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

[el-remmen]

Both "kē" and "kwā" are accepted pronunciations in (US) English.

Whatever pronunciation enough people use over enough time is proper <insert language here>. My buddy with a doctorate in linguistics taught me that!

I have a doctorate in English! So yeah, trust me I have this conversation about how "all words are made up" all the time. But still am amazed to never have heard the "kē" pronunciation.

 

[el-remmen]

Same thing happened here once: a player in one party named his character Dave, meanwhile a player in the other party was also named Dave. Very confusing.

Even worse, though fortunately this was only for a one-shot drunken gonzo game, a player once named her character after another player at the table!

For whatever reason, I had different players at different points in the same campaign name their character after another player's mom AND (the other) name their character's mom after a different player's mom.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Worst (or best) NPC name I ever came up with was finishing an adventure in my kitchen with an hour until game time, staring at the pantry when I had an epiphany and the mighty Campbell Boyardee was born.

My buddy named a set of Star Wars NPCs, yeas ago; Dex, Cha, Wis, and Con.

They eventually got last names and such, but yeah...Cha and Wis even came back in a scene in a later campaign years later.

 

[R_J_K75]

My buddy named a set of Star Wars NPCs, yeas ago; Dex, Cha, Wis, and Con.

They eventually got last names and such, but yeah...Cha and Wis even came back in a scene in a later campaign years later.

I ran a Star Wars campaign and one of the players named his Wookie Bob. I said really...Bob? So he just added bacca to it. Bobbacca.

 

[Lanefan]

Of course, there's always Strint Wisdex; who I played in some gonzo New Years Day game once....

 

[Bohandas]

I think I once played a character in one of the old Gold Box games named Som Doud

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I ran a Star Wars campaign and one of the players named his Wookie Bob. I said really...Bob? So he just added bacca to it. Bobbacca.

I love it.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Some of the "stock NPC" names in the 1e Ruins of Adventure module are pretty eye-rolling. After fairly reasonable lists of dwarf and elf NPCs, I can only assume they gave up. Half-elf NPCs are named after gems (Jade and Amber might be reasonable, but Carnelian and Azurite aren't), and half-orc NPCs are named after weapons (Mace, Spear, Dagger, and Quarrel). Worst of all, gnome NPCs are just words for earth or ground with an ending tacked on (Dirtan, Soilish, Eartha, Dustin, and Groundla). Weirdly enough, Mace and Dirtan actually made it into the associated Pool of Radiance CRPG...

 

[Mallus]

I ran a Star Wars campaign and one of the players named his Wookie Bob. I said really...Bob? So he just added bacca to it. Bobbacca.

Perfect!

(I still want to play in a Star Wars game so I can play an alcoholic Jedi named Ginn Gimlet...)

 

[R_J_K75]

Perfect!

(I still want to play in a Star Wars game so I can play an alcoholic Jedi named Ginn Gimlet...)

Gin Gimlet the old reverse Jedi Mind Trick