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Real Names that'd Make Good PC Names

Started by One Horse Town, January 15, 2013, 01:52:06 PM

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One Horse Town

January 15, 2013, 01:52:06 PM
As in, real people in the real world who's name would grace your PC.

I nominate South African cricketer Hashim Amla. He will be my next Sorcerer.

Dave

#2
January 15, 2013, 02:08:08 PM
There's a chiropractor out in Las Vegas named Roper Dollarhide.  I would totally use that name for a PC if I didn't already steal it for an NPC Sheriff's Deputy.

The Butcher

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January 15, 2013, 02:28:13 PM Last Edit: January 15, 2013, 02:37:09 PM by The Butcher
I still want to play a Dr. Duncan Steel, ideally as a powered-armor superhero. Who needs Iron Man when you've got Doctor Steel?

I also find Dutch names badass for some reason. If Poul Anderson gets to name his character "Nicholas van Rijn", I get to name mine Bartholomeus Kortenaer or Maarten Tromp.

Zachary The First

#4
January 15, 2013, 02:52:00 PM
I'll nominate IndyCar road course ace Will Power as the next great pulp hero.

His rival, 2012 champ Ryan Hunter-Reay, would clearly be a scion of the elite, and would probably either cause or fight crime at night under an assumed identity.
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Zachary The First

#5
January 15, 2013, 03:05:22 PM
From the American Civil War, there are 5 that beg to be used:

1) Zebulon Vance

2) Felix Zollicoffer

3) Zealous Tower

4) Wilmot Gibbs de Saussure (a Freemason Grand Master, Pundit!)

5) Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
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Spinachcat

#6
January 15, 2013, 03:21:16 PM
In 2008-2009 I was getting a crazy amount of spam with unusual names as the "senders" and I started compiling the best of them. I posted them on the GM Forum over at Palladium. I have always wondered if they were made up names or names that spam bots stole from real people.

http://palladium-megaverse.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=100864

Emperor Norton

#7
January 15, 2013, 03:48:12 PM
When going through a large family tree that my mother had put together once, I found two names that I thought would be great RPG characters:

1. Silas Boon
I mean, seriously, this just screams wild west hero. If I ever play deadlands again, this is my character name.

2. Sterling Price Cannon
I have no idea what I would use this for.. but its just a superb name.

Daztur

#8
January 15, 2013, 03:58:56 PM
Yug Bogdan?

The Butcher

#9
January 15, 2013, 04:02:16 PM
Which reminds me: Yul Brynner. A fantasy novel protagonist name if there ever was one.

Dan Vince

#10
January 15, 2013, 04:17:40 PM
Bill Coffin.

flyingmice

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January 15, 2013, 04:31:14 PM
People I went to school with:

Ann Ohnemus
Justin Case

People in Maine my father knew of:

Oscar Googins
Rising Lake Morrow
Oz Boynton
Sanford Crane

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January 15, 2013, 04:32:29 PM
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January 16, 2013, 01:08:26 AM
Dick Trickle
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crkrueger

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January 16, 2013, 01:36:09 AM
Quote from: James Gillen;618559Dick Trickle

How's the Fatal campaign going? :p
Even the the "cutting edge" storygamers for all their talk of narrative, plot, and drama are fucking obsessed with the god damned rules they use. - Estar

Yes, Sean Connery\'s thumb does indeed do megadamage. - Spinachcat

Isuldur is a badass because he stopped Sauron with a broken sword, but Iluvatar is the badass because he stopped Sauron with a hobbit. -Malleus Arianorum

"Tangency Edition" D&D would have no classes or races, but 17 genders to choose from. -TristramEvans
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