Poll: Do non-roleplaying names annoy youFollow

Depends - if it's clever, I find it cool. If it's obscene or obnoxious, I'm somewhat annoyed. For the most part - don't care. How's THAT for a middle-of-the-road answer?

depends on what they are really, i have /petitioned a couple of offensive names <Prostitute springs to mind, whay would you call you toon that for crying out loud>.

but i have come across a coulpe of cool ones aswell.

Mortality Rate. DE female Necro
Sentyu Rian . Kitty Beastlord dunno why but nice name
Gungis Khan . Ogre warrior
Ottilo Dahut . Ogre Shammy
Biblical Proportions : Dwarf cleric <oh the irony>

all better than random letters thrown together that for sure.

Here is a few of my own for fun

Fuzztops - Halfling ranger
Breezerboy- Human enchanter
Kittycrooner - Var Shir Bard
Tailover - Iskar SK

Some of these are what you get when a 10 year old helps you name them

Since my name is Breez Bayou I don't think My vote counts LOL

May alt warrior is Donatelo, Iksar warrior, Made him to play with my RL friend's iksar Shammy Raphiel and another RL Friend made Leonardo...

Pretty sad for 3 men in our 30's.

I have not got up the courage to /surname Don yet.

Donatelo Nobody is just hilarious to me.

I simply refuse to interact with people who have "i-thought-this-might-be-funny" names. top of my list was a female human warrior named "GOLDENASS" - haha(OMG)

There are a lot of names that pretty much just suck.

Literary and movie references bug me a lot particularly. So do descriptive names like the 'Healzya' or 'Savesyamana' or such. This just shows such a lack of imagination. I guess if you're going for a particularly obscure literary reference, at least we might assume that you're well-read, but it is still not much more than plagarism.

I remember back in the early days of EQ when Star Wars episode one came out, and there was no lack of Aaanikaans and Daerthemauls running around. And I thought to myself, 'well, thanks for making 'not-to-group-with' choices a lot easier'. And of course, c'mon, how many freakin' Lord of the Rings variations have we seen in the last two years?

I guess at least I know that an enchanter who has named himself Mezzomatic at least is familiar with one of the tasks he has in a grouping situation. And if he doesn't he's either an Ebay'er or an moron, or both. Bleah. I do remember some guy in /shout mode a while back whining because his character name, which was something along the lines of Stabbin Demhoes got changed by Sony. Kinda funny, sure, very offensive and against Sony policy? yup. To paraphase the Simpsons Comic Book Guy, it may well have been the 'Worst Name Ever.'

The names that annoy me the most are all the friggin LoTR names. Can't tell you how many elven rangers you see with a name like "Legoolas", or the ultimate "Lleeggoollaass", which btw is actually a char on Vallon Zek i saw running around gfay.

Makes me want to start a necro just to i can wipe the floor with them. AARRRRGGGGGG. What happened to the creativity?

/em smacks all people with names relating to LoTR

There is a person in my guild that has the name "Legolastwo". I try to interact with him only when necessary.

One person I saw had the best name ever: "Legsa Roundu" It has been a long time since I saw her, name probably got changed.

Some of my characters are:
Testament - pretty good metal band, now the name of my necro
Traxxn d'Sand - iksar SK. There is sand on Kunark and he leaves tracks, it worked for me.
Kolilya Battledancer - elf bard. Kolilya just sounds like a bardly name without being a direct music reference and "Battledancer" is to stop people from bugging me for SoW or ports. I mean, c'mon, she is holding a freaking drum! Get a clue!

Overall, if the name is creative and funny, I don't mind non-RP names. Too bad these are very few and far between.

Actually, Gbaji has the story turned around a bit. The actual quote is:WotC courted Verant to do it so obviously they weren't overly worried about giving up the trademark. I'm sure there would have been a stack of legal documents protecting WotC had VI accepted the idea.

I used to have a wizard named Jhane. After the -nth time the name generator gave me a name only to then refuse it, I decided out of spite to give her the blandest name possible. It refused Jane so I used the time honored tradition of sticking an "h" in there.

Edited, Sat Jan 17 14:46:15 2004 by Jophiel

these 2 names are actually charakters from ancient greek folklore

This is a very difficult topic to get a solid stance on. When I read the above statements and hear people talking about roleplaying names, it makes me think of Rath from those old D&D books.

I have seen chars in game named Goku, Gokku, Gokuu, and I am very interested because it makes me think that that person like Dragonball Z like I do.
I did not really pay any attention to Inuyasha till I started a conversation in game with a person who had some variation of the name Inuyasha. I think sometimes it is cool to have a name like this.

Would you consider Goku or Inuyasha role playing names? I tend not to. But i think they are cool names.

I am mildly offended with the overall modernization EQ has had over the last 3 years. The state that EQ has come to be where the bazaar is populated with many people who have created chars for the sole purpose of selling stuff. These chars are named bobsmule, or cheaperthanyou. Can you blame them... those chars exist to sell stuff.

I say a guy in game whose name was Etomer Lortnoc... Well gee that sounds like a really cool name. Someone in the group brought it to our attention that it was Remote Control spelled backwards. I thought the name was cool, it sounded and looked like a 'role playing' name. So now should i not like it now that it is a backward name?

Anyway, a name is a name... would a rose by any other name ... (darn, i don't know the rest of that quote... doh!!!)

Stupidest names on FV I've seen :

Ihavenoname (Enchanter)
Cleric
Enchanter

I'm sure there's more, but it's been a while since I've interacted with morons on the server.

Stupidest name ever :
Crotchrot and Itchycrotch.

That was my introduction to Stromm. I happily went back to FV after that.

Puns, and clever uses dont bother me because my first toon was a mage Erin Gobragh. (think march 17, if your not gaelic.)
The clerics name is Courtin Andidride. (froglok) So i am guilty.

However I have a low tolerance for names that can be offensive and have reported at least 4 names in 3 years. I try to keep in mind that young folks play this game.