How you choose your name?

[Jay203]

prefix: something that describe what my character does
suffix: -jay

[Ayyelos]

Guilty as charged. I have 5 toons I've named after famous characters from fantasy novels I've enjoyed

Logenn,
I can't believe no one has gotten Tyrione, as well as your forum name - are from Game of Thrones. Man, those books are good. The show's not bad, but really, the books are phenomenal.

Hm, I'm sort of thematic with my toon names.

Melisandae (Sorc)- Not 'the red lady' from game of thrones, although that certainly fits. Actually took this name from the Kushiel's Legacy Series

Amadrigal (Bard)- A 'madrigal' is a name for a form of vocal song that came about during the Renaissance.

Thingg One (Fvs)- A 'flavor' name- she's a halfling with blue hair.

[BigSlugger]

I picked Jocal and Wernac by just randomly picking letters.
Suffafrom lackarespect I picked to be humorous.
Moxxer is based on the Mox cards from MTG.
Slipnard Stonecircle is a character my friend used in PnP D&D.
Rathinen I got by Googling "random fantasy name generators" and using one, can't remember which.

[Kmnh]

I smashed my face on the keyboard a few times until I was satified with the result

[Jay203]

I smashed my face on the keyboard a few times until I was satified with the result

either you're easily satisfied or you have one durable face

[AegonTargaryen]

Logenn,
I can't believe no one has gotten Tyrione, as well as your forum name - are from Game of Thrones. Man, those books are good. The show's not bad, but really, the books are phenomenal.

Right on both counts.

I'm a huge fan of A song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin, in addition to MANY forgotten realms novels/series (R. A. Salvatore, Ed Greenwood, Elaine Cunningham, etc...)

For a total breakdown of the five, here it goes...

Tyrione- Tyrion Lannister from ASoIaF series.
Aegonn- Aegon Targaryen from ASoIaF series.
Robilllard- Robillard, the ship's wizard of the Sea Sprite from several of R. A. Salvatore's FR novels.
Cadderlley- Cadderly Bonaduce, Chosen of Deneir, a cleric from R. A. Salvatore's Cleric Quintet.
Logenn- Logen Ninefingers, also known as The Bloody Nine, a barbarian from Joe Abercrombie's The First Law trilogy. (If you are a fan of G.R.R.M., I *HIGHLY* recommend reading this guys work. Best fantasy series I've read in years.)

As for the others...

Warrforgery- WF AM wizard
Mechanically- WF LoB fvs
Biologically- Human evoker fvs
Greeenpeace- Horc druid
Kemosabi- Human monk
Mechguyver- WF artificer (couldn't help myself. I loved this show when I was younger)

Lamborghinii- WF barb (curently a lvl 4 bank, ironically)
Hachiroku- WF air savant. Also the japanese nickname for the 1986 Toyota Corolla, known by its chassis code AE86. One of the greatest drift cars ever made.

Masticus- Dwarf TWF barb. My first toon, and coincidentally, the only one I named off the top of my head.

[yawumpus]

I've been accused of using as many consonants as possible:

Hralgar (ranger, tried to make an angosaxonish name)
Savorak (sorc: less anglosaxon, better for a sorc).
Belnrok (fvs: follow the pattern, with a nod to the disciples of Aldur)
Hravok (barb: play on havoc and hralgar)
Drondo (halfling rogue: my first D&D character was a halfling (race&class) named Drodo son of Drondo. Presumably named after granddad)
Frumple (hagglebard: named after a merchant side character in myth adventures).
Aleivore (dwarf monk: a less serious name)
Jeffcrocker (artificer/bard: named after the leader of fictional club in juvi lit. Hopefully not trademarked).

Test characters and mules get even more silly names.

[willox2112]

Here's some from my list. Most names come from stuff I have been reading or watching:

Phantasya: derived from the Disney movie.

Muddbutt: shout out to the Chapelle Show, and Ribs as a sleeping aid.

Carbonadium: originally a WF, Carbonadium is a strong metal like Adamantium

Silanides: an alkali metal. He runs around with his trusty robo-dog (ByTor) and a wolf pet companion (SnowDog).

Mayango: a word we made up as kids, synonym for every demeaning adjective.

Blackpitirre: Pitirre is a bird from the town I grew up in.

Freewheel: from the song Freewheel Burning (Priest!)

Inenek: One of the sorcerer kings in the Dark Sun setting.

Alekzander Lifeson: yeah, from Rush

[Kalari]

I like exotic sounding names Kalari sounded flowy to me then found out it was a mixed martial arts style.

Most of my names have followed me threw several other games from pen and paper and muds to

here are the names so far: Kalari, Kamari,Kaderi, Tamiya,(The D'athenor sisters) Nyxy,Algaia (The D'pyxy sisters) Severi, Korovai (Russian wedding bread), Suoress (elven for blessed child) Foxiefist CleopatraJones (blackspoitation movies for the win!) Korosoul, Korobot, Kovari, Kavari, Iylesia, Korei, Mendibot, Mechanie Crushbot, Trinaty, Euphro (the Loresong sisters), Shanaenee Shonuff (Martin anyone?)

I think I have more but its hard keeping track of all 20+ names lol

[Bekki]

I write a story...
This allows me to get into the mind of the character...
Their name, race, sex, attitude, as the questions...

Who are they? Why do they do the things they do?
Why did they choose their class, or did it choose them?

What made them who they are...?

I pill names from stories I've read, and loved, past characters from pen & paper...
The Elven dictionary, Dwarven dictionary, fantasy name generator...
And made them up on the fly just because the sound cool...

I think creating the character is one of the most fun parts of the game...

[Therigar]

I name characters based on several factors.

1. PC & NPC names from my P&P days -- example: Therigar.
2. Descriptive names -- example: Basso Profundo (bard).
3. Strikes me as funny names -- example: Certified Used Parts (warforged).
4. Homage names -- example: Tangledroots George (DDO adventure area).
5. Because you made me mad names -- example: Doofus the Village Idiot (because forum posters hold this opinion of me in many cases).

[TrinityTurtle]

Well, the majority of them are some form of turtle things. Points to her sig. Sulcata, loggerhead, and matamata are all species of turtles/tortoise in addition to the obvious. Turtwig kinda fits here...

Second theme: I heart dinosaurs.

Third theme: Victerr Creed/Sabretuth fairly obvious to Xmen fans.

And the others are just random stragglers. Sierran was a character from my tabletop. Nikkolas Graison was a briefly mentioned character from Anita Blake (dead brother of a character I liked). Drokk was a character of my husbands that I was fond of.

ETA: Proudtrout fearfish came from a really silly moment involving me, cold meds, my husband, and a nature documentary. Nuff said. Proudtetra came from that too.

[HeadbustaJones]

Gorrick Bluntblade: First DDO toon I rolled up - - human rogue - - and a carryover from PNP days (actually made him look like me ); has become my crafting and haggle toon
Docktor Feelgood: Any Crue fans in the house? Healbot human cleric
Headbusta: horc barb, name just seemed to fit
Stonewings: WF FvS build, although his wings look just as light and feathery as any other FvS
Swishthump: horc FvS build; the last two sounds you hear - - "swish" of the greatsword, "thump" of your head hitting the floor...

[bibliomane]

My toons fall into 2 classes: 1. Amusing Names. 2. Mamma TM

Amusing names have been, Southrn Comfort, Tempting, Canteen, Crikit Frogsinger, Gnot Nice, etc. Soutrhn is the only one I currently play of these and she is rarely new player friendly.

Most of my toons are Mamma: Mammadrow, Mammafist, Mammasmelting, Mammabear....it goes on.
Why Mamma? I am a hugger of kids (noobs,) kisser of hurts, and spanker of bad children. I help others: Sometimes they go on and do great things, and sometimes they turn into right pains or the sort who end up on Springer for being ....well you know. Mamma is usually very nice and will help you out, provide game info & resources, and basically try to set you right. But remember that she has a limited ***** tolerance and dosn't hesitate to tell you how it is.

[Bacab]

"Bacab" is a Mayan God
"Zweihander "(he is a Lord of the Blades FVS) is the German Word for 2 hander or great sword
"Atropine" is a drug used in emergency situations google it...anyway it is always delivered with a needle. Atropine is a heavy pick specced toon (2 Deathnips).
"Hireling" is a word that is German for a Whale's ******.
"Hjealer" is a battle cleric...and he never understands what it means to "Hjeal people".

[Talon_Moonshadow]

Various.

But I have a lot of Elf chics with the last name "Moonshadow". (Talon gets around. )


I make up most of my names. I don't like to copy others, but of course I take influence from names I like.

"Talon" was a name of a smuggler in one of the Han Solo books. I thought it would make a good D&D name.
Moonshadow is hardly original, but not really from a specific source. I just thought Talon Moonshadow had a nice ring to it.

sadly, trying to make my first DDO character I had no idea what I had to do to get a name the game would let me use... and no idea that once I found one, I was stuck with it.

too lazy to reroll and anxious to get playing Talonkage Moonshadow was born.
I keep thinking about renaming him.

I have the name Ptalon on every server. The Thelanis one I no longer play, so I may someday rename Talonkage.

The Ptalon idea came from Pteradactyl.
I've use "Pt" to get a lot ot "T" names that would otherwise be taken. (Ptiger)

I've added "Khan" to a lot of names. like Talonkhan.

I have a few favorites I recycle or use on other servers.
(don't want to tell my favorite one as I haven't snagged it on every server yet. )