What Is Your Adventuring Groups Name?

[Numion]

If your adventuring group has a name in-game, post it here, past and present names welcome. If you're a DM and don't play a PC in any game, post your players adventuring group name. In my 3E years I've had few groups that had a name:

The Slayers (of Evil) (first 3E campaign; 'of Evil' was dropped later because it was discriminatory against one alignment)

Companions of the Golden Goblet (found a golden goblet on first adventure together)

Elven Alliance (all 4 PCs happen to be elves - usually elves aren't that popular, but it's a gestalt campaign which kinda explains it.)

There was also one group that IIRC had 'Looting' somehow in the name, but I can't recall the full name. Lootmasters? Lords of Looting? Not a very good name, in any case

 

[Doug McCrae]

Sirri's Forceful Thespians

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Let me think about a couple of things that our parties were called

"The guys" (informal name)
"You there!" (sort-of informal name)
"YOU MONSTERS!!!" (That one could as well have been official.)


The only actual name I can think of was in the game I ran a year or so ago. I don't remember the words, but it was (made up) celestial for "Champions of the Light". The funny part was that at this point, only the aasimar paladin spoke celestial, and he picked the name when someone who hired them asked them for their party's name. Only some of the party members weren't quite the children of light he was - not that they were evil, just not as nurture-wounded-birds-back-to-health-good as the paladin. It got real funny when they found out what their party name meant, but by then it was too late to change it!

usually elves aren't that popular, but it's a gestalt campaign which kinda explains it.

Huh? You've got to explain that one to me.

 

[Tetsubo]

The last two groups I GMed for were:

The Band of Blackcroft
The Companions of the Crystal Star

 

[Teflon Billy]

Kogusar's Black Legion (the remnants of a formerly legion-sized mercenary unit...actually 7 people)

Bishop-Count Henry's Irregulars (Former Crusaders settled on land that their leader was ceded by the crown)

The Tigers of Tonosaar (Ranger/Druid guerrilla force in Occupied Tonosaar...an Elven Jungle Kingdom)

 

[Mark]

The group I DM weekly has taken to calling themselves The Minimalists (and variations thereof) due to the proliferation of the number one coming up on almost any die roll.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Bishop-Count Henry's Irregulars

Henry's? Nothing against liking the people who run and supervise these boards, but this goes too far

 

[Robert Ranting]

Party Names

Generally, the groups I play with don't seem to worry too much about party names, but there were a couple exceptions.

Our group for the Shackled City adventure path was named The Cauldron Irregulars. Interestingly enough, we ended up recruiting so many NPCs to our cause that it ended up being the name of a full-fledged mercenary army under the command of our party leader, with the actual adventuring party simply being her elite task force.

In a short lived Oriental Adventures campaign that I ran, the party consisted of three archers, a lightning-obsessed mage, a mounted lance-fighter, and a scribe who could invoke magic by writing in the language of the gods. Their NPC employer named them The Arrows of Heaven, but despite how appropriate I thought it was, the PCs never cared for it.

Robert "Still Can't Get My Banewarrens Group To Come Up With A Name!" Ranting

 

[Gold Roger]

I think the only named group we ever had where "The Butchers". And by god they where. Doesn't help that they aquired the name in the settings de facto hive of skum and villainy and not as righteous crusaders.

Of course, it was my fault that things turned out this way, having presented them with a setting that was dark with no light at the end of the tunnel to be seen.

 

[Numion]

Huh? You've got to explain that one to me.

There's little point, for example, to be a human compared to an elf when gestalting (with most combos). Gestalt brings plenty extra feats and extra skills usually, so that decreases the value of humans advantages (extra skills and feats).