Project 1999 Naming Policy

[paulgiamatti]

Originally Posted by korilla [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

how do some people get 'special' surnames. and by special i mean: Necro mancer, Misaligned______, to name a few.

I believe he's talking about Soandso the [Heretic/Defiler/Warlock], Soandso the Wanderer, Soandso the Champion of Suchandsuch, etc.

Those are given for participation in GM events such as the Best of the Best tourneys. First place winners of the BotB gain the level 60 title for their class: the druid winner is titled, "Soandso the Hierophant", the runner up "Soandso the Preserver", third place "Soandso the Wanderer", etc.

Not sure about the other GM event titles.

[korilla]

Originally Posted by paulgiamatti [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I believe he's talking about Soandso the [Heretic/Defiler/Warlock], Soandso the Wanderer, Soandso the Champion of Suchandsuch, etc.

Those are given for participation in GM events such as the Best of the Best tourneys. First place winners of the BotB gain the level 60 title for their class: the druid winner is titled, "Soandso the Hierophant", the runner up "Soandso the Preserver", third place "Soandso the Wanderer", etc.

Not sure about the other GM event titles.

No, not talking about titles. I'm referring to characters who get special privileges to their surnames from GM's.

There is literally a character named "Necro mancer" (e.g. his surname is not capitalized, hence it kind of looks like one word.)

There is also a character called "Misaligned" (e.g. his surname has a whole bunch of spaces, so his name isn't centered).

There are a few more which I forgot.

[paulgiamatti]

Ah, that's just people finding a way to glitch the naming system, such as inputting a weird ascii symbol that can't be displayed in the nameplate which registers as a space instead. Hence the second word being lowercase - the nameplate thinks it's still one string of letters. Although, GMs will usually capitalize certain letters in your surname for you, but they won't add spaces or any special symbols like that. I'm sure if you ask a GM to give you a capitalized letter in your surname after glitching out the nameplate, they'd get rid of the blank ascii symbol you inputted first.

[Baler]

More names that violate the naming policy in EC as of this post.

Iholdjunk
Songtuner
Capcom
Nodeeps
Blazeone
Bladefuryy
Dmadman
Diverse
Shabuffya
Heydirty
Halfelf
Encumbert
Envenomed
Healsonwheels

[khanable]

lol

[maskedmelon]

I just don't like stupid names or names that are sentences. In principle I do not see anything wrong with ordinary nouns or compound words as names.

We can't all have the creative genius to spit out meaningless fantasy names like

Gariandelstranna
Kierentharia
Bestlevyetti
Qhorcinnisucari
Qeresyndle
Alanalaxrohl
Schexyvyette
Hamanaksuhaa
Ylrdisqhet

Nor can we all count ourselves so creatively destitute that we rely on the random name generator. Accordingly, I applaud names like

Powerangel
Swiftfists
Lithebanshee
Sirenscry
Wanderlust
Underbust
Ironhide

And so on ^^

[skarlorn]

Nothing wrong with two nouns tied together as long as it FEELS immersive

Erudite paladin named Thinshield

Dwarf warrior named AXEBEARD

[Yoink1986]

Yah at this point Baler is now a known troll. Only one way to kill a troll is to make a shit ton of crazy names and make it's head explode.

[Baler]

For anyone new to the forums.
I am not a troll.

[skarlorn]

Sometimes you have to stomach your disgust and band with your enemy against a common threat.

This threat for me is the plague of naming convention violators.

I only hope that when Baler and I watch the fires of our crusade low to ember, I will have the opportunity to slit his pathetic throat and leave him gurgling in a pile of blood and feces (his in game toon of course [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] )