stupid PC names

[DnDChick]

I was running a viking campaign once, and one player had a devil of a time coming up with a name.

He eventually decided that his character, having no parents and having done nothing in his life worth of a nickname, simply had no name.

What did he put on the "name" line of his character sheet?

The Norse with No Name. The other players were fine with that, and just called him NoName. It actually worked out fine for a while, and NoName became his nickname.

And it got even worse when, on a trade expedition to Egypt ... well ... you guessed it ... all the group started singing, "Well I've been through the desert with the Norse with no name it felt good to get out of the rain ..."

Ack! My poor campaign!

 

[tleilaxu]

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

you are the second one with this gag in this thread

 

[DnDChick]

At a con once I watched as a guy made up an elf wizard and named him Aminomethyl Propanol.

The poor DM, a young kid of maybe 13 years or so, had no clue. He thought it was a great name. "Sounds very elven!" was his comment.

Meanwhile, the player and I kinda snickered. It was a con game, one shot scenario, and it was fun. For once, a silly name didn't distract the game at all.

 

[Gez]

I was running a viking campaign once, and one player had a devil of a time coming up with a name.

That remembers me I want to name a viking cleric Kyrie Eleison someday. Although that looks like a nordic name, it's actually greek (the only prayer in greek in catholic liturgy, it means something like "God, be merciful").

 

[DnDChick]

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?

Ok ... Artanis is actualy a great name, but try that trick with his frist name and you get ...

KNARF!

 

[Black Omega]

Someone posted earlier in the thread about how strange some Japanese (or at least pseudo-Japanese) names can sound.

I admit I'm guilty of this. Rokugan's use of names is rather fast and loose but generally I try to stay fairly close to real names. I even have a book to help.

But often I'll take names mean sometime as a handy mnemonic. Nezu is the rat faced guy. Gyo is the wagon driver. None of my players notice and it makes things a little easier for me. For a commercial product I'd probably change it.

 

[ninthcouncil]

My old group (before I moved to London) used to be pretty sensible with names, but for some reason this slipped a little in Call of Cthulhu; perhaps we needed a bit of silliness to offset the eldritch horror Usually these were just real but amusing sounding names, like Polkinghorne or Drax-Plunkett, but some were more explicitly jokes. So there was a Scotland Yard detective called Armitage Shanks (which is the name of a well known brand of toilet in the UK), the medic Dr. Martin Boots, or that crusty old military type, Colonel Hammond Mustard. I should really, though, have known better than to call a character Arthur Totenkopf ("death's head" in German); he lasted all of 15 minutes playing time, the shortest lived character I have EVER played

 

[Kip the Bold]

Ages ago, in time before memory, I made a character named Ivin Youlose. He was a fighter/thief or something like that, way back in 2nd edition. I don't exactly remember what he did in the one session that I played him, something about dropping chickens off of a store roof or something, but fourteen years later I still remember that stupid name.

 

[Darkness]

Ash-Flayer, Burner of Virgins. Orc half-red dragon barbarian.

 

[Leopold]

i autoban any player who comes to the table with a PC name consisting of "Drizzt" or "Do'Urden"


banned...instaban...uberban clawhammer style!!!