Worst/Funniest Character Names of all time


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These were all characters that I at least created with the intention of playing and most of them have seen actual play:

Hrothgar Odinson (barbarian)
Stig Thothson (wizard)
Euclid Euler Pythagoras e pi i (geometer)
There's Antimony Arsenic Aluminum Selenium and Hydrogen and Oxygen and Nitrogen and Rhenium (sung very fast to the tune of "I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major General") (alchemist)
Kevin Phillips Bong (Bong sounds kind of like a bell-ringing tone) (Lizard Man Fighter)
Pyro Fire-flinger (fighter)
Kublai Khan (fighter)
Verix Dwarf-stomper Gnome-boiler Halfling-crusher Elf-slayer Man-killer (half-orc Fighter) (at least party inspired by a First Quest article in Dragon, by Roger Moore (I think))
 

I have a backup character who I've never quite managed to work into a game yet. He's a half-orc bard with ranks in Perform (slapstick), who wears really big shoes and clownface make-up.

He's called Krusky the Klown.
 

Two different players came up with a couple of character concepts. I allow My PC's to declare their own Height and Weight within the possibilities of the random chart -

Concept 1 -

"Tiny" - Half-Orc Barbarian w 20 str, height 6'10" 433lbs - Intimidate skill chosen. Player had a job as a bouncer at a bar, with an identical nickname.

Concept 2 -

"Brottor Ungart" - Dwarven Cleric; pun deliberate.
 


I'm not much for joke names, but I have used a couple. First there was the elven bard Sivle Artanis, who even had Skill Focus in Perform (Song). The joke was lame enough that no one in the group realised it was a joke name! :p

In our current campaign, I wanted to play a character with no discerning features; someone who could blend in more or less unnoticed in situation. I wanted a name that went with that theme, something utterly normal like john Smith. Since we're playing in the world of Conan; which I'm not all that familiar with, I asked the GM for a name that was very common in our part of the world. He said 'Abu', and without a thought I said 'Ok, my character's name is Abu Graib.' At least it's easy to remember. ;)
 

A player in a former group had a cavalier named "Ruel Dragonslayer". Said character was commonly referred to as "Drool Wagonslayer".

Another player made up a cleric called Hismanol of Sudafed.
 


Trying to translate funny words from French to English....

Outami (monk) from: "Ou tu as mis", in French, "Where did you put it", in English, during the character creation the player lost something and was searching for it.

More difficult:

Prunelle de Mesieux (wizard) from: "Prunelle de mes yeux"= "Pupil from my eyes", very good word in French.
Note "Prunelle" is also a kind of fruit in French (Sloe in English).

Marl de Boro, nickname "Klop", as the sound of his unarmed attacks (fighter/monk).
Note: Klop (in truth:Clop) is a slang word in French for cigarette.
 


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