Inappropriate character names

[Cyl]

I just hope that Cyl is okay.

But well having guys like strong blacksmith or lookat me running around is inacceptable.

Why not name Ishita Ishkita?

[Keyaz]

do i have to spell out the rude word?  :rolleyes:
not my case however, i did not rename him, take it up with the gm who did.
Cyl is safe by my books

[Slagle]

Originally posted by Gronomist
Those things (burntleaf, coalshard, etc) aren\'t names. They\'re nicknames that you find cool.

Hey now! I thinks Coalshard is a perfect name for a dwarf miner.

[Hatchnet]

Originally posted by 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

Ufortunatly as a charecter the name Kurgan will be copyrighted as long as the Highlander copyright remains in place. However when it comes to nameing yourself after the people (and yes I know who they were) that is about the same as nameing yourself Roman, or Greek, or Egyptian, or Nubian, or Persian, or (do you get the drift by now). Not to mention that a character named Kurgan would fall under the stigma of the Highlader Kurgan.

As for haveing a difficult time finding a name: Stop trying to use standard names; the majority of those would certainly be taken by now anyways. Instead start with an ordinary name and remove or add a few letters to make a more unique name. ex: Kurgan=Kurdan see how easy that is.

[Socrates Demise]

When I try to think up a name I just go mull some sound over in my head untill i find a combination i think fits the charactor I\'m wahting to make

Here are some examples

Salrik
Gorton
Hals
Brakon
Joste
Bramtik
Verstosh
Halcomb
X\'rator
Klempti


Feel free to use any of these names for you char if you can\'t think of any.

[Suno_Regin]

Originally posted by Moogie
We are trying to create a believable fantasy world and emphasis proper roleplay as much as possible. Real-world references detract from the feel of the game and remind us we\'re just playing on a computer- which is not what we want, if it means Yliakum would seem any less \"real\" or immersive.

I agree with Moogie for once, in another game I play, you see people with names like \"Bob438436\" which isn\'t really a good name for a huge adventure like that, so with RP names its a lot better and fits the story going on in the game better too.

[sesmi]

Originally posted by 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.

Don\'t worry your name is fine. First nations have names like \"swatting duck\" and \"screaming cow\" just say you\'re a yillakumian first nation  

[sashok]

I think kurgan is fine. Ignorance is a bliss  If you all didn\'t tell me here that he\'s from highlander I would never know and think it\'s a cool enough RP name.   Did you think that everyone knows who Kurgan is?  Maybe you should also judge from the popularity of tv show too lol.  Now, Conan Barbarian is famous in my eyes, while Highlander sucks.  Kurgan is safe as far as I\'m concerned, too bad I\'m not GM Kurgan.
By the way, Zano Zlo, good enough RP name? I can\'t say that I thought really hard about it.  

Zlo, from russian word means Evil.  RP: (Although I was cursed with such a last name, I\'m far from evil, just misguided.)  That\'s what my char would say

[cunumen]

It also would seem silly to have names that all look like a mess of random indo-european acceptable syllables (there has to be a word for that).  Are there any sort of ideas about languages in the game?  It seems like it would make more sense if certain groups (races, I suppose?) were named in their own language.

[Cyl]

Well there once was a thread about this,

http://planeshift.oodlz.com/wbboard/thread.php?threadid=11135&boardid=1&sid=63f498429e968934474671ffd8be622d

Here we have it.

[Moogie]

I need to clear things up a bit here:

Names like Burntleaf are fine, providing you post a suitable history of your character in the RP section of these forums, that details how and why your character came to be named \"Burntleaf\" instead of a \'normal\' name.

This applies to all names that are made up of words, or which sound like titles.

A story/history must be posted in this instance for several reasons. Firstly, it is public. Other people, who do not have/want to write a story, will complain that other characters have been allowed to keep their names. They can be pointed towards the RP forum and see why we have deemed the name acceptable.

Secondly, other GMs may not be aware that you\'ve been spoken to already. You can safely point them to your thread in the RP section and they will not change your name.


These exceptions allow people who have used a particular name for a long time to use it in Planeshift, providing it fits with the game\'s setting (No Penguin Lords please), is not offensive, and can be explained in an RP way. Like I\'ve always said, none of us should be \"Name Nazis\", and these things exist not only to be fair to you, the community, but also to encourage roleplaying in our world.

[cunumen]

Why would the name you gave, Burntleaf, be so peculiar?  Lots of names have meaning to them that we use in real life (though we tend to forget that).  Mine for example, Nicholas, is another \"word-name\" from greek nike and laos, victory people.  Ashley is just a name after the tree.  From Justin you can see the root for justice we still use today.  It might seem strange to just make a name out of modern words, because we\'re so into using ancient words or foreign ones instead, but I really don\'t see what the problem with it would be in a fantasy world like the one here, assuming that the English used on the server is just a representation of another language that the characters are actually speaking.

[Externals]

Very well said cunumen. But you must remember, some names are sometimes off a bit.

[Efflixi Aduro]

Originally posted by cunumen
Why would the name you gave, Burntleaf, be so peculiar?  Lots of names have meaning to them that we use in real life (though we tend to forget that).  Mine for example, Nicholas, is another \"word-name\" from greek nike and laos, victory people.  Ashley is just a name after the tree.  From Justin you can see the root for justice we still use today.  It might seem strange to just make a name out of modern words, because we\'re so into using ancient words or foreign ones instead, but I really don\'t see what the problem with it would be in a fantasy world like the one here, assuming that the English used on the server is just a representation of another language that the characters are actually speaking.

Yah but guess what, there weren\'t many Justin\'s or Ashley\'s in midevil times.

[Hatchnet]

Originally posted by Efflixi Aduro

Originally posted by cunumen
Why would the name you gave, Burntleaf, be so peculiar?  Lots of names have meaning to them that we use in real life (though we tend to forget that).  Mine for example, Nicholas, is another \"word-name\" from greek nike and laos, victory people.  Ashley is just a name after the tree.  From Justin you can see the root for justice we still use today.  It might seem strange to just make a name out of modern words, because we\'re so into using ancient words or foreign ones instead, but I really don\'t see what the problem with it would be in a fantasy world like the one here, assuming that the English used on the server is just a representation of another language that the characters are actually speaking.

Yah but guess what, there weren\'t many Justin\'s or Ashley\'s in midevil times.

 Yes, thats true Eflixi. Which is where \"earned names\" come in. Such titles were sometimes given to exceptional people who\'s true names were difficult to use or simply unknown. However Moogie has already covered that such names in PS require a backstory were people can read and understand it.