What do you call your company of adventurers?

[Bluenose]

The Fabulous Fenmelioth Sisters.

Although we're a circus troop that does adventures on the side, so it's a stage name.

 

[JediSoth]

I tried to encourage my group to come up with a name for their adventuring company, particularly in my last Ptolus game where they were all members of the Delver's Guild and actually accepted work as a group. They never picked one. I encouraged them again for my D&D 4E game where I ran a conversion of Keep on the Borderlands.

They chose: The Leather Dominators.
*facepalm*

 

[OhGodtheRats]

Our group was trying to figure out a name and in the next combat we all literally went at 19 for initiative. So we took it as a sign and called ourselves "The Order of the Nineteen". There have been other names, but that one still makes us laugh.

 

[tuxgeo]

I think I'd like to be part of a group calling itself "The Scadsworthy Irregulars" (to reflect a certain degree of avarice), but that hasn't happened yet.

 

[noffham]

Brutish louts.



Oh wait- you mean the characters. They never name themselves.

 

[Ydars]

Just finshed playing and DMing in a 3.5 game that went from lvl 1-18.

Early on, we were in Undermountain and the patrons of the Yawning Portal needed a name to bet on us:

We ended up as "The company of the dead and buried" and the name stuck through the whole campaign.

 

[Dragonbait]

The groups I GMed rarely named themselves and I've only been in one group that had named itself:

The Red Griffons
The Silver Wind
The Crew of the Broken Bard* or just The Broken Bards

* This one come about because the group's air ship is called the Broken Bard and they did not have a name that everyone would agree upon.

 

[Ydars]

It's odd how many people say that their groups never choose or get a name: I have had the opposite experience, where almost every adventuring company has acquired a name. Indeed, if we did not choose one ourselves, then we were frequently given one due to our deeds (or misdeeds).

Strange

 

[Dragonbait]

It's odd how many people say that their groups never choose or get a name: I have had the opposite experience, where almost every adventuring company has acquired a name. Indeed, if we did not choose one ourselves, then we were frequently given one due to our deeds (or misdeeds).

Strange

I think for many of my players, games like Final Fantasy and cartoons like He-Man were their initial foray into fantasy. In general those groups did not have an adventuring company name (well, the JRPGs that they played did not). That was strictly a D&D thing. Most groups I've seen treat the adventuring party name as a fun, "old-school", and a little hokeyness kind of thing.

 

[Desdichado]

I tend to call them "you guys" or simply "y'all" when I'm DMing. When I'm a player, I tend to call the group "us."