Best Names ever given to PC's Weapons

[Wombat]

Due to a recent change in how magic weapons are handled in my campaign, my players finally have started naming their weapons.

So we have Shade Bane, The Fist of Prodorro, and Crescent of the Sun now

 

[Aranan]

Due to a recent change in how magic weapons are handled in my campaign, my players finally have started naming their weapons.

So we have Shade Bane, The Fist of Prodorro, and Crescent of the Sun now

What exactly would that change be? I'm curious

 

[Wombat]

What exactly would that change be? I'm curious

Well, rather than just having magical dingi just floating about in treasure chests, characters start with Masterwork Weapons and then take them to temples (after doing appropriate Good Deeds) to be Blessed (essentially increasing the magical slots by "+1 equivalent"). This means that characters do not "trade out" for better magical weapons (or armour), but keep the type they have/want and "bring out the potential".

And if anyone ever got the maximum +10 to a weapon (unlikely in this campaign), it would also be the type of weapon they would want and would suit their style, rather than readjusting their style to weapons that they find.

So far the experiment is working pretty well. We'll see if they clammer for faster weapon/armour advancement, though, which might ruin the process.

 

[Krieg]

I have a Dwarven Barbarian NPC who is currently carrying a sword named Glymma. The sword shares a name with the spirit of a northern Shield Maiden trapped within the blade.

Not from a game, but you still gotta love...

I call her Vera.

---Jayne Cobb

 

[Chroma]

From my last long campaign:

Short Sword of Speed - Swiftslayer

Longsword with Purpose: kill arcane casters - Dweomerbane, Cleaver of Artifice

A nasty battle-axe - Cleansing Wind.

That's all I can think of right now... no one has named their weapons in the current campaign...

 

[MEG Hal]

Not from a game, but you still gotta love...

Vera

---Jayne Cobb

"I'll be in my bunk"

 

[WizWrm]

Skrakk, a 1/2 orc barbarian/cleric of Tanil (CG nature goddess) had a 6 charisma. His mentor insisted that it was better to use sweet reason and gentle persuasion on foes than violence. Therefore he named his battle axe Sweet reason and his heavy mace Gentle persuasion.

God sometimes I miss playing him....

Chris

That is awesome.

 

[Caspian Moon Prince]

Few that I remember

Emberfury-longsword of dark crystal that did fire damage and I think shot a fireball once a day.

Snow on the mountain-A katana that had the sharpness ability and was a frostbrand

Spritetooth-dagger of throwing and returning. I think it had an ability to become a 5-dart magic missile also.

Dawnbringer-scimitar with a golden hilt that had light related powers

Triumphant-a paladin's sword

 

[Jolly Giant]

Despite all the mighty weaponry my epic PCs has had in their possession they've yet to name any of them...

I've named a few myself, as the DM:

Bow of the High Elven King ("Elven greatbow" or something like that, from ELH); IMC it's been passed down from one king to another for many generations, it has the symbolic function of a crown. Instead of a crowning-ceremony, the new king is ordained with the Ceremony of the Bow.

There's been others, but memory fails me at the moment.

 

[BluWolf]

Way back in the day I had a fighter (sort of a desperate paladin wanna be) that got the first +2 weapon in the party. He named it Needful after some weapon in a "norse" tale. I can never remember the source. I was 13 and not very original.

Later I (different character) had a special purpose defender bastard sword +4 named "Namring" - the white iron. Its bastardized Sindarin (Tolkien).

Its special power was save vs. insanity on a lawful Evil target.