What's a joke you put in your character/game that took forever for the players to catch on to?

[@fosterwalrus8413]

Played a goblin who didn’t have a name since my parents didn’t love me enough to name me. Spent three months just being called “the goblin” before people realized I actually don’t have a name and my character sheet was left empty. My plan was to have the party chose a name for my character but no…they just keep calling me goblin.

[@sarahcoleman5269]

Oh, no, now I want to hug the poor little gobble... and I imagine that's a bit of a stinky endeavor.

[@gossamera4665]

Good.

[@KumiChan2004]

I kind of did that to a friend. Due to my character being insanely powerful a separate personality split off from him and was given her own body. I literally had my character drop of the new character with no name and leaving her in his care. And that was how the new character was adopted.

[@alearnedman]

Casual racism against races that are farther from human isn't uncommon. I went to join a game once and wanted to play a dragonborn or lizardman. They said that was fine, but I found out when I got there that in their world, those races, along with orcs, goblins, kobolds, etc. were all collectively called "greenskins". And they had just picked up a lizardman slave from they last town they visited. Felt kinda weird

[@Ivy99999]

Poor Dr. Duffensmirtz 😢

[@SuperAwesomePerson64]

For our entire campaign, our dm would play music for boss fights, major story moments, ect. One day, close to the final arc of the campaign, one of the players gets true sight. The first thing he sees is a trio of bards watching us, alarmed that he appears to see them. These guys, as it turns out, had been following our party around for years and playing all the music for us. Got a good laugh out of that.

[@klamerino]

Ok, thay was good af

[@alphabetsoup6837]

Fucking brilliant!

[@Aubrey_Carroll]

I LOVE this idea, might use it

[@blackmendosa]

That would also be a good in universe way to explain why tales of their exploits get around, even if they didn't tell anyone.

[@ElodieHiras]

EBA! EBA! EBA! EBA!

[@BlondieHound1]

I had a player who made a female tabaxi who grew up on the streets and was a street brawler. Her name was Allie and it took till near the end of the campaign when someone connected the name, race, and the backstory. She's an alley cat.

[@johns9652]

Pretty sure there was a furry sci-fi story, with a character named Alley Cat. It was about genetically modified cat-girls.

[@chairkun3095]

I was hoping the joke would be that she was named after Mohammed Ali.

[@mdbgamer556]

HAH! I love it.

[@ibraheemshuaib8954]

​@@chairkun3095Mohammad Alley Cat

[@nicholasvu7619]

​@@chairkun3095same

[@therea1wyvern]

My DM introduced a Dragonborn NPC named Scales. We thought we understood the full meaning of the pun. We did not. Scales is also a Bard. He is also overweight. His name is a three-way pun, and none of us picked up on it until our DM made a one-off joke about it

[@karisasani7006]

What was the Joke

[@sylent_viper]

​@@karisasani7006scales, as in the skin of a dragon, musical scales and a scale to measure weight.

[@galactick3816]

Should have been mountain climber on the side

[@absentcoder4552]

Did he have a lawful alignment?

[@Parker_Bedford]

Breaks the scales, plays the scales, has the scales

[@bumblehoney7206]

I played a character from a tight-knit family. The oldest was Aurora, I played Borri, and my little sister was Alice. My dm told me she knew i was up to something but didnt know. My character loved his family and would always be happy to talk about his family to anyone like it was part of his name during introductions. "Yes there's Aurora, myself - borri - , and Alice." A player asked ooc what color my character was and i showed her a drawing i did. She remarked they were cute and i was flattered saying "you really like Aurora, Borri, and Alice?" When the DM groans as it dawned on her, "oh my god. aurora borealis."

[@MrCIA-me3ef]

Really? At this time of year, at this time of day, localized entirely within your family?

[@jackwinch6097]

@@MrCIA-me3efYes

[@MrCIA-me3ef]

@@jackwinch6097 ... May I see it?

[@epigone1796]

@@MrCIA-me3ef No

[@fishyfishking7906]

Localized entirely within our table?

[@danielmacdonald131]

Had a master Thief named "Oswald Weathers Orland" he left cards with his Initials at his crime scenes took months before a player realized he was leaving OWO and was a cat burgler. Almost got punched it was worth it.

[@L-ghtlessSky]

He was a catboy or he stole cats?

[@Allantitan]

@@L-ghtlessSkyyes 😂

[@goddessdeedeebubblesofimag7789]

OwO what's this? A cat buwwrgawwr? O noes.....

[@Kagira2006]

One time in a homebrew campaign we had to meet an NPC underworld/criminal contact in what was basically a fantasy russian city named Mikhail. Thankfully we already knew where to find him, at a local dance club he often frequents (the campaign took place in a modern-ish setting that was also very fantasy and a bit lower tech). When we arrive we inquire about Mikhail until someone gets a high enough social roll that an NPC points out someone. A sharply dressed man in a suit and fedora, who after a few quick spins and impressive dance moves, starts approaching noticing the party talking to his friend. He introduces himself... He is Mikhail Jackson, the smoothest criminal in the city.

[@snakelover66]

Sounds like your group was hit by, and struck by a smooth criminal.

[@redelfshotthefood8213]

He was BAD!

[@rhiannalonsdale5504]

That must have been a thriller of a campaign!

[@Lock_Knight]

Was Annie well?

[@mdbgamer556]

BRO, THAT IS TOO GOOD!

[@wulfila99]

Didn't take extremely long, since it was a one-shot, but it ended up taking two full sessions of that "one-shot" for the others to realise that my tabaxi was in fact two cats in a trenchcoat. As a matter of fact, they had to go down due to a magical attack from a beholder, and as they did, the DM described the two cats flying out of the coat into opposite directions. Their names were Thomas and Gerard, just to have a second joke in there.

[@oak..]

LMAO

[@redelfshotthefood8213]

I taught I saw a puddy tat!

[@NokoTheTaco]

Ah, Tom (Thomas) and Jerry (Gerard).

[@ChaosEnthusiast]

so theres an indie game called oneshot and the main character is a cat

[@evrenviggiano2969]

i once read a similar story where NO ONE, not even the DM, knew it was two people (don't remember the exact race) stacked in a trenchcoat. The player had separate sheets for each one (unbeknownst to the rest) and always asked where a hit had landed. It was only revealed when one of the two died

[@markskarr2257]

I had a player who was running a character named "Chii," one of the things she would do was offer friendly people cake. This went on _for years._ She eventually became an NPC and _continued_ to give out cake. Eventually, one of my characters, in a game where she was a recurring NPC asked some one if they'd had any of "Chii's cake" . . . and I stopped. The player burst out laughing as _the rest of the group_ finally got the joke.

[@AzaloonyToons]

CHIIS CAKE

[@turbopokey]

Hope there were cherries in this somewhere.🍒🧀🍰🤤🤤

[@ultrawinggaming9764]

I once played a Crabfolk Monk (Homebrew). The backstory was made in such a way that he's the type of a Homeless traveller type of monk. Searching for his own sense of self enlightenment. After a while the DM asked what kind of crab my character was and the Joke finally caught on. My character was a literal Hermit Crab

[@theactorsdungeon3898]

There was a tribe of druids who had mastered Power Words beyond Stun & Kill. When you met them & they commanded you to "Knee" you took a knee or took damage. So there they were surrounded by these tall knights with fur & deer antlers shouting "Ni" 😈 and yes, they demanded a shrubbery!

[@dragoknight589]

Has the party tried saying the word “it” to them?

[@theactorsdungeon3898]

@@dragoknight589 ❤

[@bravobby8773]

That’s amazing and I’m going to have to keep that in mind if or when it becomes available, that is so funny 😂

[@ozwalkr]

But it was a nice shrubbery!

[@alexia3552]

I just realized I haven't seen enough Monty Python jokes and that is delightful

[@FenixNade]

My friend was running a Vampire: Requiem game. My character was an influencer type with ambition named Simon. End of the campaign I became prince of the city. My final in-character line (a year and a half in the making) was "Now everyone must do as Simon says." Everyone at the table instantly learned that I had planned it from the beginning, and the ST friend of mine HATES puns and the like. He was soooo pissed, and it is one of my top 5 favorite roleplaying memories of all time.

[@eclecticdog2k901]

Truly iconic, I aspire to this level of shitpostery

[@NietoKT]

Holy shit

[@alphateam6580]

That's BEAUTIFUL

[@summonsays2610]

I love it! Sincerely, your friendly neighborhood necromancer, Summonsays.

[@nobodyshome6792]

Pretty solid. Probably better than a greedy Lasombra with the name Mai Self.

[@drewhalcro6082]

I did a one shot playing as a sorcerer. I themed him as a Godfather style crime syndicate of werewolves. When we were creating our characters we were allotted some magic items, so I picked some wands, reskinned a bag of holding to be the pockets of his jacket and an immovable rod. The rod puzzled the DM but allowed it. Anyway, things start hitting the fan and one of the other players (in character) tries starting a fight not knowing I'm a werewolf. "Oh, you want to do this?!" I say pulling out the rod. I click it into place and put my coat on one end and the hat on the other. "So you're making a coat rack?" Asked the Dm "Yeah, that's the only reason I wanted to take it" DM erupts with laughter

[@mdbgamer556]

Ok, that's actually pretty great. Clever, useful, and hilarious all in one. I love it. :D

[@SproingBoing]

Can't blame you for not wanting to ruin your (presumably) nice threads lmao

[@summonsays2610]

Ah ha, I'd like to see his tailor.

[@drewhalcro6082]

@@summonsays2610 Funnily enough, the idea did originate from making a pun out of "Werewolves of Luskan"

[@maxhax367]

I heard someone made puss in boots character a while back. He introduced himself as Tony the swashbuckler. Later on some official thing came up and his full name was finally read: Antonio Banderas.

[@beansoup6785]

i think that was in the video

[@kinsan89]

​@@beansoup6785not the same story, but puss in boots themed

[@ricklawrence2515]

My best one: A merchant hires the party to track down a magic staff. it has a gold duck.head on top an has the ability to record and replay speech. They retrieve the item, but after they give it the merchant police arrest the merchant for possession of Quack Quote Cane

[@Juli-zg7sj]

I laughed so hard reading this.. it caught me so off guard 😂😂

[@kinsan89]

I am 100% stealing this, thank you

[@mdbgamer556]

I hate it. It's going in a game I run in the future.

[@AllanBaumer0]

Heh.

[@pacifistattack]

Go to your room and think about what you've done.

[@bethanysmith5856]

My oldest brother told me of a character that sadly died before the joke coming to fruitation. He was a former slave, his family has a pottery business and he's a knight. His character was introduced as knight Ramic, he was waiting for someone to call him sir Ramic.

[@DekrosnaArcana]

should have just been a knight named Amic Varz. then the joke would have been "Sir Amic Varz."

[@elchjol2777]

Sir Vivor is a favorite of mine.

[@gaming2000-xh7xu]

I dont get it

[@aaalol886]

Pottery business, Sir Ramic. Ceramic. Typically used for pottery.

[@bethanysmith5856]

@@gaming2000-xh7xu say the name out loud

[@Cuiasodo]

I gave one of my players a spell scroll for "Woe'Pei's Cursed Throne." They kept forgetting it was in their inventory until eventually, finally, casting identify on it, revealing that the spell in question would set a pressure -sensitive trap on a chair or related object within fifteen feet that, when activated, would produce a loud raspberry sound. I made a whoopie cushion expecting it to be a quick one-and-done joke and then the punchline was just skipped over for months.

[@mdbgamer556]

Amazing. I'm going to steal this and there's nothing you can do about it. >:P

[@Cuiasodo]

@@mdbgamer556 Go for it, dude!

[@alexia3552]

From now on whoopie cushion's are Whoopie's Cursed Thrones

[@megarockman]

One time in a wide-open game where characters from different works of fiction could be played I introduced a character named Val. She looked by all accounts a normal human, if with a knack for building stuff and a tendency to share some crazy stories about her distant relatives. About four months later an event happened that required all player characters to evacuate the area -- with GM permission, Val was the last to leave along with any remaining stragglers on the ride she just finished fixing, which the other players saw for the first time as a yellow school bus. It was at that moment the other players realized that "Val" was short for Valerie Felicity Frizzle. I still revel in the moment the others found out.

[@edouardnigma1351]

Please let this be a normal field trip....

[@Majora404err01r]

​@@edouardnigma1351with the Val? No way!

[@AquaEclipse324]

​@@Majora404err01rAwwwwww

[@oak..]

LOLLLLLL

[@oak..]

ARE THEY GONNA BE SUBJECT TO THE RIDICULOUS TRIPS TOO?

[@m.cigledy6769]

I was a 1st edition campaign in a world where magic items were rare, to the point that a +1 sword was something a 5th level party may not have ever seen. I gave the party an Arrow of Sleighing. It wasn't MY fault that they thought it was an Arrow of Slaying. They never asked for clarification when I told them. After almost a year of playing, they were going up against the BBEG in THE FINAL BATTLE FOR EVERYTHING, and the Ranger decided it was finally time. He shot the Arrow, and when it got a foot from the BBEG it turned into a sleigh, with 4 horses, full harnesses and tack. . . Smashed that sucker flat. Even though the Arrow killed the BBEG instantly, and despite the fact that the party now had a rather nice sleigh and 4 horse team, the ranger was still upset with me.

[@Motionlesscapture]

boutta put this in my campaign

[@Reepicheep-1]

That needs to go into a _Misspelled Magic Items_ collection.

[@itap8880]

@@Reepicheep-1 Miss is a great spell if you use it right.

[@Reepicheep-1]

🤣

[@WarChallenger]

Taurubrum. A highland cattle-themed minotaur who had a special interest in making flight commonplace. It took months for the first person to guess it. They kept it a secret. Eventually another player and the GM figured it out. At almost exactly the year's mark, I finally got a wing suit manufactured and tested. Still got to make the pun at the end. Red bull did give them wings.

[@oak..]

LMAOOOOOOO

[@mdbgamer556]

I don't get it... >.> Edit: Nevermind. I just... really need to read the rest of the comment instead of adhding away from it... That is pretty funny though :D

[@williamhenby952]

For the three people who didn't get the joke: "taurus" means bull, "rubrum" means red

[@No-XIV-Xion]

I out loud yellss goddamnit at Flint Stryker. But the moment you fucking said "about thirty feet back" I FUCKING KNEW IT

[@janTesika]

no chance you can explain the joke there?

[@justin9202]

​@@janTesikathe entire campaign mission was the song Shai lebouf starting exactly as it's sung😊

[@DragonKnightJin]

@@janTesika Look up "Rob Cantor Shia LaBeouf" It's a lovely song.

[@miaswapp]

I was whispering "Shia Labeouf" the whole time he was reading that lol

[@gradientwrinkle7452]

​@miaswapp i was in tears lmfao I love tally hall so i recognized it IMMEDIATELY

[@JacobL228]

It took me a few weeks to catch on to a couple of NPC's names. There was a greedy woman who was responsible for the high tax rate in the town our party used as a base, Iona Bentley (I own a Bentley), and the tailor who made the clothes we wore to a duke's ball, Swift (Tailor Swift). I thought he was called "Swift" because he was so fast at making clothes, which he was. It only took him one day to alter four outfits. I'm sure there were others I didn't get or didn't find out about. Our DM is clever like that.

[@DragonKnightJin]

The best jokes/pun names are ones that work on several levels. Like the Tailor.

[@mdbgamer556]

Ooooookayyyyy, those are good xD

[@penguinmaster7]

EDIT: made things less weird to read, a few explanations here and there to avoid confusion, spacing for easier reading, and a few corrections. Me and a few friends sitting around in a discord call trying to figure out our characters. we come up with: An antisocial half-orc barbarian who screwed up his "find steed" spell and the horse is too small for him. He lives in a mud hut in the woods. a "Donkle" lore bard. Donkle is the DM's homebrew Donkeyfolk race because Donkeys are their favorite animal. great strength, terrible int. you could say that donkles are literally dumb asses. A verdan noblewoman druid who's surprisingly fierce when push comes to shove. unfortunately she tends to get on everyone's nerves. a tabaxi swashbuckler who's way too confident in his own abilities. this particular DM lets him have 9 lives, mostly for fun, but also because his tabaxi always do CRAZY damage and losing him would pretty much cripple the party. a halfling who was cursed to always have a part of his body grow to show when he was lying. it's a character he's had for years, and was inspired by Pinocchio as it was his favorite movie as a child. the verdan player has a realization: "wait, this is literally just Shrek." a collective lightbulb goes off, and we decide to play the entire campaign like a Shrek movie. We somehow get through the entire campaign without the DM ever catching on, and miraciously, nobody died. The Donkle even managed to befriend (not seduce) a dragon with a lucky nat20 persuasion check, prompting a few of us to mute ourselves to hide the laughter. We get to the BBEG, and the DM gives us the option to get a surprise round with the trade off being the fight being a bit harder. the half-orc and the rest of the party, and we come up with the perfect plan: break through the door and rush them. Cue the half-orc kicking the door RIGHT off the hinges while he plays the beginning of All Star through a soundboard. The DM stays silent for a good several seconds, finally realizing the joke that has been right under his nose for the entire campaign, and says "you guys are assholes."

[@kada713]

The fact that it was accidental on your part just makes it way more hilarious! I'm crying this is the best one.

[@ilovethelegend]

"You guys could get a surprise round" "Yeah, like THAT'LL ever happen."

[@ozwalkr]

Laughing my a$$ off right now. That is priceless!

[@mdbgamer556]

This. This one right here. It wins. It cannot be topped. Noone can do better. They can do great, but this one wins outright forever.

[@yosoydave8521]

Actual proof that you can in fact, win D&D

[@kylone1]

I made a character named Ann. she was a Gnome and was obsessed with theatre. No one got the joke until one day she introduced herself as " Gnome Ann of woman born"

[@ragnkja]

Time and tide wait for Gnome Ann.

[@NietoKT]

Explain please? If it's not just that the phrase sounds cool (which it does) I can't see anything except for that

[@ragnkja]

@@NietoKT xkcd 1704 and the quote from _Macbeth:_ “Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth.”

[@Greenicegod]

Gnome Ann can kill me

[@niftyskyblue]

⁠​⁠@@NietoKTIn _Macbeth,_ the witches predict “no man of woman born” can kill Macbeth. He takes this to mean no one can kill him, since everyone is born from a woman. Unfortunately, the play doesn’t go with the option of having a woman kill him (it wasn’t _that_ before it’s time). The one who stops him was "untimely ripped" from his mother's womb by C-section.

[@charimonfanboy]

It was a one shot level 20 campaign and my friend was playing a ten year boy old called Ashley who was a Shepherd-Druid/warlock with a rat as an animal companion and they explained to the DM that they had that skill where they use their animal familiars as the conduit for their magic. And his fey patron had tasked him to capture one of every kind of creature on the mortal plane and had given him a special portable sanctuary where he could keep them and call them out to fight for him when needed. Yes, all of that came out before the first fight and on his turn the player says ok I throw the rat at the zombie on the left shouting "Pikachu, I choose you, use thunderbolt" and I use him as a conduit for thunderwave. everyone groaned, it was awesome

[@PatientSqueaky]

Tell your friend they're hilarious

[@AzaloonyToons]

Hilarious throwback to the time Ash cosplayed as a girl named Ashley in one of the older episodes.

[@MycoCane]

In one of my campaigns, a lot of the NPCs were backwards/reversed versions of gods and legends, and their names were also reversed. It wasn't just a throwaway joke, it actually turns out that this is part of a spell placed over the entire land. So Zeus becomes Suez, Pandora is Arodnap, etc. They even noticed a few of the name reversals, but not the whole thing. About a year into the campaign, one of them FINALLY noticed that EVERYTHING is backwards, including the name of the land, the people, and the BBEG. Cue fifteen minutes of brains exploding.

[@TheTolnoc]

Made a Ratfolk Cleric. Took people a while to figure out she was just a quiet little church mouse.

[@ginkoull0762]

Dorime

[@guildgaming9891]

Cute

[@Balila_balbal_loki]

BBEG of our last game was the character of one of the players who could no longer join us anymore. The character's new name is an anamgram of what he previously had and the entire evil plan was made by that player and shared with the dm changing as we accomplished things. We only found out after we got team wiped and the butt of the joke was that we all knew his weaknesses and many npcs foreshadowed it but didn't noticed. Picture like seeing the saw movie and at the end it all makes sense look on our faces, the dm and him were laughing at us when it ended.

[@dracodarastrix4175]

Well this would be considered evil. But you might it funny. As an DM I noticed that one of the players was getting on the others on their nerves by being a homicidal and cruel (A Psychopath). In Real Life he wasn't but he wanted to play such a character, however he played the character a bit to well. So I then asked if there was a way if his character could perhaps start a redeem arc, to become a better person. Turned out he loved the idea and concept but he doubted it could happen. He argued his character needed a revelation to chance his ways, one that would shock him in the core. So I had to think a way that would shock such a person. What came up with is still brought up now and then when I meet with the group. So the party needed to find the lair of the big bad guy, and learned from a devil that only one person knew the location lair. So he brought them to the ring of lust where there was someone with a bag over its head and tied with chains on a chair. The devil then told the party that only way they could get the answer out of the said person, is to somehow force out of it. While smirking the devil also gave the warning whom ever would somehow force it out would most likely be sorry about it. Of course the psychopath comes forwards with glee on its face,.... and I will not tell you what gruesome things he did to the bagged prisoner because that even give Freddy Krueger nightmares. Eventually the prisoner screamed out the location, with voice of said Psychopath. The bag around its head dissolved as well as the chains. Revealing it was indeed the psychopath. The devil then explained that here in hell they yes the sinners own imagination and creativity to torture themselves. The devil smirked at the Psychopath whom had committed the torture and told he would send 10 minutes back in time before had entered the room, where he bagged and chained the same chair as his future self. And he would suffer the same thing his past self did to him. And he won't be able to speak out location of the big bad guy until the exact amount of time had passed nor would he be able to warn his past self. Because that would break the time loop. Because he only knew the location because future self had just told him it, messing with the timeline would have far more disastrous consequences then what he was about to endure. Needless to say that indeed broke the psychopath and thus his redemption arc literally started by his own hands.

[@brianaschmidt910]

Brilliant. 🤩 You sir, are my hero!

[@mdbgamer556]

You not only made him do it, but you made it happen. Absolutely genius.

[@ibraheemshuaib8954]

Sheesh, I would hate if this happened to me simply due to all the twisted shit I would've done to that poor dude, this would pretty much mentally ruin my character to the point he'd just retire. What's worse is that the character isn't even cruel, just a professional torturer for a nation he's patriotic about, he's a nice guy all things considered, and pretty much gives the torture victim every chance to speak before the torture happens, doing regular interrogations on em first. Also did your player have to continue playing with disfigurements or was all that healed? Was he aware of just how greatly his character would be affected or was completely in the dark bout what might change his character's mind? What would you have done in the possibility that a different player or multiple players took part in the torture? Sorry for the questions, just curious.

[@dracodarastrix4175]

@@ibraheemshuaib8954 Well actually the rest of the party/players were either to righteous or were smart/wise enough not to participate in the interrogation since they were dealing with a devil here whom even gave them a fair warning about they might regret it in the end. As DM it's important to know the party/players to pull something like this off. Though to be sure I had plans if others had participate in the interrogation but like I said that was highly unlikely the other players would have done this. Also remember the said player wanted the redemption arc for his character so he wasn't upset but rather impressed at me for the entire event. As for the physical disfigurement that was all heald be the party cleric.

[@ibraheemshuaib8954]

@dracodarastrix4175 reminds me of a session I had a while back, my player hated how accidentally evil he became and wanted me to punish him in-game......to avoid youtube being butthurt, I won't say what happened. Also, is there by any chance you can tell a minor thing he did while torturing? I'm too curious

[@LoraFantastory]

I ran a game in a very ocean-heavy world and included 6 shopkeeper sisters scattered throughout the world, kinda Nurse Joy style. Their names were Attina, Arista, Aquata, Adrina, Adella, and Alana. My players figured something was up with it, but it was several months before one of them realized that they're all Ariel's sisters from The Little Mermaid. The fact that there was no Ariel in the game did help to keep them from catching on, haha.

[@devincetee5335]

That's a clever reference

[@mdbgamer556]

Unfortunately, they lost Ariel many years ago... 😔

[@HeraldOfOpera]

Using a mix of the movie and book canons, you can implicitly explain the lack of Ariel. >_>

[@SlavicMoose]

Grassland druid who loved casting Invisibility. Zhong Xie Na, you can't see me.

[@crona3316]

Oh my god I hate that it took me a second to get-

[@misot90]

Imagine if he has 3 pets that he keeps with him named Bing, Chi and Ling.

[@Majora404err01r]

I don't get it

[@wagermp3]

saddening someone has to say it 1. Zhong Xie Na - Play on words for "John Cena" 2. Bing Chi Ling - Play on words for "Bing chilling" (🗿)

[@crona3316]

@@wagermp3 a national tragedy that it needs to be said

[@shaurmiath6719]

I had a particular homebrew world where I did the map but didn't think a lot about specific city names, so I'd kinda make them up on the spot, and one of the city names was Port Manteau, where everyone would commonly combine words, like "Welcome to my Frall. Oh, that's what we call fruit stalls," or "Oh, you guys are Tradeventurers. Wandering heroes like you are always great customers for our magic item sellers."

[@DerMarkus1982]

Port Manteau is actually a good idea! Make the players guess something portmanteau-style. If they guess right, grant them a secret/special item!

[@goreangel1258]

I was an unofficial player in a dnd game a friend was running, where I essentially was this druid demon ‘Serthaan’. The running joke was he primarily disguised as a mouse to listen and spy on the party, so later into the story when he disguised himself as a human shop owner, he used the name “Mycenall.” (Mice and all). The players only realized during the very last session of the campaign, lmao

[@kingofmustache6267]

As a DM, nearly every important character has a name which is either a reference or a pun. My players get it maybe 1/10th of the time. I don’t think they realize how many characters have important information literally seeded in their names. Like a mysterious plague befalls a town, and the foreign Navy officer named “Mayflower” never enters the subject list at all.

[@mdbgamer556]

Ooooookaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy, eat my shoes. >:P

[@goontubeassos7076]

It was a dewy day a Tavern at the edge of a mountain, owner offers us “Mountain Dew”, took players 6 months of drinking it at the table, before it was realized it was Mountain Dew 😂

[@godofzombi]

Yaaaaaaahooo!

[@thedragonryder]

My latest character is a 7 foot tall Goliath Rune Knight, who recently joined a party of a couple of elves, a tabaxi, and a halfling, so he's the largest one in the group. He also grew up in a tribe of Hill Giants, and he was always the runt since he was much smaller than any of the others. His name is The Small One, since thats all his family ever called him

[@LawrenceBrownAmigoid]

I played a ghostwise halfling who was the sole survivor of a village destroyed by a red dragon. His skin and hair were discolored from a near miss with dragon fire. He was haunted as a background. He saw the ghosts of the villagers and the humble woodcarving halfling became a druid that spoke out for the dead villagers, the animals, and the trees. His skin was burnt orange, his hair bright yellow. And his name was Axaro L. Woodtalker. Nobody got the joke all year. So finally, in the fall, when all the party characters signed a poster, I spelled my name out in an ascending angle. I was A LORAX WOODTALKER. All this time, the small low charisma disfigured halfling named Axaro was never discovered. Even though. I had a figurine that more than slightly resembled Dr. SEUSS'S character.

[@lahlybird895]

Well that's cool I also have a lorax themed ghostwise halfling

[@shadowdragon7347]

The smashed mouth one got me. I had no clue where it was going and the fact they played all star is the cherry on top

[@SG80games]

It wasn't really a joke, but more of a secret I held from the party. I had made a character that was blind, and the party was not privy to that information. The DM and I agreed that I would have disadvantage on all sight related perception checks, but advantage on other senses. This caused much hilarity as the campaign was centred around a murder mystery, particularly the kings advisor. From not bowing when the others did when the prince entered, to walking past a very obvious clue, only stopping when noticing the party had stopped. The reveal came when a mysterious person slipped something in my pocket, and I couldn't figure out what it was, so I held it up and asked. A member of the party just told me bluntly, its a piece of cloth you idiot. All I said was that I wasn't an idiot, I was just blind, and the party just went silent. Meanwhile the DM and I were laughing so hard. We had another player join us part way through and we just agreed to keep the secret from them because it would be funny. The reveal to them came when we were presented with a puzzle. The floor would light up in squares with markings and colours which would tell you if that square would be crushed or not. The DM provided diagrams for us, and one of the players started reading off the colour and marking of each square, in character. The player that didn't know, was confused, and said "yeah we know, its right below us, we can see it". And I piped up and said "yeah well I cant". Pause for laughter. There was a lot of it.

[@issackaiser]

Man id definitely add "Man i know you're blind, but you gotta see this" whenever something odd show up 😂

[@QuatarTarandir]

Oh man, both of you two's comments jokes are hilarious. I'm dying in laughter here 🤣

[@taruyu]

Funniest thing ive ever read

[@MrRawryorawr]

I had an NPC that I would exclusively use to send the adventurers on my wildest quests. They were always just insane and weird... Like one was acquiring a pin from a raccoon that was secretly a forest spirit... In order to get the pin from the forest spirit they had to give it a list of strange items like 3 goose feathers.. Anyway the NPC that always sent them on their weird quests was named Riddick Oolus... He goes by his first name, is a very flamboyant aristocrat, and his butler would announce the party by starting with 'Mr Oolus, I present to you...' It wasn't until the maybe 7th or 8th letter from this NPC to the party, once again requesting their aid, that my wife goes 'That guy always has the most ridiculous quests.' and then she just stopped and started giggling... It had gone on so long that I legitimately had thought they figured it out and just ignored it.

[@Gaarafan007]

I love punny names. My favourite was a Pathfinder society character whose name was solely to riff on a common phrase in a GM's repertoire...Itgos B. Foryew was an Oread Aerokineticist who was afraid of heights. Initially I didn't have any idea what the B stood for but after a few sessions it came so naturally: the B stands for Badleigh. Itgos Badleigh Foryew.

[@MephiticMiasma]

Alacrity Fitzhugh .... Requiem for a Ruler

[@guruhoro]

So, not a character with maximized initiative, so that "it goes before you"?

[@Gaarafan007]

@@guruhoro I don't believe he was, no. I just tried to take my turn whenever the GM said "Okay, now it goes..."

[@derekmenebroeker4993]

We were playing Final Fantasy d20, going through an underwater dungeon, and the party met a water flan who had a love of hamburgers. The party befriended him and, but he didn't have a name so the party started coming up with ideas. And that's when it hit me: What do you call a guy you find floating in the water? Bob. And what did I suggest the flan do after mentioning my idea for a name? Leave the dungeon and open a Burger restaurant. The rest of the party groaned when they figured it out, but the GM was in hysterics, so he decided the flan liked that name best.

[@FenixNade]

I would love to find the setting info for FF d20. I'm currently homebrewing some players through Shadowbringers from FF14

[@davidperte62]

I played an Horizon Walker, called him Vhent Saahs. It took 6 months for someone to catch in that it was an Among Us joke and he vented through time and space.

[@minimishapsgames894]

Froggagog is a homebrew race in the GetherVerse. One particular froggy NPC named Mitker followed a player as a stowaway, then became an understudy to a druid player , turned full NPC adventurer, to eventually ascend to the position of the deity of wild magic. It took a year and a half of real time for them to realize he had his syllables switched...

[@genericname2747]

Now I'm just thinking about how Miss Piggy could be turned into a different name. Yggip? Ygg pi? Yipgg? Gipigy?

[@lulospawn]

I had steampunky artificer halflings brothers NPCs in my campaign. They were the Zucker brothers. One was very talkative and the other was very quite. Like Jay and Silent Bob and other comedy duos. So as a bit of a joke, the talker would always introduce themselves by name to the party, even if it was the Nth time they met. "Hello, adventurers! I am Rijkaard Zucker and this is my brother Cog." I purposedly tried to have the names said aloud so that the players could work out the stupid joke. They would eventually betray the party, and on their final confrontation, Rijkaard was working on a terrible machine that could blow up the city or open a portal god-knows-where. He gave a huge speech and I secretly rolled Perception for the party several times. Eventually one nailed the rather difficult DC and could spot Cog sneaking around, setting off a rather complex trap that almost neutralized the party. I informed the player of what he saw. He thought about it for a while and then, with a smirk of realization, he said his character would point at the silent brother and shout "HEY! THERE'S THAT LITTLE COG ZUCKER!" The party groaned.

[@mdbgamer556]

Perfect 👌

[@rainofkittens]

Played a campaign with a couple friends and the DM set the story in the 1800's and a stipulation to the story is the players had to be evil. Well my character was an off brand Jack the ripper, Stanley the stapper. I was the last player to finish their character and when I told my DM about my character, he lost his sht. I had no idea why. 3 sessions later, we all come to the realization that all 3 PC's are off brand Jack the Ripper's 😂

[@mm3shadowman982]

A party of Raiden, Raiden, and Raiden

[@maskedkara8019]

I feel like it's probably bad that the first line of the Shia LeBeouf one was enough to tip me off to the joke. Literally all it takes is someone saying 'out of the corner of [their] eyes, they spot him' for me to burst into laughter.

[@gradientwrinkle7452]

Hes isn't dead, Shia surprise!

[@Reepicheep-1]

Ditto. I may have replayed it a bit much.

[@SasamiTM]

My players met a halfling named Arieo, who was an a carriage driver who drove the party around and came from a long line of the fastest drivers in the land, and his family name was Speedwagon

[@sophelios]

I had a character who, when introduced to the campaign/other characters, nearly every aspect was a lie. Race, backstory, organizational affiliations, the like. Even kept two character sheets, one public, one private. The only things that were consistent on the sheets were HP/AC, Abilities, and proficiencies. The public persona that everyone knew was of a goblin assassin working for a local gang/mafia, who turned on the crime lord when the heroes showed up, because he saw the winds changing with their arrival and sought to get on the winning side while he could. In truth he was a shadar-kai who'd been forcibly changed into a goblin and exiled from the Shadowfell, had been a spy for supernational agency who was initially infiltrating the aforementioned mafia, but had new orders to infiltrate the group of heroes to keep tabs on them. There were other plot/setting centric deceptions that would take too long to explain, but, suffice it to say, nearly everything they knew about this character was a deception of some sort. I named him Sobek, after one of the Egyptian Gods of the Nile (denial pun)

[@SpeedyCheetahCub]

I don't know if this counts as a long con, but there is a funny moment in Just Roll With It: Riptide. Very early on, the party is in a village and the Paladin is tasked with gathering some orange-like fruit for the innkeeper to make some juice. There is a funny scene where he debates between two food stalls, one with mandarins and the other with tangerines. While he eventually goes with the tangerines, the Paladin learns the name of the mandarin seller: Amanda. Later, after they save the town from a curse, the party enjoys a huge celebration where they get drunk and the Rogue wakes up the next day having gotten married to Amanda the previous night while blackout drunk. The party learns her last name: Rinn (I think it was something to do with the fact that the Rogue doesn't have a last name so they were debating if he was going to take her last name or not, but I could be misremembering that). Anyway, hijinks ensue of the Rogue attempting to get out of the marriage, both by trying to avoid her and by being a terrible husband. He eventually resorts to faking his own death, but even that doesn't work. Eventually they talk it out like adults and decide to separate (they didn't officially divorce, though) and the Rogue gets ready to leave with the party. Only at that point do they hear the character's full name again and put it together. Amanda Rinn. A-manda-Rinn. A mandarin. Bonus: 88 sessions later, the party is sailing through the ocean and spots a pirate ship in the distance bearing a Jolly Roger with a mandarin instead of a skull, though they don't get to say hello to the Rogue's wife because they are busy with a life-or-death mission.

[@Not_Nala1]

it absolutly counts i would have her last name be lynn and her be a shop keeper who sells instruments whos name is amanda lynn (a mondolin ) a type of instrument

[@GuukanKitsune]

For a level 5 one shot, it took literally the entire adventure for anyone to realize that Trevyr, the smarmy lovable jackass ranger/fighter who was always trying to convince party members they owed him a drink and pick up the tavern tab, seemed to know everything about everything about hunting monsters (especially vampires which were his favored enemy), wielded throwing daggers with Returning enchantment, bottles of Holy Water, Acid, and Alchemist's Fire, and a bladed whip... Was, quite literally just Trevor Belmont from the Castlevania show on Netflix. His name was even Trevyr. I in no way hid it. Nobody figured it out until I LITERALLY spelled it out for them at the end... despite literally ALL of them having seen and loved the show.

[@Luredreier]

So many of these jokes went over my head. But then I'm missing a lot of these references...

[@garrisonreed2230]

My first session of the campaign I ran, my party ventured into a manor to stay the night at on the edge of town. There was a group of Aarakocra eagle bards there that played music for the manor. Their names were Leadon, Meiser, Frey and Henley. The party signed a ledger to check in, but when they tried to leave, they couldnt since their signature tied them to the building. And the faces they made once they realized this was all just a giant Hotel California joke was absolutely PRICELESS.

[@monodescarado]

I put my players in a situation where they were faced with three factions. Whoever they chose to help, something bad was going to happen. The NPCs they met from each faction were named Koba, Yashi and Maru. The players didn’t see it at all until I pointed it out after several sessions.

[@lilinsanecreator51070]

I don’t get it

[@monodescarado]

@@lilinsanecreator51070 Google Kobayashi Maru

[@seven121794]

In my call of cathulu game my quest giver is named Nathaniel Philips Carter. And in my fantasy games the main quest giver is Control Polumous Casara. It took three years for some one, the brand new player, realized the initials of the name is NPC

[@godofzombi]

I spotted it right away, but Nathaniel Philips Carter is such a Lovecraft name. Well done!

[@ARViuff]

It took until my party encountered another lizardfolk for them to realize my character was not only a woman but a granny. I dropped plenty of hints like always disguise self as an old lady.

[@mdbgamer556]

Amazing

[@robbe2647]

I instantly knew where the forest/cottage encounter was going, that shit had me screaming *"NO, DON'T DO IT!"*

[@Mega_Croissantamence]

I didn’t get the joke, could you explain it?

[@robbe2647]

@@Mega_Croissantamence this song kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWHYZYBsq9Wjeassi=0RgSuYzOIL1_VgkN

[@HeraldOfOpera]

@@Mega_Croissantamence It's a very dumb song you can find by Googling "Rob Cantor Shia LaBeouf" (dumb in the funny way though)

[@gradientwrinkle7452]

I recognized it at the thirty feet back part

[@gradientwrinkle7452]

​@@Mega_CroissantamenceShia LaBeouf by Rob Cantor, great song, Shia himself endorsed the song

[@multifurse]

Had my players do a side quest that involved some accidental time travel. I foreshadowed it by introducing two NPCs named Tick and Tok. None of them caught onto it until weeks later.

[@DezAmmySel]

The moment I heard "when out of the corner of their eyes they rolled high enough on perception to spot him" *_I KNEW._*

[@Dots_The_Demon_Lord]

I didn't actually get that one, mind clearing my doubts?

[@DezAmmySel]

@@Dots_The_Demon_Lord Ah, sure! It's the beginning verse of the song Actual Cannibal Shia Labeouf by Rob Cantor! I recommend the animation by Kyler Ramos first, then the live performance on Rob Cantor's channel! Trust me, you'll know why when it ends >:3 Hope this helps!

[@Dots_The_Demon_Lord]

@@DezAmmySel thanks for the information!

[@DezAmmySel]

@@Dots_The_Demon_Lord np! :3

[@starofaetherius]

At "out of the corner of their eyes they spotted him about 30 feet back" I KNEW what was coming. Im disappointed i never thought to use this as a random encounter in the woods before

[@BrazenBard]

Played a two-tailed Kitsune in Pathfinder. Nice fellow, disguised himself as a human all along, and introduced himself as Miles Prower. A couple months later, the big Sonic fan of the group was peeved he hadn't caught on sooner - Miles Prower, also known as the two-tailed fox "Tails". :D

[@elchjol2777]

The only time I played Pathfinder I made a melee focused (man-at-arms themed fighter) Kitsune, natural penalties be damned. He was an orphan rased by the militia captain of a farming town. He didn't know he could disguise himself untill he met another Kitsune. He still never did it. His name was Toby Honest.

[@airconditionedBreeze]

I think I would've caught that

[@monk3110]

It’s not really a joke but I always wanted to play one with their “fox shape” racial feat, be a vigilante so the fox is its own identity and be Scruff Mcgruff the crime dog

[@BrazenBard]

@@monk3110 ...Okay, that's a good one. A kitsune would be a hilarious Vigilante concept.

[@MünWeeew]

4:12 "And then I saw her face, and I'm a believer"

[@SquirrelGamez]

The Actual Cannibal part I understood right away and I'm proud of it.

[@aski551]

I played gimmick campaign as DM. They travel between planes to fight or capture people, all of which had a gimmick of some sort in the fight. One of such people were Takeda. Party found him happily spending money in a tavern with a bunch of people who all seemed to love him. They decided to introduce themselfs. They woke up the next day with a note: "Thanks for a good night and accommodations. I left you couple hundred gold but again, thank you for your donations ! Yours, Takeda Moneyrun". Yes he was gagged and tortured for weeks afterwards, when they caught him again.

[@appollyon99]

I had an npc dragon named bjorn once... he was an NPC that asked the party to retrieve an heirloom stolen from his treasure hoard that was a keepsake that belonged to the last member of his family, before his entire bloodline was wiped out except for him. Pretty chill character actually, and ended up growing from a random one-off in encounter in the woods outside of town into a main NPC the party worked with... somehow it took the party 3+ months to finally realize that the dragons name was a dumb skyrim joke. He had told the party when he first met them that bjorn was a name that all the male dragons in his clan were given... since his family was all dead, he was the last dragon bjorn! it took them MONTHS to finally get the joke!🤣😰😓

[@nekospaw]

Mayors daughter and wife hasn't been seen in awhile. He's been seen wearing her distinct red hair ring around his wrist, fiddling with it worriedly in the rare occasions he's seen in public. Party heads to his fortified mansion to deal with the kidnapping of random women. Refuses to open the door and speaks with them through a hatch - perception checks reveal something red around his mouth, asserts his wife and daughter are just sick. Party gets jumped by zombiefied women on way back to town while discussing kicking his door in and catching him eating his wife & kid. go off to sort out the necromancer making himself a wife, still 100% convinced the mayor is a cannibal. ask them are they headed to town or directly to mayors mansion. stop off in town to restock/rest before going to kick his door in... Daughter meets them outside the tavern, her distinct red hair ring glinting in the sun, pays them and confirms she and mother just had a bad case of food poisioning - when the party came to the door the mayor had been enjoying wild boar in a thick red sauce. Party are later shipped a big barrel of red herrings as thanks for saving the town. Bonus: the necromancer BBEG they've met a few times, was one Richard De Stradly the 3rd, accompanied by his gnoll companion, "mutely" in full moustche twirling, damsel kidnapping glory

[@mdbgamer556]

A m a z i n g.

[@Jessie_Helms]

Quite the opposite for me. During the creation of the world I came up with the idea of a Peace domain cleric named Warren. Warren, the peace domain cleric. One player I was chatting about it with at the end of one session (I was wrapping up a module while building my homebrew world) immediately yelled “GOD NO, war and peace???? I hate you. Also he’s FOR SURE gonna be a bad guy” when he saw the art I made for him.

[@ElodieHiras]

Modern fantasy, my character was an ageless witch hailing from Russia with an inexplicable fondness for wood and canvas, despite never actually painting. Then she managed to get in the pilot seat of an aircraft, and the party learned here and there that she had *MAXED OUT* piloting skills.

[@zachmansfield6640]

I played a magical knight who had been an apothecary before achieving knighthood. He had a variety of medicines on hand, namely to help the party get a good night's sleep. His name was Akwill. Sir Akwill.

[@faranior]

I once had a character in a swedish RPG called "Baffratt" which would be close to "Juzcoz" if I would translate it. Most of the party giggled at my description of the goblin barbarian dragging a great sword bigger than himself behind him. One member took a little longer to realise that his name really was "just because". And when I first started playing RPGs a friend named his character Justin Case and spent all his money on things that could be useful some day.

[@jakovsaric9492]

I had a mimic pet named Stu'arge (storage) Literally noone caught on until one of my players asked how he got the name

[@markred3056]

Oml that Shia-Lebouf one... the FIRST LINE in that tone was enough to make my arm hair stand on end, recognizing it immediately

[@greenowl3062]

The SECOND the Shia Lobuff one started I knew what was happenig, It is my favorite shitpost afterall. I burst out laughing the second i drealized, and after it was revealed, too

[@jabberwockyslayer]

I am currently in a group where my character, Cheshire, is a changeling. She's also a bard. Last session I was flinging inspiration around like confetti and - in order to cheer on the dwarf barbarian who she's decided is her big brother - She yells "I'm never gonna give you up. I'm never gonna let you down! I'm never gonna run around and desert you! Never will I make you cry, never will I say goodbye-" And then the party caught on and much laughter and groaning was heard. And I ended up paying the penalty (Yes, we have a penalty if you rickroll someone. This is not the first time. This is not the last time.)

[@postbunnie]

OMG I love that song! It always makes me feel happy.

[@shockerhaven07]

I can’t believe I immediately got the Shia LaBeouf reference from the first sentence

[@MudphlapMudphlap]

Jackson Oscar Voldraids. Prepare a combination of laughs and groans when the character eventually gets to introduce themself to someone as Jack O’ Voldraids, Jack of all trades.

[@Webhead123]

In my early years GMing, I had a recurring villain that would occasionally make brief appearances across multiple campaigns. When described, he seemed to be an aloof and absent-minded fellow, perhaps a wizard of some sort, who seemed constantly mumbling about strange formulas or plans and who, when confronted by the PCs, often spoke in odd, riddle-like phrases. He was dressed all in purple, with wild, bushy hair and walked with a cane. Wherever this wizard went, the PCs were constantly aware that he had a large entourage...perhaps even an army (the PCs could never quite account for their full number) of gnomes in his service. The gnomes were described as diligent workers that were almost constantly singing or humming odd tunes to themselves and usually paid little attention to anyone but each other. They were dressed in a consistent uniform of green and white and the hue of their skin was described as "ruddy and blush like stewed carrots". The PCs would often stumble onto groups of the gnomes embroiled in some kind of manual labor, either mining, cooking, running a mill, tilling soil or other kinds of hands-on work. The wizard's plans usually seemed to be largely benign, so the PCs often left him alone. That is until one party came across information that he was trying to gather some sort of ancient artifact. They didn't know exactly what the artifact was or what purpose he had for it but, being PCs, they figured that it couldn't be good. So, when the party finally aggressively confront the wizard to thwart his search, they learn that his name was William Wannkah and his gnome servants were called the Grinka Linkas. The artifact that he was searching for was a fragment of heavenly ambrosia that had accidentally fallen to earth called "The Mote of Everlasting Bliss", which Wannkah intended to use as the basis for a formula to create the "everlasting gobstopper".

[@localplaguenurse]

I have an idea for a warlock/bard character who’s patron god takes the form of a swan woman, and he carries around a sort of spell book that she gave to him as thanks for his loyalty. She took him in as one of her own after being cast out by his community and would often tell him stories and call him her “little gosling.” His god is Mother Goose. His spell book is a book of nursery rhymes. I hope I can one day use this character.

[@faranior]

If you ever make this character, please call him Ryan. That would be such a red herring.

[@boogie6419]

In a oneshot, one of our party members had the name “Meepo.” He was a Kobold fighter whose story and personality was beloved as we went through the dungeon. The party unfortunately TPK’d (besides the Druid who wild-shaped into a bird to flee) and we decided to give it another shot with a different party and a new twist in the dungeon. This time, the same player made a barbarian named “Opeem,” and we had no idea it was backwards until about halfway through the session. Still a good laugh when looking back.

[@hyzmarie]

A kobold named meepo? I KNOW THAT GUY!!! I played in the campaign he’s from, and we sort of accidentally fed him to his pet dragon

[@OfficialShiggySimp]

Not made by the DM, but another party member. We were sitting around, progressing the story while only my character could see a demon. I told my party, and without missing a beat, one of our other party members just said “Schizophrenia?” And now it’s a legend known as the schizophrenia demon.

[@kugikvist]

A friend of mine, in our Shadowrun campaign, was called INAH, short for Im Not A Hacker. we did not figure it out until after the campaign

[@techwizsmith7963]

Definitely going with INAT for my next "Decker"

[@dirtywhitellama]

That pearl on the mantle story was great. Definitely the best.

[@chairkun3095]

My campaign has a tavern singer character called Barry Tone. The joke is that he's actually a Tenor.

[@LimgraveFootSoldier]

I play a barbarian Orc (original, I know) named Oruduk Aznad. We are at the start of the campaign, so there hasn't been a lot of time for my friends to get the joke, but Oruduk always does a ritual dance before every battle, even if it means blowing up the ambush plan, which goes well for his personality since he has an intelligence stat of 7 and can't remember he's supposed to hide. Thing is, his ritual dance is ridiculous, one would expect something like the Haka, but he brings it down hard, to the astonishment of the party and also the enemies. The joke is, his name backwards is Danza Kuduro (kuduro dance, look it up on youtube). Now imagine a 6'7 orc dancing like that in front of his opponents. No one suspects anything yet, we'll see how long it goes for.

[@christiedt9818]

I made a dungeon. There is an old castle in the middle of this swamp. Delving into its lower levels there is the half collapsed and scorched remnants of another castle, then the older run down remnants of another castle, and finally the even older even more run down remnants of ANOTHER castle.

[@faranior]

Are there great tracts of land involved?

[@SimonMoon5]

I made a character for the Warhammer RPG. When discussing possible character names, the GM said something like, "Just don't name a character 'Dick the Brick" or anything like that." So, my character's name was Ticty Barique. The GM didn't catch on. Instead, the GM complimented me on the name, talking about the obvious influences from one language or another. But it was just a fancy version of "Dick the Brick". We didn't play that game much, so he didn't get a lot of chances to figure it out. Still, it's been about 30 years since then, so I don't think he's ever gonna figure it out.

[@mdbgamer556]

Damn. That woulda been perfect if he'd figured it out...

[@TheNukedNacho]

I haven't played DND yet but one of my friends who invited me to join them told me this story. The party was on this quest to find the crown of the long dead evil queen. As the final part of the quest, they had to call forth the queen's ghost from a room of dead bodies. They were struggling to figure it out until the bard finally caught on to the clues the DM had been leaving. So the bard announced to the whole room "May I have your attention, please? Will the real Grim Lady please stand up?" There was another one about celebrating the dark king's chief alchemist. So the party was welcomed to the black parade. And to get to that kingdom, they had to traverse the treacherous path that had killed dozens of adventurers early, silencing their ambitions. A boulevard of broken dreams, if you will.

[@cover2199]

At 11:29, the second I read the sentence, I KNEW. Great stuff.

[@elchjol2777]

Theres an inn in a campaign I've run the inn's owner and main bartender is named Mr. Cohol. His first name never got brought up for the entire campaign so when they came bact to the inn near the end I had a customer call for Mr. Cohol by saying "Hey Al! A round for the heroes, I'll be paying." Yep the inn owner is Al Cohol, alcohol....

[@alearnedman]

First one makes perfect sense. Unless you sing the notes when you say the names, it's hard to notice unless you see the names written down

[@TheNoobRapter]

Every character I make I usually make a joke then try to make it serious. The best one was a monk who was a religious acolyte, because the party I played with are massive weebs they think if you are doing a monk you are tying to be Goku they got blind sided by me playing a friar. Half a year later the party was investigating a church (well more of trying to break into one), and I just walk in and got what was needed no problem. They where dumbfounded so I told them I am a monk and I am a monk. That is when it clicked with them.

[@larrychilders6599]

Huh

[@stadnikds]

Huh

[@MiNcEdGaRlIcS]

Huh ( for real though, lol)

[@ksdragona_5583]

A... monkey?

[@genericname2747]

A monk monk.

[@NotThatVinny]

I want to make a character called Yell O. Leather and have the party meet his brother, Red Leather. 'Red Leather, Yellow Leather' is a tongue twister.

[@noyz-anything]

alternatively: Yu Nique & Yu Norque

[@MrGreensweightHist]

My character names almost always have some sort of reference, but they tend to be more subtle. My changeling bard, who usually looks like a red haired human female, is Rowan Aon Duine. Which translates as "redhaired nobody." My Warforged Warrior is Abram, because he's the tank. My white Dronborn barbarian is Morozonosets, Phonetical Russian for "frost Bringer" according to Google translate at least.

[@GeebusCrust]

I played a masked wrestler going by the stage name "The Roc" whose real name was Wayne Maivia (so a mix of the Rock's last name and his first gimmick in WWF) who kept his real identity secret as he was being pursued. At one point, he recieved a curse that cost him an important memory (that he was living in secret because of his persuers) in exchange for the ability to summon a fire elemental, and so the DM decided every time he was about to introduce himself, an NPC would just cut him off. Nobody else at the table knew od his secret and so this was the DM's way of maintaining the secret until an appropriately dramatic time, and somehow nobody noticed for several sessions

[@DarkJstrike57]

Would've been Hilarious if that character could cook then you could've had a friendly NPC or someone else who knew him by the stage name say "Do you smell what the Roc is Cooking?" XD (and yeah I just said it as I typed it out)

[@hiddendesire3076]

Character’s name was Oliver Strich, was cowardly, a quick runner, balding on top, black waistcoat with off-white stockings. Took a signature on a note for them to realize “O. Strich”

[@nicestpancake]

My DM did the 'Newborn babie's shoes, never worn.' Thing but with a whole garage sale of children's toys & a drunken father. None of us mentioned it so he thought we didn't get it but we as an audience prefer to let the subtlety lie there & not engage w/ it because that's how *we* like it. Felt kind of bad when he said "None of you have any questions about the-" and we all answered "yeah we know it." Felt bad but like, damn. We don't need to talk about child death bro

[@ToxicMynd]

Npc was a tiefling combat slave by the name of Pandora. The party freed her from her cage and 2 sessions later ran into her under a new name, Hope. They then got it and just groaned. They released Pandora from her box and what was left was Hope.

[@NephriteQueen]

Not D&D but played Godbound with a friend. We were playing twins with a different sides of the same coin gimmick, we were nature inclined so we decided to have our names follow suit. I was Eve and she was Dawn. (Evening and Dawn, sun up and sun down. We thought it was funny.) The campaign didn’t last long but one of our friends about a month after it ended asked about the names and after explaining it, he wasn’t pleased.

[@doggo-bn4vg]

My brother played through all of gtav without understanding "morningwood"

[@danielskrivan6921]

In WoW, the troll cities typically were named "Zul'[city]", i.e. Zul'Aman and Zul'Gurub, with the city name being used for the faction, i.e. an Amani Warrior or a Gurubashi Soul-Seeker. So I made a guild called Zul Ram, where the ranks were Ramen Initiate (new member), Ramen Warrior (member), Ramen Acolyte (officer) and Top Ramen (GM).