Worst/Funniest Character Names of all time

[Mighty Veil]

Dragon Stomper, the CE Half-orc PSI Blade, a PC in one of the current games.
Blink 142, a mini-boss villain in a champions game whos powers was that of a brick.
Poundcake, a one encounter villain from a MSH game whos power was super strength.

 

[Cryndo]

Not exactly an RPG name, but on one of my characters on EverQuest, I wasn't in a creative mood so I selected Random for my name and was stuck with Budiaq. Well, since I didn't have a better idea I kept that name. Upon hitting level twenty, it was time to pick my surname and it hit me. Shun. Budiaq Shun.

It became a game for me after that. I'd pick random name and try to think of a silly surname by level twenty. My next character was Mattin. Now, I always called him Mattin with a short a sound, my real life friend would ask me if I was gonna log on Mattin, but he said it with a long A. Well, being a Druid, I thought Season was an appropriate last name. When my buddy saw me in game it took him about two seconds before my phone rang. He still laughs about Mattin Season even though we haven't played in years.

 

[boerngrim]

In one of my past gaming groups we made a side hobby of corrupting the well thought out names of my friend Bob's characters. He really put a lot of thought into it, and we had a lot of laughs. Here's a couple of samples.
We were playing a Waterdeep based campaign and Bob came up with Malakai Hawkwinter. Our corruption: Massengill Dorkweener
Bob's Shadowrun rigger: Bedliner
Our corruptions: Bedwetter, Flatliner, Mister Ledbetter...
It seems stupid now, but it made us laugh at the time.

 

[boerngrim]

Not exactly an RPG name, but on one of my characters on EverQuest, I wasn't in a creative mood so I selected Random for my name and was stuck with Budiaq. Well, since I didn't have a better idea I kept that name. Upon hitting level twenty, it was time to pick my surname and it hit me. Shun. Budiaq Shun.

It became a game for me after that. I'd pick random name and try to think of a silly surname by level twenty. My next character was Mattin. Now, I always called him Mattin with a short a sound, my real life friend would ask me if I was gonna log on Mattin, but he said it with a long A. Well, being a Druid, I thought Season was an appropriate last name. When my buddy saw me in game it took him about two seconds before my phone rang. He still laughs about Mattin Season even though we haven't played in years.

Hm I once ran a female Erudite Necromancer named Halotabuti.

 

[boerngrim]

Oh Gawd! I almost forgot my friend Lance's Minotaur fighter in our Spelljammer campaign, Marl O' Boro. Lance smoked Marlboros. Lance's quote " Marl kills things good."

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Tem Ashlied, human barbarian (hint: anagram).

Then there was Red, the fox familiar ...

 

[Mallus]

My current characters:

M&M2e: Joseirus, the Egyptian God of Mexican Wrestling.

Some related deities from the same pantheon, which is sort-of from the future: Ramon-Ra, Juanubis, Chaluptah, and Vespa, the Roman Goddess of Motor Scooters.

D&D: Plundarr, the (Airship) Pirate-Barbarian, usually dressed in a loincloth, cape, and tricorne hat.

And coming soon, in a M&M2e/Deadlands hybird: Super Soldier Sailor June, a young girl raised to be a psychic assassin by military scientists who though it was funny to expose her to nothing but Magic Girl anime.

 

[Kafkonia]

Well, the best name story is probably from a short-lived game in which an NPC nicknamed the bad-tempered drow ranger "Stabs" after she told him she'd kill him if he gave her a stupid nickname. She did. And the rest of his household. So much for the module! (I went through two PCs in that game, Diabedes the Hexblade, and Xylophon the Cleric of Death & Suffering.)

I had a sorcerer named Willard, named after I decided his familiar would be rat.

I've had two PCs named Pete, one a Cleric, one a Favoured Soul. They were brothers in a minor noble family from the far side of the kingdom, where all the men were named Pete after the area's #1 export (and all the ladies were named after cheeses, the area's #2 export.)

I had a half-ogre fighter (and implicit illegitimate daughter of Pete the Cleric) named Deadora Lìve.

I've considered but discarded Scott Paper and Harold "Don't Call Me Harry" Balzac.

Right now I'm running Bors Sohn von Peter (which literally means "Bors, son of Peter") through the SCAP; he's the scion of a disgraced noble family (implicitly disgraced by Pete 1 or 2) and he's mentioned in-game that he has a sister named Natasha.

 

[Presto2112]

A paladin named Rathorn. The player pronounced it "Ra-thorn". Everyone else pronounced it "Rat-horn".

 

[the_mighty_agrippa]

We once convinced a doofus player who always played paladins to play a Solamnic Knight named Jenal Thalia.

That said, we had a few other standouts...

Heimlich Manuviere, swashbuckler
Figgle de Fey, gnome illusionist
Dagg Nabbit, dwarf battlerager
Arman Hammerbrand, cleric of Moradin
Ukla Damok, minotaur
Sypph'llynz, goblin psion and Stains, his dog
Nipples Akimbo, a Japanese tranvestite hitman/woman/thing in Shadowrun
Grandma Moses and Warhol, immature radioactive samurai slugs in the ol' TMNT game