Naming Your Character In RPGs?

Thanks to InsertCredit for their feature discussing the player-inputted choice for character names in videogames. They discuss some of the joys of DIY character naming ("Some people will buy an RPG, only to name the characters after their favorite profane words"), as well some more unlikely pleasures ("I became obsessed with buying used Final Fantasy VI cartridges for 100 yen at a certain game shop in Akihabara, just to see what all the characters had been named.") Taking a lead from this distinctly unconventional article, what names have Slashdot Games readers entered for characters in their favorite RPGs, and why?

Comments

Short Welsh Names

[Y Ddraig Goch]

usually work the best for me. The Welsh alphabet uses the same 26 characters as english but the pronounciation and the dipthongs are more complex. Also all the dd's, ll's, and y's male the names properly fantasy like. However lately in games that I have several scenarios, I've taken to naming my characters after their class. It's easier to keep things straight.

Real story. Very funny.

[Mensa Babe]

The only proprietary MMPOLRPG I have played was Ultima Online a year or two ago. My heroine had a greek version of my real name, but when I tamed a wolf, I named my beast "Assassin." Then, after clicking on my wolf I kept seeing "******in!" or something like that and I had no idea why. After few hours of playing I kept wondering why on Earth my other wolfs, namely Killer and Murderer, had no such problem with their names whatsoever, only to realise that Ultima Online was censoring vulgar language... I remember that I was really asshamed that someone could see me while calling my wolf and I stopped playing for few days.

Not mine, but funny

[jvmatthe]

When I was Everquest Online Adventures there was this guy running around shouting "CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?"

His name, of course, was Verizon.

I just called my game Schnark. No good reason...just liked it.