Dwarf named Korgan Rockbreaker

>this is just frogposting without a frog image
You expressed my thoughts better than I could.

WILLIAM LONGSHANKS WAS A REAL PERSON YOU CUNT

I believe you are thinking about Edward Longshanks, the English king. Not William.

>Lightfoot
>Goldstein
>Redfield
>Maxwell

To be fair, the dwarf Korgan Rockbreaker can make a bit of sense. A lot of last names are based on occupations (Taylor/Tailor, Smith, Cooper, etc.). "Rockbreaker" may be a translation of the dwarven word for quarryman.

And descriptive names are fairly common in history as well. Edward Longshanks, Harold Bluetooth, Ivar the Boneless, Bjorn Ironside, etc.

>applebottom
I'd have to check on that halfling

I knew a dick woodhead

You are retarded. Holy shit

Vikungar Sunderstone
Aerowyn Foxfire
Caruther Sixfingers
Cirroc Rainhaven

My last party. You can suck a dick.

Your party cheers when someone rolls a nat 20, don't they

there's a guy in the US military named Max Fightmaster

No, people just like classic stuff. Everybody's tired of the same tryhard "different" settings.

Where do you think modern names come from?
They were mostly related to your job, your story, or your family.
Normal people usually don't have a story relevant enough to become a part of the name, but fantasy beings in fantasy stories do.

Kiko Matamoros (Kiko moorkiller)

Tristan Rivenwald (high-society half-elf warlock)
Bjorn Hvelserk (forest dwarf ranger)
Ombre du la Givre (cajun dragonborn monk)
Quinn Twintree (militant halfling bard)
Gregor Alfrik Thorsson (witch hunter human cleric)
Freedan Ingvard (clan pariah dwarven monk/rogue)

My current players' party. One out of six, and even that was a throwback to a previous campaign, where all the PCs were brothers from the same clan. Try again.

The entirety of Japan.

I named my Dwarf Olaf Olafsson so I'm afraid we can never be friends.

The DM addresses my character constantly as Olaf, Son of Olaf. It's great.

Bob wehaddababy-eetsaboi

>Ombre du la Givre
ow the edge

American ex-president Dwight D. Eisenhower. From the German name Eisenhauer, or "iron hewer". President (and General) Dwight Ironhewer.

A lot of names we find "normal" are derived from other languages where they are compound names.

Heh, yeah, if it wasn't tongue-in-cheek, I'd have slapped him. But he's playing a fucking cajun dragonborn, so I let it slide.

>dwarf named Korgan Rockbreaker
The equivalent of having Smith as a last name. It comes from his ancestors profession, so where's the problem?
>elf named Elandelle Silverleaf
Silverleaf is probably a bastardized version of their original name. No problem here either.
>halfling named Merry Applebottom
Because Brandybuck, Hornblower and Proudfoot are totally strange halfling names, right?
>human named Rem Longstrider
He's obviously 7'5". I'd call him Longstrider, too.

These names are fine. Both easy to remember and make sense. Maybe you need to pull the immovable rod put of your ass, Ohpee McCocksock.

OP probably tries to name his characters shit like Quen'thaala'xanious and gets mad when the other players just call him "that elf guy"

>Not giving your orcs really insecure names like Thrag Fistpuncher or Grok Axepisser
Shit game desu

I hope he has a desk job

>I AM GRUG LEGBREAKER
>SON OF GROG DICKFISTER
>SON OF GREG JAWBREAKER

Staff Sergeant Max Fightmaster (though he was actually in engineering, and is now a technician at a university in Ohio)

There's also ex-marine (now lawyer) Rad Heroman

There was literally a Norse man who was known as Ivar Horse-Cock. William the Conqueror/Bastard had a son called Longsword and an ancestor called "the walker" because he was too big to ride a horse.

This is how real names used to work.

Pretty much every single scandinavian either has a patronym as a lastname of a compound name, some common examples include;

Riverbranch
Thornbloom
Southill
Northgrove
Villagecopse

Like really, most suffixes are the likes of -hill, -mountain, -branch, -lake, -stream, -grove etc. It's the most common naming convention.

So what do you do when you GM a game? Do you provide tens of pages of anthroponomastics for your setting, which contains all the necessary information to design an appropriate name for a member of any culture and race in your setting, in order to ensure your group's player characters have accurate and immersive names?

>Merry Applebottom

Is she a cute shortstack with a nice round bottom? Asking for a friend.

These names are fine OP.

Sure at their most contrived (e.g. Humbert Oakenbelly) they can be a bit too silly for a darker themed game but for your average dnd session they are all in good fun.

>of
or* obviously

No. She's an old witch with a bottom like a bruised, moldy apple.

What do you want people to callt heir PCs user? Real names like John Smith the elven ranger? Or should we go Star Wars and just combine random syllables so we get gibdoof bogwop the human cleric?

Atwater /Atwood
Blackwood
Hayward
Hightower
Lockwood
Longstaff
Olhouser
Proudfoot
Southgate
Summerfield
Wakefield
Winterbottom
Fucking Shakespear
All those Armstrong
And many more but whose words have fallen from use, came from foreign words or changed over time in the vernacular.

Are you implying I wouldn't stir that cauldron until it bubbled, mate

I have and explorer called Darren, he was a hunter so people called him Darren (the)Hunter.

Churchill? Though that's quite literally hillhill.
Coleman, Freeman, Campbell, Armstrong, the many "sons"...

>Donald Trump
>Bill Clinton
>Theresa May
>John Major

So boring, can't they come up with something better?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Bluetooth

Your Bluetooth devices namesake

>Or should we go Star Wars and just combine random syllables so we get gibdoof bogwop the human cleric?

>.m
Get off this board, phonelet

Opisa Faggotano?

holy shit i remember that commercial

There are real names like that but i agree with you OP. When i tall to a black smith and his name is iornforge or silverblade i wanna choke people out.

Surnames are based more or less on a small handful of things:
>family profession
>the place your family is from
>your predecessor’s name
>a nickname that overcomes your actual name when people identify you

You can’t blame people for using names that don’t sound extra fantastic, because doing so requires insane amounts of information about the setting and/or languages involved.

It depends on the setting.

But IRL I knew a Badbrew, Goldsmith, Blackwell, Blackleaf and Goodluck

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>Theresa May
Fun fact, if you forget the "h", you get a pornstar

Though if you want boring:
> Gordon Brown

>cringeworthy
you bitch about people using uncreative compound words when you use this fucking illiterate bullshit

learn a god damn thesaurus you degenerate piece of shit

>this is just frogposting without a frog image.
Thread should have ended here

>I DON'T KNOW HOW NAMES WORK

BLACK LEAF, NO

Takes me back.

Time for some Modempunk.

>stir that cauldron until it bubbled

>bitches about phoneposter
>contributes less than phoneposter

I knew a person with the last name Fuckhole. It was your mother's maiden name.

My best friends last name in lawless

>Churchill
nah, that's "aversion of sermons"

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>Applebottom

Shlomo Goldberg

Wild guess you don’t know how naming works, do you?

Many surnames in a country I'm from actually come from nicknames that warriors gave each other. This results in surnames like (translating literally)
> Goat
> Arse
> Don't-hurt-a-woman
> Don't-drink-beer
> Don't-drink-water
> Fool
> Bull
> Primrose
> Torn
> Purchased
> Not-looted
> Not-there-house
> Break-a-head
> Catch-a-horse
> Broken-nose
> Long-halr
> Fist
etc.

Are you from the middle east?

Curiousity rising

No, to the north from there.

My own name translates to Battlemountain

Turkey?

Ratigor, is that you? It's me, Rage-glory

Nah. that countru you hear about only whan something bad has happened. Ukraine. Or am I still considered to be from there. I don't even know any more. I'm from Donetsk

If the human had a kid, would the kid have them Applebottom genes

Among my surnames i have things that translate directly to Light and Ironsmith. So... Yeah, not that uncommon, so i see no problem happening in game.

user, that song is nearly 10 years old and puns are the lowest form of humor. Reddit, imgur and tumblr ran puns into the fucking ground.

>nofunallowed.jpg

>Gilderoy Powdernose

Idk user, I think it works well

I wrote a little program in C# that combines English phonemes in a mostly-pronounceable fashion:

>Culay Hokk
>Ura Baudge
>Jud Uquo
>Lukapp Jera
>Ledej Jaggoww

Are these better?

They sound like Star Wars names.

Blake Underwood

I'm not hearing a no...

Dammit user

OP is massive faggot

Because the vast majority of people are terrible at being creative and I sort of wish that they would collectively die in a ditch.

My main problem with this is that they are, precisely, English phonemes which gives the names a very fake sound, for lack of a better term, because it's obvious that they're made to be pronounceable by Anglos.

My half orc is named Henk Tallfoot, because he was raised by Halflings and is super fucking tall in comparison.

It's tradition. Also run translate on your last name, it probably means something literal as well.

There was a guy in my high school named Buttsmith

I'm sure one of his ancestors smithed the best butts.

Well, it was originally Buttsniff. You know how it is with generation drifting and suddenly you're the son of ancient poopsmiths instead of that one guy who couldn't hide his fetish and kept getting kicked out of the tavern for pretending to drop his coins just so he could crawl around and sniff people. It's actually a step in a better direction, though. You get invited to much better parties, if not many of them.