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My RL name is Steven Horowitz... Horst is the first 3 characters of my last name, and the first 2 of my first name combined. My login for my last job was c0horst, so I just kinda kept the horst...

My mates used to think I looked like a rat when I was younger so got called rat or ratty a lot.
When I got into mmorpgs I wanted to keep the name but make it sound a bit...well...fantasy-like so I jammed ius on the end.
Its stuck ever since.

LOL all my main D&D chars had some derivative of Rose in there name, when i moved the rpg onto the computer i took Roze with me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylozoism

I don't actually believe it, but as someone who collects a lot of toys/dolls/figures/what-nots it has a sentimental value.

I used to have an e-mail address called "The_Dark_Dante" which I used as a name for everything, but then we got our internet cut off for a few years, so I forgot my passwords.

When we got our internet back, I realised I couldn't remember my password, so I decided that I didn't like the name anymore, and wanted to get rid of that, dubbing my new one Drk_Oblitr8r. I use it as my name on everything with the space for it. Except for my dA account, which I decided I needed to expand upon it.

Guess

Good for you.

Orlanth is a major deity, if not the most important, in the Glorantha fantasy world of Greg Stafford as most notably remembered in the Runequest game system.

I have a deep and abiding love and respect for Runequest, mostly because of its exceptionally well thought out mythology.

Most player characters are steered toward Orlanth or associated or at least neutral-to-Orlanth factions and religions and they are portrayed consistently as the protagonists. As it so happens the antagonist Lunar faction looks more and more like the 'good guys' as you get deeper into the mythology. Runequest simply turns the alignment wars concept on its head, the lines of good and evil are blurred not so much by a usual cliche grey but an intraconnecting web of histories, allegiances and grudges that refuse to polarise all but a handful of factions as anything resembling good or evil, law or chaos (despite frequent use of the latter term). This makes Glorantha a singularly interesting and dangerous place. Where else do the evil empire preach justice and practice civil tolerance while the heroic struggle against them have a kill-em-all attitude towards much of which they dont understand, while the whole background makes sense above and beyond a level of blind propoganda. Gloranthan myth has yet to be surpassed even after 30 years of evolution of gaming systems and concepts.

Anpu42
Anpu, another name for me Anubis Judge of the Dead
42 the Answer

I was at a friends house drinking one night and there was a beer called "old Fezzywig's Ale" a christmas brew, i got fairly smashed and when i got home, i decided to name my WOW character at the time Fizzywig (a misspelling) and well, I just loved the name so it has become my username for all gaming related things. (and also a great DnD character, a Dwarf raised by gnomes (he rode a pony and fought with a great-sword, as he had none of the dwarf cultural traits...))

Just a good old fashioned Beatles song I like.

when I used ro RPG I was generally the GM and spent huge amounts of time researching things for my games.
I even went so far as to create an entire RPG system that was totally diceless so it wouldn't interrupt the flow of the role-play (I prefer role-play over roll-play). So after years of running these games when new people would come to play they'd warn them about me. I wasn't a killer GM by any measure but I tried to make my players think stuff through and work for it.
After all the talk of being sinister and stuff one night I wrote in big block letters on my notebook "The SINISTER BRAIN Lurks here"
It was a good laugh and it stuck.

"Barkeep! Petro nemo slappywag. That's Petorian for More beer, you slappywag."

Good ol Family Guy

My full name is: His Majestic and All-Holy Shriekness, The Right Honourable & Very Reverend Doctor, Imperial Dark Lord of the Sith, the Hero of Time, Ultimate War Supreme Grand Mafioso, Pig-sty dwelling monarch, First Degree Tetragrammaton Cleric, Uncyclopedic Holiness, Dread Mistress of the Night, The One, The First, Commander of Everything Commendable, Lord of R'lyeh, 68th degree Archpriest, MSCE, Silver Warlord, donkey-cave of the Highest Order, Archmage of Bone, Drunken Grandmaster, Lord of the Clouded Ruby, Don't Blame it on the Moonlight Blame it on the Boogie, Master Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon, Fernando Burtoni Fanboy, First Speaker of the Second Foundation, The Ruined One, Count of Starstone, Lord David of Ham, General Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Darth Overlord Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Gregorian Eggain Meyer Horatio Tatumkolo M'babwe Babwe Afrika Al-Hafez Titties Titties Titties Titties Shankar Chaurasia Hussain Ustad Imam Caliph "That guy" Никола́й Васи́льевич Го́голь Trujillo Veracruz Clifford Lee Burton Duc Duc Goose de Franche Comte "The Pimp" O'le Biscuitbarrel F'tang "I'm not gay, honest", Comrade Peoples' Commissar for the Internal Production of the People's Beets and the People's Vodka, Immortal & Immoral God, El Señor Mexicano Misterioso Del Lago Del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús y Anexas Pero No Vive en La Tierra De Mujeres, President for Life, Der Führer, Maximum Chief of the Revolution, Titular Latin Patriarch of Antioch, President-Elect of the High Council of Time Lords, Posing Somdomite, Knight Who Says Ni, Apostle of National Unity, Benefactor of the Poor, Patron of Commerce and Industry, Electrifier of Souls, THe High Rammalamma of the Dingdongs, The Pwnerer, Pooty Tang O São Jão Bão da Bôca, Esquire of the Magistrate Most Worthy, Duke of Drag Queens, Despot of Morea, Prince du Sang, Fils de France, Sahib, Monseigneur, Mesne lord, , Mace-bearer, Gran maestro, Gauleiter, Paladin, Alderman, Great & Glorious Sultan, Fraujaz, Bundeskanzler' Elector of Hanover & Arch-Treasurer of the Holy Roman Empire, Holder of the Privy Member, The Dancing Flamingo, /\/\457312 1337 |-|4><><312, The Boss, The reincarnation of Paul Muad'Dib, The Main Man, The Big Cheese, The Head Honcho and possible alter-ego of Black Jesus, The Righteously Honorable Honorably Righteous Emperor of Earth. AKA The Shrieker. Boom.

The Shrieker wrote:THe High Rammalamma of the Dingdongs,...

Sounds familiar...

My name is the fusion of my first name and acronym for my city.

Matty (called Matthew) RM is for Royal Marines, the elite unit of commandos i served with for ten years until i retired to eat cakes and play tabletop war instead. And yes, i always play Space Marines!

couldn't think of anything else

Old joke between a friend of mine and myself - when we were in 8th-9th grade, we came up with this music-based parody of Star Wars (guitar picks were Star Destroyers, Millenium Falcon was a vinyl record, Death Star was a disco ball, etc.) The main villain happened to be Disco Vader. I started using it as my online name for almost everything, and it just happened to stick.

cadian512

512th regiment spawned from the cadian system
chosen because my dad likes their colour scheme

My name was inspired by ColdPlay. Their songs struck me as a symphony but using modern instruments/equipment so there you are

Some kid at my school called a hugemongeous stick Alfred McMango

Mine has three meanings...

First is named after one of the characters in The Brothers Karamazov.

Second is after the father of the Periodic Table (I like chemistry...)

Third is a story I wrote in too long ago about the last survivor of a cloning experiment. "Dmitri Beta" was the clone closest to "Dmitri Alpha" aka The Scientist, and is closest to his creator than the later experiments.

My favourite teacher of all time called me Nyyman, twisted from the name of Jake Nyyman, who is a famous radio caster in Finland.
And my name happens to be Jaakko, which is pretty lose to Jake.
And after that, I have used the username in every fething thing you must do a username in, from DakkaDakka to good old days of WoW, to Steam and even Warseer

My user-name Khai is my nickname. I just add pretty just to tell everyone that I am pretty. LOL! Just kidding.

My Nickname derives from one of my earlier characters from roleplaying games (seems like I'm far from being alone here ). I liked that character and somehow it carried in to several forums as a nick.

Just a poke at the Emos in the National Capitol that get fething sloshed in the City
Twas a fun day

I came up with mine as I was furiously trying to finish painting an army for a GT and skipping on sleeping almost altogether.

Mine is a superhero without superpower from Pondus

Sanctjud.
Prefix: Sanct-
Prefix: Jud-

Put them together and you have the closest thing to a Holy Judge.