User Name and Avatars: Origin Stories

[Gammadoodler]

People out there can make some pretty good stuff with Magna Doodle

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Wherever there is a tool with limitations, there is someone out there using that tool to make beautiful stuff.

Humanity is glorious that way.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I was Shylock on here originally (circa 2000). Then I started a Story Hour for a dwarven character I was playing in a campaign at the time, Olgar Shiverstone, circa 2002. Haven't seen fit to change it since.

Angelsboi was my DM for that campaign. diaglo was one of the players. RIP, Ryan.

Never was much for avatars, so I've stayed generic. I do miss my signature line though, which is in my "About":

"The Soul of D&D? It's rolling a natural 20 when you're down to 3 hit points and the cleric's on the floor and you're staring that sunnavabitch bugbear right in his bloodshot eye and holding the line just long enough to let the wizard unleash a fireball at the guards who are on their way, because they're all that stands between you, the Foozle and Glory." - WizarDru

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

A tangential FWIW: I use the same username on Ultimate Guitar, where I am also a moderator.

Perversely, instead of the guitar, my avatar there is a Green Lantern symbol.

SWITCHEROOOOO!

 

[Meech17]

A tangential FWIW: I use the same username on Ultimate Guitar, where I am also a moderator.

Perversely, instead of the guitar, my avatar there is a Green Lantern symbol.

SWITCHEROOOOO!

You rapscallion you..

 

[Kobold Stew]

Kobold Stew was a play on the Simpsons character Disco Stu, but with both parts changed so that it became a meal either for or of one of my longtime favorite critters in D&D.

The avatar is from frame 352 of the Patterson Sasquatch film.

 

[Lidgar]

Lidgar was a cleric PC that worshipped the god of chance. He was highly superstitious and had lots of little magic charms and rituals he’d do, even in the midst of battle. He’d love to do things that involved rolling the dice so to speak, including throwing fireballs from his necklace into the thick of battle, just to see who all made their saving throws (friend and foe alike). He was both loved (for his outlandishness) and despised (for the fireballs). I’ve used the same moniker since the 90’s, not just here, but on other platforms like Xbox.

The avatar, well let’s just say that he might have been the hero for a certain young chaotic cleric…

 

[Zardnaar]

Im a Sisko, but Kirk is not far behind.

Sisko for me.

 

[Old Fezziwig]

I studied Dickens in grad school, and Old Fezziwig is Scrooge's first boss from A Christmas Carol. And he's the subject of one of my favorite lines in Dickens, "Why, it's old Fezziwig! Bless his heart, it's Fezziwig alive again!" The joy in it is palpable, and I love it. (Not my favorite line in Victorian literature; that will always be Rochester's "In the name of all the elves in Christendom, is that Jane Eyre?")

Previously, like 15 years ago, I was Kajamba Lion, and after that I was Citizen Mane (here and at the Circvs).

 

[greymist]

In 1982 I rolled up a PC named Alpine, an elf fighter/magic-user/thief. No family name or back story as it was likely that he would die or he would not be used once the module was done. To provide so clarity other PCs rolled in the same timeframe included Blaupunkt, Kenwood, and Jensen.

Alpine did not die and I ended up using him, on and off for years. At some point I decided he needed a family name, and since I was reading one of the Vlad Taltos books at the time, I went with Greymist from the assassin Mario Graymist.

When I needed a handle for D&D boards Greymist worked.

The avatar is, obviously, Rich Burlew’s art. At one time he had free avatars on his boards at Giant in the Playground. I grabbed this one and use it on most D&D-related boards.

 

[R_J_K75]

Not all heroes wear capes.

Some days I find it hard just to get out of bed