D&D General Yan C Bin is the worst name in D&D

[demonsquidgod]

It's worse than Blibdoolpoolp which is at least hilariously weird. Yan C Bin featured in a previous campaign and we called him Yancy the entire time and joked that the C probably stood for something embarrassing like Clarence or Clementine. I wonder if there's an interesting history behind this strange name choice.

I do like the character, just not the name. Can you help me come up with a better name?

 

[Zardnaar]

The real reason FR displaced Greyhawk imho.

Iggwilv wtf?

How about steal the FR elemental gods? Akadi she's more interesting anyway imho.

 

[el-remmen]

The players only know how I tell them it is pronounced, so "YON 'gutteral cthulian click' b-eye-n" spoken while sucking in air dramatically works for me.

 

[Raith5]

Melf says hi

 

[Zardnaar]

Melf says hi

At least you can pronounce it easy enough.

 

[Redwizard007]

At least you can pronounce it easy enough.

The Realms are no better. I'd like to $%@$#^#& RA Salvatore in the eye for every unpronouncable drow name, unnecessary apostrophe, and comic relief dwarf name that he ever penned.

 

[aco175]

My fighter Bob Jr. Jr. from 2e remembers Orf the Dwarf, whom I created to defy Melf the Elf.

I played the elemental campaign in FR and not sure why they used the Greyhawk lords and not the FR elementals.

 

[Mallus]

For the record, Blibdoolpoolp is a fantastic name. For people who grew up reading fat stacks of slim Mike Moorcock paperbacks, at least.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

The real reason FR displaced Greyhawk imho.

I didn't start playing in the Realms until 5e, precisely because I couldn't pronounce the names. I don't have problems with Orcs and Lizardfolk having crazy names, but when your human wizard is something like Khrakovhagn (I'm making that up, I can't remember all the names, and that one's not actually that hard to pronounce, so I can't even make a good example) I start to give up.

 

[Shiroiken]

At least you can pronounce it easy enough.

Tsjocanth says hi, as does Iuz