Do you name your weapon?

[SolkaTruesilver]

In popular fantasy setting, powerful magic weapons get named by their possessors. Have you ever named your own magic weapon, of kept talking about it as "My +4 Keen Short Sword"?

Same question, different twist. Once, the party's barbarian found a Sunblade wayyyyy too early levelwise (lucky dices to kill a BBEG (4 crits in a row)), we decided to nickname him "Garund Sunbearer".

Ever gave a nickname to your character because of something happening in-game?

[Dervag]

Well, I once read in another website about Sir Cedric the Womanizer...

[Gungnir]

My character is actually counting on the campaign to get a nickname. He's trying to make a legend out of himself, and has discarded his surname until performs a deed worthy of naming himself after.

But he hasn't named his sword.

[Threeshades]

i wanted to name all of my weapons since we started a new campaign last year but i couldnt come up with a name

[Emperor Demonking]

Naming my weapon or not is dependant on the character, but none of my characters have got a nickname.

[KIDS]

My characters sometimes name their weapons, more likely if they are characters with divine connection of some sort (cleric, paladin, etc) or it fits their backstory.
My elves never name their weapons, though. For them, it's pointless to establish any relation other than a "tool" with a lifeless piece of metal (except for an intelligent item ofc.)

[Elven Paladin]

I often try to name my weapons but just as often I can't think of any. One character of mine who did have a named weapon was a fighter by the name of Valden Darkhelm who wielded a Bastard sword that was simply known as the Lifedrinker. He was a warrior who had betrayed his king in the war that had preceded the campaign so everyone in my group simply called him The Traitor. ...in fact, that's what he was referred into in the game as well.

When thinking of characters with nickname, I also remember a Wookie Jedi I once played in a Star Wars game. He fell to the dark side in order to get his revenge against a Sith lord, and so came to be dubbed "Emo Wookie."

[El Jaspero, the Pirate King]

I like naming weapons, it makes the game more personal. My rogue in our previous campaign had a corrosive shortsword he named Scornblade after taking it off the dead body of the assassin (Ren Scorn) who'd been sent to kill him, hehe.

I also had an Arcana Evolved Champion of Knowledge with an intelligent dire bastard sword named Bloodgutter. It had the vicious property, which he could switch on or off, but against its favored enemies he had to win a Charisma check or it'd activate itself, hehe. Good ol' Bloodgutter.

[Shiny, Bearer of the Pokystick]

Sure- but I usually keep the name even if the weapon changes (i.e. all rapiers wielded by Sir Celtigran the Saucy are 'Fancypants').

[Kel_Arath]

my char got the nickname "non-stick" for two reasons, 1) his last name sounded like teflon (telfalon), and 2) he had a habit of getting out of sticky situations no body thought he could

[storybookknight]

My current Paladin, Owyn Brassleaf, has a rapier named Wit.

[Tach13]

LoL, StorybookKnight beat me to it, I've got a Rogue with a Flaming Rapier named Jauhar's Wit, where Jauhar is the local name for Olidammara. Working on getting an off hand weapon worthy of a name still.

[The Great Skenardo]

Isn't there a story about a Monk who named his weapons?

"Meet my friends Knuckles and Chuckles. Spread the word, y'dig?"

[Altairius]

I only occasionally name weapons and armors, but when I do, it seems to stick to the character really well. Fr' instance, in my last Ebberon game I played a Warforged rogue/fighter named Siggmund. He had done his share of killing during the War, and quite frankly was tired of it. So, when he managed to get his hands on a +1 Shocking Greatsword (his weapon of choice), he had the Merciful modifier enchanted on. He called it "The Rehabilitator".

Later, he kept adding modifiers and enhancements to it until it became "The Peacemaker".

If I get a chance, I'd like to use it as a weapon of legacy somewhere...

[daggaz]

My dwarven cleric named his hammer 'Marie.' But it's not even his weapon, its just a hammer from the goods list he bought for busting locks and driving rock pitons in. His weapon is a dwarven waraxe, with no name.

[IonizedChicken]

Almost always, yes. I feel it really adds to my character.
Not only do I name weapons, I also name armor and shields and often describe both in a non-standard way. For example, one of my characters used the 'Double Crescents' -- diamond-sharp crescent blades that circled around him, defended him, attacked others, and communicated with him telepathically (though he couldn't understand what they said -- they only talked in unintelligible whispers. He suspected there was a soul trapped in them).
Mechanically, the 'Double Crescents' were just an Animated, heavy shield.

A more specific example of naming was Shadow's Hope, a Greataxe +something. It wasn't unholy but I described it as such anyway.

[Krimm_Blackleaf]

I don't usually name the weapons of characters I just make for fun, but I realise that the characters I make AND play never actually use weapons that they don't invoke from the powers of the arcane. Maybe I ought to name my warlock's eldritch blast 'blasty'.

[the_tick_rules]

not really, maybe once i get some better weapons.

[Latronis]

Yep

often using dead languages to do so.

Though sometimes i use lame cliche names too especially for majorNPC weapons and especially so if its a not a stictly legal weapon

like a favoured soul\monk summoning

The Staff of the Heavens

a kifocus shocking burst thundering brilliant energy quaterstaff of speed

>_<

[Little_Rudo]

My current Paladin, Owyn Brassleaf, has a rapier named Wit.

LoL, StorybookKnight beat me to it, I've got a Rogue with a Flaming Rapier named Jauhar's Wit, where Jauhar is the local name for Olidammara. Working on getting an off hand weapon worthy of a name still.

Ironically, a third Wit... my bard has a rapier named Cutting Wit.

[Nerd-o-rama]

Mine has a name, too.

I call 'er Vera.

[Strengfellow]

I once had a lucerne hammer which I named Yakob the tortle hammer, the reason for this is lost to me.

Although one of my party always named his knife Hinif because of how the DM's writeing made knife look like hinif, he even had his Hinif enchanted so he could always cut a roast perfectly.

[levi]

I tend to name magical weapons, especially if they've got more than just plusses. Sometimes I name non-magical weapons, but it depends on the character's style. I've never named other sorts of equipment as a PC, but I've done so when building NPCs or treasures.

My current character is a divine warlock (warlock cruch, holy fluff) that sees herself as a paladin. She renamed all of her invocations and her eldritch blast to fit into the theme. Her weapon dosn't have a name, but it's just a generic dagger and she hardly ever uses it. If she does, it's as a "righteous smite" (hideous blow), so the damage from the dagger itself isn't very important.

[Maroon]

Apart from 'pointy stick' and 'blood-coated piece of hurt', not really. Although a friend has a huge-sized heavy crossbow I call Piecemaker, after the crossbow wielded by Detritus in the Discworld novels.

[MisterSaturnine]

My Bard's mandolin is named Lucy. He's partial to caressing it...

He and his mandolin have an interesting relationship.

[Epiphanis]

I've never named a weapon for one of my PCs in D&D, though as a DM I've named a few.

Years ago, playing the Iron Crown Middle Earth Roleplaying Game, I played an elf who named his sword Celebereg, which was to show off my geeky fluency in elvish. (It means "Silver Thorn").

[Orzel]

A monk/cleric of mine had a mace called the Bottle Opener and a hammer called the Great Book.

[Lolzords]

Ever gave a nickname to your character because of something happening in-game?

My friend has. He calls his half orc barbarian "Big Bad Frosty" since this man is known for slaughtering random things and doing HUGE damage.

Incidentally, somehow, Big Bad Frosty is now a god who has his own plane of existance. Go figure.

[Aramil Liadon]

Never. I generally play characters without lasting weapons. The tragedy is just too much to throw a vial of Holy Alice at the ghoul. Perhaps my swashbuckler, when I get to play him, but as of yet, low-level spellcasters make up all of my characters. I guess a first level druid could name his weapons in Sylvan, though. Might be interesting.

[adanedhel9]

Most of my characters see their weapons as tools, not extensions of self. So, no reason to explicitly name them. If they pick up a nickname, sure (one character had a flaming longsword named 'Fluffy', because I forgot to specify an activation word when I took it to be inchanted), but otherwise it's not a big priority.

When I DM, however, there's a PrC in my campaign world that works like a more generalized Shining Blade of Hieroneous. NPCs with that PrC nearly always name their weapons, exactly because their weapons become extensions of self and deity.

Character nicknames happen all the time, but it's almost never explicit. Though I had one character who liked to give out nicknames to party members based on their abilities, e.g. the scout became 'Eyes'.