Troll Lord Games

Was staring out the window this morning and started thinking about character names that were puns in nature. A couple that struck me as amusing...

Cleric or Fighter: Tac y' Cardia

Rogue: Kid Nee

Wizard or Illusionist: Nur'l

Bard: Poul Leese

I look at the crop of new wannabe-famous stage magicians, like Justin Kredible. Also, porn star names. Always use those. However, I did recently introduce a barbarian into the game named Groin.

There's a whole section at the end of the GFW book of names that is devoted to just this subject. As I recall, there are some zingers in there.

Sir Osis of Liver wrote:There's a whole section at the end of the GFW book of names that is devoted to just this subject. As I recall, there are some zingers in there.

That would be page 194.

But I'm sure others have more. One of my halfling characters (a rogue) was Moe Zart, he used an alias of Bea Tohfenn.

Howie Doin
Elfis
actually played by my friend Andrew in my old campaign in high school.

I once ran a character named "Dex Check" in a Star Wars game.

My daughter suggested a character named "Bo Anderos" for one campaign.

Hugh Badaxe (from the Myth series of books by Asprin).

I had an NPC by the name of Lewis Cipher. It was actually meant as a warning, but the players missed it.

Drag Queens *ahem* "Gender Illusionists" are also a good source of punny names: Anita Mann, Virginia Hamm, etc....

Some of my favorite character names are: Sal Monella, Hal Atosis, etc....

God help you all...

AGNKim wrote:God help you all...

You mean names like Bas Tamoov or (to quote James Bond) Iva Onatop worry you?

There is a race of minotaur-like creatures in World of Warcraft (Tauren). One of the best names I saw for one was "Hoofhearted".

One of my players named her ranger "Dill Wobinson"...

for those who don't remember, in the old 'Lost In Space' TV series
the robot frequently would exclaim: "Danger, Will Robinson!! Danger!!"

Don't forget. One of the characters on "Rugrats" was named "Dil Pickles". It's not just us.

Iben Doingbad Human Mage/Necro who made it to 3rd level.

Stabervein 1/2 orc assassin made it to 5th.

Ancev"secret badguy the party almost did not figure out till one borred afternoon when they suddenly spelled it backwards and came up with Vecna". Maybe not punny but it sure was funny!

Monk: Woo Pin Yu

Kay Vemon, Male Half-Orc Barbarian.

We had a guy we gamed with who liked to name his character whenever he could. "Tommy Gunn"

Also a friends cousin who was a few years younger than us had to name his character. He named him John. When told he needed a last name as well he looked at the PHB and saw the heading "Henchmen" and said his last name Henchman. Thus John Henchman was born. He was a ranger that was famous for wandering into a village and asking "Are there any goblins in town?"