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Posted August 15, 2016
Hello,

I like to give different titles to thieves depending on their stats, weapon proficiencies, and alloted thieving points. I do this with every class but I started off with thieves. I pretty much see what I need and give him a title based on what he gets. The idea caught on after I saw a Projared video. I do this with Icewind Dale as well.

Do you attribute personalities like this too? I'd like to share some of mine:

- mugger: high strength

- scout: hide in shadows (I give this title to some rangers as well), find/disable traps, sometimes set traps too

- archer/crossbowman: specific title depends on the weapon, high dex (other classes get this title too, if their focus is on ranged)

Thank you in advance for replying.
Posted August 15, 2016
I give my characters names. I know what they are and what they do. They don't need titles. I don't like titles.
Posted August 15, 2016
I didnt do that for Baldur's Gate but I do something similar for an online football/Hockey management game I have been playing for 10 years. For fast players who run away from defenders are called sprinters and the ones who are slower but very hard to give away the ball are called tanks.
Posted August 15, 2016
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Engerek01: I didnt do that for Baldur's Gate but I do something similar for an online football/Hockey management game I have been playing for 10 years. For fast players who run away from defenders are called sprinters and the ones who are slower but very hard to give away the ball are called tanks.
I never thought of doing that for sports, especially since positions have their own names. I think I'll try it out during the NBA and NHL 2016 season.
Posted September 10, 2016
I always name my characters for generally their class/build. If i name characters i might forget what they are built for, but if i name my elf wizard "elf wizard" than i know exactly what the character is. It is not like I go around actually calling my characters by name and talking to them, i use their names for knowing exactly their build and class.

So like the topic poster said, naming them mugger, archer, etc is something i would do also. I wouldn't just give them some made up name to call them, i'm not roleplaying them thats what the in-game npcs are for, a little roleplaying, i'm not roleplaying my created party of super fighter/dual welding/mage people.

I also usually might name them for what i am focusing them on for later levels. Like in baldurs gate 2 i might have a party with some fighter/mages for higher levels, one later with dual katanas, one with dual longswords, etc so i'll name them Katana and Longsword so i know exactly which fighter/mage is which. My fighter/cleric is of course Cleric since hes the only one in the party, the fighter/thief is Thief, etc.

Boring, yes, but easy to use and no confusion.
Posted September 10, 2016
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eolsunder: I always name my characters for generally their class/build. If i name characters i might forget what they are built for, but if i name my elf wizard "elf wizard" than i know exactly what the character is. It is not like I go around actually calling my characters by name and talking to them, i use their names for knowing exactly their build and class.

So like the topic poster said, naming them mugger, archer, etc is something i would do also. I wouldn't just give them some made up name to call them, i'm not roleplaying them thats what the in-game npcs are for, a little roleplaying, i'm not roleplaying my created party of super fighter/dual welding/mage people.

I also usually might name them for what i am focusing them on for later levels. Like in baldurs gate 2 i might have a party with some fighter/mages for higher levels, one later with dual katanas, one with dual longswords, etc so i'll name them Katana and Longsword so i know exactly which fighter/mage is which. My fighter/cleric is of course Cleric since hes the only one in the party, the fighter/thief is Thief, etc.

Boring, yes, but easy to use and no confusion.
I usually have that info memorized, but if I need it I go to the character record screen. But if your method works better for you then there's nothing wrong with it.

I sometimes do that myself in a different sort of way. If I make a mage I might name him something like "Faeldas Spellweaver"...yeah, I suck at coming up with names :*(

Or if I make an archer type I'd call the character something like "Nora Fletcher". I usually try to come with something a little more subtle first.

My history is a tad rusty, but I think that was an actual thing once upon a time. That's why we have names like "Smith".
Posted September 10, 2016
well i do know that in much of europe they wern't too inventive when naming kids, especially with last names. They would simply say they are the son of such and such, and then just name them such and such son. Williamson, son of William. Jackson, son of Jack, Anderson, Samson, you get the idea.

And of the last names applying to their job, probably many started that way also. Smith, Baker, Fletcher, Miller, Hunter, Tanner, etc.
Posted September 10, 2016
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jsidhu762: My history is a tad rusty, but I think that was an actual thing once upon a time. That's why we have names like "Smith".
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eolsunder: well i do know that in much of europe they wern't too inventive when naming kids, especially with last names. They would simply say they are the son of such and such, and then just name them such and such son.
Yeah, only it had nothing to do with 'inventiveness'. For example, before the Norman conquest in England people did not have surnames at all, only personal or nicknames. During the early Middle Ages almost everybody lived in small villages and farms, and everybody knew everybody else -- surnames were not needed. Eventually, of course, towns and populations grew to the point where it became necessary to identify people of same or similar names. The methods used were almost endless: nicknames of course, but such things as physical attributes (Long John), trades (Butcher), counties (Middleton), heraldic charges (Griffin), and all manner of actual objects. So no, it had absolutely nothing to do with lack of inventiveness, quite the contrary in fact.
Posted September 13, 2016
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eolsunder: well i do know that in much of europe they wern't too inventive when naming kids, especially with last names. They would simply say they are the son of such and such, and then just name them such and such son. Williamson, son of William. Jackson, son of Jack, Anderson, Samson, you get the idea.

And of the last names applying to their job, probably many started that way also. Smith, Baker, Fletcher, Miller, Hunter, Tanner, etc.
Minor bit of pedantry: Samson is not actually an example of this, but the name of a biblical figure from the old testament. As far as I can tell, the fact that it looks like "son of Sam" is just coincidence, although it might well have later been used to mean that too.
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