Title: The Avatar

Date Posted: Thu Sep/01/11 at 8:50am

Dagor_Lotalon

Posts: 107
Joined: 29-Mar-11

Finally got my avatar! And while I was waiting for it I wondered: what is the story behind everyone's avatar? Why did you choose it? What does it symbolize to you?

As far as my username and image go:

Dagor is the name of my diety from D and D (yes, I am THAT nerdy)
He is a Divine Rank 16 Level 40 Paragon Hound Archon Saint (ECL 62)
Classes: 36 Samurai 4 Master Samurai
2,968 HP, with an 8,800 Divine Shield.
AC of 270, and a minimum damage of 4,508 (with my kiai smite counted in, but when you've jacked it up to 111 times a day, who can complain?)
More protection than you can shake a stick at, no score below 46, and the two most kick-butt swords you could ever hope to see in your life. (If anyone does want the full list of their abilities and what-not just ask. If you couldn't tell, I am extremely proud of this character)

And yes, for anyone wondering, This campaign he was involved in was EXTREMELY difficult, involving ECL 82 bad guys, and hundreds of "lesser" Elder Eveil (i'm talking ECL 40-60).

Date Posted: Thu Sep/01/11 at 9:09am

lin sivvi

Posts: 1608
Joined: 14-Jan-10

lol, this is like the third time this has come up.
Liv Sivvi was the most important card in my rebel deck

Date Posted: Thu Sep/01/11 at 9:44am

Twogunkid

Posts: 2610
Joined: 22-Jan-10

My pick is in fact the Twogunkid one of Marvel comics gunslingers and also the source of my username. Best quote from his book "Don't you all have two guns?"

Date Posted: Thu Sep/01/11 at 10:04am

DyingJester

Posts: 1771
Joined: 16-Dec-08

My current avatar is a neko variant of my fictional character The Dying Jester.

The Dying Jester represents the inner cynical, pessimistic, yet comedic point of view I have on life. Nihilistic in the fact that the character claims to be above 'mere' human morals, yet at the same time falls for the same weaknesses himself. A very cruel sense of humor can be found between the witty remarks and quips, most of which contain a dual meaning. The original character design was inspired by a drawing I did called "Human Progress" which depicts various advances made by humanity surrounded in flames, with a skeleton with a fools cap emerging from the flames, representing the concept that human progress is merely a jest. Pure 'fool' ishness if you will. I also use this character for most of my Dnd campaigns, using him to keep adventurers away from key areas, as well as killing off pesky side characters in comedic ways. I'd post stats, but meh...I don't feel like it at the moment. He does have a bag of infinite holding though.

"Human progress simply isn't "

-Riz-Kadoth, the insanist

Date Posted: Thu Sep/01/11 at 10:17am

Twogunkid

Posts: 2610
Joined: 22-Jan-10

On a side note my DnD character has nohing to do with my avatar. We'll leave Alstad Er my Half-Elf Paladin out of this.

Date Posted: Thu Sep/01/11 at 11:17am

darthnefas

Posts: 1081
Joined: 04-Apr-11

It's a long story.

Date Posted: Thu Sep/01/11 at 2:28pm

Turbine

Posts: 10194
Joined: 26-Oct-09

@ Dying

I think you're my lost lost brother or something. . .

My avatar is simply pi. It doesn't really represent me that much anymore. I might change it to something that reflects my personality more, as a narcissistic, cynical, and just overall awesome person.

Date Posted: Thu Sep/01/11 at 2:56pm

scottymandingo

Posts: 845
Joined: 13-Jul-09

Mine is of me playing drums.

Date Posted: Thu Sep/08/11 at 7:47am

Darth_Mahruk

Posts: 109
Joined: 07-Sep-11

Mine is unfortunately tied to my work as an industrial radiographer. And it had cool psychedelic colors!

Date Posted: Thu Sep/08/11 at 8:21am

Legend_Mageta

Posts: 76
Joined: 26-Feb-11

mine's my favorite card of all time... Mageta the Lion

Date Posted: Thu Sep/08/11 at 9:13pm

Sly

Posts: 31
Joined: 07-Sep-11

Well... Mine is from an incredibly awesome flash game. "William and Sly" (Sly is the fox)

Date Posted: Sat Sep/10/11 at 7:12am

RichardRahl

Posts: 11
Joined: 05-Sep-11

My avatar is from the cover of the book "Faith of the Fallen" by Terry Goodkind. I have read EVERY book of his around 20-25 times. If you have not read his series, you need to. Here is a book list just in case anyone is interested.

Book list-

Wizards First Rule

Debt of Bones

Stone of Tears

Blood of the Fold

Temple of the Winds

Faith of the Fallen

Pillars of Creation

Naked Empire

Chainfire

Phantoms

Confessor

Law Of Nines

The Omen Machine

Date Posted: Sat Sep/10/11 at 10:55am

Turbine

Posts: 10194
Joined: 26-Oct-09

@ Sly

Is that Aragog in the background?

Date Posted: Sat Sep/10/11 at 11:33am

ForgerOfPie

Posts: 377
Joined: 06-Feb-11

Well, not much to tell...

I'm a decent baker, but much better at electronics. At one point, I made a metallic pie that lit up from multiple LEDs and an Arduino. One of my friends joked, "Looks like you forge pies, not bake'em," and the rest is history.

I've originally used the metallic pie as my avatar, but I got a lot of comments as to how I was the electronic geek bomb squad stuff, so I changed it to this one. It's simply a pie that says pie.

I could probably dig through iPhoto and pull the metallic pie back up, if you guys would like it.

Date Posted: Sat Sep/10/11 at 2:55pm

Dagor_Lotalon

Posts: 107
Joined: 29-Mar-11

I'd like to see it.

Date Posted: Sun Sep/11/11 at 8:31am

E-n-S

Posts: 189
Joined: 16-Aug-10

E`n´S sounds a bit like the English pronunciation of my name. (Ian S.)

And the BFM is just cool (I made the captions myself).

Date Posted: Sun Sep/11/11 at 11:42pm

Dakkon Thued

Posts: 312
Joined: 15-Mar-10

I chose Dakkon Thued (Dakkon Blackblade's real name) because he was my first commander in my first EDH deck and one of my legends I've had the longest.

Also, I like his flavor because he's a mercenary in the elvish-Dwarven wars. He's just a Badass mostly tho. The black blade will fuck yo sheeit up!