Worse. Character. Name. Ever!!

[Creeping Death]

Drum roll please.......

The stupidest name I've ever seen used in one of my campaigns was...


GRIZZLY RECTUMSHAFT


The campaign ended after 3 sessions. A new one started and oddly enough, he wasn't invited to attend.

 

[MarauderX]

Way back when, we had an intermittent player that would always be the comedian with naming his characters. He was also a very sex crazed teen ager and tried to hook with any female NPC no matter who they were. Sorry if some of these are so perverse, but his characters somehow ended up dead or retired a lot when he would leave a campaign for weeks at a time. I can only remember some of the 8 or so he had, not to mention the ones we talked him out of using.

Hugh G. Rection (human fighter)
Willy B. Long (human monk)
Peter Gozinya (human fighter)
Harry Butterchurner (elvin fighter) - called BC for short.

Needless to say it took the seriousness right out of a dire/scary campaign when the porn-star PC showed up to save the day.

 

[Kestrel]

I also had a shadowrun shaman named Lupus Yonderboy. Totem=Coyote. For some reason, I didn't pick up on the fact that Lupus was a disease, but I was too stubborn to change.

Isn't Lupus Yonderboy a character in a William Gibson book? One of the gangers in Neuromancer?

Gibson takes the cake for great names:

Praisegod Satansbane
Boomzilla
(dammit, can't think of anymore right now)

 

[Jenale]

The moron 6-pack (6 5th level NPC fighters w/ maybe 19 points of INT between them): Baff, Barf, Beff, Biff, Boff, Buff, and Butch (he was the smart one w/ an INT possibly as high as 4).

 

[Ashe]

Re: Drum roll please.......

The stupidest name I've ever seen used in one of my campaigns was...


GRIZZLY RECTUMSHAFT


The campaign ended after 3 sessions. A new one started and oddly enough, he wasn't invited to attend.

That was funny! I had to apologize to some people sitting around me at work for making noise.

 

[nyrfherdr]

Some of the worst names came from my brother:

Meatcleaver - The fighting man
Later...
Skoal and Copenhagen - The fighting brothers

His masterpiece:
Bonehead - the Wizard

I must admit that the worst ever was mine. Before I had ever read KODT...

Nobody - The dwarf

I can tell you that the other players treated me pretty much like the gang in the KODT strip.

(Well... Back to lurker mode)

 

[Zaruthustran]

Re: Re: Worse. Character. Name. Ever!!

Hi there!



I seem to recall George Lucas stating that Darth Vader was derivative of 'Death Father'...which I actually though was pretty cool.

I heard that Darth Vader is "Dark Father" in German, or close enough.

As for my worst. Names. Ever.

Striker Damage Hit (fighter)
Cwell the Swell (bard)
Rhett Cross (cleric)

And not a worst name, but one that made me feel very unoriginal when I learned in high school that there was a historical figure named "Zaruthustra":

Zaruthustran (wizard)

-z

 

[Ravellion]

Re: Re: Worse. Character. Name. Ever!!

Hi there!

I seem to recall George Lucas stating that Darth Vader was derivative of 'Death Father'...which I actually though was pretty cool.

In Dutch, 'Vader' actually is the word for 'father'. I saw it coming miles away!

Rav

 

[Sidereal Knight]

Here are a few travesties from past gaming groups:

Paynin The'as (CN elven mage)
Dash Ampersand (hacker character from CyberPunk)
Kraven Moorehead (street fighter from the same CyberPunk)
Endoplasmic Reticulum (mage, now known simply as Endo)

 

[yennico]

Re: Re: Re: Worse. Character. Name. Ever!!

I heard that Darth Vader is "Dark Father" in German, or close enough.

The German word for father is "Vater"

Rhett Cross (cleric)

*lol* The Red Cross the healing machine

And not a worst name, but one that made me feel very unoriginal when I learned in high school that there was a historical figure named "Zaruthustra":

Zarathustra not Zaruthustra is a figure from the work of Friedrich Nietzsche: the title of this work is Thus Spake Zarathustra.

Just my 2 cents
yennico