Worse. Character. Name. Ever!!

[Drew]

Lilyhammer the gnome fighter. He charged right in to any situation, blowing his battle horn and waving his axe. And its pronounced Lily-hom-er, not Lily-ham-er.

My friend thought he was so funny, he ran basically the same character named Laurel Openheimer for a different campaign. Later, on a whim, we decided they were brothers and played them both in a silly and short lived 2E campaign. Come to think of it, it was Laurel that had the horn.

"What's with the horn?"
"Huh? Oh, Laurel's kind of crazy like that. Yep, he's pretty reckless. The whole family is worried that it will one day get him into trouble, running around blowing that horn and rushing trolls and giants and such. Still...what? A demon? CHARGE!"

 

[Al'Kelhar]

The henchmen of a significant villian, who led our party on several "excellent adventures": Bill and Ted.

Cheers, Al'Kelhar

 

[dren]

If you can believe this...

Not sure about worst, but here goes...a Paladin named Porn Clitoris, with a mount named Climax. And in case you were wondering it's a serious and heavy roleplaying campaign.

 

[dren]

If you can believe this...

Not sure about worst, but here goes...a Paladin named Porn Clitoris, with a mount named Climax. And in case you were wondering it's a serious and heavy roleplaying campaign.

 

[demiurge1138]

Damn double post!

 

[demiurge1138]

My NWN monk's name was Richard Gere

On that note...
In my campaign, there is a rather theatrical kobold lawyer named Rickard'gere.

That's pretty bad.

Demiurge out.

 

[Ogre Mage]

Bad character names

In a second edition campaign I played in, one of the characters was a cleric/fighter named Twinki (pronounced like the hostess cream filled snack). What's worse, this character was a cleric of Myrkul. I have no idea why the player chose such a bad name for her character. However, her armor class was -5 (which is 25 in 3rd edition terms).

In our current game, one of the players is running a Barbarian/Druid named Bruce.

 

[Mercule]

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

So your dwarf is called "Aflack"?

 

[Mallus]

Either best or worst...

...I can't decide.

Back in college my former roommate created a human mage named Sylvan Shwartz, who everyone kept mistaking for Elven, or at the very least half-elven. This question dogged him through his entire life.

It helped that my roommate played him with a flawless Woody Allen accent.

It also helped that he said things like "I don't want to acheive immortality throught my work, I want to acheive it by not dying.... what? Lichhood, who said anything about liches?"

 

[Gothmog]

THE worst?

Has to be Baligoth- the BBEG in another DMs campaign. A big, full-plate armored, axe-weilding, horned-helm mother with a severe Sauron inferiority complex. The name is silly on its own, but one guy who is bad with names was trying to say his name to another party member, and mispronounced it:

"Bageldeath"

After about 10 minutes of uproarious laughter and the DM scowling the whole time, we got back to playing, but from that point forward, his name was Bageldeath, no matter what.

Other ones:

When I was running a Shadowrun game years ago, there was a rapper onstage at a club. When the party asked his name, and I hadn't made one up before hand, I blurted out "Funky Rump". After much laughter, the party dubbed his posse the "Butt Pirates".

Another DM named a sivler dragon "Robialiath", which of course we shortened to "Rob".

One of my early semi-random names from my D&D campaign- a priest of the god of dreams named "Onthtorin". Its damn near unpronouncible- I don't know what I was thinking.

From my D&D game- the baron of a small Germanic town whose name was rolled randomly from a name generator book "Wolf Neiderberger". Actually, that one always kind of appealed to me- I'm not sure why.

From a CoC game- an old woman who was a hillbilly wise-woman named "Edna Ruggles".

The paladin's first (regular) warhorse in my D&D game. The player was the same guy who coined Bageldeath above, and he's also terrible at coming up with names. So when someone asked him what his warhorse's name was, and he hadn't even thought about it, he said "Its a secret." After another session, and no name, his horse's name became Secret. Secret met a messy end in a haunted forest right before he got his bonded mount.