What Do You Name Your RPG Characters?

[Not Lord Atkin]

I always go with John in modern/sci-fi games because I'm just so original and Jarveth with fantasy games, which is a combination of my name (Jan) and Iorveth from The Witcher 2, which I thought was a nice fantasy name.

Yes, I'm rubbish when it comes to making up names.

 

[happyninja42]

I tend to have clusters of names I use for different types of characters. Depending on if they are a sneaky/thief type, I might name them *name* Driftstep, or Altimar Deneb (A name I came up with thanks to the name of a crappy printer my dad used to have ages ago, and a the system from Anne McCaffery's psychic book series The Rowan).

Tank/Paladiny types I usually name *name* Fallstar, in honor of an old D&D game character I loved.


Otherwise I will make some new name up based on the game setting and what the character's background is.

The names I pick for my City of Heroes characters for example, were significantly different than from say, Skyrim.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Depends on the game itself.
Sometime I used a set of fantasy names I already used like Scarim, Raiken, Vallen etc or other times I make a name that suit the game setting (e.g. I named my Asuran Mesmer "Vintt" cos Asuran male names tend to be single and snap sound names) or sound cool (I named my RaCast from Phantasy Star Zero "Mid Knight").

 

[Lightknight]

Names of friends and family when given the option. Except for the love interest of course.

 

[Mr Fixit]

Well Bob & Steve are always acceptable, but I normally just make something up on the spot. I almost always pick something mildly funny, never too serious. My last Skyrim character was an Orc named Hamar gro-Badrash, only mildly childish. The worst, or best, name I've ever come up with was way back in Jade Empire with "Luminous Nutsack".

 

[Gabanuka]

Awesome McCoolname

Always Awesome McCoolname