Character names from popular music

BOZ

Creature Cataloguer

• Apr 19, 2005

• #1

This is sort of related to a couple of threads I had seen around here recently.

If you will, name some characters from popular music songs with interesting names – there are probably a lot. Many wouldn’t be all that appropriate for fantasy RPGs, but you never know.

Skip anything that’s way too common (“Joe” for example) or anything that’s just a real person’s name – looking for fictional characters (or changed names of real people) with interesting names.

Many such names are in the song title, but some are buried in the song’s lyrics. Go for it.

 

Last edited: Apr 20, 2005

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Ghostwind

First Post

• Apr 19, 2005

• #2

In one of my campaigns, the players sailed on a vessel named the Edmund Fitzgerald and met a young servant of a noble named Fancy.

 

Darth K'Trava

First Post

• Apr 19, 2005

• #3

I've got a wizard named Shatira (modification of a singer named Shakira).

Did have a backup paladin named Ashalanti (modification of Ashanti)

 

BOZ

Creature Cataloguer

• Apr 20, 2005

• #4

Ghostwind said:

Edmund Fitzgerald

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lol, and it was the name of a real ship, too.

 

Ghostwind

First Post

• Apr 20, 2005

• #5

I know. And just like the ship (and in the song), it wrecked also.

 

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MichaelH

First Post

• Apr 20, 2005

• #6

Charlotte the harlot (Iron Maiden)

Mr. Crowley (Ozzy)

Zero the hero (Black Sabbath)

 

Allandaros

Explorer

• Apr 20, 2005

• #7

Just generating some name possibilities from my WinAmp playlist:

Avalon
Zuke
Endymion
Ashokan
Vangelis
Bacalov
Zamfir
Yano
Aphex
...oh yes, we must not forget Trogdor.

 

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Immak Antunel

First Post

• Apr 20, 2005

• #8

Hmmm, a quick scan of my playlist suggests...

-someday I'm going to have a Thin White Duke npc

-on a similar note, Ziggy Stardust could work

-not really a character, but Milhaven would be a great name for a town with a dark secret

-Lohengrin has always strick me as a nifty name

-a cleric named Brother Love (and his Travelin' Salvation Show!)

-Heh, Carmen Sandiego...

-Lady Godiva appears in several songs

-I could totally dig a villain named Renholder

 

TheAuldGrump

First Post

• Apr 20, 2005

• #9

Traveller the New Era had a ship named the Mary Ellen Carter...

She went down last October, in a pouring driving rain,
The skipper he'd been drinkin', and that mate he felt no pain.
Too close to Three Mile Rock and she was dealt her mortal blow,
and the Mary Ellen Carter settled low.

There were just us five aboard her, when she finally was awash.
We worked like Hell to save her, all heedless of the cost.
And the groan she gave as she went down, it caused us to proclaim,
That the Mary Ellen Carter rise again!

Rise again, oh rise again,
That her name not be lost to the lnowledge of men.
All those who loved her best, and were with her til the end,
Will see the Mary Ellen Carter rise again!

In my own game I have used Reynardine, and old Tom Moore.

The Auld Grump

 

Tarrasque Wrangler

First Post

• Apr 20, 2005

• #10

Beware the wrath of my new dwarven barbarian, Maxwell Silverhammer!