Naming Player Groups?


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So It was recently suggested we come up with a name for our band of merry players. The reason for this being everyone seems to be doing their own thing in the game and not really concerning themselves with anyone else.
It is our hope that gaming under a team name will help with this...it didn't take long to figure out this wasn't going to go well either. No one could agree on a name either, but we have yet to give up on it. We just need to get a name everyone can agree upon and see if it brings the characters together.
So far the lead name I am aware of is Dread Mercs...this is the evil side of our campaign.

What are your suggestions/experiences for/with this issue?


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Knowing the team would help...

So far all we know is evil so anything from:
Chinese Girls Badminton Team
to
The Gore Soaked Marauders from Hell!


Most of out team is LE with some who are CE and due to some who are mentally twisted we now have a new alignment in the group known as Random Evil (2 people started fighting with each other seeing as how they couldn't get out the door to fight the creatures attacking the rest of the gang). The groups mission is to help restore magic to the world by finding magical 'dragon stones'. There are several 'stones' of evil and several of good (so we are also running a good campaign to compete with the evil). There is also one final stone to control all other stones, basically, where both teams will have to fight each other.
My character in the evil campaign is a sky-clad archer/fighter female human (she wears body paint and has recently bought mage armor body paint). Our team is pretty light on fighter types other than her, but I think we have a monk and a summoner or two. We also have a tengu.
Mind you though, I was not just asking for suggestions. I was also asking about experiences with naming your groups as well.

The Exchange

I'm glad I'm not the only one to think that the Chinese Girl's Badminton Team are evil. Everysingle one of them are evil.

Dark Archive

We call our group as Facemelters, because we simply melt our enemies faces :)

The party is based of mainly arcane users (a Gnome Artificer, a Drow Sorcerer, a Gnome Illusionist Wizard, a Tiefling Warlock and a Dwarf Fighter)

We were recently going to leave one player (the tiefling) behind in a safe city (because she was not attending to the game most of the time), so our DM has offered us when she turns up, we could play the opposite of our characters, thus playing evil. We've come up with the party name called Face-Collectors. We didn't have the chance to play the evil party yet, but just wanted to share :)


Tirq wrote:
I'm glad I'm not the only one to think that the Chinese Girl's Badminton Team are evil. Everysingle one of them are evil.

Well cheating is a form of evil.

To be honest our groups almost never select a group name... Other then one which called itself "Mobile Justice" which they would chant with their arms crossed over their chests. No clue why they called themselves that. Maybe it was because of the team mascot ...er Paladin. ;)

Well evil and hunting dragon stones... ok perhaps a name that fits their mission such as "Drake's Stoners" or "Dragon Balls" or perhaps "the Jewels of Dracos" perhaps something fitting the personality of the team "Psycho Squad" or maybe a mix of the two "Drake's Dirty Psychos"


Cavaliers de Cheetos.

I remember in a recent game, a dm was obsessed with forms and bureaucracy, and he wanted the party to have a name, so they could have an official writ and such. The rogue (yours truly) balked at this idea, and as a result our name was lacklustre and forgotten. We were too low level to truly have a group identity.

Liberty's Edge

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If there's a paladin, the group is likely named after them.

You could always go the Order of the Stick route, and name the group something random.


Love Order of the stick! I was thinking a little Latin? Ordo of Formido Latrunculus meaning Order of Dread Mercenaries.


Adventure Path Charter Subscriber

A group I adventured with for years (real time) were chaotic nuts, to say the least. We adventurers called ourself the 'Glory Squad' and went around having statues dedicated to ourselves in every little hamlet we passed through, regardless of whether we did anything noteworthy or not.
I don't think the Realms ever recovered - we may have been the reason for the destruction of the Realms for 4th Ed.

Reggie.


Just some ideas.

concilium of formido (council of dread)

Dread Mercs

corps of power

syndicate of power

syndicate of sanguinus

Cadre Consortium

council of corruption


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Shouldn't that be "Ordo de Formido Latrunculi" ?

us is a singular ending it wasn't order of the dread mercenary.
"i" is the plural of "us"

as for "of" er... my knowledge of Latin is VERY poor... but since French or Spanish are derived from Latin and English isn't it would probably flow better to use de.


promiscuus lamnia lammina lamna

Translated; mixed nuts


Also they were described as crazy violent. So corruption or counselors wouldn't fit very well.


The only groups of mine that have had names were my very first campaign and my current Kingmaker game.

In the first, the group ended up chartering themselves and getting a writ for a chunk of land north of the main city of the game, where they'd driven a smuggling ring out and laid claim to their base. They dubbed themselves the Lady Luck's Fortune Troupe. And not too much later added the tagline "When you absolutely, positively need it destroyed overnight". Much like Reggie they were playing in FR, and were there for when it went kablooey; in my game I smashed it with an asteroid. The party lived, mostly due to being yanked off said asteroid after killing an Aspect of Tiamat there and into an interdimensional pocket to weather the storm.

My Kingmaker group has dubbed themselves the Iomrall Charter, after their planned name for their kingdom. Iomrall I believe means "wandering" or "wanderers".

No suggestions sadly.


Aranna wrote:

Shouldn't that be "Ordo de Formido Latrunculi" ?

us is a singular ending it wasn't order of the dread mercenary.
"i" is the plural of "us"

as for "of" er... my knowledge of Latin is VERY poor... but since French or Spanish are derived from Latin and English isn't it would probably flow better to use de.

Thank you for the information. I was unaware of their being a difference seeing as how I was only using an online translator, but it is only a program and something that can think.


That is funny Orthos. Our group was mentioning the same thing...when it positively has to be killed/detroyed overnight, that is.

Sovereign Court

Name your group based upon something that happened. Early in LG our party was deep in a pit and we came up with this complex idea for using ropes and pulleys to move something. The DM asked us how much rope we had, and all six of us had dumped rope due to weight in character creation. Thus End of Our Rope Adventuring Company was born.


Meat wrote:
Name your group based upon something that happened. Early in LG our party was deep in a pit and we came up with this complex idea for using ropes and pulleys to move something. The DM asked us how much rope we had, and all six of us had dumped rope due to weight in character creation. Thus End of Our Rope Adventuring Company was born.

That being the case we could be called the Dragon Eye of Death seeing as how when we found the first stone it wiped out an entire village.


xanthemann wrote:

So It was recently suggested we come up with a name for our band of merry players. The reason for this being everyone seems to be doing their own thing in the game and not really concerning themselves with anyone else.

It is our hope that gaming under a team name will help with this...it didn't take long to figure out this wasn't going to go well either. No one could agree on a name either, but we have yet to give up on it. We just need to get a name everyone can agree upon and see if it brings the characters together.
So far the lead name I am aware of is Dread Mercs...this is the evil side of our campaign.

What are your suggestions/experiences for/with this issue?

We never name our character group. However, our IRL gaming groupis the ILLITHIDS: ILLInois THInking Dungeoneer Society.


Seeing as how a patrol normally consists of 2-13 people, maybe Dragon Patrol....hmmmm.


While gaming in a friend's dorm room one night at college someone slid the Jack Chick pamphlet "Dark Dungeons" under the door and ran off down the hall before we could see who it was. So we read it, got a big laugh out of it, and named our gaming group "The Sons of Blackleaf".

Liberty's Edge

Concilium de Formido sounds cool, though yeah maybe something more along the lines of a raving mob would be good.


Thank you Gark the Goblin. Unfortunately we are still in a stalemate over the subject. Currently we are using Dragon Patrol seeing as how nothing has been agreed upon.


The group I had for a while was called "The Party Animals" Their symbol was a minotaur skull on a beer stein. lol


How about, "The Cavalry", as in here comes the cavalry. Even better if there are halfling cavaliers.


The Order of Sanguinius


It seems as though our evil group will go with Deadpool as the group name and in the campaign I am running we will be known as ATF (Absalom Tracking and Finding).


I played in a d20 Call of Cthulhu campaign where all the investigators belonged to a group called the British Defence Initiative, usually just referred to by its acronym, the BDI.


One GM recently had us come with a guild name on the spot and my flamboyantly raucous bard came up with "The Guild of the Yellow Hat" and now we're stuck with it. HE doesn't mind so much (the bard I mean) but our monk and rogue are less than pleased that he keeps turning their headgear yellow with Prestidigitation...

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