D&D General Character named after someone more famous.

[David Howery]

I use a lot of historical names for npcs. There's Jugurtha (bad guy); Zenobia (npc captive rescued by pcs); etc.

so did I. One of the best books I own for the job is one of the otherwise execrable Conan collection of stories by assorted authors (Conan the Swordsman).... the stories are dreck, but there is a big index in the back that lists every name used in all of the stories by REH and others, and the historical basis behind each of them... I mined that index over and over for NPC names....

 

[FrogReaver]

I had a character named Selrahc Iznop which is backwards for Charles Ponzi…

 

[Vaalingrade]

Not a character, but I had a warlock named Vosko Elmekia after the spell from Slayers just so I could refer to his EB as the Elmekia Lance.

 

[Muso]

One of my players had a bard called Slow Hand and a friend of mine had a fighter named Rutger Hauer.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

A elf bard named Danny. He is Danny Elfman.

I bet nothing bad ever happens to him, even at a dead man’s party.

 

[Zardnaar]

I bet nothing bad ever happens to him, even at a dead man’s party.

Megadeth?

Anyway I've seen Voltaren (after the emugel) and The. The had 3 intelligence and The was the only word he knew.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Megadeth?

Anyway I've seen Voltaren (after the emugel) and The. The had 3 intelligence and The was the only word he knew.

 

[Atomoctba]

I attempted to convince the rest of the party to change the party's name to Oingo Boingo. To no avail. They are so stuborn that is like a nightmare before Christmas.

 

[amethal]

I did have Orf the Dwarf, ripped off from Melf the Elf back in the day.

I did once play a half-orc barbarian called Mhorc. He was a lot of fun.

In a Call of Cthulhu game set in the 1980s I played a professor at Arkham University called Lawrence Hagman. He really, really hated being called Larry.

I can only name one professional hockey player, so my games could have been inundated with characters named after them and I wouldn't know (unless they were called Wayne).

 

[thundershot]

My first D&D character was a human fighter named Val Kilmer. He was named after some actor from Top Gun and eventually Willow. I figured no one would even notice……. Oops.. lol