"It's a joke name, sir."

[kenobi65]

More silly PC names:

- Caramel Phosphor (a cleric, named after the ingredient listing on a can of Pepsi (caramel color, phosphoric acid))
- Dagnabbit Stonehammer (a dwarven cleric)

 

[WizarDru]

Real names of People I've known:
Dick Blood
Johnny P. Harder

Favorite Silly Character name comes from a GURPS Martial Arts game, fashioned after the movie Bloodsport. A Korean martial artist with the name Yu Dai Soon (or alternately: Soon Yu Dai).

 

[Gentlegamer]

and dress her in tight fitting ....


at least you didn't say Banana

My father goes by Bo, and has been called Bo Nana on occasion by more jocular co-workers . . .

 

[Henry]

(or alternately: Soon Yu Dai)

I have GOT to add Sun Yu Dai the Monk to a D&D game!

 

[VirgilCaine]

By this, I'm referring to overly common, non-fantastical names. A character in a short campaign I ran several years ago when we took a month-long break, made a character with this story about how he his mother was a gypsy, and cursed, and gave birth to a man/cow, who by all appearances was a minotaur. I found his story interesting, and clever, so I allowed his character. His name? David?

Gee, I'd hand him a Bible and tell him he can do better than that. There's MUCH more D&D suitable names than "David" for YHWH's sake.

And, my wife's aunt, who works in a large metro school district, encountered a young girl whose name was very interesting. For those of you who are Seinfeld fans and remember how he was trying to remember the name of a date whose name rhymed with a part of the female body (Dolores), well, this poor girl was the opposite of that. Her name WAS the body part that rhymed with Dolores... because her mother thought it sounded pretty but, apparently, didn't know what it was.
Poor kid.

Is Nosmo King worse?

 

[Desdichado]

Which is sadder, a girl named clitoris, or a mother who doesn't know what one is?

 

[eris404]

I have GOT to add Sun Yu Dai the Monk to a D&D game!

Absolutely!

We had the opposite problem for a while. We had a player that refused to come up with an original name. One character was Aragorn, another simply Bob. (sigh)

I used to work for a visa service and saw the worst legal names on passports. My favorites were a young girl named Miao Miao Kitty and Peter Stiff (I hope that doesn't offend Eric'a grandma - that really was the gentleman's name).

 

[Barak]

The most annoying was in Warhammer. Friend of mine made an archer character named Robin Hood. Stupid, but whatever. But then Robin died. So he made another archer character, named Robin Hood II. And yes, there was a third as well. *sigh*

 

[Mark Hope]

Hey that reminds me - I had a Warhammer character who was a wood elf bounty hunter. I named him Clint Elfwood. He was very cool. My GM refused to allow him to grow stubble, unfortunately...

 

[bolie]

In our games, we generally just ignore the silly names In Character and pretend like our characters don't notice. Most of our names haven't been silly, though. We did have a lemangelo and my current character is "The Nameless One" because I couldn't think of a name. However, the DM and I managed to work that into his background. Of course, now I am going to be known as "The Master Gee" due to an unfortunate comment I made in the last session.

Silly names are so common in life, especially nicknames, that I find it hard to get to upset about them in the game. I would prefer the names not be completely anachronistic, but as DM, I would just work around it if the player insisted on the name.

As DM and as player, I've never bought into the concept of the DM has ultimate authority over the game. We're all playing the game together to have fun. If one person is a jerk, then we'll all take care of him. If one person who we like wants to do something odd or whatever, we generally work with it. The DM gets to make final rule calls in his role as refereee, but the players as a group can outvote the DM.

Bolie IV (my real name)