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<blockquote data-quote="eris404" data-source="post: 1338229" data-attributes="member: 5338">In most campaigns my group has played in, it was pretty much a mishmash - whatever the various players came up with. It doesn't really bother our group, since, as Hong pointed out, that the characters are different races from different countries and so there's going to be some variation. Unfortunately, we did have a player or two who weren't very creative with names and I can think of one player in particular who played characters named &quot;Bob&quot; and &quot;Aragorn.&quot;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :o"&nbsp; data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" />I don't really like most &quot;fantasy&quot; names anyway. So many are unpronounceable (yes, we had a player who would name his characters something he couldn't pronounce the same way twice) and some are just outright silly, so I tend to stick to real-world naming conventions myself. That might not be all that creative, but at least I can make them memorable. My recent characters include George Barleycorn and Claudia Grey.I'm in the process of making a new campaign and I've actually come up with naming conventions for different areas, but that's just because I think that's a fun detail. For example, in one area the person's last name is his occupation (like Joseph Wizard, Frank Baker, Anna Knight, etc.) - again, just like some real world names. I hope the players will like it and use it, but I won't force them to, even if they decide to name their characters &quot;Bob&quot; and &quot;Aragorn.&quot;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="eris404, post: 1338229, member: 5338"] In most campaigns my group has played in, it was pretty much a mishmash - whatever the various players came up with. It doesn't really bother our group, since, as Hong pointed out, that the characters are different races from different countries and so there's going to be some variation. Unfortunately, we did have a player or two who weren't very creative with names and I can think of one player in particular who played characters named "Bob" and "Aragorn." :o I don't really like most "fantasy" names anyway. So many are unpronounceable (yes, we had a player who would name his characters something he couldn't pronounce the same way twice) and some are just outright silly, so I tend to stick to real-world naming conventions myself. That might not be all that creative, but at least I can make them memorable. My recent characters include George Barleycorn and Claudia Grey. I'm in the process of making a new campaign and I've actually come up with naming conventions for different areas, but that's just because I think that's a fun detail. For example, in one area the person's last name is his occupation (like Joseph Wizard, Frank Baker, Anna Knight, etc.) - again, just like some real world names. I hope the players will like it and use it, but I won't force them to, even if they decide to name their characters "Bob" and "Aragorn." :D [/QUOTE]

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