Vrecknidj
Warlord
10492 Posts
    
United States
 | | 01/27/2006 5:58 PM |
| Just saw a thread like this on ENWorld and was hoping to get some real humdingers from over here.
My own examples.
The Instrumentalist (no, not a bard, he was a 2e psionicist)
Sickeo-2 (a 1e jester, and no, there never was a Sickeo-1)
Th-bb-phthphth-bbt--duh--me (just do a raspberry, pause, say "duh" and then "me"; this was an orc character very briefly played by a friend of mine)
Here's one I've never played, but really hope to:
Plan-B (a rogue who thinks far too highly of his ability to save the party after they've screwed up, again)
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glumag
Warlord
5968 Posts
| | 01/27/2006 6:06 PM |
| Well, one of my players has 2 silly names for his characters:
Thunk: His ½orc ranger with low INT (-6).
Aj-nin: for his ninja (it'll come to you in a second).
Other than that I have never been witness to any other names from players that seemed silly; none that I can recall right now anyway. | |
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dariustad
Warlord
6322 Posts
| | 01/27/2006 6:14 PM |
| In one very bizarre and throughly entertaining campaign, I had two silly names:
Flatulence McToot (Dwarven fighter)
Skippy the Wonder Thump (named that because he would often yell "THUMP!" before headbutting something -- he didn't care if it would actually cause damage to whatever it was he attacked.) | |
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Fearfrost
Sergeant
518 Posts
| | 01/27/2006 6:18 PM |
| | My brother's dwarf characters all seem to have the last name of Vonlavenbeard. I have no idea why. | |
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IanB
Commander
3112 Posts
| | 01/27/2006 6:29 PM |
| The worst I can remember is a dwarf cleric named "Gupi Goo."
Mexico the Excavator comes in second. | |
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kestrel.ca
Underboss
1687 Posts
| | 01/27/2006 6:30 PM |
| Mrd (pronounced merd) - a incredibly uncharismatic tank of a brass half-golem. He lasted one session before being deemed unplayable.
Sord - the Half-orc fighter in our current campaign.
Kiara McNasty - a cleric in one of our older campaigns -- her husband (forget his first name) didn't last more than a session or two before she ran off with the ranger. | |
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TruNutral88
Sergeant
522 Posts
| | 01/27/2006 9:15 PM |
| lol. One time at one of the anniversary places my cousin's told me about a 12-person campaign and a couple of the names were goofy:
Dwarfy McDwarfydwarf - dwarf fighter
Shaniqua - halforc female dancer
Rad Sumptuous - Human wizard with a HUGE mustache
Highlights -
Dwarfy was shrunk and criticalled a naga with his miniature bite attack for 3 damage (woot!)
Rad Sumptuous (can't spell correct heh) was the lame wizard who never contributed and had 10 scrolls of invisiblity.
"I see the orcs!" -fighter
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Sir Bozak The Damned
Commander
2854 Posts
Québec
| | 01/27/2006 9:23 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by kestrel.ca
Mrd (pronounced merd) - a incredibly uncharismatic tank of a brass half-golem. He lasted one session before being deemed unplayable.
Sord - the Half-orc fighter in our current campaign.
Kiara McNasty - a cleric in one of our older campaigns -- her husband (forget his first name) didn't last more than a session or two before she ran off with the ranger.
Merde is poo in French, lol :) | |
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Oni
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1131 Posts
| | 01/28/2006 4:30 AM |
| RRRR The Swashbuckler
Spunge The fighter
and on World of Warcraft
Bankslot He was just made to hold things so I thought the name would be funny... now he is my second highest character [:(]. | |
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Testament
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1397 Posts
| | 01/28/2006 5:51 AM |
| I have 2 sillies myself
Ansert Nameer, my paladin in Greyhawk and Whiplash, my CHA 22 Female Barbarian/Bard
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scruffydude7
Underboss
1196 Posts
Rock Hill, SC
| | 01/28/2006 6:11 AM |
| I once played a Gnome Hexblade called "Reubin Thaddeus Vanferker III". He changed his name to sound more impressive and important, and so everyone in the party calls him "Pat" just to irk him. Needless to say this only added to his anger issues...
Also, the folks I play with loved this halfling NPC:
Hamilton Beefings - the worlds biggest halfling, he was so big he was considered a medium creature.
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Count Dooku
Commander
4637 Posts
New York
| | 01/28/2006 8:44 AM |
| Roscoe Bushdiver - Halfling rogue.
See his family name was Bushdiver because of a family cistory of cowardice.
They jumped into the bushes to hide all the time you see.
......Yeah I didnt buy it either. I just think the player liked messing with my campaign. :( | |
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Malin Lug
Sergeant
742 Posts
| | 01/28/2006 10:01 AM |
| A long ways back we had a guy who used these bizarre name charts and came up with Brackkakk - for his 18 charisma cleric. It translated to "beatiful woman."
We had another guy who has a history of naming his characters after the pupppets on Seasame Street. The names include the rather grouchy Oscarr and Elmo who was very tickelish.
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Wayne
Underboss
1371 Posts
| | 01/28/2006 11:50 AM |
| I simply won't allow silly names in my game. (At least to start. Nicknames genuinely earned during play are another matter.) Unless you're playing a slapstick game, it's just too disruptive to the mood.
Much more insidious than goofy names, in my opinion, are names stolen from other fantasy sources. One of the players in one of my groups has a habit of just stealing names straight out of gaming fiction. Since I read very little gaming fiction, I often go for weeks before I catch it ... and then it annoys the bejesus out of me.
(Should "bejesus" be capitalized?)
It's just not that hard to come up with good, or at least serviceable, names. | |
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Corim Danex
Warlord
6842 Posts
West Valley City, Utah
| | 01/28/2006 11:53 AM |
| The campaign I am currently DMing has some lame names for familiar/mounts.
The raven familiar is named Raven. The same PC's light warhorse is named Moose (for variety from Horse, I guess...)
Several others took the last names of their characters in reverse order and named their horses that.
One player gave his paladin a strange name. Remblack de Sleeper. The last name is what baffled me. | |
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kestrel.ca
Underboss
1687 Posts
| | 01/28/2006 12:31 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Sir Bozak The Damned
quote:
Originally posted by kestrel.ca
Mrd (pronounced merd) - a incredibly uncharismatic tank of a brass half-golem. He lasted one session before being deemed unplayable.
Sord - the Half-orc fighter in our current campaign.
Kiara McNasty - a cleric in one of our older campaigns -- her husband (forget his first name) didn't last more than a session or two before she ran off with the ranger.
Merde is poo in French, lol :)
Yup. I know. [:D] But it's all in the pronunciation. M-eh-rd (en francais) as opposed to M-ur-d (dumb tank). Because I'm sure if you called him merde, he'd beat the merde out of you. [)] | |
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AesophDarkfable
Warlord
5628 Posts
| | 01/28/2006 5:40 PM |
| Silly names can be fun if done well.
I think it was one of the Cunningham books that had the Dwarf named Jill (I think that was it), he always said how everyone in his family was named Jill, and though it was cheesy and cutsey at first, it worked. Silly names can work. People give their kids in real life silly names all the time. I went to school with a girl named Jeckyl Ann Hyde (I joke you not), if the name is so silly it becomes a disturbance thats different, but I got no problem with a silly name if used properly. | |
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serithax
Warrior
342 Posts
| | 01/28/2006 6:39 PM |
| | Stuff like this would never fly with the RPG group I play with. Back in my time with EQ though I had for a short time a gnome cleric named "Elron Hubbard" who carried a couple books for hand held items that were explained to be copies of his new book called "Dyin Medics". I RPed the character with the personality of a televangelist faithhealer. It was fun for the time. | |
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taliesin
Underboss
1113 Posts
| | 01/28/2006 10:09 PM |
| | In a Star Wars game I ran a couple years back, one of my friends played "Ugg the Cave Wookie." There are no caves on MY Kashyyk, since the trees are sooo tall, the ground is unexplored and inhabited by extremely dangerous predators), but he had an Int of 3, so we figured his character just wouldn't get the joke. | |
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Vrecknidj
Warlord
10492 Posts
United States
| | 01/28/2006 10:16 PM |
| Speaking of naming horses, one of the kids in my son's Warcraft game is named Dayin. Dayin's horse was named, "Dayin's Horse." But, after a few sessions, we all began to notice that this horse was a more effective combatant than we were. So, the horse got renamed "Dayin's Horse 3000" (who knows why 3000 istead of any other number, I believe someone suggested XP).
I've also seen Tea-Biscuit and Slomgoolia as horse names.
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AesophDarkfable
Warlord
5628 Posts
| | 01/28/2006 11:35 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Vrecknidj
Speaking of naming horses, one of the kids in my son's Warcraft game is named Dayin. Dayin's horse was named, "Dayin's Horse." But, after a few sessions, we all began to notice that this horse was a more effective combatant than we were. So, the horse got renamed "Dayin's Horse 3000" (who knows why 3000 istead of any other number, I believe someone suggested XP).
I've also seen Tea-Biscuit and Slomgoolia as horse names.
Dave
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PhibbyRizo
Warrior
207 Posts
Good Ol' Minnesota
| | 01/29/2006 12:07 PM |
| I've heard tales from a friend of a very unserious game with an elf ranger named Legoflamb...an extreme naturlist/pacifist.
In my very early days as a DM the names were bad when I had just introduced the game. The two characters we had were a theif and a very abused wizard.
The thief was named Clawford (the player's last name was Crawford) but the wizard....was uncreatively named "The Dark Wizard". Of coarse, with a unseriouse rouge in an unserious game the wizards name very quickly almost officially changed to "The Dark Wizzer". He was always called that or "Wizzer" for short. It was subsequently lengthened to "He who wizzes in the dark".
Which posed the contiued (yes, seriousely) of why he would need to wizz in the dark when he could just turn invisible. (one of his signature spells)
Anyway, the player of said wizard carried the nicname of "Wizzer" for atleast 5 years....[^] | |
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Kiddoc
Underboss
1797 Posts
| | 01/29/2006 12:23 PM |
| Cleric of the Silver Flame: Nosmo King
Heh. Nosmoking...
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AesophDarkfable
Warlord
5628 Posts
| | 01/29/2006 1:47 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Kiddoc
Cleric of the Silver Flame: Nosmo King
Heh. Nosmoking...
Sometimes in fits of religious fervor calls himself Nosmo Luther King Jr. :p
Oddly, when I worked at admissions and records at my university, there was a gentleman who graduated in 1932 named just that. Nosmo King. | |
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Corim Danex
Warlord
6842 Posts
West Valley City, Utah
| | 01/29/2006 2:42 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by PhibbyRizo
Of coarse, with a unseriouse rouge in an unserious game ...
How can red make-up be unserious? | |
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Lab Monkey
Commander
4136 Posts
| | 01/29/2006 7:23 PM |
| About 15 years ago I had a player named Bob the Fighter. Bob was pretty disruptive to a game with other characters named Dalsinthus, Tyrn, Wanderer, etc. After that I disallowed non-serious names, unless they were earned as a result of in character play.
I ran a couple Eberron sessions last fall. One player ran a Warforged Fighter that started out as "nameless" and eventually became known as "Tank". I wasn't too thrilled with it, but it didn't seem to hurt the game like "Bob the Fighter" did. | |
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dagonet
Sergeant
442 Posts
| | 01/29/2006 7:28 PM |
| | One of my players (a fan of Dragonball Z) named his first character (a cavalier type) 'Trunks.' We all had a pretty good time with that one until he switched to Teshearo in desperation. [}:)] | |
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Stabmastaarson
Sergeant
442 Posts
| | 01/30/2006 2:11 PM |
| My all time fav: A gnome Bard named Itchy Slampikus (the "i" is pronounced "ee".
Runners up: Sebewufu (short "e" sound and woofoo). half-orc barbarian from the Bright Desert. His mission in life is to find someone else named Sebewufu and kill him.
Makalakadik-dok, a halfling from a jungle based campaign with maxed out hide capabilities (high dex, skill focus, max ranks, etc) and no move silent. You could never see him, just hear him rumbling through the brush.
We also have a guy in our LG group with....you got it...Bob...Bob the Trader OR Trader Bob. I hate that.
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PhibbyRizo
Warrior
207 Posts
Good Ol' Minnesota
| | 01/30/2006 5:19 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Corim Danex
quote:
Originally posted by PhibbyRizo
Of coarse, with a unseriouse rouge in an unserious game ...
How can red make-up be unserious?
...when the make-up was attempted to be put on the chicken animal companion.
Good times. | |
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Prince o the Raven Banner
Sergeant
606 Posts
| | 01/31/2006 5:40 AM |
| | One of the kids in our game is Fartsy Warbutt,Half-orc. He insists on using Half-orc like a title and corrects any one who doesn't use the whole line. I'm not running a silly game but honestly he gets more laughs with the Half-orc bit than with the flatulent refrences.In college there were some more memorable names but I'll leave those unposted. | |
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Marjorie
Underboss
1141 Posts
| | 01/31/2006 10:01 AM |
| We had this one guy in a campaign who refused to name his dwarven cleric. After about 6 sessions with this very silent player (and character), we named the character 'Stone Cold' -- after the logo Paul wore on his shirts 5 days out of 6.
Other 'cute' names:
Spark -- my Int 6 Half-Orc Cleric. It's actually short for Sparkle Skullcrusher, but she has problems with 2 syllable words in Common...
Widget -- my Warforged Scout. It's small, mechanical, and useful in all sorts of situations...
Animals in our campaigns fare rather badly. We've found that if you name a creature, it dies rather abruptly, so we try not to. Our priest of gluttony, however, named his horses Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. He had them chalked up into the correct cuts, too... | |
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Jefftyjeffjeff
Warrior
214 Posts
| | 01/31/2006 4:24 PM |
| I usually play my fantasy straight, but once for a one-shot game, I named my dark elf character "Kajagoogoo."
He wasn't excessively retiring.
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mordantos
Underboss
1210 Posts
| | 01/31/2006 4:45 PM |
| Well, I had a Cleric named Phar once.
The other players and DM worked very hard to get the word Far into every sentance, with double points for multiples.
I had a dressing down from a church elder that started "Well so far, Phar..." [:o)] | | | |
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devasque
Sergeant
874 Posts
| | 01/31/2006 5:08 PM |
| | Worst that comes to mind was one of folks at my game table during high school commons. He executed about as much intelligence as his INT 8 Fighter using the table as inspiration - D'Ning Taebhel. Still groan at that one. | |
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mordantos
Underboss
1210 Posts
| | 01/31/2006 5:19 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by devasque
D'Ning Taebhel.
Didn't he form an order of Knights? I think they put out a monthly magazine... [:o)] | | | |
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MackeyJ
Underboss
1414 Posts
| | 01/31/2006 8:23 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by dariustad
In one very bizarre and throughly entertaining campaign, I had two silly names:
Flatulence McToot (Dwarven fighter)
Skippy the Wonder Thump (named that because he would often yell "THUMP!" before headbutting something -- he didn't care if it would actually cause damage to whatever it was he attacked.)
That first one made me laugh and the second reminded me of a pet that one of the PC's had from a campaign way back. Skippy the wonder goat. This pet would always protect it's master when times got real tough and the darn thing would never seem to die and would keep saving our arses someway or another. Skippy did a lot of headbutting too. | |
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