Character names, from the other players.

[jonesy]

Sometimes you give your character a name you think is great, but then it turns out that nobody can pronounce it or even remember it.

Other times the name is just so bad or boring it doesn't get used.

So the other players give the character a nickname, or just call it something funny. And it sticks. And from henceworth the character was known as..

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I had an elf wizard I called something from Tolkien who ended up getting called Höpsöpöksy (Funnypants) the entire campaign, because he was dressed 'like a dandy'.

 

[SnowleopardVK]

There was a gnome wizard in an old party of mine named Ignatius who insisted he be addressed as "Ignatius the great of the everlasting burning flame". So we called him "The Gnome".

When he died, his replacement was a kobold sorcerer named Phlliliscut. The player had a thing for long, or difficult names apparently. Thing is, Phlliliscut was actually originally the enemy who killed Ignatius, and we were so grateful to him for doing it (The entire party hated that gnome) that we invited him to be our new caster, and we always used his proper name.

 

[Shadus]

A buddy of mine had a character named Thock. For some reason, everyone pronounced 'Tho' as a 'Fu'.
Also my main character, Shadus (Sha-duce), was pronounced Shade-us.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

One guy in our group played a Techno-Mage in a RIFTS game- whatever his name really was, he was known as "Scooter."

My charismatic Indiana Jones themed Diviner/Ranger Pierre got "Gay" put in front of his name.


It happens.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Wayyyy back in the day, in our 3e Birthright game, one of the players was a female elf rapidly going down the path of awnsheghdom. She died a lot, but couldn't die permanently. Hell, she once died twice in the same fight.

Nobody, but NOBODY could remember her name. Not even her.

She was doing something plant-based, when the player's boyfriend offhandedly called her Death Blossom, and it just had the "ring of finality" where we all realized that was what her name was now.

Brad

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

When he died, his replacement was a kobold sorcerer named Phlliliscut. The player had a thing for long, or difficult names apparently. Thing is, Phlliliscut was actually originally the enemy who killed Ignatius, and we were so grateful to him for doing it (The entire party hated that gnome) that we invited him to be our new caster, and we always used his proper name.

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[Richards]

One of my players runs a paladin who wears full plate. His name is Akari, but early in his adventuring career, when he tried crossing a water-filled chasm across a rope and ended up dangling half into the water, he was given the nickname "Tea-Bag."

This was only reinforced a few adventures later, when a completely different set of circumstances had him dangling from a rope into another body of water.

It got to the point where Akari named his pack horse "Tea-Bag," hoping to deflect the name, but we still call him "Tea-Bag" on occasion.

Johnathan

 

[Richards]

In another campaign, a different player ran a gnome rogue named Jonik, but one day he was dubbed "Big Daddy J," and the nickname just stuck - to the point where the player himself started calling him that.

Johnathan

 

[The Human Target]

Current campaign we have a human rogue named Murdoch.

We all kept ragging on his player, because he obviously put no effort into naming him (he watched the A-Team movie literally the day before he joined the campaign.)

At some point I started referring to him as "Big Jim" Murdoch, in one of those random spews of brain diarrhea.

It caught on, and is now canonically his name.

 

[Gilladian]

The grippli rogue, whose real name was Griptoes, got named "Legs" by the fighter (who constantly talked about eating him). The name stuck...