Lets put together a list of your groups team names in the glatiatorial games of TCB. My group named themself "The Diamond Lakers" (and started to produce tags, T-Shirts and caps as give aways which raises their rank :))
My team named themselves the Diamond Lake Duo (this was in a pre fight in old city where there were only pairs allowed). We have yet to start the Champions Belt...
my group almost named themselves the 7 of Diamonds. I thought it was clever.
My group decided on the "Legion of Doom."
They had considered and ruled out several other names, including "The Mind Slayers."
Fitting the theme...my players decided to call themselves The Diamond Band.
Since all of the characters in my player's group have at least one level of cleric, they went with "Divine Intervention." Interestingly, they started calling themselves that as soon as they reached Greyhawk, long before they needed a warband name.
The Blink Dogs.
They even came up with a hand sign, which was basically making an "OK" sign with each hand, one looking like a "b" and the other a "d" then crossing their arms to show the sign away from them.
My group named themselves "Clayton's Word", as a homage to the paladin they lost early in the Whispering Cairn.
I thought "blink dogs" with the gang signs was hilarious. I seriously laughed out loud.
We've been called The Diamond Company and The Diamond Blades.
The Black Razers, a nod to the twin half-elf rangers in the party(one of whom was team captain)whose father wielded Blackrazor back in the day...
The Green Dragons, in Draconic.
They had green hooded cloaks made for all members.
When they came out they would throw back the hoods when announced.
My Telepath and fighter (Technically NPCs) had the cloaks sewn
onto their magic cloaks.
The halfling paladin didn't get one because he was still
atoning for something two characters did and claimed he was
in on it.
Anyways the two PCs are half dragons, their real father is a
Green Dragon.
They have a sort of side kick who is a Kobold Sorcerer who has
gone pure neutral.
My group considered Diamond Dogs and Diamonds in the Rough before leaning towards "Regulators," due to the fact that anytime they are going anywhere the party's mage says: "Alright, regulators. Let's ride."
Perhaps they'll change it before officially entering the games, though.
The group I'm running called themselves Impotent Rage, and spent a lot of time working the crowd to raise the odds against them, then proceeded to bet on themselves. When they showed up at the dinner the night before, they wore crappy armor, carried rusted weapons. One guy even went so far as to disquise himself as if he were diseased. They won a lot of money when all was said and done.
By the way, in my game, Crazy Eight was a gang of kobold monks.
My group called themselves "Tempest Verdigris," later shortened to "Tempest Verdig." There wasn't really much reason behind it; one player just thought it sounded cool and it stuck.
My team named itself the "Circle if Four" because we are all spellcasters. All of our opponents thought that they were super unimaginative until we didn't let a fight go for more than 5 rounds. And in the first fight we downed *everybody* before they could fight each other.
After an awful lot of bickering and Sleight of Hand rolls against each other, my lot have finally settled down and named themselves the Diamond Blades. Not original as I can see from further up the thread, but I won't tell them that!
Now I can kill them with the Faceless One and his lightning bolts. Let's see little miss 'sorceror with protection from arrows and a brooch of shielding who laughs in the face of kenku' cope with that! Heheheh...
My group was "Ekyam's Surprise". When we found out the truth of Ekyam's reasons for sponsoring, we laughed out loud at the delicious irony.
Members of Ekyam's Suprise:
Kor (Raptoran) Angel of Darkness
Stewie (Half-Ogre) The Night Titan
Cyric (Human) Shining Steel
Dage (Human) The Feline Frenzy
Nevil (Kobold) Pyroclasm
My group called themselves "The Wind Dukes." (Could a DM ask for anything more!!! Heck this was before I learned about the "heirs of the wind dukes thread."
Amongst other things the warmage cast a gust of wind on the crowd after each victory... a literal wave!!!
Also after defeating the mindflayer before the games they took its severed head to a taxidermist and had it stuffed. They put it on a pole and had an artificer do some minor magic on it.
Before each battle they would plant the flayer standard in the ground and activate its magic. The tenticles who writhe and a magic mouth would announce "All hail the Wind Dukes!!!"
Ultimately the purpose of this was to provoke Raknarian, but it was so cool that after a couple of victories I had some entrepreneur in the crowd create hand held versions of the flayer standard so by the third battle half the crown was waving flayer tentacles in the air.
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Shade325
We've only just arrived in Greyhawk, but after we defeated the chimera, one of the street performers wanted to know what we called ourselves.
The fastest thinker was a guy who just finished reading Tales of the Dying Earth, so now we're the Wormingers.
Although my group officially named themselves the
"Diamond Lords" for adventuring purposes, in the
Champion's games they dubbed their gladiator stable
"Snaevar's Bloody Mug" in recognition of the fight club
created by the party's resident alchoholic dwarf, Snaevar
ReduBron. This fight club first erupted on the scene at the
Feral dog in Diamond Lake, where many participants such as
Kullen, Kurlag, and Golot got their chance to drink hard dwarven ale from Snaevar's gem encrusted ivory inlaid mugs,
before pummeling each other in a drunken haze. Eventually
the ring migrated with it's founder to the Free City where
nefarious contracts were drawn with an infamous underground
fight promoter by the name of Thadeus Tightfist, an unscrup-ulous goblin who also ran a fight called the Checkered Circle.
Snaevar competed in two match-ups (Dire Lion, and an Atach)
but was severely outmatched (an obvious fix by Tightfist),
However the fact that any sane adventurer would fight such
savage opponents gained the admiration of many fight fans
and as such, helped the Diamond Lords to become Snaevar's
Bloody Mug in the arena, and eventually go on to win the Champion's Belt.
hi There, my group plays in eberron. They're called "The Hexiles" because they're six, and because they fled diamond lake rather than left. they had a quarry with smenk after TFoE. we have a warforged who is "DAs Kleine Lokomotiv" meaning little locomotive (he is a juggernaut btw), a shifter druid, who is a "sailormoonspeaker", and a duskling barbarian with a grathammer, who we fondly named "stappler". and i'm yet to know the nick names of the others. they haven't come up with something just yet. they're a boneknight, a ninja and a arcane hierophant. all human. if you have any sugestions, please post them
My group pick "Les Compagnons du Fléau" (Fellowship of the flail/scourge)as they are followers of Hextor (or mostly).
We were the Diamond Lake Brawlers and we rolled with that champ belt like we were WWE champs LOL
My group of players called themselves the Stone Lords, for several members like to collect gems.
Our party is prepping for the games soon, and our name is "The ORder of the Ass."
(Our shape-shifter once scared a band of orcs with tales of a ramapging, donkeylike monster that breathes fire... We've been the "ORder of the Ass" ever since.)
But, if you knew our party, you'd realize that it also works on multiple levels.
Our group has a rather draconic theme to them and called themselves Bahamut's Children.
Members of Bahamut's Children are:
Darius, Leader and Paladin of Bahamut (not also a Dragonborn Vassal of Bahamut)
Malikor, WIzard and Mage of the Arcane Order (now also a archmage). Malikor got a full back tattoo of a silver dragon, and also raised Assana (below)
Assana, Bronze dragon
Pixelina, a Pixie rogue (no draconic theme unfortunatly)
Temperance, Dragonborn dragon shaman
Unfortunatly we lost the finals. WIzard feebleminded malikor, and we just couldn't handle the golums and all, and Temperance failed save for fear.
After long debate, they finally and only an instant before Ekaym asked them, agreed on "Diamond Knights".