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ArgonianGamer
2018-07-31, 08:43 PM
My next character that I am making is a Goblin Rogue. He has a small head a big ears, and he talks in 3rd person. He has a human skull that he carries around named "Marv" and he often talks to Marv. He collects bones and secretly enjoys eating flesh. He is very curious. He has been locked in a cave for 15 years, with only Marv as company. I just can't think of a good name for him. It usually doesn't matter a whole lot, but he speaks in third person so I really want to like his name.

MeeposFire
2018-07-31, 08:46 PM
I was going to say you should go with "Big Ears" as it already is the name of a fun Goblins character.

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/goblinscomic/images/2/2f/GAP.png/revision/latest?cb=20161007013441

He is a paladin but who lets that stop anybody?

solidork
2018-07-31, 08:50 PM
Grug
Lort
Moot
Torg
Bink
Glerk
Climp
Shogg
Vob
Kreng

Xihirli
2018-07-31, 09:32 PM
My goblin names are sounds people make when sneezing.

Talionis
2018-07-31, 09:37 PM
Pizza Pooh. Just has a fun Goblin ring to it.

Speely
2018-07-31, 09:43 PM
Call him Varmin

ATHATH
2018-07-31, 11:24 PM
I was going to say you should go with "Big Ears" as it already is the name of a fun Goblins character.

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/goblinscomic/images/2/2f/GAP.png/revision/latest?cb=20161007013441

He is a paladin but who lets that stop anybody?
I immediately thought of Goblins as well- although I'd personally recommend Dies-Horribly (https://goblinscomic.com/comic/06292005).

MeeposFire
2018-07-31, 11:42 PM
I immediately thought of Goblins as well- although I'd personally recommend Dies-Horribly (https://goblinscomic.com/comic/06292005).

But the goblin in question has big ears...though he also sounds a bit crazy so maybe "Senor Vorpal Kickass'o"!

leogobsin
2018-07-31, 11:58 PM
In the campaign I'm DMing the players took a goblin captive so I had to give him a name on the spot and came up with "Goon", my players seemed to really like him (not enough to not kill him when he tried to escape and get help, of course...)

Daithi
2018-08-01, 12:15 AM
Aures Magnum -- it's Latin for big ears. If you don't like Latin look up "ears" or "big ears" in the language of your choice and see if any strikes you.

Tesque as in in grotesque.

King Gobb and the Erlking are goblin names from Gypsy and German folklore respectively.

Obmud is another option (spell it out backwards).

Ooh! I just thought of a really good one-- Spelun King.
It fits with his living in a cave for so long.

Daithi
2018-08-01, 12:40 AM
Here are a few more from https://phys.org/news/2018-06-species-goblin-spiders-famous-goblins.html

Apparently, some scientists discovered 6 new species of spiders in Sri Lanka, and they named them all after goblins from English children's books. Their names were--


Bom
Snooky
Tumpy
Chippy
Snippy
Tiggy

JoeJ
2018-08-01, 02:43 AM
Here's an even dozen male goblin names from my world:

Akajen, Barith, Borka, Dolosh, Gathól, Hugath, Karif, Olfan, Oshlen, Shavák, Tothga, Zirga.

Any of them would work with "Big Ears" as an epithet.

DnDegenerates
2018-08-01, 06:12 AM
My four year old daughter has a sidekick named Jingles in her little Podcast campaign. I honestly didn't expect him to be so important, but she loves the goblin so much that I had to keep him around.

Mortis_Elrod
2018-08-01, 06:54 AM
He-who-Savors-the-flesh-of-enemies in goblin.
Or just Savors in common.

Theodoxus
2018-08-01, 07:19 AM
Retch is my favorite goblinoid name. Retch Thuk is the full name (the sound of vomit hitting the floor).

"Please don't hit Retch, Retch will fetch the water, sirs. Retch is never right, you're good masters. Retch found the trap, please don't burn Retch again. Marv said Retch was a filthy goblin, so Retch took a bath in last nights soup."

jaappleton
2018-08-01, 08:24 AM
Really?

Come on now, this one should be totally obvious and nobody has said it?

You have Marv.

Your Goblins name is Inthemartian.

Imriel
2018-08-01, 08:39 AM
Ahahah literally making a new sheet for my level 1 Goblin Warlock right now and having your same problem.

Probably gonna call him "Boo" 😂

Coec
2018-08-01, 12:18 PM
Reek
Chuffy
Krackk
Snarl
Fizpop
Mogli
Ranzak

I think the idea of him not knowing his name could be a fun way to have the other players rp naming him. He's been alone for so long that he only remembers Marv's and the madness of solitude drove him to forget his own name. On a side note you could still have a name picked out and have it written on his undies, but he never thought to look there. Lol.

Waterdeep Merch
2018-08-01, 12:26 PM
You could call him Hanks. And then hear the wonderful symphony of groans the moment someone figures out why.

Mr_Fixler
2018-08-01, 01:37 PM
Not sure why, but I'm getting the visual of a Goblin Ernest P. Worrell talking to Vern/Marv.

Hey Marv! Them bandits gotta go. Know what I mean? Marv? Where ya going Marv? Bandits aren't that way.

Segev
2018-08-01, 02:02 PM
Meager? After a while, it should come up that it's actually "Me, Grr," but by then everybody's gotten used to calling him "Meager."