Originally posted by Melbourne
Well my name will be A... oh wait Seytra is supposed to guess that. 
So there is a HINT!
Well, there have certainly been several ppl. whose names start with an \"A\", but I have a guess.
Originally posted by Melbourne
Anyway, I agree with everything you put in your post, but I would also suggest a limit on the number of characters, which I think Grono already said there was one.
Yes, that would indeed be good.
Originally posted by Melbourne
Oh that comic is hilarious, if not a bit sad.
Yes. I don\'t know if I\'m to laugh or to quit RPG.
Originally posted by Zeraph
Thanks for picking @ the now scavenged & rotting remains of my post (lol) .
You\'re welcome!
Originally posted by Zeraph
?lol! I\'ll write a sign with that description and put it next to the pile of ashes that was Zeraph before Fulgor!? ? That?s a great idea! lol ? but my char did survive & that?s why only 2 of his wings are visible, & all he can remember is that he has 6 wings & was struck by lightning & can?t remember anything else?
Well,
that seems to indicate that, while technically living through the lightning strike itself, your char still needs some \"professional help\", to put it mildly...
Originally posted by Zeraph
I agree with some of the stuff you said, except for the following:
?Whenever Killah is mentioned, I think of some n00bish teen who??
-That is your opinion & well some of this:
It most certainly is, but I don\'t get the connection to the quote of my post that follows,
so I left it out of this reply.
Originally posted by Zeraph
I do not have much time right at the moment, but the main point I want to say is, yes we need some rules such as no profanity & no numbers, but I personally think that will take care of most of all the name problems for the exception of limited cases, such as no XxXGoDXxX sort of stuff, & we should be able to filter that out on char creation before anyone ever sees the name?
We will easily be able to filter out numbers, but the rest can\'t really be done automatically, at least not 100% (I mean, I can write \"Motarfooxor\" and no dictionary check will cache this).
Originally posted by Zeraph
Short Char Story Background: You are a Ynnwn who was brought up in a orphanage, not knowing your real parents or if they even named you. Everyone @ the orphanage calls you ?Slop Boy? because you help out serving the meals? What will happen to you if you went out into the PS world with the name ?Slop Boy? on your birth certificate?
I wouldn\'t. \"Slop Boy\" would be a nickname given to me by the others, but the orphanage itself would have assigned a proper name to me upon discovery of me, if, as is implied, my parents didn\'t leave a note. They would then have put
that name in my birth certificate as it will have to be created
way before me serving the my very first meal (usually within a week after my being found). So the only thing that might happen to me is when I have become king of Yliakum, some guy from the orphanage might show up and call me \"Slop Boy\" in public, but I\'d still be \"King Seytra\" (to stick with \"Boy\" :] ) or (in retrospect) \"K\'Haryg I\". And because I\'ll not be an evil king, it wouldn\'t even be embarassing.
If I were older, like 8 years or so, when being put into the orphanage, that still woudn\'t matter. Either I\'d have, by whatever means, acquired a descent name or, if not, they would still not put \"Sneaky\" in my birth certificate, despite all my protest.
Originally posted by Zeraph
Btw: I am sorry about this statement ?Some peoples imaginations are so limiting?? I was getting mad & must have gone to far?
I accept this.
Well, some ppl.\'s imagination indeed seems to be limited (I\'m talking massive Aragorns here *g*), but it may also just not work on names, that\'s where a random name generator and / or name list is required.
If this is aimed at names like \"the Wolf of Fire\" (or the non-approval of them), then I need to agree, because I didn\'t think of this kind of names, because I personally don\'t really like them (to me, they\'re more like nicknames that are given to you after some deed or after something special happened, but still in almost every case by others, not by yourself. Also, while this certainly is biased by my preference and cultural background, whether or not these names are appropriate for PS needs to be defined by the rule department, simply because these names are AFAICS not \"mainstream fantasy\" (if I may put it like this). Therefore, their usage must be specifically defined so that they will not be out of place. I always look at the example names for the race / gender I\'m going to be and then create a name based on them, but usually avoid using the preassembled names themselves, using them as a guideline only.
You see, I already made up my mind, but still it needs to be consistent, i.e., either
everybody of a certain race / gender will have such a name, or
nobody, because their society sets those rules, just as IRL.
Or did you mean that my imagination is limiting you? Well, as the devs create the PS world by their imagination and therefore set the rules, their imagination, however limited or unlimited it might be, definitely limits every player (to a certain extent), starting with the definition of the most basic concepts, like the setting. If the devs use my proposals, it\'d indeed be my imagination that limits you, but I doubt they will follow this 100% anyway.
