Or the Mansons... Or the Bates family... Or the family from The Hills Have Eyescure wrote:It nice to have a family horror board . . . with good values . . . like those of the Addams . . .Gonzoron of the FoS wrote:I don't think we want to discuss it on a family board.
So.... you're saying that if I have the Gentleman Caller go by the name Drah Sinep, my players might notice? Darn.Gonzoron of the FoS wrote:Well, it's not exactly what you're looking for, but for silly RL names, you can't beat Tew Yssup from I Strahd II: The War Against Azalin.
Great list! I definitely want to change Darkon and Arak. I don't really like Dementlieu either, depsite the explanation for the origin of the name given in the Gaz.NeoTiamat wrote:Tepest = Tempest
Darkon = Dark
Falkovnia = Falcon (this is likely IC-intentional, dunno)
Dementlieu = Demented
Lamordia = Mord = Dead
Chateaufaux = False Castle
Hazlan = Hazard
Forlorn = Forlorn, this one IC-intentional
Keening = Keening, also IC-intentional
Arak = Arachnid
Thak you. As to name replacements, I'm working on it. Maybe you could use something simple like Belle Terre ("beautiful land") for Dementlieu?The Whistler wrote: And...um...I *am* running that game starting 4 days from now, so this is kind of weighing heavily on me right now. SpiritCaller, I'm definitely doing the Wittgenstein/Mordenheim swap (awesome research with the name's significance BTW), but I'm still looking for convincing-sounding substitutes for Lamordia and Dementlieu...so I guess add me to the list of people who are curious to see what others have come up with.
Well, crap.Lucien Doomdark wrote:Those of you planning to swap out Mordenheim with Wittgenstein.
Don't play with anybody with any knowledge of 20th Century philosophers.
Otherwise, the whole exercise becomes some sort of hideous meta-pun.
I didn't know about him. I'm going to have to do some more research, it seems.You're in luck. While I was going through the board looking for exactly this sort of stuff, I found this suggested name change and wrote it down in my notes: Ankhefenra. Supposedly this is a genuine Egyptian name.lostboy wrote:Is it just me, or does anyone else think Ankhtepot's name is a little, well, stupid sounding?
It might translate and be a meatphor or something but I had to rename him when we played ToD, as the published name just caused my players to have giigling fits every time it got mentioned.
"Hang on the awesome BBEG Pharoah is called something Tea-pot?!!?"
Broken down into the ancient Egyptian -er- Akiri words "ankh," "tep," and "ut," a possible translation for Ankhtepot's name is "Life Upon the Sarcophagus." Breaking Senmet's name into "sen" and "met," we come to the rough translation of "Second-most Damned." It could also mean "Equally dead." The ellipse around each group of hieroglyphics marks them as the name of an important individual.
Terre Belle, no? Doesn't the adjective come after the noun in French (surely some of our Canadian members will be by shortly to correct us further. Terre Belle doesn't sound right to me, either. And also kinda sounds like Tinkerbell's sister.SpiritCaller wrote:Thak you. As to name replacements, I'm working on it. Maybe you could use something simple like Belle Terre ("beautiful land") for Dementlieu?
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Hmmm, that sounds like it would have been his name after he arose from the dead.Drinnik Shoehorn wrote:From the Kargatane's review page:
Broken down into the ancient Egyptian -er- Akiri words "ankh," "tep," and "ut," a possible translation for Ankhtepot's name is "Life Upon the Sarcophagus." Breaking Senmet's name into "sen" and "met," we come to the rough translation of "Second-most Damned." It could also mean "Equally dead." The ellipse around each group of hieroglyphics marks them as the name of an important individual.
He's hardly a household name so I wouldn't worry. Extremely dense but the stuff about 'language games', given the current thread and roleplaying in general, tickled me.SpiritCaller wrote:Well, crap.Lucien Doomdark wrote:Those of you planning to swap out Mordenheim with Wittgenstein.
Don't play with anybody with any knowledge of 20th Century philosophers.
Otherwise, the whole exercise becomes some sort of hideous meta-pun.
Oh my gosh, you just blew my mind... Never noticed that before, and I even used the ship in my game! I guess the second r became an m, somehow. Nice catch!Tykus wrote:What?! With the movie out this week, no one has mentioned the famous ship Sunset Empires? For those of you familiar with the ship, take a close look at the crew and aside from the "m" the name is a decent anagram.
Well, the IRL royals of ancient Egypt changed their names rather often, both for political reasons and to mark significant life-changing events. It could be that Har'Akir's lord had one name as a prince, took a new "throne name" when he became king, and then acquired yet another name -- more of a title really, like calling Soth the Black Rose -- when he returned from the grave.SpiritCaller wrote:Hmmm, that sounds like it would have been his name after he arose from the dead.Broken down into the ancient Egyptian -er- Akiri words "ankh," "tep," and "ut," a possible translation for Ankhtepot's name is "Life Upon the Sarcophagus." Breaking Senmet's name into "sen" and "met," we come to the rough translation of "Second-most Damned." It could also mean "Equally dead." The ellipse around each group of hieroglyphics marks them as the name of an important individual.
For example, in Rennes, France, there's a place called Beaulieu: "Beautiful Place". And it really is.Igor the Henchman wrote:Gonzoron, that rule is generally correct, but some adjectives, like "belle", are exceptions.
"Belleterre" would be gramatically better as a geographical name IMO. Sounds about right to a french ear, too.
