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Who doesn't like puns? Clearly, not you, because you're reading this thread.
I love a good joke, especially a one-liner, or better yet, a one-worder, and what better place to sprinkle it than a character name?
Does anyone else out there like to put a little joke in their otherwise-serious character's name? (Or, overtly silly overall character, but for me, the name is usually the only overt joke I have.) Here's a couple recent ones for me. Feel free to share your own ideas; I have plenty of unnamed characters waiting in the bank to be unleashed on the world that could use humorous titles.
-Every archer I've made since the wonderful cartoon came out has been named Sterling.
-My oread barbarian is named M'telikah (angry rock, eh? eh? :-D)
Okay, that's really all I have right now. See why I need help?
(Note, the above parenthetical statement is not strictly true; I DID make a venerable wizard who explained his level-1 status by suffering from dementia, and thus having forgotten all his epic magic a-la Tellah in FF4. UNLIKE Tellah, he was ridiculously senile, and I roleplayed him like a horrible merger between Grandpa Simpson and Professor Farnsworth. Most fun I've had with a character out of combat pretty much ever!)
I've only got two right now, and they both belong to my players in my Carrion Crown campaign
Diane "The Rock" Janeson, Oraed Monk.
Sir Ratigan, Really-Big-Mousefolk Alchemist
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My Gnoll Ranger, a greataxe/longbow switch hitter, had a name in Gnoll that just sounded like a bunch of yips and barks to anyone else.
So he went by the moniker "Bad Axe".
My characters start off as a joke/pop culture reference and end up expanded into their own thing.
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I played a chanracter named Shi'thead.
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This was in a 4E game not Pathfinder but I had a Shaman|Druid hybrid (think the old dual classing system from 2E but a bit more in depth and available to everyone) who's entire schtick was that the spirit he was empowered by was the spirit of all winds in the world (I got the idea after playing Okami for the umpteenth time and based it on Kazegami from the game). So he had a lot of "wind" themed attacks. The character's name?
Erik.
My tiefling bard that I played back in 2e and again for WotR is named Damdaman.
I'm trying to work out a character to be named T'las D'na Reppep. Maybe have a Nethys and cooking combined theme.
It's harder for GMs because, let's be honest, who pays attention to NPC names? So I do this with loot items that are puns by nature. My favorites so far are:
- A non-magical tome full of pictures and life stories of various humanoids for use by disguise artists called the Book of Faces.
- A wayfinder that always points to the nearest member of a given alignment (a moral compass).
Once such loot is distributed, you keep track of how many sessions it is until some realizes and facepalms.
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I have a gnome Investigator named Elrond Hubbard!
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Oh, I forgot, my Sprite character and later my wizard's Sprite familiar were both named Soda.
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I played with a guy who ran a wizard, specializing in chronomancy, named Justin Time.
A ratfolk Sensei Monk named "Splinter."
SM
In 3.5 we fought a wererat ninja named Splinter!
Oh, I remembered a character I statted up for D20 Modern that I never got to play. She was an Italian-American small-claims lawyer (I had just taken Law 12 and watched "My Cousin Vinnie" for the first time). She was named Susan Emmal. Shame that I lost her build, she actually had the potential to be pretty awesome. All I remember was that she was some mix of Smart Hero and Charming Hero.
Then there's the Thri-kreen Monk I wanted to play in Dark Sun named Ku'ik. He was the 919th of 1000 siblings. Speaking of Monks, there was "Jumping" Jack Flash, "the Halfling Hurricane" that I had wanted to use for another campaign.
Then there was the Minotaur Paladin I wanted to play named Seiko Ushino. Who had been adopted by a Kara-Tur noble family as an infant.
Oh, someone in my group is currently playing a Wilden Barbarian named Groot.
I have more but I think that is enough for now.
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Kalen'Dar, Master of Time!
Funny names? Whatever do you mean?
My Ranger has a cat animal companion named Shi'Ra (She Ra)
I had a Halfling Druid Vermin Lord back in 3.5 whose pet was a Chelicera (basically a nasty, giant, grappling, blood-sucking spider) named Target.
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I came a cross a Necromancer in Guild Wars called Bash the Hateful.
I named one of my characters in GW Virtue Li'Hir.
And every halfling, gnome or dwarf with double-barreled surnames I consider a joke name. C'mon, you don't have to do it every freakin' time you got a shortstuff Tolikienic race.. Get a grip. Are you guys rolling on a chart or something?
1- Fire
2- Break
3- Smash
4- Shield
5- Clever
6- Doom
7- Rough
8- Tangled
9- Red/Blue/Green etc
10- Cheese
11- Blunder
12- Steam
13- Clock
14- Gear
15 - Round
1- Beard
2- Shield
3- Pants
4- Bottle
5- Haft
6- Axe
7- Spear
8- Sprocket
9- Widget
10- Smith
11- Monger
12- Work
13- Grass
14 - Cog
15- Bottom
I had a sorceress named Arsynn once.
Yes, she liked fire, why do you ask?
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My normal 'handle' for my home group is 'Wageslave', though some folks refer to me as 'Wagey'. When I was looking for a name for a new PFS character, I was really stuck, so I started going.. Way... Weigh... *EUREKA!*
And thus Wei Ji was named.
Note, the above parenthetical statement is not strictly true; I DID make a venerable wizard who explained his level-1 status by suffering from dementia, and thus having forgotten all his epic magic a-la Tellah in FF4. UNLIKE Tellah, he was ridiculously senile, and I roleplayed him like a horrible merger between Grandpa Simpson and Professor Farnsworth. Most fun I've had with a character out of combat pretty much ever!
...damnit.
I just finished making that character a few days ago.
Was gonna play him like Fizban. :P
Note, the above parenthetical statement is not strictly true; I DID make a venerable wizard who explained his level-1 status by suffering from dementia, and thus having forgotten all his epic magic a-la Tellah in FF4. UNLIKE Tellah, he was ridiculously senile, and I roleplayed him like a horrible merger between Grandpa Simpson and Professor Farnsworth. Most fun I've had with a character out of combat pretty much ever!...damnit.
I just finished making that character a few days ago.
Was gonna play him like Fizban. :P
If you do, note you'll be heavily dependent on your party members for survival until, at the very least, when you get the fly spell. Even with a generous GM and a 25-point buy, that -6 to physical stats hurts. Bad. Specializing in conjuration can save your bones in an emergency, as the teleportation ability is worth it's weight in gold. It doesn't really start to pay off until you get heavy group-hitting save-or-suck spells online. The extra one spell per level on average you grab is not worth the trade-off, mechanically, for quite a long time.
If you do, note you'll be heavily dependent on your party members for survival until, at the very least, when you get the fly spell. Even with a generous GM and a 25-point buy, that -6 to physical stats hurts. Bad. Specializing in conjuration can save your bones in an emergency, as the teleportation ability is worth it's weight in gold. It doesn't really start to pay off until you get heavy group-hitting save-or-suck spells online. The extra one spell per level on average you grab is not worth the trade-off, mechanically, for quite a long time.
It's an Arcanist backup character for a high level game (15 right now), in case my Slayer bites it.
Aaaand it would be my first high level full caster, so those tips are HIGHLY appreciated.
Could be in for good times.
Thankfully my lowest stat is a 8 (Str). FYI, rolling 2 versions (Choose which you want) of 9x (Drop the 3 lowest) 3d6 drop lowest dice and then add 6 (So you have one dice dedicated to be a 6) is a surefire way to make ridiculous PC stats. :/
Edit: I am gonna LOVE the pseudo spontaneous casting. RPing casting one spell, casting another instead. Good times indeed. :D
I tend to like using foreign languages in names. Which is how I got these characters:
-"Liber Inanis": loosly translated to "mad void/freedom" in latin; for a void wizard
-"Schemerzenhexen": German-ish for "pain witch" (scarred witch doctor witch)
-"Dorri chorach": welsh for "dwarf smash", a dwarven barbarian
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My paladin/bard/ranger is role played like he is on drugs, his name? Lysander Spurius Dragomir. In short, LSD.
His mother, an alchemist whose favorite infusion is euphoric cloud, is Miss Daryll Maude Agathia. MDMA.
My wolfscarred and deaf lunar oracle, Rolf Rolf Tollwut, is named by what he misinterpreted people calling him (Rolf instead of wolf). Additionally, his last name is German for rabies.
I refuse to use puns for names.
my summoner eidolon was Gozaer the Gozerian
(ghostbusters out of demention bad thing that comes to destroy the world.also need the one who summon him pick what form he will use while destroying them. "During the rectification of the Vuldronaii, The Traveler came as a large and moving Torb. Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the Meketrex Supplicants, they chose the form of a giant Sloar.")
every gnome thinkerer has somewhat worring name such a Twitch,Oopsy,or my fev " ...the XXIVth".
I have a Mahrog (3rd party Neanderthalian race) Monk of the Empty Hand named Sang Kong as a back up character. Not sure whether my fellow players will ever get the Jackie Chan reference or not, but it's there.
Other notable punny names include: Ai Wien, a nature Oracle exploiting Awaken cycling courtesy of Animal Soul, Yolos Weg, a Half-Orc barbarian fratboy and Jorge Curioso a Vanara Investigator.
My Samurai's horse is named Maximus.
Ever seen Tangled? And yes - his skill of choice is totally intimidate. :P
One of mine kingmaker players has an Oracle whose bounded mount is named Maximus too!
But he made the horse with ranks in Climb and Acrobatics due to The Lone Ranger movie.One of mine Kingamaker NPCs is an Aldori agent, a magus (bladebound, kensai) named Pylyp Aldori but his previous surname was Kolov (Kol - ov = Son of Kol/Col = Co(u)lson)
His favored quote is "Don't touch Lola!" and Lola is his bounded aldori dueling sword.
In another campaign I GM there are 2 dwarves "Avengers" NPCs:
The female master spy whose name is Natsha Roccianova (Italian/Dwarwen name adaptation for Natasha Romanoff) and she is called the "Dwarf Widow".
The Synthesist Krats (reverse for Stark) whose fused Eidolon is named Sivraj (Jarvis), called the Iron Dwarf.
Some day I hope to play a character named Gawain B. Olzout.
My halfling rogue / private eye is called Tripp Hazzard.
I DM'd a campaign featuring a dwarf called Drainitch Ditch, a drug-addicted cleric called Phi Septone and a sex-mad half-elf called Ferrero Rocher (a make of supposedly posh chocolate).
I named many of my dwarves in German and drow in Finnish. So these people appeared: Lumivalko, Arzt, Glucklich, Verdriesslich, Bekloppt, Schlaffrig, Nieslich and Schuchtern Disney Ditch.
Vogelschau Reibekuchen Ditch (= Bird's Eye Potato Waffles)
Doppelfenster Dudelsack Ditch (=Double-glazing bagpipes)
There was the Diode Ditch clan: Schottky, Zener, Ellie (who glowed when she prophesied), and the other obvious ones
The Ditch clan was extensive. Daartbord, Dreiningbord, Daschbord, Dumpetruch, Dogfued, Dormobiel, Dopplerschift, Dornob, Direkt Debit, Drinkendrief, Dreidloch, Dreidbag, Daskapital, etc etc.
The campaign BBEG was called Brionzoan. I hated solid state physics at the time.
I made a cleric PC back in my 3.5 days because we'd lost a few people and needed a little healing power. But I really didn't roleplay for him much, as I had my main - more of healbot, if you will. And so the cleric gained the moniker H'Bonek.
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I enjoy giving rogues the surname "Tumblers" and then giving them max ranks in Acrobatics AND Disable Device.
I also once had a druid named Treow-- Middle English for "tree". Also Middle English for "truth"-- this is why "tree" and "true" are only one letter off from each other; they have the same root word. The people of the era associated nature and the natural world with the secrets of the universe and the like, which is why Druids are still a trope today.
I had a Foresight diviner Wizard who was always very confused as to whether he was watching the present or the future at any given moment. His name: Ilya Oftwrong.
I have a Dwarf Stonelord with the super-obvious name of Crag the Igneous.
I had an Orc Barbarian named Gan the Undying. I'll bet you can guess the circumstances under which that name became ironic....
I briefly played a halfling named Raspberry Beret.
There was also an evil lich in a campaign I ran named Valencia the Orange. And a medusa named Zola.
I also sneaked an aasimar paladin NPC into the campaign named Zauriel. We were a year into the campaign when my comic book geek friend realized the origin of that name...
I had a four-armed alchemist/gunslinger named Nadarr the X-Pirate. I don't think anybody ever noticed.
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Years ago, I played a Bard named Brad.
Was an AD&D bard to, so was basically useless are almost everything but throwing around a pretty smile. Back them I also little to no interpersonal skills, so I role played Brad to effectively have a super power, The Winning Smile. I would stand up at the table, assume a heroic stance, and put on the most over the top smile I could manage, something Superman might do. Then after some dice rolling whoever I was talking to would practically fall in love with Brad and do or believe whatever Brad asked of them.
In my group Brad is basically the Iconic Bard now.
Gnome Grenadier / Alchemist - Shoots bombs from an oversized pistol.
Name is:
Ehmm Sven Nein
{{ Hint: Ever hear of the M79 grenade launcher? }}
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Someone has to mention "Pun Pun" at some point.