Had a bard NPC who communicated almost exclusively in a magic ink and quill that not only wrote his words, but his music. It was a way to quickly compose a symphony whenever he was on the go and could write beautiful tunes on the fly. Of course his one defining trait was also a bit of a joke as he was mute. As it turns out they absolutely thought this was funny, but they came to hate me when it was revealed, through no fault of my own, that his home land was actually somewhere in the upper towns of Spain! When asked why, I simply smiled at my table and uttered the now infamous phrase.. "Because no one expects the spanish ink musician."
I have a Thri-Kreen artificer in a 5e cyberpunk setting named Feature, and I couldn't keep my joy out of my voice when I explained. He's not a bug. He's a Feature.
Once, the group I usually played with our forever DM. He decided it would be fun to do a murder mystery arc for a long standing campaign. One of the NPC characters we constantly had to deal with was a rouge who was also trying to solve the mystery of the murders. The rouge's name was "Phantom." Naturally we took the Ganondorf thought process about the little edge lord. He was constantly brooding in this upscale tavern with live music where the bard and a band would hold live music shows every night with the bard on vocals. Took us three weeks before we caught the joke piecing out that Phantom was tailing the killer that was the bard.... the Phantom of the Opera...
Have a joke NPC in the works named Sakhandi. She’s a fun and cheery personality and normally operates out of a market stall selling assortments of roasted, salted or candied nuts. The name of her business: Sakhandi's Nuts. Playing further into the joke, she has the Savory Sack, the Sweet Sack, the Salty Sack, the Heavy Sack and occasionally some Free Nuts on offer. The character isn't purely juvenile joking, however, as the treats she offers confer temporary buffs. 😂
Regarding the story of the wrester known as The Roc which starts at 7:41, when people started cutting him off whenever he started talking after he gained the ability too summon a fire elemental, I'm surprised he didn't sic the fire elemental on one of those people and burn them until they finally shut up to let him speak. And then as the screams fade and the smell of burning flesh drifts through the area...... "Can you smell what The Roc is cooking????"
I had the opposite thing happen in a game. A guy brought in a kitsune rogue named rotair and the first thing out of my mouth before he could say anything else was "is your name really an anagram for traitor?" And he replied "you weren't supposed to notice that..."
@@thesuperMasterSword I made the comment on my phone and had to fight with auto correct like crazy just to get it to spell right I misspelled it it was Rottair. thank you for pointing it out.
Same kinda thing happened with my character Klof Eireaf. I even went with a less common spelling but every other comment was like "nice try, you fey bastard! I'm onto your games!!!" 😂
I have a npc that I told the party is “a reused character from a cancelled campaign.” During a conversation she had with a player, she said “I haven’t been to a city this big since I visited Baldur’s Gate.” We weren’t in Faerun. Or the Forgotten Realms setting. She is literally from the other campaign, but the joke went over everyone’s heads. It took the realization that she was a rogue mind flayer (in a setting where mind flayers don’t exist) for them to realize something was up with her
My group, because one of us couldn't get time off to play every week, decided to do a couple of one-shots, new characters every time. Every single one of the characters had a single thing in common: Half-breeds looking for their father, who had had one-night stands with each of their mothers and disappeared. The only character I had that didn't follow the formula was my first: A Bard running from a line of spurned lovers. Nobody put it together until I spelled it out.
@@JanMaynz To be fair, it was one of the first times they learned of my penchant for long cons, and I had acted kind of uncreative up to that point. We had five characters each during the round of one shots, and when I introduced my characters, I'd always used the same line: "I'm looking for the man who dishonored my mother and ran off before I was born". Wasn't until the last one-shot that they asked details.
I had created a valley one could enter, but never leave, due to a bad wizard's magic. The first character our heroes meet is called Otél Californ. Only after they failed several times to leave, understand the magic and are finally ready to battle the wizard, they realise: "You can check in, but never leave." Hotel California.
My fellow players have yet to get the pun for my character named Elvon D'shelv. The Slender young elf in a pointy hat likes to just Misty step to appear in the weirdest locations without warning
I’m in a Curse of Strahd campaign to introduce an Australian friend to D&D. My Canadian girlfriend is the DM, so she’s well aware of any habitual tendencies to create jokes out of anything she least expects. I’m playing a bard named Arnold Palmer who happens to be a half-halfling and half-half-elf. After about 8 seasons and multiple months of our actual lives, my friend exasperatedly shouted “you gotta give me something easier to say than half-halfling, half-half-elf!” As a grin crept across my face, I simply replied “You could say I’m a…. Half and half?” He didn’t get it, so he thanked me. My girlfriend, however, groaned loudly as she rolled her eyes.
I had a war cleric I named Theodor Marcus Behr. I had been playing him in a campaign for about a month when we had another player join. new players character referred to me as "Ted" and someone else at the table turned to me and said "wait, your name is Ted Behr? you named your character Teddy bear?!" I couldn't stop laughing.
Had a player make a monk named Annette Fischer for a one off. I thought everyone would get the joke the minute the player did his character intro, but it took rolling initiative in combat almost two hours later for everyone to put two and two together and realize that the fisherwoman turned martial artist who carried no fewer than six large nets and watching her use said nets to entangle enemies for them to get it. Then again, those players were some of the dumbest people I've ever met, so maybe that was why
Hey, I'm an idiot too. Would you be so kind as to explain the joke? :) EDIT: OH. Annette Fischer == 'A Net Fisher'. Took me a second! Yeah, that's funny. :D
The major area that my campaign takes place in is called Hamleton (on the surface it seems like a generic fantasy town/hamlet, nobody knows if it’s a town or a hamlet, etc.). The “mayor” of this town, whose family has always been elected since they founded it, is called Alexander. My players still haven’t pieced together that his full name is Alexander Hamleton. Over the course of several sessions, I have been putting those two words closer and closer together.
I feel like there's an opportunity there to have him die in an illegal duel and have the party give chase to the survivor... Either a druid named Aaron with a bear form to keep it subtle, or perhaps an artificer who uses dueling pistols called Burr because he's kinda terrible at metalworking and leaves burrs on everything he makes.
@@KertaDrake ooooo or Aaron bursar, an elf who’s advised the Hamletons for centuries and taken care of the town’s finances. The major conflict is that there’s a church and a cult in Hamleton that has been using the PCs as neutral parties to circumvent a nonaggression pact signed with the city. Maybe while Aaron thinks that maintaining the pact despite the issues is valuable, while Alexander sees the termination of the pact, which will surely lead to war between the factions, as an opportunity to eliminate both factions and unite the town under the sole rule of the law. I love this new character thank you so much
My current campaign setting is a rip off map of the first Pokemon Games, I just slightly changed the names of the cities (still noticeable) and major npcs (also heavily inspired to the original characters) and invented a pseudo feudal society to better fit Dnd. So far only one player of the four has managed to catch me when I introduce a new thief guild in town, called team RAZZO (italian word for Rocket), the others are clueless after more than 15 sessions, visiting 4 cities and earning 2 "medals" after major quests, which are milestones for level up. I think It will go on with them not ever knowing at this point
One of the gods in our world is named "Dam'ut". One of my players instantly got it and kept it to themselves. It took months for the others to catch on.
I had a semi-joke character I played in a 2e campaign where the only real homebrew with character creation was we did away with racial stat limits that was a pixie very heavily based on Jorgen from Fairly Odd Parents. He was hilariously effective and I don't think anyone actually figured the joke out.
My party needed someone to defend a village while they went to chace the bbeg . I sent in a Fighter high int high wis (grate at strategy) A bard High Charima . A Druid who had high animal handrling and was slightly mad. A Dwarf Munk high strength. Who showed up in a black wagon. With a Red stripe. Basically I sent them the A team
Players were in an uneasy alliance with a thieves' den. The leaders of the thieves were, naturally, very secretive and always wore masks to hide their faces. They worked a few jobs with the thieves den over the course of 2 months irl, and were primarily working with one of the leaders who wore a red mask and whose name was pronounced as "bee-oh-knee-cleese". Anyway, after their partnership came to a close, they were approached by a wealthy and powerful merchant from the island of Leygos, who asked them to kill the thief leader who they were working with to stop him from plundering the merchants trade wagons. Only one of my players ever takes notes, and she asked "hey, that 'Bee-Oh-Knee-Cleese' guy, how do you spell his name?" Bionicles. The guy from Lego wanted them to kill Bionicles.
I played 2 joke characters in the same campaign. 1 was a barbarian. The other blaster caster storm sorcerer dipping into cleric for channel divinity for lighting damage. Back in character creation, the DM requested a simple form which detailed what the character’s backstory was , his enemies , friends and secrets. The rest of the group came up with elaborately thought out characters that took them weeks to do. I hashed mine out in 20 minutes. Enter the first of two characters - Wou Geye. If you have trouble pronouncing his name , I attempted it to design it as a some kind of devolution of “ woah guy” but no one , including myself ever stayed consistent to what his name would properly sound like. His back story I will directly post exactly as I wrote and submitted on the dm’s form. Character: -Name Wou Geye -Race - Human -Class - Barbarian -Age -30 -An NPC ally - Muhmed Dieson - Cleric / Herbalist -An NPC enemy - Their own Village -A short backstory Born in a secluded stretch of land unknown to most of mankind. Wou Geye and Muhmed Dieson lived in complete annoyance. Their parents gave them both fucking stupid names that lead to many linguistic barriers and inconvienances. They long resented their unnamed backward micronation. Unable to put up with their bullshit any longer, they set fire to the village chief’s hut and ran away to pursue a better life amongst the normies but they hated that too. Thanks Dad. -A secret they are hiding Their backwards micronation is known to have vast riches underground by its first settlers. As to what riches, they do not know for certain but they are determined to comeback to claim it for themselves once they grow stronger. They also forgot the exact location of their former home, slowing down their progress. Needless to say with a stupid enough backstory that reduces the person who concocted it to tears at its sheer absurdity the DM accepted it instantly. Wou was a meat headed asshole. But he was a smart man when it came to violence and arson. He carries around vials of oil that he would preemptively splash on enemies before combat so he can set them on fire using his rage ability as a storm herald barbarian. A strategy that proved quite cheesy at early levels. Wou unfortunately died in a fight with a stone guardian and will-o- wisps. When he died, I rolled up the big guns. His name was Muhmed. And to this day he is the most min maxed character I have ever built. Built to run down his spell list from the top down, Fights with this smart ass lasted on average 3-5 turns but what made this joke quite the long con was how I played it off with the dm’s manic energy so no one batted an eye to what my character’s name truly was let alone the build. Originally starting out as an herbalist NPC to Wou’s story, he eventually became a drug dealer making hard substances their own unique consumables in this campaign setting . Imagine if you will mid fight a character busting open a bag of coke , snorting a line mid combat to gain a temporary haste buff. Such was the norm with Muhmed . It forced the Dm to both allow drugs in the setting and also create the dnd fantasy equivalent of the DEA to attempt to keep him in check. All the while as the campaign progressed into insanity with fights against gods, resetting timelines, and casting a wish spell that once a year kills all fiends and adjacent worshippers of fiends by having them spontaneously combust in showers of gore. In the midst of all this my group failed to notice two things before they facepalmed at how long I was keeping this up. 1. diegeticly reveal Muhmed’s full name. As Muhmed Dieson pronounced muh medicine. 2. The town where both characters came from was promptly named in bullshit fashion - apononawouldpla pronounced as a pun on a wordplay. Which also caused the Dm to have to make every NPC’s name in that micronation be a pun. The setting proved so successful that a sequel campaign that we are currently playing is exploring the ramifications of muhmed’s wish spell and also has a main antagonist from said village. His name : Noree Demption. When the players figured that one out, many laughs were had.
in one of the sessions we played DM had a NPC with a construct servant called "KY13" It took me the whole session to undertand that the name was just "KYLE"
My sister made a halfling called Wanda fuhl Beans. Wandaful Beans. Wonderful Beans. When I eventually joined her in a oneshot, _my_ halfling character was named Farha Tiss. Farha-ts. Farts. Because "Beans means Farts". No one connected the dots because my name wasn't as obvious as my sister's... Maybe they expected better of me as the older sibling? Well. They were *wrong.*
So I am on the plot team of a larp, and we run a weekend game a few times a year. PCs end up hijacking a train that sort of serves as their mobile base, but they cant access the engine for first few games. Eventually end up figuring out that a person was sort of cybernectally integrated with the train . over the next games they figure out how to wake up this person, as the wider plot involves "necroforging" (basically undead cyborg magitech) and that the person in the train was one of the developers of this tech so if they could communicate they'd learn alot about it, as well as be able to choose destinations. After much research (and gooey body horror surgery puzzle with tubes of fake blood going to various valves and things...proud of that mod) the pcs finally awaken him and he introduces himself as "professor Sodor, Thomas Sodor". Three of the pcs immediatly start laughing and one does the out of game sign and says. "wait...wait.... THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE?!"? Rather than reply i just grin and hit the play button on my soundboard and play the Thomas intro music. Yes the year and a half arc of body horror ....was an elaborate set up to a reference to a childs train show 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This was a one shot so it only took a moment for my players to get it, but here goes. My players were all santas elves trying to find out what happened to him, kidnapped by krampus, and in their search they go to the baker, who was bought off by krampus. As the players started to figure this out as he magically locks the door to his bakery keeping everyone in, gingerbread men start coming out of the oven and attacking. But where the joke hits, is I had told them as they entered the bakery "you see the baker, working on a batch of dough, with flour on his apron, and some in his red hair and beard, he looks up and smiles, while greeting you as you enter". So, he was, in fact, the "ginger" breadman.
Not a particularly secret joke, but a friend and I are planning a campaign where everyone can manipulate some weird element. (Not the traditional water, earth, fire, and air, but rather stuff like blood and salt.) My character is a hair bender named Samuel Tyson List, though you can call him Sty. Yes, I will be playing a hair bender named Sty List.
I mean, I think my longest one was my first Gloomstalker Ranger. It was a level 5 start in a campaign setting that was stuck in a permanent solar eclipse, and where Renaissance firearms were available. Thus, before I even went into doing anything else with the character, knew they were going to use a gun... Now, their name was Telumi Flammae. She still holds a soft spot in my heart, as the first female PC I made and played. This prim and proper Elven Sniper/Agent of the Crown(Although this wasn't known to the other characters, it was known to the actual players, as I was the groups note taker, and every few sessions, would compile my notes into a 'Intelligence Report' that would be sent off to her handler.) whom was an absolutely deadly shot with her lever action rifle (Mechanical, it was a musket, but she started the game with the gunner feat, and there is no way in hell that anyone can load and fire a muzzle loaded musket multiple times in six seconds.). Anyway, I'm getting sidetracked from the original point. It took two IRL years to realise what her name actually was. Now, admittedly, I had somewhat bastardised the Latin to make it work better as a name, so that's probably a reason. For those of you who haven't yet caught on, but are still reading, Telumi Flammae roughly translates to Weapon of Flame, more colloquially known as a fire-arm. It took the party two years, to figure out that the character I had always played as the posh, professional straight-woman (In the comedic sense of the word, Telumi was Bi) to the rest of the parties batshit insanity, was in fact a joke character, because the only person in the party with a gun, was named Gun.
5 sessions of Gorka-Morka for goofy Alex Jones reference. Everyone loved the game and enjoyed the goofy shenanigans of being dumb orks, going rediculouly fast. We had a driver, a gunner, a stormboy, a mek, and the Nob all trying to one-up each other every race. They chose Deathskulls as their clan, which gave them rerolls for using gear that was painted blue and gave them quite the edge. Still didn't save them from crashing after every race, though; they kept forgetting to install brakes, and had to rely on the Nob's powerclaw as a "manual brake". During the final race of the tourney they were up against the Blood Axes, who had won by sabotaging every opponent somehow. The party had a sidequest during the downtime to get some artisanal bog water for the squig breeder and discovered some Blood Axes were hoarding the water supply and jacking up prices. They players krumped them, took some water straight from the source, and thought nothing of it. On the day of the race, the leader of the Dethskulls storms out of his pit ranting and raving about the Blood Axes cheating. Everyone's confused, because they hadn't found any signs of tampering, until the chief held up a sickly pallid paint squig and shouted: "I'm not mad cuz they's cheaty gitz! I'm mad cuz THEY PUTTIN' CHEMICALS IN THE WATTA THAT TURNED OUR SQUIGS GREY!" So the players, who sourced their own water supply, end up being the only members of their team with any blue paint. They give some to the chief to convince him to just run interference while they gun for first place, and at the end win the tournament. During wrap-up after the final session, we are talking about our favorite parts of the campaign and my cousin slaps his face, beats his other fist on the table and asks " WAS THAT ALL JUST A F***ING ALEX JONES JOKE?!" Totally worth it.
I… don’t really know how this came to be, but we had this large group that did a session in Starfinder and some of us had a feeling that things in some of our party members life in IRL wasn’t so good and decided to ask the DM a little favor, so during a battle late game, third strongest boss we have found, one of our party members must have done something in the past because right as we get to the boss, an NPC quite *literally* burst through a wall and sucker punches the boss so hard that they are rendered unconscious for the whole battle and starts demanding where out Biohacker was and asking for child support for a baby that’s not even his. Apparently, we had this running joke we unknowingly had been doing where the Biohacker has a crap ton of kids and apparently one of the fathers had *somehow* tracked us into a enemy battleship to find us, and ending up fighting him. The funny thing is, I had this sense of déjà vu and realized that the whole encounter was based off of a video on RU-vid! We laughed so hard when we found out.
My DM once ran a Medusa named Zola, who adored cheese. In Greek mythology, Medusa was a gorgon (I realise gorgons are a very different creature in DnD). Took us ages to put it together as the Gorgon Zola ( Gorgonzola ). (We ended up making a deal to supply Zola with cheese and she stopped “harassing” the nearby villagers - ie turning them to stone.)
I was running a superhero campaign (Mutants & Masterminds 3rd Edition) where the party was in a major trade port city investigating disappearing cargo ships. They got a tip that a local restaurant was a front for the mob. They went to the restaurant: 'The Admiral's Snackbar' to search for clues. Of course, it was a trap. That was all in a single session, though, so it wasn't a long con or anything.
I don't know how well this fits the theme since it's an unused joke. My player's future character is a rogue who pretends to be a great wizard. The rest of the players do not know his real identity. We will be playing from level 1, so all his “spells” will not be very strong, and they can be “cast” with simple sleight of hand, tricky objects and preparation. The character's name is Charles Lathan. We're playing in our native language and the other players barely know English, so I'm absolutely sure, but they won't reveal Charles for a looooong time.
I make all my fiances characters, for our second campaign i made her original character who became an archdemon her new characters warlock patron, the dm helped keep it all under wraps dropping hints but never revealing the patrons name, so worth it seeing her reaction to the reveal, she was so happy
My warlock for a one shot was called Miss headbasket, Helena headbasket, she carried a wicker handbasket which was her totem and was the picture of propriety
Not DnD but Blades in the Dark. Wrote up a character using the spider playbook (characters who mostly work behind the scenes, for those who don’t know the game). He was an accomplished forger, providing fake documents and new identities to anyone who could pay his prices. In BitD, characters usually work under an alias. His was Mr Quill. I’ve played this character on and off for about three years now, plus I know the GM has used him as an NPC in a couple of other campaigns. To this day no has spotted (or at least hasn’t let on that they’ve spotted) that Mr Quill… is just his pen name.
My party had Oster the Imp who would occasionally help out or give advice on where to go next. Turns out he was working for the BBEG. No one suspected the Imp-Oster!
I have two: 1) My current character is a gnome druid who left his hometown for two reasons: to make a name for himself as Zarzuket Goblinbane slayer of goblins, my party knows this. What they don't know yet is that he is also looking for a wife because his Honored Grandfather was a bard before he retired and spent stupid amounts of money so he could watch his grandkids grow up without traveling. So he wanted to find a girl he wasnt related to as he shares blood with the whole town.(The Honored Grandfather is an immortal Bard-Lich i came up with after watching Poiny Hat here on YT) 2) My next character will be a Kenku Bard who, rather than seduce everyone in visual range, will be adorable and cute (he paints his feathers to be more flashy/noticeable). His mother claims to be the first priestess of an unknown God of Capricious Luck, she named her firstborn after her God to spread the word of Him to the masses and that is why my birb will be named Deet Wen'tai
It wasn't really a joke, it just never came up. I had a Lizardfolk named Bill. They were named Bill because that was the nickname his 1st couple of friends gave them because the friends couldn't pronounce their name. Males and females look pretty much the same, the cultural norms (in that world) were that they did the same tasks without issue and so on. Well, once we hit 10th level I had it planned that Bill was going to start building a nest and drop a few eggs in it. Just as a way of showing what she was without making it a big thing.
The one about the "bear trap" could have had the lock on the front door be made out of gold. That way, it could have been Goldie locks and the three bears
I have a name that I'm pretty proud of, my character was a way of the astral monk by the name of Johnny Johnson! It took a couple of sessions for the others besides the dm to catch on(The legend actully read my bizzare backstory), and boy was it hilarious!
our towns local grove is ran by a satyr and a fairy - Elis and Dee . Offering magic paper that when placed on the tounge, lets the druid commune with their god.
Ah man, that wolverine story reminds me of the time I stuck my hand in a mimic, my party killed the mimic, and then we adopted the baby mimic we just orphaned.
My joke name character is a Goblin Rogue named Ulytile Fucah (pronounced "you little fuck-ah"). Ulytile would steal food from human villages thinking the food was actually for him, and was always surprised that the villagers always knew his name wherever he went, because they'd always scream it at him as he left their houses
One time my DM had are party joining a group of soldiers to check out some ruins. The party was led by Captain Nathaniel Doge and Commander Warren G in a team of red shirts. Because of the team of red shirts solely focused on trying to keep them alive and didn't catch the joke until almost 2 hours later when the commander was rallying his crew and said "Regulators mount up!" After looking up the song it what's the most obvious joke.
Less of a joke and more of a really cool character name. Had a player who made a half-dwarf, half-goblin barbarian. He decided that in dwarvish, Slau was the name for goblin, and Djerg was the name for dwarf His name was Slau-Djerg. It happens to sound a lot like “slaughter”
@@callumfinlayson-palmer8393 Chi's cake sounds exactly like cheesecake when you pronounce it with an early 21st century American accent. Do you get it now?
So not me but a friend. It was a horror themed oneshot and we were sneaking around a victorian style mansion that was owned by a family of vampires. One of our party members was named David Plisk, an army veteran. Well we came to a hallway with a huge werewolf in it. We had to get past the werewolf to get to the next room. So David has a brilliant idea to sneak past it. He proceeds to get a nat 20 investigation and find a cardboard box exactly the right size to fit him. Then he proceeds to freaking sneak past the werewolf using the box. Well he is almost to the exit and he fails a stealth roll and the werewolf smells him. And over the discord voice chat we suddenly hear the alert sound from Metal Gear Solid. Later we asked him where he learned that trick and he said "Well back in the army they use to call me Snake."
Created a cursed item called the ring of phoarresight, nothing happens when they put it on but I made note of the first race they spoke of, and the curse creates a toxic obsession towards that player. you have to say it just right though to properly bait the hook… 😂
It shouldn't have taken my DM as long as it did to figure out the meaning behind naming my character "Amalé Zidiem," but it sure was fun listening to him say it over and over again 😂
I had the idea to name all my towers in my game based on my local shopping malls. But. I ended up with an online game and all my players being from overseas so they'd never catch it 😭
A trio of goofy re-occuring antagonists in a campaign mostly there for comic relief. Rakyu (Pronounced Rah-Kyu) the Ronin was the first one and the leader of the group even if the other two disagreed. Laika the ranger was the second, a dour and serious bow expert that would've probably been an actual threat if she wasn't paired up with two morons. The third and final one was a gigantic barbarian wearing a luchador mask that the party fought previously in a pro-wrestling coliseum mini-arc (long story). He was only known as "The Hurricane". Nobody caught on until around the second time they fought as a trio and I kind of spelled it out for them "Here they are... Rakyu! Laika! Hurricane!" The players were equal parts groaning and laughing in disbelief at my stupid pun.
I played a bard. I actually brought a professional-quality recorder flute to game. I used it four times before anyone at the table realized where the sound came from. Apparently I rolled really high stealth perform recorder in plain sight, and everyone else rolled really low on spot and listen (dnd 3.5).
Haven't been able to play him yet, but I have a very lore intensive Tabaxi swashbuckler rouge with a pirate crew. 4 of the 5 are the main show and get more vicious going on long the lines of: From first mate "that was your First Chance" to the captain (the character that's played) "I'm going to give you a Second Chance, where's the treasure you've hidden?" and spew out threats as if it had passed. The Tabaxi's name is literally Second Chance which fits in so many ways I don't think I can say here
It took waaaaaaaaaaay too long for me to get that a trio of recurring gnoll enemies in one campaign (consisting of a male/female set of twin rangers and their tainted raver little brother) were supposed to be Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed from _The Lion King_
Haven’t gotten to use it yet, but for a Wild West style setting I have a serpentfolk gunslinger style character (think Rattle Shake from Skylanders). He’s specifically based on a cottonmouth snake, and his name is Joseph. He has a reputation for showing up and leaving without a trace, confusing many. They always ask, “Where did he come from? Where did he go? Where did he come from, Cottonmouth Joe?”
It took my party a few sessions to get the joke of my Warlock's name and backstory. He is a Yuan-ti (snake people) named Mike Python (if he had been a fighter or barbarian I would have pronounced it like Mike Tyson, but no...the dice rolled stats for a Warlock). In his backstory, he made a hexblade pact to get the power needed to enact his revenge against his father, the legendary bard Monty. Mike had no bardic talents and thus could not carry on the Python family tradition if entertaining the masses, so Monty ridiculed Mike to the point he snapped and became a warlock.
Pun-dora. Really shook me noone got it. Especially as that Char is entirely based upon Puns. Her Weaponry, her Items - everything. Also, all BBEGs or more Uniqe NPC are somewhat related to some irl Thing or Person or Circumstance that fits their Purpose or Character. Like the "secret Vampire" in my Story was named the same as the Actor of a Children Show who played the Vampire - such things. This is my ingame-representation of "Names bear Power" as well as it makes the World "more understandable" when I use more obvious relations - they rareley spoil any Twist or such. Like, that Irish Elven Barbarian named "Conor the Barbarian" who aims mainly at Weaponless Melee. Most get the Conan-reference. They also get the UFC-Reference. But only a few get the Cu Chulainn-Reference and thus he is basically "Elven Nobility" and not only that "womanizing Party Animal" and basically the "sweet Prince" they are ought to find - but that has cast a Glamour on him so noone realize it is him. This makes it pretty easy to come up with Names - and as well with "Quirks" that makes NPC more "alive" and much easier to depict. But the longest it took for a entirely Support Char (and a darn good one) with no offense or Mainskills at all, entirely relying on a Party to get by - named Aaron Francis Klein.
Star Wars ttrpg. Made a Gray Jedi who specialized in stealth powers. I could go invisible to regular sight, invisible to all technology, and invisible to being sensed through the force. His name was Ja'en X'heena. It took forever for the other guys to realize... *You Can't See Me*
My players are convinced the king's most trusted advisor, the Count von Tuthrifor, is up to something because the DM smirks when his name is mentioned. If they ever get it, i'll let you know
One of my players made an ogre named Grop. Over the course of a backstory exploratory adventure, we encountered two ogres from his hometown named Shor and Rek. Nobody realized for 2 or 3 sessions.
Couple. 1) I don't remember what character I was playing or who with, but I do remember that my character was wearing RoUI (I, for one, love those things). Got into an encounter with something really big/strong. (In game) I look down at the available patches and remove a 10-foot pole. Look back and forth between the pole and the opponent, shake my head and dropped it to the ground (wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole). 2) Didn't get to actually do this, but I really wanted to. Near the end of 2e, new books were coming out with playable monster races. I swear that I found the option to play an Athach. I was going to give him the NWP of Singing so that I could have a 'rappin' Athach'.
I brought a 1-session character to our table because my character could not join the others for that adventure. Guys nickname is "Monsterdigger", having tattoos of different monsters on him, vampires, ghouls, etc. When he killed a wyvern, he yelled out Loud: " Thats why my Name is Moonsterdigggeeeer" And the party uses this slogan everytime with different variations.
Named a mafia group CL et al, and later when talking, my players realised it was quite literal Crime Lord et al. Crime Lord and others. They were mostly amused
5:40 That reminds me of the old Bill Cosby routine where as a child, he thought his name was Jesus Christ and his little brother thought his name was Dammit. This was because his father was always shouting one of the two at the boys.
Sir Vey came to mind when I hear you mention Sir Vival. Robert Hartley a DM who posts videos on youtube has an inquisitor type character,of this name, who interviews characters and NPCs from his main campaign (Viva La Dirt League)
Had a friend play a skeleton paladin named Bones Mal'Ome in my campaign. He originally wanted to name him Skeletroll D. Skeletor, (obvious joke), but thought of something better. Cue a decent bit later, and Bones has been established as a pretty serious character who respects his dieties like a boss and psy-smites any assholes in his way. During a fight, I had the BBG of the moment (Xanathar) ask him why he had that name. A quick 2 minutes and 41 seconds of Sunflower later (nat 20 on performance), Xanathar was on the ground laughing his shit off and instantly had a positive faction with the players (in my world, Xanathar is LN instead of Evil.). Bones later multi-classed into Bard to further enhance the joke. He is now the hired musicain who works for Xanathar.
To put this into context, he is supposed to be a very serious character that prays to the gods of Undeath and acted with a borderline Jotaro Kujo voice. I found out about this joke the first session. My other players, however, didn't.
Mine is nowhere near as good as these. We've got a long ro campaign, so we've been going a few weeks at level 1. My character is Rav'yn, a plague doctor with a cane and mask. Gonna be a real shock when they find out he's not a rogue, but a Swarmkeeper Ranger with his trusty murder of ravens overhead
2:50 I'd love it if at the very end of the campaign, the bards approached the party and demanded the party give them all the gold that _they knew_ the party had as payment for their music. 🤣
Was in a group that was more interested in hitting things than storytelling. So, because our names didn't matter, I decided to have a little fun with it. About three or four sessions in, we encountered a bit of a roadblock in the form of bodies. The other two players, contrary to the "just hit everything" method we usually went with, decided to actually plan this one out. After about a minute or two of them planning, I declared that I raised my sword and charged in while shouting my name as loudly as I could. My only regret is I didn't have chicken.
