Naming in my campaigns tends to be a bit haphazard. Serious characters get serious names - mostly. PC names tend to depend on the player. One of my players only has three PC names. Another goes for weird names. (Rthfgn and Underscore being two such).
However, nothing gets so wacky as what I do when I name mercenaries that the party has hired.
Throughout the 3E era, the three mercenaries that would keep popping up were Bert, Ernie and Big Bert.
In 4E, we hadn't needed mercenaries for a couple of years. Then, a month ago, this changed: the group decided they wanted to hire an adventuring party to do a job they didn't want to do. (It's a hilarious idea). What names did I give the new group?
Well, there were four of them:
A dwarven fighter.
A large human barbarian.
A elderly human druid
A human bard.
Raven Crowking may have already worked out where I'm going by now... yes, I called them Asterisk, Obelisk, Getafix and Cacophonix.
(The really funny thing is that my group looked at these adventurers and said, "they're us!"... the group being human paladin, half-elf bard, dwarf druid and a elf ranger; not quite, but close enough).
Do your worst instincts get the better of you when naming your characters and NPCs? Or do you strive to see everything works within the context of your campaign.
I can give the excuse that it's a Greyhawk campaign, where there's a long tradition of rather odd names!
Cheers!
However, nothing gets so wacky as what I do when I name mercenaries that the party has hired.
Throughout the 3E era, the three mercenaries that would keep popping up were Bert, Ernie and Big Bert.
In 4E, we hadn't needed mercenaries for a couple of years. Then, a month ago, this changed: the group decided they wanted to hire an adventuring party to do a job they didn't want to do. (It's a hilarious idea). What names did I give the new group?
Well, there were four of them:
A dwarven fighter.
A large human barbarian.
A elderly human druid
A human bard.
Raven Crowking may have already worked out where I'm going by now... yes, I called them Asterisk, Obelisk, Getafix and Cacophonix.
(The really funny thing is that my group looked at these adventurers and said, "they're us!"... the group being human paladin, half-elf bard, dwarf druid and a elf ranger; not quite, but close enough).
Do your worst instincts get the better of you when naming your characters and NPCs? Or do you strive to see everything works within the context of your campaign.
I can give the excuse that it's a Greyhawk campaign, where there's a long tradition of rather odd names!
Cheers!
