• hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    Homelander memes: helping the internet make fascists feel normal and relatable since 2024 or whenever.

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        No, it makes fence-sitters feel like there’s something to identify with in a baby eating lunatic and slowly shifts the Overton window further and further toward normalizing straight up evil.

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    the one group I was defacto DM for my players would do this knowing the more off guard they caught me the more likely somebody was likely to be called Chungus or Squinton or some shit

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    “Yes, okay, my name is… kllllaaaarrrrrg… i-ifer. Klargifer Caltrop.”

    “Klargifer is a strange name for a halfling.”

    “Yuh- yeah. Yeeesss. I suppose it is. That’s why I hate my parents.”

    “Yeah? And what are their names?”

    [Suddenly, a wizard or something appears and casts silence on everyone. So you can’t ask that the question anymore]

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    Have the npc panic and accuse them of being a fae, screaming and running away. If it happens in a populated area, guards show up and start asking questions. Hopefully the sheet inconvenience will deter them in the future.

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      protip: don’t cross them off, write who they are on the list (eg “Rivermeadow blacksmith”) so you can remember when the players come back to them a million sessions later

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    One of my favorite things is giving fantastic creatures ordinary human names. My group will never forget Walter the minotaur who did absolutely nothing interesting aside from being named Walter.

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    I love how the party gravitated and dragged “Wheel Well” along, in Dimension 20: Skyward Ho.

    DM Brennan is rarely caught off guard, but Maxwell’s younger brother being named “wheel well” felt like an improv moment.

    The way the party made sure to drag “wheel well” with them as long as possible - forcing Brennan to keep saying “wheel well” - is just adorable.

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    Just pull a Slartibartfast and get really sad about how much your name sucks and then try to make the players feel bad about it.

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      And how mine has Kevin, Kevyn, Keven, Kyvyn, etc. A a family of gnomes (all pronounced Kevin) that are traveling merchants and blame not remembering an incident by saying it was a different Kevin.