Help me name my Spelljammer.

[BlackDog918]

So for my current campaign, I'm taking my players out Spelljamming. This is a 3.5 game, but I love the concept and wanted to include it in my game.

But, I'm stuck. I can't figure out what to name the bloody ship.

It's an original design, but I have no pictures for reference. Long and lean, all streamlined curves and built for speed. She's captained by a changeling rogue (ex-spy and infiltrator, if that helps) and helmed by a warforged artificer. (Yes, I know I'm messing with cosmology here, and I'm fully aware)

Any suggestions are welcomed and greatly appreciated, the name is really starting to frustrate me.

[Red Fel]

She's a lean, smooth ship that cuts through the ether like butter?

I'd call her, simply, The Razor.

As a bonus, I'd name the NPC captain Ockham. (The spelling is deliberate.)

[Ravens_cry]

The Slippery Eel, the Waxing Moon, the Star Treader, The Phlogiston's Fury.

[BlackDog918]

That's beautiful. The captain is actually the PC's employer, a high level rogue known simply as Face. Ockham would be an excellent alias, though. . .

Love it so far, but I'm curious to see what the rest of the playground comes up with?

[Mutazoia]

The Ruben James
The Edmund Fitzgerald
The Henrietta Marie
The Star of the West

[Mountain]

Thunder Goat.
The Wet Blanket.

Better yet, don't name the ship.

In a campaign I'm running, the party ran into a major NPC... with no name, and it drove them crazy. It wasn't that he wouldn't tell them; he just didn't have one. Hilarity ensued with trying to decide what to call him. They couldn't even just ignore him because he was central to the plot.

Seriously, don't name the ship.

[Shining Wrath]

Suggest looking at famous clipper ships (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper) and modifying into D&D namespace.

Chasseur
Transit
Ann McKim
Rainbow
Scottish Maid
Glory of the Seas


"Glory of the Skies", "Drow Maid", "Elvish Hunter"...

[BWR]

The Widowmaker
The Charming Stranger
Awkward Annie
Mary the Blaze

[Averis Vol]

The huntress
Queen of the Astral seas
Prowler
Cosmic Sliver

[Scarce]

"The ships name: 'The She's One of Ours, Sir' ", the captain remarks with a grin. "That ought to buy us some time if the situation gets hairy."

[Krobar]

Mine was named The Emerald.

[Shining Wrath]

Scimitar
Bolt
Expeditious Retreat


Or some of the more famous warships:

Enterprise
Yorktown
Victory (if your captain is 1% as cool as Horatio Nelson that's pretty cool)
Queen Anne's Revenge
Revenge

[GilesTheCleric]

I think that The Minnow is a pretty classic name. For bonus points, give it a theme song in the form of a sonnet.

[Grollub]

Call it the Titanic.. see if the players want to get aboard :smallcool:

[Callin]

Have the crew affectionally call it Mom. As the warforged always likes to say. She keeps us warm and safe at night but if hurt one of us she melts ya down and uses ya like a canon ball.


Or something to that effect.

[Arcanist]

I must admit a sense of disappointment in everyone. Not once did anyone recommend the "S.S. More Powerful Than Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and The Incredible Hulk Put Together" :smallconfused:


Yes, I know I'm messing with cosmology here, and I'm fully aware

According to Afroakuma you aren't :smalltongue:

[BlackDog918]

I thought Eberron had its own cosmology and was this not a part of the Great Wheel or the Spelljammer galaxy?

[gorfnab]

Uwana Buyer

[Arcanist]

I thought Eberron had its own cosmology and was this not a part of the Great Wheel or the Spelljammer galaxy?

Like I said: According to Afroakuma (http://nerik.orpheusweb.co.uk/files/Spelljammer/Flow_map_01-12-12.pdf). :smalltongue:

[cakellene]

Paul Tankersly

[unseenmage]

'The Ship With No Name'
'The Ineffable'
'Pirate Bait'
'SS Salvage Rights'
'My Little Spelljammer'
'The Farscape'
'The Far Trek'
'The Far Wars'
'The Prophesied One'
'That Darn Ship'
'The Expletive Deleted'
'Galactica'
'Starbuck'
'Lexx'
'Millennium Peregrine'
'The Who'
'Beiber Express'
'Jefferson Starship'
'Incredibly Long Winded Name For A Ship'
'The Ironclad'
'Death Dealer'
'Slipper'
'Skimmer'
'Slider'
'Star Kid'
'The Final Frontier'
'The Force'

Just don't call it the Mechane. :smallsmile:

Edit: 'My Battleship'

[Arcanist]

'The Ship With No Name'
'The Ineffable'
'Pirate Bait'
'SS Salvage Rights'
'My Little Spelljammer'
'The Farscape'
'The Far Trek'
'The Far Wars'
'The Prophesied One'
'That Darn Ship'
'The Expletive Deleted'
'Galactica'
'Starbuck'
'Lexx'
'Millennium Peregrine'
'The Who'
'Beiber Express'
'Jefferson Starship'
'Incredibly Long Winded Name For A Ship'
'The Ironclad'
'Death Dealer'
'Slipper'
'Skimmer'
'Slider'
'Star Kid'
'The Final Frontier'
'The Force'

Just don't call it the Mechane. :smallsmile:

Edit: 'My Battleship'

If we're going for names like that, why not just add Serenity to that list? :smalltongue:

[unseenmage]

If we're going for names like that, why not just add Serenity to that list? :smalltongue:

Crud, knew I'd missed an obvious one.
And don't you mean 'Far-renity'? :smallbiggrin:

[(Un)Inspired]

Ahab's Envy

The Love Boat

The Carcinogenesis

Godiva's Stallion

Indra's Arrow

The Bodhisattva Nightmare

The Tergun Shan

The Yggdrasil

The Star Scourge

Infinity's Whisper


These are some boat names I used in a spelljammer game I finished running a year ago

[Sugarbear007]

Um.. how about

"first light"
"baators smile"
"the sliver"
or my favorite "Black ether"

[Blightedmarsh]

The Flirty Ilithid
The Drunken Golem
The Blind Berghaust
The Saucy Yugolith
The Wise Kobald
The Mad Elf
The Salty Dwarf

The Adjective+Creature

[prufock]

The Colour Animal. This is the name of several different taverns in my campaign world. Could work for a ship, too.

[Deadtissue]

The Upsy Daisy

[Kreuz]

The Cockroach's Cackle

The Raggamuffin Juggernaut

The Indecent Bulette