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A question about the last-names.

ry6nthnkry6nthnk Member Posts: 2 Arc User
edited July 2013 in General Discussion (PC)
So I have a characters, i see many having last names.
So I read somewhere you can start with a last name, or you get to choose one later.

Anyone knows when do I get to choose my last name?
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  • flyingfinnflyingfinn Member Posts: 6,694 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    You choose it when you type down your characters name. Meaning, you choose what your last name is.
    This is nothing stupid like in SWOTOR....
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  • ambisinisterrambisinisterr Member, Neverwinter Moderator Posts: 10,462 Community Moderator
    edited July 2013
    When you create a character simply put a space between what you consider your first and last name.

    There's no "First" and "Last" Names, simply "Name." so any time your character name is called by NPC Dialogue both will be listed.

    So, for instance, at Character Creation you would simply type "Drizzt Do'Urden" in order to have a first and last name.
  • elawynelawyn Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    ambisinisterr wrote: »
    simply type "Drizzt Do'Urden" .

    Nooooooooooooooo I AM DRIZZT DO'URDEN!
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  • bpphantombpphantom Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    ambisinisterr wrote: »
    ...simply type "Drizzt Do'Urden" in order to have a first and last name.

    With Zod as my witness, I will immediately /ignore anyone with that name.
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  • kattefjaeskattefjaes Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users Posts: 2,270 Bounty Hunter
    edited July 2013
    bpphantom wrote: »
    With Zod as my witness, I will immediately /ignore anyone with that name.

    Add to that all the people called "Kairon Incubore" or "Kairon Demoneye". Sigh. So many, it's confusing.
  • dardovedardove Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    bpphantom wrote: »
    With Zod as my witness, I will immediately /ignore anyone with that name.

    What about everyone with the name Daenerys Targaryen?
  • cipher9nemocipher9nemo Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    elawyn wrote: »
    Nooooooooooooooo I AM DRIZZT DO'URDEN!

    *chuckle* good one. :)

    That begs the question: how many variations on that name do we think exists on both Neverwinter and DDO servers?
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  • ry6nthnkry6nthnk Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    So wait now that I already play, I can't add a last name? I must create a new character?
  • lonnehartlonnehart Member Posts: 846 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    cipher9nemo wrote: »
    *chuckle* good one. :)

    That begs the question: how many variations on that name do we think exists on both Neverwinter and DDO servers?

    I'm thankful that it is only names in this game. Champion Online has hundreds of Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America, Superman, etc... Even... Finn the Adventurer!!! And now that I'm thinking about it, the customization options in this game prevent Finns from showing up everywhere (though I may soon have a Finn character myself, though he'll be more based on my STO character than any weird cartoon animation). :)
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  • dardovedardove Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    ry6nthnk wrote: »
    So wait now that I already play, I can't add a last name? I must create a new character?

    There is a rename token for 400 zen.
  • cipher9nemocipher9nemo Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    lonnehart wrote: »
    I'm thankful that it is only names in this game. Champion Online has hundreds of Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America, Superman, etc... Even... Finn the Adventurer!!! And now that I'm thinking about it, the customization options in this game prevent Finns from showing up everywhere (though I may soon have a Finn character myself, though he'll be more based on my STO character than any weird cartoon animation). :)

    Good point, lol. Playing CO must have been a /facepalming experience seeing names like "Captn America", "The Hulllk", and "Batmannn".
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  • lonnehartlonnehart Member Posts: 846 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    cipher9nemo wrote: »
    Good point, lol. Playing CO must have been a /facepalming experience seeing names like "Captn America", "The Hulllk", and "Batmannn".

    Names I can handle. My facepalm experiences came from the costumes. From being nearly accurate to being really cheap ripoffs of the more famous characters. Yes, we'll see lot of Elminsters, Dizzts, that guy whose name is the misspelled word "Newbie" (from Baldurs Gate), etc... but no matching costumes of them (for instance, Elminster's hugely brimmed hat if my memory of Baldurs Gate serves me right)...
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    "Hah! You are doomed! You're only armed with that pathetic excuse for a musical instrument!!!" *the Savage Beast moments before Lonnehart the Bard used music to soothe him... then beat him to death with his Fat Lute*
  • beckylunaticbeckylunatic Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 14,231 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    kattefjaes wrote: »
    Add to that all the people called "Kairon Incubore" or "Kairon Demoneye". Sigh. So many, it's confusing.

    They can't really be blamed for what the game's name generator rolled for them.

    Me, I see a Luke Skywalker in just about every zone, and I always wonder if it's the same guy (but can't be bothered to check the @handles).
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  • nephilim83nephilim83 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    I have a halfling TR named Tyrion... and I am not ashamed.
  • chidy1776chidy1776 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    ry6nthnk wrote: »
    So wait now that I already play, I can't add a last name? I must create a new character?

    You can add one, but youll have to buy it. Somewhere at the top of your character sheets are things you can buy like name, character look ect changes. Idk how much zen they are but it wont be dirt cheap. Id guess around 100-200k ad to buy the zen.
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  • kattefjaeskattefjaes Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users Posts: 2,270 Bounty Hunter
    edited July 2013
    beckylunatic wrote: »
    They can't really be blamed for what the game's name generator rolled for them.

    They can and are, so there! Show a little imagination, oy vey.

    (Yes, I know, some people then go and call themselves "Desmond Lovehandles" or similar, but you can't win them all)
  • flyingfinnflyingfinn Member Posts: 6,694 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    lonnehart wrote: »
    I'm thankful that it is only names in this game. Champion Online has hundreds of Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America, Superman, etc... Even... Finn the Adventurer!!! And now that I'm thinking about it, the customization options in this game prevent Finns from showing up everywhere (though I may soon have a Finn character myself, though he'll be more based on my STO character than any weird cartoon animation). :)

    Nothing wrong having Finn named character.
    (yes, my 1st character, GF is named Finn. I had no idea what 'Finn the Adventurer' is...Finn is just so darn cool and manly name.)
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  • valwrynvalwryn Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,620 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    I think all of the DRIZZT's should be placed in one guild called "DRIZZT Clones" :o
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  • lonnehartlonnehart Member Posts: 846 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    flyingfinn wrote: »
    Nothing wrong having Finn named character.
    (yes, my 1st character, GF is named Finn. I had no idea what 'Finn the Adventurer' is...Finn is just so darn cool and manly name.)

    This Finn...

    Finn the Adventurer from "Adventure Time!"

    The CO clones of him gave me a headache...

    In STO, one of my characters is Finn Hawkins, Tholian Crystal Sword wielding Captain of the USS Kusanagi. :)
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  • flyingfinnflyingfinn Member Posts: 6,694 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    valwryn wrote: »
    I think all of the DRIZZT's should be placed in one guild called "DRIZZT Clones" :o

    I think forced namechange would be just fine.
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  • cinj216cinj216 Banned Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    ambisinisterr wrote: »
    So, for instance, at Character Creation you would simply type "Drizzt Do'Urden" in order to have a first and last name.

    Please don't encourage further use of that unoriginal name.
  • sveguroksvegurok Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    the one thing that bothers me greatly is that players are very unimaginative when it comes to picking names for their toons. everyone picks names from books, tv, ... instead of creating their own name.

    May all-father guard you steps.
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  • elawynelawyn Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    svegurok wrote: »
    the one thing that bothers me greatly is that players are very unimaginative when it comes to picking names for their toons. everyone picks names from books, tv, ... instead of creating their own name.

    May all-father guard you steps.
    "Svegurok Bloodbeard"

    Dagnabbit, now I have to delete one of my alts, called Svegurok Bloodbeard. :)
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  • sveguroksvegurok Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    elawyn wrote: »
    Dagnabbit, now I have to delete one of my alts, called Svegurok Bloodbeard. :)
    i give you +1 for this post :)
  • lonnehartlonnehart Member Posts: 846 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    I bet some players use the names of famous individuals (fictional or otherwise) in hopes of invoking their power while playing. Such as naming your character a variation of "Chuck Norris" in an attempt to invoke Omnipotence... Only to be delivered a curb stomping defeat by a character named "Bruce Li".... or is that Bruce Leah... oh, nevermind... -_-
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  • ambisinisterrambisinisterr Member, Neverwinter Moderator Posts: 10,462 Community Moderator
    edited July 2013
    I use Drizzt Do'Urden as examples because it is the unoriginal name example. Anybody who is going to use it already would without any nudge from me.

    However that is not what this thread is about so please keep comments about that to yourselves from this point forward. :)
  • vrtesseractvrtesseract Member Posts: 631 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    For the most point I avoid using Last names as my handle, My character still introduces with a last name and I still will have it in the bio, But if I want to change the last name or my character gets married, it is much easier to just change my bio than have to pay 400 zen.

    The exception is if I feel like my first name might be common like Rose, but that does not happen to often with my characters since I generally have pretty distinctive names. Or if I have a character that more often goes by her last name than her first like my GWF Pyrose Mazguard of course in this case I also think having the full name like that makes her sound kinda like a Viking.
  • djtlitedjtlite Member Posts: 42 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Each of my characters is unique in some way except my TR, i went with a generic half-orc female name. Some tie into the Salvatore books but arent clone names. I have Alistair Errtusson (descendant of the balor from the Drizzt books), Baern Battlehammer (long lost cousin of Bruenor, his parents and himself being made into mindflayer thralls for years and with his spellscar he feels unworthy to even go to Kelvin's Cairn or Mithril Hall), Bonnego Foamingmug (was an Adbar dwarf at Gauntlgrym, he saw the blessed Bruenor's fall and changed his name in honor of the Dwarf King), and i will make a Jarlaxle, but that's cuz i'm guild leader of Bregan D'aerthe Neverwinter Cell. The guild backstory is that we serve jarlaxle when the true Bregan D'aerthe are prohibited by Kimmuriel and Jarlaxle's agreement.
  • beckylunaticbeckylunatic Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 14,231 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    I don't usually like using a surname in games unless you actually have two separate name cells to enter given and surnames. If it's all in one field, then every time <charname> is inserted into dialogue, the NPCs are going to call you by your full name, which prods uncomfortably at my immersion. This was a cool thing about NWN, that NPCs could refer to you either formally or casually, whichever was more appropriate.

    I based the name, appearance, and bio of my GWF on a manga character and I'm not even sorry. My TR is an original I've been reincarnating through various CRPGs since Baldur's Gate. My DC takes her name and background from a lesser-known fairy tale.
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