Do you sneak clever references into your character names?
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>>97134262>sneak>clever
>>97134262The name of the last character I played, as well as the names of her parents that I established in case it would become relevant, consisted of references to early 20th century ocean liners. Before that I named a character after my pet cornsnake. I'm kind of bad at coming up with character names, so most of the time it's just whatever I happened to be thinking of or looking at at the time.
>>97134262No. I exclusively include very shitty references in my character names.I am not a clever man.
>nose filtersounds antisemitic.
>>97134262My current PC is named Parc Omolo.>Parco Molo>Marco PoloComes from a far away place in the setting and is constantly writing down notes about landmarks, customs and cultures of the places we adventure in. No one has caught on in like two years.So sneaky yes. Clever debatable.
>>97134262I spend hours researching etymology for names. I purposely chose names with meanings, sometimes ironic ones.
>>97134262No. I don't sneak them in, and they're not clever. I just put them in there because I like them and I think it is funny. Retard.
>>97134262>early GW>cleveryeah no lolthey were Alan Moore levels of lefty british butthurt
>>97134262I had a friend who used to do that as GM. He'd name places after himself or friends. His name was Tony, and we started a campaign in Tonsville. He liked early Studio Ghibli stuff, so he named a flying island Apulat, after Laputa. I'm not sure he knew that we knew
>>97141812>Not going further and finding the name has the same meaning as Judas
Most of my dudes in Battletech have names that are oblique references to the anime their mechs are based on.
I think one of my favorites was when I made a character for another player who was blind and deaf and named him Kaylen Heller. It wasn't until months later when a new player joined and heard the player introduce his character and immediately said, "what, like Helen Keller?" that anyone realized what I'd done.I think my favorite was when the same player asked me for a name for his familiar, this particular player had drawn a picture of his character and wanted to write his name above him in marker. This was at the height of the Zika virus panic, so I told him, "Zakavarous." "How do you spell that?" "Z-I-K-A-V-I-R-U-S"He spent the rest of the campaign with ZIKAVIRUS written on his character.You know, Zakavarous is actually a cool name in its own right. I should use it.
>>97150035What kind of lunatic would play a blind and deaf character for months?
>>97134262I once played a rogue named Gimikis.One player figured out the wordplay.Nobody got an actual reference.Fucking zoomers.
>>97134262I once made a bard named Elvan Priestley
>>97134262I've got a few names on my list. What do you think?Goa Tse TungDick PippelPeter von WeltheimHans von KüggelügelRoland Runkenberg Dieter KnullarePretty clever, huh??
>>97150101The guy was constantly distracted and struggled with mechanics so I figured this would give an in universe explanation for that. He wasn't totally blind or deaf, just short-sighted and hard-of-hearing, but he used a combat style that relied on automatically retaliating against attackers and bodying their hits rather than actively attacking them so the massive penalties didn't matter in combat.
>>97134262Yeah, I have a few character names that are references to me, things I like, or something I thought might be funny. Though will be honest. You don't need to have something over the top or deep. Just something more than on the nose and all.
I once had an assassin turned vigilante character I named Gabriel Caine.>Gabriel being the Archangel of vengeance, wrath and revelation.>Cain being the first murderer from the story of Cain and Abel.
>>97141633>No one has caught on in like two years.Your table is dumb.
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>>97157599Most people just don't care. I'd roll my eyes but it's not worth mentioning.
>>97150291Swedish?
>>97157843No, Finnish.
>>97157584That's a name I'd expect from an edgy antihero from a 90s comicbook. Which, given the character concept I assume is entirely intended. Good job. Did the character also wield a katana and an oversized and really impractical looking gun, and dress in a combination of black leather trenchcoat and way too many pouches?
>>97134262My references are neither sneaky nor clever.
>>97142011Dilate
>>97134262No. But I do include extremely retarded references in character names. Just last week, the party encountered a wizard called Skibidus.
>>97158422The Shadowrun version of him did in fact have a katana and a grey longcoat. His guns were just a typical Ares Predator and an HK227 submachine gun though.The Dark Champions superhero version of him was just a blatant ripoff of Psylocke from the X-Men. Psychic blades, telekinesis and teleportation.
All the time.The only thing I try to stay away from is anagrams.My personal favorite was an arabic character who was a charlatan, so I named him "Amin Al-Mara," so "Honest Man (in) the Mirror'
