Worst Character Name

[jhallum]

By a Chicago Bears fan in one of my early, early, games:


Harbaugh Korban, the human archer.

Like Jim Harbaugh, the quarterback, he always overshot his target.

*sigh*

 

[CWD]

Ivan F**koffakoff

Though Sven Banderscrotum is a close second.

 

[hong]

Worst unintentioal was in a game of Shadowrun where we were doing character introductions and this one player said his characters name was "Irrelivant". I naturally took this to mean he wanted his street name to be irrelivant and started calling him that... It kinda pissed him off especially after the concept of street names was explained to him and he decided to be called something stupid like "Doctor Doom" or something but we just kept calling him Irrelivant.

I have heard that when you kill certain characters, they will come back from the dead as Irrelevants and seek their revenge.

Herc Stormbringer is the name of the fighter in one of the campaigns I'm in. I don't think the player has even read any of the Elric books He must have just heard the name some time and it stuck in his subconscious.

 

[CrusaderX]

I seem to remember module B1, In Search of the Unknown, coming with a list of pre-defined characters, some of which had pretty awful names.

 

[Cor Azer]

Hmm... let's see what I remember... (Only one is mine)

Touchberry - OD&D halfling
Buckie O'Hare - 2E minotaur in Dragonlance
Topplegomer - 1E gnome illusionist (My first 1E character)
Sunny - 3E sun elf in Realms
Toilet - 2E paladin (It was supposed to be Joilet, but the player wrote really faint on his character sheet, and the hook on the 'J' wasn't visible, so we kept calling him Toilet)

 

[Altalazar]

I was starting a new campaign with two new players (and three old) and one of the new players was still working on character creation during the first adventure. We didn't want to wait, we wanted to get going, so mostly he tagged along (more roleplaying than combat then anyway) and whenever I had to refer to him, since he didn't have a name, I started calling him Amorphous-Blob - since he hadn't quite taken on defintion yet.

Later, that was shortened to A-Bob, and the next session, he hadn't thought of anything else and the name sort of stuck. It helped that he was a Psion who made blobs of goo when he manifested.

My favorite name was for an ordinary, 1st Edition fighter from way back when I was in elementary school in 1982. He was a fighter who just liked to throw flasks of oil. His only name:
The Mad Flame.

 

[Quickbeam]

A buddy of mine named his paladin Bastion Vicar Bloodlust. What the heck kind of ridiculous name is that?!?

 

[Hypersmurf]

I DMed a fighter named Hardhand Darkhair once.

The player's excuse was that he was about six when the character was created.

This was in the same party as Dirk Ironside the paladin and Quickfingers the thief...

-Hyp.

 

[Dalenthas]

One of my players insisted his character be named Bee O'Problem. I have a tough time convincing that player that a name matters to the tone of the story.

 

[Tanager]

Once had a bard who named his twin swords "Slicer' and 'Dicer' on a lark, the rest of the party thereafter dubbed him Vegematix.