Nominative Determinism in Dungeons & Dragons
Exciting title, right? Nominative determinism is the theory that people are subconsciously drawn to professions or places that match their names. At a simple level, it is how people with a surname like Baker sometimes end up running bakeries. This blog post isn’t about any of that, thankfully. Instead, I want to talk to you about how I will often see a name on screen, on a sign, or simply recall a famous person and think: “I wonder what they’d be like as a Dungeons & Dragons character” For...
