The good, bad and weird of PC names:

[theskyfullofdust]

I once played a gully dwarf called Togglet Blibblob, whose was the 'pet' of a Kender called Talos Kinder the Kender.

 

[Lord Xtheth]

Feel free

BTW, since it's relevant to this thread, how do you pronounce Xtheth?

Kind of like Seth, but with more of a Z sound "Zeth".

 

[Dragonhelm]

List names, name ideas, and relevant stories.

This one would have made such a good rogue, if only.

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That's funny because my 6th grade band teacher was Mr. Fuchs (fyooks).

One guy I played with had Jim the Flim Flam Man and Brother Jim. See how his naming convention went?

Starshine and Moonshine.

I'll post more later.

 

[renau1g]

In my first game ever I had the unfortunate name of Antonius.... not funny, just bad... especially as it was an elven ranger (2e), but luckily a fellow player (and first time gamer) decided to name his character Luscious Moonshine...he meant to put Lucius (as in Lew-She-Us), but instead the male human rogue became the running joke of the campaign....especially when he refused to back down from an obviously more powerful mage who'd just put us through a dungeon for his own amusement... and was turned into a female.... even better.

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

Chun the Unavoidable

I have a character with that very name on City of Heroes on the Infinity server. Of course I shamelessly took it from Jack Vance whom I have found to be an excellent source of inspiration for names.

I have found it useful to make and steal lists of names from all sorts of places. I even keep a seperate "hotlist" of names since some of those lists are cumbersome.

 

[Tewligan]

[*]Dick Longfellow, P.I. (Call of Cthluhu)

That character sounds like a modern-day counterpart of the paladin in my 1e game, Sir Johnson Long!

 

[Ktulu]

Weirdest names;

Well, in an oddity of sorts I had one player who named his female halfling Cora. Not an odd name, but it happened to be the name of a boss I would end up with. In that same campaign, he created an elf named La'Rene. My current employer is named Lorrayne. Much laughter has been had over this.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

I generally tend to name my characters using Victorian names or Arabic.

Though I am usually adapt at making non-real names that sound real, I tend to use lots of K, S, and A.

 

[juggler434]

I played a librarian in a Call of Cthulhu game named Jim Hogswallow. He didn't last long, rolled a POW of 5.

 

[Storminator]

My next fighter is Battery Jack. He was orphaned and raised on the street by a motley crew, with every one of them taking "Jack" as the family name. As it's a bit of a low grade crime gang, each man is named for his specialty...

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