Do your players name their group?

[Templetroll]

Once, everyone in the group started wearong silver rings, because they local jewler had a surplus pf them we bought up for easy wealth transport. He then asked us if we were using them as identification of our group, and it struck us as a good idea, so the Silver Band was born.

Later, in a Realms game, we ended up fighting a werewolf priest of Malar, and none of us had silver weapons, all we had was my sun elfs holy symbol of Corellon, a silver crescent moon, so teh party rogue ended up stabbing teh werewolf to death with it. I named us the Company of teh Crescent Blade after that, best I could come up with, I tried translating it into elven (most of us were elves) and the best I could get was Sha-Teu'Vel (friends of the moon blade)

He still wears the slightly notched and bent out of shape holy symbol as is


Usually we just cant come up with anything that sounds good, and wed rather have no name at all then a bad one.

I had an LG cleric in a campaign where the DM linked real-world religions to alignments. (Yeah, I know; even he has dropped that part of it now) the cleric got charged by a wereboar and both fell off a bridge down five levels in a dungeon. My clerics legs were broken but he was still alive, the wereboar was in bad shape but getting better and starting to stir. The only weapon my cleric had was his silver holy symbol... a Star of David. Didn't have a problem due to using a non-blunt weapon that time! Thunked the boar right in the head, was most excellent.

 

[Crothian]

I haven't named my new group yet, but I was thinking the Sober Dorfs. What do you think Croth?

-Shay

I like the idea of naming the group (obviously) but wait till something feels right. Plus its not like we aren't getting that dwarf drunk at some point, even if it kills him.

 

[Whimsical]

Green Circle
Chaos Crusaders
Troubleshooters
Emerald Knights
Commandos

The first three were from a Forgotten Realms game where the DM had an adventuring charter for our group, which required that we name ourselves.

 

[Evilhalfling]

It is rare for my groups but it has happened
The Company of the Blacktooth - choosen internally the name and members became world famous after using it for several years.

The Dread Slayers - used only by NPCs and in session write ups.
(for killing the DreadLord - an Aboleth)

The group that hit the sunless citadel choose a name and symbol, but then immediatly half the party died, and the surrivors gave up the name as bad luck.

 

[diaglo]

They can never, ever, agree on one.

ditto. depends on if they take a charter out.

 

[Xath]

In the most recent D&D game I played in, we were the Circle of the Phoenix.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

Yet another data point:

I've never ever played in a game where the party as a whole adopted a team identity that wasn't imposed on them from without - such as when I played in a party composed of ex-slaves inducted into the mercenary company which rescued them.

Characters in various parties have attempted to impose a party name - the most (in)famous being the "Morsline" mercenary company, so named (after the real-world mercenary company Sandline) because the player of the fighter Mors Azakoth had delusions of Soldier of Fortune-hood.

 

[Warrior Poet]

We usually have a name that refers to the particular campaign we're running, not necessarily the actual group name in-game, though we have those, too, sometimes.

Nicknames for games or groups in games that we've had:

Damage, Inc. (from the Metallica song of the same name; this was a D6 WEG Star Wars game, and our group did a lot of, uh, "percussive maintenance" on things like ships, starports, droids, life forms. We eventually made it to Rebel SpecOps and were assigned that name as our group operation official title. The percussive maintenance continued)

Weirdo and Old Guy (two player campaign I ran featuring two very mismatched yet somehow perfectly foiled characters. The game was great, and in many ways, due to the odd pairing of characters, was kind of like a comedy buddy/cop movie)

Midvale (a reference to the Gary Larson The Far Side cartoon where the kid is a student at the Midvale School for the Gifted and he's trying in vain to push open the door which is clearly labeled "PULL." The party is a good group, with talents and skills, but man, do we do some stupid stuff from time to time)

Kelly's Heroes (a reference to the Clint Eastwood/Telly Savalas/Donald Sutherland/Don Rickles movie, Kelley's Heroes {which I highly recommend, by the way}. In this case, one of the characters was a female named Kelara, whom the dwarf barbarian nicknamed "Kelly," hence, Kelly's Heroes)

Warrior Poet

 

[Henry]

Most of the names given to our parties either I or the Co-DM have been responsible for.

Seven Shields Mercenary Company - the name I gave the group in the last Eberron campaign as the campaign opened. Their boss died and they had the chance to take over, but they liked the name and kept it.

Company of the Endless Bridge - given by the Co-DM when he realized that they started jobs all over the realms, but never finished them - they'd just wander off to another country or region and take up something else.

And finally, in 2001, we had another DM who used to run an awesome Forgotten Realms campaign for us, who christened our whole play group S.A.G.E. - the Southeastern Association of Gaming Enthusiasts. We kinda broke up about a year later, though.

 

[Quasqueton]

Back in the 80's, a couple groups in my AD&D campaign world took up names:

One group, after battling a tribe of goblins, took up the name "Gobstoppers". They painted their shields with a device resembling the old Ghostbusters logo -- a circle-slash over a reaching goblin. Unfortunately, that campaign kind of broke up shortly after that.

Another group, after putting a set back on a BBEG, wrote the BBEG a threatening and bragging letter. They signed it "The Wrecking Crew". A few days later, the BBEG captured the party. They were tortured to death.


My current group:

The halfling wizard of the group decided to name the party "The Order of the Hand". I still don't know exactly why that name. And the others in the party don't care about being named, so only the halfling ever mentions it. Heck, this group doesn't really even have a reason to hang together, much less name themselves.

Quasqueton