Naming Your Character In RPGs?

Posted by simoniker on Thursday July 10, 2003 @11:31PM from the petie-our-nom-de-choice dept.

Thanks to InsertCredit for their feature discussing the player-inputted choice for character names in videogames. They discuss some of the joys of DIY character naming ("Some people will buy an RPG, only to name the characters after their favorite profane words"), as well some more unlikely pleasures ("I became obsessed with buying used Final Fantasy VI cartridges for 100 yen at a certain game shop in Akihabara, just to see what all the characters had been named.") Taking a lead from this distinctly unconventional article, what names have Slashdot Games readers entered for characters in their favorite RPGs, and why?

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Re:here's my list : by Zathrus · 2003-07-11 03:40 · Score: 2, Insightful

My wife actually preferred having a slightly hard to type name in EQ... when you need to get a buff and you have 5 clerics to chose from, do you type "Magdylena" (her cleric) or "Iena" (another guild cleric)?

She always liked not being the buff bitch.

On the other hand, my enchanter's name (Llarn) was probably the easiest to type. Which is probably why I got driven nutty by buff requests while trying to help herd cats (aka helping to manage an uber guild).

No, neither of us play anymore. So happy to be free of that addiction.