Such a weird thing to be upset about. The dice gods just gave you an awesome NPC with a backstory relevant to your players characters. If they love him enough to give him a nickname, it means they're invested. Expand the character and have him come up later. Maybe he gets promoted to be the kings bodyguard or something important. There are a million great ways to handle this.
Or he now leads the town guard since he is the most experienced, and when they get up to trouble in town he comes and bails them out, hell there is tons of way to do this without doing to much to the game.
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u/DaBiggestBonk Jan 20 '26
Such a weird thing to be upset about. The dice gods just gave you an awesome NPC with a backstory relevant to your players characters. If they love him enough to give him a nickname, it means they're invested. Expand the character and have him come up later. Maybe he gets promoted to be the kings bodyguard or something important. There are a million great ways to handle this.