As for me, my favorite warforged was Flail. He wielded twin light flails and was searching for his purpose in life when his existence was cut short by a Hydra lurking in a swamp area outside an ancient giant ruin in Xen'drik.
I look forward to hearing your ideas.
Arrow
Bowyer
Doorjamb
Fletcher
They fit into the weapon/job style of nameing.
But let me add in a few others:
Cog
Gear
Shard
Crystal
Blaster
Channel
Scribe
Scout
Those are more and they still fit into the job/object area but its more I think I usec Channel for a warforged PC once.
But here a few more names:
Psy
Pen
Clank
Doorstop
Singer
Blade
Watch
Strike
Relic (a treasure hunter)
Deserter (a soldier who abandoned a unit)
Sigil (a Spellcarved Soldier)
Quill (a wizard)
Wall (a meatshield)
Brick (an artificer)
Ram (a fighter)
Oak (a druid with the Ironwood Body feat)
Ward (a paladin)
Sheild (a bodyguard)
Bastion (an enginerring specialist)
Nurse (a midwife)
Spade (a farmer)
Hope these help!
Parts of a sword
Parts of a crossbow
Parts of a bow
Medieval weapons
You'll come up with countless names that are all fitting for a warforged.
I've used Locke, Cross, Claw, Forte, Sabre, Maul, among others.
Just do a google search for:
Parts of a sword
Parts of a crossbow
Parts of a bow
Medieval weapons
Good advice. Thanks!
Mercury (Mithril Body)
(Sergeant) Force
Shield
I ended up playing a warforged paladin of the Silver Flame named, obviously enough, Sanctified.
Jank
Fuego
Juggs
Break
Rust
Human (oddly enough)
Heviduti (excuse the pun)
Crusher
Hinge
Melt
Squeak (WF scout with a low move silently score)
Hammer
Tongs (a glib WF lovingly called Tongues)
Bellows
Dent (Arthur Dent?)
Tweezer (WF artificer)
Pillar
Clarion (Bard)
Smythe (Smith)
Overdrive (Barbarian)
Trax (Ranger)
Codex (Scholar)
Adam (After his ...antine Body)
Another player's, at my suggestion:
Dirk (Works as both a reasonable real name, *and* a weapon-based name! Extra-fun if the weapon he wields is, in fact, a Greatsword)
And finally, two that I have to suggest whenever this topic comes up.
Let's just say that you're playing a bad-ass private inquisitive who's *just a machine* to all the chicks:
(S)Haft! (either one works)
Corp (corporal)
Lance (lance corporal)
Sarge (seargent)
Mast (master seargent)
Wand (gunnery seargent in a world where wands are guns)
Lieutenant (or one of the following abbreviations)
Lieu
Tenant
Ten't
Cap'n (captain)
Major (Ghost in the Shell!)
Batu (Ghost in the Shell!)
Lock (Rogue or Warlock)
Spell (Wizard or Sorcerer)
Jammer
Jack
Hammer
Sledge
Slam (Monk)
Security
Dusk
Blade
Midnight
Cloud
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, black, white
Mr. Grey
Gandalf!
Leet (1337)
Skin (take that trophy collector feat from PHBII and make skins for yourself)
Face (guess what trophies your taking this time...)
Spike
Lee
Lillian (female)
Lilly (female)
Liulani (female)
Petunia (female)
Daisy (female)
Goldy (female)
Dolomite (after my firend's dwarven fighter who was eaten by 3 wymlings)
not:
Dross (meaning worthless)
Slag (again meaning worthless)
So, I chose a Warforged barbarian and named him Big Sal (Sally to his shipmates). :D
Played an artificier named Weld, with my companions, Crunk the fighter and Caster ther warlock.
God, that's just *asking* for someone to quote Fear of Girls at every level-up.
of course his 'print was a Pi Sign
Logos
He is now called Brucy Wucy and wields a great club.
Ratchet: a female warforged nurse (LE of course)
Planchet: a warforged diviner
Just imagine a WF that has little panels pop open all over his body as he yells and each slot fires out five magic missles.
His name? Well duh, it would have to be Macross!
But let me add in a few others:
Cog
Gear
Shard
Crystal
Blaster
Channel
Scribe
Scout
ironically, Gear is the name of the WF Artificer i just created for an upcoming campaign...
there's some good suggestions here that run along the lines of matching a job to your name or something similar. but remember, a WF can really pick any human/elf/dwarf/whatever name...i almost named him Alexander.
Ranger - Warden
Rogue- Rascal
Bard - Echo
Wizard - Scorch
Cleric / Paladin - Channel
My favorite WF name would have to be Corundum, though. He was a Psiforged who had blue crystal all over his body. Sapphires are a type of Corundum, and My psiforged was very talkative and a know-it-all, so the big word fit him.
In none of my games, however, will I ever allow random (or even non-random) combinations of Letters and numbers. That just encourages people treating them like robots, something I've been hard-pressed to get through some of my players thick skulls already.
Deadbolt - WF Artificer (Although I did not create him, I think the name is great)
-FF
My 'forged soulknife.
The story/joke is that he's been smashed to bits and repaired so many times that there isn't much of the original left. And, being repaired on the battlefield, what would have been used to patch him up? Why, shrapnel, of course!
I also like Flotsam and Jetsam. They are close enough to the common names, weapons or what have you, but also show a bit of the warforged's trouble with society. Being a castoff, left alone, not accepted. You get the drift. Hehe, drift.
There's just something so fitting about naming warforged with numbers.
Other good ones I've seen inclue:
Scout and Outrider, a pair of WF Rangers;
Scramasax, a servant of the lord of blades;
Mason, an architect and artificer;
Chase, an Archivist;
Scorn, a Paladin of the Silver Flame;
Keeper, The Black Dragon's butler/mechanic/assistant (thanks Edy);
Mattock, Edy's shovel-wielding miner/fighter;
Baron, a fighter -the name was originally ironic, but it stuck;
Anchor, a Knight -ironically not a sailor;
Bastard, from the Mark of Death novels -he lived up to the name very well;
Caracal, a druid with a penchant for felines
Cormorant, a skymage
In my experience, anybody who doesn't have a name and joins an adventuring party will soon get one, and rarely is it exotic or cool. Usually, it's something mudane, like "Bob".
In fact, "Bob" was our DMs default for when we had taken too much interest in a background NPC: the character isn't fleshed out, and never got a name, so when someone asks his name he says, "Bob". Subtle clue to move along.
Which explains (the now epicly famous) "Bob the Elf".
Mike would also be a good name for a Warforged.
What about Xael? I had thought about that name for a warforged.
Have you been spying on my games? That's the name of one of my friend's Aereni Priests of the Deathguard in the AoW game I DM!
You guys are spying on me. First Clarion, now this? :P
Lupin (custom plating that's dog like)
Lupins titles,
The Prodigy, of the last war.
The Seeker, of destiny
The Anvil, apon which life and death a forged
Tank
Damascus (had Ironwood plating but likied the name)
Maybe DOS. And his wife, MS DOS.
I've created a Warforged wizard who's name is Friend. His backstory is that after the war he was taken in by a lonely wizard who taught him magic. The wizard always referred to him as Friend, so the warforged adopted that as his name.
- Reverie - A CG WF Artificer that dreams of creating a place where WF aren't descriminated against and that wishes to be loved and respected.
- Boom - WF wizard
- Dash - A name I gave to a WF that stole an item from the Lord of Blades and came to Sharn
Since most name are given to them, if an elf name it, it surely be with an elf words. A wizard tend to learn draconic, cleric often learn celestial, if the WF had a patron/friend or he is one of this class, it could easily explain non-Common name.
In my game there is a Warforged Monk who save a dwarf merchant, without name, the dwarf choose to call him Alarn (Forged Fist)...
Here some idea:
Kundarak Bank Guard : Farar (Guard of the Stronghold)
Phiarlan Circus guard : Veron (Peace Keeper)
Cannith wizard's aid: Sjir (Scroll)
It made for great dynamic as the characters grew....but I digress.
For awhile, my Arti just called him Warforged since he didnt have a name, and my gnome didnt think that WF needed/deserved one.
Then the WF saved him from being smushed by a falling stone pillar by rolling a natural 20 to hold it up for a couple rounds until it was safe.
This act earned him the name Brace.
The name suited him too, since he was more or less the backbone of our group, and was selfless and fearless, if simple.
Brace eventually became a paladin of Dol Arrah and reformed my naughty gnome from NE to NG. Go figure...
DocB
:88E: vs :coolcthul Who shall prevail?
I also had one who was named Tracker when he was in the army, for obvious reasons, and when he joined a monestary after the war, he asked to be called Student.
Fire
Ice
Shadow
Spear...ect.
So they could be named for just about anything I guess.
Wolf
Spoon?
Peace.
It's cool all by itself, and if you've seen Wizards, it's cooler.
So they could be named for just about anything I guess.
Heh, how to name a Warforged:
1. Close Eyes.
2. Open Dictionary
3. Turn to random page
4. Point at random spot on page.
5. Open Eyes.
6. Look where you pointed.
7. ???
8. Profit!!!
- Rumble
- Blaster
- Trailblazer
- Scavenger
- Bonecrusher
- Scrapper
- Tracks
- Hound
- Frenzy
- Cliffjumper
- Grimlock
- Hightower
- Steel Wind
- Strongarm
- Sledge
- Mirage
- Devastator
- Perceptor
- Blaze
- Brawl
- Defensor
- First Aid
- Inferno
- Hook
Additionally, you can use names that are attack actions such as
- Peirce (from Dreaming Dark series)
- Slash
- Trip
- Bullrush
- Slam
- Bash
- Grapple
Shaft :D
Can you dig it?
Then there's the adamantine warforged who stands for the rights of his brother warforged...
Shaft :D
Can you dig it?
I already made that joke.
Block
Jester
Flash
Spark
Reaper
Knight
Hunch
Blue
Oak
Marked
Chiped
Marble
Bone
Demon
Cyclops
Helmed
Thats just named off body shapes and accent types and such.
I already made that joke.
Apologies. I missed it.
I try so hard to avoid these incidents.For real world/name cross overs (Humour that only the players would get).
Nero - Warforged bard with an affinity for wands of fireball.
Lilengine - Inspirational paladin.
Optimouse Prime - Vermin Lord
A druid named Autumn.
A monk named Scythe (for the way he cut down his enemies like so much wheat).
A pirate named Anchor.
A marshal named Vanguard.
-Frolic (a bard Warforged that dances)
-Handy (a Warforged assistant)
-Angry (a Warforged barbarian)
-Ornery (a Warforged rogue)
Of course if you decide to name a warforged Bill Door, be prepared to be soundly beaten if other players have read Reaper Man.
Of course if you decide to name a warforged Bill Door, be prepared to be soundly beaten if other players have read Reaper Man.
SQUEEK?
I've had a ranger who's name was Recon
and one of my players in the past had a max height fighter who used a spiked shield, his name was Warshield and he owned ;)
and I once made a cleric who's name was Archon
Sign - a warforged wizard
Cross-warforged paladin
&
Binder-warforged binder
Unit 25 (Fighter)
Tick-Tock (Artificer)
Kamahl Pit Fighter (He he, Fighter)
And if you really need inspirations for names, You can try to use names from legendary creatures in magic the gathering,
Brother (paladin) [As in a monk]
Tower (Juggernaut)[fought with a tower shield]
Bykov.
Scruffy
Squibbles
Tin Man
Steele
Razor
Bamof (Stands for Big Arcane Mark on Forehead)
Pillow
Fleshy
Blusher
Happy
Tindertwig
Prime of course works for a Warforged, I also like Silverbolt.
One I've created and trying to eventually play is a Warforged fighter, take the first two levels of the fighter substitution
Feats
first level Adamantine Body
second level The Biting Jaws feat
third level Guerilla Scout
4th level EWP Jovar.
Warforged with a dog like head. Named Sentinel.
He was one of my first Eberron characters - a WF monk follower of the Silver Flame who was also a pacifist. Resentful of being created as a weapon, he refused to deal lethal damage and always attempted to subdue. He got his mithril plated butt kicked. A lot.
Quite independently my DM came up with Father who was an early model Warforged and a bit slow. When we came upon a door that had been magically sealed behind us Father spouted one of the best D&D lines I've ever heard, "But why will the door not open? That is it's function." Right up there with "Whoa, monkey! Thank you, monkey!" but I digress.
Other fun Warforged names I have encountered/included in my campaign.
-Ballast and Filch - a pair of WF rogues
-Warden - a WF bodyguard
-Gladius - WF urban ranger specializing in two weapon fighting with a pair of short swords
-Fetch - a warforged employed as a butler in Sharn
Foresight, aka Number 53 (Lots of vision-based abilities)
Link, aka Number 65 (Dual-wields kusari gamas)
Kabuto - warforged samurai with dark blue enamel on his plating and a big crested helmet attached to his head
Blitz - warforged warlock (infused with eldritch power, rather than in his bloodline or whatever). He has a cannon on his arm. Like Mega Man. Yeah. I should add levels of Spellthief, so he can take his enemy's powers.
Mother (female personality (!) adamantine body WF healer)
Teth
Bracket
Hilt
Hook
Themas
Anchor
Glean
Dremmel
Arthendarp (This was taken from a street name the forged was once a worker at prior to adventuring)
Loq
Fortress
Aqueous
Bevel
Hammer
Brass
Shield
Bastian
Mace
Whistle
Caltrop (this forged is small)
Latch
Hold
Brace
Slocket
Gauntlet
Edge (for my upcoming semi-psychotic WF barbarian)
Bastion (for an old Adamantine plate and tower shield WF fighter, who if I remember correctly had AC 20 at lvl 1 :D )
The Dreamer.
But The Dreamer or Dreamer would work best only for a warforged who's actually dreamt something. Thus, such a warforged will have to meet Shira from Secrets of Xen'drik.
Then, whatever his name was before, he may eventually become known throughout Khorvaire as The Dreamer.
For some reason it's really appealing to me.
Prime of course works for a Warforged, I also like Silverbolt.
I use warforged in a non-Eberron campiagn. We had five warforged.
Prime, the Warforged Paladin
Onyx, the Warforged Paladin of Freedom
Adon, the Warforged Totemist
Halcion, the Warforged Soulknife
Silversheen, the Warforged Artificer
Silversheen and Prime eventually became deities. Not the players, but the characters I used to fill out a pantheon.
If you are a drow themed warforged, Blackarachnia or Tarantulus.
Or maybe Unicron if you're a big warforged.
If you remember Smurfs, then I will not rip open that wound and add the list of possible names.
If you don't remember Smurfs, consider yourself blessed.
So, yeah. Story short, Wake. Cool name, none better.
Bastion (for an old Adamantine plate and tower shield WF fighter, who if I remember correctly had AC 20 at lvl 1 :D )
+8 adamantine body, +4 tower shield, that there = 22
wow he must have had horrible dexterity
Five, a Fighter(short for 5486134)
Salamangkero, an Artificer (He tried to come up with a normal human name for his ID papers, but really screwed up at it)
Boneblade, a Paladin(He has quite a lot of bone parts used in him that makes him look quite disturbing but ironically became a Paladin)
Some names I want to use for warforged some day:
Lost (for one with Tracking feats)
Compass (for one that get's lost all the time)
Windows(for one who is open to anything and willing to change)
Linux (for one who doesnt listen to anyone and just wants to make a lot of money)
Oracle (for one of the most short sighted, live in the moment, type of character you'd ever meet)
and so on..
As you can notice, I like actually taking names for warforged that are the opposite to their personality.
Lost (for one with Tracking feats)
Compass (for one that get's lost all the time)
I like those!
*yoink*
Linux (for one who doesnt listen to anyone and just wants to make a lot of money)
Oracle (for one of the most short sighted, live in the moment, type of character you'd ever meet)
and so on..
That's funny. A friend of mine wants to name his WF wizard, Apple
Cirrus - Male Personality Warforged Wizard / Sharn Skymage NPC I created. Has an air elemental bound to his composite plating that gives him the Whirlwind property.
He is my Eberron Elminster (iconic mage). I figured that a Warforged would be a good a candidate as any & I had fun tinkering with him.
Cirrus is facinated by wind and lightning magic to the point of eccentricity.
He often has "conversations" with his docent and the air elemental bound to his plating & his most prized possession is his soarsled, although he prefers to fly under his own power by either spell or the Whirwind property of his plating.
Cirrus is a member in good standing of The Blackened Book (see SCoT for details).
Grail - Male Personality Warforged Paladin (Silver Fire) from a previous campaign I DMed.
Chalice - Female Personality Warforged Artificer created by the wife of a friend of mine.
Scalpel - The name I gave to the unnamed WF Rogue in the ECS module, The Forgotten Forge.
Cognizant - Female Personality Psi-forged Telepath. Recurring Villain / Anti-Hero I made for a friend's campaign.
One Hundred Fists - Male Personality WF Monk I created for a campaign but never used.
Sunder - Male Personality WF Fighter / Juggernaut NPC I created to be Merrix d'Cannith's bodyguard & alleged agent of the LoB.
Wrath - Female Personality WF Barbarian NPC I never used. Currently used as a PC in another friend's campaign.
Scirocco - Male Personality WF Swordsage (Book of Nine Swords) that (naturally) focused on the Desert Wind disciplines. I built Scirocco more as an exercise to see if I had a grasp on Bo9S rules. I never intended to use him for anything.
Halo - Female Personality WF Cleric (Sovereign Host) created for the same campaign that Grail (see above) is in. Grail and Halo constantly argue about religion, which shouldn't be surprising.
Ironfang - My "lets see if Jaws of Death is worth the slot" Male Personality WF Barbarian. Built to playtest the JoD feat.
Steelrender - Another Male Personality WF Fighter / Juggernaut NPC I assigned to bodyguard Merrix d'Cannith.
Golden Arms - Male Personality WF Monk / Artificer who's name I shamlessly stole from the Chang Cheh / Shaw Brothers old school kung fu movie, Kid With The Golden Arm, which is one of my favorite films.
EDIT:
I forgot the WF in the game I'm currently DMing in Michigan:
Fulcrum - loveable but eccentric Male Personality WF Artificer & a bit too curious for his own good. Constant victim of the "I wonder what this button does?" line of logic.
The friend who created Fulcrum really likes my NPC, Cirrus, so part of his storyline is that Fulcrum & Cirrus were made at the same creation forge, which makes them "related."
I also considered calling him Shaft. Can you dig it?
DM
I've got two WF NPCs for use in my current campaign, as well. One is a Cleric of the Sovereign Host named Preacher, and the other is a WF Fighter/Monk of the Silver Flame named Pure.
I don't remember all the details, but I once created a WF NPC (actually a series of them) for an Epic-level campaign named "Flyboy", which were Artificer/Rogues with magical flight capabilities and Dual Wand feats, carrying - IIRC - wands of maximized acid orb and maximized sonic orb. That was fun!
I've also encountered a WF PC named Trull, derived from his Last War-era military designation, TR-11.
Other suggestions:
Demon (optimized combat monkey)
Imp (Demon's WF Scout buddy)
Thick (hard to break, or a dullard, your choice)
Steady
Porter (carries things)
Carver (woodcarving skills, or how it makes swathes in enemy lines)
Spring (Spring Attack, or maybe ranks in Tumble?)
Lump
Scrap
Slag (I like these last few names for a Warforged who feels like he has no place in society.)
Book - Warforged Wizard I was thinking about making
Here are some other names I've thought of:
Seer - self-expanatory
oracle - (seer)
Trailblazer
Pathfinder
Nomad - rangers or scouts
Shepherd
Messiah - Warforged Cleric or Favored Soul
Mountebank - Rogue
How about Nails, as in 'Hard as' good for an adamantine body or someone a shade thuggish.
I like that a lot. "And if you don't have our money by then...well, Nails here is gonna have to have a little...discussion...with you."
I also like Flotsam and Jetsam. They are close enough to the common names, weapons or what have you, but also show a bit of the warforged's trouble with society. Being a castoff, left alone, not accepted. You get the drift.
Incidentally, there is a warforged character in the novel Thieves of Blood named Flotsam; he spends a good deal of time underwater.
And Flotstam is also the name of the cat from Ed Bolme's Orb of Xoriat.
Additional non-adjective names include my warforged Truenamer Verbatim and a friend's hunk-of-junk brawler with a bad attitude, Scrap. (The latter was intended not in the same sense as "junk" or "scrap metal," but in relation to the term meaning "to fight.")
While DMing, I had a minor villain, a Warforged Scout follower of the LoB called Garrotte, along with a female-personalithy Warmage called Pitch.
And in my current campaign, there's an NPC 'forged who joined a family of Cyran homestead farmers, and renamed himself Plow.
Just thought I'd throw those out there.
Ace
Snowflake
Conqueror (as in the game)
Quill
Luni
Tuni
Dime
Nikle
Peni
Frosti
Blizzard
Forgive me if any of these have already been posted
The last time I played a Warforged was an adamantine-skinned, bastard sword and tower shield wielder, heedlessly plowing into the enemy. His name? Tank.
Now, for a couple others...
For a Paladin, Knight, or Crusader, 'Guardian'.
For an artificer/'warforged medic', 'Rivet'.
For a Wizard, Warlock, or perhaps other arcanist, 'Grimoire'.
Let us not forget about a skinny, sociopathic, rust-hued fighter/rogue/assassin (perhaps employed by the Lord of Blades to venture into distant places and remove a troublesome meatbag or two)... simply known as 'Four-Seven'. :D
Had a WF Fighter with AD Body feat that used a Greatspear from CW called "Point"
Which works great because it has a double meaning - "Take point" is, IIRC, a command for "Attack". I think this is from the WF section of RoE, under Warforged Speech.
I also had an idea for a warforged based on Clint Eastwood's character in "Unforgiven". All the other soldiers went back home to be farmers, so he gave it a go too. It has not gone according to plan.
Heh, I want to make a WF Artificer that creates a bunch of unslotted wand sheaths for himself, and takes a feat or something to be able to activate them all at the same time.
Just imagine a WF that has little panels pop open all over his body as he yells and each slot fires out five magic missles.
His name? Well duh, it would have to be Macross!
Call the feat:
Macross' Magic Missle Massacre
OR
The 4M
FartKnocker
currently im considering naming my epic characters bodygaurd this.
A Name i picked up from the boards here, Carrion, after that piece of artwork. maybe i'll one day make a 'Forged dread necromancer called such...
Here's a few other names i've thought up:
Hurricane ( Air specialist)
Whirl Pool ( Water specailist)
Mountain ( fitting for an earth specalist or a really big immovable one)
Pyro ( Pyromanic fire specalist)
Cryo
Goblet
Drake (Dragon shaman)
Ashes
Thunder
Lightning
Harbringer
Gatherer
Mortis
Contagion
Pestilence
Had two warforged in my last game. The players had decieded to name them Bob and Steve.
Were these players fans of Stargate: Atlantis?
Lots of fun until that darned stone giant splatted him.
note: this board needs a pirate smilie! yaargh!
I once had a WF pirate (barbarian/rogue/swashbuckler) named Bulkhead who wore two battlefists with huge anchors carved into the forearms.
note: this board needs a pirate smilie! yaargh!
While talking about a pirate-type game in my group, in addition to the common Anchor, I came up with Barnacle, who would look a lot like Bootstrap Bill from PotC2.
Joins the crew when the ship gets beached and they notice him attached to the side.
must I say that I am the DM and they are from 9 to 12 players...
their names were
Forge: He who rule them all (died as a Artificer 12)
Keys: he who steal them all (rouge 7/scout 4)
Hide: He who guide them all (Ranger 10/figther 1)
Barb: He who kill them all (Barbarian 3/figther 5/Ranger 4 he has spiked adamntine body)
Silverspell: He who save them all (favored soul 12 (silverflame))
Blackhand: he who blast them all (Warlock 13)
Sudden: He who surprise them all (Ninja 6/rougue 5)
Relic: He who heal them all (Cleric 11)
Scroll: he who cast it all (Sorcerer 10)
Case: he who cast better than Scroll (Wizard 11)
Katana: He Who protects the honor (Samurai 10)
Strings: He who learn from them all (Artificer 1/Rouge1/ranger 1/barbarian 1/bard 5/warlock 1/sorcerer 1/ninja 1)
it was a funny campaign... until they all died in the hands of the lord of blades A.k.a He who killed them all
He escaped his initial battlefield assignment, and became a underworld thug in Sharn. There, he was tricked by a old human swordsage into chasing said old man clear across Sharn to the House Deneith wardhouse (whereupon he was quickly incarcerated). He was 'rescued' by the old sage a month later, in exchange for becoming the old man's apprentice in the Sublime Paths.
As the training to change from being a 'might makes right' brute force bruiser, into a thoughful, but deadly martial artist (perhaps the first Warforged follower of the Sublime Paths) was so difficult, he chose the name
Harsh Path.
Glimmer: Incarnate, named for the blue sparkles of essentia around his eyes.
Stalwart: great name for a 'Forged bodyguard.
Chime: Generic 'Forged that sounds a lot like a Vorlon when he speaks.
I also like Mineral or Gem names like Obsidian, Emerald, or Jade.
Some names i've used
Ironfoot (fighter)
Steelwill (cleric/monk yay multiclass!)
Fastfingers (artificer)
Handbow (ranger, named after his signature weapon, which, obviously, is the handbow. hooray free bolts!)
I've been suffering from a lack of creativity with warforged names. Of course, there are the over used weapon names (Cutlass, Scimitar, Morningstar, etc...) but I would love to hear your ideas (funny or serious) for different names of warforged. I've seen some in various threads, but I'd like to consolidate a list.
The Warforged NPC in my campaign in known on the streets of Sharn as Brother Forge. He's a self-determined cleric (Fighter 1/Cleric 2) who heals for free and does what he can to help. I named him Brother Forge simply because I liked the sound of it, the way it rolls; that the word Forge goes well with Brother.
I have another NPC named Origin, also called Master Origin by many folks in Sharn, who's a 6th-lvl Artificer. He recently created a new mechanical/magic right arm for a PC who had his bitten off by an Abyssal Maw. He's not cheap, but he does damn good work
That said, while I think you can name your Warforged anything you wish, I prefer the idea of not naming them after weapons or objects. Break the stereotype, be different. Give them normal names like other characters, such as Merrix or Thora or Cathil or even Fred; whatever works and suits the personality
Although
Titanis
Mechuah
Mastik
Xalt
Crux
Mangle(r)
Charlie
Bob
Flea
MonoGlut
Goliath
Megolon
Optimus (hell any transformer name)
RIP(er)
Fleet
Abner
and of course,
HAL
A campaign I was in a while back I had one name Diehl, he took that name since Die wouldn't go over too well.
And if I need to at some point I have the name Defective for another warforged, for people that don't like the warforged stats as they are now.
Tetsujin could be the name of a band of Warforged, communards, a sect, etc.... It was the name of the robots race in the SNES game Seventh Saga.
Jonkeer for a warforged/psiforged with a certain air of elitism about him?
D'Acier for a good ol' warrior one.
And such.
Insert Arnie accent ....OX...its spelled with a circle and 2 crossed lines. Make sure the circle comes first.
Scabbard - Warforged charger who had a bag of holding-type compartment in his chest.
The Daggers - Four warforged scouts who popped out of Scabbard's chest. Surprised the hell out of the PCs.
Dolemite - Spiked chain fighter PC. Named as a blatant Futurama reference. "I don't give out when there's heat all about!"
'Leum - Short for "Mausoleum". Another PC who was left inert in Cyre during the Mourning and was awakened by a chance breaking of a repair light damage oil.
Seven Ironsoul - Formerly "7 of 10". My fiance's reforged cleric.
Fort - Formerly "4 of 10". Town tinker and plot hook.
Butcher - Formerly "10 of 10". Bad seed of the bunch and BBEG.
Coldforge - Half-far spawn fighter warlock and spawn of the Mournland.
Xaern - NPC Wizard
Cobalt - NPC Expert/Artificer
Sapphire - Female personality NPC reforged artificer
Zhang - NPC Fighter/Reaping Mauler. Based of Zangief.
Squalor - NPC Barbarian
Hook - NPC whip-dagger fighter
Furnace - NPC Warmage
and
HK-88427 - PC non-Eberron setting warforged Fighter/Disciple of Dispater. He was created by rogue githyanki and had his compostie plating enchanted into demon armor. Not a nice guy, but we had fun running him.
The name of the Warforged Barbarian (level 9 now) in our group is Battlecrank. Whenever he goes into his rage, a wire starts to sputter sparks in his neck =)
I've had:
Soldier 42 ("Soldier" or "42") - PC Mithral-body Warforged Ranger/Barbarian/Fighter. We both figured that towards the end of the war, the Cannith didn't bother as much with names for the rank-and-file.
Soldier 57 (42's "brother" and squadmate), now rechristened "Saber" after joining the army of the LoB after being abandoned during a retreat during the War. We had an angsty reunion of the two atop a speeding Lightning Rail...
"Monocle" - former military intelligence WF who's since gone on to a postwar life with the Sharn police. He fancies himself a bit of a detective (though it's not technically his day job). He reads a lot of the Khorvaire-equivalent of Sherlock Holmes novels. He chose his name after he decided what to do with his life after mustering out...
"Hammer" and "Anvil" - pair of gold-filigreed Adamantine WF used as personal bodyguards by a wealthy and influential information broker residing in Sharn. The employer picked the names, they're happy to keep them. They don't talk much... Also referred two as "The Two Mountains." Big, burly bodyguard types, present for intimidation value as much as actual protection duties. I hadn't decided if the employer commissioned them from Cannith or not...
I've reserved the weapon names to be primarily for those WF associated with the Lord of Blades. Most importantly, they're given to a relatively select chosen within his ranks. The sort of concept is that when the LoB rechristens them, he's "re-forging" them into the weapons which he'll use to fight his war.
Cool names could be:
Lore-Another PC, Wizard 'forged
Thorp
Godsmack the Cleric ;)
Sul or any other day of the week
Zarantyr or any other month
Aasterinian or any other constellation
Magewright
C++, BASIC, COBOL, or Java could be good for laughs
Kicks, and Giggles. Two 'forged jester/muggers.
Triage: A cleric of the Sovereign Host - War & Healing domains
Leaf: A monk. Found at the side of the road awaiting orders, a monk passed by and said, "You are but a leaf blown in the wind. Come with me." :D
I'm also fond of using any old noun as the 'forged's name.
When one of my players was pondering what name to give him, he figured that the serial number should have some meaning, too, rather than being just a random string of digits.
So, we came up with a rough structure for a warforged serial number/designation. Here's the formula:
- Prime number: This represents the 'forgeds place in the batch and is usually not higher than 100.
- Special designation (optional): If the warforged has any special qualities that set him apart from the standard version, a letter is added after his batch number. M for Mithral Body, A for Adamantine Body, and so on.
- FoO, or Forge of origin: A country code (e.g. CY for Cyre) and number which point to the Cannith Creation Forge that the construct was created in. This helps sort the constructs during transport and processing by Cannith and is almost never used after they are delivered to their buyers.
- BN, or Batch number: This comes in YY-MM-DD format and identifies date of the creation run during which the warfoged was assembled. Similarly to FoO, this is primarily used during early training in House Cannith facilities and is replaced by a military designation once the construct begins regular military service.
- Military designation: A string of numbers and/or letters precisely defining the bearers place in military structures. The exact naming scheme may vary from country to country, but a basic model is: Regiment-Battalion-Company-Platoon.
Example: A warforged named 23A CY1 92-01-20 was produced to serve in the Aundarian army. Upon finishing training he was delivered to his unit and renamed 23A 4-1-C-2.
What this means is:
- It was the 23rd 'forged to emerge from the Creation Forge at House Cannith's headquarters in Cyre on Zarantyr 20, 992.
- It was fitted with adamantine body plating.
- It currently serves in the 4th Regiment, 1st Battalion, Company C, 2nd Platoon of the Aundarian Army.
This attaches the warforged PC to his brothers and sisters (created in the same run, in the same forge - they bear the same FoO and BN) as well as to his army comrades (same military designation).
Hope you find this useful.
How about Candlejack, it's a good na
Candlejack is a stupid name for a warf
Warforged Rogue that would need a candle to see in a house at night, then just take the candle with him after he's cleaned out the place.
Eh I dunno, Candlejack could work...
Warforged Rogue that would need a candle to see in a house at night, then just take the candle with him after he's cleaned out the place.
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Candlejack
My only warforged character was a defective 'forged with strength 9, who spent most of the war following around a forgemaster recording everything he wanted, until he learned to memorise everything. he was called "Stylus", and was great fun as a bard
Need I say more?
Warforged druid [using the shapeshifting variant from PHB2
K-9
Warforged artificer who focuses on destroying other constructs: Rusty
Amoral, yet charismatic Warforged bard who is constantly trying to "mimic" human life with out going reforged:
Lore [cookie to the first to get this reference]
KAMIKAZE!
out.Amoral, yet charismatic Warforged bard who is constantly trying to "mimic" human life with out going reforged:
Lore [cookie to the first to get this reference]
Lore is the twin brother of Data. Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Some random suggestions;
Clock
Line
Lantern
Smith
What about a Warforged artificer named Mechanic though?
Mr Goodwrench?
Then I read the Eberron novels(all of them, jesus theyre addictive) and Pierce came up again and again. Specifically, i thought his name fit for several reasons:
-he uses primarially a bow and flail. piercing damage
-he is a stealthy tracker, piercing shadows, seeking information
-his personality has him asking direct simple questions without regard for anything like decorum, yet he doesnt seem crass, he seems only direct.
so really, when you name your warforged, the name will eventually change who youre playing as well. If you play a character named brick, hes probably going to be be a bit stubborn, as well as having a great Ac;)
Andros means "human" in Greek (approximately), and Renatus means "reborn" in Latin (approximately). Seemed to fit with the character.
By the way, my favorite place for finding names is Behind the Name. Just assign certain languages to game languages (Gaelic = Elven, for example) and you have a treasure trove of names. For the warforged you might just take a name you like and use the meaning instead of the name itself.
SK
Small guy attacking with what a medium sized warrior would think of as needles,....plus he's gonna have a rotten attitude. :D
Axe - Male Personality Fighter 2/Bard 1 - A frontline fighter in the last war, Axe found a new calling one night in a tavern. Obviously he plays the guitar.
6 - 6 is a cleric of the Becoming God. He awoke in the Mournlands, his memory blank except for his name, a few fleeting memories of the last war, and the knowledge of healing magic. An Architecht named Cornerstone found him and instructed him in the ways of the Godforged. While leading a party in search of the First Forge, 6 was ambushed by followers of the Lord of Blades and eventually wandered out of the mournlands. (Where he meets some members of his current party)
6 is the 6th in a line of Warforged created near the end of the Last war. He's part of an experiment to see how the introduction of religion affects the Warforged mind. So far he's only encountered 2 of his siblings; 4, a cleric of the Dark 6 and 7 a Gatekeeper Druid.
Dent. (fighter/juggernaut)
Etch. (binder)
Cutlass. (soulknife)
Tin. (barbarian)
Friend. (warblade//warmage and a creation of a lonely gnome woman)
he also has nipples on his Adamantine armor (because he could)
Tend - lovable warforged scout who is a cleric. He lost his jaw but that wont stop him from helping his friends.
13 - player character, named after the rune on his head which is the number 13 in dwarven, not much is known yet about his origins, though the players are finding out that the reason he has no memories is because he hasnt made any yet. Since the day he was created his body was controlled by another mind. Now that mind has been removed and 13 is getting the chance to thrive on his own.
a few are coming up like
Smite, a warforged paladin, basic stuff really
Trinket, warforged artificer
Zoe Alaxis, ancient warforged, she was left deactivated in a Xen'drik ruin for around tenthousand years.
Hope it helps with generating new ideas
Who says warforged have to have names in Common?
Cheers!
Hel Kaakhaar
Who says warforged have to have names in Common?
Cheers!
Lol that name means
hell chinhair in dutch
so its a fiendish hairy warforged?
I once had a WF pirate (barbarian/rogue/swashbuckler) named Bulkhead who wore two battlefists with huge anchors carved into the forearms.
note: this board needs a pirate smilie! yaargh!
What, naming him "Pops" would have been too much of a giveaway?
Barbarian named Brute, or Blunt.
Rogue named Pin.
Fighter in the employ of dwarves: Klahak (meaning Strength)
other names, how about parts from a gun?
pit
chamber
casing
hammer
spring
pin
safety
rib
forestock
barrel
muzzle
Hey, someone bumped this old thing. :D I have a few...
Barbarian named Brute, or Blunt.
Rogue named Pin.
Fighter in the employ of dwarves: Klahak (meaning Strength)
I once had a rogue warforged scout named Pin as a NPCin my long runnung campaign, he was one of my players favorite character to deal with. just thought it was funny
TEMPER!
Cuprum (Copper)
Mercurius (Mercury)
Ferrum (Iron)
Stannum (Tin)
Aes (Bronze)
Argentum (Silver)
Cobalus (Cobalt)
I played a (simultaneous) trio that had worked together in the Last War. They were the last survivors of Echo Platoon. So... named EP2, EP8 and EP12. EP2 was a paladin, EP8 an artificer and EP12 was a warforged scout scout. (As in the MM3 race, and the CAdv class.)
I also had a warforged psion named Loquent. He was eloquent.
Keith's idea regarding warforged naming was brilliant. It's a lot more fun than just coming up with some swishy name that "sounds elven". Or a dwarven name like Manhammer Smashsmashbreak.
My current Warforged fighter in DDO is named Gallows.
In my campaign I have a pair of comically inept Lord of Blades agents named Hilt and Pommel.
I think those would be great 'forged names too, but aren't those the names of the Lord of Blades' hommunuclus??
He was in the war and was coated with blood so his seregent named him that.
Recently in a campaign another player was playing a warforged that had no name.
They also stated they had no gender identity so I've been calling "it" Sam or Sammy.
"Hello, my name is Translator, human-construct relations"
One idea I have for a Warforged for a future game, and the way he'd introduce himself:
"Hello, my name is Translator, human-construct relations"
and well versed in billions of languages including boche and moisture evaporators? hmmmm?
His main trick is to ready psychic strike and gain focus, then next round fire a giant mind arrow.
He charges up, see.
I'm looking into getting him a dog to assist his Jump checks.
Shiny Lantern (warforged scout that thinks its a kender)
I personally like to give them kind of oldish human names.
Bertram, Percival, Brodrick, Etc.
Sanction - Warforged Cleric. Originally was to be Sanctuary, but that did not sound right.
Weather - Warforged Fighter / Wizard with a love of weather like spells.
Tempest - Warforged Rogue / Sorcerer with a love of storm like spells.
Glitterdust - Warforged Rogue who always blinded his targets
Tranqulity - Warforged Monk
Silver - Warforged Paladin of the Silver Flame
Oak - Warforged Ranger
Khyber - Warforged Cleric dedicated to the Lord of Blades, but not named after a weapon.
Whistle - Warforged Bard
Zinc - Warforged Bard
Sonar - Warforged Scout
Blink - Warforged Wizard
I love the warforged and use them a bit to much in my Eberron games, so I have a ton more names of NPC's and PC's that have graced the lands but don't want to clog the thread.
The first is a Ftr/artificer named 19 of 27, or "19". NPCs IMC started calling him Big Prime instead, since I feel people would be unsettled by a number.
The second is a straight fighter who is going to multiclass into Warforged Juggernaut. His name is something rediculous like 1723-Q. People call him Q for now.
Smite.
So I end up having:
Shield of the silver flame
Blade of breland
Revenge for Cyre
Glory for the Eldeen Reaches
Death to the humans
another idea is to rip off names of specific magic items :P
Also a player of mine likes to use names with codes in them to represent he was part of a batch that was sold to X country.
Such as SP-00 "Yojimbo"
SP-00 being his given name and "Yojimbo" the name he took for himself. Ala robocup.
At first, in his squad, he was called Gear. it was his task to tend for the various tools his team had to use. He was quite fascinated by metallic items, so the name stuck.
Then, after the war, he saw how mankind frowned upon free warforged. Gear wanted to be accepted, to be given orders. He wanted to interact with humans, even if it would be through spiteful insults. They looked down on those who were nameless slaves before, and he thought having a name related to an object only emphasised his own ''inhumanity''. So, he changed the grammar behind it, becoming ''Guyr'' to the official papers, without throwing away his past.
After, he traveled the world, driven by curiosity, and fell in ancient woods, older than civilisation itself. He fought beasts and men alike, both mad against his kind, but managed find more accepting being in these savage lands. Ironically, those were blessed by the moons, like the much feared were-creatures, and had just as poor reputations. These outcasts were scarred just like the warforged. Their past was bathed in blood, and were looked down by the more ''noble'' mens. Despite this, the shifters were proud of it, and made Guyr realise one thing. Humans hated him, because he lacked blood, because they built him. He wanted them to see him as a human, but he wasn't. He was forged for for war. Guyr realised that having a name made him a man, but he lacked what linked him to his brothers, a family name. So he chose Adamantine, as it was the ''blood'' that bound him to his teammates.
Guyr no longer seeks himself, but adventure to carve his name in the world, so that his first quest had a purpose.
Isn't that awesome?
Cheers, LT.
story behind the look (and name) is that the creator of Valk once saw a Vaklyrie descend onto a battlefield and was so awestruck by her beauty, he wanted to make a construct to honor her, and in the process ended up making a WF in the image of the Valkyrie (minus the wings of course)
My next WF will either be a fighter named Torque or an infernal warlock named Brimstone.
Brimstone promised his soul for infernal power and thinks he cheated the devil because warforged have no soul. At least, that is what he believes.
Comrades called him Scorp or Claw.
This works beautifully with the brawler fighter and even has the perfect mini to represent it (Warforged Barbarian).
His companions called him "Gabe".
3rd Edition:
Query: Artificer, first warforged I ever played. He was so named because he was so curious. He woke up in the Mournland with no memory (I see a few others in this thread with a similar origin) and wondered who he was; his quest eventually led him to discover that he was Bulwark, King Boranel's personal warforged, and he had lost his memory in a duel with The Nameless One who eventually became the Lord of Blades. Query wasn't just curious about his past, he was curious about a lot of things, especially religion and philosophy. He wondered why people still called him a WARforged when the war was over. I even played him as gender confused for a while (male personality but he wore dresses) but eventually dropped it.
Effigy: Psion (Shaper) who made lots of astral constructs. Only played him for one session as a guest in another game.
Free: Chaotic good Crusader of Kord. Non-Eberron game. Free was built as a normal golem that somehow gained his own will. Fled from his creator and made it his life's goal to free other constructs from slavery and tyranny, not realizing that they didn't have the same free will as he did.
4th Edition:
Bishop: NPC in non-Eberron game. Bishop was leader of a group of warforged living in the wasteland. His followers had names like Rust, Void, Ratchet, and Clank. Stole the name from the synthetic in Aliens; I even quoted the line "I prefer the term 'artificial person,' myself," when referring to warforged.
Vigil: Another NPC in the same game. Before the Nerath Empire fell, Vigil was assigned to guard a certain dungeon that held a powerful eldritch machine. When the Empire fell, he kept guarding the place diligently for the next 100 years until the PCs showed up and convinced him he didn't need to keep guarding the place. I stole the name from the Prothean virtual intelligence on Ilos in Mass Effect.
I'm going to be starting a new game soon, and my character is a warforged Battlemind. He's an experiment by House Cannith in creating artificial dragonmarks, and he bears the Mark of Storm. He pretends to be a paladin instead of a battlemind, and he hides the dragonmark behind a holy symbol of the Sovereign Host. Haven't settled on a name yet, but the top three contenders are Tempest, Flux, and Reverb.
I immediately thought that you could have a warforged druid with low Int whose beast form was a dinosaur:
"ME GRIMLOCK KING!"
Which reminds me, the name generator tool by Wizards does include Ironhide as a Warforged name.
But it's pronounced 'Arn-hahhhd'.
13 of 20, Warforged Two-Handed weapon fighter. Also known as "BOB", or Big 'Ol Basher.
IPOD, or 1 of 10, or First Production Oratory Device. Warforged Cunning Bard.
and finally,
Primoris. A Warforged Artificer that believes he was the first Cannith produced Warforged, and who helped build the other two. (Or so he claims).
He is a Brelish recon unit working with a special forces team of knights. He lays traps and during fights he explodes with his rage.
his name is,
IED
Oak, the unusual Warforged Warden, whose wooden compeonents have begun to regrow. A pacifist, Oak's weapon is an imbedded chain (a reflavored whip) which had once been a flail. It broke during the great war, but was never fixed. A vine now grows through the chain.
Rampart, the heavily armored walking ballista (Ranged Warlord). A heavy shield plus a massive Superior Armbow makes him a living seige engine.