"It's a joke name, sir."

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I remember the tales of a character that was played in my group before I was a member - He was called "Van Wirsing", and was a vampire slayer (Torg). I think the player had a few other fun names to offer, unfortunately I can't remember any of them.

 

[Mark CMG]

My current PC, a gnome cleric of Garl Glittergold, is named Ebuferpaly Whitethatch Malpractice Bearscave Fancypants Potentloins.

(. . .)

when you get right down to it, it really isn't that funny to begin with.

I think it is.

 

[Bubbalicious]

Vagisil Monostat

And the natural progression of bad Pendragon names:

Kumfrance
Osis
Kull
Kumsyzed
Pent
Ten
Kumspect

What about:

Prize
Render
Reptitious
Vicible
Vitude
Mountable
Tifiable
Vyvor (He's got the eye of the tiger)
Jury
Jickal (He makes the best steel)
and finally... Vaysez

As for our campaigns, I have played a Bard named Sam Goody, a Barbarian - Conar Barbarino (DM disallowed Conan, so changed the "n" to an "r", but named his father Vinnie), a Ranger - Rick and another Ranger - Will Robinson.

Looking forward to talking someone into my next concept of two Bards who are best friends, travelling companions, and are always looking for a free meal - Yogi Bard and Boo-Boo Bard.

Our DM is not entirely innocent, 90% of NPC's are named Bob, but he named a town Reeve Chris (Chris the Reeve). Granted it was before Christopher Reeve died, but he still deserves no mercy.

 

[Nightchilde-2]

I thought of a "joke name" that got into our campaign..or, rather, a series of them.

It was a Deadlands (Classic) game. One of my players made a Mexican gunslinger named Gordo.

Gordo died.

Then came Ijo de Gordo.

Ijo de Gordo died.

Next? Ijo de Ijo de Gordo

And so on for a couple of more iterations.

Until one of his characters he made was Scottish. I thought the curse had been broken..nope...Shamus MacGordo, of the Scottish branch of the family.

Then his wife (then girlfriend, I think) made an alchemist...Anya MacGordo.

Nobody complained about it, however. It was Deadlands, after all.

 

[lukelightning]

My current character is a gnome mage called Orly Yarly. Frequenters of FARK.com will get the joke.

 

[Mallus]

Can't resist posting to funny-name threads... need new meds!

Current PC's 'o mine.

Captain Plundarr, the barbarian/airship pirate. His standard "uniform": a loincloth, boots, and tricorne hat.

Joseirus, the Egyptian God of Mexican Wrestlers.

Current NPC's 'o mine.

Onan Testeros, aka the Selfish Man. A priest of the Narsisco, the Saint of Self.

Dr. Mephisophocles, a Professor of Ineffable Inquiry and Un-Natural Philosophy.

Absolom Gottirdammerung Gelt, the Dean of Darkness at the University of Narayan.

Ideas for future PC's.

"Scranton" LeVay.
Adolphus "Wissahickon" Schist, aka The Mennonite in Black.
"The Original Tiger Schulmann", master of the "Five Points Exploding Bris Technique".

 

[Griffith Dragonlake]

When I played in High School, joke names was quite common. In college it was all about cool sounding fantasy names. Post college I mandated historical names and provided several lists. But there is one historical name that still cracks me up. The name of a Central Asian general from the Middle Ages:

Bugechiew ("booger chew")

 

[Fishbone]

Everybody has played with a monk named Thelonius, right? And the perfect thing is that even though its a joke name few people even know who Thelonius Monk was anymore, the people who do aren't for the most part high schoolers and twenty nothings and even if you do get called on it Thelonius is a fantasy sounding name.
The only cruddy thing about it is you have to play a monk and stuck in just straight core they're not the strongest things around.
Obligatory 4th Edition fix mongering: Please, please, please, I beg of you WOTC, drop Flurry of Blows and give them a 1/1 BAB progression. Pretty please with sprinkles on top.

 

[Allandaros]

I will of course disregard PARANOIA names, because that's kinda the point in the game, iznit?

The worst I had in that case was a ranger with a randomly generated name, "Denero." Just add a space and change the second "e" to an "i"...

 

[Andor]

"The Original Tiger Schulmann", master of the "Five Points Exploding Bris Technique".

Ow.