8 points

Yeah that’s what I meant by clever naming. I guess I was reading too deep. I thought it was referencing more.

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I failed a brain check, I’ve been googling those names for 30 minutes. I don’t get the reference. What’s the joke here? I would have just taken it as cleaver naming for the region.

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19 points

Astrology term and name for deer

Star bucks

Moon Deer

Sun Fawn

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3 points

I think you meant astronomy. Astrology is pseudoscience horoscopes stuff.

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3 points

Well, in this case all of those are astrology too as far as I know, and that might be more fitting for a fantasy world

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40 points

Starbucks is a real coffee chain that exists in the real world. Moondeer and sunfawn follow the same naming scheme, but the players didn’t realize that was what the DM was building to until the big reveal. It’s…pun-adjacent.

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62 points

Each one is a combination of ‘Celestial Object’ and ‘synonym for deer’. The first two seem innocuous and fantastic enough, but they establish the pattern - letting the third be ‘Starbucks’, a real-life coffee shop chain.

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45 points

Hahaha, amazing. Haven’t read this before.

What a coup

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27 points

A coup is a passenger car with a sloping or truncated rear roofline and two doors.

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24 points

A coupe is a passenger car with a sloping or truncated rear roofline and two doors.

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4 points

Nah, you’re thinking of a coupe.

A coup is a liquid meal, sometimes useful for art if you’re weird enough.

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37 points

That’s a coupe. Coup is a wine drinking vessel.

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28 points

That’s a cup. Coup is the sound doves make.

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12 points

Sorry, is the joke that you spelled coupe wrong?

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12 points

This kills the joke.

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I was part of a campaign that was running for a few years that unfortunately ended abruptly before I could ever naturally reveal the several puns and references I packed into my character from the outset. The set up for the ones I remember are my character was a large, friendly paladin whose highest stat was in Charisma, who largely wanted a group of friends and his highest goal was to be called their pal, who wanted to be called by his last name by his friends, who was half angelic/celestial (can’t remember the name of the race), who had dark skin, a large muscular frame, bald head, and short facial hair, whose starting gift was his blessed chainmail, and whose name was Cronwier Aderb.

The references that I remember are that he was designed in the image of a meme with Terry Crews photoshopped as a paladin (stats also reflected this meme), his blessed chainmail was his Hole-y Armor, I remember there being something about his name reflecting a crown but I can’t remember the pun or reference, and lastly he wanted his friends to say “this is our pal, Aderb.” That last one I remember I specifically came up with after the DM asked if my character was going to be “like your dark souls character, another paladerp?”

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69 points

The only issue I have with this jape is the first in the list might should be “moondoe.”

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7 points

Thank you for your service. I was going to say the same thing.

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25 points

Moondoes. Sunfawns.

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17 points

Yeah, why is only Starbucks pluralized? Joke ruined!

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