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This was inspired by Serlerans great thread intorducing our real selves (great idea). Anyway, I am always curious as to the story behind each person's screen name and avatar, so here are mine:

Screen Name: I spent 2 semesters at college working as a RA in the dorms. TO establish myself early as top dog, I made sure to post a Marine Corps sticker on my front door. I also prominantly displayed a replica Colt Peacmaker I was given when I left the Marines. My started calling me Combat Kyle because of my militarty background. In fact whn I run to some of them on campus they still call me Combat Kyle. Nothing uber special, but its cool when you can earn a nickname.

Avatar: From the film "Wizards" by Ralph Bakshi, cool film.
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CK the CK
"My goddess touched me at an early age."

-Grikis Valmorgen, Paladin

The beginnings of my homebrew campaign world and info for my play by chat game:
http://kbdekker.googlepages.com/home

My screen name comes from a pseudo-language a friend and I developed in high school, in which this particular example means "the one who serves," having been changed from the name I used to use which was "xerser," or "the one who needs." I decided, after being a leech for quite some time in my life, being homeless, draining society and people, and just being an all-around loser, that I should try to help... which is why I give away a lot of stuff I write, in hopes that someone will find it useful.

My avatar is based on occult principles, not because they mean anything significant to me, though I have studied them and hold a degree in that field, but more because I find it interesting and ironic, especially considering my status as an ordained.

Seskis Andante was my longtime wizard character. 281 is a number I've used going way back -- it was Dale Murphy's batting average in his 1982 MVP season for the Atlanta Braves.

The picture - hey I just used a cool Dragon image from a free resource site.

John
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John "Sir Seskis" Wright

Ilshara: Lands of Exile:
http://johnwright281.tripod.com/

High Squire of the C&C Society
www.cncsociety.org

serleran wrote:
My avatar is based on occult principles, not because they mean anything significant to me, though I have studied them and hold a degree in that field, but more because I find it interesting and ironic, especially considering my status as an ordained.

I didn't know you are ordained. If its no too intrusive may I ask in what relgion? I am facinated by the history of relgions and I done many a research paper on relgion in college?
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CK the CK
"My goddess touched me at an early age."

-Grikis Valmorgen, Paladin

The beginnings of my homebrew campaign world and info for my play by chat game:
http://kbdekker.googlepages.com/home

Some of the cards in the AD&D 2nd Edition trivia game had a character named Drago Dangerdwarf. He was a nutty dwarf whose questions were usually rather amusing.

Later on, I had a Dwarven Fighter that I played for some time. He eventually gathered a dwarven unit of warriors as his followers. They were a rowdy bunch who weren't afrai to take on just about anything with their typical dwarven tenacity. The symbol on their shields was a cartoonish orc head with X'd out eyes. They tounge-in-cheekly became known as the Danger Dwarves.

I've pretty much had the name stick with me ever since.

The avatar is a picture from the Warcraft RPG.

I'm also ashamed to admit it, but Meepo is the best thing to come out of 3rd edition and the star of:

He was such a memorable NPC, I just adopted him as my online persona.

The Name: If you have to ask, then you really need to get out more. The Avatar: A custom blend of the Imperial Sunburst with a man in medieval or renaissance garb.
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My small homage to E.G.G.

Treebore=Robert once you take out the two extra e's.

He was my first character I ever played.

Something I find funny is I made him into a lesser god of personal perfection named Mekali about 12 years ago.

My avatar? The closest thing I could find to how I "envision" Treebore. IT is from Diablo2.

Meepo is very cool!

Had mine since forever, I think back in highschool my friend and I had this idea that if you added -ius to anything it sounds fantasy like. And I picked angel since it was clearly an ironic name for me at the time.

As for the pic, I just love it. From a t-shirt. Pretty much what my characters always tend to do after a crawl.
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Hey Meep, don't be ashamed - I actually like Sunless Citadel alot - it's what briefly made me think 3e was gonna work, and Meepo was a cool NPC (although my party's first instinct was to completely distrust him and almost attack him). I recently played through the Neverwinter Nights download of it and had fun.... an example of a fairly linear module that worked well - it was the first major part of the campaign I started with my LSU group.

One day when I have the time I'll probably convert it and restyle it to C&C, add a few side areas or upper areas above that part of the citadel to make it less linear.

John 8)
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John "Sir Seskis" Wright

Ilshara: Lands of Exile:
http://johnwright281.tripod.com/

High Squire of the C&C Society
www.cncsociety.org

Rigon was the most memorable charactor I played back in high school. He is a half-elf ranger who disliked armor and relied more on his exceptional dex than his str.

The avatar is from the work of Jason Engle.

R-
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Rigon o' the Lakelands, Baron of The Castles & Crusades Society
The Book of the Mind

Fans of the TV show Babylon 5 will recognize both my screen name and avatar - Jeffery St. Clair is a respelling of the first Commander of B5, and the avatar is of Michael York from the episode where he guest stars as an Earthforce officer who has suffered post-traumatic stress disorder and now thinks he's King Arthur (complete in armor and wielding Excalibur!). It's a great episode - my favorite bit is when he and G'Kar take down an entire bar full of ruffians, which leads to a quote our group still uses once in a while to this day...

"And they made a very satisfying *thump*..."
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I reject your reality, and replace it with my own.

My screenname is a derivative of my old handle: Breakins

That one came from the old Commodore 64 days when I was playing around with machine language and could "Break in" to pretty much any game code and reverse engineer nifty little cheats and edits, etc., especially on the old D&D Gold Box stuff and the Buck Rogers XXV computer RPG, along with the Bard's Tale I and II (III was shite, so I didnt bother) . Eaglesoft distributed some of the stuff back in the day, but it's long since been lost to disk attrition and time. I subsequently did a lot of playing around on IRC where I ended up being an op in a large channel on Undernet. Some people tagged me with the name Breakdaddy there and it just sort of stuck.

I don't have an avatar here yet, but I guess I should get on it, eh?

Mine? My brother and I haved served in the Army at seperate times (he is in Iraq now). In about 2002-2003 (??), maybe earlier, he was introducing me to a great game put out by our government called Americas Army, and we creating a profile. When it came thinking up a screen name, we both drew a blank. Then he spotted the Peel N Seel envelopes on my desk, and put me down as PeelSeel2. It is unique enough I have never had to use anything else. Avatar? I just take whatever one strikes my fancy.
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

-George Washington

Screen Name Omote (Oh-Moe-Tay): Back in the day, I was a really dedicated martial artist. I had actual dreams of studying taihojutsu and ninjutsu regularly (from my normal disciplines of Tae Kwon Do and Hapkido). The school was very far from my house and very expensive, so I could only go a few times. One of the students at the school said that every student had a name other then his own, so I came up with one one the spot. Being a fan of ninja video games, I chose a name fromthe Seaga Genesis classic, The Revenge of Shinobi. Omote were the bad-guy ninjas in that game. The name just stuck even into my online life. Used this handle since about 1992-1993.

The avatar came from the early days of the messageboards. Under the old AOL-Palladium Books messageboards there were two avatars available, a blank gray square and "THE CHEESE." Just kept it ever since.

........................................Omote

FPQ
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Duke Omote Landwehr, Holy Order of the FPQ ~ Prince of the Castles & Crusades Society

Chugosh is a word I simply made up. I'm very good at giberish, especially when mad/frustrated/enraged, which is a skill I developed by consiously making a decision not to use foul language. I once cut loose with a string of giberish invective four and a half minutes long, and had folks ask me what language I was speaking.

The avi is a shot of my own art, an ogre over a dead dragonoid. In the background the banner displays my SCA arms.

Moriarty. In my introduction, I briefly mentioned my fondness of Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty was his nemesis... the 'Napoleon of Crime'.

(or if you've read or seen 'The Seven Percent Solution' his math professor perceived that way due to drug induced paranoia)

Moriarty the Red. This is what I sign with. Well, when I first starting gaming, I started with AD&D a bit of 1st ed but more influenced by 2nd... and at first things were great but TSR was, at that point, churning out so much crap (circa 1990) that I got a bit tired of it. My friend had the old D&D box sets... and I just got my hands on the D&D Cyclopedia.... we said let's put AD&D aside for a bit a do something a bit simpler... so we made up characters. Moriarty the Red was my first OD&D character which was a refreshing bit of fresh air (a break from AD&D). It re-invigorated me for the game (in general) much like C&C does now! Moriarty the Red was a Wizard and became one of my favorite characters... he's also one of the characters with interesting stats... he's got -1 mods to Strength and Constitution... the rest are average pretty much with the exception of Intelligence which was an 18!! His weapon of choice: Blowgun!

As for the '777' in my username... Since I use Moriarty here and there, I wanted to distinguish it from other possible 'Moriartys' but the numbers are not arbitrary. '777' was a book put out by Aleister Crowley and is basically a book of occult correspondences (relating the the Kabbalah).

As for the picture... an open book to me speaks volumes.
Moriarty the Red
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Well My screen name Comes originally from mid evil mythology about hell and represents the name of a lord in hell,but more specifically it is the name of Elrics Patron, so to speak, Chaos lord form the Elric novels

my avatar is from a sketch made by one of the designers of the LAO game about a Bouncer at a bar he didn't; like, for what ever reason I thought the picture was interesting and have used it off and on for the last couple of years have to get a new one some day

Ken
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Alas poor Elric I was a thousand times more evil than you

Slice N Dice: Game and Pizza Parlour

WWBYD What would Brigham Young do ?
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My name is from my first D&D character a magic-user and as for my avatar its my new dice bag.

My nick is the first name of an early 20th century indian poet, Rabindranath Takhur, nobel prize for literature.

The 72 is the year of my birth.

The avatar...I do not like them, so I do not use it
Cheers,

Antonio

Geleg was my long-running Ars Magica mage, a character I played as someone who was more epicure than hero ... although he was invariably led (quaking) into doing (sometimes) heroic things he didn't want to do. Ultimately he sacrificed his life to save the covenant. (sounds hokey, but he was great).

No avatar yet

It's interesting how many names are taken from our first/favorite characters.

Fairblade was my very first character, a fighter from the Classic D&D days. Jyrdan is a slight tweak of my real name, Jordan.

The avatar is a dwarf from Warhammer. Many of my characters have been dwarves over the years. Most of them have belonged to clan Redhammer.

Rhuvein is my Hebrew name. The spelling is a variation with a more exact Hebrew pronunciation of Reuven (Reuben in English) out of the Old Testament. I created it in '94 when I signed up for AOL.

My avatar is Thor, in a rare pensive mood, taking a break from beating up frost giants, trolls and orges with Mjolnir. My mother and I consider ourselves direct descendents!
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Count Rhuveinus - Lejendary Keeper of Castle Franqueforte

"Enjoy a 'world' where the fantastic is fact and magic really works!" ~ Gary Gygax

"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes:" - Macbeth

My username is the little scribble that appears above cartoon character's heads when they are frustrated.

My avy is a cropped shot of one of my gnomes (this one in particular was inspired by a mix of Lewis Carroll's Mad Hatter and American Mcgee's Mad Hatter).

If you don't know about mine then you are dead to me.

Ask the next person you see to punch you in the nuts hard and kick you three times while you're down. Then pick yourself up and go to the store and rent Aliens and watch it for 24 hours straight. After your nightmares subside write me a 4 page essasy on Bill Paxton's performance and how he truly one of the last great American thespians of our time (don't forget to mention how he was robbed for NOT getting an Oscar nod for Best Male Supporting Actor). After all that is said and done, talk to co-workers, friends and family with just lines from Aliens.

"Hey honey, can you pass the salt?"

"WHAT THE SHIT ARE WE GONNA DO HUH?"
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Richard McBain

Trolllord Games

Convention Coordinator

Executive Director - TrollCon, Winter Dark
richard@trolllord.com

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ALEA IACTA EST - THE DIE IS CAST

My tag name is Celtic for Ambroise, meaning: the immortal

My Avatar I designed myself using TerraGen!
I use TerraGen to design all kinds of pics for scenery in my games...

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huds0n wrote:
If you don't know about mine then you are dead to me.

Ask the next person you see to punch you in the nuts hard and kick you three times while you're down. Then pick yourself up and go to the store and rent Aliens and watch it for 24 hours straight. After your nightmares subside write me a 4 page essasy on Bill Paxton's performance and how he truly one of the last great American thespians of our time (don't forget to mention how he was robbed for NOT getting an Oscar nod for Best Male Supporting Actor). After all that is said and done, talk to co-workers, friends and family with just lines from Aliens.

"Hey honey, can you pass the salt?"

"WHAT THE SHIT ARE WE GONNA DO HUH?"

LOL

Hudson is definitely one of the best characters Bill Paxton has ever played... however, I try to forget and possibly block out other Bill Paxton roles... (umm... Titanic anyone?)

That being said... I think I'm overdue for a screening of Aliens!

Moriarty the Red
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Partner to Brave Halfling Publishing
http://www.arcanacreations.com

My screen name's short for THE Inkpot...the nickname was given to me by some online friends after reading several of my short stories (two of which have been published - yay!). As time passed, I lost touch with those friends, but the nickname remained.
My avatar is the celtic tree of life, a very personal and significant symbol in my life. Thought about getting it as a tattoo once...but then I sobered up.
Ink
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C&C: Blissfully devoid of gestalt neko-hin rogue/fighter/mages!!

Hmmm....well, my name comes from the fact I have a soft spot for the Kingdom of Keoland of the eastern Flanaess.

As for my avatar, its a copy of Mark Evan's version of a Barrow-Wight from The Lord of the Rings (notice that the long-knife it wields is one of those sappy movie Noldorin versions, ugh, and not a realistic scramseax). Its from the Fell Beasts and Wondrous Magic supplement for The Lord of the Rings RPG from Decipher.

Mine is a character from a novel I'm writing.
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