Pun Names and other Pseudonyms

[Wolfram]

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 Nixon and these days have a Swashbuckler/Wizard Grey elf named Epee Sada. 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]

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]

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]

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.

[AslanCross]

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.

[drengnikrafe]

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]

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.

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

[ShneekeyTheLost]

I named the gestalt build which involved throwing dozens of sai around Gat Ling...

[Toliudar]

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]

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

There we go. Thanks.

[The_JJ]

I've heard of Dawk, Meh-dic, Cormane, all for hireling/follower healers.

[d13]

There we go. Thanks.

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

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

[Saintjebus]

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]

In one of the campaigns I play in, we met the town guard Zeb and his grandson Monte. Last names: Cook.

[Shardan]

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]

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...

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Fadan also has a cursed dagger.

[herrhauptmann]

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]

One of my PCs made a dwarf cleric named Smitwicks, who worshipped Tullamore the god of alcohol.

[Lord Thurlvin]

I once gave an NPC the name "Eunomy Gudnam," but sadly, he never got used.

[Hunter Noventa]

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]

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.

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

[Dr.Epic]

I've made two barbarians one with the name Vehement Fracas and the other with the name Ram McLargefist.

[Dust]

Mindy Maximus
Dr. Duke Goose

[Narazil]

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]

I also had a druid that named his wolf animal companion Bubastis.

[herrhauptmann]

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.

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

Daughter of Cheery Littlebottom?

[Agrippa]

I also had a druid that named his wolf animal companion Bubastis.

Is the druid named Adrian by any chance?

[Leon]

Celia Floor - my Explosive loving character in a Space Rat game

[Sstoopidtallkid]

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]

The three half-orc brothers: Ogg, Gogg, and Bagogg. They make and sell rugged clothing for children to wear while outdoors.