Personally I got tired of getting chased by lockpicks when Caddy's came out....... not to mention everyone trying to disarm me...


Cadderrly,

The feeble old swamp shaman

When I first started playing there was a post by a GM that effectively said:

It's OK for three people to name themselves Bubbles, Blossom, and Buttercup. The problem occurs when those three people get together as sisters and start claiming to have superpowers set to save the world before bedtime.

That's always been my litmus-test on names to check if it's against policy or just my own personal nerd-rage.

Nikpack

He could get into the Silver-seord line. He'd fit right in.

Monster Elec

You hear the distant echo of a savage Horde snarling in barbaric disapproval of your deeds.

No more jarring/OOC/troublesome than all the Drizzt-iterations out there.

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Uzmam! The Chairman will NOT be pleased to know you're trying to build outside of approved zones. I'd hate for you to be charged the taxes needed to have this place re-zoned. Head for the manor if you're feeling creative.

>I could be hyper-technical and say that the latin usage is typically lower case and that capitalizing it is what makes it instead like the modern vitamin product label :) but that would lead to the mother of all boring threads.

Eh, it's impossible to make that distinction in this case for two reasons: 1) The parser in DR forces caps on names, 2) English standard forces caps on names.

If the product was CENTRUM!! and he spelled it that way, sure. But it's just not reasonable to distinguish a single cap in DR in this situation.

I think you can add "constellation" at the end (or some form thereof) to look less like a creeper.

I might be misremembering that. Not really a moon mage.

~Evike

Badgopher,

What you're saying about the parser is true, but to me it doesn't matter if the player was trying to be jarring or disruptive, or if they were just an innocent victim of the name parser. If the resulting name violates a rule, then I feel the name should be disallowed. Yes, I realize that makes me sound like a big meanie.

I looked at the naming rules, and here's what I found:

CHARACTER NAMES
Please remember that DragonRealms is a product designed to be enjoyed by people of all ages, and harsh language is clearly inappropriate. This also applies to the names chosen for your character. Obscene names will not be tolerated. Please endeavor to keep names within the genre of DragonRealms (medieval fantasy). Names such as "Chainsaw Laserman" or "Klingon Fuzzbuster" are inappropriate.

The part about genre makes it sound like it really boils down to a GM judgment call whether or not a name is too modern of a reference. I guess that's the answer.

>but to me it doesn't matter if the player was trying to be jarring or disruptive, or if they were just an innocent victim of the name parser.

A) Innocent until proven guilty. If they player isn't walking around offering you some silver pieces, just assume he's stupid rather than malicious (Hanlon's razor)

B) YOU were the one who drew a distinction between C and c in the brand vs. word, I was simply pointing out that that distinction is impossible in DR, and basically the standard english language.