A rose by any other name.....NOT as sweet?Follow

The name of a character is an important part of the personality of the toon. That personality should be the main reason we log out of real life. So yes the name is very important.

You may get petitioned for that name though. Jesu Christi might offend a few from the religeous right. They tend to be humorless about such things. Not sure if the GMs would agree but you might want to expect a few problems in the future.

Edited, Thu Apr 22 05:05:35 2004 by Cattywumpus

Jesu is a common name in the latin-speaking world. Adding Christi will probably not even get past the surname filter. If it does you will get petitioned. In addition to potentially offending people it is directly against the naming rules.

I know what you mean though. The surname filter is currently blocking one of my characters from the name I had chosen. I'll petition when I get time. I simply don't want to start adding extra letters and bending the spelling to try and slide it by.

Yeah, this is a bump, get over it. LOL

Drac, I actually got shukenja from the D&D Oriental Adventures PHB. But the shukenja do have a real history. They were a band of traveling mystics who's teachings later became the foundation for Bushido, which is the Code of the Samurai.

I think you more than likely correct.

i have only /Petition'ed 2 names:

Prostitute.
and
Licksomeass.

i wouldn't object you jesus christ or Popejean Paul but then i am not christian.

ok so you would have the people at SoE saying "yeah so who cares if we get sued because someone has he name mickeymouse? lets give this one player their few minutes of fun, and it will only cost us 1000's"

good one runebull, im right behind ya

lol, im with ya there lance, my point was thast SOE dont have a choice whether they're "stuck up" or not

Interesting thread here. Again as a non-christian I don't really care about naming your character after Jesus or any other religious figure, but I can see how others might object to this trivialization of their deity. This is a somewhat different matter than the trademark infringement issue mentioned above. But offending players on religious issues is also to be avoided on moral grounds, and both can result in economic/legal harm to the company. And remember, if SOE's costs go up - our costs go up.

As to the initial point of the topic, I agree that choosing the name for the character adds significantly to the fun of the game. For the few people who understood the names I've used (not the names I have on this board) and for myself the names have been a bit of fun. Also since we may play with these toons a long time its good to feel comfortable with them.

LOL, great post lance haha

I agree that a good name is very important. At least for me its fun to see a witty name and its even better when a few people actually get my name.(Lampropeltis)

This was the response YOU made to Rune's comment (which apparently seems to be the only person to get where I am coming from, thanks Rune) about names.

Rune made the point about letting people use historical names. For some reason, you took it to copyrighten names.

I agree but some random names aren't all that bad.

Pally:- Jarkeld Hammerhiem: from a magic card <Oh no i broke the EULA so sue me>

Chanter:- Adeara Coolbreeze: Random generated

Cleric:- Iaedian Hammerhiem: Random generated

Rogue:- Genelorm McHammerhiem: well he is a barbarian

Necro:- Ebondraco Wyrmkin. Ikky could ya guess?

Druid:- Oakflower

Sias: Beasty. just sounded good.

Allseeingeye. trader mule.

Hey. While we're on the topic of coming up with names for characters, can I make a couple suggestions?

I don't really care that much about what the name means, or what significance it has to you. That's for you to figure out on your own. However, there are a couple issues that will annoy me more then any amount of offensiveness or other "rule breaking" stuff:

When naming your character think about how others will need to use that name. Firstly, I would *strongly* suggest avoiding names that start with "i". I suppose it's font dependant, but the default font in EQ makes a capital "i" look exactly the same as a capital "l". There's nothing more annyoing then when someone named iealiea sends out a ooc or shout or say asking for a group, or inviting me to a group, or asking for a buff, or any of a zillion other things where I may need to target that person or send them a tell, but it takes me like 8 tries to get the right damn spelling.

In the same vein, keep your names simple. I would much rather you pick a name that is easy to spell then one that's close to a copywrited name, but has extra characters thrown in. I don't want to have to squint at your name to figure out how many z's you put in your spelling of Drrizzzzzt so I can send you a tell.


Here's a nice rule. Alternate consonants and vowels. Use "standard" combinations of characters. Make easy to spell syllables. So Karashan is a nice easy name to spell. There's a nice spacing of consonants and vowels, and the only pairing of consonants is a standard "sh", which is easy to type. Karhsteial is not. Too many groups of vowels and/or consonants in a row and in combinations that dont happen in the "real world", so people aren't used to typing them that way.


It drives me nuts how many people think that by throwing out mangled sets of characters they are being "exotic" with the names. No. You're really not. You're just making your name really hard to spell. So if you ever wonder why you never seem to get a response when you send out an "/ooc X class looking for group", it could very well be because your name is a pain in the butt to type, so they gave up and invited someone else instead.