Worst Character Name

[Tsyr]

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.

Maybe not...

I hadn't read the Elric books till last year, and I had had a druid with the last name of Stormbringer... Lifted it from the title of a song by Heather Alexander (Turns out I used to listen to her, then forgot about it, then started again when someone on this board mentioned her, but forgot I used to listen to her untill I heard a song I remembered. Strange...)

 

[Oogar]

Natas - Human fighter
Druid - Human druid

Of course that was about 17 years ago.....

 

[Zhure]

Roman/Greco campaign.

"Testicles" (pronounced: test-ee-cleez)

 

[Omegium]

Hmm. bad names. We have had some bad ones: Einkill has to be the worst one, a name I as DM force changed quite fast. Another name is not really bad, just inconveniant: Nu. This might not seem so bad, but if you are dutch....
It is "now" translated in english, resulting in sentences like translated: "now, you're now", and the like. Quite annoying

 

[Henry@home]

Natas - Human fighter
Druid - Human druid

Hmmm. How Innnteresting!
What could have influenced someone to name their character like that?

Could it bee..... SATAN???

 

[Zarrock God of Evil]

In the first campaign I played in, we had a few distasteful names:

Hercules Bigfoot

Aragorn the Slayer (later redubbed Aragorn the Yellow-Dragon Slayer)

Later on I had to sanction these two:

Fleming the Basque (or Basker Flemming as it is in Danish!!!)

René Thunderborn (a direct translation of the guys real Danish name into English!)

In CoC we were also graced with these ones:

Billy Ray Valentine (that the character was a tall, bald, black criminal....)

Clarence Boddicker (another criminal dubbed after the main villain in RoboCop 1).


I had CoC characters called Fletcher Christian (after the Bounty mutinist) and Ian Wright (famous Arsenal striker) myself ....

Yeah, those were the days....

-Zarrock

 

[Henry@home]

For a Call of Cthulhu campaign, every player had, as a little "conspiracy," decided to name their characters such a way that their initials spelled out what their job or character concept was.

Philip Harlowe Drake = a Doctorate level professor
Paul Innis = a Detective
David Oliver Niles = a "made man" in the mafia
Jane Olivia Kelley = a professional athlete


...then, there was the player of an AD&D elven fighter/mage who named himself Elelerenethar Karinn Jorann - L. L. Cool J.

...and of course, there was the 3rd edition Elven Rogue who was named "Oops" - full name, "Oops, I did it again..."

...need I mention the player whose WEG Star Wars character was named "Jesse James Darklighter" (no relation to Biggs...)?




Of course, my favorite, takes the top of all the cakes, was the DM on these boards whose player named their character "Hobo the magical Hoo-hag."

 

[bondetamp]

Stephen Seagall, the elf. My first character ever, made before I had any concept what so ever about fantasy races and as such a short, pudgy and grumpy elf walking around with a hellebard.

These days I name most of my characters Jones or Jackson or something equally imaginative...

 

[Tsyr]

René Thunderborn (a direct translation of the guys real Danish name into English!)

Ok, that's it. I'm officialy upset with my last name.

"Weaver"

Ok, it's fine I suppose... good, solid name, sorta bland, but nice and solid... I'd always been fine with it though...

Now I find out someone has the lastname Thunderborn?

No fair.

No fair I tell you.

 

[Doc_Klueless]

What is the worst name your friends have given there character?

Jay, the guy who introduced me to D&D, had three characters named: Electrode, Diode, and ELO.

Those are pretty bad.

My first character was named after a SuperJoe Action Figure (anybody remember these? 8 inch tall dolls that had the Powervests that had a light on the front). The character was named Darkon. The doll had green skin and orange eyes, had a black Powervest, and a sword shaped like a lightning bolt. We modeled my character after him.