Armor & Coins - please, No.

[The Little Raven]

Agreed. Standard fantasy stuff here---no better, no worse.

It's certainly head-and-shoulders above making an anagram of your own name. That makes me want to eat puppies.

 

[Lackhand]

With product identity you mean "A name for yet another thing that needed a name to identify and remember"? Or do you mean that just because you put two common words together, they have something that's worth to be protected by copyright or trademark or whatever else? Because I suspect you might need more than a name to get that...

IANAL, but I'm pretty sure you don't, really. I mean, sure, it helps. But having a unique term (Godplate) and publishing it does let you defend it later. Or at least, have a leg to stand on when you try to defend it, whether or not you win the actual case.

That said, while I think the names aren't always that great, none of them offend my sensibilities, and some of them please.
I like the fact that it isn't enough for an armor to be Adamantium; it needs to be Dwarven Warplate, lending both more of an air of uniquity to the item (this is quite subjective) and making it harder to get (you need both the raw material and someone with the wit to make the damn stuff, meaning that adamantium doors are no longer millions of gold pieces waiting to happen. Score!).

(Though I actually like some nameagrams. Not all that rearranges is foul.)

 

[Scholar & Brutalman]

It's certainly head-and-shoulders above making an anagram of your own name. That makes me want to eat puppies.

But not as good as stealing from Jack Vance! Though "Phandal's Excellent Prismatic Spray" was cut to just "Prismatic Spray."

The wordword nomenclature wouldn't be as irritating to me if they didn't do it so often.

 

[Wormwood]

The wordword nomenclature wouldn't be as irritating to me if they didn't do it so often.

Give it 20 or so years. Then it'll be enshrined as unassailable tradition.