Worst PC name you've ever seen [Any System]

[MoelVermillion]

Picking a name for your PC can be one of the hardest parts of character creation, if you pick something too mundane (outside of modern settings) it can sound really lame but on the other hand if you over do the originality of it it can end up really stupid sounding or completely unpronounceable. This thread is for those names that just ended up bad.

In my role playing group we have one player that has trouble role playing, he is great in combat and can optimize characters really well, he enjoys watching the other players role play but when his character is put into a social situation he just locks up and gives one word responses. The role playing trouble extends as far as name picking goes and he usually just boots up a video game and merges two character names together to name his character. One time however he had a burst of inspiration and thought up his own name for his melee beat stick character.

Maximus Strike, no, really. He called his fighter Maximus Strike . The DM allowed it too.

Anyway what are some bad PC names you guys have come across?

[RE:Insanity]

Sir Varrus of Varra.
Mugglebop.
Greenstink the Dark.

[Prodan]

Biggus Dickus

[Kurald Galain]

Posting the worst PC names I've seen would violate forum rules.

That said, I've met several players who would base each character name on some stupid pun that would fall flat after five minutes. The silliest was probably this one player who insisted his character did not have a name, and brought that up at every opportunity. Of course, it didn't take us long to simply name him Steve just to get it over with.

[AslanCross]

Holden Magroen, son of Spotson Magroen, and brother of Loven Magroen.

I think my player even put together a large family tree that included a sister or cousin named "Caressen" somewhere (which is actually a cool name if separated from the surname).

[M0rdain]

It was LARPing rather than an RPG, but myself and a friend had characters called Ronnie & Reggie Cray. It was a bad day for imagination.

[AmberVael]

Fizzlestomp.

Well, okay, it wasn't actually a PC. It was the name of an NPC in some third party book I found at GenCon.

It became a PC name when I used it for a joke character.

But seriously- Fizzlestomp? The guy in the book was supposed to be a pharaoh or something, too. It was ridiculous.

[n00b killa]

Holden Magroen

Jeje, gotta admit that's a bit funny.

[akma]

I saw a player call his character homo.

[thompur]

Bubba Mandrill, The Best of Rangers.

A Druid named Busty Birchbugger.

[Aotrs Commander]

There is of course the "legendary":
Sir Boblobgenugernugertwentytwoeightyonedoomfluberflub erhibbyhobbyningnongsillysollynoonar.

Sir Bob for short. (Apparently a name so long, the forum software struggles with it...)

Who was in a Middle-Earth party, of all things...

We were relatively young at the time, before I started enforcing PCs should have sensible names... (And that particular player was a rather casual one at that.)

[onthetown]

Morning.

At first glance, it's not a bad name.

But it was playing off of a joke that our DM had -- when the party would wake up from camping, the DM would always announce that, "Morning comes."

Morning was a knight, so before the party went to bed there was, "Night falls..." He always managed to hurt himself before going to sleep.

[Xallace]

Worst-worst, or best-worst? Because "Skittles Ferretmessiah," "Fabio the Destroyer," and "Mittens" (applied to a warforged juggernaut, so called for his hobby of knitting mittens) are a few of my favorites, and they are hardly good names.

[The Poet]

Not exactly a bad name, but each and every dwarf that I play is part of a huge extended family that crosses campaigns. My most recent one was Glod Glodsonsonson III II XXVII. (Apologies if the numerals are incorrect)

[Coplantor]

A friend of mine named his character like a certain part of the male body, but in spanish. Another friend of mine called his warmage, well, Sexy Warmage, it's cool though. Oh, and Coplantor, I looked around mself when naming that character and saw a corridor full of plants CO-PLANT-OR I just got rrid off the middle

[Critical]

Santa the Barbarian...

[mangosta71]

Ricardo Provolgne is the worst I've seen someone use IRL. Online, there are too many awful, verisimilitude-breaking names to shake a stick at, and I can shake a pretty big stick pretty hard.

[hamlet]

Sir Thodar Thadeus Thinder IV, son of Sir Thodar Thadeus Thinder III, hero of the battle of long shrubs, hero of . . .

Literally, his name and title went on for an entire side of a page, single spaced and took him a full 5 minutes to recite, which he would do at the drop of a hat.

He was a paladin, who also happened to be a pirate.

Tremendously amusing, but at some point, NPC's started hearing stories about him and would come to battle prepared with a silence spell. It was the quickest way to take him out of a battle since he refused to participate unless he could recite his title in full and preventing that was simply unchivalrous.

[Xallace]

Santa the Barbarian...

If someone's gonna play Santa, at least name the Nicholas, Kris, or Brigadier General Gunther Klaus. I mean, really. Santa?

[senrath]

Santa the Barbarian...

To be fair, that one's from a comic.

[FlyingWhale]

I was in a party for a little over a year and my good friend at the time named his lawful stupid hound archon paladin which we played in the 3.5 Ravenloft campaign... Red October... He also liked the name Bitey. We played a very serious campaign until that day he made the archon. Game ended 3 sessions later because nobody took anything seriously anymore.

He acted like a dog and barked and growled for those last 4 sessions...RED OCTOBER!!!

His previous character was named (this was in 2006 mind you) Sovereign Sheppard. Sigh.

Same game we had a girl name her Elven Ranger Trixxxie Strips. I believed she named her bow The Meat Pole...

If anyone read Worst Player Ever -locked- LC's current character is named Muad'dib and he is a Fremen,

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whose father is the king of the Fey and his mother the queen of the Elves. Thus giving him two Deity parents. He is level 5 and totally incompetent and has been ordered to destroy three Fiendish Trolls (as per template) that have all made several Infernal Pacts (as per feats) so they are immune to Acid and Fire.

My character was named Epiphris Augeres... and he was badass.

[Critical]

To be fair, that one's from a comic.

The guy who played it based it off the Santa Barbara, actually.

[Snake-Aes]

Jesus Ramon Jose Andreas Slasher.

[Gametime]

A player in a Star Wars game I was running a few years ago wanted to have the name "Garth Vader." It was vetoed.

Then there was the player who named his D&D character "Morannon." Not particularly world-breaking, and he was going for a standard fantasy-sounding name, but the entire campaign it just sounded like we were mispronouncing "moron" whenever we referred to him.

[CorvinMarkellus]

Thundar IV

Bear in mind, this guy was using the same character sheet that had represented Thundars 1-3. Every time he died, a "long lost relative" mysteriously showed up within a couple of minutes.

[KillianHawkeye]

One of the guys in my group brings his kid to the games sometimes. He named his character Tony Stark... in a D&D game.

[n00b killa]

One of the guys in my group brings his kid to the games sometimes. He named his character Tony Stark... in a D&D game.

To be fair, Thommas Stark does sound quite good

The was a Jedy on a on-shot starwars I once played who had his master called "Jedy Master Juan Carlos"

[DementedFellow]

I once played a dwarven fighter who could only say his name.

His name was "AUCH! Indignation." Yes a really powerful "AUCH!" followed by a somewhat mellower Indignation.

Hilarity ensued.

[Coplantor]

My current character has no name yet

[KillianHawkeye]

To be fair, Thommas Stark does sound quite good

How did you get Thommas from Tony?

Tony is short for Anthony.