Character names, from the other players.

[Man in the Funny Hat]

I created a halfling rogue for a 2E campaign. I wanted him to be nobility but only very marginally so, yet he would need a long formal name (which I never planned to really use) in order to define his lineage. So I named him Baron Fyzo Jet Danoran Szpatch Treenofferbodiddity - Baron Fyzo. The player running a paladin in the group immediately began teasing him and started calling him The Duke. Still trying to stay in character and not wanting to make dangerous claims to far more important titles he did not hold I had Fyzo attempt to insist, "I am not a DUKE ,I'm only a baron." So Duke immediately became not baron, but - Duck.

Knowiing then that I'd never get this particular PLAYER to let go of it I just rolled with it instead. He went the rest of the campaign generally being referred to as The Duck but I OWNED that name and it ultimately came to be spoken with respect for the characters often reckless bravery. In particular there was an incident early on in the campaign when The Duck and that same paladin PC wound up trapped together and fighting to the death against a swarm of deadly spiders.

 

[Corathon]

One player in my game has an elf with a Tolkien-derived name: Meneltarma (meaning "Pillar of Heaven" IIRC).

The other PCs call him Mental Trauma.

Another player named his PCs "Redleaf" and "Bluestar". Both of them ended up being called "Color object".

 

[Frostmarrow]

I recently joined a new group. We made characters via an email group. We all put in a lot of work describing the background of our respective characters. One guy, the notorious power-gamer, simply put that his specialty was "killing people from afar".

Naturally we all refer to the character as Afar Killer.

 

[Thotas]

A group I played with had a guy who couldn't come up with names. He was creating a new character at one point, and before the game wrote "Captain Falcon" (apparently a video game character ... I don't know much about those) as just sort of a joke/placeholder for himself. Unfortunately, somebody saw it before he could change it. We just told him not to bother with a name, because we were going to call him nothing but "Captain Falcon".

 

[meomwt]

We have a Gnome Illusionist presently in our campaign, the player called him Zoot something.

First session, he cast Colour Spray at a bad guy, whilst shouting "Taste The Rainbow" across the table at me.

The rest of the players looked at each other and yelled "Skittles!" at him.

Nearly thirty session of play later, he answers only to Skittles.