I have to say, your stories about this campaign still inspire me. And every once in a while, like a leviathan surfacing from benthic depths, it inspires another concept, like...
LOLA PAZUZU, Mesopotamian goddess of open air music festivals.
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Joke Names you've never used...but want to.
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I have to say, your stories about this campaign still inspire me. And every once in a while, like a leviathan surfacing from benthic depths, it inspires another concept, like...
LOLA PAZUZU, Mesopotamian goddess of open air music festivals.
aramis erak
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I actually used the names of brands of Vacuum Cleaners for the names of the goblin tribes in my last homebrew D&D campaign. Kirby, Dyson, 'oover, Black Decker, rainbow...
My players never mentioned that aspect... My wife just glared at me when I pointed it out.
I've used an NPC Faerie named Gaye. A Dwarf named Schtumpy. A Goblin named Gobble. An archer whose name translated to Broken Arrow. (Inspired by a friend from Broken Arrow, OK.) A goblin airship pilot named Nokkan Lander. (Players never asked his name. They just killed him. Le sigh.)
Heck, In a Traveller game, I introduced an NPC named Jake Castle. I used Nathan Fillion's head-shot. And a cross between Richard Castle and Malcom Reynolds in the personality department. Same campaign, Scout Dirk Dagger.
So, I really don't have many I won't use.
I've been known to hide puns by using Google Translate.
My players never mentioned that aspect... My wife just glared at me when I pointed it out.
I've used an NPC Faerie named Gaye. A Dwarf named Schtumpy. A Goblin named Gobble. An archer whose name translated to Broken Arrow. (Inspired by a friend from Broken Arrow, OK.) A goblin airship pilot named Nokkan Lander. (Players never asked his name. They just killed him. Le sigh.)
Heck, In a Traveller game, I introduced an NPC named Jake Castle. I used Nathan Fillion's head-shot. And a cross between Richard Castle and Malcom Reynolds in the personality department. Same campaign, Scout Dirk Dagger.
So, I really don't have many I won't use.
I've been known to hide puns by using Google Translate.
In my case, it’s not unwillingnesss to use the names, it’s lack of sufficient opportunities coupled with the occasional GM’s “Aw HELL naw!”
KEK YARRBEWTI: A Scots-Korean corsair
RADIOSHAQ: this version of Shaquille O’Neal from an alternate dimension retired from the NBA after a dose of cosmic radiation gave him super powers. Now a being of pure energy, he can fly at near light speed (teleport), create short-lived force fields, emit energy blasts at various frequencies, and monitor and transmit information on the AM, FM, and shortwave bandwidths. This latter ability also lets him exercise some moderate control over robotic devices that receive instructions on such frequencies.
He can solidify himself for short periods of time with conscious effort.
Note: on his Earth, there were never any Radio Shack stores.
RADIOSHAQ: this version of Shaquille O’Neal from an alternate dimension retired from the NBA after a dose of cosmic radiation gave him super powers. Now a being of pure energy, he can fly at near light speed (teleport), create short-lived force fields, emit energy blasts at various frequencies, and monitor and transmit information on the AM, FM, and shortwave bandwidths. This latter ability also lets him exercise some moderate control over robotic devices that receive instructions on such frequencies.
He can solidify himself for short periods of time with conscious effort.
Note: on his Earth, there were never any Radio Shack stores.
RŌG TUS-KARR: a version of pulp-era/Sci-Fi types like Adam Strange, Flash Gordon, Buck Rodgers and Commando Cody. He's a crash landed alien scout, a heavyworlder. He has some advanced sensory & survival tech in his uniform, plus some jump jets and a handy blaster pistol for a sidearm. Has a small, golden bird-like robot drone for recon, too. As a heavyworlder, he is physically stronger and more durable than humans. He looks like a bipedal, 7'8" tall pink elephant. Home world: Snuffleupagron 5. (Winos hate him.)
SPRUCE WAYNE: an anthropomorphic plant man vigilante.
NEFARIOUS LEE: a Saturday morning cartoon style ne'er do well
Then some I haven’t fleshed out at all...
DIXON BALZAC
MACK KOI
WALTHER FOKKE
DICK MAUVE
SPRUCE WAYNE: an anthropomorphic plant man vigilante.
NEFARIOUS LEE: a Saturday morning cartoon style ne'er do well
Then some I haven’t fleshed out at all...
DIXON BALZAC
MACK KOI
WALTHER FOKKE
DICK MAUVE
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Oh that's good. And it gives me an idea for the start of a supers campaign which opens at Coachella!
I will steal these.
Ah yes, Dixon Balzac, French P.I. "Le Mans Sans Honoré". My French might need work...
In other news, my friend's 15-year old son wants to run a campaign where we -- meaning all the middle-aged folk -- play retired mid-level adventurers who get back into the game for one last score. The kicker: each one suffers from some debilitating condition or previous injury. Possible afflictions from his massive homemade chart include cancer, loss of limb(s), and syphilis. He's going to make a fine DM!
I'm thinking of playing to play a rogue (with cancer) who needs money to put his twin daughters through private Bardic College: Pelham 'Pel' Grant.
Either that or a fake samurai (blade) bard who practices the Art of Bulshitō. Name of Yasujirō Ouzo. Which is a great pun, if you like a) Japanese cinema and b) booze.
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Well, given that, howzabout...
SKIP TRACER: one-legged bounty hunter
PETER BURNS: syphilitic wheel man
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