Best character name?

[meomwt]

We were pirates in a 3.5E game, one guy was running a rogue who was the Ship's Cook. He was called Reginald Stoat (or Reg Stoat) but, in order for dinner to be edible) most people called him Mr Stoat.

He had a nasty habit of using Sleight of Hand to produce daggers to be plunged into enemy chests when they weren't expecting it. It is promised that Stoatie will re-appear as a Rat Shaman in an upcoming Shadowrun game.

We played Earthdawn years ago, one guy played a Nethermancer called Vots De Count (you must use a Transylvanian accent for this).

 

[invokethehojo]

we inducted a friend into 2e d&d in highschool and started him off with a humorous bar fight (of course) so he named his character bar fightin rob. then we wanted to start a serious campaign... and he insisted on playing this character. Needless to say years later the only character (out of a bunch of unique and very detailed characters) to survive dragon mountain was some douche named Bar Fightin Rob.

 

[nai_cha]

My sister just decided to be upfront and named her character "Awesome." Which gets confusing when someone else's character does something spectacular and people are, "That's awesome." "No, that was Krista."

In the same campaign, a bunch of us worship a deity called "Our Lady of GaGalupe."

 

[Ainamacar]

My sister just decided to be upfront and named her character "Awesome." Which gets confusing when someone else's character does something spectacular and people are, "That's awesome." "No, that was Krista."

In the same campaign, a bunch of us worship a deity called "Our Lady of GaGalupe."

In the "Ridiculous Campaign" a friend and I run very occasionally two pointlessly charismatic con artists, The Reverend and Jethro, preach the joys of worshiping "Mr. Awesome", a deity of their own devising. In play, and later on as NPCs, they would make spontaneous throwaway references to various ridiculous circumstances they apparently ran into in the past due to their faux evangelistic fervor (and inevitably being found out). Good times.

 

[Southern Oracle]

I have a player who likes to take an aspect of his character and then spell it backwards to name it. His two most memorable characters were Resu Cigam and Flenus (from a Forgotten Realms game).

I'm currently playing a warlock named Ozzy Mandias.

 

[Festivus]

I have a halfling rogue named "Chadeaux" that I play in Living Forgotten Realms currently, I rather like that name.

 

[ourchair]

My sister just decided to be upfront and named her character "Awesome." Which gets confusing when someone else's character does something spectacular and people are, "That's awesome." "No, that was Krista."

In the same campaign, a bunch of us worship a deity called "Our Lady of GaGalupe."

You know I can make some really bad puns, so just you wait when I start playing in your campaign...

I'll have a Changeling Rogue/Sorcerer whose name is Morden Meetsda'ai.

 

[Barastrondo]

Nothing, but nothing beats (contact)'s Keriann Croller. It looks just so innocuous and realistic, a thoroughly legitimate fantasy name and then you get it.

"It's Keri-ann!"

 

[gamerprinter]

Well not following the character of this thread at all, I have no problems coming up with cool sounding names for my PCs, NPCs and for my players who can only come up with the kind of stupid names in this thread. I've seen many of them, and don't find 'punny' names too funny. As a DM I don't allow PCs to use a 'punny' name - it ruins the suspension of disbelief for me as a DM.

Some names I've created for NPCs I've used again in other campaigns because I like the sound of them...

Rathe Merethos (that's pronounced "wraith") has been both a noble lord's nefarious son in one campaign, and a thieves guild master in another adventure.

Casimir Darkov - a vampire and merchant prince in two settings.

Tsabrak - a drow fighter/mage from a 2e campaign

Tsara - a drow female (Tsabrak's sister), a shadow dancer.

The Scarlet Harlot - is my favorite ship's name, usually bears a red sail, appearing in two different adventures as vessels carrying the PCs.

Sorry I didn't provide you a 'punny name' like you want, but I hate those kinds of names - if a player can try to be creative enough to come up with a crazy punny name, they can just as easily create something appropriate.

GP

 

[MortalPlague]

One of my favorites was in early 4th edition. One of my players had lost his ranger to Irontooth, and he brought in a halfling rogue to replace him. The name? Coitus Smallback.

Quite recently, I had the opportunity to play a goblin warlord named Bartholomew Feathers. He was a goblin in a Dark Sun-style game who tied feathers to the underside of his arms; he'd spread his arms any time he ran, and he would jump from high places whenever he could. His dream was to fly...