"It's a joke name, sir."

[Mark CMG]

I had this happen a lot, inevitably in a campaign that was supposed to be serious. I'd always have one or two 'grief players' bent on turning an otherwise serious game into a running series of dick and fart jokes.

Such as...?

 

[jdrakeh]

Such as...?

I recall...

Mr. Nuckinfutz as a Shadowrunner's name. Ooooooooooh yeah... lots of street cred there. I responded to that name just as I assumed a fixer would "Mr... yeeeeeeah. Get out of my office." Eventually the player chose a name that was credible fror somebody who wanted to be taken seriously.

Guido Wop. Not only really unfunny, but also uncharacteristically racist. A character in a Vampire: Dark Ages chronicle, IIRC. Giovanni. The player was warned about their choice of name. The Prince (also Givoanni) was a little insulted. It didn't help when the player decided to 'ham it up' by introducing a pair of Ghoul retainers named 'Whoosa Wop' and 'Ura Wop' respectively. Kack! Kack! Kack!

Homer Segsual, the flaming gay, Greek swordsman (portrayed, oddly enough, by a flaming gay man of Grecian descent). Would have actually been a cool character if not played like a complete stereotype - it ended up being the player's 'everything is a gay joke waiting to happen' attitude that got him ejected from the game, rather than Homer's actual name or sexual orientation (which could have been overlooked).

Dick Master. From beyond the mists of time, I summon thee. A Doctor Strange rip-off in a supposedly serious Marvel Superheroes campaign. The property of the very mysterious, pagan grief player, who 'put a hex on me' when he was ejected from the game for repeatedly attempting to summon 'peenar demons'. But nary a drop in the pan compared to...

CAPTAIN ! This wasn't actually a character in one of my games, but in a game that friend ran. The good Captain was intentionlly designed to cause a female player grief in a Hero system (Champions) campaign. 4d Spooge Entagle Attack! 'Nuff said.

 

[JiffyPopTart]

My current characters name is....

Randalf the Grey (cloistered cleric/wizard)

I am a pun namer...and I am proud of it.

Some other names I have used/seen used

Jonathan (Necromancer. Stolen from Xanth)

Metamucil (cleric)

Paddlewoddle Bing of Dutwuff Manor (gnome)

Death II (who would always get people to ask him what happened to Death I so he could say "I killed him!")

Uziwielding Ninja Duck (TMNT....ninja duck)

Beefeater Ninja of Windsor (named after the palace guard beefeaters, not eaters of beef)

The Inept Mystical Eskimo Ninja (Try coming up with a name for a Marvel character that randomly had the ultimate fighting unarmed and the ice generation power that only worked half the time)

Grarg Goresplatter (Torg character that gave himself a voluntary lobotomy and only took combat skills)

Six (A generic Star Wars NPC grunt that somehow lived to the end of the adventure. He was given character points and became a pretty handy guy. One, Two, Three, Four, and Five all perished.)

Splard the Lardy Bard (who played steel drums and had dreadlocks)

DS

 

[amazingshafeman]

I have a friend named Anya Couch. The same school we attended also had a Star Dust and Moon Dust twins. My younger brother was *almost* named Justin Thyme DeRyke. hehe.

Character wise, I had a gnome with so many names the party introduced him as G-Leaf rather than letting him babble. There's another gnome in the campaign I'm DMing named Zeke Boodlecock.

Same campaign, there's a Fog Bog nearby, and the PCs first near death experience came in the metropolitan city called Croakus. They made me change the spelling to Crocus after that.

 

[Aaron L]

and I thought my monk/fighter dual weilding swordsman who drank too much coffee and was named Java Ginsu was bad. (no, he was cool!)


Other than that weve been pretty darn good with names. Actually, I guess I was the worst offender. This one guy would run game severy so often, and they were just so utterly DULL and pointless, that I couldnt bring myself to even waste the mental effort to make an actual name for teh characters. Thus, while stopping at the store right before the game, Skoal Longcut recieved his name (from a family of lumberjacks.) And later, i thought i would play a short fat wizard in plaid in his next game, and so I drew a quick picture and labelled it "Chester" I showed it to everyone, and the consesus was that his name was "Chester Hymen" or "Chester the Molester" He looked like Newman from Seinfeld.


No, this wasnt usual behavior or me, and I am truly full of shame over it. But damn those games sucked. I had to at least get a laugh out of it.


But Java Ginsu is a cool name!




Now, my aunt Diana married a man whos last name is Diana, and so her name is Diana Diana.
Thats teh weirdest real name I know.

 

[Mark CMG]

Any new additions for the list? Comments to add about the frequency or use of joke names by PCs or as NPCs? Any new rules regarding their use?

 

[rgard]

"Like Biggus Dic..."

Every GM winds up dealing with this sooner or later. Most of the group has decided, formally or otherwise, to tackle the campaign (this time around, anyway) in a "serious" roleplaying manner but one player isn't on board. Oh, he creates a formidable enough character to pull his own weight but when it finally gets down to naming him he goes with "Phil McKraken" or "Clamidia Underall" or "Lance Pokenprod" or...

Anyway, how do you deal with a situation like this?


Alternately, what names have you heard?*


*Try to stay within the bounds of board policy, please.

In 3e I'm guilty of a slew of characters named 'Robert'...pronounced 'Roe Bear' a la francaise. There is Robert the Jedi Guardian, Robert the Battlesorcerer, Robert the Spellcaster, and Robert the other Battlesorcerer.

In 1e, my MU had several orc henchmen named after Elliot Ness' agents (from the Untouchables TV series with Robert Stack...hmmm Robert?) I remember 'Chico' and 'Youngblood' being two of the orc names.

Thanks,
Rich

 

[rgard]

Well, David is the name of a hero with semi-magical abilities in Jewish myth, so the name isn't too terribly unrelated. It's probably no worse than naming him Hercules, Roland, or Gilgamesh.


That said, it does seem a little odd because it's also a name in current use. Similarly, I had a friend name his fighter "Alfred" because he was studying Alfred the Great in history at college. But everyone at the table didn't get that, and when the PC was first introduced said "Why the **** are you named after Batman's butler?" So it didn't have quite the effect he was looking for.

Other than that, we've had nary a "Feelius Uppicus" since high school, other than in X-Crawl, which is meant to be silly. I named my dwarven cleric Evander Hackenslash. But Hackenslash is just his stage name. His real surname is "axebeard".

-C.

Possibly not myth:

http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2003/9/King David and Jerusalem- Myth and Reality

You should probably refrain from the 'myth' comments given how emotive religious discussions can be and that we are not supposed to discuss that here.

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Set]

While at medical school we had an oncologist who specialized in hospice care and end of life pain management. His name was Dr. Payne.

We had a pair of ob/gyns working downtown named Dr. Hacker and Dr. Payne.

Yikes.

a squad mate named Thomas Wolfe who named his children Timber and Lone....Wow

I kinda like those ones, but the rest of the ones in this thread are just scary.

Worst real-name I've heard was a nice young girl named Auralee (pronounced 'orally').

In-game, my worst offenses were naming a mage after reading some Lovecraft book about a place named Celephais, and trying to mix it up by switching the 'l' and the 'ph' around.

So yes, he was from then on known as Syphilis the Elf...

I had a GURPS knight named Sir Justin Perchance, and everyone insisted on putting a pause inbetween Justin and Perchance, and ending it with a question mark. Sir Justin, perchance?

I grouped with a Brujah pro-wrestler in an otherwise serious Vampire game named Crunch Ironjock (inspired by MST3K).

I named my Thri-Kreen in Dark Sun Tkl'ti Ch'ktla (pronounced tik-lur-ti chik-t-lah).

Some extra-dimensional V&V character had the name Shiv Yrtul Ban-Mak Erehaven. He explained that only part of that was personal name, and his people had to include an 'address' in their name so that they could find each other in their extra-dimensional travels.

 

[Cedric]

Just two days ago I told the Swashbuckler in my upcoming game that the character was fine, but the name Innigo Montoya had to go.