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[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Turns out he's two kobolds in a trench coat. His name depends on who's on top that day.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

Is this like 3 halflings in a trenchcoat?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The elves know me as Fi’ang Yalok. The dwarfs know me as Zoenen Hoogstandjes. And I am also known in the Northeast as Gaismunēnas Meistar.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But the local humans call me Phil the Drunkard

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Seriously, why are the local humans such dicks? Had a human wizard that was known as Katherine the Great by the wizard-hating dwarves, because she spoke draconic and brokered a peace between them and the kobolds. The orcs called her Katherine the Timeless, because she got ahold of a potion of heal, and a philosopher's stone before her 17th birthday, and made herself a potion of eternal youth/ immortality. The local humans called her Katherine Lady of Death......

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Zoenen Hoobastank

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Fangy Yelly

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago

Hey if it's good enough for From software...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For us, the opposite happened

The DM had a list of names but forgot to delete one and reused it 10 sessions later

Turns out the old noble is the grandpa of the guard drinking at the tavern, and therefore, they share their name

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Nah, do what Adventure is Nigh did. The first NPC they met was Jeremy Goodsex, and when a guard yelled at another guard, he used the name Jeremy. He then argued that it's a very common name, and lots of people are called Jeremy.

So for every NPC in season 1, about a quarter had the name Jeremy. It's a very common name.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Bimothy is a very common name for pirates

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

Or when you didn't come up with a name for an NPC.

"There are those that call me... Tim?"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

I'm looking at you, Olórin, Mithrandir, Incánus, Tharkûn, Greyhame, Stormcrow, Láthspell, and/or Gandalf.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Different scenario but in my first time dming I ended up naming two characters Phil... they were both bandits.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's when you turn it into a running gag, and see if anyone notices before they're clearing out whole camps simply named "Phil".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Lol, they didn't outright kill all the bandits so they ran into them again several levels later. It was a fun time

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Adventure is Nigh (a D&D actual play starring Yahtzee) had both a prisoner and a guard called Jeremy in episode 1. It was pointed out, so roughly a quarter of the NPCs in season 1 were named Jeremy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Hah, my first time, I had one of the bandits yell "Sammy!" to another, a name I just grabbed on impulse. Sammy was also one of the PC's names...