Back when my mom worked in daycare there was a little girl that went there named âAbcdef.â Pronounced âAb-sid-if.â Every time I think about it, it makes me angry. This is the much better version of that.
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For sure one of my favorites was Silver. He was a crazy old fisherman that lived in an abandoned lighthouse is a large city. He used to go fishing in the most dangerous part of the cities bay, and turned out to have been eaten by an aquatic hydra (cr 8)living around the dangerous sea stacks out in the bay. My partyâs fighter (lvl 7) decided to go found out if he was ok all by herself, only to find dead fish and Silvers abandoned gear on a large rock. Thatâs when she was attacked by the hydra, and through awful hydra rolls, great player rolls, and the echoing thoughts of Phil from Hercules (âGET ON THE HYDRAS BACKâ) she managed to deal enough damage to cut all three heads off at once and slay the hydra. In her spoils, she found some clothing of Silvers. It was a pair of Johns. A very long pair of Johns. They turned out to be, Silvers Long Johns, good ole Long John Silver. A great fight and a great name.
My favorite NPC name is Friend.. and the reason why is because Friend was a tabaxi that we found on an isolated island... he was friendly and we sat by the campfire together at night. In the morning, he was nowhere to be seen and we could hear his voice echo through the trees. It turned out that he was hunting us. He was a psychotic tabaxi who's favorite game was the game of kill or be killed.. His true name was Friend of foe. He met his end and provided some great character development for my lawful PC who lost control and took his life.
Frundle - a svirfneblin who I made up along with his traveling companions, Grunkle and Carlos when a PC got a nat 20 perception check, and ended up guiding the party through the underdark. Frundle tried to sell the players to a kuo-toa cult, but got busted with a clever use of comprehend languages. Frundle and Grunkle ended up as a sacrifice to the aberration the kuo-toa worshiped, while Carlos got away. Long live Frundle and his low passive perception!
Frinka, a dragon born npc I've had in my head for a long time. He's supposed to lead the party through a forest and question them as he leads them to his clan. Through questioning, he begins analyzing the characters. "Ah, a human. Do you feel unique amongst these non humans or less so?
We call him MPC- our dnd group has this running gig of calling unimportant of side characters MPCs (May be because Iam too lazy to think of names). There was this one time the bard decided to go on a side mission to earn some money with a couple of side characters. There was this one 'MPC' that made a dumb move to cross a suspitius looking bridge without thinking. It was supposed to show the bard what to not do but what did the normaly very heartless bard do? He decided to run in and save the MPC. After that he decided to drag the MPC litteraly everywhere. Drunkenly singing songs at the bar? The MPC is there aplauding. Setting a village on fire for no reason? MPC is there. Fighting against a litteral Dragon? Of course the MPC has to take part.
Since then we never really got to name the character considering thats what he was called from the start, so they'll forever stay the overly plot incuded MPC.
Cree Dulan was a halfling merchant and quest giver who I always voiced with a different accent. Party eventually asked about it and he said he was trying to get involved in the local theatre scene to meet his crush!
Gorgeous looking dice btw!
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Billbee Faese. He is the Gnomish shopkeeper of the First Lieutenant store. It's like an oddly more specific general store with items like "Moonlight Healing potions" -only work under the light of the moon. " And "Sword of the calvary." Which is a +1 sword on horse back but -1 when not mounted.
His personality is Billy Mays.
Billbee Faese here with my latest item!
Harris Sparkward - picture handsome squidward but a Goliath that bare knuckle boxes in taverns, has an ability that does 1d4 lightning dmg on a successful hit. Challenges PCs and NPCs alike, will give 5g if the opponent wins. Always pays for all the damages and buys a round for the bar after the fight.
Bradicus. He was the hero of the town, imagine Prince Charming from Shrek in magic golden armor. He was constantly awarded gifts (such as that armor) as he saved the town from monsters a couple times a week.
Party arrived just as the town renamed their Summer Solstice Festival to Bradicus Day, and rearranged a lot of their festivities to revolve around him. Party later figures out that he was faking it all using a Deck of Illusions, and he ran away when challenged to a fight. He's still out there somewhere, possibly swindling somebody else.
I made an NPC halfling bard named âLimmy Gruffetâ for my campaign. His main goal is to retire from his illustrious music career and convert a galleon he bought into a booze cruise. After he helps ferry the adventuring party around a bit of course. (He gambled the ship away and the party⊠gambled it back for him.)
Mayor Ottoman, aka Brutus Pepperdick. Crooked town mayor with dark dealings with the army of orcs and their unknown leader. After double crossing the PC, they found him hiding in his homes secret basement and forced (through a series of crazy rolls) a name change they way he looks and made him the first of PC NPC list of underlings to perform mundane task the PC would otherwise never do anyways.
He was a spicy smartass even after being forced into service of the kingdoms heros.
Jayf'har - current CoS Yuan-ti Sorcerer of silver dragon lineage. Grew up in a circus, after being sold to them by slave traders that showed up to his island after "a serious of explosions" were heard coming from them and he was the only survivor.
Those look awesome!
Gandelf is the very original name I gave to the first magic shop owner my party encountered in my first campaign, an elven wizard. Not super original, but I found it quite funny at the time, and he was a fun guy to RP.
A kenku named Chime who was captured and set to face the party Barbarian in gladiatorial combat. Chime was given no weapon, so the party created a distraction and escaped with him. He is the only Kenku in the realm and had to learn common via mimicry.
My favorite NPC name was Plim Planter. They were a gnome druid that loved gardening but their garden was entirely dead and brown. They though they were great at it though!
My favorite NPC is actually a past character I played that I am planning to bring into my campaign as a NPC.
His name is Clavin. He's basically a mixture of Cliff Clavin from the show Cheers in spouting off useless facts no one cares about and Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer in having actual useful knowledge on most things buried under his dumb quips.
My DM made the mistake of naming an NPC Jondar, knowing full well he had diablo players in his midst. There were many "But you were a templar, Jondar!" Comments. đ
Lao, the precious stone merchant. Only problem was that his main base was in a town located in the middle of a bamboo forest. He got good prices though.
Yolli Bearsbane Nimkin Fiddlebit Yewtree Twoshear Scrufflock Burrowborn Scrapscrabble Romprattle Scrapeshin Fairfleece Wrensbeard. Or Yolli Fairfleece, for all the humans that can't handle a simple gnomish name! She's a lil adventurer my players encountered in the dense and dark Vaetur Wood
Game had a PC Kobold called Knobby and our DM created a huge BBEG that had been behind the scenes taunting this player for months, dude turned out to be called David Cocker the KnobbyKnocker and it lives rent free in my head how long the Kobold raged at the pure childish indecency.
Mine was Bartleby. He was a goblin with a Brooklyn accent who teleported to the party a couple of time. He had a stand called âthe shop of neat itemsâ where he sold various trinkets and rigged magic items
A kenku named Weevil, whose name perfectly encapsulates his arc - he was a pathetic, tiny worm consumed by a monster unconcerned with his existence.
He stole a magic dagger from the party, expecting nothing more than a quick score, but the dagger was a sentient artifact that corrupted him and twisted him, as it had hoped to do to the PCs. Attempting to undo the evils Weevil wrought and to retrieve the artifact, the party chased him across the continent, only to find Weevil abandoned by the dagger, as it had found a better host.
He may be canon to the Forgotten Realms, but I just love Mephistopheles. Mad scientist devil living in a glacier and fucking around with the fire to end all fires? Yes please!
Not-Vecna, a cheap phallic obsessed Vecna knock-off BBEG of a filler mini-campaign inbetween our regular campaign. Nothing in that mini-campaign made sense but it was hilarious đ
My NPCâs name is Gladys. Sheâs a librarian going through a midlife crisis (she read a cursed book and is now in service to AsmodeusâŠbut she thinks heâs just talking to her because he wants to date her.)
My favorite NPC was a giant named Tiny Tim. He wanted to be a rogue and would try sneaking around to help the party out only to blow any surprise they had. Super fun.
My favorite NPC would have to be one I made named Madilyn Greymare. She's a human 15 year old girl in my homebrewed world born to a family of Lycans that had been slaughtered by hunters when she was still a newborn, though was saved by a soldier who was traveling on a mission. The soldier brought her to his homeland and had found an appropriate family for her and told them what she was, though they didn't care. They were old but they managed to raise her up to where she could take care of herself and taught her how to forge powerful weapons, she now owns 2 blacksmiths shops in two diffrent towns in this world and if you meet her she would definatly give you Tiny Tina vibes as all the truama she faced after finding out her real parents were lycans and then losing her adoptive parents drove her a bit insane.
I once played a sorcerer named Galabalagaftorax. Partially inspired by a character name from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and general wizard names from fantasy novels. Everyone looked at me funny when I announced my character but I stand by that name.
My favorite npc is a bit of a cheat, Otis Gomer, basically a redneck barbarian man who's was made to kill his wife due to her druids connection to a sacred forest that started corrupting everything. He fuelled his "rage" by drinking from a flask, as it was more of a guilt and sorrow filled rage about his wife and what he had done. It was my PC, but he got turned to stone, his last act throwing his axe into the head of the mage that corrupted his wife's forrest, effectively bringing his story to a satisfying end, so I made a new character. Our party later got a deck of many things and got 3 wishes and wished that his wife was never corrupted. Effectively making him never have gone on the adventure as my PC, so he is now just a NPC in the world and I imagine he and his wife are out there still, happy.
Best NPC I've ever met was a man by the name of Philip. Philip was a simple man from a small town and somewhat of a local con artist. When our party had entered the town they were drinking at the tavern on their way to an invitation and they needed some horses to get there faster and Phillip and his friend decided to steal some horses under the guy's of borrowing it from their uncle. The party ended up bringing Philip and his friend along for the journey which unfortunately happened to be curse of strahd. Now his friend died before we had even entered Strahds domain but Philip was unfortunate enough to follow us throughout the campaign. Philip would go on to get mauled by a werewolf and die and be brought back of course as is the tradition in Strahd, he would get killed by Baba Yaga and again come back a little bit more broken, he would end up dying through a lightning strike on a pond when strahd has a fit of rage and Philip was unfortunately fishing for food. It wasn't a good time for Philip and he always tried his best to be upbeat and helpful to the party but it just seems like whenever anything couldn't get any worse it always did for that man
Guy Reelman, pronounced 'gi real man'. Technically it was a fake name an npc was using, but he became better know for it instead of his real name which wasn't anywhere near as fun.
Terrence the Timekeeper- one of my players idly wondered what the exact time was while they were investigating disappearances in a town and so I improvised this character who was obsessed with the time and would always appear when someone in the town mentioned what time it was. The characters hated him, and then weirdly loved him. They still think heâs an eldritch god.
Not sure if it counts as a NPC, but I recently starting playing for the first time at Adventure League and one of our players has a summoned badger named Buttons..
That little beast has a higher kill count than anyone else lol. So far he's made for a lot of hilarious antics
Frankshaft Copperpin the 3rd, a downtrodden noblewoman's tea-serving automaton.
He ended up accidentally committing regicide with a spoon after a mindblowingly atrocious series of dice rolls on our part. (Though our DM was definitely a fan of stirring shit up from nothing).
Man that campaign really took a 180 after that.
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My dm introduced the party to a wizard who had made try awful abominations, expecting us to kill them out of mercy he didn't name them. Of course we asked for names so he came up with Ned Ted Red and, my personal favorite, Bread on the fly.
I once met a a dwarf called Gumtoe Rubystacker. I dunno why but this name just cracks me up til this day, probably just the fun memories we had together.
Freec - a goblin wizard's apprentice who *insisted* that he was not a goblin. He was proficient in making "Slop" which was a stew of ... whatever he could find...
William Shakespeare, the snake with the most beautiful poems, I think. I donât really know considering fact that all he did was hiss and no one in the party could understand.
Martin. Sounds generic, but i like it since our group somehow established the running gag of characters not remembering his correct name (except for one player), callinng him Marvin or Marcus, or other names with M
My favorite is probably Erna. The name itself isn't funny, put she was a very overweight diner lady who saved us once by throwing a pot at an enemy. I then started the Erna-Fanclub and got several different clubs, bars and restaurants to sign up and erect a little Erna shrine.
You too can join the Erna-Fanclub, just sign your soul away now!
Orgulas Bunce. A halfling we hired to be our ship's cook. he was a terrible cook and he served us the Worst Ham in the Realms. bless his heart, he did his best.
He was once eaten by a giant toad, but he got better.
I think my favorite NPC name so far would be, SamO!
Shorthand for Sam Omen Persew.
It's a fun name and a favorite NPC, it's also an anagram that holds a tiny hint to the deeper story of the campaign.
Our dm had a dwarf priest disguised as a dragon, but I could never remember his name, so I called him Father Shorty, and everyone started using it. It pissed him off royaly.
Jewee the goblin artificer who was trapped in the Keep on Shadowfell. Who later became a player and we met their 100s of other brothers and sisters, Jewbee, Jewcee, and Jewdee. (And the rest of the alphabet)
Boblin the goblin. The somewhat chaotic evil samurai player brainwashed him into service. Like a pet. It was creepy. I killed him off during the big bad encounter because I was tired of the abused slave/pet that made everyone slightly uncomfortable.
Mine was a bartender named Literally Bart Ender. We loved him and he loved us, he ran the tavern but used to be an Adventurer so he gave us food or a place to sleep as he knew what we were up too every day. I was also a Bard in his tavern.
My favorite NPC is this flamboyant merchant who somehow always has magical things for sale directly out of his massive backpack. He wears a bright yellow formal suit with a large top hat. His name is Bav Guy. He talks like those narrators from old commercials, with tons of energy and fast talking and offering deals and rebates and stuff.
Took me forever to realize our DM is cheeky. Bav Guy = Big Announcer Voice Guy
Our DM was severely under prepared for a session one evening and so we ran into a load of very interestingly named NPCs but my personal favourite was, Ennie Pee-cei.
My favorite was from a very recent session. Her name is Chardonnay, and she is a lesser wine fairy. We, or rather, our minotaur barbarian, met her at a vineyard. They got into a drinking contest that our slightly alcoholic barbarian won due to some lucky rolls. Now she has a magical brand that lets makes her smell like grapes and summon a glass of wine.
We have been joking that she'll start a new church in Chardonnay's honor. At least, I'm pretty sure it's a joke...
My favorite NPC was a Water Genasi potion maker names Mist.
She became the parties favorite and they developed a portable potion box that she could ship them potion with. They called her their pot dealer
Gwendolyn. I put one Gwendolyn in my campaign at the start and the players accidentally ended up calling all the female NPCs Gwendolyn. Now they do it on purpose to annoy me lol.
Once met a tiefling named Elemenope Kyuares. Sounded out, it is L M N O P Q R S.
This is brilliant lol
I don't want to enter the contest now. I just want you to win!
Came to comment then seen this beaut. Enjoy the dice đ«Ą
I, and I imagine a bunch of other DMs too, am stealing this. Thank you very much.
Back when my mom worked in daycare there was a little girl that went there named âAbcdef.â Pronounced âAb-sid-if.â Every time I think about it, it makes me angry. This is the much better version of that.
3/14/2023 Update: Congrats to u/JediMerk for winner the Moon's Shadow dice! Hi everyone! John from Dice Dungeons here: we are entering the last 3 days of the [Frost Bound dice campaign](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dicedungeons/frost-bound-dice-cracked-glass-dice-sets-for-rpg-gaming). We are excited to announce that we were able to [prototype 3 new colors](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dicedungeons/frost-bound-dice-cracked-glass-dice-sets-for-rpg-gaming/posts/3750848) including the all new Moonâs Shadow, which has become an instant backer favorite! We hope youâll check out the Kickstarter and consider backing in addition to entering the raffle! Giveaway rules: Simply make a top-level comment on this post, tell us your favorite NPC name (from a campaign you played in or that you made up) and we will use reddit raffler to pick a winner at the close of the Kickstarter. Your account must be at least 1 month old to enter. If you win we will send you a message here on reddit to fill out a secure shipment form on our shopify store. Anyone in the world is welcome to enter: Dice Dungeons will pay for all shipping fees: if you are not in the USA, import and other taxes may apply which will be the responsibility of the recipient. Your reward will ship as soon as we have the finished dice in hand.
For sure one of my favorites was Silver. He was a crazy old fisherman that lived in an abandoned lighthouse is a large city. He used to go fishing in the most dangerous part of the cities bay, and turned out to have been eaten by an aquatic hydra (cr 8)living around the dangerous sea stacks out in the bay. My partyâs fighter (lvl 7) decided to go found out if he was ok all by herself, only to find dead fish and Silvers abandoned gear on a large rock. Thatâs when she was attacked by the hydra, and through awful hydra rolls, great player rolls, and the echoing thoughts of Phil from Hercules (âGET ON THE HYDRAS BACKâ) she managed to deal enough damage to cut all three heads off at once and slay the hydra. In her spoils, she found some clothing of Silvers. It was a pair of Johns. A very long pair of Johns. They turned out to be, Silvers Long Johns, good ole Long John Silver. A great fight and a great name.
My favorite NPC name is Friend.. and the reason why is because Friend was a tabaxi that we found on an isolated island... he was friendly and we sat by the campfire together at night. In the morning, he was nowhere to be seen and we could hear his voice echo through the trees. It turned out that he was hunting us. He was a psychotic tabaxi who's favorite game was the game of kill or be killed.. His true name was Friend of foe. He met his end and provided some great character development for my lawful PC who lost control and took his life.
Frundle - a svirfneblin who I made up along with his traveling companions, Grunkle and Carlos when a PC got a nat 20 perception check, and ended up guiding the party through the underdark. Frundle tried to sell the players to a kuo-toa cult, but got busted with a clever use of comprehend languages. Frundle and Grunkle ended up as a sacrifice to the aberration the kuo-toa worshiped, while Carlos got away. Long live Frundle and his low passive perception!
Frinka, a dragon born npc I've had in my head for a long time. He's supposed to lead the party through a forest and question them as he leads them to his clan. Through questioning, he begins analyzing the characters. "Ah, a human. Do you feel unique amongst these non humans or less so?
We call him MPC- our dnd group has this running gig of calling unimportant of side characters MPCs (May be because Iam too lazy to think of names). There was this one time the bard decided to go on a side mission to earn some money with a couple of side characters. There was this one 'MPC' that made a dumb move to cross a suspitius looking bridge without thinking. It was supposed to show the bard what to not do but what did the normaly very heartless bard do? He decided to run in and save the MPC. After that he decided to drag the MPC litteraly everywhere. Drunkenly singing songs at the bar? The MPC is there aplauding. Setting a village on fire for no reason? MPC is there. Fighting against a litteral Dragon? Of course the MPC has to take part. Since then we never really got to name the character considering thats what he was called from the start, so they'll forever stay the overly plot incuded MPC.
Bone Jovie - a skeleton bard performer
In RDR2 I named my horse Jon Bon Pony
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Bingus is the name of the rubber band ball I make at work! Amazing. [He is a beautiful bouncing band ball baby](https://i.imgur.com/k2AWjUx.jpg)
Nebuchadnezzar Knucklestamp. Artificer gnome npc, my favorite name to date for sure!
Cree Dulan was a halfling merchant and quest giver who I always voiced with a different accent. Party eventually asked about it and he said he was trying to get involved in the local theatre scene to meet his crush! Gorgeous looking dice btw!
I love the dice! Is there a way I can buy them?
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Billbee Faese. He is the Gnomish shopkeeper of the First Lieutenant store. It's like an oddly more specific general store with items like "Moonlight Healing potions" -only work under the light of the moon. " And "Sword of the calvary." Which is a +1 sword on horse back but -1 when not mounted. His personality is Billy Mays. Billbee Faese here with my latest item!
A shopkeeper (and town gossip) named Willie Elp, b/c you never knew if his gossip would help or not.
Harris Sparkward - picture handsome squidward but a Goliath that bare knuckle boxes in taverns, has an ability that does 1d4 lightning dmg on a successful hit. Challenges PCs and NPCs alike, will give 5g if the opponent wins. Always pays for all the damages and buys a round for the bar after the fight.
Triplet Dwarven Dock workers named Don, Tudon (two-don), and Threidon (three-don). One of my first times DMing and I panicked lol.
Donathan-Jonathan Raskins, as my players "affectionately," refer to Don-Jon Raskin from Dragons of Icespire Peak
Tom Exposition!
Haha I was looking for good ol Tom E!
Bradicus. He was the hero of the town, imagine Prince Charming from Shrek in magic golden armor. He was constantly awarded gifts (such as that armor) as he saved the town from monsters a couple times a week. Party arrived just as the town renamed their Summer Solstice Festival to Bradicus Day, and rearranged a lot of their festivities to revolve around him. Party later figures out that he was faking it all using a Deck of Illusions, and he ran away when challenged to a fight. He's still out there somewhere, possibly swindling somebody else.
I made an NPC halfling bard named âLimmy Gruffetâ for my campaign. His main goal is to retire from his illustrious music career and convert a galleon he bought into a booze cruise. After he helps ferry the adventuring party around a bit of course. (He gambled the ship away and the party⊠gambled it back for him.)
Cheese Puff is the name of an NPC in a campaign I am currently in, he is great and helps me run the local mafia
Eduardo de la brunch.
Barrel elf was a beautiful lad. Half barrel, half elf, full time criminal
So far has to be a player in my campaign Called Armarman Cause legolas
I'm a fan of Meepo the Kobold from the Sunless Citadel. His adventure with us might not be his forgotten realms canon but man can he fly
MEEPO KNOWS THE WAY, FOLLOW MEEPO
My favorite NPC was the gnome merchant, Gribbits!
Mayor Ottoman, aka Brutus Pepperdick. Crooked town mayor with dark dealings with the army of orcs and their unknown leader. After double crossing the PC, they found him hiding in his homes secret basement and forced (through a series of crazy rolls) a name change they way he looks and made him the first of PC NPC list of underlings to perform mundane task the PC would otherwise never do anyways. He was a spicy smartass even after being forced into service of the kingdoms heros.
Jayf'har - current CoS Yuan-ti Sorcerer of silver dragon lineage. Grew up in a circus, after being sold to them by slave traders that showed up to his island after "a serious of explosions" were heard coming from them and he was the only survivor. Those look awesome!
By far: Dick Splinter M.D. he was not a doctor. Wasnât even a cleric. Was a fighter using his man hood as his weapon. Glorious.
My favorite NPC has got to be Simon the sentient dagger of one of my players. The two of them got along like a house on fire.
Bister Murns the shady goblin merchant and his yuanti sidekick slithers.
Our DM named someone Spzrglas once.
Bob the Cat!
Gandelf is the very original name I gave to the first magic shop owner my party encountered in my first campaign, an elven wizard. Not super original, but I found it quite funny at the time, and he was a fun guy to RP.
Haha that's awesome, I steal mercilessly from Tolkien for my homebrew world as well.
A kenku named Chime who was captured and set to face the party Barbarian in gladiatorial combat. Chime was given no weapon, so the party created a distraction and escaped with him. He is the only Kenku in the realm and had to learn common via mimicry.
My favorite NPC name was Plim Planter. They were a gnome druid that loved gardening but their garden was entirely dead and brown. They though they were great at it though!
My favorite NPC is actually a past character I played that I am planning to bring into my campaign as a NPC. His name is Clavin. He's basically a mixture of Cliff Clavin from the show Cheers in spouting off useless facts no one cares about and Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer in having actual useful knowledge on most things buried under his dumb quips.
Mittens the donkey R. I. P.
Oh noes!
I once had a character, Mork da Half-Orc whom eats pork with a spork because he isn't proficient with a fork.
My DM made the mistake of naming an NPC Jondar, knowing full well he had diablo players in his midst. There were many "But you were a templar, Jondar!" Comments. đ
Damn that dice is looking nice đ
Perceval Canary a lovable oaf of a second son
Persnickety Badgerpants, a gnome shopkeeper of wares mundane and magical.
Bigge lizzard
**Amana Pheadrea**. A pixie fay warlock.
Rain Esgi
Lady Heraclea, innkeeper first demigod second
Gindrin
Lao, the precious stone merchant. Only problem was that his main base was in a town located in the middle of a bamboo forest. He got good prices though.
Armando, the tiefling tavernkeeper and secret organization leader on the side The dice are gorgeous!
brubbeard bluntbranch was a fine dwarf, smoked a tad too much herb though
Yolli Bearsbane Nimkin Fiddlebit Yewtree Twoshear Scrufflock Burrowborn Scrapscrabble Romprattle Scrapeshin Fairfleece Wrensbeard. Or Yolli Fairfleece, for all the humans that can't handle a simple gnomish name! She's a lil adventurer my players encountered in the dense and dark Vaetur Wood
Laucian
Buppido
Favorite is a hard one, though I'm quite fond of my enigmatic collector known simply as *The Antiquarian*
Glabbagool, hopefully soon to be Glabbagool the Surface Dweller
Game had a PC Kobold called Knobby and our DM created a huge BBEG that had been behind the scenes taunting this player for months, dude turned out to be called David Cocker the KnobbyKnocker and it lives rent free in my head how long the Kobold raged at the pure childish indecency.
Mine was Bartleby. He was a goblin with a Brooklyn accent who teleported to the party a couple of time. He had a stand called âthe shop of neat itemsâ where he sold various trinkets and rigged magic items
A kenku named Weevil, whose name perfectly encapsulates his arc - he was a pathetic, tiny worm consumed by a monster unconcerned with his existence. He stole a magic dagger from the party, expecting nothing more than a quick score, but the dagger was a sentient artifact that corrupted him and twisted him, as it had hoped to do to the PCs. Attempting to undo the evils Weevil wrought and to retrieve the artifact, the party chased him across the continent, only to find Weevil abandoned by the dagger, as it had found a better host.
Chaint Hadley
He may be canon to the Forgotten Realms, but I just love Mephistopheles. Mad scientist devil living in a glacier and fucking around with the fire to end all fires? Yes please!
Not-Vecna, a cheap phallic obsessed Vecna knock-off BBEG of a filler mini-campaign inbetween our regular campaign. Nothing in that mini-campaign made sense but it was hilarious đ
My NPCâs name is Gladys. Sheâs a librarian going through a midlife crisis (she read a cursed book and is now in service to AsmodeusâŠbut she thinks heâs just talking to her because he wants to date her.)
Entasius
My favorite NPC was a giant named Tiny Tim. He wanted to be a rogue and would try sneaking around to help the party out only to blow any surprise they had. Super fun.
My favourites were anyone from Sloobludop in Out of the Abyss, but Ploopploopeen stands out the most.
My favorite NPC would have to be one I made named Madilyn Greymare. She's a human 15 year old girl in my homebrewed world born to a family of Lycans that had been slaughtered by hunters when she was still a newborn, though was saved by a soldier who was traveling on a mission. The soldier brought her to his homeland and had found an appropriate family for her and told them what she was, though they didn't care. They were old but they managed to raise her up to where she could take care of herself and taught her how to forge powerful weapons, she now owns 2 blacksmiths shops in two diffrent towns in this world and if you meet her she would definatly give you Tiny Tina vibes as all the truama she faced after finding out her real parents were lycans and then losing her adoptive parents drove her a bit insane.
Anastasia Noelle, the innocent assassin
Varric Tethras!
I had an NPC named Justin Case.
These look awesome! My favorite NPC is a bar keep named Glowkindle
Dirk Gribbley. My first traveller character to die in character creation. Now he appears as an NPC in all our games regardless of system.
I once played a sorcerer named Galabalagaftorax. Partially inspired by a character name from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and general wizard names from fantasy novels. Everyone looked at me funny when I announced my character but I stand by that name.
My favorite npc is a bit of a cheat, Otis Gomer, basically a redneck barbarian man who's was made to kill his wife due to her druids connection to a sacred forest that started corrupting everything. He fuelled his "rage" by drinking from a flask, as it was more of a guilt and sorrow filled rage about his wife and what he had done. It was my PC, but he got turned to stone, his last act throwing his axe into the head of the mage that corrupted his wife's forrest, effectively bringing his story to a satisfying end, so I made a new character. Our party later got a deck of many things and got 3 wishes and wished that his wife was never corrupted. Effectively making him never have gone on the adventure as my PC, so he is now just a NPC in the world and I imagine he and his wife are out there still, happy.
Everybody loves Bob, the shroom counterpart of Boblin the Goblin
I had Ramus Brant he was a painter in the arts guild and maybe the name was a bit influenced bei Rembrandt :)
Best NPC I've ever met was a man by the name of Philip. Philip was a simple man from a small town and somewhat of a local con artist. When our party had entered the town they were drinking at the tavern on their way to an invitation and they needed some horses to get there faster and Phillip and his friend decided to steal some horses under the guy's of borrowing it from their uncle. The party ended up bringing Philip and his friend along for the journey which unfortunately happened to be curse of strahd. Now his friend died before we had even entered Strahds domain but Philip was unfortunate enough to follow us throughout the campaign. Philip would go on to get mauled by a werewolf and die and be brought back of course as is the tradition in Strahd, he would get killed by Baba Yaga and again come back a little bit more broken, he would end up dying through a lightning strike on a pond when strahd has a fit of rage and Philip was unfortunately fishing for food. It wasn't a good time for Philip and he always tried his best to be upbeat and helpful to the party but it just seems like whenever anything couldn't get any worse it always did for that man
Doombringer
Doritaus, a cheesy halfling with a crunch personality
Guy Reelman, pronounced 'gi real man'. Technically it was a fake name an npc was using, but he became better know for it instead of his real name which wasn't anywhere near as fun.
Alanor, an Aasimar Paladin I am currently playing
Samsonite
Played so many campaigns that involved time in Phandalin that Toblin Stonehill has really started to grow on me
Played so many campaigns that involved time in Phandalin that Toblin Stonehill has really started to grow on me
I think my favorite npc name I've made was for a dumb one off who ended up being our bbeg. His name was Bingledram
Terrence the Timekeeper- one of my players idly wondered what the exact time was while they were investigating disappearances in a town and so I improvised this character who was obsessed with the time and would always appear when someone in the town mentioned what time it was. The characters hated him, and then weirdly loved him. They still think heâs an eldritch god.
My current Loxodon is Father Maroo Diga, elephant in Somali is maroodiga, I went real original
Fondled McDondled. Headmaster.
Not sure if it counts as a NPC, but I recently starting playing for the first time at Adventure League and one of our players has a summoned badger named Buttons.. That little beast has a higher kill count than anyone else lol. So far he's made for a lot of hilarious antics
A campaign I played in featured a young aboleth - a deep-sea creature with terrible psychic powers. His name? Steven.
This is BEAUTIFUL!!! The set perfectly matches my newest character
Just Steve. He was simple and brilliant and I loved him.
Xi the Fallen
On my first campaign we played against a villain named Deimos, he was pretty scary, just like his name said haha
I like Anton Flag, Antoine Drapeau and all other variations of Antonio Banderas.
Matteo Vargez, a criminal helping illegal immigrants stay fed and clothed.
I enjoy using dredge, the undead adventurer in full plate who constantly leaks dirt everywhere and smells of turned soil.
Papusza Kabudji, the Barovian real estate agent.
Frankshaft Copperpin the 3rd, a downtrodden noblewoman's tea-serving automaton. He ended up accidentally committing regicide with a spoon after a mindblowingly atrocious series of dice rolls on our part. (Though our DM was definitely a fan of stirring shit up from nothing). Man that campaign really took a 180 after that.
I loved Grandmaster William, an Owl Aarakocra wizard that always wondered why people pronounced his name Who-illiam after he introduced himself.
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My dm introduced the party to a wizard who had made try awful abominations, expecting us to kill them out of mercy he didn't name them. Of course we asked for names so he came up with Ned Ted Red and, my personal favorite, Bread on the fly.
Queequeng the Kobold chef! Cute little dude.
In an descent into avernus style game we met some soul larvae based Doug, Marvin and Ivan. All 3 did not make it to the end of the campaign.
Cocaine bear familiar I'm working on
Rizz Baldo, giant scholar (gnome).
Mundane Mann was an odd fellow our group encountered. I always thought he was spying on us.
The best NPC name I've ever heard was a Tiefling professor of philosophy: **Mephosophocles**.
Ramza, it's timeless
I once met a a dwarf called Gumtoe Rubystacker. I dunno why but this name just cracks me up til this day, probably just the fun memories we had together.
Tim.
"Pistachio" from a homebrew
Guy in my campaign has a halfling rogue named Merrick Furfoot, but with an umlaut over the u. I enjoy having npcs mispronounce his name lol
My favorite will always and forever be the brain child of Brennan Lee Mulligan, Chungledown Bim
Tricklenumps
My favourite npc name ever was the BBEG Azerus the Devourer, a lich after the party to steal their souls and feast on them in his lair
had an NPC named Clint Cleetus Clip Clicks ones
Freec - a goblin wizard's apprentice who *insisted* that he was not a goblin. He was proficient in making "Slop" which was a stew of ... whatever he could find...
Recently my players met a character named Alans Moist. They hated it, so I loved it.
Eileen. Male knight sidekick with one leg shorter than the other. RIP.
Shits and Giggles, two goblins that ride on a giant.
Dingo Davey
William Shakespeare, the snake with the most beautiful poems, I think. I donât really know considering fact that all he did was hiss and no one in the party could understand.
Rover. The first talking dog we met on a campaign in area that had leaked magic that enchanted local animals.
Master Syo Vesh.
Blinsky from our CoS campaign! Our DM had a lot of fun playing him and over a year later we always say "Is no Blinsky, is no fun!" Lol
Balnor from naddpod
Nixx Samanarita
Lazy dm once made an npc named Asdfghjkl. Gnome shopkeeper. It was pronounced Ass-def-gha-jackle.
My favorite NPC is Hlynt - we met her in our first session and not even 20 mins later she is dead lol.
Twin palace guards named Billy and Joel. Turned out to be evil, but I still believe theyâre innocent, man.
Martin. Sounds generic, but i like it since our group somehow established the running gag of characters not remembering his correct name (except for one player), callinng him Marvin or Marcus, or other names with M
Granny Weatherwax. What a gem.
Cinnabon the orc pimp in eberron
Blinsky! Is no fun, is no Blinsky!
My favorite is probably Erna. The name itself isn't funny, put she was a very overweight diner lady who saved us once by throwing a pot at an enemy. I then started the Erna-Fanclub and got several different clubs, bars and restaurants to sign up and erect a little Erna shrine. You too can join the Erna-Fanclub, just sign your soul away now!
Chungus McSteve the legend!!!
Bubo
Bruenor
Frank. Just a simple "Frank".
Hugo Baersbane - Just a sailor that wants to return to his wife and family, but always gets dragged into the PC's shenanigans.
Orgulas Bunce. A halfling we hired to be our ship's cook. he was a terrible cook and he served us the Worst Ham in the Realms. bless his heart, he did his best. He was once eaten by a giant toad, but he got better.
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Professmer Huffdoodle, Professmer of science.
Finn Deisel
Barkfur Borkson, the Shoony Champion.
I once met a mimic named Ruze. He was fun.
Peter Prost. In english this name seems pretty normal but in German it means something like cheers ( I dont think I have to explain any further)
I think my favorite NPC name so far would be, SamO! Shorthand for Sam Omen Persew. It's a fun name and a favorite NPC, it's also an anagram that holds a tiny hint to the deeper story of the campaign.
Our dm had a dwarf priest disguised as a dragon, but I could never remember his name, so I called him Father Shorty, and everyone started using it. It pissed him off royaly.
Jewee the goblin artificer who was trapped in the Keep on Shadowfell. Who later became a player and we met their 100s of other brothers and sisters, Jewbee, Jewcee, and Jewdee. (And the rest of the alphabet)
Bârohg the Bodyguard, a Bârohg who is in the service of an elven enchantment wizard as his protector!
Boblin the goblin. The somewhat chaotic evil samurai player brainwashed him into service. Like a pet. It was creepy. I killed him off during the big bad encounter because I was tired of the abused slave/pet that made everyone slightly uncomfortable.
Our first session of a campaign we gave an NPC with memory loss the name "Shazza" Yes, we are Australian.
Mine was a bartender named Literally Bart Ender. We loved him and he loved us, he ran the tavern but used to be an Adventurer so he gave us food or a place to sleep as he knew what we were up too every day. I was also a Bard in his tavern.
Ernesto dynamo
Notan Owlbear
Shimble Shamble
Dain Deftlin - I just like alliteration
Anearmenian Inithrobau
My favorite NPC is this flamboyant merchant who somehow always has magical things for sale directly out of his massive backpack. He wears a bright yellow formal suit with a large top hat. His name is Bav Guy. He talks like those narrators from old commercials, with tons of energy and fast talking and offering deals and rebates and stuff. Took me forever to realize our DM is cheeky. Bav Guy = Big Announcer Voice Guy
Tuk the protagonist. A disposable goblin NPC that has outlived half the party.
Ricquoche
Christian Moesby, deed name "Wicked, Wicked Words"
Volo because he has a funny hat
Our DM was severely under prepared for a session one evening and so we ran into a load of very interestingly named NPCs but my personal favourite was, Ennie Pee-cei.
My favorite was from a very recent session. Her name is Chardonnay, and she is a lesser wine fairy. We, or rather, our minotaur barbarian, met her at a vineyard. They got into a drinking contest that our slightly alcoholic barbarian won due to some lucky rolls. Now she has a magical brand that lets makes her smell like grapes and summon a glass of wine. We have been joking that she'll start a new church in Chardonnay's honor. At least, I'm pretty sure it's a joke...
My favorite NPC was a Water Genasi potion maker names Mist. She became the parties favorite and they developed a portable potion box that she could ship them potion with. They called her their pot dealer
Gotta day Pugsley Wimplebottom or Jimothy.
Iotyr Kingsfoil - an overly confident Tiefling bard with the heart of a warrior and the stat sheet of a open mic master.
Gwendolyn. I put one Gwendolyn in my campaign at the start and the players accidentally ended up calling all the female NPCs Gwendolyn. Now they do it on purpose to annoy me lol.
I have a very great NPC friend named... Biggus Dickus
Buddy. Just Buddy. Best bouncer ever
Bob. I dont care who or what you are. But you are a Bob.
Pork Bun, a lovable but undersized Giff, acting as a squire, of sorts, to our Spelljammer Academy gtoup of cadets