvel's AoA) is the only exception at the moment, though at one point it was an animated gif of Azula from Avatar: Last Airbender, and before that, the foaming at the mouth guy. lol.)
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the miscellaneous smug bald old professor guys-(think Treantmonk)-Specifically for the purpose of being able to use a different expression depending on the tone of my posts.
I think you're referring to Doctor Lucky.
Good God Man! That's too many Aliases!
Never!
Good God Man! That's too many Aliases!
Not likely, pilgrim.
Good God Man! That's too many Aliases!
How ken ya have too many?
Good God Man! That's too many Aliases!
Maybe he's not feeling well
Bong hit?
Drugs are bad, mkay?
Hmm. That didn't occur to me. so I can have an "in-character" alias is it?
It helps keep us organized!
Some are created to annoy Joss Whedon-hating DMs.