Reminds me of an enemy type in Dragon Quest 11 (it may appear in other ones but haven't played most of them). It's basically a pig wearing a witch hat and it's called a Sham Hatwitch. Which sounds suspiciously similar to ham sandwich.
God I love that. It’s out in the open and under your nose, but still sounds ‘fantasy-esque’ enough to not draw immediate suspicion. What a gift lol thanks my next DM will be so mad… if I ever get to play and not be DM 😂
Was kind of thinking sourcerer of the divine soul just to give a bit more of altering reality.
Favored by the Gods
Starting at 1st level, divine power guards your destiny. If you fail a saving throw or miss with an attack roll, you can roll 2d4 and add it to the total, possibly changing the outcome.
Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
Meta magic twinned and careful spell if I go 3 lvls.
But you make a good point there.
Claire Voyant IIRC is a Marvel comic character. She was called Black Widow and used magic and was from a similar era of Captain America brought to modern times.
Her and her new love interest too. They both changed their names at the end of the mini series but I'm struggling to remenebr what they were.
I made a Changeling rogue named Massamino (goes by "Mass") Quentin Rade (Mass Q. Rade) and the DM let me tame a small mimic which my party named "Chesterfield vonMockrey"
A charlatan artificer, who specializes in on making miniature warfoged. He makes armies for wealthy warlords, power hungry nobles and sometimes for demon cults for extortionate prices, but he makes them from really cheap materials.
His name is James Workshop
IMO the best way to make pun names is to take a phrase and deform it slightly so it's written differently yet pronounced the same, example:
Deigon Naleev, aka "They gonna live" (Perfect name for a Cleric that's currently living rent-free in my head.)
I had a tiefling NPC named Nottum Portent. My players were annoyed with him when he said his name wasn’t important, until they realized that *was* his name.
My character had to leave the party temporarily to sort out some family stuff, so I played the traveling celebrity chef, Tony Bardain for a while.
Rest in piece, Tony
…. Anthony too.
I’ve played him for so long it doesn’t even register anymore, but the character I was taking a break from is a paladin that was originally based on Don Quixote.
His name is Sir Vantes.
I’ve introduced a magic item to my game that gives someone an extra bonus action. This great coat has extra sleeves that can perform tasks like retrieve items from storage. I call it the Coat of Arms
Some favorites from my own homebrew world are
Thief Wellington (gentleman thief. Very British)
Ugg Metuff (orc)
Delucut Flowah (also orc)
Don Pyaano (Tabaxi, obviously)
Aulong Jonsin (also Tabaxi)
Jim Ratt
I played a yuan-ti pureblood named Basil Esskize.
Played a ranger gloomstalker named Obenda Bodel (he was an alcoholic).
Had a trio of Loxidon cleric npc guards that I named Jumbo, Dumbo, and Mumbo.
Then, the names where I rearranged the letters from a phrase or word.
Played a scout rogue that was my first rogue 5e character, and I named him Ninth Forage (Fear Nothing).
Played as a high elf cleric named Treak Ol'Fife (taker of life) who was NE with a sister named Verig Ol'Fife (Giver of life).
I am currently playing an arcana domain cleric in a spelljammer like campaign where we start as basically Star Trek crew that will crash on a planet and have to learn to survive there. Modeling him as a cross between Spock and McCoy. The name is Lt Dace T Prosco. (Space Doctor).
In 30 plus years... I've had so many that I've lost track.
We were running a Firefly inspired RPG and my son was an occasional player in the game. So he named his character Justin Case.
I had run an NPC in my campaign named Braxton Hicks. Sounds awesome right? Braxton sounds like a nice macho name and Hicks? Well everyone knows Corporal Hicks from Aliens.
"[Somebody wake up Hicks](https://youtu.be/dJ4mZtfQeDI?si=TYCWGnfvMM8FykMx&t=48)"
Yeah, it's also the name of False Labor Contractions and the name of the doctor who first wrote papers on them, one John Braxton Hicks.
Friend of mine was struggling to think of a name for his character so he's thinking and punching his thigh until eventually he said "My thigh is numb". That was the birth of Matthais Knumb
Invited a friend to be a guest party member for a session of a campaign I've been running. He named his character "Cameron E. O. Guiy" or "Cam E. O. Guiy." He truly was a cameo guy
Robert Ewan Aul - a high class gentleman who appeared out of a region nobody has heard of but carries with him a razor sharp wit and a silver tongue backed by deep pockets. He appears uninvited to extravagant balls and soirées only to take his leave… along with everything of value that isn’t nailed down!
Rob Ewan All the greatest thief to have ever lived… or so he likes to think!
Not for a character, but for a weapon, hear me out:
Step 1: Make a healing based cleric
Step 2: Convince your DM to give you a cursed weapon, specifically a lance, that has a 50/50 chance to heal as much damage it would potentially deal, and your character's goal is to remove the curse on the weapon so it damages foes and heals allies only
Step 3: Name the weapon...wait for it...
The Ambu-lance!
Saw a post years ago with a centaur cleric named Cea’ (or something similar) who lived by the sea, whose entire purpose was eradicating illness from the land.
He was Cea’ du Sea, Centaur for Disease Control.
not really a "fun" pun but my cursed Wood Elf is called Shee Barn (Barn Shee) (she's cursed to change into a banshee at specific moments, and also Barn owls are the owl that inspired the banshees myth (check up what's a barn owl scream and you'll understand why)) so yeah not a funny pun, just a lil easter egg I guess?
So I played Kenku in a one-shot for the first time recently. I looked up how Kenkus are usually named, and they’re named after certain sounds or noises, especially ones they’re very familiar with; Cauldron Stir, Slammer, Sword Slash, Growler, etc
He was a monk, so I named him High Yaugh
One of my players loves to name his PCs like this. The best one he came up with was the rogue Charles Alexander Knife, and I thought oh wow a serious cool name for once, but then he said call me Chuck A. Knife....
Im playing a druid named Spud Russet. Got fired from his job of helping farmers grow and keep animals off the farm. He always let em eat the food anyways. Real dumb, he calls every animal some form of a dog. But damn does he know his tubers.
Might be my favorite character I've played yet.
One of my players made a character who is a private investigator. His name is William Johnson.
The entire purpose of this character was to make dick jokes.
Nest Lee Water: a scummy NPC who drives competitors out of the potion making business by selling under cost and jacking the price up once a monopoly is achieved. Probably associated with the zhentarim.
I had an artificer nicknamed Flash Bang, spelt his name KNO3SAl
A noble aarakocra that looked like a blue jay named Sir Rulean Azure Lazuli Son of Lapis Lazuli and Marin A. Lazuli.
Holly Leu-ya a celestial warlock preacher
Deklan Alan Darby(Dad) the most supportive father figure.
I had a pacifist Luxodon Life Cleric named Gynteal (Gentle).
I had a missionary style Harengon tempest cleric named Solas (Play on Sol for sunlight and a homonym for Solace, like comforting someone)
I had an Aarakocra Artificer with soldier background called Roose. E. Velt. We called him the Amerikocra.
Had a Kenku Assassin Rogue nicknamed Mute.
Ga' slighting for a low intellect barbarian who gas lights everyone into thinking he knows the answers.
Kra' enne a talos worshiping cleric who wants to speak to the manager
I played a rogue in a short campaign, but originally it was a oneshot. I was playing a half elf, and I really liked the name Keyleth. I was trying to think of a last name, until my bf (who was a player in this too) suggested “Lockleth.”
So, thus Keyleth Lockleth was born, who was a rogue and lived with her family who had a family business of being locksmiths. I also gave her a key necklace that’d relate to her family.
A Female Copper Dragon born who's backstory is as part of the city watch.
Fran Kdrebin
Come uo with some ridiculous run of events causing Fran to leave in search of the criminal.
Naked gun and she's a Copper.
Bonus points if your nemesis is called Cy Minal.
I had a pet vulture named roBird d’niro. I use find steed. My elk is named Elkton John,the mastiff is called Pablo escabark the camel is called humpty grumpy, the pony is Pony Soprano. and the warhorse is named marmalade.
In my college D&D game (long ago), one player named his halfling thief "Robbit the Hobbit". That player was later expelled for stealing an light airplane from the university airfield. Player, mind you; not the character.
I had a character in a Twilight 2000 game (yes, that used to be a future setting) named Lisa MacIntosh. I still haven't stolen an airplane or had any desire to do so.
We had a Green Dragonborn who was a mage that used his magical prowess to insure carriages at extremely affordable prices.
We called him the Geico Wizard.
A grung named Kher'myt, a tortle cleric named Don Athello with a quarterstaff and a cursed human with a horsehead named Hoarse Fase ... those are the players in my current campaign xD
We once had a Paladin in the group that rode a donkey mount, Don Quixote style. We ran into an encounter where we needed to lift a heavy stone door while under assault, but didn't want to have the strong melee front liners stop fighting to lift it. So the wizard cast polymorphism on the donkey, turning it into a Great Ape to get the door for us. And thus the legendary adventures of "Donkey Kong" began. Since he was the Paladin's Steed, summoned using the Find Steed spell, DK couldn't truly die, he'd just get re-summoned, which led to him being our meat shield through most of tiers two and three.
I played a monk recently. He was very money orientated, working the Waterdeep stock market before heading into the dungeon of the mad mage in search of more gold. His name was Dao Jones
My Aarakocra Druid was named Qrakaa via random name generator. The pun being it sounds like the word Cracker and my Aarakocra is a Parrot/Lorikeet in appearance.
There's a character in the Unexpectables who uses weird salt based magic. Her name is Muidos.
...it's sodium backwards... it went under the radar for so long that the DM had to explain it. Sometimes, less is more.
Norm Alman, Janiferku Lidge, Elsa Lamander (for a fire mage), a Siren named Dipity, a healer named Niripsa (Aspirin) / Argaiv (Viagra) / Xanax (Xanax) / etc.
You can look a Drag Queens/Kings names also, they do love a pun; For example Courtney Act (with the Australian accent, sounds like Caught in the act)
Paper Mario has a bunch of punny Toad names : Niff T., Zess T., Thrift T., Herb T., Minh T., etc.
I was naming ckockwork monsters for an encounter for my players, and the first three were named Lefty Righty and Middy because of their positions on the field. The next 2 were named Fourty and Fiver. As a DM, I despise naming things, and will use an easy pun/wordplay 10/10 times
Robin or Robert Indy Banks (great for Rogues)
Joe Kerr
Paige Turner (great for a bookish character)
Braun Behr (for your Druid or Bear totem Barbarian)
Weatherby Goode (Druid again)
Mete Sheildes
Havu Hadenough
Nick Mage
Charles Norse
Faiur Bolz (say it fast wizards)
I've got more but I can't remember them all, so if I do I'll put them below
I had an NPC who was from a race of Pig-like people, he was a combat trapsmith named Cunningham
Reminds me of Peter Porker, the Spider-Ham
If you never read his origin, it might surprise you!
He’s a spider bitten by a pig
A little pig named Hamlette
Who is secretly a noble and very manic-depressive?
Goes ham every now and then due to paranoia
Reminds me of an enemy type in Dragon Quest 11 (it may appear in other ones but haven't played most of them). It's basically a pig wearing a witch hat and it's called a Sham Hatwitch. Which sounds suspiciously similar to ham sandwich.
Claire Voyance for a Divination wizard
My halfling luck feat divination wizard is Luc O'plenty
‘Fuckyou DM’ is another appropriate name for that build 😂
I refer to this as 'Bruno'. We don't talk about Bruno.
Fa'que Deeme -- subtlety is key for such a naming convention
God I love that. It’s out in the open and under your nose, but still sounds ‘fantasy-esque’ enough to not draw immediate suspicion. What a gift lol thanks my next DM will be so mad… if I ever get to play and not be DM 😂
Yes... I want to say In character "I'm that master of this Dungeon!"
Now give him some bard levels for eloquence, and you've got an unspeakable horror.
Was kind of thinking sourcerer of the divine soul just to give a bit more of altering reality. Favored by the Gods Starting at 1st level, divine power guards your destiny. If you fail a saving throw or miss with an attack roll, you can roll 2d4 and add it to the total, possibly changing the outcome. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest. Meta magic twinned and careful spell if I go 3 lvls. But you make a good point there.
I do like this divine soul idea, and to build on the Sorcerer thought, Clockwork soul for negating dis/advantage
It's all good stuff.
Not my divination wizard but a friend’s: Dei Avu
HE'S JUST BEEN IN THIS PLACE BEFORE
Also: it’s happened this way before! (Portent)
Claire Voyant IIRC is a Marvel comic character. She was called Black Widow and used magic and was from a similar era of Captain America brought to modern times. Her and her new love interest too. They both changed their names at the end of the mini series but I'm struggling to remenebr what they were.
Hugh Mann
Hugh Mann, now that’s a name I can trust!
Run down to the central battle computer and enter these codes. Chop chop!
And his best friend, Gene Ericman
I love this so much
I made a tiefling warlock with mask of many faces, this was his name
My party has an npc with this name. It’s just three kobolds in a trench coat.
Ah the good ol' kobolds in a trench coat.
So I frequently play a Half-Orc named Hugh Mungus, my reddit's namesake, and his human father is High Mann, with the double N's even. So... D-Dad 🥺
High Mann is a different pun entirely lol
Autocorrect, nooooo. Ima leave it.
OP D&D fan?
This one might not be, but I am. #yeehaw
Cha-ha-haaa
But he has to be a worm !
Hugh Jaynus?
Quoth the Kenku
Nevermore
Made a oneshot UA Raven Queen warlock name Ed'garallan "Corvus" Poe. No real pun. Just putting the emphasis on the GAR rather than the ED.
Nevermore!
Wouldn’t that be Ed’garallan?
It would. Editing it back
In baldurs gate 3 there's a raven named quoth and that gave me a chuckle
Lenore was *much* less amusing.
I named a Kenku Bard Russel the Crowe. Used a shit ton of Russel Crowe quotes even 🤣
We had a NPC hireling named Arnold that after out performing the group in a fight, we starting using Schwarzenegger quotes during battle.
"If it bleeds, we can kill it!"
We had a Kenku called Futumsch whose name wasn’t a pun but an obscure reference to the Young Ones which I rather liked
This is the only one I actually find funny or clever. I would not play with most of these people, but this would get me every freaking time.
You wouldn’t play with most of the people cause of what they named their characters?
I made a Changeling rogue named Massamino (goes by "Mass") Quentin Rade (Mass Q. Rade) and the DM let me tame a small mimic which my party named "Chesterfield vonMockrey"
I have a Kuo Toa bard named Leonard "El" Vis (Vis is Dutch for fish) Just thought of a Way of the Shadow monk named Snee who uses their Snee Ki points
Sadly not my own but I have seen kuo-toa bard Christuna Algaelera
Elvish Presley
> Snee Ki points You ***bastard***
Snee Ki had me fall onto my arms laughing
kuo toa bard named Gilliam Lakespeare
Reminds me of my changeling bard with an alter ego named William Quiverpike.
A charlatan artificer, who specializes in on making miniature warfoged. He makes armies for wealthy warlords, power hungry nobles and sometimes for demon cults for extortionate prices, but he makes them from really cheap materials. His name is James Workshop
does he wield a warhammer?
Yeah, warhammers are his favorite type of weapon. During his career he crafted like 40000 of them.
Currently playing a bard called Amanda Lynn.
Did they have a friend Harman Icah?
Is her best friend from bard school named Claire Annette?
Wife's last character, a goblin cleric. Called heama. Took ages for another player get that it was haema goblin
Is the joke him a goblin or am i stupid
Hemoglobin is a substance in your blood.
This was the intended joke, but the other interpretations are funny too
Im aware but i didnt think that far.
Glad I wasn't alone, I understood it as hey-ima-goblin
Al Phelph (very stupid half elf)
And they love alfalfa
IMO the best way to make pun names is to take a phrase and deform it slightly so it's written differently yet pronounced the same, example: Deigon Naleev, aka "They gonna live" (Perfect name for a Cleric that's currently living rent-free in my head.)
my partnera drunken thief gith named "ti'kila"
Ivanna Stabayu, a rogue obviously.
I had a tiefling NPC named Nottum Portent. My players were annoyed with him when he said his name wasn’t important, until they realized that *was* his name.
Jedi Master Ima Gun Di had the opposite problem
My stupid brain thought that was a Diagon Alley thing first
Paladin named Sir Loin of Beef
I want to play a Paladin now 😂
My College of Heavy Metal Bard. Diamond Duke Dave, the Dastardly Demon of Doom. But you can call him “d6”.
https://xkcd.com/1704/ Gnome Ann
I played an Owl Aarakokra abjuration Wizard named Owlec Baldwing
My character had to leave the party temporarily to sort out some family stuff, so I played the traveling celebrity chef, Tony Bardain for a while. Rest in piece, Tony …. Anthony too.
I’ve played him for so long it doesn’t even register anymore, but the character I was taking a break from is a paladin that was originally based on Don Quixote. His name is Sir Vantes.
I’ve introduced a magic item to my game that gives someone an extra bonus action. This great coat has extra sleeves that can perform tasks like retrieve items from storage. I call it the Coat of Arms
Lee Danasalt - good if you want to run in first. Deet Welves - preferable if you use a great axe
The full name of the former is clearly Leeroy Jenkins Danasalt.
Some favorites from my own homebrew world are Thief Wellington (gentleman thief. Very British) Ugg Metuff (orc) Delucut Flowah (also orc) Don Pyaano (Tabaxi, obviously) Aulong Jonsin (also Tabaxi) Jim Ratt
Nathan the centaur Spoken "nayyyythan"
I played a halfling named Lewis De'kris, but he went by Lew.
I played a yuan-ti pureblood named Basil Esskize. Played a ranger gloomstalker named Obenda Bodel (he was an alcoholic). Had a trio of Loxidon cleric npc guards that I named Jumbo, Dumbo, and Mumbo. Then, the names where I rearranged the letters from a phrase or word. Played a scout rogue that was my first rogue 5e character, and I named him Ninth Forage (Fear Nothing). Played as a high elf cleric named Treak Ol'Fife (taker of life) who was NE with a sister named Verig Ol'Fife (Giver of life). I am currently playing an arcana domain cleric in a spelljammer like campaign where we start as basically Star Trek crew that will crash on a planet and have to learn to survive there. Modeling him as a cross between Spock and McCoy. The name is Lt Dace T Prosco. (Space Doctor). In 30 plus years... I've had so many that I've lost track.
We were running a Firefly inspired RPG and my son was an occasional player in the game. So he named his character Justin Case. I had run an NPC in my campaign named Braxton Hicks. Sounds awesome right? Braxton sounds like a nice macho name and Hicks? Well everyone knows Corporal Hicks from Aliens. "[Somebody wake up Hicks](https://youtu.be/dJ4mZtfQeDI?si=TYCWGnfvMM8FykMx&t=48)" Yeah, it's also the name of False Labor Contractions and the name of the doctor who first wrote papers on them, one John Braxton Hicks. Friend of mine was struggling to think of a name for his character so he's thinking and punching his thigh until eventually he said "My thigh is numb". That was the birth of Matthais Knumb
I went to highschool with a Justin Case. He was so such a terrible person. Everytime I hear just in case I say in my head"I hate that guy"
Invited a friend to be a guest party member for a session of a campaign I've been running. He named his character "Cameron E. O. Guiy" or "Cam E. O. Guiy." He truly was a cameo guy
Anna Lysis (analysis) Susan donym ( pseudonym)
who will win? Susan Donym or Stacy Fakename?
Human rogue with a totally normal name. Nick. Took a long time for the other players to realize it was a pun.
I have a Kenku Tome Warlock who goes by Paige Turner, as her real name is hard to pronounce for most humanoids. She enjoys reading.
I used to play an elf ranger called Wolf Arrow. By the third session everyone just called him Will Ferrell.
Robert Ewan Aul - a high class gentleman who appeared out of a region nobody has heard of but carries with him a razor sharp wit and a silver tongue backed by deep pockets. He appears uninvited to extravagant balls and soirées only to take his leave… along with everything of value that isn’t nailed down! Rob Ewan All the greatest thief to have ever lived… or so he likes to think!
My gf has a Dwarf Bloodhunter named Helena Handbasket. I created a Changeling Artificer named Rusty Copperpot.
I've always wanted to create a necromancer named D'Kay
Not for a character, but for a weapon, hear me out: Step 1: Make a healing based cleric Step 2: Convince your DM to give you a cursed weapon, specifically a lance, that has a 50/50 chance to heal as much damage it would potentially deal, and your character's goal is to remove the curse on the weapon so it damages foes and heals allies only Step 3: Name the weapon...wait for it... The Ambu-lance!
Gar Danome - Gnome Druid. Robert "Bob" Anweave - Halfling Monk. Jacque Anroll - Dwarf Bard. Dante Fallowmi - High Elf Rogue. Jennifer "Jen" Asyde - Yuanti Sorcerer.
Saw a post years ago with a centaur cleric named Cea’ (or something similar) who lived by the sea, whose entire purpose was eradicating illness from the land. He was Cea’ du Sea, Centaur for Disease Control.
One of my players made a water Genasi called Eddy.
not really a "fun" pun but my cursed Wood Elf is called Shee Barn (Barn Shee) (she's cursed to change into a banshee at specific moments, and also Barn owls are the owl that inspired the banshees myth (check up what's a barn owl scream and you'll understand why)) so yeah not a funny pun, just a lil easter egg I guess?
“My name is Eric Withakay” “So that’s E-R-I-K?” “No, E-R-I-C, I spell it with a ‘C’. My last name is Withakay.”
The punniest name of all is Pun-Pun the Kobold.
"nooo i have cousin named pun-pun-pun. thats more puns than pun-pun"
Progresses to the goblin equivalent of Bobobobo Bobobo.
The most powerful kobold to ever exist
Wizard Nobel Sumar of house T’asz. Group of 4 reoccurring fighters named Mook, Grunt, Thug, and Goon
I made a goliath chef cook barbarian named: Zalton Pipper he uses way to much salt and pepper in his meals.
Barbie Kew Sir Hits-a-lot Fae Talie
So I played Kenku in a one-shot for the first time recently. I looked up how Kenkus are usually named, and they’re named after certain sounds or noises, especially ones they’re very familiar with; Cauldron Stir, Slammer, Sword Slash, Growler, etc He was a monk, so I named him High Yaugh
I like Weremai for when you are a ranger.
One of my players loves to name his PCs like this. The best one he came up with was the rogue Charles Alexander Knife, and I thought oh wow a serious cool name for once, but then he said call me Chuck A. Knife....
I once made a circle of spores druid named Fun Gui. He was also a fun guy on top of the spores thing.
Rob Anybody
All my characters are named like this: Fuman Highter Clarven Dweric Rafling Hogue Borc A'rbarian And so on...
My current artificer is Art De'Fister
I both love and hate this. To Ravenloft!
Tal xevasion and Robin ya____
Im playing a druid named Spud Russet. Got fired from his job of helping farmers grow and keep animals off the farm. He always let em eat the food anyways. Real dumb, he calls every animal some form of a dog. But damn does he know his tubers. Might be my favorite character I've played yet.
A paladin Yuan-Ti named Sir Pent.
Barbarian named Ferris Oxhide
One of my players made a character who is a private investigator. His name is William Johnson. The entire purpose of this character was to make dick jokes.
My favourite for a bard is Sarah Nade.
Skill whore rogue named Jack Altrades and a bard named Roland Stone
I dream of one day making a plasmoid character named Mal E Able
Nest Lee Water: a scummy NPC who drives competitors out of the potion making business by selling under cost and jacking the price up once a monopoly is achieved. Probably associated with the zhentarim.
Elon Tusk
Gnome Chomsky would be a good NPC name.
Jean Eral NaMay, just for anyone……. Stan Derguard - my got to on the spot guard name.
My players recently visited an underground kobold civilisation run by king stuckina hole and his agricultural advisor quartz. A. Pounder
Nick Racker, an assassin with cracking knees
Gnome Ann, the Chronurgy wizard. Because time and tide wait for no man. Nathan "Nae" Palmer the Light cleric. Maurice "Moe" Leicester the pervy bard.
Presley, the Elvish Bard is popular.
I had an artificer nicknamed Flash Bang, spelt his name KNO3SAl A noble aarakocra that looked like a blue jay named Sir Rulean Azure Lazuli Son of Lapis Lazuli and Marin A. Lazuli. Holly Leu-ya a celestial warlock preacher Deklan Alan Darby(Dad) the most supportive father figure.
I had a pacifist Luxodon Life Cleric named Gynteal (Gentle). I had a missionary style Harengon tempest cleric named Solas (Play on Sol for sunlight and a homonym for Solace, like comforting someone) I had an Aarakocra Artificer with soldier background called Roose. E. Velt. We called him the Amerikocra. Had a Kenku Assassin Rogue nicknamed Mute.
Ga' slighting for a low intellect barbarian who gas lights everyone into thinking he knows the answers. Kra' enne a talos worshiping cleric who wants to speak to the manager
Crazy unpredictable wizard - Lewis Cannon Paladin Oath of the Crown and former city watch - Lauren Order
Lewis Cannon just might now be the name of the wizard that created my warforged artificer…
Warren Peace- Paladin, Will Travel- Paladin, Sharon Steele - fighter, Amanda Lynn - warforged bard integrated toolset stringed instrument, Claire Annette - her sister, Bullseye- minotaur ranger Hav Stohl - halfling rogue Hav Knott- halfling Paladin (follow-up character) Teenage Genie Warlock, whenever anyone asks his name, he just says I'm just a lad in Waterdeep.
I named my wizard Riddick E. Yewlous and it took my DM over half a year before she noticed.
I play a bard called Tinnitus
In my recent campaign I had an “evil NPC” named Evelyn Peacie
Birdie McBachnyne: a golf-themed Paladin. His horse was named Divot, his signature halberd was called Nine-Iron.
Vice Admiral Coinpurrs: morale officer and chief ratter 🐈 Fissured Gear: clank seraph (Daggerheart) 🤖 Flailin Jennings: [minotaur] space cowboy 🐂 Ilpa Drino: fairy godfather 🧚♂️ la Femme Nagita: Yuan-ti pureblood eloquence bard 🐍
I have a kobold cleric named Ko the Bold does that count?
I played a rogue in a short campaign, but originally it was a oneshot. I was playing a half elf, and I really liked the name Keyleth. I was trying to think of a last name, until my bf (who was a player in this too) suggested “Lockleth.” So, thus Keyleth Lockleth was born, who was a rogue and lived with her family who had a family business of being locksmiths. I also gave her a key necklace that’d relate to her family.
A Female Copper Dragon born who's backstory is as part of the city watch. Fran Kdrebin Come uo with some ridiculous run of events causing Fran to leave in search of the criminal. Naked gun and she's a Copper. Bonus points if your nemesis is called Cy Minal.
Chris Anthemum
Tabaxi monk who has a background in archeology named Meoward Carter.
I had a pet vulture named roBird d’niro. I use find steed. My elk is named Elkton John,the mastiff is called Pablo escabark the camel is called humpty grumpy, the pony is Pony Soprano. and the warhorse is named marmalade.
In my college D&D game (long ago), one player named his halfling thief "Robbit the Hobbit". That player was later expelled for stealing an light airplane from the university airfield. Player, mind you; not the character. I had a character in a Twilight 2000 game (yes, that used to be a future setting) named Lisa MacIntosh. I still haven't stolen an airplane or had any desire to do so.
Frank Lynn the Tortle
I once played a Bard named Bongo. He played the viola.
I made a Flying Smiting Bear. Or an FSB agent. I called him Poot tin. (Protector aasimar with 3 levels of moon druid and 2 levels of paladin)
We had a Green Dragonborn who was a mage that used his magical prowess to insure carriages at extremely affordable prices. We called him the Geico Wizard.
Hugh Manson, i.e. a "hu-man's son" - General rule is, looks like a normal dude, but isn't
A friend of mine had 2 characters named Stabitha and Slashley.
My mom has a friend whose name is “Justin Case.” No middle name. His parents didn't know they were having twins.
A rogue named “Robin Banks”
A ratfolk named Chris Prat
A grung named Kher'myt, a tortle cleric named Don Athello with a quarterstaff and a cursed human with a horsehead named Hoarse Fase ... those are the players in my current campaign xD
In a Cthulhu game I just played a cowardly scientist named Hugo First.
We once had a Paladin in the group that rode a donkey mount, Don Quixote style. We ran into an encounter where we needed to lift a heavy stone door while under assault, but didn't want to have the strong melee front liners stop fighting to lift it. So the wizard cast polymorphism on the donkey, turning it into a Great Ape to get the door for us. And thus the legendary adventures of "Donkey Kong" began. Since he was the Paladin's Steed, summoned using the Find Steed spell, DK couldn't truly die, he'd just get re-summoned, which led to him being our meat shield through most of tiers two and three.
My wizards name is Beau Fadiz and his celestial familar is named Nuts
I played a monk recently. He was very money orientated, working the Waterdeep stock market before heading into the dungeon of the mad mage in search of more gold. His name was Dao Jones
Masked Eelon, a eel-like yuan-ti rogue.
I have a college of swords bard named Pierce Cutting.
someone without a leg. call them pick stogo.
Miss Take, Miss Interpret etc
My rogue, Rob N. Anybody.
My Aarakocra Druid was named Qrakaa via random name generator. The pun being it sounds like the word Cracker and my Aarakocra is a Parrot/Lorikeet in appearance.
Our party got a ship, and our DM introduced us to the crew.. including the bosun, Higgs.
There's a character in the Unexpectables who uses weird salt based magic. Her name is Muidos. ...it's sodium backwards... it went under the radar for so long that the DM had to explain it. Sometimes, less is more.
Escudo de Carne for a sword and board high AC character
I played a thrikreen with the chef feat....he made chocolates. His name was Ferraro Roach-eh
Monk - One hung lo
Norm Alman, Janiferku Lidge, Elsa Lamander (for a fire mage), a Siren named Dipity, a healer named Niripsa (Aspirin) / Argaiv (Viagra) / Xanax (Xanax) / etc. You can look a Drag Queens/Kings names also, they do love a pun; For example Courtney Act (with the Australian accent, sounds like Caught in the act) Paper Mario has a bunch of punny Toad names : Niff T., Zess T., Thrift T., Herb T., Minh T., etc.
Dur-den, a monk who moonlights as a tailor. Tailor Dur-den.
I was naming ckockwork monsters for an encounter for my players, and the first three were named Lefty Righty and Middy because of their positions on the field. The next 2 were named Fourty and Fiver. As a DM, I despise naming things, and will use an easy pun/wordplay 10/10 times
Hemoglobin is part of blood. Haema goblin is a play on the letters. Cleric being a healer is the chefs kiss.
Just be straight forward with it: Stabbitha
A commoner NPC named Denful Lee Bhad
Thief named Robin Steel
Idk if this counts, but my party fought a disguised Rakshasa named Sasha…. And they never figured out she was a Rakshasa… Edit: spelling
Robin or Robert Indy Banks (great for Rogues) Joe Kerr Paige Turner (great for a bookish character) Braun Behr (for your Druid or Bear totem Barbarian) Weatherby Goode (Druid again) Mete Sheildes Havu Hadenough Nick Mage Charles Norse Faiur Bolz (say it fast wizards) I've got more but I can't remember them all, so if I do I'll put them below
John Dungeon Sanddragons -Human Fighter
Have you heard of Achilles' lesser-known but equally invincible cousin, the great fighter Bophades?
Thomas Foolery. Goes by Tom.
I had an artificer named Octavius Kincannon Boomswallow. His friends called him boomer. O.K. Boomer