Calling them by their class because you don't remember either
this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2025
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I mean, thats how most online gaming works ๐คท
I just bluescreen though.
I play BG3 with a couple people that I met here on Lemmy and I know their real names. I call them by their real names. We all do. But the second BG3 starts I just blank out. Last week we were playing Peak and I could not remember one of their names for the fucking life of me and kept calling them some different nickname based off of their username.
I personally refer to the characters as seperate entities, directly.
Ohh, I've been playing d&d with my coworkers this whole time (also assigning them fairly shitty characters).
Damn! Mark Mercer strikes again!
(context: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5feqZBLXrMg)
Air. I ask you to ponder this.
Stage IV: Calling them by their character's name cause egg.
I forgot their character names, so I just give them nicknames. The power of playing a dumb character.
I dmโd a steady group at my FLGS for a couple years with people I didnโt already know. It took an embarrassingly long time to learn some of their real names. Definitely that last one for me.
There was a player in my group who's character name and real name were fairly similar, so I ended up calling him his character's name a lot. Now he has a new character and I keep calling him by the old character's name by mistake
calling them by a nickname because you don't remember their character name but don't want to break immersion