[Groop] Bob/Greg

[Larry Steller]

--- Fred <grooless at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Anyway the other players had called their characters
> the likes of "Shadowsun Dreamweaver" etc which
> sounded rather spak and all, so I called my
> character "Bob" as a contrast and piss-take. It
> really wound them up...

Hee hee, I have a similar story! I played in a
D&D-style game involving superheroes called Champions,
and I created a character named - you guessed it -
"Bob", and it really (annoyed)* this one guy whose
character was a vigilante called something like
"ShadowDark". My guy had no secret ID, he was just a
regular guy, no costume, but happened to have amazing
powers and casually did good things, but he was just
Bob, and you could look him up in the phone book. 

I mean it really really bugged this guy and he said I
COULDN'T have a superhero called just Bob, it was lazy
and unoriginal. To me it was a character hook, a way
to role-play a unique personality in the game, and be
more low-key than usual.

I said "Oh yeah, like your "One-From Column-A" and
One-From-Column-B" name is so original! Just let it go
and let's have fun.

I only played Bob that one night, because I decided
that gaming group was a bunch of drips. 


*I started typing something to make Eric blush and
decided to be good!

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