My screen name is an NPC from a one shot a ran years ago. He's part of a set of twins loosely based off of a yugioh character. Para and Dox are twins that have control over space and time respectively. They went on to become recurring NPCs in most of my campaigns (when they get to the point that they take off anyway. Most of my campaigns flounder) I'm American. From TN
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Neriathale, is my original Golaron character, an elven bard I played through Rise of the Runelords (under 3.5 rules). the other two party members were a barbarian and a druid (abusing the shapeshifting rules to high heaven), so she was the 'sensible' one in th party, following the clues, worrying about the plot and becoming a world expert on ancient Thassilon.
We made it through the AP with the same three characters, start to end, so at the time she was the highest level D&D-esque character I'd ever played.
Not particularly relevant to the character name, but I'm from the UK.
Let me tell you a story back from the days of 2001...
HALO came out, right? So that was THE thing. Back before the industry got greedy and eliminated split-screen play as a viable option... you could hook up 4 controllers to an Xbox, and LAN link as many Xboxs that you could find. So we were all racing to create profiles at my friend's house...
All the good names, like Butt-Sects, were taken... so a monk of the voodoo was born as a play off of Buddhist Monks. Nothing more than that, really... just whatever I thought was silly and fun when I was ~16yo.
Have yet to put the name into concept or theory for a PF1 character (Witch/Monk???)... but I probably should.
From the US. For what that matters.
My screen name is a reference to the Light side of the Force in Star Wars. It’s also meant to convey a positive vibe and be a guide to me when I post anything in these forums. I chose the icon because it resembles a Jedi holocron.
I’m from the USA.
1. Where does your screen name come from?
2. If it is a character, have you ever played the character in any games (single, multiple, different systems)?
3. If it's something else, what?
4. (Only if it's not against the rules) Country of origin (just country), to help give a SMIDGE of cultural context to any ideas or references.
1. I saw "Niteshade" somewhere back in ~1991 when I was creating a Good Necromancer under 2e in Forgotten Realms and thought it would make a cool character name. I have no idea where I stole the name from...that was a really long time ago.
2. I played Niteshade in 2e, and he returned to adventuring in someone else's hands in 3.0, when I DMd the Bloodstone Lands series of modules. As a result of those adventures, he became the Chief Counsel to the player character who became King of the Bloodstone Lands (hence "High Lord"). He is still in that role in my home-brew version of Forgotten Realms (which is now played under Pathfinder 1.0 rules) and occasionally puts in an appearance as a plot point. But he is retired from adventuring.
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4. USA
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PCScipio is short for Publius Cornelius Scipio, also known as Scipio Africanus, the Roman general who defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama in 202 BC.
I dunno how I missed this thread.
Mine was a character name for the 2d, chibi-style, MMO-RPG, MapleStory. All usernames had to be less than 14 characters (or something) and had to be unique, so I went through a lot of others (ZoeyTheCamel, LittIefinger and MrCharisma were the ones I played the most).
I liked it so much it stuck as a screen-name for most things online, but I haven't actually played a character with that name since the original since it doesn't really sound like a person's name. When I joined the Paizo forums it seemed appropriate since Paladins have been my favourite class since forever (now possibly 2nd favourite after Occultists).
I'm Australian, but it's not remotely relevant to my username.
Ghostwheel is the name of a character (sort of...) from Roger Zelazny's second set of Amber novels. It's one of my go-to screen names, and has been for years.
I am from Maryland, USA.
My online name manage to have even less of an interesting story than my real life name. ''Algarik'' is just something i though sounded fantasy enough and used as a summoner name for league of legends. It's now been my defacto online moniker.
I could have used my real name, Joric, which sounds fantasy as well, but i don't know, it felt weird so i didn't.
I'm from Quebec, Canada. Although but both names have nothing to do with our general naming conventions.
Mudfoot is a character from David Brin's Uplift Saga (highly recommended, though book 1 takes a while to get going) which I was reading years ago when I needed a user name for the SFB forum.
Hampshire, UK.
It was the name of my brother's Infiltrator in Dark Ages of Camelot. His account became mine and I kept the name forever. Later it was the name I used for a 4e Dragonborn Paladin that I played and even later a 5e Dragonborn Paladin that became the spiritual successor. I think my first paladin on WoW and Everquest have the same name too.
I think it sounds Dragony. The character itself is Scavion Brasstail whose dull scales are of no particular color except his tail. He'd be from the lowest caste of commonfolk of the Dragonborn since his draconic heritage isn't prominent, but his blessing from the Platinum Dragon makes him a folk hero amongst them.
USA, but I've moved a lot over the states when I was young.
Pathfinder's Goblins are cool so I use a Goblin profile image. I had a different one a long long time ago.
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I used to play World of Warcraft, and... I don't want to say that I got my wife (girlfriend at the time) into it, but when she would be sitting there trying to work or whatever, she would end up just watching me run around and clicking little icons on the screen, and so that inevitably led to her playing herself. Of course, we ended up making characters to play and level with together, and that's where "Andostre" came from. I sat down and created a Human Priest for WoW, and clicked the button that would randomize the name. However, these were all just pre-generated names that pulled from a database, and they had all been used by this point in the game's history. So, I stopped on the name "Andros" or something similar, changed it around a bit and stuck with "Andostre." That character ended up becoming my main character that everyone called me by (that or "Ando"), and so I started using it whenever I had to come up with a username for any geek-related account.
It's actually pretty cool to have a unique* name used long-term. I can google the word and relive nearly 15 years of internet geekery. I have a DeviantArt account that I have no recollection of ever creating. I often forget about my time on the CivFanatics forums. A few other games and forums as well. All of my comments on the WoW Insider blog are only captured on spamware sites that mirror the old articles, however.
* (It's apparently only most unique, because there's a character on the Final Fantasy MMO that uses the name, apparently. My lawyers will be in touch.)
My handle is very simple; it's who I am and what I do!
I also think it's cool that this thread started on my birthday last year. That has nothing to do with your topic but I rarely manage to stay on topic for anything...LOL
Sir Belmont the Valiant is taken from a character I played, a Paladin of Iomedea.
Let me quote my earlier comment in the 'does any character have a happy background' thread: "Iomedae called me when I was very young; I don't remember a time that I didn't want to go out into the World and Smite Evil. My noble family accepted and supported me in this.
I joined the Pathfinder Society rather than wander Golarion randomly... Ha ha! my Venture Captains provide plenty of random travel. As I seem to be hunting monsters and Smiting Evil just about everywhere they send me, this arrangement is working out splendidly. I have organized support and comrades-in-arms all over the place. I am living the Dream!
Oh, and I am from the USA.
Let's see....
Somewhere, way back in 2E Forgotten Realms, I wanted a character that was a chronicler of history. I wasn't too fond of old Elminster. So who makes a good chronicler? A bard. Who lives long enough to be a good chronicler? An elf. I'd read some Arcane Age stuff, had stuff going back to the Gray Box. Came up with the name on the fly. Figured out how to make Lathiira live long enough to see the things I wanted her to see.
"Yes. I was there for the Weeping War. If the Godswar was a crisis, the Weeping War was a tragedy."
Got to play her once or twice as an NPC that gave the PCs information. But didn't get to really play her till Pathfinder 1E for a PbP. When that fell apart, I went another route and now write stories of her.
Country of origin: USA.
Back in the mid 2000's, I had entered into the game RuneScape, which I'm sure many are familiar. Trying to find a username became rather annoying, though, as I wanted to avoid numbers. I have a strong contrarian impulse.
So, I began make up words. Stuff still pronounceable, but wholly invented. This is the name I landed on and have been using ever since.
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Most of the time on the boards I post as one of my PFS PCs - so the Screen Name is one of my PCs names. The problem with that is that I have ... so many PCs. more than 60? each has their own name and personality, each with different stories, often a story related to their name.
(Deciding who to post this as... I know, a name most PFS players should recognize!)
I know I've moved on - after those meddling kid...errr... pathfinders came by "investigating my "home", and I found out how much they got PAID to do it, I joined up.
Best thing I've done sense taking in orphans, and a lot less work I tell you!
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Hi! (in a "chipper" voice)
I'm Friendly - My friends call me "Fire", Friendly Fire.
I'm an alchemist, and one of a group of all Alchemists that adventure together - (two friends and I have run a team of 3 Alchemists each a different element race (Ifrit, Oread, Sylph) you could say we are "Earth, Wind and Fire"...)
Our Tank is Earth (Beastmorph w/Feral Mutigen, and boosted strength)
Our "Rogue" & "Healing skills" is Wind (Crypt Breaker/Chirurgeon alchemist)
and I'm the Face (Grenadier alchemist, with lots of social skills)
And my name is Friendly - because I AM!
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'Taja the Barbarian' was my first Pathfinder character...and probably my second and third as well: I had finally reached the conclusion that my college friends just weren't going to be able to get together enough to hold a campaign together now that we were dispersed into the real world, so I should create a character that worked 'right out of the box' rather than something that took a few levels to come online (unlike one friend who often built characters around prestige classes that he rarely qualified when the campaign was abandoned). This turned out to be a fairly wise idea, as I created 'Taja the Barbarian' three separate times (twice in Sandpoint for APs, and once as a PFS character) and I believe she only managed to hit 3rd level once...
As for the name Taja, I certainly stole it from somewhere, and her general background (exiled from her home for killing her father) was largely inspired by seeing the 'Mark of the Kinslayer' in a Scarred Lands setting book.
Taja did actually achieve her 'Final Form' as 'Taja the Half-Elf Urban Bloodrager (with a dip into 'Fractured Mind' Spiritualist)' when we ran the last PF1 Runelord AP online a little while back: This time, I built her because the GM wanted us to start with a level in an NPC class and planned on resetting our characters to 1st level after running a prequel adventure, and the rest of the party (swashbuckler, rogue, cleric, alchemist, and bard) was looking pretty ineffective at first level (the NPC level idea was actually dropped during the reset). She is the only character of mine that has actually managed to finish a PF1 AP ('Electra the Oracle' came close, but apparently no one else was keen on actually playing the final module in Wrath of the Righteous, and I have hope that Mia the Evil Mesmerist will complete Hell's Vengeance, but that campaign is on hold at the moment). She turned out to be a strong 'all rounder' character with strong melee ability, some nice spell buffs, and some of the highest Diplomacy, Perception, and Sense Motive skills in the party despite only having an 8 Wisdom and 12 Charisma...
1. Where does your screen name come from?
2. If it is a character, have you ever played the character in any games (single, multiple, different systems)?
3. If it's something else, what?
4. (Only if it's not against the rules) Country of origin (just country), to help give a SMIDGE of cultural context to any ideas or references.
1. I'm from Texas, my name is Sam, my lucky number is 88.
2. it is not a character name.3. it's my location, my name, and my lucky number
4. I'm from Texas - greatest country on the planet.