Here's a place to put the classics.
The Challenge is to list one thousand and one character names, in all their wrongness. For the sake of completeness, try and keep to the numbering, indicate gender, and tell us what game you saw the name in. You needn't be any more specific than that.
Also, let's keep it within the CoC, and stick to individual PC names. If we want to do one for Guild names or what have you, we can start a new Thread in the OTT.
Without further ado, here is a list of my top ten picks, taken from the last few years of gameplay in various places.
1) XQO- According to the Player in question, pronounced "Bob." Dungeons and Dragons Online Unlimited.
2) Franknjoe- Seen running around LotRO. Male character, I assume this was shared.
3) Flatchy- EverQuest. A Male troll of much reported smelliness.
4) Moronca- Dungeons and Dragons Second Edition. This Female Cleric had WIS 18 and INT 6, put forward for a game I ran some years ago. Name rejected, but the character was very amusing up until the rest of the party found her a Tome +5 to raise her flagging INT.
5) Cerise- Dungeons and Dragons First Edition. Male Fighter, named for a shade of Pink. This was my very first D&D Character, and was as gay as they came. Franklin Delano Donut would be proud. My DM at the time wasn't nearly so amused.
6) Dethmunster- Brightshadow. Female something or other. I didn't approach the Player for fear of offending.
7) Narutofan- LotRO. Male character, assumedly a big anime fan.
8) Brainbleach- EverQuest. Male. Guessing he was trying to excise the effects of all the bad names around him.
9) Fluffybunnislayer- Female character, EQ II. No idea where that came from.
10) Nev-R-DIE-1- Paranoia 2nd Edition. Female character. I admit, this one was mine. Funnily enough, the DM found it so entertaining that nothing the other PCs could do would stick.
I'll start digging through my brain for more, although usually I apply 8) above before very long.
So... Let's see some of yours.
-Sarena
12) [Unpronounceable]. Seriously, I think there were ten syllables in it, none of which rolled off the tongue, and I have no idea how to spell it. Sounded vaguely Ancient Egyptian, but the character was from a region that had a language inspired by a bastardization of English and Spanish.
15) Marko, Fist of Perlor - Human Monk/Cleric, latter nicknamed Fisto
Edit: To add, he did a good job of roleplaying the part (a flirtateous scoundrel) without being offensive to even the stalwart feminists in the group. He also kept it in-game.
I fell over laughing at that one. XD
In a superhero RPG I was running, a high school freshman kid wanted to name his character with stretching powers 'Captain Condom'. Since the character was an ex-cop, I managed to talk him into renaming him 'Longarm' (as in, the Long Arm of the Law, very literal in his case).
Longarm was the name of a character on a cartoon series I vaguely remember from milennia ago. Don't recall the name of the top of my head anymore, but I recall it was vaguely police-flavored.
-Sarena
Edit: It was called, funnily enough, C.O.P.S. www.imdb.com/title/tt0163438/
-Sarena
In a superhero RPG I was running, a high school freshman kid wanted to name his character with stretching powers 'Captain Condom'. Since the character was an ex-cop, I managed to talk him into renaming him 'Longarm' (as in, the Long Arm of the Law, very literal in his case).
Longarm was the name of a character on a cartoon series I vaguely remember from milennia ago. Don't recall the name of the top of my head anymore, but I recall it was vaguely police-flavored.
-Sarena
Edit: It was called, funnily enough, C.O.P.S. www.imdb.com/title/tt0163438/
-Sarena
Yeah, that was where I stole it from.
Phyre Trukh
Ahmbuhlance
oh my glory days of WoW...
not that my Diablo2 days were any better with lovely names such as DomDaMule and his strangely appropriate brother DomDaMule2...
18) Braz Scroteum - a ranger played by the same guy.
19) Hugh G. Rection - A d20 Modern character, yet the same guy. Yes this sort of thing was a pattern
20) Joseph Kerr (Joe for short) - My own character in the same game with Hugh.
21.) Damndirty Smartypants, a halfling rogue in the first D&D game I've DMed. I got tired of waiting for the player to come up with a name, so I've written it on his sheet (like that, in English). Unfortunately, he loved it.
23. Sir Mugwumpus Rumpus Xavier Ezekiel McDougal von Daggershank XXVII - Supremely wacky 3.5 gnome bard. He wasn't actually a knight, Scottish, or the twenty-seventh anything. He didn't own a dagger, much less shank people with one. Played the trumpet. Preferred to be addressed by his full name. Liked absinthe. A lot.
25. Lee-arlaghk#8q1!+?g (One of my players has a habit of making his character names completely unspellable. This one sounds vaguely like someone choking to death.)
26. Harrison Richardson (This one was a player on eRepublik. He was the president.)
The only one in my current game circle that springs to mind is 27. Drew Idd, our resident (yeah, you guessed it) Druid.
He splits his time between human form and wingéd bear form. Yes, you pronounce the accent. :D Both player and character are pretty much legends. :D He basically built his character in 20 minutes, rolling dice to select options, so none of us, player included, were expecting too much. He then proceeded to keep a solo boss several levels higher than us flat on its face for an ENTIRE encounter (we delivered the killing blow before it managed to make the required save to be able to stand up), crawling through fire patches. Fully awesome teamwork ensued. Good times.
Of course, I happen to love all my game buddies, so I'm one of those rare but fortunate DM's/players.
20) Joseph Kerr (Joe for short) - My own character in the same game with Hugh.
A Joseph Kuhr is one of the staff writers on Batman: The Brave and The Bold. You know that's gotta make some jokes around the office.
32) Bink the Barbarian, a friend of mines nickname. Decided he wanted a character with his name, don't laugh you probably have done the same.
Donna Thigh-humper
Kirk Stretch-a-doo
Youkai Tailchaser
Liliam Bone Picker
yes, you could buy yourself such a long name with real money.
33? Dude, human fighter, my first character, I couldn't come up with anything so he was just the dude (this was way before the Big Lebowski BTW) he helped save a town from an evil priest and they named it Dudlevania or Dudesville or something.
34. Slayer, an elf (basic D&D) who, um, slayed things and really liked heavy metal.
35. John Doe, a thief. Still one of my favorite characters he's been resurrected about 50 times. Has an intelligent sword named Marvin the Depressed sword (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was like the bible to my clique)
36. Stubbs the Dwarf, nuff said.
As I got older and began playing Advanced D&D I made an effort to make better names and came up with.
37. Femur, a human necromancer.
38. Victor Conquer, the monk
39. Levi, I dont even remember what this guy did, I just remember being made fun of
Now I don't even try anymore, I just pull names from history books but my NPCs typically have dumb names because I usually have to make them up on the fly.
Shump - because i'm playing a magical, sociopathic hobo with a pet monkey and the word just makes me giggle (he's level 18 ATM and still running)
Sentry - he was a warforged warden calling himself "Sentry", since he was found guarding a grove. note he looked like a cartoony anthropomorphic tree with a big hammer and a ghost owl in his mouth.
He once rode up to a Highlander, stood on the back of his pony to look the scotsman right in the belt buckle and said "Ah heard you sheep lovers wore skirts, but I see this time it gotcha kilt!" When the scotsman in question drew his traditional sword to cut the little man down to size, Atilla de Pun said "Ain't that cute! Jest so's ya wouldn't fergit how ta use that Claymore, ya had 'This Side Towards Enemy' engraved on it." (In case you didn't know, claymore mines have that warning molded into it.)
A cousin came up with a D&D elf named "Silicon of the Valley. He's the same guy that created a private detective for a Top Secret campaign named Justin Case.
I created an NPC for Top Secret who bought and sold information named Iscariot (as in Judas Iscariot). None of the players ever caught on to the reference. One player created a thief that worked for an agency known as S.O.B which stood for Stealing's Our Business
47. At a convention I was handed a DM-generated character, a halfling rogue named Durn. I actually think this was a great name. "Durn halfling!"
49. Emuanay Abrams... (M1A Abrams) Yes, he's the party's tank.
The current character of the guy who DM'd the last campiagn I was in - and yes, all of the names he came up with for npcs were like that as well, lol.
50. Ali Al-Rasgul (A little rascal?)
Yes, I really am very proud to claim this guy as my own creation. A recurring merchant npc in some of the games I've run over the years. A bad characature of every stereotypical desert-dwelling greasy sleazy used-camel salesman ever invented. Actually a plane-travelling epic-level being much smarter than he appears.
His tent always just happens to be pitched in whatever city the pc's are visiting, and it's larger on the inside than outside - it's also a nexus containing portals to other planes.
51. Theric Cleif the Cleric-Thief
Because way back in the way-back, cleric-thief was one of the very few multi-class choices a gnome could take. And I happened to roll high for both Wis and Dex. Reputed to have an extremely oversized gnomehood, and quite the ladies' gnome...
Originally statted out as a joke character because the two classes were considered to be almost useless together in 1st/2nd ed., until I started playing him and basically wrote the "combat medic's handbook" over a decade before the concept became widely accepted and much more viable in 3rd ed., lol.
54. Gerardikatropo Namboddigoowabblulbbawoogiddobman. Gnome Psion Shaper I made for a game that only happened twice. His last namd is a palindrome.
Ined Aname - this was my friends default name when he couldn't think of one.
Sir Dorito - 2nd ed Cavalier that didn't have a name, got assigned one by the DM...
The story:
I was making a character for another runthrough of Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer a month or two ago, because I wanted to try it with an evil PC. I ended up making a Tiefling Swashbuckler (eventual Duelist/Weapon Master/Stabber-of-Faces Extraordinaire). I got to the "Name Your Character" screen and couldn't think of anything good, so I started hitting the "Random" button for his first name. I probably clicked about 15-20 times before I discovered an easter egg that stopped me dead in my tracks: lol. All lowercase. I thought the first lowercase L might be an I (Iol? What the hell, Obsidian?), so I typed an uppercase I for comparison. They were slightly different, and thus I knew it to be an L. I decided it was too good to pass up, so I left his first name as "lol" and then moved onto his last name. I clicked the random button once. The VERY FIRST name it gave me was Cox. I was crippled with laughter for about 30 seconds, and then clicked "Start Campaign."
I had a player name his character Luke Warmwater and it took an explanation of why we were laughing.
Hey, wait, he put the space in the wrong place.
- he set the last name for humanoid PC's for years to come.
Recently:
NoLock - a 4e rogue
Ace - a 4e Bow ranger
we were talking about names and we were reminded of "pig-fister"
pig-fister was a monk. no one remembers his real name, just his deed. I happened to be the lucky (?) gm of pig-fister. the group had done a task for the local noble who wanted to reward them, so he had them join him on a hunt for wild boar. they taught the monk the basics on how to steer the horse but he was kind of shaky on it (no ranks). then the boar appeared. the monk, never having ridden a horse rolled a 20 on his ride check, quickly gained a lead. not actually having a weapon, he lept (got a high roll) onto the boar and got a nat 20, confirmed it, and rolled max on his unarmed strike, killing the pig in one blow.
everyone was just... amazed.
then came some banter and the words "pig fisting" came up. the session was broken up with childish glee and laughter at the name and the implied dirty toughts that came with it.
it also seems we have yet to grow up as we recently aquired a 60ft boat after killing a brown dragon (it had a few documents in it's lair, in addition to the boat, a small land plot & a treasure map). we then skinned the brown dragon & outfitted our boat with it's hide, allowing it to sail on water & sand.
then came all the various dirty jokes based on sand, the color brown and various acts and ajectives that arranged improperly could be outright lewed or implying of a lewd act. "Sandmaw" was the least suggestive that we could agree on at the end of the night.
who started that discussion?
none other then "pig-fister" 's PC, of course.
67. Dagger - I named my first character after my starting weapon. He didn't get a last name. He eventually ended up living up to the name, carrying an extradimensional robefull of knives of all shapes and sizes, magical and nonmagical, for any job.
Well, that isn't so bad---except that he's also named after the princess in Final Fantasy IX...
My current character name isn't bad in itself (Well, I hope not), but the story of where it came from is kind of funny. I read the bit in the PHB about how tieflings like to adopt a keyword for a name,
and thought about how that might actually be a useful creative-writing technique to help flesh out character concepts. However, when I got to the point of "how to complete the sentence 'I want to be____'" what naturally happened was that the Sex Pistols popped into my head and got stuck. Enter Anarchy, the mohawk-wearing rogue.
69. Meh dikk A cleric I used to play lol.
'Thok got name when mommy throw baby-Thok down stairs. Thok head go thok, thok, thok. You meet Thok little brother Thwap.'
His full orc mother, Elizabeth (Elsi for short) was not the most loving of parents.
73. In college, my roommate and I rolled up a 2E character for solo campaign. Got a CN halfling fighter/thief. Everything about this guy was completely random, except the name. I chose "Eric Jen-Rathar" by reversing parts of the phrase "Rather Generic". Then, the first time he had to introduce himself to an NPC, he used a pseudonym. The real name of the character was never used in game.
74. In another attempt at the random solo campaign, we came up with a human cleric whose only weapon was an empty bottle. Realizing that if he hit someone with the bottle and it broke, he'd no longer be able to use it as a weapon- 2e kept clerics from using edged/piercing weapons- this ill advised and quickly discarded character is still referred to as "Cleric With a Bottle"
75. My first Guild Wars PC was meant to just get a feel for the game, then get deleted. He was Newbus Maximus.
76. First ever character was a 1E dwarf fighter who had the minimum random height and maximum random weight. I called him Lardy. When he died, I just wrote 'Junior' on the sheet and kept going. Finally got some surivability out of Lardy IV.
77. 3E half-orc barbarian with inadvisably low mental stats. The party asked who he was and he just said "I is me!". They asked him what his parents called him, and he responded with the orcish word for bastard (g'loush, as we determined it). Thus was born Goulash the moron barbarian.
Gou' had an interesting moment. He fastidiously avoided alchohol, and warned other party members that if the drank, 'they could die'.
party wizard: Getting drunk doesn't kill you, Goulash.
Goulash: My dad got drunk and he died
wizard: That doesn't mean he died because he was drunk, just that he was drunk when he died.
Goulash: Nah- I was smaller then. I never could have killed him if he was sober.
Entire gaming group: *blank stare*
Wizard: OOooooh-kaaaay...... moving on.
79. Names that allude to a part of a character's anatomy annoy me, too. Not like you think, perv. I mean, a minotaur whose last name is Wildhoof or an avian character whose clan name is Blacktalon or something like that. I mean, I can see why you'd call it that, but it must sound odd from that character's culture's point of view. How'd you react to someone whose last name was "Wildfoot" or "Blacknail"?
80. Oh, and someone insisted on "Dom Folk" once. Fantastic.
His first wizard was named Immeral, nothing funny there, that was from the random name generator.
After that, he played a cosmic sorcerer named Orion. What's really funny is that he didn't take any cosmic spells, he had all dragon magic! Also, the R and the I in Orion were really close on the character sheet, so it looked almost like it said "Onion," which quickly became his new name. When he died, we drew him a grave that had onions growing out of it.
Then he wanted to play as the invoker from the Dungeon Master Guide 2 event, which I DMed. His name was Glorinus, but we ended up renaming him various things from Glory Hole to Glory Nuts etc. We also made fun of the character portrait, because he looks constipated. And his wizard mini has a staff which had gotten bent in transit, so we call it the +5 staff of wobbling.
I made a summoning wizard next, and played it for one encounter, owned everything, and only took one hit. This was while he was playing Onion. Onion died this encounter, and guess who he blamed? US! So he stole Slayn, my wizard, and proceeded to get Slayn slain when bursting through a wall into a group of nasty devils.
Now he's playing as a war wizard named Ares. Problem with this one is that he's pretty much a clone of Slayn, but with Lightning Bolt instead of whatever his level 4 daily was. We've already prepared Ares a grave. With Kratos standing over it.
Strawberry Shortcake- my giant pink clothes wearing tanker from COH
73. In college, my roommate and I rolled up a 2E character for solo campaign. Got a CN halfling fighter/thief. Everything about this guy was completely random, except the name. I chose "Eric Jen-Rathar" by reversing parts of the phrase "Rather Generic". Then, the first time he had to introduce himself to an NPC, he used a pseudonym. The real name of the character was never used in game.
Reminds me of The Dwarf With No Name... My dwarven fighter had a really cool name (that even I can't recall anymore) and a great background, but just as was introducing myself to the rest of the party, bad guys came crashing into...um...wherever the hell we were, lol, and a huge fight broke out. The rest of the party members kept yelling things like, "go help the dwarf hold the door - don't let them in!", and "The dwarf's got this covered, let's take the guy over there!", and after the fight I kinda just got stuck being called "Dwarf" or "the dwarf" for the next few scenes.
Halfway through the adventure I got tagged with the nickname "The Hammer" for having used my warhammer as a tool almost as often as a weapon (including grabbing a dead guy's helmet and using the spike on the top to bar a door), and he remained "Hammer, the Dwarf", a man with no name and no past, for the rest of the campaign...
He owned a liquor store, as I recall, called ****'s Liquor.
Isn't anything with numbers in it undesirable? I mean really, unless you're running a cyberpunk game or some other crazy futuristic setting, it just sounds like some cornball IM username. Completely out of context.
Isn't anything with numbers in it undesirable? I mean really, unless you're running a cyberpunk game or some other crazy futuristic setting, it just sounds like some cornball IM username. Completely out of context.
I know a guy who played a troll named Baby Number Six. He had five older siblings.
Kungfuuman Masterofkungfuu - my monk from EQ
Strawberry Shortcake- my giant pink clothes wearing tanker from COH
Which server in CoH?! I'm sure I've seen you about... :D
78. It kind of irks me to get players who don't even try to hide the fact that they rip names from books. I've gotten so many Kith Kanans and Mackelis that I've just about banned names that I recognize.
79. Names that allude to a part of a character's anatomy annoy me, too. Not like you think, perv. I mean, a minotaur whose last name is Wildhoof or an avian character whose clan name is Blacktalon or something like that. I mean, I can see why you'd call it that, but it must sound odd from that character's culture's point of view. How'd you react to someone whose last name was "Wildfoot" or "Blacknail"?
80. Oh, and someone insisted on "Dom Folk" once. Fantastic.
Actually I wouldn't think twice if someone in real life had the last name "Wildfoot" or "Blacknail". Then again, my last name is Belcher, so maybe I'm a littler more tolerant of odd last names
Kungfuuman Masterofkungfuu - my monk from EQ
Strawberry Shortcake- my giant pink clothes wearing tanker from COH
Which server in CoH?! I'm sure I've seen you about... :D
the only server with its own emote Victory!! i also had a hero name , there was a very short guy who had the same name but his was spelled out were as mine was short because i made him before they uped the amount of letters in a name you can have. he was like the hulk but had white skin and all his clothes were pink and his hair i loved him just because of how awesome he was
Isn't anything with numbers in it undesirable? I mean really, unless you're running a cyberpunk game or some other crazy futuristic setting, it just sounds like some cornball IM username. Completely out of context.
In general, I'd agree, but then when you are dealing with multiple languages sometimes oddities happen.
Consider a party with the names Nanatsu, Drug, Thorn, Wu, and Net.
The ones that don't look plausible as names, are implausible to us because they mean something in English and a person who speaks fluent English in an English-speaking culture would not give a child such a name.
But in fact every one of them is a number.
Nanatsu: Seven, in a certain form of Japanese.
Drug: Six, Tibetan.
Thorn: Three, Burmese, slightly anglicized.
Wu: Five, Mandarin Chinese
Net: Four, Korean.
We could fill in the missing numbers with 1 = Odin (Russian), 2 = Sal (Etruscan), 8 = Asta (Sanskrit), 9 = Bederatzi (Basque), 10 = Sib (Thai).
He was the result of some VERY bad attribute generation rolls in a GURPS homebrew space campaign.
Basically, only his IQ was slightly above average, with the rest of his stats down in the dumps. Rolling 'cowardice' as his disadvantage, and 'alertness' as his advantage didn't help at all
Of course, all the other players were above average in almost every category. The captain was worst; he had the D&D equivalent of 16+ on all stats, and monstrous combat skills to boot. José could barely handle a small laser pistol, badly :D
So what I ended up with was the ever-nervous mexican co-pilot of a small space freighter, who ran away from the slightest danger. I could almost have embroidered "Wizzard" on his sombrero.
Interestingly, he was the only one to survive at the culmination of the campaign, 9 months later ^^
Trying to give a character a name that wouldn't be made fun of, our female goliath warden was name
"Thalia Deepvalley" and we always gave him guff about that DEEPvalley.
Though, the whip using bard named "Harrison Fjord" was also pretty bad :p
78. It kind of irks me to get players who don't even try to hide the fact that they rip names from books. I've gotten so many Kith Kanans and Mackelis that I've just about banned names that I recognize.
I ripped off the name Cirdon for a 2E Wild Mage, but at least this was a minor reference in the LotR glossary. Some ancient shipwright, IIRC. I try to avoid recognizable names from literature, but sometimes I just cannot think of anything that sounds good at the moment.
79. Names that allude to a part of a character's anatomy annoy me, too. Not like you think, perv. I mean, a minotaur whose last name is Wildhoof or an avian character whose clan name is Blacktalon or something like that. I mean, I can see why you'd call it that, but it must sound odd from that character's culture's point of view. How'd you react to someone whose last name was "Wildfoot" or "Blacknail"?
I have a minotaur barbarian that goes by the name Ironhorn. When the introductions were made at the start of the campaign, he was asked his name. I gave a huge, bellowing growl appropriate to an angry bull, then added "But your ilk can call me Ironhorn." I actually have, on the character sheet "(bull bellow) a/k/a Ironhorn". He then will refer to other party members by various physical attributes in return.
I forgot one on my list- back when playing Pool of Radiance on DOS, the version I had didn't let you change the hat color of the characters. Thus, my wizard's pointy wizard-hat had to be purple with purple highlights. I went along with it and made his robes purple as well. This character went all the way through the gold-box series as "The Purple Mage". Also present were the cleric Puren Holie and the halfling thief, Stik Itinya' (referring to a dagger, for those of you with other ideas).
One thing to remember is that we are so used to our names that we forget how silly they might sound if we translated them to other languages. Also nicknames were more commonly used routinely than is now the case.
For an example of the first, my *real name*, translated into common out of dialect is "Gray House by the Well" (Graham Wills). My wife is "Lily of the Well", my son is "Savior of the Well" and my daughter would be "Vision of the Well". All sound pretty silly ...
My nickname, by which both I and my father were invariably known at school (lot the extent some people would have been unaware of my actual name) was a certain body part that the last name "Wills" can be easily corrupted into.
So cut those "silly" names a little slack -- your name might be equally as bad!
One thing to remember is that we are so used to our names that we forget how silly they might sound if we translated them to other languages. Also nicknames were more commonly used routinely than is now the case.
For an example of the first, my *real name*, translated into common out of dialect is "Gray House by the Well" (Graham Wills). My wife is "Lily of the Well", my son is "Savior of the Well" and my daughter would be "Vision of the Well". All sound pretty silly ...
My nickname, by which both I and my father were invariably known at school (lot the extent some people would have been unaware of my actual name) was a certain body part that the last name "Wills" can be easily corrupted into.
So cut those "silly" names a little slack -- your name might be equally as bad!
Very interesting
Valentinez Alkalinella Xifax Sicidabohertz Gumbigobilla Blue Stradivari Talentrent Pierre Andry Charton-Haymoss Ivanovicci Baldeus George Doitzel Kaiser the third.
Don't be afraid to write.
91. Rico Shay - Gunslinger from an old west RPG
92. Fondolm Eyestaff - Halfling wizard. Would pass give letters to the barkeep with instructions to deliver to "Amanda Huggenkiss" "Seymour Butts" etc. You can guess the result when the barkeep tried find the reciever...
"I'm looking for Amanda Huggenkiss. Amanda Huggenkiss? I need Amanda Huggenkiss right over here, please."
How about..
Valentinez Alkalinella Xifax Sicidabohertz Gumbigobilla Blue Stradivari Talentrent Pierre Andry Charton-Haymoss Ivanovicci Baldeus George Doitzel Kaiser the third.
Don't be afraid to write.
OMG I forgot about that scene. I have my next character's name now (doesn't matter what game, or what I'm playing).
I still hate the English voices on that, though.
i had an elf ranger called legolegs. just as a one off in a game. couldnt think of a proper name
... Legolegs? I just got this wierd picture of Legolas, totally normal from the waist up, but with the lower body of one of the LEGO people, lol...
Damn... Now I've got the sudden urge to make a female elven archer ranger and call her Legolass.
(Or maybe just an effeminate male elf in drag, lol.)
i had an elf ranger called legolegs. just as a one off in a game. couldnt think of a proper name
... Legolegs? I just got this wierd picture of Legolas, totally normal from the waist up, but with the lower body of one of the LEGO people, lol...
Damn... Now I've got the sudden urge to make a female elven archer ranger and call her Legolass.
(Or maybe just an effeminate male elf in drag, lol.)
Well, better than Legolard.
Grog Anvilface - though Anvilface was translated into the dwarven tongue of the campaign. Half orc raised among dwarves (half orc specie with fighter instead of barbarian preferred class and lawful alignment), fighter monk 3.5ed.. tended to keep getitng his shirt ripped (Grog, captain of the ship enterprise!)- int of 6.
Well, better than Legolard.
one could make a halfling archer-ranger and call him legoless
Take care, friends.
I've had/seen quite a few bad(but sometimes funny) names in my D&D career, but only a couple really stuck to my memory:
1)Tidus Atuyger (tight as a tiger), tiefling ninja
2)Thug Aim (the game) human wizard(same player as above)
3)Nicho (half-orc cleric) played by me; this name deserver a little explaining: we were creating chars for a new campaign and the player next to me asks if I had decided on a name for my new char. I tell him I didn't, so he replies 'me neither' (which in my native tongue is 'nici io'); and so Nicho, the half-orc cleric was born.
It was an incredibly stupid droid, I'll tell you that.
TheSeventhStooge...
79. Names that allude to a part of a character's anatomy annoy me, too. Not like you think, perv. I mean, a minotaur whose last name is Wildhoof or an avian character whose clan name is Blacktalon or something like that. I mean, I can see why you'd call it that, but it must sound odd from that character's culture's point of view. How'd you react to someone whose last name was "Wildfoot" or "Blacknail"?
Actually I wouldn't think twice if someone in real life had the last name "Wildfoot" or "Blacknail". Then again, my last name is Belcher, so maybe I'm a littler more tolerant of odd last names
Hey, it could be worse. My mother went to school with the Balls brothers( I think maybe one of them was a cousin, actually)---Lance, Rollin, and Flamen(!), as well as one Ratcliffe Fink. And those weren't even made up character names! Heh---maybe someone *should* use them in a humorous campaign, with those names the characters practically write themselves.
During a Star Wars d6 game I was playing in Georgia back in the early 1990s, one of the fighter pilots in our group had an astromech droid designated ID-10-T.
It was an incredibly stupid droid, I'll tell you that.
TheSeventhStooge...
That thing, that's funny. Maybe it's just the geek in me.
-Sarena
But Wildfoot and Blacknail sound like hyigene problems.
I think my favorite bad name was for a PC named Krule the Breaker. It just fit the PC so well.
79. Names that allude to a part of a character's anatomy annoy me, too. Not like you think, perv. I mean, a minotaur whose last name is Wildhoof or an avian character whose clan name is Blacktalon or something like that. I mean, I can see why you'd call it that, but it must sound odd from that character's culture's point of view. How'd you react to someone whose last name was "Wildfoot" or "Blacknail"?
Actually I wouldn't think twice if someone in real life had the last name "Wildfoot" or "Blacknail". Then again, my last name is Belcher, so maybe I'm a littler more tolerant of odd last names
Hey, it could be worse. My mother went to school with the Balls brothers( I think maybe one of them was a cousin, actually)---Lance, Rollin, and Flamen(!), as well as one Ratcliffe Fink. And those weren't even made up character names! Heh---maybe someone *should* use them in a humorous campaign, with those names the characters practically write themselves.
I don't know why, but I think being named Rat Fink would be AWESOME.
79. Names that allude to a part of a character's anatomy annoy me, too. Not like you think, perv. I mean, a minotaur whose last name is Wildhoof or an avian character whose clan name is Blacktalon or something like that. I mean, I can see why you'd call it that, but it must sound odd from that character's culture's point of view. How'd you react to someone whose last name was "Wildfoot" or "Blacknail"?
Actually I wouldn't think twice if someone in real life had the last name "Wildfoot" or "Blacknail". Then again, my last name is Belcher, so maybe I'm a littler more tolerant of odd last names
I actually work with a man named Lance White-Eagle, his brother is named Talon White-Eagle. o.o They're full blooded indians. I've met people with similliar names as well, so no. Wildfoot and Blacknail really aren't to odd-ball if you consider it.
As far as the names, I've played alot of MMOs with alot of stupid names, but most of them are variations of like xXxAssassinxXx for a, say assassin. Those are bad names IMO.
79. Names that allude to a part of a character's anatomy annoy me, too. Not like you think, perv. I mean, a minotaur whose last name is Wildhoof or an avian character whose clan name is Blacktalon or something like that. I mean, I can see why you'd call it that, but it must sound odd from that character's culture's point of view. How'd you react to someone whose last name was "Wildfoot" or "Blacknail"?
Isn't anything with numbers in it undesirable? I mean really, unless you're running a cyberpunk game or some other crazy futuristic setting, it just sounds like some cornball IM username. Completely out of context.
Okay, my next charrie's last name is going to be something to the effect of "Blacktalon78"
Also, in a game of All Flesh Must be Eaten, the DM actually gave me like 5 bonus build points when he saw that I named my charrie Richard Cornelius Manchester Esquire IV.
And I decided to run with the theme for my candle-throwing assassarian, so I named him Candleja, naturally .
Rayne O. Death
Theodore Baggins
SENOR VORPAL KICKASSO!
Those that read the Goblins Webcomic will recognize him. At first he was gonna be a bard for the 1/11 of a class but I went with rogue for kicks.
Hugh Biggins, Gnome Barbarian. (pronounced Huge Biggins)
I also have one player who had his character's name go from something like Idrien to Idreen Eileen in one session. I just couldn't get the name down.
A friend had a Beast-Ranger named Douchebag and his pet cat was named kumquat. We always laughed whenever those names came up in game.
One of the other guys named his Half-Orc Ranger Duncan D. Duncanson III (the D. stands for Duncan)
And another guy, during the PHB2 Game Day featuring a human Invoker whose mini happened to be black, named him Africandalf, and I made my Warforged Artificer (whose name had been "Tower") named High Tower, and played him with a deep voice and a black accent.
And another guy, during the PHB2 Game Day featuring a human Invoker whose mini happened to be black, named him Africandalf, and I made my Warforged Artificer (whose name had been "Tower") named High Tower, and played him with a deep voice and a black accent.
I played with someone once who wanted to name their character Sammael El J'Axon...
And another guy, during the PHB2 Game Day featuring a human Invoker whose mini happened to be black, named him Africandalf, and I made my Warforged Artificer (whose name had been "Tower") named High Tower, and played him with a deep voice and a black accent.
I played with someone once who wanted to name their character Sammael El J'Axon...
"I have had it with these mutha****in' Yuan-ti on this mutha****in' airship!"
Phil Graves - usually some kind of high DPS character.
Bharf Bhagg - usually a healer of some kind.
And the one time he played a female dwarf...Bhus T. Winche
Razspark - not so bad, in and of itself, but he always comes equipped with the razblade, the razdagger, the razplate, the razshield, the razbackpack...well you get the idea...everything gets renamed.
And his pets...there's the cat, "Go Away" and the war dog, "Come Here"