Tremulous Forum
General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Norfenstein on April 20, 2001, 09:48:00 pm
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I think it's about time the community started churning out some creative names for the droids, which currently are only known by their level and type. They probably would've been called relatively uncreative things like "stinger", "stalker", etc., so maybe we could help out by thinking up neat sounding names that actually convey what the class is really supposed to be. Maybe mythical creatures or neologisms from appropriate words would good.
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I'm not good with names. I'm glad you brought this to attention.
Overlord... Lurker... thats all that comes up w/o much thought.
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Alright, I was hoping some others would post first, but here are some of my ideas:
Artificer - For a builder
Custodian - It means "caretaker" so it'd be a cool name for a powerful defensive droid
Marauder - offensive droid
Sentinel - defender
Overseer - top droid
Dragoon - something fast
Gladiator - something strong
Myrmidon - something lowly
Hive Mother
Names of mythical beasts
Chimera
Minotaur
Griffin
Manticore
Harpy - Flight?
Golem - defensive
Spectre - stealthy
Wyvern
Wight
Ogre
Basilisk
Kobold
Hydra
Demon Variants
Cacodemon
Fiend
Daeva
Barghest
Garou
Manito
Lemure
Nasty stuff from D&D
Dretch
Quasit
Bebilith
Vrock
Hezrou
Glabrezu
Nalfeshnee
Marilith
Balor
Osyluth
Kyton
Barbazu
Hamatula
Cornugon
Gelugon
Maybe something practical can be derived from one of these (but if any are used as is, you might want to first look up their actual meaning). Scientific inscetoid names might be good for starts too.
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*DarkStorm's been compiling a small list since the beginning of last week*
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Name some droid "Custodian" and I'll be happy :smile:.
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ahh names thats nice i have a essay on the hirarcy of some of the fallen angels mentiond in the bible and sutch drop a line here if you whant them
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If they're cool names go for it.
But I'm not naming a droid 'Michael'
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Yea, "Mikey" would be better...er, mebbe as a nick name :razz:
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Janitor droid. Mop + bucket combo attack.
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It means caretaker dammit! And he can kick you ass!
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Arioch
Ohh yess..
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Mortedenada - It means, "Death from nothing". Would be for a fast droid.
Lentamorte - This would be for a droid that used a poison, or acid, or somethig like that. "Slow death."
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Great ideas Cybernetsam. Those are the types of names I really push for to be used.
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dentesdoaço - "Teeth of Steel."
Essequemtrazamorteeadestruiçãoatodo - "The one who brings death and destruction to all." This one may have to be shortened. Up to you.
Lamerondeun - "Round Blade One." Probably for one which carries the sawblade, or sawblade launcher.
[ This Message was edited by: Cybernetsam on 2001-04-25 19:06 ]
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What are those from?
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Foreign languages :smile:
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Obviously...
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Babblefish. Yeah, I cheated. They sound like cool names though, don't they?
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You people are really screwed up. But I mean that in a good way. No, really I do. Yeah...
Anyway, names... how about Query? It would have to be an annoying, whiny little bastard. OK, maybe not. Just a thought... =)
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Ever see the "custodian" droid in Aeon Flux?
I mention this 'cause it was really, really cool - it would crawl inside a person's body (through their belly button - much like the "bug" in the matrix) to correct their behavior, effectivly becoming their concious.
Neat.
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See? See? I'm not crazy!
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just call the biggest meanest offensive variation a Tarresque and Ill be happy
Although naming them would make the learning curve of the mod steeper, simply refering to them by a simple code generated from their path down the tech tree would be easier,
like OOD for a offense -> offense -> defence tree variant
or COO for construction -> offense ....
although giving the extremes/most populor (sp?) variaties names wouldnt hurt much.
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My party (Which included me, a shifter, and two warrior friends) kicked the Tarrasqe's ass. We where around level 15 at the time.
My character almost died though. He spent three months recovering.
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The Tarrasque had about 70 hit dice...
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Yeah, he's a tough bastard. 300hp. Immune to all missiles and non-magic weapons.
Still beat him up though. Couldn't kill him, becasue we didn't have a wish, but we kept him busy long enough for the town to be evacuated.
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D&D?
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2nd edition. I think 3rd edition kinda dumbed him down (And didn't have Tony DiTerlizzi (http://www.DiTerlizzi.com)'s illustration...)
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Have you seen teh 3rd edition books? There are a lot of pictures that help explain things that others have a hard time grasping, like flanks for example. Havn't had a good reading through it though, because I don't play anymore and I don't wanna spend the 20 bucks.
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What about things like
"Lunch-Box" Big ass droid
"Drawing-pin" one of those small fast droids
"Pie-Maker" Constructor
"Can crusher" Some strong human
Would be different ... and quite amusing
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Huh?
Ok, I just infested a body as a pie-maker!. Yay! I can upgrade to a lunchbox! Or, maybe I'll choose the Can-Crusher!
...put down... the bong... :smile:
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I got all the AD&D and 3rd edition core rulebooks but I've never played (stupid backwater town). I still think the Alternity game mechanic is superior to any other system, especially the D20 system. Just now getting interested in some White Wolf stuff, gonna try to find some for cheap.
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Stormbringer, 4'th edition.
They stopped making the RPG/FRP-Game several years ago, but you can still get a copy of the rulebook on ebay. They remade the game into "Elric!", but that game system is gayer than the more original system.
By "White Wolf", do you mean "Elric"? Because in Michael Moorcock's books, elric was an albino melnibonian with a kickass demon sword. Forged by the very lords of choas themselves (sword is named stormbringer). Since Elric was an albino, and his sword was sentient and killed all his friends, he was nicknamed the "White Wolf, Kinslayer, etc". If you are referring to this, you HAVE to buy the forth edition.
I dont like D&D, the people never die and it takes forever to develop your character. In Stormbringer, you start out aply equipped to die in the next few missions. Because your so frail, it's so fun.
Me and my brother are in the works of creating a pen-and-paper RPG system that will surpass all the rollplaying games we play now. You know me, I get original ideas, warp them, and try to create something spectacular.
[ This Message was edited by: Carcinogen on 2001-05-18 19:38 ]
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White Wolf as in White Wolf (http://www.white-wolf.com). World of Darkness settings, such as Vampire, Mage, Werewolf, Changeling, Wraith, etc.
And if you ever had time to start up an IRC RPG, I'd be dying to join, as I really don't have any real life opportunity to play.
And have you heard of Alternity before? Not many people have, I've found, and TSR's not bothering now with anything but D&D 3e. The core rules mechanic could really be applied to any setting, and I'm quite fond if it for being simple (easy to ad hoc stuff), and allowing pretty much anything to be done if players choose to have an extremely low chance of success. D&D always just said, "you can't do this, unless you want to break the rules". Bleh
[ This Message was edited by: Norfenstein on 2001-05-19 11:10 ]
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I mess around with Werewolf: The Apocolypse some. I like the settings of the White Wolf games. Kind of a modern, heavy industrial world kind of thing.
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Werewolf is part of the same universe like Vampire (i mean pen and paper of course)
I'm playing vampire with a very skilled gamemaster in a funny group.
We managed to kill a werewolf in our first night..without silver bullets.
My character is a vietnam veteran who was turned into a vampire and then burried alive by a very evil vampire clan freak(no idea wich clan.. he was able to let his bones grow to long spikes and my poor char had to watch him kill the whole unit)20 years later the grave was opened and i managed to escape..but i cant leave the coffin behind
and have to carry it around when i have to change my place to sleep.(btw, i called him Timbo *g*)
The last time we played i was almost out of blood and lost control when i tried to drink
i took ALL the blood from a prostitude and had to shoot her *cough* employer afterwards(he had a shotgun and saw me and the dead (empty) woman)
next one to die was the wife of the shotgun-dude, she saw me kill her husband from a window above and hit me in the shoulder with a heavy pistol( I shot was her down before i hit the ground..but she was not quite dead)
Another character of my group arrived when i tried to throw the bodies back into the apartment they just left.
He helped me and i had to cut the legs of to make her fit into the two bags i found in one of the rooms, while my partner searched clean clothes without holes through the shoulder...
He also killed the woman i had hit in head and shoulder before, she was on the way to the telephone..a bit cruel to break the neck of a helpless woman(i doubt she would have reached it with those heavy wounds), but we had no time to waste.
Friends of the man with the shotgun but now without head were on their way to us.
When they arrived i had finnished my terrible work and we escaped to the roof, killed their driver, took the car and burned car and bloodless woman some minutes later.
I only wanted some blood and all i got was trouble...the healing of my wound cost 4 bloodpoints and to improve my aim to be sure to kill the woman with the magnum i payed 2 more..
after all I had 2 bloodpoints LESS than before...
Vampire is fun..ok, sometimes you have to be very cruel to stay alive, but who cares about the lives of a few stupid mortals =)
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I don't know, I'd still rather be a werewolf...not that they can't real bloody...
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I have never played any of the other white wolf systems, just dabbled in W:TA.
We need to start up White Wolf IRC channel.
That would rock.
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Hell yeah!
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On 2001-04-25 19:03, Cybernetsam wrote:
Lamerondeun - "Round Blade One [ This Message was edited by: Cybernetsam on 2001-04-25 19:06 ]
Heh, lamerondeun. Lamer. Hehe...heh...heh...
sentinel, definately.
technically, wraith is taken, but it would be a great name for a click, stealthy droid.
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Surprised nobody came up with this one yet (or Im just blind):
Goliath
Perfect for a hulking droid...
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I definitely like Myrmidon best for the lowest level offensive droid.
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What about "Menetekel" for the tallest of the droids?
A word for misery and desaster (from a best seller called "The Bible".. or something like that)
it was one of the four words god wrote on a wall in babylon before destroyed the attempts of building that super-high tower
I find that symbolism behind it quite fitting...
think about it
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ahhh the garou, funny wolfies, mean and such
i had a friend that did a campaign with some of his friends, he combined vampire, mage, and regular ww system, and added in mechs for the humans but mainly garou...it turned out *really* bad lol
i never played it or d&D, but ive gotten so much descriptions and tales and things in so much detial, ive all but played and gotten a webcam link to people playing (only for me to watch, maybe mumble some things)
larps are where the real fun of rp'ing is, live action role playing games, the good ones are great, w hether you can act and improv or not (within the character your playing that is), and since there usually is no script, makes for cool things, especially with costuming and the foam weapons that you can beat people with without injuring them, well thats not always true...the good ones though, are safe and wont hurt even if you bring most of your weight down with a strike
larps are fun, but dont get into out of game politics and problems, thats where everything gets bad
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what about azatoth
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OMFG NECRO!
6 FUCKING YEARS!!
go get a fucking life.
MORON!
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2001 8:48 pm
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zomg plx noes xD
I likezem namez we havez nowz z z...
Dragoon is correct, anyway :D
Tyrant is good too! :P
The rest is just good ol' pie! YUMZORZ!
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Actually, this is a perfectly good thread to keep around... but don't just spam in it. <- like that :-(
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what about azatoth
I believe it's Azathoth. Ancient Demon God of Nekrotopika.
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UBER-L8-SLYR
How about Cyberninja?
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i like how all the names for the alien classes except for granger and tyrant came in 1 post by norf.