What are the best names for characters that you've heard?

[kenobi65]

Ashenhearth Trollhacker IV, dwarven fighter

 

[Elder-Basilisk]

I think my two best character names in recent times are:
Seneca Val'tensen
Diomedes Hopesoul

However, I think Wiglaf and Thorgal are excellent names too.

Like Piratecat, I detest pun names in serious fantasy.

 

[Chris Parker]

Krug, The Disgruntled Half Orc Half Halfling Barbarian Playwright at large!

 

[knitnerd]

Krug, The Disgruntled Half Orc Half Halfling Barbarian Playwright at large!

My daughter played a Half Orc Half Halfing once but the name wasn't as interesting. It was Deiowd.

Meyarn was a catlike creature.

Don Wickersmith was a candlestick maker in a game where the player characters also included a butcher and a baker.

 

[ajanders]

Names

I just got through playing a sorceror named Quinbus Flestrin.
Luckily nobody in the group remembered Gulliver's Travels.

In a previous campaign the name "Firehand Incarnadine" got tossed off casually in conversation. It may have been an NPC we were supposed to interact with.
And I still tinker with a pair of 2nd edition thieves turned 3rd edition rogues named Giles and Florian.

 

[Thomas Hobbes]

I'm a fan of naming characters after philosophers (hence the screen name). It amused me to to end (I'm such a nerd) that I had a Cleric of Nerull running around named John Locke. Sooner or later I'm sure Nietzche, Mill, Kant, and of course Hobbes will appear with similarily amusing class combinations.

 

[Ransom]

Ransom Torrence - a bounty hunter

 

[evileeyore]

Every name I come up with is awesome... Okay some moreso than others.

My favorite character: KithKalin Khaladuar, elven noble scoundrel.
My favorite name: Norman Steel, Breaks the Wyrm, Get of Freki, Modi of Fenris, Yarl of Garm's Rage. I have used the name Norman Steel many times, but this Garou was the most over-the-top I have ever gotten with obnoxious naming. It was also for a LARP...

My favorites from others:
tTFLoD (Te-Flod) acronym for 'the Toasted Fruit Loop of Doom'. A Shadowrun hermetic who constantly lost control of his Fire Elemental. At last count was on his seventh new skin...

Rob Robbery an NPC viking bandit. The DM was using a list of Norse first and last names. He choose them randomly and was surprised when we burst out laughing. However we never forgot the villian's name...

Godwyn the Ravasher an NPC Half-Orc Gladiator (famed for his stunning but bestial beauty). The Ravasher bit was a typo (from Ravager), but we convinced the DM to keep it. Whole stories were crafted by our party concerning this NPC's adventures with the Ladies of Society. One party member feel in love with the ideal of Godwyn... and we never actually met the NPC...

The above three were named by our D&D DM who swears he sucks at naming characters/NPC's...

--EvilE

 

[The Shadow]

My favorite villain name is "Maldark the Evil" (a wizard).

It's the creation of the father of a good friend of mine, and I love it because it's just so over-the-top. With a name like "Maldark", "the Evil" is just a tad superfluous.

 

[Sledge]

My nice little priest has a last name beyond mentioning, but her first name is much easier: Teracoolanitiaraskinacoo.
It really rolls off the tongue after saying it a couple of times.