A Character by any other name....

[Moxie]

How did you prounounce that? "Yes, I'm Soriahsis of Lihveer. I drink a lot."

Well, yeah I did pronounce it like the skin condition, just don't ask me to spell it. Still, spelled out I think it looks cool.

 

[Sidran]

From the original poster


My last few characters have been named wierd ( I actually like letting names go their own way it adds character to the world, not just to the coincidental player)

Brock Roswythian

Paddieraine Lluthainan ap Telurian Y Meliandra ( An elven bard) ( Very generalistic welsh name) We nicknamed Paddy

Raoul Ciardi ( Cee R D)

Hawkins Brae ( Name taken from the Playtesters list in the back of the PHB by mixing some of those names)


Jarrylwyn Rowe ( A Scotsmen like Fighter Bard) Very fun player but the accent was addicting.

Merle Flagstone (Human Fighter 2e)


Tristram Farrin ( Son of Ilia, married a young daughter of a well landed Noble, and eventually succeeded to be landed himself with the Title of Duke. He moved to his Country Residence of Farrindale, and proceeded to have four kids who heirs in later ages would go on to marry into the Royal line and then took the Throne

Ilia Farrin ( First and only female character she was a lot of fun to play though she died quite early while giving birth)

D'artanoux ( A Half Elven Bard/ Duelist) Ran arround the Country side of Avyronne in the Intrigues of that Kingdoms King


Tharbrin Nevchockniyivic ( Dwarven Barbarian nick named Tharbrin the Long for most of his early adventuring days, later on he changed his name to the much more easy to pronounce Tharbrin Nevinskiy ( NEV-in-ski) And was the founder of the High Ridge School of Combat in the Ardaniells Range)

 

[jdavis]

I have had three characters in a row named Focalar, they have all been related, of course being elves it really didn't matter to anyone who wasn't a elf, (Grandfather Focalar died 300 years ago.) It is a little silly but at least the name is pronounceable.

We have a halfling in the party right now named Bungo, everybody hates Bungo and everybody hates the name, so it fits.

 

[Aitch Eye]

When I was trying to work out something for my current character it somehow occurred to me that formalin (a solution of formaldehyde in water) could work as a natural sounding, non-campy elf name. One relatively obscure enough that even if the others did recognize it, it wouldn't be obtrusive (they didn't). So now I have Formalin Sul, half-elf rogue/druid.

Every so often I'll come across other chemicals or prescription drugs that could work pretty well. There was one I was going to use for his father, but it may or may not have contributed to my own father's stroke, so the character's still nameless.

 

[pogre]

I allow almost all and any names. I only put the halt on openly crude names - as these characters are almost taken to heart by the player.

One of my favorite character names was a fighter a friend was playing in my old WFRP campaign. This guy had an evolving name depending on his reputation. It started as

Kujambi Dealer of Mild Displeasure
and evolved to
Kujambi Dealer of Decapitations and Dismemberment.

One of my favorites in between was Kujambi Dealer of Real Irritation.

 

[Skarp Hedin]

My players are alright.. they can fluctuate a bit. For example, right now we have:

Brother Bertrum (human cleric)
Reeve (human fighter)
Thia Chylenda (human druid)
Dr. Clayton Spellstorm (corny surname, human wizard)
Carrouth (Clayton's cohort, tiefling rogue)
and of course, the amazing
Cornelious Weatherbough (elf ranger type)

But last time we had the great paladin Sir Lewis Mudd, mighty Johnson (the least religious cleric ever), and a halfling wizard named Knutty Leafbottom. Knutty, I kid you not.

The hardest names on my players so far have been the dwarves in my campaign -- they've got names like Garibaldi Mangiacchia, Ludovico Bonavarrechio, and so on. I try to make most human names fairly easy to pronounce, but nonhumans can have all manner of odd name.

 

[Stone Angel]

Usually someone takes the brunt of the nicknaming, the bad kind anyway. When we ran the RttToEE campaign we had two different groups of six.
1st
Malhavoc Shadowlord(PC generator name)
-"Mal"
Ostler of Dreadwood(generator again)
Snaggletooth(again the generator)
-"Snaggle"
Panther no need for a nickname here, he also had a wolf animal companion known as "Doggie"
Bigby(Original as they come, yet still provided by the generator)
-"Really big bee"
Tyro Tombsong

our second group,
Kougar something(Was from Calimishan and talked like a Apu off the simpsons, always broke out into song.
Katara (Stabbed my character in the back twice)
Arkon(Necromancer who put a skull on his staff and referred to it as "King Azoun")
-Arkon got the name Timmy cause he fancied himself Lord of the Underworld.
Milo Hihill
-"Milo High humper"
Glim
-"Glim shady"
Midian (a cleric that had no tongue, and cast spells through humming, who is still getting made fun of to this day.

 

[Rel]

My first ever Rolemaster character, created some 18 years ago or so, was Relinsingersonlyer. I made up some story about how in the kingdom he came from a long name was a sign of high status.

Of course, his name was immediately shortened to the nickname "Rel" and thus my username was born.