Player doesn't bother coming up with a surname for their character

>player doesn't bother coming up with a surname for their character

>Implying surnames weren't a nobility only thing until recently (relatively speaking).

not everyone has surnames

>using a surname
>not using a myriad of titles instead
"Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours, The Thunderbolt of Italy".

Also, knows what's up.

>Implying surnames aren't either just your job or your parents name+son at the end.

What the fuck does that have to do with emotional dragon-type Pokémon, OP? What a waste of a thread.

Clearly, Garchomp is the groups GM and is pissed at Flygon for "not taking the game seriously enough."

Pffft. Surnames. I literally only use that spot in my character details to hide jokes.

These guys get it. I'm gonna try using titles the next time that I roll up a character.

That's what flygon gets for being ground type instead of bug.

Peasants could have surnames, but they did not have fixed surnames. The same guy might be referred to as John Smith, John Short or John Underhill, depending on what was most relevant to the conversation.

Fixed surnames were implemented to make taxation, conscription and stuff easier for officials, who would be outsiders to whatever naming conventions any given community could have.

>Implying our game isnt set in a modern/modern-esque setting

Most people in ye olde times only went by a first name and then either their trade, their father's name, or where they were from.. Or a bit of all three!

Unless it's a contemporary game then you're right and we're all WRONG....

UNLESS, UNLESS, it's a contemporary game but post-apocalyptic or societal collapse and we've reverted back to ye older times.

>tfw everyone forgets your favorite mon because JET SHARK does their type combo better

Hell, mine was just "Knothollow" because that's where my character grew up

>about to make a comment on lazy players
>realize only one of the characters I've ever played had a surname

:(

Less about type combo, more about boosting moves. Swords dance is that good.

Mine's niether of those! it is a location

That it is.

Out of the 5 PCs, only I made a family name for my character because he was the only one with the Nobility background. Everyone else was a commoner and just had a memorable first name.

One player named his peasent barbarian 'Janson', and it so happened that one of the major NPCs we encountered early on the DM had named ahead of time 'Jensen'. So we decided that somewhere in the world was a countryside of the Jansmen who were an extended clan of yeoman farmers and that variants of Jan (Jannis, Yohan, John, Jaine) were very common names. The fact that most Jansmen were extremely settled and rarely traveled meant that all the sons and daughters of the town tended to resemble each other and used nicknames among themselves, but to strangers and travelers they were all dismissively referred to collectivly as just 'Jansmen'.

Fun little bit of collaborative worldbuilding based on a naming accident.

>players name characters after themselves

>players name characters after others at the table

>players name characters after objects on the table

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>scua
What
I know this is porn, but is it good porn?

>players name characters after the table

>implying Peasants didnt have surnames whenever there were two Johns in a town

Not my proudest moment, but when I was getting back into roleplaying, I made a character with amnesia who just claimed to be "Somebody". That got old so quickly and made so little sense that our party goblin ended up semi accidentally giving him a proper name.

>when asked for name the PC responds Nunya
>"Nunya what?"
>Nunya Bussiness, get lost

>implying it was anything other than a denotation of a profession, and thus was more of a title than an actual name.

Flygon is my favorite, but Trapinch is a piece of shit and trying to grind it up was a fucking chore.

It's not, just a completely innocent one-off picture.

Y'know, Mike?
What, the kid with the shit in his hair?
No, the other Mike, John's son.

Yes, my character was born in slavery, she doesn't have a surname.

Another was a commoner that managed to find a treasure and start a trading business, so she picked herself one. Its also a constructed identity, built to burrow some facts from her real story.

Third one has a surname, even if its a banal and common one - not everybody gets to have super cool meaningful ones. He sets his personal meaning on it by using a slightly different (chinese) character for it that transliterates to nearly same English, because he's a dork.

My surname means "patience" which was hilarious to how easy to piss off I was in middle school.

Why does it look like those two are about to fuck?

Because you've been on the internet for too long?

/thread

What if I told you you could have taxation, conscription and other stuff done with unfixed surnames, because instead focusing on John Smith, you focus on Household #13 from Villageville.

Not that your argument is wrong, it's perfectly fine. I'm just pointing out the fixed surname is unrelated with those activities, but sure makes them easier and more "direct"

>Implying it is

Seems to me like there could be some correlation of multiple factors gradually strengthening identities?

I like garchomp's back in this pic. Very well defined. It's like he's been doing lat pulldowns since he was a gabite.

>Always create surnames and titles, or come up with clan names, depending on the characters background.
>It's never once been brought up, let alone had any relevancy, in any campaign I've played

So far...

Keep it up, user.
The day you neglect it will be the day it is relevant.

>one of my characters nicknamed Dorn
>another player straight up names his Rogal Dorn

In one campaign, one of my characters was just called by whatever weapon he was carrying, went on for over a year.

nameless rank and file soldier is a good bro

i played a tengu without a surname

the gm bullied me by making it birdbrain

>he doesnt make all of his character names jokes

next time I play I plan on making a monk called Chi Kenfrii Drais

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MODS

What the fuck. Didn't even spoiler it.

>Johnson
>Black
>Smith
>Fisherman
>Tailor
>Farmer
>Hunter

Just a selection of names with origins that prove your statement wrong

I have actually used Dorn as a town name. But it was a Star Trek reference not 40k.

I use it as a short cut to town building. Where I use an actor/character's name as the town name/ and use personality traits of said character to give a general feel to the town. So the town of Dorn was populated my a honor bound and militaristic culture.

Blue board, user!

>okay guys introduce your characters
>''I'm Mike, a mercenary for hire''

>introduce your characters

Is it weird that I've never had to do this? Generally when there's an upcoming game my group will chatter endlessly about what we're thinking of playing, pitching ideas back and forth, suggesting interesting twists, proposing pre-existing relationships (in the current game, another player and I saw the "Kin-bond" trait in the book and pretty much immediately decided our characters were "twinsies", despite being wildly different races. The two have been a blast to play.)

All of my characters have surnames so far. The first's I came up with randomly by mashing up race name examples and accidentally became perfectly defining for the character. The second's I also came up with randomly but hasn't been relevant outside of "name clan-title" due to the campaigns he's been in dying fast. The third's is a play on how she's been ejected from her home, but it hasn't come up yet because everyone accepts "calling me 'nickname' will work" and doesn't pry further.

>"I'm Ike, a mercenary for hire."
>"Hey, we should be partners."

So naming my pc "Jonh the cleric" is perfectly fine?

Sweet

I like the hell out of this. That's hip and I am now stealing "Jansman" as an ethnic group for my conworld

Good to be partners with a warrior who fights for his friends

How are you going to figure out how much tax is reasonable, though? I think you're underestimating just how insanely complicated governance was back in the day.

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Various species have to earn their surname by doing shit. Its mostly the more big, strong, barbaric guys but still, as a half-orc i'm not putting down a last name until at least halfway through the character's life in the campaign.