Names for horses!

[The Little Raven]

I had a wizard with a god-complex... his "horse" was a light warhorse that he magically manipulated into an aberration with 8 legs named Sleipner.

 

[Scarbonac]

Just was reminded of yet another (one of these days I'll shut the hell up, I promise! ).

One of my characters ("Slade", an anarchist farm-boy-turned-vicious-street-thug) had a horse named "Horse" and a wardog named "Dog" (got the idea from John Wayne's character in "Big Jake", who also had a dog named "Dog" ).

 

[frankthedm]

Due to the 'creative uses' a wizard i played put the mount spell to, the name Agony became popular across our games.

Meatshield, Extra hitpoints, Moneymaker, Monsterchow, Trap-detector, Roofbreaker and Foe-flattener take too much space to write on a index card

 

[Wormwood]

I always liked Bucephalus (after Alexander the Great's horse).

If you've ever read Eco's The Name of the Rose, you'll understand why Brunellus is *always* a proper choice.

 

[Sanackranib]

from in game experience I have found it to be good practice never to name somthing that you might have to EAT.

 

[Sanackranib]

Bob. Bob the brown horse.
You laugh, but that horse was immortal. Durn thing never once, in a four-five year weekly marathon campaign, failed a saving throw. We sank a ship under it, lost all hands, Bob fought his way out from the hold and made it to shore. Followed us through multiple dimensions without batting an eyelash. My character thought that Bob was a demon-horse, but he wasn't. Just really fleeming lucky.
jtb

I ran a mage once that had a mule who was "Bobs Evil Twin" the stupid thing just kept eating while the trolls were eating it! in the end I had to fireball it to kill the trolls

come tothink of it I believe that character "lost" 2 or 3 mule's. but at 7 gold a shot I was able to bare the loss surprisingly well

 

[Thresher]

from in game experience I have found it to be good practice never to name somthing that you might have to EAT.

Works well in real life too
I think in that case naming your animal companion "Tastes a bit like a chicken" or Tablac for short. And there's less to think about when you have to name the next one, Tablac the II, Tablac jnr, Tablac the III, Tablac the Tasty...

In the epicsies game we're playing I sort of ended up getting a Seelie light warhorse with the paragon template on it, as a present from an even scarier dude we rescued...
Its big, its black and it will kick the arse of anyone under 18th level. Come to think about it, it'd probably kick my characters arse pretty well too, kinda disconcerting to have a horse thats nearly as wise as the cleric and considerably smarter than the sorcerer or any of the tanks.

My character calls it Fluffy.
But not to its face.

 

[NarlethDrider]

In a campaign I played in many years ago, my half-elf barbarian had a flesh eating horse named a**wipe---the horse & barbarian often 'wrestled' each other to establish who was boss---though old AW was a pain most times, he was quite useful in battle

 

[Hand of Evil]

So, in the modern real horse world I know bloodlines are tracked and horses are registered. Has anyone taken that into their games? I can see it as world building for nomads/horse peoples to have the family history for horses.