"It's a joke name, sir."

[Patman21967]

Geez...I totally forgot about a cook I used to work with...His name was Joe Stein. He named his son Frank Nathan Stein..you got it Frank N. Stein

 

[threshel]

In game, it's not much of a problem. I'm inappropriately fond of puns (although that's a redundant statement, as any fondness for puns is inappropriate), so if it's clever and within the game context, I'm OK with it.
In RL, I knew a Thomas Thomas.

J

 

[Twowolves]

I have to admit, I was not the best roleplayer when I named my 1st ed druid's companions/grove guardians: "Twiggy" (a treant), "Snowball" (a permenantly Animal Growth'd white tiger), "Sparky" (fire elemental) and "Dusty" (an earth elemental).

However, I have known some people in real life who's names sound pretty made up, such as Penny Lane, Yua Hue, and Huo Li.

Twowolves Howling

 

[Tonguez]

back when I was teacher training I came across a child whose nam was Mount Wellington Bustop (we called him Wellington), and another named Ocean River Lake. Even my own uncle named his daughter Peebles, luckily his wife stepped in and made that the cousins second name (but I still love calling her Peebles).

I also remember the episode of Night Court when Bull was laughing at a korean girl named Duk - when chastised for laughing at other peoples languages his reply was

"No I'm laughing because where I come from Duck is a boys name..."
(or something - um maybe you had to be there...)

 

[DreadPirateMurphy]

I woman I used to work with had a client named Richard Head. He named his son Richard Head, Jr. (sigh)

In high school we had a Vietnamese student named Phuc -- it sounded sort of like "fawk."

A (pregnant) junior high teacher once told us in dead seriousness that she intended to name her twins Zeke and Zelda (this was circa 1984 or so, not 1884).

EDIT: Almost forgot -- I used to work with a guy named Fabio.

 

[Bran Blackbyrd]

Me too. A friend of mine dated a guy in college for about a year whose name was Dallas D. Dallas. Guess what the middle D was for? Yep, you got it. Dallas.

There was a student at my high school named Gilbert Gilbert Gilbert the Third. Yeah, his father and grandfather were Gilberts as well.

I specifically asked for players to use normal sounding names for my current campaign. It didn't have to be a real name, just not a Fantasy Name; so we have Conner Barlow, Jackson Sinclair, etc. Most of the people they run into have "made up real names" as well.

The only people with fancy names are those that earn them through merit and reknown. Heck, in a lot of areas in my world people don't have last names and if they do it's a trade name; like Smith, Tanner or Whore.
Well, not that last one...
Or someone might refer to their place of origin instead of using a surname; ie. Damon of Red Creek.

 

[Amal Shukup]

My games are full of these names.

Although most of the time I behave myself, I'm occasionally weak: I'm still playing my online namesake and he even has sideburns...

But let's see, from some games over the last few years:

- Mack Abre (a Barbarian)
- Tru Bahdor (a Bard, natch)
- 'Cunning' Mingus
- Ickyknob Bushtickle (gnome)
- Bob (new player chose an appropriate but somewhat unpronounceable name, the other players just started calling her 'Bob' instead. It stuck)
- In'Dyannah Jow-Nez (NPC. Yes, a professor)
- Bakkat D'Wranch

But that's not the thing that kills me. The player responsible for Tru also DMs, and he has this fabulous town/small city he uses in his world. It's wonderfully developed and detailed (about 20 years worth), BUT he crushes new players with his naming conventions:
- Wright, Write, Rright, and Rite Streets (yeah, just try asking for directions)
- The Green Dragon, Green Lagoon, Green Flagon, and Green Dragoon Inns...
- Lots more like that...

A'Mal

 

[Hand of Evil]

Once knew a woman named Happy, she made me happy but married a guy with the last name of Nice, so she was Happy Nice but was called Happy spice.

In game I dislike it, most have been the Dick + X humor but have seen others, Tooth D. Kay being one of the bad ones.

 

[Flyspeck23]

Characters with funny names have a very short life expectancy IMC. Somehow they end up being the prefered target of attacks and spells...

 

[broghammerj]

Oh, I almost forgot......

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

It was also most unfortunate that his wife was a general practitioner named Dr. Sharpe. Needless to say, she kept her maiden name and did not hyphenate it.