Real Names that'd Make Good PC Names

Al Livingstone · January 18, 2013, 12:03:40 PM

Quote from: Broken-Serenity;618593...Richard Quest who's name just screams out to be used in a campaign at some point.

Dick Quest.

If I ever use this name for a character, the GM is totally getting pointed at CNN for proof that I'm basing it on a real person's name. Of course, the character's personality may not be an exact match...

I once worked alongside John Savage. I keep forgetting to use this name for a pulp/action hero.

Imp · January 18, 2013, 06:38:55 PM

This is the thread where I claim "Manti T'eo" with the plan to come back to it in give or take eight years, right? Good.

jeff37923 · January 18, 2013, 08:02:23 PM

Quote from: Imp;619660This is the thread where I claim "Manti T'eo" with the plan to come back to it in give or take eight years, right? Good.

Bonus points if you make it an AI program.

RPGPundit · January 19, 2013, 02:16:31 PM

The (Chavista) president of the Venezuelan parliament is named Diosdado Cabello, which literally translated means "God-given Hair".

I wouldn't really contribute to this thread, except that I happened to see that very fact today while reading the saturday edition of El Pais, and then came home to see this very thread. It was too much to resist.

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This Guy · January 19, 2013, 04:22:29 PM

Omega Jones - real name, built for an action hero, attached to an elderly hospital patient. Likewise Barefoot Dollarhyde.

Frundsberg · January 19, 2013, 04:24:39 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;619904The (Chavista) president of the Venezuelan parliament is named Diosdado Cabello, which literally translated means "God-given Hair".

I wouldn't really contribute to this thread, except that I happened to see that very fact today while reading the saturday edition of El Pais, and then came home to see this very thread. It was too much to resist.

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Here in Spain you can find some curious surnames like Mujeriego (Womanizer) or Matamoros (Moor-slayer). As we keep both parents surnames, there are many weird combinations. I once met a Laura Encuentra Pardillos (lit. Laura finds dupes). His father' surnames were Encuentra Rubios (finds blondes). So technically she'd be Encuentra Pardillos Rubios (finds blonde dupes). I also know about a woman whose surnames are Salto Barrancos (Jumps over ravines).

Besides that, I'd like to add the name Cathal Brugha, an Irish revolutionary.

Reckall · January 19, 2013, 04:48:09 PM

A friend of mine named his investigator character Jonathan Steele before discovering that it is the name of a famous journalist from The Guardian.

I had a fighter character from Darokin named Antonio Valdano. Kudos for who remembers who he was.

Dan Vince · January 20, 2013, 12:57:47 PM

I'm not sure about good, but:
Theophylact the Unbearable, father of Romanos Lekapenos.

Reckall · January 20, 2013, 05:23:36 PM

Dodger Leigh (whose internet alias is "Dexterity Bonus" BTW).

James Gillen · January 21, 2013, 04:09:40 AM

Ragnar Hairy-Breeches
Ivor the Boneless
Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye

TAFMSV · January 21, 2013, 05:05:49 AM

A few days ago, I had to collect a signature from an RN named Mercy Odoom.

There's also a particularly dreaded local 'personality' here named Jubal "Shorty" Shafferkoetter. It's not just the name, either. Straight up, ol' boy is a living, breathing NPC from some wild west CoC game.