Looking into next year or possibly next con... GM's worst nightmare..

[Icharis]

Have you ever had another player play a character with your real first name.

Let's say my name was John and Joe's main character was named John...

That would be confusing after a while..

Now extend this to the entire table which plays characters with the same names as the players playing.

So the next Con you go to... join up with your friends with all level one characters and name them all names from the same friends your playing with at the table...

This would make it better if the GM knows everyone at the table...

[Thorkull]

You have too much free time on your hands.

[Vrog Skyreaver]

actually, a group of us locally are talking about doing this to mess with our local VC, Derrick B. (from the Des Moines, IA area), cause he tracks initiative by player name, and we thought it would be funny.

[Generic Dungeon Master]

"Doctor, Doctor"

"Doctor, Doctor"

"Doctor, Doctor"

[fine_young_misanthrope]

I ran a con game where two guys thought they would be funny. One named his guy "you" and the other one names his character "me." I kept that crap straight the whole four hours we were together. They didn't but man was it fun to keep them on their toes!