Fellow PC with an unfortunate name

[Quickleaf]

There's a player in our Keep on the Borderlands game who named his half-Orc barbarian.... Biggus Dickus.

No, we're not high school gamers, if that's what you're thinking. Man I feel dirty even mentioning this!

I'm playing a knight and make some effort to roleplay (great group, but they don't make it easy). So how the heck do I refer to this character without using his unfortunate name?

 

[Mark CMG]

so how the heck do i refer to this character without using his unfortunate name?

"B.D." Or if you want to adjust it a bit more and get all Medieval, call him "The Venerable Bede."

 

[Aeolius]

"He has a wife, you know...."

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

In case you didn't know, Quickleaf, Biggus Dickus was a character in Monty Python's Life of Brian.. Perhaps he chose that pop-culture reference to give the DM a handle on his character. A referential plot device the DM could hang his hat on.


Errrr...



That didn't come out quite right.

 

[Mallus]

"A man of my station will not sully his lips with the name you have obviously assigned yourself. I shall call you Richard the Large, Sizable William, or Johnson, son of Johnson. I give you the choice, knave."

 

[JRRNeiklot]

Just kill him in his sleep. Problem solved.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Just kill him in his sleep. Problem solved.

Do you take his stuff? Hmmmmm?

 

[Umbran]

I'm playing a knight and make some effort to roleplay (great group, but they don't make it easy). So how the heck do I refer to this character without using his unfortunate name?

"Hey you!"

"The Half-orc"

"The Grand Compensator"

"False Advertising"...

 

[Gronin]

perhaps the solution is to "Stwike him, Quickleaf. Stwike him vewy wuffly!"

 

[DragonLancer]

Or you simply ask the player and DM to change the name to something more serious. Explain that it is spoiling your sense of fantasy.