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<blockquote data-quote="Jolly Giant" data-source="post: 511529" data-attributes="member: 5278">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! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> 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? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jolly Giant, post: 511529, member: 5278"] 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! :p 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? :cool: [/QUOTE]

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