Weapon Names

[MaxKaladin]

Way back in high school, I played a half-ogre character who had horrible luck hitting with his bastard sword. In the middle of a fight with giant spiders, he became desperate and yanked a dead tree from the ground and used it as a club to smash the spider. He went on to smash more spiders with it and thus was born the mighty great-club "Bug Smasher". Of course, it was just the lower part of a dead tree that eventually got rounded off a bit and not a magic weapon -- but nobody really wanted to tell the obscenely strong but not terribly bright half-ogre that...

 

[sniffles]

My elf fighter/tempest has two longswords named Sulian ("breath of wind") and Tasarol ("willow branch").

Man, I really need to come up with a name for my elf bard's thinblade! A bard without a named weapon?! That's just wrong!

 

[Goddess FallenAngel]

I've had a couple of characters with swords with the Frost ability... They invariably end up being called "Winter's Kiss".

It started with an elven ranger who had a double-bladed longsword. She had white hair and pale skin. Her name was "Falling Snow" if you translated it into Common, and the sword was named "Winter's Kiss" in elven as well. It wasn't until about half-way through the campaign that the other PCs realized this; one of them finally asked why I had her call the sword (whatever the elven name was, don't recall). I asked if his PC spoke elven. He said yes, and I told him the translations.

I also had a 18th level fighter who ended up with a Dragonslayer sword... (an artifact that was one of 5, we needed to get all 5 to defeat the BBEG in the campaign). It told her its name - it was also intelligent. (Unfortunately, I don't recall the name - it was named after its first wielder, a great elven knight.)

 

[Henry]

Not quite what I think you're asking for, but we had one player who, in multiple modern setting games (Alternity, Call of Cthulhu, V:TM, and possibly others) wielded a chainsaw, and he always named it "Bob".

Is this the same player I know who was famous for turning Paint Cans into martial weapons?

 

[the Jester]

My favorite, in 2e, was a flail that would prolly translate in 3e terms to a flail +3, Bleak-worshiper bane (Bleak being the evil god of darkness imc). It is named Brainmasher.

 

[diaglo]

read the story hour in my sig.

i name all my weapons, armor, shields, etc...

 

[Evilhalfling]

Heart of the Comet - a +1 keen falchion made from a red dragons claw (dragoncrafted)
when the player found it it was nonmagical, but she paid to add both enchantments over 3 levels.

Respect for the Fallen a +1 dragoncraft shortsword wielded by a pro-dragon dragon disciple.

Justice - a holy surge Kama made for a LE monk who worshiped the god of punishment.

Sword of Normality - an intelligent +2 pseudonatural bane sword, looked like it was forged by an apprentice, from pig iron. It fondest wish was to get its owner to give up adventuring and become a respectable citizen. +5 ranks PS Innkeeper, +5 ranks PS Farmer, Detect Psuedonatural.

 

[genshou]

For my story hour:
Evendur's legendary rapier (also referenced in the Magic Item a Day thread over in House Rules) is known as Sylph. His masterpiece mighty [+4 Str] composite longbow, made of dragonrib, is known as Thanuil. I haven't gone as far as to come up with a translation to the common tongue as of yet

The PC's falchion is known as Icefang, and is a highly personal weapon, even being crafted by the PC prior to the start of the campaign.

On the flip side, the campaign's archvillain wields a magical dire flail he calls Judicator and a masterpiece, ogre-sized arctic harpoon attached to 100 feet of chain that he calls Retriever.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Johnny Bones, one of my more recent PCs, has a pair of masterwork rapiers- Truth and Rumor. The campaign is on hiatus for now, so neither has gotten enchanted.

 

[Roadkill101]

I'm very keen on characters naming their magical weapons. Especially the more powerful or unique ones or ones that will stick with a pc as a favored weapon. The same pretty much goes for any other piece of magical gear with which the character forms an attachment.

In a 2E game I once ran, I gave out a Dagger +2 with the properties of Heal / 1xDay and Fly / 3xDay (one hour max. duration each use), featuring an outstretched wings motif for the crossgaurd. The character who ended up with it, named it "Winged Savior." It was an apt name, the character had a habit of getting into fights where he was outmatched before the rest of his party could help bail him out, so the Healing property got used pretty heavily.

I play a Bard for the same player as recieved the dagger above, and he's also very big into naming weapons and items. My party stumbled across a very big treasure haul and my Bard commisioned a Keen Rapier +2 of Sonic Burst, where the Sonic Burst property must be activated and de-activated. I haven't been able to play the character in several months and the GM keeps the record sheet, and for the life of me I can't recall what I named the rapier. I do however, remember the command to activate the Sonic Burst property is 'sing for me" while "the fat lady has left the stage" de-activates it.