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Message: <blockquote data-quote="phindar" data-source="post: 3475873" data-attributes="member: 37198">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.</blockquote>