Why the name?

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Well...what can I say? I'm a Gopher!


Hmmm.. I can't really remember where it was from, but I seem to remember a friend calling me a Gopher because I was continously doing work for this site... (Spell/Item tutorials, portraits) and So i changed the name from my previous incarnation...*shudder*

Gopher stuck, and several variations have appeared, including Goph, Gophic, Gopherboy, Gophie, Goffo etc etc.

 

Aziraphale:
From terry Pratchett's Good Omens.
The angel of the Eastern gate (I just like the big firey sword)...(mmmmm). In his spare time he owns a book shop, not that he sells the books. Over all a nice character with a cool name
The gender is slightly mixed up so I've altered it for the chat, Azir

Edit: I am curious to know the origin of Taluntain

[ November 08, 2002, 21:43: Message edited by: Aziraphale ]

 

Just the initials of one of my favourite bands, Blue Oyster Cult.

Atreides, the original name "Atreides" comes from the poems of Homer and it means "The son of Atreas" in ancient greek.

 

Blog: From a NPC in Ultima Underwold 2, which was by far my favorite RPG before the turn of the century. More specifically, he's a naive, yet fiercely loyal troll.

The 'log' part reflects my interest in math too, but it's just a coincidence that I've noticed.

 

My nick doesn't really have a history.
It's the name of the character I played BGI->ToB with. Feel free to make up a meaning for it, all suggestions are welcome.

 

Scarampella is the name of a late 19th century, Italian violin maker. I was playing on one at the time and rather liked the sound of it...

 

Tal you spent as much time in explaining that you didn't care to explain, as you would have spent time actually explaining you elvish origin.

Nobleman. Hmmm. Just caught it on the fly. I was only gonna leech this place of portraits and ask a question... I thought... *lol*

Off toppic:
The sentence that came out of a anagram-software when I typed in Intentioner of the damned.
"Mad Den of the Teen Riot Inn..." Teens are taking over! led by the Intentioner of the Damned.

[ November 11, 2002, 01:34: Message edited by: Nobleman ]

 

As I said in the other topic:

There used to be an old D&D board game that was called Dungeon. Whenever my father bought it for the family as a Christmas present long ago, I really got into it, and that served as the gateway to the PnP, then to CRPG. Rastor was the name of one of the Wizard characters in that, who I always played.

 

As I'm sure you can all imagine, Faerus Stoneslammer is the name of the dwarf character that I use in CRPG's.
I didn't put much thought into my name when I came to the boards, because I hadn't expected to actually come back...

PS-The name I usually use on the internet, in chatrooms and on Yahoo games, is Bloodied Soldier (bloodiedsoldier)...

 

All yours are cool and neat, but none has a stupider and weirder origin than mine.

MANY years ago, I borrowed Mario RPG (yes, on Supernintendo) from my friend when it had come out and wanted to make a file. Since I was only going to have it for a week, I knew the name didn’t need to be serious. I was going to type in “Farthead”, but for some reason, the program messed up and deleted the “e” and “d”, leaving “Fartha” behind. That’s cool I thought. So I name myself “Fartha” on places where I need to be identified on the ‘Net afterwards. That is that. But wait, now where did “Farthy” come from? Well, I actually made the Fartha account first on Boards O’ Magick, but I lost the password for that and I had to think of another name. Coincidentally, Farthy is also the name of a noble in Shadows of Amn attending Lord d’Arnisse’s funeral. So Farthy is actually is corruption of Farthead, hence my listed location in my profile.

Beat that for a name!

 

I wish I knew where I got my name! About 4 years ago I found my old D&D stuff, from when I was a kid. I still had my paladin "Sorvo the Slayer" I was so excited for awhile I actually rollplayed with myself! I still get a smile thinking about redoing "The Keep on the Borderlands" module Then I got a computer and came across BG by accident one day in a game store, found this site in search of answers and the rest is history But I still don't know where the HELL I got the name from

 

mine started out as a (huge) typo of my name in real life (gerard) and the -on bit was attached to make it a male name. I used it first for my bg1 character and ever since it has followed me around

 

Damnit Nobleman, you found me out. Now i have to go think up some other Intentionable plan.

(BTW, where can i find such an anagram maker thingy??)

[ November 12, 2002, 13:57: Message edited by: Intentioner of the Damned ]

 

My name came from the Dragonlance books, the name of a Sivak draconian.

 

Sniper, i got it off playing Counter Strike when i, low and behold was mainly a sharp shooter...

 

i got mine when i was tired and a friend sat behind me and said that i was an Überspammer... and i have heard the name AssWooper somewhere else too...

See Ya

 

First thing that came to my mind...

 

My nick come from the Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy books. A Nutrimat is a vending machine that does a complete analysis of your tast buds and digestive system, and even sends tiny experimental signals to your brain to see what would go down well. However, no one is sure why it does this because it inevitably produces a brown liquid that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

This appealed to me for some reason, so it has become a standard nick. Plus, my real name is Matt, so it fit.

 

addon to my last post...

it is actually spelled 4$$W00P3R the ÜberSpammer but since 1337 spelling is forbidden with death punishment i dont use i here...

@Tal - can you make an exception this time... i have to explain...

See Ya

[ November 14, 2002, 13:11: Message edited by: AssWooper the ÜberSpammer ]