| SimonF | 29 Jul 2007 11:42 p.m. PST |
Just wondering. If someone were to put into production a line of halflings, could they call them Bobbits? I'm not going to do it myself, but I'm sculpting some halflings (some Bobbits, actually, I hope!) and I was wondering. By the way the name is taken from Ultima 1 (where you can be a Human, an Elf, a Dwarf, or a Bobbit!). I just think it's an awesome name for them. |
| bloodeagle | 30 Jul 2007 12:08 a.m. PST |
Bobbit was the surname of a famous couple. I believe his infidelities caused his wife to cut his privates of.
I think they were recovered and sewn back on.
You could sculpt an elite unit of female Bobbits armed with knives and call them the Emasculators. They would strike terror into male human sized beings. |
| Martin Rapier | 30 Jul 2007 12:59 a.m. PST |
As bloodeagle says, 'Bobbit' may have unfortunate connotations… |
| anevilgiraffe | 30 Jul 2007 1:00 a.m. PST |
well if you know the name is taken from Ultima 1, then yes the name is taken surely? |
| hurcheon | 30 Jul 2007 1:15 a.m. PST |
You could try "kuduk" which is the name Tolkien says is the real Westron for Hobbit |
 jimbomar  | 30 Jul 2007 4:18 a.m. PST |
Usually there is no property in a name unless it is a registered trademark or is a domain name. |
| MonkeyborgRedux | 30 Jul 2007 4:33 a.m. PST |
John Wayne Bobbit did indeed have his member sliced off by his wife, who then drove out into the countryside and tossed his severed manhood out of the car window. Miraculously it was retrieved, surgically reattached and JW went on to star in an adult film called 'Frankenp*nis'. Classy. Not sure if he had furry feet and lived in a hole though… The Ultima team probably used the name Bobbit because of the IP protection of the Tolkein franchise. I don't think I'd want a fantasy RPG character that was a 'Bobbit'. My PCs tend to enjoy brothels too much… |
| MonkeyborgRedux | 30 Jul 2007 4:34 a.m. PST |
Good name for a drowned halfling perhaps? |
| NightskyWildfire | 30 Jul 2007 5:48 a.m. PST |
I'd heard they named the re-attachment operation an addadictomy. |
| MonkeyborgRedux | 30 Jul 2007 6:12 a.m. PST |
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| (Blank Name) | 30 Jul 2007 6:33 a.m. PST |
When I was in Manassas several years ago looking for the battlefield, we stopped and asked directions from a couple of cops. They didn't know where the battlefield was (huh) but they did know where the Bobbits had lived. Didn't give me an answer when I asked if they'd been on the search party. |
| Klebert L Hall | 30 Jul 2007 6:45 a.m. PST |
Yeah, Bobbit is a bad idea.
-Kle. |
| MonkeyborgRedux | 30 Jul 2007 7:23 a.m. PST |
Yeah, most cops go quiet when you ask if they went looking for d1ck… |
| SpuriousMilius | 30 Jul 2007 8:27 a.m. PST |
Of course the "Emasculators" get a +1 to hit "Height" modifier! |
| Farstar | 30 Jul 2007 9:25 a.m. PST |
Favored weapon: Cigar snipper? |
| SimonF | 30 Jul 2007 10:39 a.m. PST |
Lol, well, there goes that… it must be a British thing. :P |
 mmitchell | 30 Jul 2007 11:05 a.m. PST |
I don't think the negative connotations are too strong. I do think that it's too close to hobbit for you to get away with it for long. |
| Charles Marlow | 30 Jul 2007 3:03 p.m. PST |
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