Worse. Character. Name. Ever!!

[Darth Shoju]

lame names

I can think of a couple lame ones from Greyhawk; the city of Stoink for one. And Prince Dilwag (sp?) (of the Great Kingdom).

Then there is something from Forgotten Realms: the battle of Manass. Can't remember where I saw it, possibly "The Endless Waste" boxed set. It's a little immature I know, but I can't help but roll my eyes whenever I hear the name of that battle.

As far as the Darths go (I think you forgot Darth Bane), I guess they are a little hoakey but I've always thought they were kinda cool. There's certainly a lot of more stupid names in Star Wars. Nien Nulb (sp?), Droopy McCool, etc. (there's about a million more too ).

 

[Knightfall]

I once named a dwarf Athrax, but the other players keep calling him Anthrax. (He's called Athrak now, which is a little better.)

 

[Heathen72]

Are you sure you're all posting on the right thread?

It's funny given how many of the names in Mark's thread should be on this one, (I'm not naming names here!) and how some of them on this thread seem quite okay! It reminds me that the respect a name eventually acquires is highly dependant on the character of those who take it.
For instance, who would have picked Smashing Pumpkins as being the name of highly successful rock band when they first started? And yet now no one blinks an eyelid when they talk about them. And having bagged George Lucas, the same goes for Han Solo. A dumb name (I guess he's a bit of a loner, hey George?) that ended up sounde cool.
It's the same with character names. Someone mentioned a Cornelius in this thread. Well, one of our gang played a Cornelius, and he was such a cool character that when I reflect upon the name it seems cool too.
That said, there are some really sad names in these threads, and I'd place and odds on bet that a lot of them were from the players' earliest characters. My first character's name was Griffin, for crissakes (I think I stole it from Dream Park) and another early one was called Peregrin (although everyone called him Grinner due to his manic expression.) We have a book of character names in our house now, with a history of the names given for each one. That has helped us quite a lot when searching for cool names for our characters.

I still find villain names tricky, though, and If you don't get them right straight off, then the players will never let you forget it (unless you make them really nasty )

EDIT - to chuck in a couple more examples...

 

[Ashe]

Aren't we forgetting one of the worst of all? Snails!? But I can completely understand why this hasn't come up, I think most of us are still trying to kill enough braincells in the hopes of forgetting every second of that film.

I digress

I'll admit I have had my share of bad names. My first character was named Dijon. The elf with a 7 dex(We used straight 3d6 in a row for my first character, just so we could get started). Now that sounds funny, but he lived longer than anyother character in our party.

 

[Heathen72]

Re: lame names

I guess they are a little hoakey but I've always thought they were kinda cool.

No doubt! (Don't worry - Darth Shoju is pretty cool)

Who is Darth Bane??

 

[Rel]

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.

Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. Ashrem has found me out. I am, in fact, Will Smith. Go ahead and add me to the list of celebrities who play D&D.

I run a game for Vin Diesel and Lexa Doig. While filming Bad Boys II recently, Martin Lawrence sat in for a couple of sessions. On topic for the thread, he named his character (CN Rogue, nympho lesbian ) Shanaynay. Still, it's better than Dooku.

I'm dreading doing another MIB movie because Tommy Lee found out I'm a D&D player and is just ruthless with the geek jokes. "Hey we don't need to 'flashy thing' anybody now. Will will just 'cast a spell on them'!" He needs his butt kicked. I think I'm gonna' sic Gene Hackman on him. Or maybe Benecio Del Toro. I hear he put a pretty good whuppin' on him in The Hunted. Plus that dude just looks creepy.

I ran a few sessions with Jeff Goldblum (he played a "Chaos Wizard" name Malcolm - real original) back on the set of ID4. But he was such a pretentious jerk we dropped him after just a few sessions. Every time the party encountered a female NPC, it was always, "Is she hotter than Geena Davis? I've slept with Geena Davis you know." Yeah, so what, dog. I'm married to Jada Pinket. And we're having kids so fast you know we gettin' jiggy with it damn near every night. So why you gotta' be steppin' up in here with Geena Davis? Let's keep the ooc chat to a minimum. Aight?

Sorry for that little rant but Jeff just gets on my nerves. I guess we've all had players like that though.

 

[TheMilitantOne]

One of the funniest names I remember a player using was a centaur named Gordon Lightfoot. I've used Betina the Elephant Girl, Jack Burton and my psy-warrior, Enrico Sancho Lupe de Corte de Rodriguez y Rodriguez (who insisted on being called by his full name). And of course, there is the now-legendary <a href = "http://ekajsmash.tripod.com">Ekaj</a> who is obviously "Jake" spelled backwards.

 

[Angcuru]

Oh, boy...

I've seen quite a few, mostly from my psychotic brother who only played a bit of 2ed a few years back. The worst ones were Raip Masheen and Yerinuhl Kaihk.

 

[Desdichado]

Re: Re: lame names

No doubt! (Don't worry - Darth Shoju is pretty cool)

Who is Darth Bane??

Darth Bane was the Sith Lord who founded the "current" 2x2 organization in the Sith Lords.

I think the dumbest name yet in Star Wars is Elan Sleazebaggano.

 

[dagger]

Tofu - for a elven wizard.....