Names

kopywrite · Post by **kopywrite** » Fri May 24, 2002 12:43 am

Calladin (my IWD mage)

wouldn't he/she have made a better paladin? Or palladin...

@Stilgar; never saw that, was it based on the David Lynch movie?

Chanak · Post by **Chanak** » Fri May 24, 2002 12:53 am

wouldn't he/she have made a better paladin? Or palladin...

Ahoy there. Calladin Umbrethil Skallado? A paladin? Why, if he were a paladin, his mom would blister the seat of his pants. Besides, if he was a paladin, that means he wouldn't be able to cast magic missle.

kopywrite · Post by **kopywrite** » Fri May 24, 2002 1:07 am

@ Chanak;I see...no, no I don't see at all.

Surely the temptation to be Calladin the fallen palladin is enormous?

(An IWD mage? Now thats brave...)

Stilgar · Post by **Stilgar** » Fri May 24, 2002 3:05 am

Originally posted by Chanak
@Stilgar:

Let's not forget Maud'Dib - great name. Being the galactic messiah can be tough, especially when there are thousands of fanatically loyal holy warriors lopping off heads in your name, and you really wish they would just cut it out.

I realy don't like Paul, in the Movie he's a hero, but in the book and mini-series he's the Wesley Crusher of the Dune-Universe!!!!

Ode to a Grasshopper · Fri May 24, 2002 4:38 am

I always like Chani the best out of the Dune characters. It stikes me as one of the most incredibly beautiful, sad and noble things in the story when she offers to leave Paul after he decides to marry Irulan to gain the Golden Lion Throne.

Stilgar · Post by **Stilgar** » Fri May 24, 2002 6:30 am

Originally posted by Ode to a Grasshopper
I always like Chani the best out of the Dune characters. It stikes me as one of the most incredibly beautiful, sad and noble things in the story when she offers to leave Paul after he decides to marry Irulan to gain the Golden Lion Throne.

At least she bares(sp?) him 3 children.
From witch Leto III (he's called II) is the greatest!!!!!!!!

Chanak · Post by **Chanak** » Fri May 24, 2002 7:24 pm

@kopy:

Surely the temptation to be Calladin the fallen palladin is enormous? (An IWD mage? Now thats brave...)

**sigh**

All those names, and you just have to pick out Calladin...

He might have been better off being a fallen paladin. I only had to raise him 5 or 6 times...

He must have missed his calling in life!

gnomethingy · Post by **gnomethingy** » Sat May 25, 2002 9:25 am

Lol... some names I have used, taken from though im not sure if many people have heard of it a series called monkey magic (best dubbing ive ever seen btw) btw If you havent seen the series you will probably have less than no idea about anything im writing

The best thing is for anyone who has ever seen the show, the main char's actually fit bg2 roles quite well

Tripidaka (Lawfull neutral Cleric)
Monkey (chaotic neutral Kensai mage with grand mastery in staff)
Sandy (Chaotic good Straigh Kensai wth grand mastery in halberd)
Pigsy (Kensai once again and considering that you cant use a rake in bg2 I give him mastery in spear couse halberd is taken)
Horse (This char isnt actually allowed to do anything, just carry stuff)

That madness aside, heres another party I used from Ryan ber's book, no lights

Makklu Xih, Lawfull neutral male skald or blade with lowest possible charisma
Akryn, Chaotic neutral male Barbarian or bezerker wth an sk'd intel of 1 and grandmastery of club or mace (preferably ALWAYS in bezerk state)
Ji il sadat, chaotic good female Invoker with LOTS of fireballs
Cyreist , lawfull neutral female cleric wth high charisma

And the evil guys

Sae'nher, male Chaotic evil necromancer
Irin Sarattu, male Chaotic evil fighter / cleric
Jahdumin, male Lawfull evil Cleric
Vaas, Female neutral evil Cleric / mage

I did the game with all those parties....The evil no lights party was the hardest by far couse I hate magic and the monkey magic one was too easy.. two Kensai's and a Kensai mage, even with dumb profs these guys cut the game to bits

Oh well.. thats my lengthy and boring 2c

kopywrite · Post by **kopywrite** » Sat May 25, 2002 9:37 am

@ gnomethingy; Oh my god, I used to love that programme...how on earth can you remember all that stuff?? Mayhem would ensue at my school the day after that was on TV...I think the board of governers even discussed its baleful influence on a normally placid group of school children

Great idea for an adventuring party..

Ode to a Grasshopper · Sat May 25, 2002 9:54 am

I grew up watching Monkey Magic, which now I come to think about it probably explains a lot. I loved that series! That cloud of Monkey's was just awesome. I would have made Tripitaka Lawful Good, myself.

That gives me an idea for a poll in SYM... "Was Tripitaka male or female?"

gnomethingy · Post by **gnomethingy** » Sat May 25, 2002 10:24 am

Tripidaka is a budhist... they dont beleive in good or evil ( do they? Im not sure) but he still basicly travels around doing good, so I dun know

Pigsy has a cloud too btw... he uses it in one or more episodes and it resembles some sort of cloud scooter

Sandy rules....

Tripidaka is supposed to be a man.. but he is played by a woman, dont ask me why

THe monkey magic party rules... wait till monkey gets staff of the ram, sandy gets ravager and pigsy gets ixils pike... all +6 weapons...lol

Spirit of monkey was.... Irrepresible, MONKEY!!!!!!!!

Rattman · Post by **Rattman** » Mon May 27, 2002 6:20 am

as Jan Jansen once said

when you have that much monkey's anything's possible

monkey magic may tie in to that?

what would happen if he grew his staff when it was in his ear? ouch!

Rattman · Post by **Rattman** » Mon May 27, 2002 6:26 am

also my last party had the following characters

John
Dave
Jane
Claire
Kevin
Mike

please don't over think the names

gnomethingy · Post by **gnomethingy** » Mon May 27, 2002 6:30 am

Rattman, I like your style... certainly cuts down on character creation time

Oblivion · Post by **Oblivion** » Mon May 27, 2002 7:40 am

Everytime I start a character I take names from "The Wheel of Time" by Robert Jordan. For example Rhuarc (my archer) and Rahvin (my fighter/mage)

gnomethingy · Post by **gnomethingy** » Wed May 29, 2002 6:23 am

What about using non word words for char names

Bah, bleh, hmm, hmph, arg!, ahem, ffffft, la la la, woosh, yip, waaah to name a few

makes for amusing npc dialogues