Worse. Character. Name. Ever!!

[Desdichado]

Heehee, did your fellow players and GM give you pain over it?

I'd hate to be the person introducing you to other people

Naw, the whole point was to be goofy, so it wasn't pain, it was part of the fun. Looking back now, after years and years, it just seems so wrong, though.

 

[Wraith Form]

Halfling Psionicist/Thief

This was AD&D 2ed, and I was young.

Frederick William Sanford the III.

We didn't even get a chance to find out if he had a son...

Yeesh.

 

[Wraith Form]

Oh, and then there's this one...

In a different group, one player (who wasn't exactly the brightest bulb in the pack, if you catch my drift) named his ranger "Dalicon".

Now, Dalicon isn't the worst name, but for some reason we all thought Dalicon sounded like various types of pharmecuticals.

Player1: "I've got a headache."
Player2: "For tough sinus pressure, take two Dalicon."


Player1: "Oooh, the itching, the burning..."
Player2: "Rub some Dalicon into that, it'll reduce the swelling.."

etc etc. Needless to say, the player had no idea 1) how often we were mocking him, and 2) why we always started giggling like schoolgirls whenever he said his PC's name. (The things you think are funny at 1AM...)

 

[Artimoff]

1. Fatty Mc Jibba

2. My NWN monk's name was Richard Gere

 

[Djeta Thernadier]

Hmmm....none of the games I've ever watched/played in had any characters with horrible names. But I'd say anything that is really cliche would be silly.

A few characters from elsewhere that pop into mind with horrible names are :

Fireblossom the Fairy (a PC played by a character in Knights of the Dinner Table...although most of their characters have silly names...that's the point...)

And this old HORRIBLE sci fi film, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, features a "Martian" named "Droppo"

Droppo... that just sounds kinda wrong...

heheee. This is a great thread.

~Sheri

 

[Rel]

The worst I've seen professionally has to be Count Dooku. I mean seriously, George. Damn.

Probably the worst I've seen in a game was a friend who played Casper (sic) Wienburger. He was a rather chubby mage in a Powers and Perils game.

My personal worst was my first D&D character ever (circa 1980 - Red Box), Mognol Stickyfingers, a thief. Not only did I steal the first name from the sample character in the book, but the last thing a thief would EVER name himself was Stickyfingers. Perhaps it was a family name and he was genetically predisposed toward theft.

I was slightly consoled a short time later when I got my 1E DMG. If I ever make an evil Dwarf, I'm SO going to name him Gutboy Barrelhouse.

I'll also briefly mention that I'm running a RttToEE game and the players have made endless fun of Spugnoir ("'Spoon-War'? What the hell is does that mean?").

 

[mmu1]

Brittany the Elf. Played like a brainless valley girl by a fairly, um, flamboyant player...

 

[David Argall]

Namely

Well, I named my 1st major PC "Elot" [by rolling dice to select leters].
So his 2 kids were "Elad" and "Elass".

 

[shadow]

Hmm....I actually had a player name an elven ranger Drizzt before. Oh the horrors!

 

[Cedric]

In the table top games I've played, we've always been very strict on names. Anything too silly would have just been rejected flat out.

My worse names were re-used names from fiction or from other games...back in my first days of playing. Thorin, etc.

However, the award for worse name in any kind of RPG (if you want to call it that), goes to a character in Ultima Online. Back in the first days of UO it was possible to get titles like Great Lord, Dark Lord, etc...

So one day I see a guy running along named, "Of the Sith" ... he was just working his little heart out to get his "Dark Lord" title...I pk'd him out of principle.

Cedric