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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Perry Otter; a Gamma World character.
Take a wild guess what he was.
A friend of mine and myself created the Staggerhome clan of dwarves. The current pair of brothers are named Geddrunken and Biarfen Staggerhome.
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.
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
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!'
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:
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.
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.
Someday, I'll get to play Extreme Vengeance again, and on that day I will play Lance Manstaff.
Red White and Blue
Sheriff Red White, lawman and All-American patriot, and his faithful blue tick hound "Blue". Together they fight crime.
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).
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
Oooh! Ooooh! One time I played Extreme Vengeance as a dude named Antonio Machisimo!
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.
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.
I usually frown on dumb names in games, but, I did have a stripper NPC in a Changeling game by name of Eileen Dover.
Quote from: shalvayez;298948I usually frown on dumb names in games, but, I did have a stripper NPC in a Changeling game by name of Eileen Dover.
Does she have a brother named Ben?
Or a cousin named Mydogdonegotsrun?