stupid PC names

[arwink]

One of my players is about to hit his third or fourth kobold PC named Yip.

I figured there wasn't much I could do to stop him, ran with it, and gave him a reason why there were so many Yip's running around the local campaign area. Now we're both pleased.

 

[Drawmack]

I personally let my players take any name they want. Though I am graced with mature players who do not pick stupid names currently I have

Felicia (no last name)
Chi (hyroglyphic last name)
Hans (with an umlout over the a)
Uthgar Bremenson
Raven Knight

But I would allow all of the names mentioned above. Although with the McPoopHead one I'd probably make that an insult in dwarven so that any time the character used his full name to a dwarf he was saying something vile about said dwarf's mother.

 

[maddman75]

I know a guy who, as a way to protest the limited character generation options in Star Frontiers, named every PC he made for that game Generic Hero. If Generic Hero died, he'd make Generic Hero the Second. I believe he was up to Generic Hero VII when we stopped playing.

 

[hong]

I just want to know if anyone's run a group with the names Bob the Fighter, Aldrorius Killraven of Thistledown, and Runtboy, as per the DMG.

 

[Bob5th]

Thought that was in the Heros Builder Guidebook. Does Bob as a cleric work?

If I make a rogue I think I'll name it Black Leaf. A sorceror might be named Galstaff.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

After twenty years of gaming, I can't be bothered with names anymore.

Wulf Ratbane
T'ang Pun
Shubba the Goat Boy

Those are the better ones...

 

[Al]

The current game I'm running is quite good.

Some of the previous ones have had some classics. I didn't mind, because the group was not that serious (I mean, it was semi-serious).

The best (worst?) were Burne (not too bad, but everyone insisted on calling the character Bernie), Ima Goon (my fault- I told him that if he couldn't think of a name he would be dubbed that...) and Max Pentiflow (based on the boardmaker Pentel Maxiflow).

 

[Orias]

We usually allow it slide, but we will usually provide some clue in to as if we like it or not.

The worst names we have had was:

Ezoghoul
Sshmashamore

 

[Renaissance Man]

The only strange name I routinely allow is anyone with the lastname Fernow, in any variation... Fernow, McFernow, XXXX of clan Fernow, etc...

It's part of a sort of running joke... one player, who is pretty bad with names (He just can't think of them, not that he tries to pick bad ones) was trying to come up with a name still for his character when a character adressed him... and asked him his name. He sorta stumbled for a minute then said "Uh... Bob, for now...".

Classic! I may adopt that as a house rule.

I wince at some of the names my players come up with, but have long since given up on enforcing naming conventions. To their credit, they tap from various and sundry sources in naming their characters - Zefross Moss (after the football player); Augdin (after Ogden Nash, the poet); Four (like the number); Anaujiram (don't ask); Kardiff (after Cardiff, Wales); Mernau (after the director of the original Nosferatu); and Flat Stanley (after a character from a children's book).

Dummest name ever? Hard to say, given the wealth of material I have to work with. I guess I'd have to go with Matteo - an attempt by a player named Matt to come up with something truly exotic-sounding.

 

[BiggusGeekus@Work]

My favorite?

Juan Tumany.