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Eldritch_Ent
2007-11-01, 02:42 AM
So then, what is the worst (or best) PC name you've come across? I mean, be it jsut perfect for the character, or one from the occasional PC who's name is only there to set up a horrible pun later in the series. (Like Nyuk Nyuk, the Kobold Bard with maxed ranks in Perform (comedy).) There's lots to choose from! Please, tell us any that ahve stood out in your mind.

Ravyn
2007-11-01, 04:12 AM
Niev Tuyet and her (late in the game) semi-demonic mental doppelganger Yuki: How many ways can we say snow? (Spanish modified, Vietnamese, Japanese, respectively.)

Tehane: Bat-themed demon hunter (no--she was a lot of things, but Batman clone wasn't one of them) whose name was me attempting to render "Chiroptera" in Japanese.

Most of the names I use work along those lines; in the last three years or so, there've been a grand total of three that weren't carefully chosen to suit the character or serve as a sly linguistic joke.

Grynning
2007-11-01, 04:20 AM
My favorite character name that I've ever had was Estlegard the Cacophonous, my cannon-wielding fighter from an epic game. Had a nice ring to it.
We also had a sorcerer who had the the title "The Repentant" (because of all the collateral damage he caused at one point). That isn't particularly funny, but we all laughed quite a bit when he announced that he was changing his title to "The Not-Quite-So-Bad-By-Comparison" after our rogue accidentally resurrected an evil god.

Dhavaer
2007-11-01, 04:21 AM
Sorra. I've used it for about three characters now; a knight and two warblades. The knight and the first warblade were immensely destructive in combat; the second one might very well live up to her foremothers.

Nysuste. I've never played a character with this name, but I've made one, and even for a generated one it looks kind of random.

allonym
2007-11-01, 05:45 AM
Phillipa McCavity

I personally thought it was just hilarious...makes for some fun player quotes.

Skjaldbakka
2007-11-01, 05:46 AM
I use Meletus alot. There is bound to be a Meletus running around somewhere in any campaign I run.

Hannes
2007-11-01, 05:49 AM
I can't really say... I like Guchira (use it in any computer/video game ^^;;)

shadow_archmagi
2007-11-01, 06:08 AM
My char's name is hegurow.. I sort of just picked letters whimsically.

I rather like it though.

SoD
2007-11-01, 06:22 AM
In the campaign I'm running, one of the players accidentally gave his half orc cleric with poor int my last name...I glance at his character sheet-''OK...half-orc...cleric...OK...uh huh...yeah, seems fine...7 int...wait a sec...what did you call him?!''

He hasn't konwn me all that long (none of the players have, I'm an exchange student in a foreign country and have pretty much introduced them to DnD), so I beleive him when he said it was an accident.

Overlard
2007-11-01, 07:20 AM
Kevin the ranger.

Seriously. :smallyuk:

Although that was an NPC, and one of many reasons why the game was cut short and the DM did not return (to the relief of the players)

Lupus Major
2007-11-01, 07:23 AM
One time, a character in a campaign I joined at it's third session had my christian name. The player, who is a good friend by now but hardly knew me back then, claimed it was the first name that popped into his mind when creating his char, without referencing me. Still, the char had a lot of my background.

It really sucked. "Ben*, it's your turn." "Player-Ben or Char-Ben?" "Char-Ben."

*Name changed by editorial staff for anonymity reasons.

boomwolf
2007-11-01, 07:34 AM
I do a lot of variations of **rsi*
Tarsiv
Fersin
Rorsik
Hersif
Corsia
Elrsim

Alot of these.
Not that I plan it, it jest happens.
And I sometimes steal names from books/PC games. or jest silly connections (I have maxwell in a game that uses a silver-looking hammer.)

KillianHawkeye
2007-11-01, 07:43 AM
I couldn't think of a last name for my character for the new Star Wars RPG, so I eventually came up with the name "Viks" as an homage to the the characters Vicks and Wedge who accompanied the main character at the beginning of Final Fantasy 6 (FF3 in the US), which itself was a reference to Biggs Darklighter and Wedge Antilles, who were Luke Skywalker's wingmen at the battle of Yavin in the original Star Wars. Because I like obscure references that only I will get.

Also, in a fit of randomness, I decided to give the main character of Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 the name "Jeffries McBacon". :smallsmile:

Hawriel
2007-11-01, 07:56 AM
I dont know if there good or bad, I'll let you be the judge. These are names of characters of myself and my friends.

Shadowrun:
Bob the low rent gun bunny
Cheaply made NPC when the party was short a gun, later turned into a player character, the theam of the name stayed.
Ben R Shot and Bob Dodge.
These where two ork streat sams that had not been named yet when the game started. The book adventure started out with the characters walking down the street and promptly became the target of a drive by. the first orc was hit, the player yelled out "Been Shot!!" The second orc dodge the fire with his combat pool. next action the first orc was hit again. That gave him the R for repeatedly.
Captain Oblivios aka Captain O aka The Captain
Human mage, he used to be a magician that cracked. He then Believed he was a super hero, the stronger he got in magic, initat 4, the stronger the delusion. Where talking the Tick/darkwing duck with the power of gandolf.
Morgen Bronn
Elf Raven shammen
D&D
Fransua and Peare Zee Gnomes Of DOOOM!!!!
a pair of badly accented french nomes who buckled there swash.
Jynx
Female bard connartest. We threw mony so whe wouldnt sing.
Mondia
Dwarf thief play on diamond, player dropped the second D to make it work.
The Green Lady, or two eyed attack B!#(#
elf ranger wore green dragon skins.

Other names, Quintin rogue, Hawriel ranger, Jaymar cleric of Tyr, Onyx drow necromancer, Nickoles Jack half drow half grey elf CN bard. Gundalug dwarf fighter, Dorn Grimstone cleric of Moradin.
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TheOtherMC
2007-11-01, 07:59 AM
Our Cthulhu wheelman was forever and legally known as "Taxi McDriver." Incidentaly he had more guns than any of us could ever hope for....

Aris Katsaris
2007-11-01, 08:07 AM
In "World of Warcraft" I remember seeing a Sir Tanksalot as the name for a warrior.

PnP Fan
2007-11-01, 08:13 AM
I like using "culturally different" characters that have difficult to pronounce names, and then giving them a shortened form of the name that's sort of silly or anachronistic.
For example I had a FR character (Paladin/Kensei) from Kara-Tur named Katokazei Shin'yo. It translated to something like "wind power" or something (I don't speak Japanese, so I was using a translation program, I'm sure it was terrible Japanese), but the shortened form that everyone actually used was "Kato".

I'm currently playing an Aerenal Elf named Artemidorus, he goes by the name "Art". Keep in mind, he's got a skull tatoo, and is a cleric, so it's particularly weird to imagine someone like that answering to the name Art.

Oh, and I'm playing a character named Jimmy Proton in a Mechwarrior game (speaks with a braces lisp and everything, it's hillarious).

That's about all I can think of now, though I'm sure there are others.

Reinboom
2007-11-01, 08:15 AM
One of my players once named their character "xMattx" just to annoy another player.
This was for (in person) games of D&D, a rogue, specifically.

Saph
2007-11-01, 08:25 AM
Lots of good ones, lots of bad ones.

We've got one player in our group who's a little weird. He's an amazing roleplayer, and great at getting into the game, but for some reason he absolutely insists that every one of his characters must be called Bob. No-one knows why. So far we've had:

Bob - FR character
Bob II - FR fighter/cleric, killed by wererats
Bob III - FR fighter/cleric, killed by more wererats (same game)
Bob IV - Warlock/something with a big scythe who spoke with a Rasta accent

At the moment he's up to Bob VIII, who, amazingly, managed to live all the way through a one-off game I ran.

My current character, Niriel Amastacia, has a surname lifted straight from the PHB, and a first name from Tolkein's Silmarillion - Niniel, Turin's sister. I changed one letter after re-reading the story because Tolkien's Niniel has such a horrible life that I thought copying the name straight would be a bad omen.

One of the guys from my old group made a FR gunslinger with smokepowder weapons and called him Adahn Riviera - Adahn from Planescape: Torment, and Riviera from Red Dwarf (it's the Cat's alter ego in the VR episode, the Riviera Kid. Luckily he didn't copy the dance).

A guildmate of a friend of mine from Everquest played a rogue called Stabhim. Once he got high enough level to get a second name he took the surname Lots.

The 16-year old in our original Star Wars group called his character Leeloo (from the Fifth Element) and insisted that she dressed like Witchblade as well.

Can't think of any more right now.

- Saph

Goff
2007-11-01, 08:34 AM
One of my players has had a couple of shockers,
Syph L. Uss a rather aimiable druid.
Then there was a bard... named Noeholls. Noeholls Bard. The sad thing is that it took about 4 sessions for it to click for anyone.

As for good names, I like Nuturion, my elven rogue, and his friend Amawhey and elven bard.

KazilDarkeye
2007-11-01, 08:52 AM
One of my characters was playing either a human ranger, or a dwarf ranger (can't remember which)

Eldor, Son of Alechugger!

Whenever he said that we would all chime in (was that cool)

Leon
2007-11-01, 08:56 AM
Worst name ive seen in one of my games - Barbie (6'2" Blonde Female half-orc barbarin riding a pink dyed horse [among otherthings...]), i tolerated it for awhile and then the player dropped out of the game for a while and i took the oppotunity to kill the PC off

Aprently he wasnt to happy about this but kept the grudge hidden till we were playing WHFRP and i had to miss out on a month of gaming due to being busy - guess who's PC got to carry the warpstone shard, went crazy and was taken out by Witchhunters

The Neoclassic
2007-11-01, 08:57 AM
I also am no good at determining whether a name is good or bad, but some of my favorites (either way)...

Hatyr: NPC in the thieves' guild, and my character's boss.
Mr. Hung: Human monk with a Charisma of 6.
Ironboot: Dwarf fighter.
Gingeroni: Human paladin.

Dizlag
2007-11-01, 09:20 AM
A player of mine named his dwarven paladin ... Melvin (Worst)
Another player is playing a pixie rogue named Zebedee Thistledown (Best)

Oh, we've nicknamed the human warlock ... McLovin'

My favorite character name of all time was Dizlag Stronghand, my first dwarf character I ever played. And hence, the moniker. =)

Dizlag

KoDT69
2007-11-01, 10:27 AM
I have beared witness to some of the stupidest D&D naming conventions in my time. I'll sort by player:

ME! Hah, I'm guilty too... maybe too much
Guido Sarducci - Elven Bard, serious character but silly name
Ohcaptainmycaptainohdearlordsaveusfromcaptain Ryo (aka Captain Ryo) - Human Cleric, completely delusional about everything, ranted about claiming to be famous wizards from 10,000 years ago in a new body, a walking god, and many other whacko stuffs :smallbiggrin:
Inigo Montoya - same as the movie character but exxaggerated, backstory tied in his father going back in time and taking 1 point of damage from 1 of every sentient species in existance over the course of a massive ancient war leading to his death, it was far enough back that it was a possbility that every creature/person he faced "you killed his father, prepare to die" only SEEMED crazy to everyone else
Cattlepunk - Halfling Rogue, rode a cow and weilded a staff of animal command that only worked on farm animals, later killed by his own party for going mad with the staff and attacking the village council members with a stampede
Dookie Daddie - Halfling Rogue, Ravenloft evil campaign, was disguised as a clown in the evil carnivasl side-show

My crazy brother who always makes 2 or more characters at a time:
Xicor & Tychow - Oriental vampires that could only be truly killed with a stake from the "Elven Tree of Life" some other crappy DM let him play, he tried to get me to let them slide in my games :smallconfused:
Logan, Quasar, Rogue, Jubilee, & Auroro - all stolen from the X-Men
Packard & Penstab - humans but no idea otherwise???
Dart & Shanna - apparently stolen from Legend of Dragoon? I dunno, never played it
Free Spirit - nuff said, when she died every one of his future characters hears "free spirit" on the wind faintly to remind him of the fit he had when that character bit the dust, he pouted for 6 hours (age 27 at the time :smallyuk:)

That other DM that allowed crazy stuff :smallfurious:
Nacho Bellgrande - he really liked nachos I guess... but who doesn't?

My friend who DM's another group sometimes
Simon Bellmont - Hmmm, how original
Valiant - A 2nd edition Captain America wannabe

Last guys old group of random guys I joined their campaign once
They were so random... (Inigo Montoya joined this campaign, hence my sillyness)
Mithral, Weedle, Bayer, Advil, Ronen, Cullyun-Poo (brownie berserker, marked territory by wiping his "under-cloth" sweat on things), FuzzyNutz (the druid's squirrel), and Judas Traveller (the wandering mage DMPC that somehow got more powerful than anybody else... hmm wonder how that happened??? :smallyuk:)

My lame step-son
Bob, John, William, and Sir Dragonslayer :smallconfused: :smallyuk:

slexlollar89
2007-11-01, 10:46 AM
Kogg "with the double g!": a warforged Favored Soul

Mudd "with the double d": a warforged Druid

Umbral Bloat "the gretest adventurer on the plane of hadows, and most probably the material as well!": a winged, shadow, dark elf rogue

Mac "yessiree...uh sir" the 8 int spirit shaman

McMac "I seriously apologize for my brother's lack of forsight, perhaps we can aviod similar instances by giving him food whilst we finish the mssions": Mac's older, smarter druid brother.

Rasp Berry: evil archivist... also libraian for the temple of Pelor

GimliFett
2007-11-01, 10:49 AM
In a Star Wars game, I played a twi'lek Fringer/Scoundrel named Tocs Neirbo, later to become a Chief Engineer for the Rebellion Corsair Ship: Free Credits. :smallbiggrin:

JackMage666
2007-11-01, 10:54 AM
Salazar Heavensent - Half-insane Evil Incarnate.

I've used Salazar several times, actually, but this was my favorite. His parents were paladins, so it fit them. Him, not so much.

MCerberus
2007-11-01, 11:11 AM
Embarrassingly corny name for a Paladin - Helios Darkbane

Hzurr
2007-11-01, 11:16 AM
Greatest Halfling Name ever: Patsy Longbottoms

He started out as a NPC that the PCs had to go find. Needless to say, they weren't overly terrified of him, until they found out that he was a halfling outrider with a T-Rex as a mount. No one laughed at Patsy then...

AKA_Bait
2007-11-01, 11:18 AM
The best ones I can think of that I've seen:

PC:
Pascal- Ruthless cleric of Hextor.
Malebranch (Mal)- Bard/Cleric of Sharess, patron saint of whores and drunkards.
14- CE Ogre Barbarian, named by his BBEG employer for the number of IQ points he has.

NPC-
Silus- The Rat Lich
Joel- Snarky wizards apprentice

Kesnit
2007-11-01, 11:24 AM
My kender Rogue got named Theodonis. I didn't really think about it at the time (was just trying to think of something amusing), but now I have a 3' tall creature named for a Greek strongman...

My first time through NWN1, I named my Monk Valk Yre, after my dog, Valkyre. I named another NWN1 character Phoenix Fuzzhead after my other dog.

My NWN2 CE Necromancer is named Sauron D'Ring.

Darkxarth
2007-11-01, 11:24 AM
Leroy Jenkins - Half-Orc Paladin of Kord. I didn't get the joke at the time, and regret letting him name his character that. Every other round... "LEEROOOYYY JENNKIINNNSSSSS!!!"

Irontrousers - Dwarf fighter. I don't even remember this character's first name, everyone just called him Irontrousers...

Tommy the White Ranger - Elven Ranger. Said his character wore white armor, and used a magical, intelligent scimitar.

Festivus - Gnome Bard. This campaign only lasted one or two sessions, but Festivus is the most annoying and simultaneously entertaining character I've ever had a player make.

skywalker
2007-11-01, 11:32 AM
Leroy Jenkins - Half-Orc Paladin of Kord. I didn't get the joke at the time, and regret letting him name his character that. Every other round... "LEEROOOYYY JENNKIINNNSSSSS!!!"


I gamed with a guy who named his dwarven ranger(yeah, I know) Leeroy. He TWF'ed an Urgrosh. Obscure, right? He was obsessed with dying courageously. Got his wish, too.

I named a paladin "Rael" once(I've always loved the name, threatened to name my first child Rael, because it's perfectly gender neutral, you see?). Then I found out that Rael is the name of a french guy who started an obscure religion where he claimed to have been taken up in a flying saucer by aliens. The religion is called "Raelianism." I don't want to name my kid that anymore either.

EDIT: Another great one, Bancho Archibaba, the great unarmed strike fighter. Also, his Cthulhu re-make: "Bancho, Crusher of Cthulhu, Destroyer of Evil, and Friend to ALL!" The guy who played him is awesome. I can't remember the name, but he once created a halfling fighter whose primary method of entering combat was having my barbarian throw him, then curling into a little, spikey armored ball.

Brawls
2007-11-01, 11:46 AM
My best few have all been adoptions from other cultures or place names.

Current character is a half-orc fighter/warblade named Anaxamander son of Aggengrade of the Stonemarrow Clan.

One of my better was Castaic Tule, human teenage rogue. Named for a couple locations in Califonia I passed through on a road trip (both lakes, btw).

Brawls

TheThan
2007-11-01, 12:54 PM
Lets see NPCs

Master Wong, of the Wong way school of martial arts.
Male human monk

Pei Pei, student of Master Wong
Female human monk

Mei Yeoh, another student of master Wong.
Female human fighter/kensai

Hung Lo- third student of Master Wong
Male human monk

PnP Fan
2007-11-01, 02:05 PM
Oh, one of my buddies had a mentally damaged warforged named U. He had been a guard/servant of some Cyran royalty. He didn't really have a name before he became free, so he just went by what the royal used to call him: "Hey You, go do this . . . "

The character also used to walk around with a padlock (which the player brought to the table!), and have conversations with it, like you might talk to your cat or dog. Every once in a while, he'd threaten to take a level of sorcerer so that he could make it his familiar. Hilarious character, and a heckuva fighter. Really enjoyed that entire campaign.

Kronk
2007-11-01, 02:52 PM
I have been on an 'O' bent for a while

Zero - Elf Paladin
Frodo - Halfling Rogue (whodathunkit) with fellow PC Lardo the village leader (and idiot)
Biko - Human Samurai
Celowyn, nicknamed Kronk - 1/2 orc Barbarian/Rogue/Temple Raider - he was actually named after Krumm from Aaah! Real Monsters because I forgot what his name was, not the Disney Cartoon, which I didn't find out about until afterward.

I like to use Sherekhan and Sinjin in MMOs and Esteban in RPGs.

I kinda like "The Nameless One" and a fellow PC by the name of Slarti after Slartibartfast.

Hawriel
2007-11-01, 05:09 PM
Remembered a few more

Micky McMicky
Gnome illusionest with a bad Irish accent and wore green.

Jack Spade
I have yet to play this character. He is a knavish bard or a gunslinger/hexx user in Deadlands.

Yellowstone Jim
Dwarf with blond hair eather a fighter or street sam.

Mculloch
Dwarf street sam, he specialised in close combat with forarm blades. Mculloch is the name of a company that makes chain saws.

Rosencrants
He was a paladin that was cures. He was a dead knight, not a death knight, he was just dead. for every dead he did to remove the curse more of his body would grow back. unfortunatly part of the curse was that he saw his reflections as if he was normal.

Citizen Joe
2007-11-01, 05:18 PM
Richard Street: Street detective
Justine Case: Street's sidekick
Justin Thyme: Paladin hero
Amber Thize: Pornstar

PaladinBoy
2007-11-01, 05:37 PM
I've had several characters; most of their names are just random collections of letters. Somehow, they sound good after a while.

Keoran Hara. My first character, a paladin. Not much to see here.
Toiana Liai. I believe I said something about random letters? Here they are. This one was a wizard; not much special stuff here either.
Lord Auran d'Lyrandar. One of my more recent characters. I was so fascinated with my character's title that I played him as being very arrogant about it. I also inadvertently named him after the language of air elementals..... not entirely a bad fit either, give his love of airships.
Elina d'Lyrandar. Auran's daughter (the identical surname doesn't automatically give it away, but it's a good hint). She is allowed to use the title of Lady, although I'm trying to cool off on the arrogance. Actually, as she's also a windwright captain, I think I'm gonna see what my gaming group thinks of "Lady Captain Elina d'Lyrandar" one day. (I'm expecting retching. :smallwink: Even I think that's awkward.)

Idea Man
2007-11-01, 05:45 PM
All npc clerics which the party hire on as medics are called Bob. Oddball merchants are Ahkmed (use middle-eastern accent for full effect), such as Ahkmed's Magic Shoppe. I was doing that even before I found 8-bit. :smallbiggrin:

I think my favorite PC name is Lockbuster Videyo. I don't think that rental store changed it's light for over a year. :smalltongue:

And then there was Thouriss, lizardfolk barbarian. Surprise spear attacks from above were his calling card, that and the backing of a powerful cleric (ressurection!) made him a particularly hated foe. Stuck a wizard to the ground in one shot, once. His fault for leaving the table. :smallamused:

BRC
2007-11-01, 05:52 PM
Ive named my characters after characters from catch 22
Yossarian: Air Gensai Rogue/Lasher (Flying +whips+enemies witout range=FUN)
My current character is an asianified version of Milo, refering to Milo Minderbender.
My next character I'm hoping to use my Homebrewed mad scientist class, I intend to name him Doc Daneeka.
Other characters I'm thinking of making
A barbarian named Hungry Joe
A Marshal named Major Major Major Major

Jasper Snowe
2007-11-01, 05:56 PM
This name is both the best and worst name I've ever heard.

Baron von Noobhammer

The_Werebear
2007-11-01, 05:57 PM
Lesse

Gralnor Malfist: A gauntlet wearing TWF dwarven rogue. He did bounty hunting work, but left a trail of angry enemies behind him. Slept 20 minutes a day, mostly in catnaps.

Rorymac Crosswater: Halfling Paragon/Druidic Avenger. A small, angry halfling who came from across the sea. Name is a smash of "Roaring Mac"

Kerrul Spinesnap: Fighter/Barbarian grappler. Kerrul is me working "Cruel" around for a bit.

Bloody Max Keant: A Warblade going for Bloodclaw master. He desperately wanted to be bitten by a Lycanthrope. The name is shortened from his proper tribal name of "Maranx, son of Keant, who is the one who lets the blood flow across the ground."

William Smithson: A human bard, whose favored weapon was the spoken word and acting. I only realized I named him Will Smith after I had been playing him for a week.

For an online game.. That has to be way back in Everquest 1 where I saw a dwarven warrior named Tumtum Rubmebelly.

BOC2
2007-11-01, 05:59 PM
I once made a monk/Drunken Master named Tolin the Absentminded. :smallbiggrin: haven't gotten to use him yet though... The idea is he needs a bodyguard to make sure he doesn't start wandering aimlessly through the wilderness upon one of his many, many drunken rages... Sadly, the friend I was going to do this with (we were both sorcerers in said campaign at the time, and we were in a massive (as in like continent-sized) antimagic field) actually survived the encounter which was supposed to obliterate our characters... It was quite funny, actually. The monk attempted to reason with the group of uberpowered umber hulks in Terran... And while he distracted them, we all ran away and he ran after us. >.<

neoweasel
2007-11-01, 06:53 PM
So then, what is the worst (or best) PC name you've come across? I mean, be it jsut perfect for the character, or one from the occasional PC who's name is only there to set up a horrible pun later in the series. (Like Nyuk Nyuk, the Kobold Bard with maxed ranks in Perform (comedy).) There's lots to choose from! Please, tell us any that ahve stood out in your mind.
Well, my current PC in D&D is named Jeremiah Pierce. Name indicates that he comes from and England-like culture and (to me) that he's probably a stuck-up twit.

goken04
2007-11-01, 07:00 PM
Currently, I am playing a TN Conjurer who absolutely hates evil and who focuses on summons (I'm going to go Malconvoker) who summons evil creatures to serve him so he can use evil against evil. He very much believes that the ends justify the means. His name is Malcom E. A. Vel'ee

But you can call him Mac.

(Cookie if you get it)

F.L.
2007-11-01, 07:36 PM
I used to like using the random name generators in NWN and NWN2. I'd just hit 'em until I had an appropriately silly name.

E.g. Donny Jars
Zacho Hando
Wing Fears - this one was a dragon disciple, amusingly enough
Drabo Barrenfarrel
etc.

dragonwings
2007-11-01, 08:16 PM
Hmm. Can't say I've got any of 'em other than a Halfling Paladin with the surname, "Dragonsnack."

My DM, however...

We ran into a pair of dwarven twin adventurers recently. I think one of them was actually as tall as my half elf. Anyway, the smaller of the two did all the talking and constantly was saying things like, "Jim and I, we're adventurers!"

It took a few repeats of us with the DM speaking a bit faster to hear the joke.

Ah, twins.

MCerberus
2007-11-01, 08:17 PM
Currently, I am playing a TN Conjurer who absolutely hates evil and who focuses on summons (I'm going to go Malconvoker) who summons evil creatures to serve him so he can use evil against evil. He very much believes that the ends justify the means. His name is Malcom E. A. Vel'ee

But you can call him Mac.

(Cookie if you get it)

He should take Leadership.

Tyrael
2007-11-02, 03:07 AM
Teevo, Kobold Rogue. It's just such a great name, and it's so kobold-y that it works great...except everyone always snickered when they said it. :smallbiggrin:

Squatting_Monk
2007-11-02, 09:22 AM
I like names that have the word "bane" in them, though it's kind of cliché. My favorite character now is a paladin named Astra Shadowsbane.

I also like Hebrew names, or names that sound similar. Azrael is one I'm currently building a character around now.

Volug
2007-11-02, 09:25 AM
Seymore Butts
Mike Rotch
Hugh Jazz

and anything Bart Simpson used:smallbiggrin:

Toliudar
2007-11-02, 09:54 AM
I can't believe anyone's talked about the truly, TRULY awful random-character-generator kind of names that Gary Gygax had for NPC's in first edition. Jaw-grindingly awful. The standout in my memory is Gleep Wurp the Eyebiter - an elf (which meant fighter/wizard in those blue-book days).

From my PNP campaigns, I had a player who played a barbarian cleric of Kord, with a broad Polish accent, named Polski Ogorki. In a current Arcana Unearthed campaign, a different player has a Dacha (dragon-man) named Gojira.

My own PBP hall of shame must go to the dwarven wizard/wandslinger Tex Arcana.

Illiterate Scribe
2007-11-02, 10:05 AM
I usually follow the school of horribly bastardised names from Classical and Dark Age sources, thus the rather heftily titled Inquisitor character -

Grand Ecclesiarch Belisarius Reliquitus, Primus Inter Pares of the Diapatridan Polar Origin.

But you can call him 'Beli' for short.


This name is both the best and worst name I've ever heard.

Baron von Noobhammer

On a similar note, my ABR character currently wields the Banhammer. Be afraid, lest you be permab&!

Crow
2007-11-02, 10:26 AM
Man, we've had some stinkers.

Fernando Hernandez - My name's uh....um...Fernando...Hernandez.

D. X. Terminator - Who knows what D and X stood for...we didn't ask.

Johnny Hardcore - Borderline cool.

Acteon - Player used to always suffix this one with "Say it fast and it's action!"

Esquire Packard - Esquire as a first name???

Oosic Buffalosack - As if Buffalosack wasn't enough...oosic???

The_Werebear
2007-11-02, 10:30 AM
My own PBP hall of shame must go to the dwarven wizard/wandslinger Tex Arcana.

Ah, I remember that character. The one with the pet fire elemental, the long red moustache, and the Yosemite Sam accent?

valadil
2007-11-02, 10:45 AM
My favorite name of any of my characters was for my arrogant (and rightly so) frenchman. He want by Jean-Pierre Colbert.

The next best wasn't a character I played, but a character in a LARP I was writing. It was a 24 hour build your own game event where 4 GMs got locked in a room for 24 hours and had to write a playable game in that time. At one point I muttered "I wanna name a character Texas." Ended up being the most fun character in the game.

Toliudar
2007-11-02, 12:57 PM
Ah, I remember that character. The one with the pet fire elemental, the long red moustache, and the Yosemite Sam accent?


Ah, someone remembers...So inappropriate...so much fun. Thanks so much for indulging him, Werebear!

Shishnarfne
2007-11-02, 01:02 PM
Well, here are two genuinely terrible names (I think so, they don't) from a current Forgotten Realms Campaign:

A human scout (who somehow wields a pistol): Shawn Holo
A bugbear barbarian (especially hairy): Bowchacca

...and they're trying to "improve" the party carraige with such things as a "quad ballista".

I have to give honorable mention to an NPC from another campaign:
Jan Jaansen (spelling approximated), a gnomish illusionist and "turnip-farmer", who is far more memorable for eternally peeling a turnip than his name.

Somebloke
2007-11-02, 02:12 PM
I once had a bard named Hamelin...

Actually worked out quite well for me.

BizzaroStormy
2007-11-02, 02:45 PM
Was tryin to think of a name while buying my characters points. Looked at the abilities; STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA. Then it hit me, Stredexon Intwisca. For the sake of my groups fingers i nicknamed him Mart.

nobodylovesyou4
2007-11-02, 03:07 PM
Was tryin to think of a name while buying my characters points. Looked at the abilities; STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA. Then it hit me, Stredexon Intwisca. For the sake of my groups fingers i nicknamed him Mart.

I WONDERED where you got that name from...
in the pbp campaign me and piratejesus are in, my character is a dragonlance gnome. if you know anything about dragonlance, you know that the names are something like Nicktheconjurereventhougheverybodytoldhimheshouldn tdomagicbecausegnomesdontdomagicbuthewasallnooooos ohediditanywaysthenthegnomesoustedhimandhewasstuck onhisownwanderingaroundintheforesttileventuallyher ememberedthetowersofhighsorcerysohewenttheretotrya ndjoinbuthteysaidnoscrewyousohebeggedandbeggedande ventuallybecameacauldroncleanerwhereheheardaboutth evestofthearchmagisohewentonaquesttofinditwherehem etsomepeoplewhohehangsoutwithallthetimenow...

thats his name. i never typed any more than that.

Dareon
2007-11-02, 07:15 PM
One I'm currently playing is Eäril-Galindë Lómüriand, an elven Artificer with inspiration from Leonard of Quirm. I seriously came up with him by running a random name generator set on accented names for a while, then adding more umlauts.

In the same game, another player is playing Oroku Saki. No, we have not encountered any awakened turtles yet.

Although my actual characters don't have very odd names (usually), the placeholders I use in builds occasionally do. For instance:
Rogue/Warblade/Master Thrower/Bloodstorm Blade, uses chakrams: Natsina. Say it a little slowly.
Ranger, beast-wrestling style (From a Dragon issue)/Reaping Mauler/Justiciar: Eve Stirwin.

Arbitrarity
2007-11-02, 07:29 PM
I once actually got to play an excessively optimized, paranoid, and arrogant grey elven wizard.

Whom I promptly named Augustine the Pretentious.

Mr. Moogle
2007-11-02, 08:48 PM
En-jinn, my skirmisher//psionic warrior. millions of damages in a round :smallcool:

Swooper
2007-11-02, 08:51 PM
One of my favourites was my first 3rd edition character, a dwarf cleric named Duranor Hammerfist. It's got a nice ring to it, especially if you pronounce the r's in a hard, rolling way (like in my language).

An NPC healbot-type cleric that didn't have a name from the beginning got quickly named Jesus. Because he saved us quite a few times, and saying "Jesus saves and takes half damage" can be quite hilarious :smallbiggrin:

On a tangent to that one, one of my co-players threatened to play a paladin called Jesus MacHonesty. He still hasn't, thankfully. :smalleek:

AslanCross
2007-11-02, 09:09 PM
Ranger, beast-wrestling style (From a Dragon issue)/Reaping Mauler/Justiciar: Eve Stirwin.

Does he often say "Croikey!!!"?

There was a guy who wanted to join one of my playing groups; he's a friend of some of my players. He wanted to play a half-orc bard with Perform (Dance.) He would refuse to be addressed by any name other than The Burly Man-Orc. I'm a bit happy I didn't have space for him.

Nota Biene
2007-11-02, 09:34 PM
All npc clerics which the party hire on as medics are called Bob. Oddball merchants are Ahkmed (use middle-eastern accent for full effect), such as Ahkmed's Magic Shoppe. I was doing that even before I found 8-bit. :smallbiggrin:

I think my favorite PC name is Lockbuster Videyo. I don't think that rental store changed it's light for over a year. :smalltongue:

And then there was Thouriss, lizardfolk barbarian. Surprise spear attacks from above were his calling card, that and the backing of a powerful cleric (ressurection!) made him a particularly hated foe. Stuck a wizard to the ground in one shot, once. His fault for leaving the table. :smallamused:

Best book EVAR! You are my new Virtual Best Friend!

Telok
2007-11-02, 11:02 PM
Dug into my old character files for these. From recent, to long long ago...

Zoltar - Level 7. Xeph cleric and survivor of two RL and one RP TPK. Magic, travel, perky, happy, and not his bloody fault nobody will use his very last spell (Obscuring Mist) as cover from archers and charging lancers. Amusing sermons about the care and feeding of magic items and responsible use of Fireball spells.

George - Half Giant psywar. Level6. Feats: Psionic Body, Psionic Weapon, Expanded Knowledge (Astral Construct), Psycrystal, Psycrystal Containment. Thought his psycrystal was the astral construct which was simply the physical manifestation of his imaginary friend, Mr. Bigglesworth. Also tended to introduce people to Bessy, his deep crystal warhammer. Died when the guy playing the cleric missed a game and the party skipped a rest stop because none of them needed to refresh spells or power points.

Moe Bubba - Level 4. The socialite githzerai rogue with a natural 24 Dex. Twenty flasks of acid, a forgery kit, and some good bluff checks got us into and out of some situations we probably shouldn't have. Died trapped in two nets when another player threw two meteoric knives saying "Oh, you'll make the saves."

Ivan - Fighter 1, Psion (Nomad) 17. Dwarf, Combat Expertise, 134 HP, 37 AC, 310 PP, energy resistance 30, spell resistance 28. Last man standing in the TPK. Died to seven assassins backed by a cleric and two sorcerers, from full HP to dead in one round. The fighters would not invest in anti-scrying and anti-teleport defenses. The bad guys teleported in while Ivan was off selling magic items and killed everyone else first.

Malik Piron-Gelman - Shadowrun Elven Conjurer/Skillwire-6. What else was I going to do when the rest of the party made a street sam, a gun bunny, a sniper, and a katana phys.ad? Hope we never met a competent mage? Let them shoot locks off in the middle of a run? None of them even knew how to use a computer! The elementals and skillwires cost serious money, but it kepy us going while they learned the game.

Sean Purlin Renault (Terry Purlin Littlebottom) - Level 14 Halfling Sorcerer, 3.0. A pseudodragon familiar, the Enlarge Body Part spell, and a leg fetish that kept him chasing elven skirts and caused more than a little trouble. Don't annoy the short guy telling four large air elementals to "Take him to the top of the sky."

Kaibu D'uzi - Level 9 human Bushi, AD&D OA. One halberd, magic. Some karate, some massage. Heavily specalized in shuriken. Addicted to potions of Speed. Refered to himself as fighting in 'burst', 'full-auto', and "Oh, he made it into melee range with a couple hit points left?"

triforcel
2007-11-02, 11:29 PM
Well I've used the name Kell a couple of times. I also once had a female ninja who beat people to death with a flute who was named Shiuta Kashu (loosely Death Song Singer in Japanese). Though just plain funny names are Lao Zhi and Sum Gai. Other than that I usually just grab a random name out of a hat or something.

Raistlin1040
2007-11-02, 11:36 PM
In a campaign I'm in right now we have 5 characters.

Elzaon, Pelemaus, Wilarmis, The Harpist, and Marcus.

Usually we are known as El, Pel, Wil, Harper, and Marc. We like abbrieviations. I'm Elzaon by the way. Oh, and also, I almost always have a character named Axl or Axel.

KoDT69
2007-11-02, 11:40 PM
And more from my friend's other game group that I have not mentioned before:

Random Player A:
Blacky - A RIFTS character converted to D&D 3.0 (somehow level 100+) without any actual conversion if you know what I mean. He had a lazer gun that did like 6d1000 damage, and I still made a 13th level character that killed his. I normally don't do the whole evil character that kills his own party, but it had to be done...
Geoffrey Chaucer - A Dread Pirate/Monk he rolled up for a dungeon crawl, then incessantly complained about being inefficient... yeah... :smallconfused:

Random Player B:
Goldbow - Really, GOLDBOW. The elven Arcane Archer, apparently his parents knew what class he would be when he grew up... I LIKE TATER TOTS!!!

Random Player C:
Tinkleberry Happydingle - The gnome Bard, like Gimble... nobody loves Gimble.

Random Player D:
Smirnoff - The Vodkyn Ranger archery giant guy, aka Smirnoff the Vodka. Quite useless and the name distracted the sub-par gameplay of the other DM's campaign...

nobodylovesyou4
2007-11-03, 09:14 AM
Random Player C:
Tinkleberry Happydingle - The gnome Bard, like Gimble... nobody loves Gimble.
*snip*


aw, no love for the bard? and besides, i could've sworn nobody loves you (kekekeke)

The Glyphstone
2007-11-03, 09:42 AM
Zoltar - Level 7. Xeph cleric and survivor of two RL and one RP TPK.

:eek: :confused: :frown:

Sorry, what?!?...

Vuzzmop
2007-11-03, 09:17 PM
In my campaign, my friend Steven insisted on playing a duskblade, actually called "Blade". I DM ruled that it was a codename, and that his real name was Sabastion MacTomfoolery. He still hasn't lived it down.:smallbiggrin:

SurlySeraph
2007-11-03, 09:54 PM
Oosic Buffalosack - As if Buffalosack wasn't enough...oosic???

As you may or may not be aware, an oosik is... well (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oosik)...

Now, for bad names.

In NWN2, a human ranger named Sorian Klensson. Who was tall and blonde. I didn't realize how ridiculously Scandinavian he was until later.
Also in NWN2, a LE monk/assassin named Silas Augustine. Silas as in the monk assassin from The Da Vinci Code, Augustine because I needed a last name.
Mephistokarielrazienseruphielazriencherubaelucrifr icariansatanorebibelian. Demons are supposed to have weird names like that, right?

Telok
2007-11-03, 10:41 PM
:eek: :confused: :frown:

Sorry, what?!?...

Ah, heh... Unn... Every other character in the party died in a single fight. Twice. On seperate occasions. The RP TPK was both in character and a good way for Zolt to meet/join the new party.

Well, I guess the ranger survived the first TPK on account of being up a tree 300 feet away on a moonless night, and missing with over twenty arrows. The second time around there was a moon, the tree was only thirty feet away, and he managed to hit someone once before three archers and a druid wasted him. Of course it was also the only tree for something like three miles around and he was the last person to die that time (obviously not counting Zoltar who escaped). The ranger is also the same guy who was directly responsible for Moe Bubba's death, and about two hours later another TPK when he decided that evil alignment = license to PK when bored.

I've griped about him on these boards before, but he's actually kinda worth the trouble he causes. We tend to get some really spectacular death scenes out of him. He's actually started keeping a backup character around and making backups keeps him occupied while we do non-combat stuff.

"He's dead."
"Put him in the loot bag, he'll bring us up to the WBL guidelines."
"So what's your new character's name?"