"It's a joke name, sir."

IIRC there's a PC running around my local Living Greyhawk area who goes by Tig Bitties.

In high school the party cleric was Bud the Wiser. My own PCs names were never very jokey but often goofy: Chester of the Pointy Hat (a fledgling maze), Botonomus Bradlebreek, Razzak Gristlyguts (a xvart witch doctor), etc.
 

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A guy I worked with once, mentioned someone he used to work with. He said when he started that job they said, "You're going to work with Jack Frost". So, he worked with a guy named Jack Frost.

At Wal-Mart (the corporate office) they used to page a couple of people all the time with funky names. My favorite was Candy Beavers.

And then there was Bud Hogue, which they also pronounced too fast.

I saw a guy working at an amusement park named Hung. I worked with a guy once named Dong.

Somewhere, there's a Chinese guy named Hu Nguyen (who when), I'm just sure of it.

My wife used to work with some girls who were in foster care with the last name of "Maggot". They called them the "Maggot sisters". Awful.

I was at work one day, and a co-worker introduced me to this kid who was doing some sort of shadow program where they could watch people in the "real world" work. The conversation went like this:

Me: "Hi, I'm Curtis. What's your name?"
boy: "I'm Steven."
Me: "Oh, I have a nephew about your age named Steven."
boy: "I just became an uncle again this past weekend."
Me: "Oh, really (thinking this boy was awful young to be an uncle)?"
boy: "Yea, my sister just had her second baby, a girl."
Me: "Oh, what did she name her?"
boy: "Queen".
Me: "Oh, what an interesting name."
boy: "Yea, the father's last name is Warrior. So the baby's full name is Queen Latifah Warrior."
...

I feel sorry for that kid.

My wife worked with someone as part of her job, and they had a baby, and one of the middle names was Armani. My wife was like, "Armani?" And the woman said, "Yea, you know, like the suit!"

Of course.
 
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Somewhere back on the first page someone referred to Cao Dung as a funny name - sorry to spoil your fun, but Cao is pronounced "so". :p

I have a pet peeve about using "real world" names in fantasy games. Destroys part of the sense of immersion in the game world for me. We're getting ready to start a new FR game and the GM is planning to introduce a NPC named Percy. He already knows of my distaste for that. My fiancee was planning to name his PC Alphonse but I talked him out of it. :D

Here at work I have a coworker whose email alias is 'aschmuck'. There's also an 'afagg' somewhere in the office.

A few years ago my fiancee and I decided to play rogues who were brothers. We weren't really trying to be silly, but we named them Simolean and Geadus Spondulix. How many of you are old enough to get the joke? (BTW, the GM played along and named their father Lucre. We also had a fighter in the party named Tarfu).
 

In one campaign we played my friend named his kender and then proceeded to also name the family as follows:

Character: Hairina Topknot
Mother: Iva Topknot
Father: Gotta Topknot
Sister: Hazza Topknot
Brother: Wearza Topknot

Really Bad
 

I once had a player who wanted to name a halfling barbarian "Lyle Longwanger." I told him that he couldn't. So, being a student of ancient greek, he promptly suggested Lyle Macrophallus.

I was laughing so hard, I let him keep the name.

Thank goodness it was for a one-shot.
 

Most of the joke names I have to put up with are references, like Poindexter Beeblebrox (Fubar to his enemies) or the halfling twins Perry and Mippen, that sort of thing.

Although I did have one player who tried to introduce every character as Hung Lo Wang. I swear, the guy had a huge list of faux Asian joke names which he whipped out every time he made a character. So annoying...

Demiurge out.
 



I like the funny. Some PC's I'm dying to play:

Jackson Emmanuel Fancy, Esq. (and his ghostly orphan boy sidekick, Guvnor): gentleman, inventor, wide-eyed yet stone-cold killer.

Irate P. tha Pirate G. (aka the High Seas M.C.) "Yo, yo, yo and a forty of rum. Batten down your shorties, 'cause here I come". His "crew" includes Officah Killer, Inspectha Deck, and 'Ol Salty Bastard. ANd he sounds just like Slick Rick.

Algernon Swinebane, a paladin who killed the Garderene swine in single-combat and was later cursed by the God of Pigs (so he looks like Porco Rosso).

"Scranton" LeVay, a con-man and inadvertant high priest of Satan; from Northeastern, PA.

Quantazuma, the Aztec god of very small things.
 

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