War Titles/Names. How do you use them ?

Best assigned by the DM. I look for opportunities to assign them, myself. As a player, I hope my DM does the same with some characters.
 

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If the player wants one, I'm fine with whatever he wants, usually.

One PC in my game had no last name, and after killing an evil druid, he liked the "Thornbane" title that villagers started giving him enough to take it as his last name. (The druids are not pleased about this.)

Another PC got Fistkiller after taking out an evil monk -- but for some reason, his didn't stick.

Also, if you've got a good world background, the PCs progression through different aspects of society should generate new good names. My group is part of a town's guards. The sorcerer is now known as Flamelancer, given his status in the elite arcane guard-group. My fighters are both Captains in the command structure. And so forth. The clerics are Brother or Sister or Guide or Warmaster or whatever, depending on their faith.

A good world gives them lots of room to build a nice name.

-Tacky
 

During the course of the campaign, my players, who mostly started out with only single names, have started picking up last names and epithets. A paladin, Ash, was given a barony after they cleared a castle of undead and he became Lord Ash of Greystone.

One of the other characters, a half-elf named Gemini, was revealed to be the son of one of the campaign's main villains, a necromancer named Dolgathan. He tried to deny his birth at first, but he has since taken to calling himself Gemini Dolgathason.
 

Just remember one I myself had....

Zara Trollknocker:

My Windling Beastmaster (Earthdawn) defeated a Troll in the Arena as well as the groups PC troll after he had some wierd ideas of taking a much larger share of the treasure. She knocked him down... and to make it even more painful started using the epiteth. Of course when trolls where near she avoided using it...
 

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