Dungeon Fantasy party compositions

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by Toadkiller_Dog

Those bother you, but not Recnam Orcen and Vinz Clortho?

Anyway, having met some of Sean's players (during that campaign, actually), a little silliness seems to be expected in the group.

I know Vinz Clortho is from Ghostbusters, but I didn't recognise Recnam Orcen. Maybe the serial number is filed off better there?

In any event, any name that I can recognise from fiction bothers me if there is no plausible reason for it to be duplicated in the case of the character. One character sharing a name with another fictional character can be a coincidence, but once you put him in a relationship with a character that also shares a name with the fictional paramour of his fictional namesake, it more than stretches the bounds of coincidence. To me, that seems like something that would make it impossible to take the character seriously and thus, something designed to reduce the enjoyment I could derive from gaming.