Fun character Puns

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#1

GambitSpades

Jul 25, 2014 8:43:08

So i made a new character that goes by the name "Unknown" and im playing a role play campaign. So i came up with many puns one could make with his name. but i was wondering if you have great puns related to Unknown.

#2

pfloyd

Jul 25, 2014 9:03:55

Not sure about that, but I had a player in an online HARP PbP game whose wizard was named Flaude Thierry.

That got a groan out of me, and an extra few points for character creation.

 

#3

SwampDog

Jul 25, 2014 13:42:29

Call me a spoilsport but if your name is a joke, a pun, or a sentence, I don't allow it.   I feel that right off the bat, the whole world and story is treated as something distanced and not to be taken seriously.

Just not the kind of game I'm after.   Humor?  Sure.   Humor that disrespects the game or the story?  Never.

#4

edwin_su

Jul 25, 2014 13:45:00

GambitSpades wrote:
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Orzel

Jul 25, 2014 14:01:41 		The Elemental Mage Guild in my Six Kingdoms setting are lead by Khan Raymond Otter Frost of Koll.
#6

ittyan

Jul 25, 2014 17:23:09

I had a monk named Hans O'Furygh.  See, because his hands were all aflurry...

#7

tehsquirrely

Jul 25, 2014 17:39:55

I had a 4th edition fighter named Marshall T. Powers. He was such a hit with the group it spawned an entire Powers family. Arthur Kane Powers, Daliah Vine Powers, Simon Nicholas Powers, etc etc.

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Jaden.Shadowcraft

SwampDog wrote:
#9

ShadeRaven

Jul 25, 2014 22:49:37

In the spirit of roleplay, I stay away from parody names for any campaign that I want to give it a classic fantasy feel.  So I will nix any attempts to bring them in.

 

That said:

Sir Loin of Steak

 

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Azzy1974

SwampDog wrote:
#11

Zappy

Jul 26, 2014 2:09:30

Azzy1974 wrote:
#12

BoldItalic

Jul 26, 2014 4:44:37

If the character's name is unknown, you can find out what it is by reading the label his mum sewed inside his shirt.

 

Readers of Terry Pratchet will recognise that one.

#13

quindia

Jul 26, 2014 9:30:41

One of my players once ran a monk and hadn't decided on a name before the game. When he met the other PCs and was asked his name, he replied off the cuff, "I have not yet earned my name". 

 

I never take my games too seriously. Characters once fought a green dragon named Wormy with a pair of ogres named Rudy and Otis. There is a tiny island on my map named The Isle of the Smurfs... don't think anyone has ever been there. The town of Wobblerock boasts impressive stone towers and gates on the road and the walls peter out twenty of thirty yards in each direction with signs that read 'under construction'... They've been that way for the entire exsistance of the campaign. Captain Ron (yes THAT Captain Ron) ended up in my world after crusing something called the Bermuda Triangle and sails a ship for hire with a bespectacled gnome known only as Swab.

 

There's a halfling rogue NPC in my campaign named Rick Tripedenfel. Halflings are often the victims of silly names in my games... Marak Hedgecraft, Babbles Turf, and Simon Thimbleful are three others.

 

Other NPCs sure not to stike fear in most players (at least until after they learn more about them)... Beeker da Imp (an actual imp NPC), Book the Barbarian (rhymes with ''Luke'), Pinoch the Leo (a herald of the god of jesters and madness), Melf the Mushroom (myconoid wizard), Addlecroft (mad inventor of a hot air balloon), Mathias Roller (zealot of Law), and Meelfus Zeebilrock (the mysterious wizard of the Tower of Sometimes)... Not puns, but definitely not serious.

#14

seti

Jul 26, 2014 10:04:16

I don't mind sillyness in a game, as long as it doesn't just devolve into everyone doing bad monty python impressions. I have always disliked taking the act of RP and defining it by using 'accents'.

 

But, several good laughs when playing keep it fun, IMO. Especially when you also throw in some fear and tension at times. Like an actual bogey man that abducts and skins infants, or a race war about to break out between warforged slave laborers and a crooked, pirate-funded, human family that pretty much owns everything.

 

I have DMed in a few mildly funny things, however. A 'home base' colonial island town called Morningwood who's sheriff was a dwarf named Boughner Stoneturgid...A scrying mystic/fortuneteller NPC called Madalyne Forthwall...A cat-like assassin NPC named Soon who'd hide in plain sight just staring at his marks for days, or even weeks, before killing them...

 

 

#15

ittyan

Jul 31, 2014 0:02:41

One player had a human barbarian by the name of Hammond the Great.  That is background for the reason for this post: the character's father's name.

 

Hadron the Collider

#16

JC999

Jul 31, 2014 0:06:37

Joke names started to wear on me after a while. I still remember the campaign where my sensibly named cleric Dorian Johns wound up in a party with "Pim Pin", "Steve Lancealot", and "Bolt Vanderhuge"

#17

Joe_the_Rat

Jul 31, 2014 5:12:17

I'm not seeing the dichotomy between story-focus and humor. But that's probably because the current long-run campaign I'm in is a light comedy roleplay. Dwarf-tossing halflings, half-dog halflings, Redneck Dwarves with jacked up wagons, Babs the Song Island Medium, the criminal mastermind known only as "The Codpiece," and the cleric who received spells by getting blind stinking drunk. And that's some of the players. I mean sure, there's this whole Evil Lich In The Swamp Trying To Take Over The World storyline in the background, but when you're dealing with flying pigs, crybaby giants, and Peter Lorre the Creepy Cleric ("Shall I use the lotion?"), saving the world is sort of secondary.  It really depends on the game.

#18

ChrisCarlson

Jul 31, 2014 6:39:52

Joe_the_Rat wrote:
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iserith

Jul 31, 2014 7:28:06

Once or twice I have used names that might in some lesser games be considered silly:

 

Kabuki, tiefling bard

Beakbeard the Pirate, kenku with a homonculus named Paulie

Chuck Dagger, human rogue

Boy Tuesday, halfling bard

Streetwise Hercules, goliath fighter

Hex Arcana, tiefling warlock - "Don't Mess With Hexes"

Rock Lobster, thri-kreen fighter net-thrower

Mucho Cerveza, dwarf fighter luchador

Wanda Curelight, human cleric

Driftwood Sally, hamadryad cleric

The Kid, human lazylord|wizard

Hero, a samurai avenger

Professor Delve, an archaeologist

Tiny Mankind, stone giant with dwarfism (goliath)

Jab Bollux, human grappler fighter

Friar Griftheart, conman cleric

Crystal Meth, shardmind bard

 

I could go on and on...

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Azzy1974

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#21

Incendavis

Jul 31, 2014 8:13:18

His Identitiy is unknown?

#22

Joe_the_Rat

Jul 31, 2014 8:16:15

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#23

ChrisCarlson

Aug 01, 2014 14:16:22

Lately, this place has inspired me to want to play a troll bard named...

 

Barney Strawman

#24

Orethalion

Aug 01, 2014 16:48:04

GambitSpades wrote: