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I had to read that a couple of times before I got it.
I must have low impulse control: I use the stupid names I come up with. Back in the olden days (early 90s) I had a long line of Dwarven fighters with names like Arkon Arsebiter.
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Ever since hearing the first Penny Arcade D&D podcast I've had a perverse desire to play a wizard named Chet Awesomelaser.
For a brief joke game, I played Sir Osis of Liver. He drank a LOT.
In the dungeoncrawling heydey of junior high school, I played a series of characters named Umar the Unkillable. Sadly, none of them lived up to their name. I believe I retired the name when I reached Umar the Unkillable the 21st.
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"i did not serve with napolean in his artillery. but i did play wargames with him and his men." -- diaglo
I must have low impulse control: I use the stupid names I come up with. Back in the olden days (early 90s) I had a long line of Dwarven fighters with names like Arkon Arsebiter.
Its not a question of impulse control for me...I just have many more names and PCs than I have campaigns in which to run them.
My Mage-Brute PC (Forked Thread: Mage-Brute (revisited)) was a Sorcerer, born the son of a Half-Dragon mercenary and a prostitute (getting him Draconic Heritage feats), who grew into a life as a bouncer at his mom's brothel before being forced into a life of adventure. His name? Adragon von Basten (A dragon of bastard origins).
With a PC like that, when can I run Dore or Google?
Ever since hearing the first Penny Arcade D&D podcast I've had a perverse desire to play a wizard named Chet Awesomelaser.
I get inspiration from pop culture all the time.
I used to read PvP Online for a while. Since then, I've always wanted to play an Anthropomorphic Animal PC...a Panda Monk. The recent release of Kung Fu Panda has only reinforced that desire. (I don't have a name for that PC yet, though...and of course, haven't played it either.)
I've also had ideas for PCs inspired by combining Raiden (of Mortal Kombat) and Yoshimitsu (of Tekken)...also still unplayed.
Inspired by M.A.S.H., I wanted to play Atlatl Jones...
And inspired by...er...adult entertainment...I wanted to play a high Charisma PC named Pete Zaboy...a real lady's man!
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For a brief joke game, I played Sir Osis of Liver. He drank a LOT.
This one doesn't really count since I actually wound up using it, but I played a fat, lazy halfling wizard named Provalor the Proficient. He was a blast to play, being, well, proficient.
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Gavin Ward - Male Human Warlord 1 - The party started a bar fight. The fellow who escaped brought his bandit buddies back and they killed Gavin (and nearly three other party members). He bled out while lying on the floor.
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Cornell Butterworth - Male Human Wizard 1 - Knocked unconscious by a kobold dragonshield the fighter ignored, then done in by the kobold wyrmpriest's acid breath.
Lithia - Female Elven Ranger 11 - Contracted mummy rot, which eventually did her in.
Brendan Stetlan - Male Human Fighter 4 - Knocked unconscious in combat, then thrown to the wolves.
Vindicator Mindartis Valenae - Eladrin Paladin 5 - Dropped by a githzerai monk (L6 elite), and killed when the rogue threw him off the balcony to try and get his body to safety.
Vongar - Male Dwarf Paladin 1 - Fell in battle after defeating Irontooth, but not his bodyguard.
Straef - Male Elf Ranger 1 - Fell in battle to Irontooth's Wyrmpriest.
It was more of a limited imagination than a joke (and a bad one at that), but I had a player who insisted his wizard's name was Wizard. And he kept calling himself "wizard Wizard" or "Wizard, the wizard"...
Inspired by M.A.S.H., I wanted to play Atlatl Jones...
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).
There's a fine, well, non-existent line between my joke and serious names. That said, I really want to play an alcoholic Jedi Knight (based on Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year) named Ginn Gimlet and a hermaphrodite child-soldier from an alternate universe (who fights crime in ours) called Vivian Girl.
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Whenever I run Undermountain, my players betimes run afoul of the Xanathar's chief rival for beholder crime lord, the Notorious E.Y.E. That's an ancient gag and for an NPC though, so I'm not sure that it counts.
A recent South Park episode and the release of Player's Handbook 2 has inspired me to design a kuo-toa bard named Eynak East.
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