stupid PC names

[dren]

not so stupid, but funny

I've rarely had players want stupid names, but they often like to have mythical figures (Thor, Zeus, Elric, Drizzit) and I immediately say no way!

But long ago in 2e, I remember playing a one shot when a couple of players created twin deep gnome barbarians ... Arnold and Mel Swarzengibson, very much like Hans and Franz from the old SNL gag paired with the pain sharing ability of the Corsican Brothers of the Ceech and Chong Movie. It was hilarious! We would never have been able to play a whole campaign, but it was fun while it lasted.

 

[Sanackranib]

Re: not so stupid, but funny

I've rarely had players want stupid names, but they often like to have mythical figures (Thor, Zeus, Elric, Drizzit) and I immediately say no way!

But long ago in 2e, I remember playing a one shot when a couple of players created twin deep gnome barbarians ... Arnold and Mel Swarzengibson, very much like Hans and Franz from the old SNL gag paired with the pain sharing ability of the Corsican Brothers of the Ceech and Chong Movie. It was hilarious! We would never have been able to play a whole campaign, but it was fun while it lasted.

the assinaine generally is

 

[Shard O'Glase]

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.

Yuor response should of been Well hi there You don't know my name is George. I've got some freinds here I'd like you to me, this is X, Y, and Z and everyone this here is you don't know.

And then every encounter from then on I'd try to initiate conversaiton before he did and introduce him to everyone as You don't know. And i mean everyone, shop keeps, the mayor, guards, sailors, whores everyone. And if he ever broke down and tolf me his real name, I'd just assume You don't know was an alias he was using a cover for his dark elf self in the surface world. Maybe thorw it into converations here and there, like this is You don't.. I mean Grosso, or this is Grosso, (whispered) but he likes to go by the name of You don't know.(WINK) Oh man the fun I'd have. Even if no one else was amused I'd be having a blast thaks to his name You Don't Know.

 

[Cutty Sark]

I'm not sure which is worse, that I named a monk Thelonius or that nobody in my group got the joke.

 

[madriel]

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 ).

Considering the real Siegfried Sassoon feelings towards Germans that's pretty ironic.

One of my friends rolled up a new character yesterday called Griff Drifter.

 

[AuroraGyps]

PS

I just remembered something else about Cinder the Mage. We were in a tight spot between two groups of giants, and we're like, "Cinder, throw a Fireball", & and he says that he doesn't know Fireball. We were all shouting and laughing hysterically about how he could play a mage named Cinder and not know Fireball.

 

[Destil]

Spike, half orc barbarian. That's how it's pronounced, at least... he spelled it Spik (Long I). Being illiterate, he figured it was the way to go... (the party fighter later convinced him 'illiterate' was a complement, too. He approached a few people with the line 'you look rather illiterate today.'

 

[Black Omega]

Re: PS

I just remembered something else about Cinder the Mage. We were in a tight spot between two groups of giants, and we're like, "Cinder, throw a Fireball", & and he says that he doesn't know Fireball. We were all shouting and laughing hysterically about how he could play a mage named Cinder and not know Fireball.

We've had this happen in Champions games before. My group went through a period where some people liked names that misled the badguys about what they could do.

So we had Night Owl (Who could not fly or see in the dark) and Crimebuster (a nerdy scientist with no crime busting skills). There was enough teasing we grew out of this phase quickly.

 

[Gez]

The best (worst?) were Burne (not too bad, but everyone insisted on calling the character Bernie)

Ah, Burne. I remember it was one of the default name in the D&D Character Generator found on the CD-ROM that accompanied the first printing of the PH.

An endless source of stupid laughs.

Burnes (plural form of burne) is one of the countless slang synonyms for testicles in French.

 

[Gez]

Re: stupid names

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

That would be Perso du Jour (as an abbreviation of Personnage).

Myself, I wanted for a long time to have a persian character named Onaj. He would be my "Perse Onaj".


Don't remember any especially stupid name. All I can see that's somewhat approaching is a monk named Shaolan, but it was an "accident"; the player didn't even realized it sounded like Shaolin until I made the remark.


As a DM, I must admit I have used some stupid or cheesy names for NPCs, but only myself could realize that. For example, there were two kobolds named Ftok and Malloc. Only Unix C-programmers can know that ftok() and malloc() are actually system functions (file to key and memory allocation).