In that AP, goblins refer to humans as "longshanks" and a key early NPC referred to us as "a band of filthy vagrants." Voila! It works well because our party doesn't have a leader per se, and nobody (including the party) knows which of us is "Longshanks." It would be even funnier if the party had a goblin, and especially so if the implication was that the goblin (the party face or leader) is "Longshanks."
The Moaning Whales. Or the Angry Giraffes. Introduce yourself as "The Moaning Whales, formerly known as the Angry Giraffes" or "The Angry Giraffes, formerly known as the Moaning Whales" and never keep the order consistent. Then follow up with "You've probably heard of us."
That was the standard operating procedure for my old party's Eberron Great House sponsored adventuring company when it came to introductions.
It started out as half the people in the game not being able to make it for the session where we officially became a sponsored company so they had no say in the name and were upset when they heard we were known as the Moaning Whales. After we finished our first assignment they wanted to have it changed, but me and the other people who agreed on wanting a stupid animal name disagreed so we compromised and became the Angry Giraffes (compromised as in we don't sound like the name of a cheap brothel anymore, but still sounded ridiculous).
The formerly known part came in because some of us argued that since we already did an official job people probably knew us by our former name so we needed to use both. It was a fun game.
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The Running Jokes.
Names:
1. Burn! Pillage! What?!
2. Unapologetic Villainy
3. Toecutter’s Fugly Mugs
Some of us enjoy playing characters whose moral codes are not vanilla.
Some of the most interesting characters in fiction don’t fit in with Leave it to Beaver morality codes and evil (especially lawful evil) is often the best vehicle in D&D and its assorted begats’ alignment systems to reflect such a character. Some of us like “us against the world” types of characters. The belief that the only people who play evil characters are griefers is slightly less accurate than that which holds that the only people who play paladins do so they have an excuse to preach and be morally indignant and uptight at every opportunity. I’ve seen far more disruption from paladin players (whose existence basically screams “I get to play what I want, but you’re not allowed to play an evil character”) than I have from evil PCs & kender PCs combined.
-TimD
For those of you who care....
Just finish our session tonight and we settled on a name. Silent boom was one of the front runners, because we do a lot of stealthing. But our GM made a joke about SBD (Silent but Deadly) and it took off. Jokes about everything from the smell, noise, and secret hand shakes.
So thank everyone for the input.
Sincerely,
SBD (Silent but Deadly)