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

[Deset Gled]

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.

There's a story somewhere on this board (not mine) of a knight named Sir Robert Fornow. When the DM asked the player what his fighter was going to be called he answered "Bob, for now" and it stuck.

 

[R_J_K75]

There's a story somewhere on this board (not mine) of a knight named Sir Robert Fornow. When the DM asked the player what his fighter was going to be called he answered "Bob, for now" and it stuck.

Im sure theres more than one thread about funny PC names.

 

[Zeromaru X]

ut when your human wizard is something like Khrakovhagn

Floon Blagmar. Canonical human name in FR.

 

[Lanefan]

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

There's a PC floating around in my current campaign who, when first rolled up, was given the name "Dude". It made sense in one regard: the character was conceived (and is still played) as a complete stoner whose slogan is "I put the high in High Elf, man".

After some laughter, the player (or another player?) looked up a variant spelling: in Welsh the same-sounding word would be spelled "Dydd", and so that's been his name ever since.

 

[Zsong]

There's a PC floating around in my current campaign who, when first rolled up, was given the name "Dude". It made sense in one regard: the character was conceived (and is still played) as a complete stoner whose slogan is "I put the high in High Elf, man".

After some laughter, the player (or another player?) looked up a variant spelling: in Welsh the same-sounding word would be spelled "Dydd", and so that's been his name ever since.

This is why DM’s have a hard time creating settings and having cultures. It all reduces down to pop culture jokes. Not that there is anything wrong with it.

 

[Bohandas]

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.

That reminds me a little of Drewbacca from the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Two And A Half Star Wars Out of Five"

 

[R_J_K75]

This is why DM’s have a hard time creating settings and having cultures. It all reduces down to pop culture jokes. Not that there is anything wrong with it.

On one hand its funny for awhile but gets old quick. What aggravates me even more though is when Im trying to run a scene and someone interrupts me every 15 seconds to make a joke.

 

[Lanefan]

This is why DM’s have a hard time creating settings and having cultures. It all reduces down to pop culture jokes. Not that there is anything wrong with it.

I don't find these things - creating settings/culture vs pop culture jokes - to be all that much in conflict most of the time.

I mean, hell, we play the game for laughs anyway, don't we?

Early in my current campaign one party just couldn't keep any Cleric alive and thus was churning through them at a rapid rate. Players ran out of good ideas for names, resulting in a series of names built around the word Cleric: Cleria, Siiric (pronounced C-rick), Claire, and so forth.

Most of these didn't last long, but Claire went on to become a superstar; and as Claire is a perfectly decent Hobbit name in its own right no-one really ever thinks about its quasi-joke origins any more.....

 

[Shardstone]

I like this name a lot

 

[el-remmen]

As someone else suggested, even "joke" (or less than ideal) names can become "real" names over time just through frequent use. We had a character named "GWAR" in a campaign (after the band) but no one thought of that much after the first session. One new player was having a really hard time coming up with a name of her ranger so she named it after where I am from, thus was Brook Lynn the Ranger was born. We've had priests of the luck god named Chance and Jinx, and once a gnome named "Geigy" because the cardboard I used for a screen was from a box holding the pharma company's product and the player liked the sound of it!