Just think it's an amusing analogy. Got any cool party names? I'm all ears.
"Thunder Expeditions" - a group that was exploring Xen'drik in Eberron, led by Sylvestre d'Orien, captain of a ship called "The Tempest." It was very Indiana Jones.
"Valiants of the Vale" - a group that was playing through the Scales of War adventure path. Typical D&D heroic trope stuff.
"Shadowbane Inquisitives" - the name of the company under which a group operated, mostly in Sharn (Eberron). They were detectives and troubleshooters by and large. This was a very film noir game.
Not many groups have named their party in my experience, but a few have that I can recall.
"Thunder Expeditions" - a group that was exploring Xen'drik in Eberron, led by Sylvestre d'Orien, captain of a ship called "The Tempest." It was very Indiana Jones.
"Valiants of the Vale" - a group that was playing through the Scales of War adventure path. Typical D&D heroic trope stuff.
"Shadowbane Inquisitives" - the name of the company under which a group operated, mostly in Sharn (Eberron). They were detectives and troubleshooters by and large. This was a very film noir game.
Reminds me of something in 3.5e Complete Adventurers, Shadowbane Inquisitor, a prestige class.
Had a dwarf party that called themselves Sons of Kark, all from the clan of Kark, no less.
Had a mercenary company called the Bloodhawks, veteran soldiers no longer fit for society constantly hunting for battle, another called the Golden Lions, named after the gold coin of their homeland. The bloodhawks really didn't care about pay, so long as they got to lead the vanguard... a bloodthirsty lot seeking battle-glory. The Golden Lions were more interested in the pay, but also their reputations were so spotless, kings would hire them; they knew court etiquette and many were of the noble class themselves, and there was a charisma requirement and a background check to join the company.
We currently have some buccaneers called The 'Venture Company, a merchant navy group.
We had one group simply called The Good Guys. 2 Paladins and a good priest/demon slayer, and a ranger/undead stalker. All about smashing evil monsters or destroying evil artifacts.
And the Duelists... Whip, Snake and Panther... 3 duelists, no less.
The White Knights of Galleon were a company whose sole source of income were from jousts, except for the occasional trial by combat. You might say they were effective trial-by-combat lawyers.
We never go out of our way to make up the names, it just comes up naturally, like a nickname. My DM style involves having several campaigns going at once so each player usually has 4 or 5 characters alive at the same time, so having a name for the campaign is helpful, but not something we generally do intentionally, especially since the members of any given campaign often fluctuate, especially in large cities.
Generally the campaign itself gets named, The Torian Campaign, The Corbin Campaign, The Vyperian Campaign, The Alvaran Expedition, The Drakkomenn Campaign, The Zhizzaaran Campaign, etc.
Not many groups have named their party in my experience, but a few have that I can recall.
"Thunder Expeditions" - a group that was exploring Xen'drik in Eberron, led by Sylvestre d'Orien, captain of a ship called "The Tempest." It was very Indiana Jones.
"Valiants of the Vale" - a group that was playing through the Scales of War adventure path. Typical D&D heroic trope stuff.
"Shadowbane Inquisitives" - the name of the company under which a group operated, mostly in Sharn (Eberron). They were detectives and troubleshooters by and large. This was a very film noir game.
Reminds me of something in 3.5e Complete Adventurers, Shadowbane Inquisitor, a prestige class.
Had a dwarf party that called themselves Sons of Kark, all from the clan of Kark, no less.
Had a mercenary company called the Bloodhawks, veteran soldiers no longer fit for society constantly hunting for battle, another called the Golden Lions, named after the gold coin of their homeland. The bloodhawks really didn't care about pay, so long as they got to lead the vanguard... a bloodthirsty lot seeking battle-glory. The Golden Lions were more interested in the pay, but also their reputations were so spotless, kings would hire them; they knew court etiquette and many were of the noble class themselves, and there was a charisma requirement and a background check to join the company.
We currently have some buccaneers called The 'Venture Company, a merchant navy group.
We had one group simply called The Good Guys. 2 Paladins and a good priest/demon slayer, and a ranger/undead stalker. All about smashing evil monsters or destroying evil artifacts.
And the Duelists... Whip, Snake and Panther... 3 duelists, no less.
The White Knights of Galleon were a company whose sole source of income were from jousts, except for the occasional trial by combat. You might say they were effective trial-by-combat lawyers.
We never go out of our way to make up the names, it just comes up naturally, like a nickname. My DM style involves having several campaigns going at once so each player usually has 4 or 5 characters alive at the same time, so having a name for the campaign is helpful, but not something we generally do intentionally, especially since the members of any given campaign often fluctuate, especially in large cities.
Generally the campaign itself gets named, The Torian Campaign, The Corbin Campaign, The Vyperian Campaign, The Alvaran Expedition, The Drakkomenn Campaign, The Zhizzaaran Campaign, etc.
Reminds me of something in 3.5e Complete Adventurers, Shadowbane Inquisitor, a prestige class.
Yes, the player who coined the name played the character who was the company's defacto leader. He had that prestige class.
My character got the party together and lead them to the new continent to stop the escape / awakening of the great evil that he had forseen. After finishing the mini I was hopeing to cherry pick all the rest of the mods we played to only do adventures where we stop some horrible thing from happening.
A party I am in right now is known as
‘The Pirates of the Barnacle’s Nipple”
we got us an airship 
we fly around and steal swag.
A party I ran for ended up calling themselves "The King's Justice" after the party's elf barbarian made it a habit of screaming that phrase every time before she kicked open a door or charged into the fray and started stabbing things. It was somewhat hilarious because the group never really went out of their way to delve into the politics of the land to see if there actually was a king (whose justice they purported to dispense). They just assumed there probably was one somewhere and that he wouldn’t mind them beating things up in his name.
A robotech game I played in "Homo Nobilis" because of the exceeding high opinion we had of our characters