The good, bad and weird of PC names:
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Angel Tarragon
Dawn Dragon
Picpoc Oploc....a 1st Edition Rogue of mine 
One of my current players wanted a proper-sounding Elven name, and used a random name generator to come up with Lenelladecar (Len-Ela-De-Car). He insists we all use it correctly and in full whenever referring to him.
When playing an Eberron game, I decided to play a Changeling. I looked up some changeling names; they like three-letter, vowel-happy names. So I picked Odo out of the air. Not knowing that a character in a Star Trek show - who is a shapeshfiter - went by the same name.
When playing an Eberron game, I decided to play a Changeling. I looked up some changeling names; they like three-letter, vowel-happy names. So I picked Odo out of the air. Not knowing that a character in a Star Trek show - who is a shapeshfiter - went by the same name.
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Andor
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One of my pet peeves is the 'No real world names' thing some people have. Frankly anyone who has watched the Olympics will have realized by now that there is no sound the human throat can produced that is not already a name for somebody, somewhere. Why exactly is "Krglthgncch the vowelless" a good fantasy name and "Robert the Bruce" not?
Lord Xtheth
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My seldom used Tiefling Wizard: Tim
My seldom used Changeling Cleric: Salxu
My M&M superhero Ninja: Swiftstrike
Wow, I want to steal Mr. Nine
He'd make the perfect villian for a D20 Modern campaign I want to start
My seldom used Changeling Cleric: Salxu
My M&M superhero Ninja: Swiftstrike
Due to me misreading a Korean-English dictionary, I once created a character called "Mister Nine". I still can't remember what I intended to call him, because the "Nine" stuck
Wow, I want to steal Mr. Nine
He'd make the perfect villian for a D20 Modern campaign I want to start
Pbartender
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A have a habit of naming characters and NPCs after names mentioned in songs... Captain Jack, Major Tom, Billy Chin and Sammy Chung, Edmund Fitzgerald and so on have all made appearances in my games...
Once, for a Spycraft game, I'd named my character Elwood Decker, after a rather obscure song written by an a cappella group.
What amused us so much is that coincidentally, another player had chosen the last name of "Black" for his character. So, we often introduced our two characters as "Black and Decker"... Hurr-hurr-hurr.
Huw
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Philotomy Jurament
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Some of mine:
Some memorable names my players have used:
Some misc. names I like:
- Ferdinous the Fortuitous (who was renamed Ferdinous the Luminous because he always had the party light-source) - Human Magic User
- Randorb the (Truly) Magnificient - Human Magic User
- Yod the Calvous - Human Illusionist
- Gunnar Magnusson - Human Fighting Man
- Arius - Human Cleric and Mace-wielding badass
- Fuad ibn Aziz of the Ghamid - Human Fighting Man
Some memorable names my players have used:
- Dick Longfellow, P.I. (Call of Cthluhu)
- Brayndaug Sax-Mohr (Rolemaster/Warrior)
- Garin Dell (Rolemaster/Dwarf Warrior)
- Vanion (D&D/Human Paladin)
- Ignatius (D&D/Human Fighter)
- Hasbelad (D&D/Half-Orc Assassin)
- Glingalen (MERP/Elf Warrior)
- Thoric Skullsplitter (D&D/Dwarf Fighter)
- Paulos Ogrebane (D&D/Human Fighter -- started as a 1st level henchman and earned his name by taking an ogre's charge on his spear)
Some misc. names I like:
- Chun the Unavoidable
- Sen the Collector
- Lars Stinkwalker
Once again I display my Pavlovian response to name threads...
My current --and soon to be current-- PC's:
My current --and soon to be current-- PC's:
- Joséirus, the Egyptian God of Mexican Wrestling. He's a superhero and, well, a little hard to explain. His super-powered "moves" include the Cheops Drop, the Nile-Driver, and the Lariat of Ra. He thinks he got his powers from a relative from the distant past (who's actually from the far future).
- Yatagon Fracas: Dragonborn paladin for our upcoming 4e game, inspired by Don Quixote and some rather unsettling aspects of reptilian reproductive anatomy (let's just say he has some very good reasons for keeping his love of a human woman chaste...). The name comes from two of my wife's perfumes.
- Emil Meritage Shiraz: he's a human merchant/priest/ninja who fights with a lethal wooden practice sword --his battle cry is "Behold the power of wood!". He's named for a retired PC, Grenache Shiraz (they're both wines).
- Cloud Strike: is a human wuxia peasant hero, labor organizer and Communist revolutionary, who wields the People's Chi and serves as an apparatchik for the Central Committee of Zu Mountain. He carries a very large hammer (and sickle) on his back. Obviously, his name is a bit of pun...
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