Worse. Character. Name. Ever!!

[Gort]

A pair of monks named:

Chow Non-Fat
Lo-Fat Chow

 

[Malicene]

Dumb name for a dumb character : He just He ! (was a wizard)
another is Aldurin (a dwarf) it's a shorten for "Analyse d'urine" (in french) something like Urea Analysis.... the funny thing is Aldurin is a very dwarfy name (if you don't know the why ...)

 

[On Puget Sound]

Don't remember the cleric's name, but he worshipped Onan, which made him an Onanist (look it up). His best friend was a dwarf fighter named Strongbdum.

 

[Jon_Dahl]

Lagolas

Yes, the player playing this character was a healthy adult person and alcohol had no part in this incident.

 

[Jan van Leyden]

I have to add:

Darfnix

This German name means something like "is not allowed to do/learn anything" written like the Gaul names in the Asterix comics. It came into being when an unexperienced player created a wizard in 1e and was told by the DM (your's truly) what his character couldn't do: wear armour, wield better weapons, cast a spell a second time, and so on.

After several sessions his team mates began calling him Kannix (isn't able to do anything successfully).

 

[delericho]

One time, I had a DM start up a Ravenloft campaign saying, "I'd like this to be a fairly serious game."

The serious tone didn't survive character creation - one of the players created a halfling rogue character who she chose to name Jigglypuff.

The DM made her change the name, but the damage was done. The campaign lasted a single session before imploding under the silliness.

 

[humble minion]

There's a dwarf NPC in the game I run who is named after a character in Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2. His name is Goreth Vileblack, and he's ... a barman.

After seeing the name in the game, I wondered how hard it'd be to be born into a surname like 'Vileblack', and to have lifelong ambitions of being, say, a florist. Destiny can be a bugger. And people are SO UNWILLING to give you a job once you've introduced yourself!

Goreth Vileblack currently runs the tavern in Farshore, and regales his customers with gloomy anecdotes about his extended family members, like Dral Vileblack the vampire, or Thorson Vileblack, whose raiders destroyed the ancient elven Crystal Tree and used the shard to decorate cheap and shabby weapons to sell to gullible humans, or Jaggrad Vileblack, the infamous magesmith who sought lichdom rather than see his hammer arm weaken with age, or Tarnet Vileblack, who betrayed the ancient and unconquered deephold of Varakan to the hobgoblins in order to destroy her hated husband and all his family, etc etc etc.

Some of these family members have/will show up to cause trouble of course, but Goreth has seemingly resisted the tug of his name. So far...

 

[Pentius]

A friend of mine, whenever he DMs, takes care to insert his favorite NPCs into the setting. They are a pair of ogre tailors, brothers named Thorburton and Thorburtonton.

 

[jonesy]

Palle the third, elven bard.

Don't remember the cleric's name, but he worshipped Onan, which made him an Onanist (look it up). His best friend was a dwarf fighter named Strongbdum.

And a necromancer too, right? One with snazzy threads? You know, from eight years ago?

 

[steeldragons]

Bob Fernow. (When asked his name, he said "Bob, for now, because I can't think of a good one"... He was forever more dubbed Bob Fernow. The Fernow clan has spread far and wide, existing in every game setting we ever have gamed in... Most of the men are named Bob (though not all), and the women are named Betty more often than not.

We had a very similar thing in my old games (I think I might have actually been the DM that started it and then everyone just kinda ran with it).

But for us, the "stumped for a name/let's call him for now" go to was "Dave" instead of Bob.

Dave's cousins, also named Dave, were found in almost every village, town and city. Though there were a few professionals in the family who really made names for themselves, like Dave the [npc] Diviner and Dave the [npc] Druid.

Good stuff though. Don't recall ever having a "generic/can't think of a name" for females...but I might have once upon a time.

--SD