Funny character names

[R_J_K75]

Seafaring druid - Gorton Vandekamp
Archer - Fletch Bowman
Priest of Ilmater - Melrig Davidian
Plane hopping Kender - Wavy Gravy
Drunken bar hopping cleric - Tango Ray Leonard
NPC Surgeon - Theodoric of Yorke Medieval Barber
Star Wars Wookie - Player named him Bob, I said Bob? So he added on a bacca to the end, Bobbacca.

All I can think of right now

 

[pming]

Hiya!

Amusing names? hmmm.... Ahhh.... ok. My best one (I think):

Drift Woode - a stoner hippy beatnik druid (1e, he made it to 5th level before we moved on to something else...he's still alive I guess...)

I did "reprise" Drift's role for a 3.5e game when a friend was running the "Savage Tide" AP...but in this incarnation he was a stoner hippy surfer-dude druid with a giant squid 'familiar' named "Steve" iirc.

Fun times!

Normally I don't go for "silly" names or characters, but every now and then you just gotta do it to lighten the 'seriousness' of all the other PC's/NPC's.

^_^

Paul L. Ming

 

[J.Quondam]

Moobsly Blingfilcher, a rotund halfling 3e rogue*/bard (pole-dancing specialist) who got rolled up but never saw actual play.
For some reason.


* I don't recall if he was an actual rogue, or simply burgled as a side-hustle.

 

[CleverNickName]

Woah. This thread is 15 years old!

Funniest name I've seen for a character: Oboh Redrum, a halfling barbarian.

 

[Adamant]

Ok, I just realized I have over 70 characters and none of them have funny names. The closest I can get is a kobold named Civip, and that's just draconic for Frost. As for characters I've seen, I know I've run into a few but can't remember any names to save my life.

 

[Richards]

I had a player run a human cleric of Kord named Cal Trop through a full 20-level campaign. In the follow-up campaign (which took place 20 years later) he had died and become an avatar of Kord.

That same follow-on campaign had a fighter named Binkadink Dundernoggin, but since he was a gnome that was a perfectly reasonable name. (He had relatives names Jinkadoodle, Winkidew, and Piddilink.)

Johnathan

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Got lots! Some got used, some didn’t.

I had a bard named Dore Mifaso LaTido.

I had a one-eyed gnome ranger named Rumple Pliskin.

Another gnome ranger was simply called The Gnome Ranger. He rode a giant space hamster named Mithril, and favored using silver-headed crossbow bolts in his twin repeating hand crossbows.

Purity Balls was a hard drinkin', twin .45 totin' female gunslinger, and the daughter of Rev. Ezekiel Leviathan Balls. He did NOT approve of her lifestyle.

Rög Tus-karr was a version of pulp-era/Sci-Fi types like Adam Strange, Flash Gordon, Buck Rodgers and Commando Cody. He's a crash landed alien scout, a heavyworlder. He has some advanced sensory & survival tech in his uniform, plus some jump jets and a handy blaster pistol for a sidearm. Has a small, golden bird-like robot drone for recon, too. As a heavyworlder, he is physically stronger and more durable than humans. He looks like a bipedal, 7'8" tall pink elephant. Home world: Snuffleupagron 5. (Winos hate him.)

 

[Lanefan]

Some I've seen over time - most are/were not my own:

The Gnome Alaska
Stilth Incan* (I-as-DM ask player for PC's name; his reply is "still thinkin'"; my reply is "Good. How are you spelling that?")
No'ei Deyayet* (same sequence as Stilth, above)
Axwell Smart (not a PC name yet; I use it for one of the warriors a PC of mine has the ability to summon now and then)

Characters with dismal starting stats have generated a few:

Mediocrates^
Averjax^
Knottwoor Thmutch
Weir Foct
^ - fun fact: Mediocrates and Averjax came into a party together; Mediocrates lasted just long enough to be caught in the only TPK I've ever DMed.

Class-race combinations have led to:

Pelmuc (Part-Elf Magic-user/Cleric)
Anne (Assassin-Necromancer Neutral Evil; killed in process of meeting the party before they ever knew what she was)
Elena (Elf Lawful Evil Necromancer-Assassin; and Anne's direct replacement)

Our random name generation system has led to some crazy and-or nigh-unpronounceable names; one of the worst of the latter being my bard Que'fnlnrl. Oddly enough, her name being unpronounceable made sense in a way: she was a full Dryad, meaning the only way to say her name properly would be to first turn yourself into a tree... For day-to-day purposes we just called her Ka'fell.

And the worst: I once ran a one-shot where one of the players was named Bernard. A different player named her character Bernard. What a nightmare that was!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

And the worst: I once ran a one-shot where one of the players was named Bernard. A different player named her character Bernard. What a nightmare that was!

Tangent: in my HS graduating class of 27, there were 5 “Davids”, 5 “Johns/Jons“, and a ”John-David”.

Not to be outdone, in my freshman year of college, my social circle included 5 “Brians”

…and of course, the one who wasn’t caucasian was called “Black Brian”.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Zjax “Yellowjack” was a bisento-wielding Githzerai monk/PsyWar/Lucid Cenobite. (The 4Ed version is a hybrid Avenger/Battlemind.). The joke? “Yellowjack” is an old name for yellow fever, and he was the sole survivor of a “plague ship” (actually beset by undead). So, as the yellow-skinned survivor of an apparent contagion, he got a nickname…

Dixon Balzac is a noir detective type. Have’t gotten to play with him yet.

My notes on as-yet unplayed Krunk Kronik (.5Orc Bard)

• Been shot by crossbow bolts 9 times & survived
• in serious situations, vows to succeed...or die trying
• Loves the ladies
• has a staff & cup, and often waves his hands in the air, seemingly without care
• has 99 problems...
• has reckless diamonds, including a diamond encrusted medallion shaped like a midget, and another that is a carriage wheel
• likes large, aggressive dogs
• has a very expensive carriage drawn by high-quality horses, which has wheels that appear to be in motion, even when the carriage is stopped
• wants you to dowatchalike
• always shares his intoxicants
• has a shady past and an unusually high street rep for an entertainer
• is down with OPP, since he is seemingly naughty by nature (see above)
• has gold covering his orcish fangs
• always fills his wineskin with the finest of sparkling wines
• knows that there is no sex in the champagne room...but also knows how to get champagne in the sex room