Inappropriate character names

[Niavard]

Originally posted by Gentooligan
And my name has been changed

My biggest problem with the whole scenario was the childish manner in which the other character threatened to \"tell on me\" (much like a 6 yr old crying to his mommy)

The GM that had me change my name, on the other hand, handled the situation politely and respectfully, and granted me the option of choosing another name.

If reporting other players is encouraged, it should be done so more subtly
No need to point and yell \"I\'m gonna tell on you! Nana Nana Nana!\" Just quietly report it to a GM instead.


Just my opinion.

That was me, Gentooligan, and i did not run around screaming \"I\'m gonna tell on you!\" actually i said something along the lines of \"as much as i like linux (I\'m a slacker myself) I\'m afraid your name is unrpish and I\'ll have to report it\", you didn\'t answer at all (which I\'d probably consider more childish than trying to obey the rules of the game and tell someone before I reported them), so i repeated my statement several times in different ways before reporting (you still didn\'t answer at all thought), but I did not say something like \"I\'m gona tell on you nanananana!\" (actually i thought i was rather polite), at first i tried /telling Tmed, he agreed that it was a silly name and that it should be changed, but said he didn\'t have the rights to do so, and since i didn\'t feel like quiting the game to go to the irc, and didn\'t know petitions was meant for that, so i shouted to ask if any gm was online, I didn\'t threat on you in any way, and no i have not have my named change earlier because of having a silly name, and well, if you consider \"I\'m afraid I\'ll have to report you\" childish you\'re extremly polite...

EDIT: this whole thing is probably just a mistake, I did not try to taunt you, i said it several times because you didn\'t answer, i dunno why i told you that i was going to report you at all, but it was not to taunt you, it was more of a warning...

[Hatchnet]

I can see why some people like to use names from their favorit shows, moves, and literature; but most of the time the names are going to be out of place in an RP focused game. This not to say that I have a problem with obscure character names only a literarure affinacado like myself would recognise but there is a differance between useing such names and useing such names as \"Fullmetal Alchemist\" (name of an anime show)and \"Kurgan\" (bad guy from the first Highlander movie) both of which I have seen ingame recently.

[Kaseijin]

hmmm i agree with full metal alchemist thing

but what\'s wrong with kurgan...it sounds very rp and not out of place. If it\'s ok to use a name from a less famous book why not from a less famous movies? Let\'s face it highlander is all but forgotten.
However i would go on record that i am against non-rp movie names like vincet vega, or clark kent...or some uninventive copy paste name, or Linus Tolvards.....though i would see nothing wrong somebody using this as inspiration to create a  name let\'s say Lunicious Tholvarde.
Or if i saw a person called smigol q\'dsar  i would see no problem, it\'s entirely appropriate. If we can\'t get our inspiration from appropriate books,movies and games. Where are we suppose to get it?

[Moogie]

Read his post again, Kaseijin, and notice he worded the sentence as \"There\'s a difference between and \". He meant that Kurgan really isn\'t bad.

[Trober]

Fourtunatly for me, the literature I read IS fantasy, so I have alot of experience with fantasy naming, but yeah, I have seen some stupid names in RPG games, and I would like to keep them out of PlaneShift.  Names like \"Fullmetal Alchemist\" and \"Rolling Stonz\" are ones that I see as stupid, not because they are IRL names, but because they sound more like they should be guild names.  I can completly see an okay name being INSPIRED by a real name, like instead of \"Pamela Anderson\" have \"Pameilia Ankarath.\"  See?  Not hard to do, not much effort, people, and if someone is too lazy to do something as easy as THAT, they have no business in an RPG, but they should still have the chance for a name change to rectify their mistake.  And thus, the hyper Squirrely one\'s opinion.

[Hatchnet]

Originally posted by Moogie
Read his post again, Kaseijin, and notice he worded the sentence as \"There\'s a difference between and \". He meant that Kurgan really isn\'t bad.

Actualy the actual wording was ----but there is a differance between useing such names and useing such names as \"Fullmetal Alchemist\" (name of an anime show)and \"Kurgan\" (bad guy from the first Highlander movie) both of which I have seen ingame recently.----

Kurgan realy is not that bad in fact it is a great rp name, however it is both well known and copyrighted. Tell me would you like to see a Conan ingame? Or a Red Sonya? Or perhaps a Mordred Pendragon would be  better comparison. That said I am useualy not going to complain about such a character name unless it is taken from modern contemporary culture.
This does not mean, however, that I like seeing such names in game as I tend to expect such people to act in a predesrcibed way, or to put it a little more plainly here is a quote from the D&D Hero Builder\'s Guidbook

\"Stealing the name of a well known character reduces your character to a mere clone of the original. Similarly, applying a familiar name to a wholy new character creates the different problemof raising false expectations in everyone who hears the name.\"

[Under the moon]

I don\'t see why people can\'t think of their own names. For crying out loud, I created 21 completely unique names just for my story. (I googled) And that doesn\'t include the two I created for the Sheeples. Or all the ones I will create for my next story. It\'s not that hard. Soooo....

*glares around the forum*

Keep your grubby hands off my names. X(  

[Hatchnet]

No Under the Moon its not hard at all.

Look people easy name creation 101:
Take an ordinary name \"Charley Brown\" now add,and, or remove some letters from the name.
ex: \"Char Bronin\" See people its not hard at all just use your heads a little.

[Kurgan]

I guess you have a problem with my charecter name.
Might i remind you that the Kurgans were a race of people from the steppes of russia who were paticularly savage. The name is a historical referance that was later used in Highlander. I dont believe that there is any kind of copyright on the name as that would be kind of like copyrighting a term like \' japanese \' or \'american\'. But hey, dont take my word for it , look here
http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/Kurgans.htm
I didnt think anyone would mind me calling my charecter that as when i was running around on my first charecter ( who got stuck in a hole .... ) i saw lots of people with names that didnt even have any vowels in like XlNthrX ( thats only really an RP name if your playing Cthulu  ). if a GM wants to change my name , cool.  But Seeing as i tried for about half an hour to find one that wasnt already taken plz give me some warning to put my thinking hat on

[Burntleaf]

I am slightly worried about the username i wish to use as some may find it inappropriate for rp. Burntleaf is the name i use for every game i play though i thought you people may not like it. I am only posting this as the game is taking ages to download and i dont want to get kickd off the game after waiting this long. Cheers for any replies.

I also agree with kurgan and believe it should be allowed unless it gives offence to any peoples anywhere.

[Slagle]

Hey, one of my char\'s last names is Coalshard, is this illegal since it has the word coal in it?

Oh....and while in the plaza, I have seen alot of stupid names. Example: Sexenator :/

[Kiva]

Those things (burntleaf, coalshard, etc) aren\'t names. They\'re nicknames that you find cool. What people are encouraged to do here, is find a NAME for their character. Like John or Bruno or Smith. We don\'t want Star Trek people running around or LOTR people. They have their names (and they\'re trademarked and copyrighted, by the way), and we at PS have our names. And again, if you have problems finding a name,  use the ingame random name generator. It\'s there for a reason.

[Arkhaz]

well I don\'t see why you couldn\'t have burntleaf as a last name and another as a first. My characters name is Arkhaz Dustbrow and well Dwarves tend to have a strange lastname such as Doomhammer or such... is that also \"illegal\"? just wondering

[Valbrandr]

I do get tired of names like Flying Penguins and the like but sometimes they take it a little too far.  One of our guild members was named Ishita.  His name was changed because it had a bad word in the middle.  Most of the time the name is just dumb though.

[Keyaz]

surnames are let off a little bit more then first names, and for dwarves even more because of their clan name history etc.
 but as its been said before planeshift is a role playing game and we must keep it that way, and i know for a fact you wont find penguins anywhere in yliakum, and as for names liek Ishita we cant make exceptions that would be unfair, so dont make this hasle harder then it is