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Wolfram
2010-02-03, 03:06 PM
Who here has made punning, entendre laden or otherwise silly names for their characters? I have. Egregiously so.

I've had rangers named Rick 'Rocky' Raccoon, Megillah Geurilla and Orion D. Hunter. I had a female monk named Kim Nunn. I had a 1st edition thief named Vesco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Vesco) Nixon and these days have a Swashbuckler/Wizard Grey elf named Epee Sada (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sada_Jacobson). Also, while goofing on Tolkien, I named a halfling paladin Mongo Cambridge-Spearmint.

My main campaign, is a Star Wars game. I play a wookie medic named Khager (from a Yiddish word meaning 'to clobber').

Next up will be a cavelier named Virginia Cleveland and a samurai named Yojimbo Ran.

Top those.

Derjuin
2010-02-03, 03:08 PM
I can only recall one, and he hasn't seen play in a loooong time:

Rag Tow'El, the Water Orc Psychic Warrior//Barbarian. I think it'd be better if his name was an odd pun on sponge, though...

JaronK
2010-02-03, 03:11 PM
My group had a steampunk pirate game for a little bit there, a group that sailed around on a zepplin. Our first mate was a Warforged named Queecog, while our captain was Adrian Hob, a man in search of the Half Whitedragon Soarwhale that had escaped him for so long...

JaronK

Alysar
2010-02-03, 03:38 PM
I used to play a shadowdancer (who I will have set as my avatar here for the forseeable future). When he first summoned a shadow creature for himself, I named the shadow Dankartell, which is an anagram of "Kent Allard", which was the alter ego of the original Shadow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow).

AslanCross
2010-02-03, 04:37 PM
Not my character, but U.N. Owen. Forgot the original source of that name, but it's referenced in a Touhou character's theme song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIop055eJhU).

drengnikrafe
2010-02-03, 04:43 PM
Not mine, but... Ro'Gayn.
Also not mine, but I heard stories of a STRaDEXiCON INTeWISiCHA.
No... generally I name my characters something reasonable.

Wolfram
2010-02-03, 04:52 PM
Not my character, but U.N. Owen. Forgot the original source of that name, but it's referenced in a Touhou character's theme song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIop055eJhU).

It's from the Agatha Christie murder mystery 'Ten Little Indians' AKA 'And Then There Were None.'

ShneekeyTheLost
2010-02-03, 04:54 PM
I named the gestalt build which involved throwing dozens of sai around Gat Ling...

Toliudar
2010-02-03, 04:57 PM
Hmm. I've had a wizard named Tex Arcana. Oh, and for Alicorn's fabulously weird tauric campaign (everybody was a humanoid/something multilegged hybrid), I went with a gnome/giant bee cross named Erica. Erica Halfabee.

AslanCross
2010-02-03, 05:27 PM
It's from the Agatha Christie murder mystery 'Ten Little Indians' AKA 'And Then There Were None.'

There we go. Thanks.

The_JJ
2010-02-03, 06:06 PM
I've heard of Dawk, Meh-dic, Cormane, all for hireling/follower healers.

d13
2010-02-03, 06:12 PM
There we go. Thanks.

How about the Magroen family, from your Eberron Red Hand of Doom Campaign? :smalltongue:

Any pun and/or funny name I could recall from my campaigns, has their jokes lost in translation, unfortunately.

Saintjebus
2010-02-03, 06:19 PM
I once created a warblade, and coultdn't think of a clever name for him- so he became The Nameless Swordsman. Everyone just called him Nameless.

Rixx
2010-02-03, 06:21 PM
In one of the campaigns I play in, we met the town guard Zeb and his grandson Monte. Last names: Cook.

Shardan
2010-02-03, 06:24 PM
I had an assassin style Thief whose last name is Abatoir. ( which means slaughterhouse)
I also has a jongleur bard named Coquette (meaning playful and flighty)

The biggest pun name though didn't start as a pun, but became one in game

Tonov. An Ussuran strongman from Seventh Sea. He announced himself to a guard with the line. "My name is Tonov... like ton of bricks... like how I will hit you now" (i was channeling arnold that night i think)

Gahrer
2010-02-03, 06:40 PM
My Assassin player gave his character about 5 pseudonymes, all slightly altered versions of translations of "night", "kill" and "darkness".

Also, my campaign features two brothers, Fadan and Lain. They are traveling merchants and spies for one of the BBEGs.

However, none of my players have read the Wheel of time so the joke is all mine... :smalltongue:

Fadan also has a cursed dagger.

herrhauptmann
2010-02-03, 07:40 PM
I've heard of Dawk, Meh-dic, Cormane, all for hireling/follower healers.

Friend played a healer named "Smegma"

I did have a Deva character (4E) who's name was so long I couldn't actually remember it in the correct order.
I took the first three letters from the first and last names of each of my characters from my first 3 years playing, and rearranged them, spacing them with apostrophes and hyphens.
Anytime I wanted to say something along the lines of: "This reminds me of a past life," instead of making it up on the spot, which I'm terrible at, I just remembered something one of my old characters had done. Since I'd had fighters, clerics, rogues, (and built a few mid-high level wizards with awesome backstories), I had plenty of material for old memories.
It took about a month of playing before any of the other players asked the origin of my characters name.

Ylorch
2010-02-03, 07:40 PM
One of my PCs made a dwarf cleric named Smitwicks, who worshipped Tullamore the god of alcohol.

Lord Thurlvin
2010-02-03, 07:42 PM
I once gave an NPC the name "Eunomy Gudnam," but sadly, he never got used.

Hunter Noventa
2010-02-03, 07:48 PM
One of my groups has a Half-Orc Druid who prefers hitting thigns with an axe to doing other, more druidy things. His name? Torag S Tree. The S stands for 'Strong Like'. And his pet cat is named Tree.

Fridesgerte
2010-02-03, 11:57 PM
I have a Halfling Cleric named Jika Longbottom, who will testily tell anyone that her name comes from the river valley where she was born, thank you very much.:smallamused:

I'm putting together a low-int barbarian whose name is Imarok (called Rok for short).:smallwink:

Dr.Epic
2010-02-04, 12:00 AM
I've made two barbarians one with the name Vehement Fracas and the other with the name Ram McLargefist.

Dust
2010-02-04, 12:03 AM
Mindy Maximus
Dr. Duke Goose

Narazil
2010-02-04, 12:06 AM
I am so guilty of this. I use pun names whenever I can get away with it. Some of them are just accidents waiting to happen.
It's mostly punned on prior characters, though. I'm a game master at a LARP campaign, and 90% of our NPC roles have names from a 2 year Vampire campaign I was in. I made a deal with one of the the gamemasters, who was also a player in the campaign, to see if we could use all the names from the campaign as NPCs.
We stopped trying around Vlad Thepes.

Other horrible puns:

LARP character: William Reinhard. Reinhard being the surname of one of my friends, who's dad's name is William.

Medilian Ictharos. MEDilian ICtharos. Elven Cloistered Cleric.

Various google-translate'd-into-obscure-languages names like Onikawa for Evil Spirit, Sausage Maker in latin, ect.

Dr.Epic
2010-02-04, 12:07 AM
I also had a druid that named his wolf animal companion Bubastis.

herrhauptmann
2010-02-04, 12:10 AM
I have a Halfling Cleric named Jika Longbottom, who will testily tell anyone that her name comes from the river valley where she was born, thank you very much.:smallamused:

I'm putting together a low-int barbarian whose name is Imarok (called Rok for short).:smallwink:

Daughter of Cheery Littlebottom?

Agrippa
2010-02-04, 12:24 AM
I also had a druid that named his wolf animal companion Bubastis.

Is the druid named Adrian by any chance?

Leon
2010-02-04, 12:54 AM
Celia Floor - my Explosive loving character in a Space Rat game

Sstoopidtallkid
2010-02-04, 01:29 AM
My Tibbit(were-cat) with 20+Cha was named Belle.

I generally use obscure misspelled translations of something relevant for my chars, but that was too perfect.

ShneekeyTheLost
2010-02-04, 01:34 AM
The three half-orc brothers: Ogg, Gogg, and Bagogg. They make and sell rugged clothing for children to wear while outdoors.

Eldan
2010-02-04, 02:31 AM
None of those are mine, but let's see...

My friend's smuggler in a space based game: Hans Olo. This one actually took me the entire session to notice. I'm still ashamed.

From another guy I knew: a female half-orc barbarian, by the name of Barba Ryan. Yes, he was very creative.

pasko77
2010-02-04, 03:11 AM
A russian (male) tombraider named Lars Croftov.

Ormur
2010-02-04, 03:15 AM
Thelonious Monk, but sadly he's a wizard. I should have made him a bard with perform: keyboard.

Ravens_cry
2010-02-04, 03:52 AM
Well, this was for a one shot beta test for a friend planning on running something at a Con, but I just played halfling ranger called Stef Derwin, Kobold Hunter. And yes, I narrated all the results of my Survival and Knowledge: Nature in the Irwin style.

Kulture
2010-02-04, 08:36 AM
Tarquin Prize OBE was the pseudonym for my assassin character in a shadowrun game.
Yes, his title was Sir Prize, and often people were because he was a skill rank 7 sniper (meaning he's better than Zaitsev, and was easily the best shot on the continent)

JediSoth
2010-02-04, 08:46 AM
Paranoia is about the only game where I use Pun names (of course, you're expected to):
Anne-R-KEY
Toyz-R-USS
Thund-R-KAT
Murd-R-USS
Ween-R-DOG
Wod-R-WIK (as in "Wewease Woderwik!")

etc.....

GolemsVoice
2010-02-04, 08:55 AM
A friend of mine once played a warforged barbarian. Reading in the "naming" section of their entry that they often name themselves after things they associate themselves with, he named him "Cholericus". Good times.

Zom B
2010-02-04, 09:05 AM
In one of my games, I had an innkeeper whose name the players wanted. Stuck for ideas, I said his name was Ian K. Eper. The running joke was that he turned out a lot better off than his brother Lee Eper.

I have had characters named (you'll have to say these out loud to get the full effect): Ellowel, Aroefel, and Owimjii.

Also, it was a joke in our Star Wars campaigns that Bib Fortuna came out better than his brother Bob, whose name was often confused as a strange variant of a popular Halloween game.

Calmar
2010-02-04, 09:08 AM
I had a character in a not-so-serious game named Ganminster the Wizard. He was pretty stereotypical... :smalltongue:

Then there's a halfling rogue named Odorf. He was a stupid, arrogant lout who was always shouting at everyone.
Oddly enough, Odorf was the only one of my characters, who was respected in that wierd gaming group. :smallconfused:

bosssmiley
2010-02-04, 09:08 AM
Innkeeper by the name of Yolday.

Calmar
2010-02-04, 09:10 AM
I have had characters named (you'll have to say these out loud to get the full effect): Ellowel, Aroefel, and Owimjii.

This is actually a cool method to generate exotic names... :smallsmile:

Zom B
2010-02-04, 09:21 AM
Oh, got some more:

In a weird futuristic home-brew world, I was playing a cat-person named Tacami (read it backwards). After he became a vampire, I renamed him Tachtogami. Once he became the holy version of a vampire (basically, kept alive by holy power), I renamed him again to Tacylohami.

In 4th Ed, I played a High-CHA Tiefling Rogue who wore a fox mask named Renard. For you Francophones out there, you may already have spotted it, but
"Renard" is French for "fox".

Project_Mayhem
2010-02-04, 12:26 PM
Justified in our mage campaign, given mages choose a use name to conceal their real one.

We have the computer nerd Forces specialist Amber Ohm

And David Schroedinger, who is thematically focused on sudden transitions of state.

Allanimal
2010-02-04, 12:38 PM
I'm currently playing a barbarian whose backstory, due to a bout of uncreativplagerismitis, is essentially the same as Conan's.

Naturally I named him O'brien.

My wife's first ever RPG character had everyone scratching their heads. Eventually she told us that it's just the Estonian (or was it Latvian?) word for Virginal. On a tangent, this character has blossomed into an ass-kicking killing machine.

storybookknight
2010-02-04, 01:34 PM
I was running a Sharn game and was using a Wizards plot hook revolving around some newspaper article about the yuan-ti. Unfortunately I lost the piece of paper I wrote it down on.

So the players ask me what the 'article dude's' name is. As a joke, I say "I forget... Artiklos Duidd?" Then they refused to let me change it once I found the paper in my notes 5 minutes later. :)

I'm also currently playing a character in a Low Life game who is a 6 foot-tall armed, legged, worm. From the desert.

His name is Kuissatz Hadderack.

Lappy9000
2010-02-04, 01:35 PM
I had a psicrystal companion (geode) named Rocky the Mineral American (he found the term 'Rock' to be racist)

Zom B
2010-02-04, 01:58 PM
So the players ask me what the 'article dude's' name is. As a joke, I say "I forget... Artiklos Duidd?" Then they refused to let me change it once I found the paper in my notes 5 minutes later. :)

Both the name and the idea remind me of something. I tried running a premade Campaign called the Bastion of Broken Souls, and part of the plotline is that there is a dragon who wants revenge because he was once slain by a druid named Dydd. Once the players found out, we had conversations like this:

Player: "Ah, so who done did the deed that the druid dude Dydd done did?"
Player 2: "The Dydd dude did the deed; dragons died."
Player: "But did we do Druid Dydd's deed?"

Tyndmyr
2010-02-04, 02:26 PM
Thay Co.

Suppliers of ancient goods.

Deth Muncher
2010-02-04, 04:43 PM
Thay Co.

Suppliers of ancient goods.

At first, I thought you meant the Red Wizards in FR.

Then I saw what you did there.

Gametime
2010-02-04, 05:24 PM
Pun names, eh? Well, there was this kobold paladin that I...oh, wait. Wrong kind of pun.

It wasn't my character, but I did have a friend who insisted on naming his Star Wars character "Garth Vader."

Serpentine
2010-02-04, 09:25 PM
I have a half-orc Rogue/Catlord called Shea. Shea is the Cat's Mother.
A friend of mine is awful for these. I can't remember all of his, but they include a Druid called Siph L. Uss and a Bard called Noholls.

Dimers
2010-02-05, 03:01 AM
A CRPG character I've adapted from an NPC concept, in turn derived from a little section in the GURPS martial arts book ... The article was about a particularly brutal mostly-unarmed fighting style, and the sample character was someone who'd been picked on, went away for secret training, came back and kicked all his attackers' heinies. So I imagined this fellah who was so used to being beaten up that instead of fighting back, he just begged "Not in the face!" His bullies finally pushed him too far by scarring his face badly, and even though it cost him much more of his good looks to get through the training, he became a martial arts master to revenge himself on them. Now his whole face is so scarred-up, it looks like a mass of rope ... so the people call him Knotface.

In building backstory with another player for one campaign, I decided that my psion would poke fun at the meatshield's tendency to fix things by using physical aggression. The pronunciation for what she called the warrior is "TEST uh cleeze".

Marillion
2010-02-05, 03:37 AM
Tonov. An Ussuran strongman from Seventh Sea. He announced himself to a guard with the line. "My name is Tonov... like ton of bricks... like how I will hit you now" (i was channeling arnold that night i think)

Hehehehe.

I played a Montaigne pretty boy, and though I can't remember his full name since I don't have his sheet with me, it went something like 'Luc Guillame Marie Renee Edouard [5 or 6 more middle names] du Praisse'. Great fun when I had to introduce myself. :smallbiggrin:

Seffbasilisk
2010-02-05, 03:55 AM
Back when I first discovered Vow of Poverty, I was playing a Gold Dwarf monk, and decided to take it a step further, and have him disdain all material possessions barring a pair of sandals (until his feet toughened up) and roughly a hundred shurikens he braided into his beard.

His name was Nae Troosers.

It was roll, not point buy, so he had a...surprisingly large charisma for a dwarf, and as the DM had made a point of stressing that any body part could be used for an unarmed attack...lets just say the boss who bad mouthed him caught a blow during a flying spin kick that wasn't the traditional leg.

gorfnab
2010-02-05, 04:25 AM
Names/words spelled backwards can be amusing.
Emanon
Enoyna
Emanemos

Otherwise one of my previous DMs kept putting in two characters named Biggs and Wedge into his games.

potatocubed
2010-02-05, 04:39 AM
My jokes are usually a bit more subtle. Not much, mind you, just a bit.

For example, one of my groups once faced a powerful warrior named Roderick who was immune to pushes, pulls, slides, etc. He was 'Immovable Rod'.

Similarly, the medallion which summoned a druidic version of Leomund's chest was an amulet of natural armoire.

And so on.

Serpentine
2010-02-05, 05:28 AM
Names/words spelled backwards can be amusing.
Emanon
Enoyna
EmanemosThe worrying thing about those is they make perfectly good-sounding fantasy names. Now I wanna try some others...

Ysatnaf
Tuoba
Annaw
Emos
Srehto
Tubananab
Gorf

KillianHawkeye
2010-02-05, 08:47 AM
Otherwise one of my previous DMs kept putting in two characters named Biggs and Wedge into his games.

You just reminded me of a character I had in a Star Wars game one time. I made his last name "Viks" as an homage to the character Vicks from the beginning of Final Fantasy 6. Of course, Vicks and his buddy Wedge were themselves a reference to Biggs Darklighter and Wedge Antilles, wingmen to Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars movie. (Biggs became Vicks through the process of converting the name into Japanese characters and then converting it back into English, due to B = V and G = soft K in Japanese.)

How's that for convoluted?

Dimers
2010-02-05, 09:14 AM
Similarly, the medallion which summoned a druidic version of Leomund's chest was an amulet of natural armoire.

Puts me in mind of a weapon I created, with a spark of inspiration from Family Circus (one of the kids assuming that a fork with only three tines is called a "threek"). It was a trident made for use by druids; while the wielder held it, any summon nature's ally spell to summon an animal would give it an extra head, which granted an extra attack at full BAB during a full attack. The trident was called threek of nature. :smallsmile:

Alysar
2010-02-05, 09:26 AM
Back when I first discovered Vow of Poverty, I was playing a Gold Dwarf monk, and decided to take it a step further, and have him disdain all material possessions barring a pair of sandals (until his feet toughened up) and roughly a hundred shurikens he braided into his beard.

His name was Nae Troosers.

It was roll, not point buy, so he had a...surprisingly large charisma for a dwarf, and as the DM had made a point of stressing that any body part could be used for an unarmed attack...lets just say the boss who bad mouthed him caught a blow during a flying spin kick that wasn't the traditional leg.

I'm hoping that he had a very long beard. Like, past his hips.

Wolfram
2010-02-05, 10:17 AM
It was roll, not point buy, so he had a...surprisingly large charisma for a dwarf, and as the DM had made a point of stressing that any body part could be used for an unarmed attack...lets just say the boss who bad mouthed him caught a blow during a flying spin kick that wasn't the traditional leg.

Is that an unarmed attack, or are you just glad to see me?

Shardan
2010-02-05, 03:26 PM
I forgot to add my White Wolf characters in. well. my main one. A fianna Ragabash names William Whisper (Will of the Wisp)

Oh. and since I hadn't played him, I forgot about my Warforged Fighter for a 4e campaign that hasn't started yet. K8-T