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2019-08-13, 07:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2007
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- Terra Australis
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Re: My DM got mad at me for the naming of my familiar ?
I also used to have a mule, named Francis...
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2019-08-15, 11:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2012
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- UNKNOWN
Re: My DM got mad at me for the naming of my familiar ?
The take away here is to explain the games theme and tones up front so everyone is on the same page and no one wastes time preping for a game they don't want to play.
As the GM tell the players, this is the game, it will be about this, this is the theme, this is how we are handling rules, these are the characters I'm hoping to see, etc. If there is going to be a big twist early on and you must keep it secret at least say that there will be a twist.
As a player, talk to the other players, especially the GM; This is the character I'm making, they will be strongly for x, opposed to y, have these goals, do these things. GM, I'll be trying to achieve this, how would you like to handle that, etc.
If you do end up sitting down at a table and find that the game is not what you expected or someone has missed the point then talk it over with the group. Maybe you can change something, maybe a compromise can be reached, maybe it just doesn't matter or it doesn't matter enough to stop the session and you can work things out afterwards.I am rel.
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2019-08-16, 01:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2019
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- Spokane, Washington
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Re: My DM got mad at me for the naming of my familiar ?
In the first game I DM'ed one of my plays had a pseudo dragon familiar he named 'Puff', and there was a song to go with it that was only slightly plagiarized. In my current game, I had a Ranger that got a Badger for a animal companion...he named it 'Honey'. as long as its not lewd and the players are having fun I never let it bother me ;)
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2019-08-16, 02:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2011
- Location
- material & internet plane
- Gender
Re: My DM got mad at me for the naming of my familiar ?
As others already mentioned, this largely depends on the campaign's general tone/seriousness, and only for as long as everyone is on board with it. Unfortunately, the DM is part of that "everyone". Maybe the DM wasn't feeling it back then, so try to find a better time to ask again?
Tom Brady is even quite tame name IC anyway, compared to some deliberately absurd ones we've had before like Duval Cross, Biggia Titia, or Don Juan Notre-Belle.
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2019-08-16, 07:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2014
Re: My DM got mad at me for the naming of my familiar ?
Just chiming in to say that these kinds of puns and wordplay are a total nonstarter at my games.
The fact that they're standard for the OP's gaming group does sort of change the dynamic... but until I saw that post, I thought the DM was being entirely reasonable.
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2019-10-02, 09:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2010
Re: My DM got mad at me for the naming of my familiar ?
Only time I recall ever ever having a pun name was a geometer named Gol'dahn Razzio. And he was a one-off NPC.
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2019-10-02, 10:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2016
Re: My DM got mad at me for the naming of my familiar ?
There are some names I can see banning. I was irritated with a guy who wanted to make a Halfling Cavalier named "Lances-a-Lot", for instance.
But Tom Brady is...pretty tame, even in games that trend toward serious naming conventions. 99.99% of the time your goat is just going to be called "Tom". it's a minor bit of amusement that it's on the sheet in session 1 and then that's it. He's Tom the goat.
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2019-10-03, 12:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2018
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2019-10-03, 08:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2007
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- Grognardia
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Re: My DM got mad at me for the naming of my familiar ?
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