stupid PC names

[Jolly Giant]

The biggest naming-problem I've had with my group is the one player who can never decide what to name his character. By the fourth or fifth session he may have decided on either his first or last name, but he rarely has both names in place until session 7 or 8. In the meantime he has to endure all the lame names the rest of us give him! Like the paladin Sir Smitesalot...

When my girlfriend first started gaming, she had no knowledge whatsoever of the fantasy changre and didn't have a clue what an elf or a dwarf might be named. She came up with a few characters like Pop Corn the halfling rogue and Matilda Shortdworf the dwarven fighter. I disallowed them, however, and pointed her to the example names in PHB. Now she gets her names from Herobuilders Guidebook...

Personally, I once played a half-elf bard with a 'human' first name and an elven familyname. My first name was the old norse name of 'Sivle', the last name was 'Artanis'. After 7 sessions I let the group in on my little joke. Nobody had so far tried reading either 'Sivle' or 'Artanis' backwards. Both pretty good 'bard' names, uh?

 

[Impeesa]

I've played alongside such gems as Goob Wonashadup and Jazminder Pindunderjeep... I also know one guy who named his Robotech character Siegfried Sassoon (so his initials could be SS - his character was german ).

And Shel Silverstein is cool, I can totally see him writing a song like that.

--Impeesa--

 

[DM_Matt]

Caliban, I absolutely love Gnome N. Clayture. That's far beyond brilliant. That's wonderful.


I beg to differ. The Giving Tree was not a "warm, fuzzy children's book." It was a gutrenching, horrible thing that I think all children should read.

Actually, thats true...my bad.

 

[Mean Eyed Cat]

Posted by Terraism
I beg to differ. The Giving Tree was not a "warm, fuzzy children's book." It was a gutrenching, horrible thing that I think all children should read.

I know I'm getting a little off topic here, but I think that Mr. Silversein had a number of stories/songs/poetry that one probably wouldn't find in a children's book store. Aside from his great children's books, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up, and A Light in the Attic, one should check out his, er, "indelicate" literary works at:

http://www.banned-width.com/shel/misc/lyrics.html

Check out the song THE FATHER OF THE BOY NAMED SUE.

And on Johnny Cash's new cd he covers Nine Inch Nail's Hurt. Way cool

 

[Timothy]

I've got a few too, my players quickly get bored and make the most unbelievable chars

Frizzle-sizzle (a mage)
Grixy the wannabee pixie (druid)
Petite dejeuner (breakfast, for a halfling)
Gaylord er (I mean, come on!)
Rask-Flask the slave-ape (no joke)
Glee-Wee the eyebiter
George clooney (healer of pelor)
Mr. T (half-orc barbarian)
One time we had a Party-name: The Rudi-Völler boys

 

[The Forsaken One]

Still haven't seen Pirecat in here so it seems someone is getting away with something

 

[Sanackranib]

stupid names

we had Char de Jour in one game (character of the day - sorry my french spelling is worse then my english)

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

I played with a guy that had cool names like Pez the despencer of doom, and Cornacopia.

 

[Voadam]

The most disruptive name that has ever been introduced was the player who was so secretive that the other players could not know the character's name. The DM "accidentally" let slip a name and we called the character that the whole time while the PC would say, "but you don't know that is her name"...

I had a similar experience, We were starting a new campaign and my human fighter walks into a bar and sees one of the other PC's drow character for the first time.

So I walk up to him and say "So what's your name?"

His response was a hostile defiant "You don't know!"

My response "I'm asking, what's your name."

This interchange cracked up the group and he wouldn't tell me his name for a while. Finally he came up with "Grosso" which cracked us up even more.

 

[Voadam]

One of my friends played a deep gnome fighter from the hood named Dough Boy, I regretted letting that character concept fly in my campaign.

My brother has an assassin named Gushmore.

But the worst I saw was his half orc two bastard sword swinging fighter named Garrok Lawnmower.