Names & Aliases for PC's & NPC's

Names & Aliases for PC's & NPC's, Got any really bad ones?

stevebugge View Member Profile	Dec 31 2005, 12:30 AM Post #1
Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,026 Joined: 23-November 05 From: Seattle (Really!) Member No.: 7,996	Ok we have a guy in our group who is just terrible at coming up with aliases or NPC names on the spot, which is ammusing whenever he is GM'ing (for NPC names) or gets put in a situation in a game where he tries to lie about his name. Some examples, his 7'8" Wakiyambi (sp?) Elf Variant mage is trying to fool the Star when he gets stopped, he claims he doesn't have his ID with him so they ask his name, he answers Jose, the Cop then asks ok Jose what's your last name <long pause> um Franklin. Worse are his NPC's who he seems to subconciously always name after celebrities, products, or cartoon characters (example one of my characters once had a fixer named Janet Jackson because of this) Anybody else have something like this in their group?

Herald of Verjig... Herald of Verjigorm View Member Profile	Dec 31 2005, 12:37 AM Post #2
Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,066 Joined: 5-February 03 Member No.: 4,017	Try this

stevebugge View Member Profile	Dec 31 2005, 12:40 AM Post #3
Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,026 Joined: 23-November 05 From: Seattle (Really!) Member No.: 7,996	That's awesome. I'll be sure to pass this on to him, though it's fun to put him on the spot for aliases from time to time just to see what comes out.

Mr.Platinum

Dec 31 2005, 12:42 AM

Post #4

Moving Target

Group: Members
Posts: 751
Joined: 7-June 02
From: Hamilton.LTG.on.ca
Member No.: 2,853

QUOTE (Herald of Verjigorm)

Try this

Oh thank you for that awsomeness.

FrostyNSO View Member Profile	Dec 31 2005, 03:48 AM Post #5
Resident Legionnaire Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,136 Joined: 8-August 04 From: Usually Work Member No.: 6,550	Guilty here: One our players has contacts like a guerilla resistance leader named Carlos Santana...and his attorney is none other than Kirsten Dunst.

tisoz View Member Profile	Dec 31 2005, 04:48 AM Post #6
Free Spirit Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,950 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Bloomington, IN UCAS Member No.: 1,920	I have to admit I got on a binge where names like Seymour Butz, Mike Hunt and Amanda Hugginkis got used.

FrostyNSO View Member Profile	Dec 31 2005, 05:10 AM Post #7
Resident Legionnaire Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,136 Joined: 8-August 04 From: Usually Work Member No.: 6,550	One of our guys has a bad habit of ripping off names from video games he likes for his characters (admittedly he doesn't do this anymore, unless it's something obscure that's out of my loop). This is a huge pet-peeve of mine. Sure, you can model your character after somebody, but sheesus, come up with an original name. It is widely understood that characters with rip-off names will have a very rough time in my game...usually meaning they'll die pretty quickly. Dick? Yes. Hypocritical? Yes. (I've hit brain farts and named NPCs after famous people) Do I care? No. edit: If it's part of the character, like "No, I'm not that Maria Mercuriel!", that's a dfferent story.

fistandantilus4.... fistandantilus4.0 View Member Profile	Dec 31 2005, 05:40 AM Post #8
Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928	I make it known immediately with any new players that if they give their characters a name with no thought/personality to it, they will be killed out of hand. I expect the same of the NPC's that I create so that it's no problem. That being said, one of my favorite runners I've seen as a PC was named Johnny Hardcore, a big, weighlifting type street sam. Guy lived up to the name (leaped off the back of a speeding truck in a high speed pursuit onto the hood of the Lone Star car in pursuit. Sure he almost died, but so what). There was one guy named Bob too, but that was because his acutal name was too complicated for anyone else to say, so the rest of the group just called him Bob.

DeadNeon View Member Profile	Dec 31 2005, 05:47 AM Post #9
Target Group: Members Posts: 80 Joined: 3-May 04 Member No.: 6,299	Best aliases ever used by my players: Jonathan Tobias, and Finneus McGilicutty.

Lazarus View Member Profile	Dec 31 2005, 07:39 AM Post #10
Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 197 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,542	One player had a Halloweener Burned Out Mage named Lemon Head. Not a bad name but very colorful. Always made a point to carry around those little lemon lollypops from the bank. Once cast Hellblast on a guy in a bar who asked him for a light. He also had a dwarf physad named Kneebasher. Guess what his special martial arts maneuver was? Oh and had a guy name an Spanish Ork Gangbanger Brian Piccolo. Yeah... :S Oh yeah that was his street name. Although I do like to rip names for my characters' Fake SIN. Have used: Tyler Durden Charles Hathcock John Matrix Ben Richards Col. James Braddock Douglas Quaid Neil McCauley Vincent Hanna Lenny Brisco Kareem Said Hamid Khan to name a few

Fix-it

Dec 31 2005, 07:46 AM

Post #11

Creating a god with his own hands

Group: Members
Posts: 1,405
Joined: 30-September 02
From: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1
Member No.: 3,364

QUOTE (FrostyNSO)

Guilty here:

One our players has contacts like a guerilla resistance leader named Carlos Santana...and his attorney is none other than Kirsten Dunst.

aww... c'mon. that's not too bad. his parents just could have been total late-1990s or 1960s freaks. :D

pop culture names aren't BAD, they just need a (half-decent) reason.

c'mon people are wierd, some guy re-named himself "optimus Prime" for frag's sake.

FrostyNSO View Member Profile	Dec 31 2005, 08:00 AM Post #12
Resident Legionnaire Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,136 Joined: 8-August 04 From: Usually Work Member No.: 6,550	We did have a great psuedo-fixer (officially we called him a "criminal lackey"), named Roarke who specialized in low-grade fake SIN's and new identities. He provided a few for our PC's such as: Huge ork sammy with a surfer's dialect: Fernando Hernandez -from then on, always answered his phone "Bueno!" Young white-boy rigger from the CAS with southern drawl: Jean Deglis -not sure if that was the spelling, but it was french. Human pothead sammy: Sergei <something russian for a last name> -"Sergei" quickly became known by teamates as "Sir Gay".

Critias View Member Profile	Dec 31 2005, 08:17 AM Post #13
Freelance Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 7,324 Joined: 30-September 04 From: Texas Member No.: 6,714	I have a character who's worthless hippy-fuck fantasy freak parents were just thrilled to have given birth to an elf baby. Legolas Willow Gilthanas Swan Tanthalasa Moonsilver Elbereth Bladesinger Drizzt Bard Jones insists everyone just calls him "Leg."

fistandantilus4.... fistandantilus4.0 View Member Profile	Dec 31 2005, 09:30 AM Post #14
Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928	that's awesome! I thought my character that was born human to an elven noble family, and used the adept powers like facial sculpt and low light vision (along w/ elf poser flaw) to try to fit in was neat.That;s just great!

Foreigner

Dec 31 2005, 01:54 PM

Post #15

Moving Target

Group: Members
Posts: 586
Joined: 22-November 02
From: Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A. (or C.A.S.)
Member No.: 3,630

QUOTE (Lazarus @ Dec 31 2005, 02:39 AM)

<snip>

Have used:

Charles Hathcock

<snip>

Lazarus:

No offense, but did you Anglicize the character's Christian name?

'Cause if you "borrowed" the name of the U.S. Marine Corps' highest-scoring sniper (officially, at any rate) of the Vietnam War, his name was Carlos Norman Hathcock, II.

(Actually, the highest-scoring Marine sniper was Lance Corporal Charles B. "Chuck" Mawhinney, with 103 confirmed kills to Gunnery Sergeant Hathcock's 93, but Mawhinney was gracious enough to stay quiet about it until just before Hathcock's death in 1999. The highest-scoring Army sniper--in fact, the highest-scoring U.S. sniper of that era--was SSGT Adelbert F. Waldron, II, U.S. Army, with 113 confirmed kills.)

Just curious, mind you.

No disrespect was intended. :)

--Foreigner

Mr.Platinum View Member Profile	Dec 31 2005, 02:13 PM Post #16
Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 751 Joined: 7-June 02 From: Hamilton.LTG.on.ca Member No.: 2,853	I once made a Gangster called Red Bodicker. Part Red Foreman and part Lawrence Bodicker from Robo Cop

Dog View Member Profile	Dec 31 2005, 03:25 PM Post #17
Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 903 Joined: 7-February 03 Member No.: 4,025	Fixer: "So what's your handle, kid?" Newbie: "Nightshadow Deathstalker!" Fixer: (Checking PocSec) "Umm, can you use something else? I already know two of those..." Ever had characters who came up with different code/street names for each run? "Hamburger, this is Milkshake. Time to move."

Trax View Member Profile	Dec 31 2005, 04:21 PM Post #18
Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 470 Joined: 2-January 05 From: Quebec Member No.: 6,924	I almost used Remmington Steele once, but changed it because I didn't like it. Then last week I find out that it was also the name of some tv show. :P

Lazarus

Dec 31 2005, 04:52 PM

Post #19

Moving Target

Group: Members
Posts: 197
Joined: 26-February 02
Member No.: 1,542

QUOTE (Foreigner)

you "borrowed" the name of the U.S. Marine Corps' highest-scoring sniper (officially, at any rate) of the Vietnam War, his name was Carlos Norman Hathcock, II.

In Atzlan he's Carlos, in CAS or UCAS he's Charles. :)

Trust me, even though Laz can speak three types of Spanish it still comes out as a white-bread trying to speak it. Carlos on the Fake SIN would seem out of place.

Cool that you got the reference though, most people don't. Fellow Marine per chance?

exolasher View Member Profile	Dec 31 2005, 04:56 PM Post #20
Target Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 27-October 05 Member No.: 7,899	I ve got a greenwar Steward (order of etain double agent) when i m working with unknown assets I call myself schiphol(from sidhe folä), exolasher or just Keith :D when u re on the run and your Chummers aren t around it s imo a bad idea to get sold by a wannabe bounty hunter.

emo samurai View Member Profile	Dec 31 2005, 06:11 PM Post #21
Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,589 Joined: 28-November 05 Member No.: 8,019	How does the name generator work? Does it just have a huge library of pre-generated names?

emo samurai View Member Profile	Dec 31 2005, 06:12 PM Post #22
Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,589 Joined: 28-November 05 Member No.: 8,019	And wouldn't you have a really normal real and probably fake name? Your street name could be much more grandiose and weird, but your real name can and should be really mundane.

Foreigner

Dec 31 2005, 06:36 PM

Post #23

Moving Target

Group: Members
Posts: 586
Joined: 22-November 02
From: Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A. (or C.A.S.)
Member No.: 3,630

QUOTE (Lazarus @ Dec 31 2005, 11:52 AM)

QUOTE (Foreigner @ Dec 31 2005, 01:54 PM)

you "borrowed" the name of the U.S. Marine Corps' highest-scoring sniper (officially, at any rate) of the Vietnam War, his name was Carlos Norman Hathcock, II.

In Atzlan he's Carlos, in CAS or UCAS he's Charles. :)

Trust me, even though Laz can speak three types of Spanish it still comes out as a white-bread trying to speak it. Carlos on the Fake SIN would seem out of place.

Cool that you got the reference though, most people don't. Fellow Marine per chance?

Lazarus:

Nope. I'm a career civilian. :)

Besides, I have too many flaws to pass the physical. :P

Sorry to disappoint you.

I've read quite a bit about him (military history is a hobby that I picked up from my Dad), and I had the honor of meeting him (I shook his hand) and talking to him a few times--three, I think.

Apart from those chats, I never knew him personally; however, I felt like I'd lost a good friend when he passed away in 1999.

--Foreigner

This post has been edited by Foreigner: Dec 31 2005, 06:42 PM

RunnerPaul

Dec 31 2005, 09:21 PM

Post #24

Neophyte Runner

Group: Members
Posts: 2,086
Joined: 26-February 02
Member No.: 364

QUOTE (emo samurai)

How does the name generator work? Does it just have a huge library of pre-generated names?

It has a large library of name parts, and a formula for putting them together in ways that mostly sound right.

Kyoto Kid View Member Profile	Dec 31 2005, 09:29 PM Post #25
Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490	Lessee... Cheezy contacts some of my characters have: Billy Bob the Terrorist (got any nitrate in bulk...?) "Frank the Decker" (that is his full name) Sam I Am (a fixer) Milo Minderbinder (ok, I happen to like Catch-22 & yes, he is a procurement specialist) "Smoker" (a CIA agent & ditto for the X files) Major Payne (a milspec procurement specialist) Dieter Monkimann (fashion editor for Die Welt) FatBoy (a Deckmeister - just think of the "comic book guy" from the Simpsons and you have the picture)

« Next Oldest · Shadowrun · Next Newest »