Lame Names

[phindar]

I played in a game one time where the GM had homebrewed his own pantheon. The god of the elves was named "Falis", which, phonetically, is very funny if you have the mentality of a teenager (which I do). Especially if you say over and over, "The elves are worshipping a giant Falis."

Character-wise, the worst one I can think of is Sir Tendeth. I hated that one. One of the guys I play with now has a tendency to get his character names by scanning the room and taking the first name he sees. Publix the Sorcerer. Benzoate. I did that once. I had a ranger named Bassale, pronounced with an accent on the final "e". Bah-sall-ee. That worked until someone noticed the bottle of Bass Ale in front of me.

One of the things my old group used to do was whenever someone would pick a really normal name for a character, we'd butcher it. The theory being that in a world where every one was named Drax an Theodruin, a name like "Amy" would be really bizarre. So everytime it would turn into "Ameiuh", "Amame", "Ameemama". I don't know why we thought that was funny, but it was.

 

[jasin]

A new player once came up with the name "Himo" for his male elven ranger.

... did we ever play together?

When I said he couldn't use that after a few sessions of the other players mercilessly making fun of him (c'mon, either way you spin it, it's either "homo" or "emo"), he looked through a bunch of books... and came back with the name Gayle.

But apparently not. Our ranger just stuck with Himo, so your story is better that way.

 

[jasin]

In our current AoW game, there's a human fighter named Hugh "the Man" Mann, and a gnome cleric named Jumbo Picante.

 

[Hypersmurf]

I've mentioned before the player who, entirely seriously, named his male elf 'Amandla'.

Yeah, like anyone ever called him 'Amandla'. Or 'him', for that matter...

-Hyp.

 

[phindar]

My old 2e GM hated us for making fun of his names. It got to the point where he'd say the name of something and then just pause to give the group 3 seconds to ruthlessly mock it. A character named Cyleria Dragonbreast was from a sourcebook, and by the end of the session she was introduced he'd changed it to Dragonheart because of... well... our infantile response every time the name was mentioned. So went the sea god Tuckletay, who got mocked out of godhood (for lack of a better term). I remember one session where we met two wood elves named Talloak and Deeproot, and I very quietly asked why all the elves had the most Freudian names. From then on it became like a game as to who could make the most perverted interpretation of the name of any elf we encountered. Ahh, good times.

 

[Peni Griffin]

A friend of ours has a hard time coming up with NPC names. (Note to self: Buy him a baby name book.) When an off-the-cuff NPC pops out of the crowd and needs a name the players usually dub him "Bob" to save time. In the most recent adventure, he just gave in to his limitations and deliberately gave us a series of poorly-named PCs: John and Jane Doe, Duke and Duchess Ellington, the bardic brother act Rap, Vor, and Sal Acious, Peter Piper, Paladin Sara Phim, Sorceress Claire Voyante, etc.

 

[Obscure]

...a gnome cleric named Jumbo Picante.

I'm not sure why, but that made me LMAO!

 

[notjer]

Once I named a person Maestro Lantern. I hadn't sleep that night.

 

[Remathilis]

My Current Group.

Simon Hunter Ian Tallbridge, Halfling artificer (read his initials)
Glove (My Dove), Cleric
Neldt Thorne, Fighter
Kaine (no last name needed), Wizard

I'm still not sure why I haven't smote them all yet...

 

[dpetroc]

We had a character name his dragon familiar 'Rumbletummy'. Way too cutesy.