Need help coming up with cool original rogue/swashbuckler name (2024)

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Kaelynna

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  • Oct 17, 2002
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Need help coming up with cool original rogue/swashbuckler name

What can you come up with? Gender Male. Race most likely human or halfling

Thanks!
- Kae.

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hong

WotC's bitch
  • Oct 17, 2002
  • #2

I find that stealing the names of UNsenet or web board posters usually works very nicely in a pinch.

The last session I DMed featured 1st level warriors named Simon, Kengar, Destil, Kyramus and Whyrph, and a high-level druid named Voneth. My 13th level archer in another game is Talath.

Although there was one terrible disaster when I had a 15th level death knight named Piratecat.... Need help coming up with cool original rogue/swashbuckler name (1)


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Latency

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  • Oct 17, 2002
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My one roommate used the name "dread pirate pepe Rodriguez" He wore an eye patch and was a land locked Pirate in a Ravenloft campaign. He was a great character the funniest thing he did at the game table was asked if he could get a +2 bonus to spot checks if he lifted the eye patch a took a good look at it.

The DM was laughing so hard he gave him the bonus. Need help coming up with cool original rogue/swashbuckler name (2)

Hope this helps


MeepoTheMighty

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  • Oct 17, 2002
  • #4

hong said:

I find that stealing the names of UNsenet or web board posters usually works very nicely in a pinch.

The last session I DMed featured 1st level warriors named Simon, Kengar, Destil, Kyramus and Whyrph, and a high-level druid named Voneth. My 13th level archer in another game is Talath.

Although there was one terrible disaster when I had a 15th level death knight named Piratecat.... Need help coming up with cool original rogue/swashbuckler name (4)

I think I'll create an NPC named Hong. Now, anyone remember what page in BoVD had those fetishes and perversions?


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hong

WotC's bitch
  • Oct 17, 2002
  • #5

MeepoTheMighty said:


I think I'll create an NPC named Hong. Now, anyone remember what page in BoVD had those fetishes and perversions?

You b*st*rd, you. Just for that, I'm going to create a kobold named Meepo.

Hmm.


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hong

WotC's bitch
  • Oct 17, 2002
  • #6

Some names from the first two pages of GD that could fit a rogue/swashbuckler:

Arravis
Marius Delphius
Leopold
Villano
Stannis (not a king, just a rogue)


Marius Delphus

Adventurer
  • Oct 17, 2002
  • #7

Wow! Look guys, I got mentioned in a hong post! Does that mean I have to respond? Need help coming up with cool original rogue/swashbuckler name (6)

I get names from just about everywhere.

"Dapper Tom" Geller
Hugh Montcartre
Marco Uccellini
Kataran Milenov
Guy de Loialle
Justin of the Blade
Nemus Ovinius
Dromut Ar'Tellis
Mabin Ogion
Francois d'Yves-Penitant
Moustafa al-Prashtid
Robert Delcron
Isen Perales
Kurmik Ostiban
Hong Chi-Wong Chao

Swipe 'em if ya wanna. Need help coming up with cool original rogue/swashbuckler name (7)

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JeffK1966

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  • Oct 17, 2002
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I had an old thief swashbuckler in 2E days named Ramiro the Red or something like that... and, I'm currently trying to play a flashy swashbuckler wannabe in Kalamar named Liamar. We have another similar type in game named Brogan, who hates to be called Brogan the Brigand...


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Kyramus

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  • Oct 17, 2002
  • #9

hong said:

I find that stealing the names of UNsenet or web board posters usually works very nicely in a pinch.

The last session I DMed featured 1st level warriors named Simon, Kengar, Destil, Kyramus and Whyrph, and a high-level druid named Voneth. My 13th level archer in another game is Talath.

Although there was one terrible disaster when I had a 15th level death knight named Piratecat.... Need help coming up with cool original rogue/swashbuckler name (8)

Wow I actually managed a dimensional clone and it became a level 1 character!!!!!
hehehehehe


Zaruthustran

The tingling means it’s working!
  • Oct 17, 2002
  • #10

Pick a name that's dashing and fun to say. Pay attention to sylables, cadence, and alliteration. Definitely take a first and last name, or a first name and a place name, or a name and a descripto. For instance:

"Ramiro the Red" is good, because it goes "da-da-da-da-DA." The sylables and double r make it roll of the tongue. Same goes for "the Dread Pirate Roberts".

"Marius Delphius" is bad, bacause there's a full stop after Marius. Well, maybe this one can be good for a villain. "Marius" can be said with a sneer.

Be that as it may, I know a fencer named Marius, which may influence the above opinion (Marius is not a swashbuckler; he's a fierce, very serious student and practitioner of the rapier.)

I, however, am a fencer. My SCA name is Michelle du'Port Royale (It's French, thus the masculine Michelle). Say it, the name rolls of the tongue: da-DA-da-DA-da-DA. Fun. Good name for a fencer.

So, pick a fun name. No one will notice a swashbuckler named Burt. But "Barnaby Brineswallow" will attract attention.

-zaruthustran, which is a terrible name for a fencer--but a decent name for a drow mage created in middle school circa 1989.


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