Well I am not sure if this belongs here or not so whatever. I was just reading another thread and there looked to be some very odd names going up. So I was just wondering what your weirdest character names were? Personally I think my weirdest was having a monk nicknamed Iron Monkey!
ANyways if you have some replies that would be great and amusing at the same time.
The group I DMed once found a Deck of Many Things. They pulled out the card that gives them the service of a fourth level fighter... So came into existance a knight that would lend his services to the group.
'Sir Loin of Pond de Rosa'
Sadly, he died at the STEAK.
Ultradan
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!.Baron Bing the Merceiless-LE Fighter likes to torture his enemies by croonning White Christmas. Very bad Bing Crosby impression.
2.Bobbintheoneandonlygeniuswhoworkswithwarmachinesthatgoboomboominthenight. or Bob for short. Tinker Gnome from Dragonlance.
3.Armand Hammer- dwarven fighter and
4. His brother MC - dwarven bard
I feel so ashamed.
Well I am not sure if this belongs here or not so whatever. I was just reading another thread and there looked to be some very odd names going up. So I was just wondering what your weirdest character names were? Personally I think my weirdest was having a monk nicknamed Iron Monkey!
Anyways if you have some replies that would be great and amusing at the same time.
A Dwark Monk called Bosch Masonbit. Not sure if you get Bosch in the States but it's a German powertool company. This guy could hit hard!
Also had another Dwarf Fighter called Braun Steamiron. Again, Braun make irons and it sounded...well...dwarvish. :D
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I have a whole family of PCs called "de Totenhosen" (meaning "dead trousers" in german). It was inspired by a strange european rock band at least 15 years ago.
Except the parents (that I've been playing for 20 years), all of the children (been playing for more than 10 years) have a first name based on celebrities : Ian (sing leader of Echo & bunnymen), Marlène (Dietrich), Kate (Bush), Ridley (Scott), Henry (Fonda), Audrey (Hepburn), Clift (being the only exception, base on "Monty" Clift family name).
Not mine, but my best friend's most infamous character: a human rogue/assassin raised by elves and with a genocidal ambition to wipe the human race from the world, ending with himself. His name? Innagadda Davida. (The friend is a music fanatic, and frequently names characters after song/album titles and band names.)
Two of the players in my group came up with a dice-base random name generator that they use sometimes. I'm not sure how it works exactly, but it yields the number of letters to be used in the name, and then the letters themselves. I don't know if they use them in the order they roll, or if they just make a pool that they rearrange things from. Either way, it makes some pretty interesting names. Some sound good, some are near unpronouncable.
IMO all gnomes should have bad pun names:
Quillin Inkpot- gnome wizard
Dale Andoverhill- gnome ranger
and (i accept no responsibility for this one):
Paddy O'fernitur- gnome cleric
Erroneous Blunder was a fighter in our ToEE campaign. To echo another post, I was so happy when he died.
And boy, did he die -- over 100 hp in one shot! :)
Later,
Jack
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!.Baron Bing the Merceiless-LE Fighter likes to torture his enemies by croonning White Christmas. Very bad Bing Crosby impression.
2.Bobbintheoneandonlygeniuswhoworkswithwarmachinesthatgoboomboominthenight. or Bob for short. Tinker Gnome from Dragonlance.
3.Armand Hammer- dwarven fighter and
4. His brother MC - dwarven bard
I feel so ashamed.
As well you should.
Let's see...
I had a bard named Melodious Funk, who had his own theme music. His travelling companions would call him Mal-odorous Funk.
During World-Wide D&D Game Day, one player was trying to think of a good name for his gnome. Another player asked how to tell a good gnome name, and I said that their names are often long. So, the gnome's name was Oftenlong.
My friend played a cleric name Gregor Ianchant.
Lots of fun.
Our most recent Age of Worms fatality was an elf by the name of Valinor Silmarilion. His hummingbird familiar is named Keebler. Should prove interesting if they choose to reincarnate him and he becomes a Gnoll or something.
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In a campaign a long time ago I had a giant owl NPC called Retsam Noegnud. It took a while for the guys to figure out that it stands for Dungeon Master backwards. Hey, I was a kid then!
Then in a recent campaign one guy had a cleric call Huhs (stands for hand up her skirt). The guy is in his 30s too. Don't ask, but he is still playing with us and is the DM now, and not doing too bad either.
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Our most recent Age of Worms fatality was an elf by the name of Valinor Silmarilion. His hummingbird familiar is named Keebler. Should prove interesting if they choose to reincarnate him and he becomes a Gnoll or something.
I got that beat. one of my friends had a elf named Woody Greenleaf.(hey it was 1st edition). Later in 2nd edition Forgotten Realms we had a cleric of Denier named wait for it-
Paige Turner. I wish i travelled in time to smack myself across the head for thinking this was the norm.Even Dungeon got into the act with a halfling dressed up as Darth Vader complete with asthma and a big D on his chest.
Okay...here is a current one.
I play a living greyhawk Character.
Rupert Caine. He is a wizard.
He signs everything R. Caine.
His familiar...Nova.
:)
Okay...here is a current one.
I play a living greyhawk Character.
Rupert Caine. He is a wizard.
He signs everything R. Caine.
His familiar...Nova.
:)
Did he have a sister named Lana? ... or Kandy?
If he dies and comes back to life (like Gandalf), will he become White Caine?
If he and his brother start a buisness, will it be called Co. Caine?
If he builds a bike and is really happy about it, will it be A Merry Caine Chopper?
Ultradan
I had a bard that would sing the glorious tale of Howie Feldersnatch.
I was 14, sue me. :P
My friend had a Traveler character he named after his watch and the beer he was drinking when he rolled him up: Hamms Casio
Another buddy of mine played a dwarf from a clan whose last names were car parts...his character was Oilcan Camshaft....and he saw NO humor in anyone making fun of the name.
My only current PC has kind of a weird name: Daedalus Long, but his alias he uses in public is Darmin Short....
Another buddy of mine tends to give his characters arabic names, even though he always plays elves or dwarves.
My wife names her characters are Wheel of Time characters and/or names she finds in the PH....she finds making up names to be the most tedious thing in D&D.
A few of my newest players act like picking a name for their characters is like pulling teeth. There have been some funny ones over the years though. My brother-in-law runs a minotaur named Carne of the clan Asada for our AoW. I play a goblin named Ooops who has an armor class so low he can hit himself. The character started out as a joke but evolved into a little bad ass, though on our most recent game he was responsible for a TPK 3 times during the game (Thankfully he has a magical item that does a contengent Ressurection, other wise it would have been a short game.
Offhand, I once used an NPC barbarian who, like A Boy Named Sue, was extra tough due to his dainty name, Percy.
'Percy V. Rant' would fly into rages quite easily I recall.
Once knew a girl with the name Eila Mazer. When my friend asked why her parents had decided to give her a joke name she had no idea what he meant.
He had to explain it to her...
Oh, did that girl take off down the stairs in a tizzy.
This is a great thread!
My most disturbed character name was: Burnadube Killaguy
He was magnificent!
Ok if there are any Arabic speakers out there you'll find this VERY funny.
I am a Canadian of Lebanese Origin and about half my roleplaying group (when I was still in Canada) are of same origins so also speak arabic. (Funny how now that we've moved to Dubai only ONE guy in my new group speak Arabic...wow ironic eh? but that's another story altogether lol).
So there's series of jokes in Lebanon where they take names that are actually words in Arabic that SOUND like a foreign language and are supposedly assigned to ambassadors from different countries. I'll give you an example below (suffice it to say this for almost 2 years was the favored naming tactic of half the group and result in some real HILARIOUS names for anyone who spoke Arabic!):
Russian Ambassador = Niko Balakhov (roughly translated from Arabic it would be f...u...c...k... him without fear).
Japanese Ambassador = Yama Nikkto Yama (again rough translation is oh how many times i've screwed him)
Spanish Ambasador = Juan Dandalerro
French = Jean Mesiclier
Kuwaiti = nikto hatta al Sabah (the entire ruking family of kuwait are the Sabah family).
etc...etc.. You get the picture..lets just say they are VERY pilitically incorrect but really funny if you speak the language.
Lastly...Disclaimer...this port is NOT trying to offend anyone...i was merely pointing out the childish practices of my previous group.
I just made a half-fiend illithid named Zoidberg. :-D
-Amber S.
Isn't it odd that the SUBSCRIBER designation is missing after all our names on this post only?
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I see the subscriber titles...
I see the subscriber titles...
Then I seem to be suffering from a rather selective form of blindess.
BTW, your Zoidberg character is quite novel. :)
A few of mine:
The valet of my elven wizard: Generic Enpeacey
A critter my char owned in Amber DRPG: Nicotine; little green lizard with a thing for cheesy puffs.
A Maug I played: Hakhrafenoxilar (HOK-rah-fen-ox-ill-ar)
Another Amber character: Jane
And one of the DM's NPCs: the Marshal of Spit
Well my current group ran into a wild mage while passing through the Underdark who was named Random Encountra.
I had a heartless bountyhunter in Star Wars (d6) named Callas Grinch, while a friend of mine played Charac Templa. For those of you who never played West End's version the characters are based off of "Character Templates".
I have a reoccurring orc beatstick called Pip the Scholastic, who might be gracing Dungeon in the not-to-distant future.
And Jade, I seem to have the same eye condition you have.
GGG
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I had a dwarven fighter named Flint Anstiel. (Sparks will fly when he's around...)
I also have an elf named Zwolf. ('Elf' is German for 'eleven', and 'Zwolf' is 'twelve'... This one was actually not my fault. I was having trouble coming up with a name for the guy, so I just kept calling him 'the elf'. My brother, who was DMing, and taking German class at the time, kept saying 'Zwolf' every time, and it just kind-of stuck...)
I'm playing a human who's trying to take one level of every class he possibly can. His name is Jack...
My pompous-yet-clueless halfling sorcerer, whose real name is Caruthers Willowby, goes by the moniker 'The Mighty Erroneous'. He thought it sounded powerful and mysterious...
A paladin/monk of mine named: Marl de Boro with the nickname of Klop; "clope" in french slang is the name for a cigarette; "klop" is also the sound of a strike; naturally he worships a fire god.....
It's not a character name - those tend to be too thought out - but a friend of mine named his horses Cantelope Head (after death) and Glue. We had a DM that loved destroying the very things we most valued...
In another campaign (I think it might have been Call of Cultulu) we played a team of FBI investigaters (a la x-files) and his character was Robert Shisca. Must be just Army dry humor...
Celric
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I generally don't go for funny wierd names...
I had a Call of Cthulhu investigator named Peyton Farquhar, after the main character in Ambrose Bierce's 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge'
Loooong ago, I ran a 1ed druid NPC named Roger the Shrubber, as a nod to Monty Python.
In one Diskworld-esque game that never got entierly off the ground, I had a horny bard named Randy.
Isn't it odd that the SUBSCRIBER designation is missing after all our names on this post only?
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I believe that we don't have subsriber tags on any thread in the Dungeons & Dragons tree, only in the Dungeon group or the Dragon group. We all subscribe to the game, just in a less formal fashion ;)
An old friend once ran a human savage warrior:
Gedat M'way
When he died, he brought in his brother:
Movat M'way
M
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I believe that we don't have subsriber tags on any thread in the Dungeons & Dragons tree, only in the Dungeon group or the Dragon group. We all subscribe to the game, just in a less formal fashion ;)Isn't it odd that the SUBSCRIBER designation is missing after all our names on this post only?
edit: nope, seems all the new posts are missing it.
There is subscriber tags on this thread, maybe you're victim of a gnomish illusionist.
A halfling warsling sniper that came from an Irish style background.
His name Rick O'Chet
Funky. I believe you, but I don't see subscriber tags in any thread under the Dungeons & Dragons heading. This is why many PCs like to kick gnomes.
We just make fun of them for their pointy red hats.
GGG
PS Perhaps Paizo just wants some of us to buy a new subscription?
There is subscriber tags on this thread, maybe you're victim of a gnomish illusionist.Funky. I believe you, but I don't see subscriber tags in any thread under the Dungeons & Dragons heading. This is why many PCs like to kick gnomes.
Sign me up for the next gnome punt.
she finds making up names to be the most tedious thing in D&D.
Yeah, I named an NPC in a campaign Trelligish Mul -- think I remember that right... do you? :)
Jack
Oh yeah, and then there was that giant named Puddintain.... I stole from an old Dragon magazine back when it was new. Just shows how ancient this dragon is.
GGG
Okay...here is a current one.
I play a living greyhawk Character.
Rupert Caine. He is a wizard.
He signs everything R. Caine.
His familiar...Nova.
:)
Did he have a sister named Lana? ... or Kandy?
If he dies and comes back to life (like Gandalf), will he become White Caine?
If he and his brother start a buisness, will it be called Co. Caine?
If he builds a bike and is really happy about it, will it be A Merry Caine Chopper?
Ultradan
It gets better than that. He is from the Yeomanry and spent 3 years in the Milita to gain citizenship. Now in all the Yeomanry Mods...you guessed it they call him Citizen Caine. I really hadn't planned that, it just happened that way.
Way back in the AD&D days, my girlfriend at the time ran a female elven magic user named Ellaflandria. Sadly, she was killed by a white dragon that almost TPK'd us - my elven fighter-thief was a widower before we'd even had a proper honeymoon - he never recovered. Very sad...