Free the names!

I've no idea what's up with the "Carrot" thing. That would be a great, folksy name for a halfling/hobbit type or someone from a farming community. I suppose a dwarf or something named Carrot (Deadly Carrot, Carrotbeard, whatever) would be taken more as a joke but it'd be a far cry from the usual female ogres named Mamabighugglezzz and Hugebewwbz.

Anachronistic names are more fun. Anyone remember the flack in an early MMORPG over "Patiofurniture" on the RP server?

Anyone who thinks a name involving "Carrot" wouldn't fly in a fantasy based MMORPG has obviously never played a fantasy based MMORPG.

*I* have all the good names. I have hoarded them on the various servers. ALL of the good names. I have the last 36 good names reserved on all servers. These are it, folks. These are the very, very last of the good names.

I am willing to part with some of these names. 1bil inf per name. Compose and email with the inf and which name you are wanting. You will NOT get a good name w/o paying me because I have them all.

@cossatot

Actually I can imagine Carrotbeard being a perfectly normal nickname for a person with a strawberry-blonde full beard.


Also I do think taking the time to free up names or implement a system where this is done automatically would be more important than implementing the whole Incarnate business at all to begin with. I mean it's a roleplaying game, not a hunter and gatherer game.
Certainly it is reasonable to suppose people to choose a different but still very fitting name if that particular one is taken, but at some point the reasonable alternatives might just all be gone (particularly if you're not all that creative with language), which I think would be worse than some guy finding out that his one character that he played some year ago suddenly would have to choose a different name, especially because if the alternatives regularly open up there's no problem for anyone to take these names as opportunity arrises, whereas this problem would over time steadily increase if no according measures were taken.

Let's please not assume that everyone is a genius character creator who comes up with the most unusual persons who in turn can make use of the most unusal names, but instead that the average Joe comes up with average heroes with average hero names. I wonder just how many Captain America or Superman variants there are as opposed to Tokyo Akazukin or Wolpertinger variants...

I don't have the endurance to write down stories, as much as I do like coming up with them. I imagine I could draw ocassional small sketches though, albeit they would look like mudslime. I'm ony really good at drawing psychotic horror-trip monsters upfront.


Well, so-called "talents" are really only honed skills, and I don't see how my post makes it seem as though I thought different, but as a matter of fact not all people have their skills developed equally, or even sometimes stiffled (bad pedagogy, accidents damaging a repsectively important part of the body, etc.), which is what I was talking about.
But I guess you're right, those inhibitors you listed are probably the worst. Which, however, doesn't mean at all we can't do our best to at least weaken those inhibitors we can do something about, one of which is unusable names.

And I do think it is perfectly acceptable to set arbitrary personal rules for something that you want to make appear in an arbitrarily chosen special fashion, particularly because this isn't science that can influence society's way and quality of life, but indeed a very private and leisurely activity. I certainly wasn't happy at all when I realised I couldn't do a reasonably true to the original Tokyo Akazukin-hommage, because I just love both comic and character.