Are you a creative namer?

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

I'm really not.
I usually have pool of default names that get used depending on setting and race of the character (dwarf will get different name than orc. etc.)

 

[Lurker47]

Depends on if you think nonsense is creative.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

Some of the recent names that I have used:

Cippa Lippa,
Mollo Tutto,
Rotto Inculo,
Te Rompo,
Ciuccia Lacanna.

I would like to use these too, but many crpgs don't accept them:

Perillinumbesberli,
Pancrittolorcoscassi.

 

[PulsatingBrain]

I often use the names Sigvald, Heidi, Gennaro, Fitz, Fedwren, Verity, Mani and Able.

Fitz, Fedwren, Verity, Mani and Able are from books, and the others are just names that I like.

 

[octavius]

Some of the recent names that I have used:

Cippa Lippa,
Mollo Tutto,
Rotto Inculo,
Te Rompo,
Ciuccia Lacanna.

Tutti salutti!

 

[Kev Inkline]

If it's an post-apocalypse themed game, I name my character Robert Nozick. Minimal society and all that, you know.

If it's a fantasy setting, quite often some char name from our irl pnp RuneQuest sessions.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Better to have an entire party named after prominent philosophers:

 

[PapaPetro]

I just name my party after my brothers. Been doing so since I was a kid.

 

[Ismaul]

I just name my party after my brothers. Been doing so since I was a kid.

So, is your father's name Petro?

 

[Ovplain]

I have a few that I always use. Usually Vaniya, Zara or Rona, sometimes Jayne or Veidt. But I'll try to tweak them to fit the setting at least a little bit if not all the way, add a surname/second name or something. Just finished 'Expeditions: Conquistador,' named my character 'Zara Armada.' Not that much more suitable, but enough for me.

 

[Oracsbox]

I name mine after diseases and ailments I've had..

For instance
Osgood Scahlatter
Psoriasis
Broken Bone
Chicken Pox

Also old fashioned diseases work such as

Scarlatina
Marasmus
Sanctum Otis
Lockjaw
Pleurisy
Effluvium
Dropsy

Perhaps adding an extra title

Such as Effluvium the Flemy or Ague the Fevered

 

[octavius]

No Chlamydia?

 

[NJClaw]

Which brings to question: What names do you use for SAVES?

ALWAYS "first" for the main save and "tent" if I saved to try something strange, like killing an important npc.

 

[Pika-Cthulhu]

Usually its a silly portmanteau or some kind of wordplay if its going to be multiplayer. BonytheOgre in D2 for a necromancer, Fingerbang when I tried D3 DH, Slipperyslope for a D3 Monk, for a tank in an MMO call it Agro or something similar, Taunt if its a DPS. Stupid names that slightly fit the class motif. I try to ride the line of exceedingly poor taste when I can, have had to change a few names over it in recent years. If in doubt, go crude and lewd!

 

[PulsatingBrain]

What names do you use for SAVES?

Main save is always "CharName111"

Crossroads or major events that I might want to go back to will be something like "About to kill Caesar"

 

[Luckmann]

Topic has been done before in various forms, but why not again?

Do you feel you're fairly creative in naming your characters in RPGs? If so, care to share some examples? Do you have difficulty coming up with new names every time, thus resorting to recycling them or just randomly mashing the keyboard?

I'm not sure how "creative" it is, but I always endeavor to take setting-appropriate names and such. I don't "LARP" in my games, but I do always play from the POV of my character, and judge motivations and actions and such from that perspective too.

I've literally never played a single-player game where I'm using a nickname as the name of my character or something like SirPoopyHead. This includes multiplayer games when appropriate (DOS1 comes to mind), but does not include multiplayer games that doesn't really have a narrative or meaningful setting of some kind, where you're rarely named anyone and your "you" is your handle anyway.

 

[vazha]

Tabletop gamin sessions usually yield the best names. I am happy to report that I have a gnome bard named Glasnost, for example. Specializes in bullshitting, of course.

 

[Falksi]

I like to name them after friends and family in the first run. Then if it's a good game make them up myself.

Although action RPGs where you can create your own characters like Dragon's Dogma & Divinity 2 always get a female redhead as the main character named after Golden Axe's Tyris Flare.

 

[grim1234]

Yes. I named the hero in DQ11 "AyyLmao" because I thought it's asking me just for a profile name.

 

[Humbaba]

I stopped giving a shit about naming my chars a while ago, which is why I usually give them names like John or Sherman

 

[Arthandas]

Some of the recent names that I have used:

Cippa Lippa,
Mollo Tutto,
Rotto Inculo,
Te Rompo,
Ciuccia Lacanna.

Tutti salutti!

Spoiler

 

[just]

i name them what their build is
tank, 2hander, chempistol, firemage, ...

 

[Hag]

In party-based games, I always name a character after some delicious food to challenge this old goat-herder belief that goats with food names die prematurely. Strangely enough, it has proved mostly wrong. Sir Masala - short for Butter Chicken Masala - the Druid did an excellent job in M&M 3 recently.
The exception being Kenshi, where in my longest game, the two goats with meat-based name were first to meet an early and bloody demise (the aptly named Gratin and Lasagna). My other animals had a long and busy life, including my last goat, Steamed-Vegetables. So yeah, no coincidence.

 

[V_K]

Of course I'm a creative namer, how can there be any doubt about it? Just look at my username!

 

[Darth Canoli]

Creative, not really, most of the time, i use Jack Vance's character names, Simbilis, Rhialto, Iucounu or R. E. Howard's ones, Kull, Thulsa Doom, Amra or others from the literature or Celtics legends.