Ludovic
04-18-2010, 08:48 PM
So I have been playing more tournaments at a certain local gaming store, which it turns out has a tradition of assigning nicknames to regulars. At the latest tournament, the organizer when calling out the names/nicknames of the players remarked that I needed a nickname.
Now of course I don't technically need one, especially since half the people he mentioned didn't have a nickname. But I've been brainstorming for one and in case I come up with a good one I'll suggest it.
The game I play there in case it matters is Warhammer 40K, the tabletop miniatures game that introduced the world to the trope of GrimDark (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkerAndEdgier?from=Main.GrimDark) (i.e. completely over-the-top evil and violence without letup.) So a properly over the top grimdark moniker would be apropos, too.
-- The Unwrath of Khan: It's a play on my last name.
-- Two-Shoes: It comes from the Dead Milkmen song The Blues Song:
"Every bluesman needs a nickname. And people always call me two-shoes, because I always wear two shoes. I know it's not much of a nickname but by the time I got around to getting mine, all the good ones had been taken."
-- Square-boy: Most players use rounded off dice (still six sides, but with a little of each corner rounded off.) I use ones that aren't like that, and hate to use the other ones. This name, or some variation on it, would signify both that aspect of gaming and the fact I'm a bit more tightly-wound than average.
Now of course I don't technically need one, especially since half the people he mentioned didn't have a nickname. But I've been brainstorming for one and in case I come up with a good one I'll suggest it.
The game I play there in case it matters is Warhammer 40K, the tabletop miniatures game that introduced the world to the trope of GrimDark (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkerAndEdgier?from=Main.GrimDark) (i.e. completely over-the-top evil and violence without letup.) So a properly over the top grimdark moniker would be apropos, too.
-- The Unwrath of Khan: It's a play on my last name.
-- Two-Shoes: It comes from the Dead Milkmen song The Blues Song:
"Every bluesman needs a nickname. And people always call me two-shoes, because I always wear two shoes. I know it's not much of a nickname but by the time I got around to getting mine, all the good ones had been taken."
-- Square-boy: Most players use rounded off dice (still six sides, but with a little of each corner rounded off.) I use ones that aren't like that, and hate to use the other ones. This name, or some variation on it, would signify both that aspect of gaming and the fact I'm a bit more tightly-wound than average.