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The Silly Character Names Thread

Started by RPGPundit, April 27, 2009, 12:16:43 PM

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RPGPundit

Everyone has had them; be they PCs or NPCs: characters with silly names.

What were the silliest in your memory? Or the most memorable in their silliness?

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Danger

Perry Otter; a Gamma World character.

Take a wild guess what he was.
I start from his boots and work my way up. It takes a good half a roll to encompass his jolly round belly alone. Soon, Father Christmas is completely wrapped in clingfilm. It is not quite so good as wrapping Roy but it is enjoyable nonetheless and is certainly a feather in my cap.

Idinsinuation

A friend of mine and myself created the Staggerhome clan of dwarves.  The current pair of brothers are named Geddrunken and Biarfen Staggerhome.
"A thousand fathers killed, a thousand virgin daughters spread, with swords still wet, with swords still wet, with the blood of their dead." - Protest the Hero

One Horse Town

A friend of mine decided that Dildo Baggins was a good name for a halfling thief.

I played Graham Godbotherer the cleric for a one-off.

mrk

I have so many oddball characters. Here's a few from the top of my head.

Dingus Pointyskull--- a pinhead human warrior
Tookie Greenthumb---a  Rastafarian half orc  bard/thief
Vhort Goatbrother--- wildman bandit
Dregg Manrider---my Gay Barbarian
Hangs Twistedneck --Human fighter with a  misaligned vertebrae
Booga Skull Licker--Insane Great Orc Barbarian/ ex Gladiator
Stinky Stenchfoot --Hobbit Begger
"Crom!", mutterd the Cimmerian. " Here is the grandfather of all parrots. He must be a thousand years old! Look at the evil wisdom of his eyes.What mysteries do you guard, Wise Devil?"

Joshua Ford

Sandy Wastes was a female cleric I played in Dark Sun, when we'd decided to name characters after the map legend.

Her Mul slave went by the frankly awesome name of Rocky Badlands and when I played Traveller some years later I decided to use my back-up name for another female character. Thus Dusty Vista was born.

The worst named character I had was Friar John Chuck Rupert Junior III, a terribly-statted cleric who would wade in with Flame Blade, flailing wildly and screaming 'Catch this, y'bastard!'
 

Leo Knight

One of my earliest, and longest running charecters was Debris Deritus (I missspelled "detritus" on my character sheet).

Another long playing campaign had my character, Delerius, a cleric of Set named T.V. Set, and an MU named Mister, so people in trouble could cry, "Help me, Mister Wizard!"

Other short lived campaigns had all our characters named Hispanic names (Pancho, Cisco, etc.) and sportscasters (Brent Mussberger, Pat Somerall, etc.)

Beyond the silly into the offensive, one player named several characters Jizz Coonkiller. :eek:
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One Horse Town

Quote from: Joshua Ford;298875Her Mul slave went by the frankly awesome name of Rocky Badlands

That reminds me of another one. Ben Nevis - Man Mountain, in our very short lived Golden Heroes game.

In fact, in the same game was Demestos (who killed 99.9% of villains dead).

Both of those are very British references BTW.

Dr Rotwang!

Well, somewhere I have T&T stats for a warrior named Bracero The Illegal.  "Bracero" is a Mexican slang term for an illegal immigrant, y'see.

Oh, and the other day I rolled up a leprechaun and named him Garby O'Dill.  No, not funny, but fitting.

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Joey2k

Red White and Blue

Sheriff Red White, lawman and All-American patriot, and his faithful blue tick hound "Blue".  Together they fight crime.
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The Shaman

Lotto Rumblebottom, halfling thief for a 1e AD&D game. Mercifully he died very early on, just like the joke.

NPCs in my Boot Hill game had fun names. Jasper and Ruby Garnet from the town of Red Rock. Sandy and Clay Lomes, a pair of bandits who were always very dirty. Peyote Pete, a cowboy with a penchant for hallucinogens. Iron Hat, an Indian who wore a rusty old Spanish morion. The judge was named Lynch, the sheriff was named Hogg, and the doctor was named Graves (totally incompetent - you were better off finding an abruja to patch you up if you got shot).
On weird fantasy: "The Otus/Elmore rule: When adding something new to the campaign, try and imagine how Erol Otus would depict it. If you can, that\'s far enough...it\'s a good idea. If you can picture a Larry Elmore version...it\'s far too mundane and boring, excise immediately." - Kellri, K&K Alehouse

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GrayPumpkin

I played in an AD&D game were the DM had some of his own races, one of them being a race of anthropomorphic cat-people, so I played a cat-man monk, named...
Chuck Morris
 

Dr Rotwang!

Oooh!  Ooooh!  One time I played Extreme Vengeance as a dude named Antonio Machisimo!
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KrakaJak

Dag O'Bice I think is my favorite.

Oh and Damien Carafe.

There are many names the have spawned by looking around a table at Denny's.
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Mathias

Lessee...

In the final session of my light-hearted RC D&D campaign, which happened to be the "Christmas Special" episode, the players had to save the elves at Odin's workshop from all manner of hazards which had been introduced by a cold-hearted mage who hated Christmas.  His name was Ebeneezer Douche.  All the elves had ridiculously long fake Northern European sounding names, but I forget them- I think Haaarkni Haaarknison was one of the shorter ones.

One of the PCs in that game was a dwarf named Drippy.  Never got around to exploring the possible Snow White connection.

The PCs in my Wayfarers game at one point were accompanied by a sullen journeyman alchemist.  I gave him the name "Drennis" on a whim.  He was always correcting people who tried to call him "Dennis."  The party absolutely loved to hate on this guy.  I plan on having a gloomy, annoying NPC named Drennis turn up in everything I run from now on.


A PC in the same Wayfarers game played a ten-year-old female magic prodigy.  He named her Beatrix Potter.


Quote from: GrayPumpkin;298925I played in an AD&D game were the DM had some of his own races, one of them being a race of anthropomorphic cat-people, so I played a cat-man monk, named...
Chuck Morris

This made me laugh.
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