@jennkryst said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
@arkandel said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
Names. Very few characters are called Steve or Jen.
It's always Maximillian and Lillian.
Unless you're going to mandate logins be First_Last name, it will forever be the case.
ETA - Or even better, @name by SSN
What about D&D where people's last name is often "Drowslayer" or "Magicbane" ?
@greenflashlight said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
@arkandel said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
Names. Very few characters are called Steve or Jen.
It's always Maximillian and Lillian.
I do kind of groan when I see characters who are supposed to be twenty but clearly have the names of someone who is the character's mom's age. It's not a huge deal or anything, but I notice it. No American born after 1990 is named Bianca.
@Jennkryst's wikipedia parlor trick notwithstanding, what? Lol.
I'm going to go ahead and assume you meant "white women in the United States", which would probably still be wrong, but I feel compelled to point out that though Bianca is a name of Italian origin, it's pretty common and popular among Hispanic and Latinx communities in the US.
@arkandel said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
What about D&D where people's last name is often "Drowslayer" or "Magicbane" ?
Those are titles of achievement, earn them on-grid if you want them, I GUESS.
Shout out to Abyssal Exalted for the Most Unique Names.
@arkandel said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
Names. Very few characters are called Steve or Jen.
It's always Maximillian and Lillian.
I've never played a Maximillian or a Lillian.
My more recent WoD names: Madeleine (aka Maddy); Clarice; Ashley; Erin; Sarah (aka Shrike); and Dana. The oddest one I've played recently was "Cai." I prefer "normal" names.
Period or place names like Daithi and Piccola don't count.
@greenflashlight there are 2 at the preschool i work at. Also a Henrietta/Hattie, a Mabel, a Rosemary, and a Eunice. 
Also a friend of mine who was a mom friend when my big kids were little named her two girls Kimberly and Jennifer (they're 20 and 18 now) because she wanted their names to be unique in their age group and she was absolutely right!!
@coin said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
I'm going to go ahead and assume you meant "white women in the United States", which would probably still be wrong, but I feel compelled to point out that though Bianca is a name of Italian origin, it's pretty common and popular among Hispanic and Latinx communities in the US.
You, and Jennkryst, and mietze, are wrong. Literally no one has been born in America after 1990 and been named Bianca. Anyone over the age of thirty who says their name is Bianca is lying to you to trick you into being gullible so you will not be able to resist the coming Propaganda Wars, which means anyone who pretends to be named Bianca (which, as previously established, literally no one does) is actually a sleeper agent bent on destroying Western civilization.
Old fashioned girls and boys names seem to be extremely popular right now. I have a Basil in my class and there's a Edgar and a Dennis in the school as well. I'm very charmed by Basil both my little guy and the name though.
@mietze said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
Old fashioned girls and boys names seem to be extremely popular right now.
Yeah, last time I checked a list of popular baby names in America, a lot of them seemed like names my grandparents' generation had.
@carma said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
It's somewhat dissociating to RP with a character who has my RL name.
To this day I'll occasionally see someone addressing a character who has my name and I'll think they're talking to me. I'll physically freeze while my brain screams, "WHO DOXXED ME?!"
...Now that I say it out loud, I wonder if I need to talk to someone about why I interpret that as such a threat.
@arkandel said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
Names. Very few characters are called Steve or Jen.
It's always Maximillian and Lillian.
I don't think this is necessarily because people hate common names as much as it's a consequence of character names almost never being purged, so very quickly common names will end up taken and people have to come up with more and more quirky names.
What is obvious to you may not be obvious to me and vice versa.
What about the casual disregard for death that comes with resurrection spells and services being somewhat widely available in certain games?
"Damn dude you died again. Have you tried, you know, dying less?"
@arkandel
Even in games without resurrection spells it is always odd how other people deal with death of characters.
“Oh, so sorry for the horrible loss of your spouse last month…. And congratulations on your upcoming wedding!!” 
Or beyond that as well… holding a grudge for someone doing something evil to you or your friends and then some how ending up the bad guy because “Sure, I tortured your partner in front of you but that was THREE MONTHS ago, sheesh.”
It just does not compute for me.
@ravengirl said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
Or beyond that as well… holding a grudge for someone doing something evil to you or your friends and then some how ending up the bad guy because “Sure, I tortured your partner in front of you but that was THREE MONTHS ago, sheesh.”
Oooh you reminded me! Not so much a trope in (just) gaming but media in general, however all kinds of bad guys turning face and suddenly being huge fan favorites, ignoring the absolutely horrible stuff they did or tried to do in their previous career.
Sure, Anakin literally murdered children but he was redeemed in the end so 
!
@arkandel said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
"Damn dude you died again. Have you tried, you know, dying less?"
It's easy. All you have to do is just move more, bleed less. Hit points in versus hit points out.
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
Bleed less.
Move more.
Do whatever it takes to keep you off of the dungeon floor.
The general indifference to wounds and deaths in both RPGs has always kind of baffled me. I get that everyone wants to be the hero, but even John McClaine was feeling it when his feet got shredded. And even though YOU know that your character has luck points/fate points/a kind GM or a FS3 combat system that won't kill you, your PC doesn't know that. They should maybe not be quite so reckless all the time.
@faraday said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
The general indifference to wounds and deaths in both RPGs has always kind of baffled me. I get that everyone wants to be the hero, but even John McClaine was feeling it when his feet got shredded. And even though YOU know that your character has luck points/fate points/a kind GM or a FS3 combat system that won't kill you, your PC doesn't know that. They should maybe not be quite so reckless all the time.
My peeve is the opposite! It's the people wanting the attention from those wounds, and who will milk it to the extreme.
Most people whose PCs get a couple of dots of lethal damage? They may pose a couple of times about wincing as they sit, or just heal it in the background.
Some people will pose limping into an otherwise normal scene with garish (but always attractive or internal) injuries for which they require someone's immediate help lest they fade away.
@jennkryst said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
@arkandel said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
Names. Very few characters are called Steve or Jen.
It's always Maximillian and Lillian.
Unless you're going to mandate logins be First_Last name, it will forever be the case.
ETA - Or even better, @name by SSN
What about D&D where people's last name is often "Drowslayer" or "Magicbane" ?
