How do you name your characters? (women logic included)

[thexspr]

I've been recycling through same names for decades, don't care if they'd fit setting much. Pickinpetals and lilpai for male and female are my favourites currently.

 

[covr]

The autism is strong in this thread.

 

[agentorange]

joe

 

[Snorkack]

If I'm larping a character, I try to give my toon a name that's fitting to the scenario or I make use of my vast fundus of pnp-names I used to give my characters. But that's actually rarely the case.
Most of the time I give the char my real life nickname or, if I'm playing a female: Lara Croft.
In party-based games I name the characters after me and my friends. I also used to utilize the name of my current girlfriend. But that led to abandoned saves one time too often after we broke up.

 

[Renevent]

Usually after characters from various books/movies I like or from friends/family:

Eisenhorn - from 40K novels, he's typically the party leader
Knucklehead - Military slang for dumb ass, sometime party leader but almost always a melee class
Talos - from 40K novels, melee class
Renevent - made up name usually mage type character
Bender - robot characters
etc

 

[sullynathan]

You've gotta name your protagonist some cool shit that sounds complex, legendary or epic like guts or caius cosades.

 

[Amn Nom]

Depends on the game.

If the protagonist is omnipotent, like in a strategy game, I just name them Amn. Where I'm playing a male often I just go with Doug because that is my real name. For females I alternate between Selena and Tamara.

 

[Lemming42]

"Freedom", for either gender. I'm aware of how fucking lame that is.

 

[Joined on the 4th of July]

covr make her name your characters for you.

 

[covr]

That's actually not a bad idea, bro.

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[jcd]

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[GuiltyofBeingTrite]

For single party games, Volgin for a man, Kim or Tali for a woman.

 

[PeachPlumage]

I browse tumblr.

https://www.wizards.com/dnd/article5.asp?x=dnd/dx20010202b

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Usually just make some fantasy sounding shit up for the non-mains.
That or I go Black Company style, names like One-Eye, Bucket, Pawnbroker and what not.

Main bloke's always a fighter/barbarian with my pseudonym though.

 

[DwarvenFood]

I usually re-use character names, specifically from games like IWD where you could name the whole party - so there my lawful good paladin was named Necro Butcher, and whenever I make a similar character, I re-use the name. Also I often use my wife's middle name for the main character or games with a single character to name (not Necro Butcher).

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

hellfire/madmaxhellfire, reserved for sorcerers/necromancers/snipers/any male main character, male
typhett, agile thief/smgs user, female
atevon, the tank
logan, the summoner
i got a couple more i can't recall right now.

 

[Gerrard]

So, I've been playing some ol' Might&Magic VI, and God, those fucking caverns never ends. My woman is making a dinner and cleaning sth behind me. She asked me for a hundred time why do I play those ugly, stupid games. I replied that M&M is not stupid and ugly - it's a piece of art. And in 1996 it was probably the most beautiful PC game. And I have started showing her my game. Screenshot included:

Suddenly she saw the names of my party which are (rough translation from Polish):
-Holy Dick
-Fag
-Forest woman (don't ask)
-Fucker
And she went crazy. She just could't believe that I have named my characters so vulgarly. She asked why and my response that I have done it for fun and to better remember who is who in my party only made it worse.
Now she is mad at me.

In b4: retardo || move to gd || cool story bro

So, how do you name your character?
Also, am I retarded?

You know, this would be easier to tolerate if you actually were 13 years old.

If I cannot come up with anything I just steal names from other games, Valkyrie Profile had a lot of characters, for example.

 

[deuxhero]

I use a rotation of names for single character games and stupid puns off the top of my head for party based stuff (Florance the dual wielding sword user is the only one I still remember).

 

[Mr. Pink]

I name everything after my friends.

 

[Daemongar]

Most games, I use fantasy sounding names just to name the characters and get it over with, or pull out an old standard. However, there is something about Ultima 7 and U7 Serpent Isle that turn me into an idiot when I name my avatar...

 

[Gregz]

Sometimes it takes me hours to name my party characters.

I must LARP them, identify with them, and give them life. Otherwise it doesn't feel like I'm playing a role-playing game.

In Wasteland 2 for instance I had a Sniper named 'Denver' who looked like a mountain man who had experience hunting with a rifle (very common in Colorado), had outdoor skills, the big utility backpack with a shovel, and everything else that fit that persona right down to the base stats.

 

[Murk]

Mages always get random black metal band names. Works out surprisingly well.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

I name everything after my friends.

So you're basically soloing all games?

 

[Grimlorn]

So, I've been playing some ol' Might&Magic VI, and God, those fucking caverns never ends. My woman is making a dinner and cleaning sth behind me. She asked me for a hundred time why do I play those ugly, stupid games. I replied that M&M is not stupid and ugly - it's a piece of art. And in 1996 it was probably the most beautiful PC game. And I have started showing her my game. Screenshot included:

Suddenly she saw the names of my party which are (rough translation from Polish):
-Holy Dick
-Fag
-Forest woman (don't ask)
-Fucker
And she went crazy. She just could't believe that I have named my characters so vulgarly. She asked why and my response that I have done it for fun and to better remember who is who in my party only made it worse.
Now she is mad at me.

In b4: retardo || move to gd || cool story bro

So, how do you name your character?
Also, am I retarded?

Yeah you're retarded, but not for the way you name your characters, but because you married that woman. You can tell her I said that.