Behold the mighty... Tim Ram! (and other stupid names)

[MerricB]

I suppose it could be worse.

Midway through the Age of Worms campaign, Martin's barbarian PC died and was not resurrected. He made up a replacement fighter character, but was struggling for a name. I follow an old Greyhawkian naming convention: if they can't think of a name, the DM gives it to them. And, most likely, with an anagram of their real name. So, Tarmin was born.

This very much amused some of the other players at the table. In particular, Craig. He started a joke of always getting Tarmin's name wrong - using other anagrams of Martin. In particular, "Tinram", "Timran", or, miscounting the letters, "Timram".

Anyway, we created characters for the Savage Tide campaign last session after finishing off AoW. And Craig has a name for his new PC (a swashbuckler): Timothy Ram. Or Timram.

I don't know if Martin is going to kill me or Craig first.

Oh, and Rob is making a ranger specialised in the Greatsword.

The first character that I applied this naming convention to was Ernie's cohort, Nerie. Nerie has the distinction of having the shortest lifespan before her (first) death: 9 seconds. She entered play as combat was about to start, and got one action before she was flame striked into oblivion. Ernie later raised her, but...

Cheers!

 

[hong]

Well, it's still better than what you get from Neverwinter Nights' random name generator....

 

[demiurge1138]

On a similar note...

My roommate Casey always plays really gonzo characters, like halfling arcane-psionic-incarnum monks, jerlemaine ninja/druids, what have you. So when it came time to do a one-shot, I asked him just to play a fighter. With Power Attack.

And so, Yesach Tims was born (his last name is Smith...).

Too bad he got reincarnated with a botched scroll and ended up as a blackspawn stalker before the night was over. He cannot escape the gonzo.

Demiurge out.

 

[Asmor]

My friend Jon hates coming up with names. So when he made his new dwarf ranger for a game a while back, he decided to just take a name from the examples listed for male dwarves in the PHB.

Of course, he decided to name his dwarf Tordek.

Now whenever he makes a new character and asks for help with a name, my first suggestion is always Regdar.

 

[MerricB]

One of my other friends, who I introduced to D&D, called his very first character "Roy Greenhilt". This surprised me greatly - it turned out that despite not being a D&D player, Ben was an avid fan of Order of the Stick.

Then there's Adam's penchant for strange names, or names without vowels. That "Rthfgn" wants to be an alienist just makes a certain kind of sense.

Cheers!

 

[Lanefan]

Actual exchange from my game a few years ago...player is rolling up a new PC on the fly and an opportunity (which I as DM know will be the only one for a while) comes up to bring it in:

DM (me): "Jason, is your new guy ready to go?"
Jason: "Close, just got to finish equipping it..."
DM: "So what's its name?"
Jason: "No idea yet."
DM: "How are you spelling that?"

And thus was born the legendary - if very short-lived - No'ei Deyeyet.

Lanefan

 

[MerricB]

Actual exchange from my game a few years ago...player is rolling up a new PC on the fly and an opportunity (which I as DM know will be the only one for a while) comes up to bring it in:

DM (me): "Jason, is your new guy ready to go?"
Jason: "Close, just got to finish equipping it..."
DM: "So what's its name?"
Jason: "No idea yet."
DM: "How are you spelling that?"

And thus was born the legendary - if very short-lived - No'ei Deyeyet.

Lanefan

That's glorious.

Cheers!

 

[Legildur]

Dammit! Eric's nana filter won't allow me to submit some of the names made up in a pique of frustration at the creative block in thinking up an original name ..... One of the clerics I've played over the years twisted the name 'Friar Tuck' into 'Tired Fxxk'. An archer (with a relatively low AC due to a poor share of the treasure - being at the rear) was called Ben Dover.

One trend we tend to follow (typically for Barbarians with their short life-span) is to simply change the first letter for the replacement character (pre availability of Raise Dead)... so Mathus became Nathus, then Pathus. You can get some odd combinations with this one.

 

[evizaer]

Actual exchange from my game a few years ago...player is rolling up a new PC on the fly and an opportunity (which I as DM know will be the only one for a while) comes up to bring it in:

DM (me): "Jason, is your new guy ready to go?"
Jason: "Close, just got to finish equipping it..."
DM: "So what's its name?"
Jason: "No idea yet."
DM: "How are you spelling that?"

And thus was born the legendary - if very short-lived - No'ei Deyeyet.

Lanefan

Reminds me of the ridiculous Elven name a friend came up with for her Druid in a bordline abysmal campaign I'm playing through currently. The name was really good, reasonable, and original. The lazy DM didn't appreciate her effort and barbarized the name horribly, just called her EW-ATH half the time. *shivers*

 

[Gwaihir]

Actual exchange from my game a few years ago...player is rolling up a new PC on the fly and an opportunity (which I as DM know will be the only one for a while) comes up to bring it in:

DM (me): "Jason, is your new guy ready to go?"
Jason: "Close, just got to finish equipping it..."
DM: "So what's its name?"
Jason: "No idea yet."
DM: "How are you spelling that?"

And thus was born the legendary - if very short-lived - No'ei Deyeyet.

Lanefan

This is classic! We had a character named Anam in our campaign based on a very similiar excahnge.

DM: Ryan does your new character have a name?

Ryan: A Name?

DM: Anam, got it. Thanks.