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    Umm, because my very first magic item that I got from my very first TRPG was a bag of holding? I sold it.

    Hey, what's the use of a bag of holding to a 1st-level druid?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zephra View Post
    Zephra: the feminin version of Zephyer, the god of the east wind/a light sea breeze
    I always belived it was Zephyr, not Zephyer. Ah well.

    The name I go by:
    Exachix - Shortened version of:
    Exachix Prolari Zephyr (Or Exachix Polari NorZilliar in Town)
    Exachix is just a name I made up.
    Polari is derived from Polaris, The Pole Star. (Guiding Star)
    Zephyr is, as Zephra said, the god of the east wind.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bag_of_Holding View Post
    Umm, because my very first magic item that I got from my very first TRPG was a bag of holding? I sold it.

    Hey, what's the use of a bag of holding to a 1st-level druid?
    Holding stuff?

    ...erm... >.>
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cobra_Ikari View Post
    Holding stuff?

    ...erm... >.>
    Touché.

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    Alissea is the main character from my fantasy novel, which I published on my blog She is a sorceress travelling with 5 more adventurers, who are all a bit nuts.... except for her of course, a woman`s always gotta keep her sanity among bard, necromancer, druid, fighter and a thief

    And Jannex made my avatar here according to her appearance in the novel!
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    Moon Called was my first RP Character every, and very diffrent than the one in the Town. I don't use her anymore, but I continue using her name as mine so I don't forget her.
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    Random alliteration from a Halo 2 game, I needed a name and everyone else was ready to play.
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    To read a text that "Methodical Meat" has writ
    Is no easy feat, but it shall be well worth it
    For the flames of his spectacled genius
    Delve deep into you and many neurons it hews
    And asunder them rends
    And once more mends
    Methodically he arrays them again
    His readers' brains,
    From meaty stains
    New seeming, and better than before
    He leaves his readers better than before!

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    What's in a name?
    Well, if you are lucky, it smells of roses even when it's known by another name

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    Really random elven name. Well, half-elven. I wanted to create a sword-fighting half-elven mage. Back in the last days of 2nd Edition. I named him Khantalasa.

    Later, I got my hands on BG 2, and without thinking about the earlier character, I named my half-elven fighter-wizard Khantalas.

    Used it ever since.

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    Mine was a user-name on a few online games, to pronounce to others what my class and level would be, if real life used D&D classes. I hoped that it would cause others I met or chatted with to start up a D&D conversation with me. It attracted a few people and started up some nice conversations about gaming and our current or past campaigns. I liked it and kinda have stuck with it over the years.

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    Adaptation from the futuristic cyberpunk Anarki in Quake III. I have always approved of anarchy in a vaguely hopeful sort of way, and was looking for a spelling of it that hadn't been taken, so I just went for one with lots of repeated letters.

    It looks kinda nasty, and is horribly mangled into infinite permutations, but I like it. I've considered abbreviating it to Anarki, though.
    Good grammar is hot.

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    Main Entry: zy·de·co
    Pronunciation: 'zI-d&-"kO
    Function: noun
    Usage: often attributive
    : popular music of southern Louisiana that combines tunes of French origin with elements of Caribbean music and the blues and that features guitar, washboard, and accordion

    Main Entry: ac·o·lyte
    Pronunciation: 'a-k&-"lIt, -kO-
    Function: noun
    1 : one who assists a member of the clergy in a liturgical service by performing minor duties
    2 : one who attends or assists : FOLLOWER

    And the "ch" because I misspelled it.

    I chose this name because I am originally from New Orleans
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zydecholyte View Post
    Main Entry: zy·de·co
    Pronunciation: 'zI-d&-"kO
    Function: noun
    Usage: often attributive
    Etymology: perhaps modification of French les haricots beans, from the Cajun dance tune Les Haricots Sont Pas Salés
    : popular music of southern Louisiana that combines tunes of French origin with elements of Caribbean music and the blues and that features guitar, washboard, and accordion

    Main Entry: ac·o·lyte
    Pronunciation: 'a-k&-"lIt, -kO-
    Function: noun
    Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French & Medieval Latin; Anglo-French, acolit, from Medieval Latin acoluthus, from Middle Greek akolouthos, from Greek, adjective, following, from a-, ha- together (akin to Greek homos same) + keleuthos path
    1 : one who assists a member of the clergy in a liturgical service by performing minor duties
    2 : one who attends or assists : FOLLOWER

    And the "ch" because I misspelled it.
    You could get it changed?

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    Buh?
    As in make an alt and delete this one, or is there a way to change my sr?

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    The Official Name Change Request Thread, courtesy of Board Administration.

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    Innis is from .hack, the mirage of decit, like the name and title so innis stuck, Cabal is the last name from my first character Tebryn so i just added them
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    Raistlin was taken. The bastards. And in case anyone cares, it's Raistlin ten forty, not Raistlin one oh four oh. Just for the record.
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    Real life doesn’t happen, it surprises you like a trap of a CR way above your level.

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    Hazkali is dwarvish for "Young Warrior", taken from here. I used to be a big Games-Workshop fan, before their prices went crazy and they shut down their message boards. Their boards were the first I ever joined, and I've taken the name ever since.

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    I've recently found out that this is an old screen name that one of my friends used...I stole it :P

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    Dis...As far as I can tell, you are a cool frood who knows where his towel is.
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    Run, little Aussie artist man. Your doom will be swift and silent -
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    *Hands Dizzy his SwoongunTM*
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    ...Dispozition...you rock so hard I feel like throwing you my underwear in appreciation just so you can know how much that rocks.
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    Your quotes rawk.

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    The letter chet in the Hebrew alphabet is written in English as Ch, H, or very rarely Kh, and is the first sound in Hannukkah (or Chanuka or Khanukka). There's a symbol called the Chai (or Khay or Khai or Hai) that means 'Life' and is very similar in Hebrew to the symbol for G-d, therefore it is a Jewish religious symbol that celebrates not merely reverence for faith but also for joy and life. The Ankh was initially an ancient Egyptian symbol for life that was later adopted by several Pagan groups as a religious symbol. I am fascinated by the parallels in Paganism and Judaism, and I've also realized that the symbols can be interlocked. (Align the lowermost point on the Ankh with the lower right corner of the Chai - they fit together.)
    Ergo, I am Khayankh. The Chai and Ankh stuck together are the best visual representation of my personal views on religion that I've found so far.

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    I have a habit of naming my account after my avatars. My first avatar was ness&mr.saturn

    Tada.

    Then later i regret it since i could have made it cooler.
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    I was seriously burned in a car accident, was basically fried alive by over 14K volts of electricity and then burned by a gas fire, thus I am extra crispy. Well done just does not sound the same.

    Got the name one day while agrivating a friend who was talking about someone else with the same first name as me. Well he got agrivated enough and to tell the difference between us he yelled "Fine, he is original recipe and you are extra crispy" I laughed so hard I cried, so did everyone else. Lots of people either think I am wierd, or think that was mean to call me that but I found it funny and have used it many times since

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    Me? I couldn't think of anything else and my normals were taken. So I chose this.
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    i am going to make it though this year
    if it kills me

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    I used my grandfathers name, it's Ukrainian, because it had a fantasy ring to it.
    And then my heart with pleasure fills,
    and dances with the daffodils...

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    This is the name I made for an original character back in the early days of college, conveniently "borrowed" from Chronicles of Narnia.


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    Truenuff is one of my favorite Webcomics (along with OotS) and my friends decided that I was most like Trey, one of the characters.

    Incidentally, I just realized that my name wasnt JollyGreenGiant after the boards switched. Granted, I only started posting again a few days ago.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Vorpal Tribble View Post
    Tribbles are cuddly little balls of fur whoes sole use is being cute. Vorpal means deadly/abnormally dangerous/likely to take your head off.

    So I'm normally a big, fluffy guy... but don't make me use my teeth
    Somehow, I've always thought your username was a way of flaunting being immune to vorpal weapons because tribbles have no necks....... Oh, well, cuddly death works too
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    Real life name: Sean
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    This sean92k guy is either an illegal Mexican immigrant, an 8-year-old French kid or a Turkish bazaar salesman... I'll bet on my life that he is either of the three.

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    Siwenna was the first D&D character I played. She was a druid mage and pretty awesome. She was a druid/mage and was up to levels 3/8 when half the party was killed. The DM moved away shortly thereafter and the rest of the group fell apart. Siwenna is a random planet in Asimov's Foundation series, which is where I got the name originally.
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    A couple years back whenever my family would need to light anything on fire I was the one who always wanted to. Thus my brother called me "such a pyro" alot and I thought it was funny and have use it for screen names since.

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