Worse. Character. Name. Ever!!

[hafrogman]

There is a character in my current game who goes by the name

Blaze Johnson

I swear that bad disco music plays anytime he enters a room.

 

[Tyris Harmon]

A friend of mine's Paladine.

Sir Kool, with a K. (thats how he responded to anyone who asked)

 

[Sinistar]

I have two. Though both were fun to play. Faustindindle Crinkledoom the Gnomish Berzerker (2nd ed) who wore the skin of a dark naga as armor. That is correct. He had Nagahide armor, long black hair that he wore slicked back with bear grease and his magic weapon was two horse shoes of flight tied on a rope.

The other is current. It is a character who (thanks to Piratecat) is going for Lasher on top of the Thief-Acrobat. I took the naming convention from MST3K. You take the first name as solid and wholesome and the second as a form of tough material. As in Alan Steel (Hercules Movies). But being fantasy I thought I could do better. So yes I play, Adam Adamant...

Though if you can get the Grumpy Celt to post, his Imortal character in a Highlander inspired game is worse...

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

One of my friends named his dwarven fighter, Cornacopia. I thought that was pretty bad.

 

[Desdichado]

Once had a character named Klorox -- a dwarven fighter.

What I mean to say is, another player in a game I ran once had that character; not me!

 

[NewJeffCT]

Back in the day, two of my group PCs in the old video game “Eye of the Beholder” were Connie Lingus and Phil A Shio.

But, in actual games, we generally have to have a group agreement that a name is agreeable. So, I do not remember anything too egregious.

 

[Ferret]

I once knew a friend who had a female rogue called Foulplay forbiden. No joke.

 

[der_kluge]

Apparently, there is a rather famous character in Living Greyhawk that is named Mr. Clean, and he fights with a magic broom.

My worst was one in high school, a thief named Xapy, the Black Ghost. Well, *I* thought it sounded cool, at least at the time.

 

[Mallus]

Let's see....

Coyse Jarol the fencing master. Not a bad name actually, save for the fact I saw the DM looking in the direction of a Joyce Carol Oates trade paperback about the time he pulled that name out of his....

Sir Bottle, Paladin of Way... same deal, DM was furiously looking around the room for inspiration, but this was college. All he found were empty bottles of Budwieser...

Mumbler... the deaf-mute illusionist
Tumbler... the hulking, acrobatic fighter
Rumbler... the mad cleric/mage
Fumbler... the many-lived mage/thief
--All brothers. The first three died quickly. The last died serveral times, and was transformed into a few different races, but always managed to come back. Actually, Fumbler is kinda a good name for this character. He fumbled around through his early life until he finally found something worth fighting for.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

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

For some reason, this line made me laugh uncontrollably for about two minutes. I guess because it is so true and I could hear Will Smith saying it in my head.

Lots of laughs in this thread.

My group makes sure we never pick goofy names. In fact, the first thing we do is figure out how it could be shortened by the otehr lazy players and then reject it if the short version is goofy.

Example: Baldur = Baldy

EDIT - Forgot about Myrt, the Sqeaky Weezle aka. the Mad Jester, an insane halfling assassin who dressed in a black and green court jester's outfit.

He was all calm and cool until he was startled or wounded. Then he sqeaked and sqealed like a little pig.