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An oldie but goodie. I always wanted to play a Welsh assassin. Dai the Death
Dai iawn... Dai iawn!
Maybe you could make a bard named Tom "the voice" (A la Tom Jones) or Max "the Leek" since Max Boyce always carried a huge one of those around during his shows.
I never named my characters this. But in our games we tend to lovingly refer to the NPC's as Redshirts, and one in particular I aptly named Charles Annon Fodder. Or C.Annon Fodder.
In a campaign that died before it started, I named my Thief Rotes Hemd...that would be German for "Red Shirt."
Reminds me of Indiana Gnome from WG7 Castle Greyhawk.
I once played a rigger in Shadowrun named Rigger Mortis.
There was another 1E D&D module (forgot which one) where there was an NPC whose named was pronounced "Akron Ohio" but it was spelled with a lot more letters in the module. I had DM'd the module and mispronounced it for half the adventure and then suddenly realized, "wait a minute, that's Akron Ohio," - I ended up keeping my initial pronunciation, though.
__________________ "Who's more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?" - Obi Wan Kenobi
Back when the old computer game "Eye of the Beholder" came out in the early to mid 90s, I had two of the four party members that had names like that.
One was a fighter named Philip A. Shio (Phil for short)
and the other was a female cleric named Constance Lingus (Connie for short)
Never did that in a face-to-face game, though.
In my face to face games, we had one guy who had a Batman obsession and wanted to play a kender paladin-thief based on the Batman (back in 2E days when only humans could be paladins...). He ended up playing a paladin named Godfrey Bwayne - B. Wayne, get it, Bruce Wayne. Ha Ha. Needless to say, he was only around for a couple of sessions.
__________________ "Who's more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?" - Obi Wan Kenobi
In a campaign that died before it started, I named my Thief Rotes Hemd...that would be German for "Red Shirt."
In our currently Eberron game, we have an NPC scout named Tunicus Ruber Morituri... which is bad Latin for "red tunic who is about to die"
How about a halfling islander bard named Daplane Boss.
A friend of mine had a Shadowrun detective named Mack Truck, and once played a blonde bimbo stripper named Baby O'Baby.
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You know, I DM for Atlatl... when he's playing Atlatl... and it never once occurred to me that the name was a reference to Chucker Jones on M.A.S.H (and I watched a lot of M.A.S.H as a child).
Heck, I invented Atlatl Jones, and it never occurred to me that the name was a reference to M.A.S.H. either! I thought I just invented the name out of my head. I guess my subconscious is an insane genius.
In game, Atlatl Jones' former master was Catapult Jones, from the line of Trebuchet Jones.
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There's a fine, well, non-existent line between my joke and serious names.
The same could be said for the line between your joke and serious characters, Mr. "Ancient Egyptian God of Mexican Wrestling"
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In an Earthdawn game I ran once, one of the players named his dwarven weaponsmith "Spam." His reasoning was to amuse himself because, since nobody knew what Spam was, the ohers would have to call him that with a straight face.
He sorta regretted it after the scarring from an encounter with a wormskull made him look like his namesake...
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The same could be said for the line between your joke and serious characters, Mr. "Ancient Egyptian God of Mexican Wrestling"
You know, I had stranger character concepts I was mulling over. Like the combination of Yoko Ono and Johnny Sokko, who, of course, would have Yoko Sokko and Her Giant Robot Performance Artist (named "Fluxus", a towering animate metal sculpture that confused anyone looking at it, and shot fireballs).
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This one. The heck with 4e, I'm tempted to create a 3rd degree Droid Noble for SWSE with this name, setting their various buff talents to music
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The same could be said for the line between your joke and serious characters, Mr. "Ancient Egyptian God of Mexican Wrestling"
Hey, that was by far one of the coolest Mutants & Masterminds OCs that I've ever had the pleasure of seeing, with Doc Haywire being the only real competition that character had.
I always did like the "Joseirus" name and character background as presented here on ENWorld. Kudos!
There is, of course, a subset of joke names that I'm sure most people in this thread have indulged in..."Knight" names. Some I have not yet used on PCs or NPCs in an active campaign:
Sir Vesa
Sir Fing
Sir Vey
Sir Kull "the Perfect"
Sir Real
Sir Cular
Sir Round
Sir Vive
Sir Jeon
Sir Jerry
Sir Jickel
Usually, I use the silly names, including several already named here.
I have a Psi warrior Amazone-type character named Mindova with the honorary title of Mater added to her name. She was the daughter of the city ruler Mhennstua, by her title Tion. A very moody ruler for some reason. It took the poor GM 4 sessions to catch on to either reference (German game group) and by then it was too late to make me change the names
I also have a cutthroat gang member who goes by Jugg Ularvain and had a witch called Hex Agoon. She was not square and fair and hardly came around to your POV.
I have a booklet with funny names to use asap but I need to find that first... runs off to look for it
__________________ Barbarian: "I'm going to run the door down with my shoulder."
DM: "Ouch, that hurt you."
Thief: "We'll, I'm opening the lock then..."
DM "Sorry, no such luck."
Wizard: "Darn, I'm all out of spells."
Fighter: "Fighter & Barbarian pick up an old tree to use as a ram aaaaand... here we go!"
DM "The door is as steady as it looks, unfortunately. Loud noise and a tree on top of you is all you get"
Paladin: "Out of frustration, I grab the handle and rattle at the door."
DM: The unlocked door opens with a squeak and you stumble into the room - now roll for your balance."
Players: "You know you suck?"
DM: *snicker*
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