Funny character names

[Jacob the Impaler]

A lot of people here take D&D somewhat seriously, but everyone's probably given their characters funny names when they were kids.

My first four characters were:

Joey Ramone: Elf Bard 3
Johnny Ramone: Half-Elf Ranger 3
Dee Dee Ramone: Human Fighter 4
Tommy Ramone: Halfling Thief 4

At least I was listening to good music when I was twelve. After that, I mostly rearranged Lord of the Rings or Chronicles of Narnia names.

What are some funny names you've run into?

 

[Sejs]

Fern Foliage the Ranger.
Yoo Sing Eggrollshacks.
Saan Holo and his bear animal companion, Boochaka.

All groanworthy

 

[Nifft]

Sparrowhawk the Wizard. Actually the longest surviving PC in the game that I run. I'll see if I can do anything about that...

Cheers, -- N

 

[Andre]

The guy who taught me OD&D ("Diaglo Edition") actually told me to name my first character, a wizard, Fonebone. Fortunately, FB died in his first foray into the dungeon and his name was never, ever repeated.

 

[BullMarkOne]

Whiffle Swatbug III, pixie thief (2e)

 

[Bert the Ogre]

The ever tacky "Justin Tyme," my first rogue...

But I was in Jr. High, so give me a break!

 

[Cthulhudrew]

I had a halfling named Gram at one point. All of my thief characters all seemed to have descriptive names as well- Silent Whisper, was one. I know my brother had some similarly named characters- Redwing, Redhawk, etc.

 

[^Graff]

When I started playing in 7th grade, I played Link Pendragon, Halfling Thief.

I also have a Halfling Warmage who acts like a stereotypical Irishman. I took his first name from the villian from the movie Ronin, and his last name from the title of a James Joyce novel. When I introduced the character, Seamus Finnegan, my friends asked me why I decided to name my character after one of Harry Potter's classmates.

Although we have also had one of my friends play a Gangster named Vincenzo Lorenzo in a D20 Pulp Heroes game, and I had a Pulp Scientist named Doctor Strangelove who had a device that he called his "sonic screwdriver." But we did it more because we like making our DM groan and hang his head than by mistake.

 

[kaomera]

Claire Ick - guess
Rethgif Eht - guess
Squick Kvisserthrob XXIII - kobold with too many multiclasses
Ignatz Kneebiter - halfling Warlord
Unnamed Assailant - translated from the Infernal tongue...

 

[shilsen]

There was this one campaign which had the stupidest names, with the dumbest reasons for having them:

Aragorn - Every time the DM asked what they were doing, the player said, "We are a gorn to Mordor!"

Legolas - For some reason the player used a female figure from a Lego set for his PC, who quickly became the "Lego-lass"

Gimli - Guy had a weird speech impediment. Kept wanting to say that he stared at the elf Lego-lass grimly, and ended up with "I look at him glimly." Ergo, Gimli.

Sam - Talk about no imagination. In a game world with names like the above, even if they were fairly dumb, in walks a Sam. Sheesh! Then again, the DM did keep telling us about a dragon in his earlier game called Smog. Gah!

Frodo - Yeah. Sam's buddy was called Frodo. Don't ask.

Man, I just hate players who can't be bothered to come up with an authentic-sounding fantasy name.