Razz0putin
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Rel said:
Rel I think this is the best answer to player taunting.
BBEGs with really bad sounding nicknames from the PCs...
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Rel I think this is the best answer to player taunting.
In the campaign I was running, the main evil guy is trying to get a prophecy to come true so he can raise a dead god from his tomb. The party are an integral part of this prophecy, but the prophecy also states he cannot personally kill them except at a specific place and time. However, he is allowed to send assasins after them.
His first try, he got some low level help and tried to kill them as they rested at an in. He couldn't strike directly, but he did kill a scullery maid so his hit squad could sneak in and then hid her body in the outhouse. Long story shory, party wins and kills low level baddies, then goes gunning for the big baddie. He hightails it out of there, but to distract the party and hopefully create confusion about just what happens, he hurls a fireball at the outhouse as he leaves.
Thus was born EOG
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His first try, he got some low level help and tried to kill them as they rested at an in. He couldn't strike directly, but he did kill a scullery maid so his hit squad could sneak in and then hid her body in the outhouse. Long story shory, party wins and kills low level baddies, then goes gunning for the big baddie. He hightails it out of there, but to distract the party and hopefully create confusion about just what happens, he hurls a fireball at the outhouse as he leaves.
Thus was born EOG
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Agamon
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Wow. I really can't remember my players ever giving any NPCs in my home games a stupid nickname that stuck. Witty remarks and silliness happens, but in the end they've used their actual name...or sometimes other 'names' I can't repeat here. 
PC's on the other hand...this is a Living Greyhawk game, actually, so not so serious there to begin with, but there's a player in our group with a bit of an accent, and when he mumbled his new hulking male half-orc babarian's name as an introduction, one of the other players heard 'Princess'. And he's been known as Princess ever since.
PC's on the other hand...this is a Living Greyhawk game, actually, so not so serious there to begin with, but there's a player in our group with a bit of an accent, and when he mumbled his new hulking male half-orc babarian's name as an introduction, one of the other players heard 'Princess'. And he's been known as Princess ever since.
Testament
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Agamon said:
Yeah, we use it too. Our other great Living Greyhawk tradition is to rag on Iuz, especially considering we're in his border states. We refer to him as "Big Dead", "Big Black" or "Bob", especially after a module where we couldn't say his name, in case he heard us.
Then again, I play in a group where the sorcerer carries a petition around that he intends to give to Mordenkainen one day. What's it for? To get a silver dagger teleported directly into Iuz's eye socket, engraved with "From the Flanaess, with love" and "It's not revenge, it's Karma!"
Cyronax
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Several stick out in my mind, but the most annoying that one of my old players wouldn't let die was his mutation of Ashirak. Ashirak was a helpful and major NPC innkeeper of the only inn worth mentioning on the campaign region's frontier. Think of Ashirak as a NG version of Al Sweregen from HBO's Deadwood.....i.e. a local powerbroker.
Anyway, Ashirak, became A** crack for a bunch of players with little experience separating characters from themselves. That was the tip of the iceberg; hardworked campaign world details were forgotten and disregarded at their own peril. They were generally the typical high school gaming group.
I'm in a better group now, but I definetely sympathize with DMs who suffer from disrespect to their lovingly constructed gameworld. Nicknames are good while the in character, but out of character.....they wreak havoc.
Another nickname worth mentioning regards Mogudo Moonshadow, a tiefling rogue/fighter in my last campaign. The player consistently rolled natural 1's about half the time, and generally started to be regarded as the party basket case. The character remained much beloved by the player even after all the players (and myself) jokingly and consistenly referred to him as Mogudo the Failure. He became something of a legend among different gaming groups in our area for his bad luck, and surprisingly he somehow remained the longest lived character in that campaign.
He still games with me, and his current chracter, a halfling monk of St. Cuthbert, has actually remained the only character to survive through the current campaign. His luck has changed for the better.
C.I.D.
Anyway, Ashirak, became A** crack for a bunch of players with little experience separating characters from themselves. That was the tip of the iceberg; hardworked campaign world details were forgotten and disregarded at their own peril. They were generally the typical high school gaming group.
I'm in a better group now, but I definetely sympathize with DMs who suffer from disrespect to their lovingly constructed gameworld. Nicknames are good while the in character, but out of character.....they wreak havoc.
Another nickname worth mentioning regards Mogudo Moonshadow, a tiefling rogue/fighter in my last campaign. The player consistently rolled natural 1's about half the time, and generally started to be regarded as the party basket case. The character remained much beloved by the player even after all the players (and myself) jokingly and consistenly referred to him as Mogudo the Failure. He became something of a legend among different gaming groups in our area for his bad luck, and surprisingly he somehow remained the longest lived character in that campaign.
He still games with me, and his current chracter, a halfling monk of St. Cuthbert, has actually remained the only character to survive through the current campaign. His luck has changed for the better.
C.I.D.
MoogleEmpMog
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Scheming knight master Caspian St. Cyr received the ironic appelation "Caspian Sincere" since one the players has trouble remembering his actual last name. 
Other than that, agent Erard Zelph has been dubbed "Zelphy" and had various lewd gestures flashed at him by fleeing PCs. But in his case, it's evidently a way to alleviate the players' fear of him. The moment the PCs see this guy, they always run away. It may have something to do with his Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith & Elrond) voice... or with the fact he's already made them pay for insulting him.
Other than that, agent Erard Zelph has been dubbed "Zelphy" and had various lewd gestures flashed at him by fleeing PCs. But in his case, it's evidently a way to alleviate the players' fear of him. The moment the PCs see this guy, they always run away. It may have something to do with his Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith & Elrond) voice... or with the fact he's already made them pay for insulting him.
Darkness said:I've picked up the rpg.net-ism of referring to Exalted's Sidereal leader Chejop Kejack as Ketchup (or Kneecap) Carjack but not IC - just on the internet.
(I've also picked up some other rpg.net memes but lots of them aren't granny friendly. Nor are they on topic anyway.)
Speaking of rpg.net, I seem to recall someone there having an account of a character called "Koakmasheen". One of those "this looks like a good name" ideas which rapidly backfires the first time anyone tries saying it aloud. Incidents like that from my youth (including a city which sounded to my players far too much like a part of the female anatomy
) are why I always test-pronounce my names.
wingsandsword
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In a fantasy larp I play in, one town (a local game that's part of a nationwide game) was ruled for years by this incredibly powerful archmage, that was a local staffers personal power-trip ego-satisfying character, that was insanely high level with incredible firepower and walked around town demanding all the PC's treat him with utmost courtesy and respect due as the local lord.
His name, Lord Arianus. Pronounced "air-ee-on-us". However, either accidentally or insultingly it would often be pronounced "air-ee-anus" or worse "hairy anus", and if this happened within earshot of this Uber-NPC (often as newbies would make the mistake, or insolent PC's would because of how hated this NPC was) the inevitable result would be a huge swarm of destructive spells flying as he sentenced you to death on the spot for disrespecting a noble.
I don't bother to go to those events anymore when I play that larp.
His name, Lord Arianus. Pronounced "air-ee-on-us". However, either accidentally or insultingly it would often be pronounced "air-ee-anus" or worse "hairy anus", and if this happened within earshot of this Uber-NPC (often as newbies would make the mistake, or insolent PC's would because of how hated this NPC was) the inevitable result would be a huge swarm of destructive spells flying as he sentenced you to death on the spot for disrespecting a noble.
I don't bother to go to those events anymore when I play that larp.
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