# How do you name your CRPG characters?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [December 25, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-name-your-crpg-characters/478670 "2008-12-25T19:58:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Garula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Garula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garula)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-name-your-crpg-characters/478670/21 "2008-12-28T18:32:38Z")

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My preferred method is to just pick a word that sounds amusing at the time and go with it. Yeah, I pretty much always ignore the lore. Lemony and Hemoglobin were my two main WoW characters back when I played. I also prefer to get the very shortest names possible in MMOs, which led to Ibu and Tex for my tauren characters. I thought the latter was surprisingly fitting for a walking cow. Of course, my other method is to just look around the room and see what catches my eye. This led to a LOTRO character named Eula, which I thought had a surprisingly good ring to it.

If those methods fail, I’ll boot up my preferred [random name generator](http://www.behindthename.com/random/) and keep trying till I get something I like.

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**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-name-your-crpg-characters/478670/22 "2008-12-28T21:59:45Z")

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My hero is always Smedley Beerfart. Every other character has clues about what he is, A dwarf fighter will be Roloff . A mage will have some magical connection. Houdini for instance. A healer will be named Sweitzer or DeBakey. I don’t want to think of what he is before I move him.

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**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-name-your-crpg-characters/478670/23 "2008-12-28T23:25:41Z")

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In City of Heroes I came up with cool superhero names and then built the character around the name rather than vice-versa. Schtick (Ice/FF Controller; “Being a Tank is my Schtick!”), Ramification (a sheep themed Stone/Mace tank), Black Hat (a cowboy themed Fire/Fire dominator), and the Outsourcer (a Soldier Mastermind) were some of the more memorable ones.

When I’m playing on my own, I either randomize or just hit keys. I don’t really need anything special there.

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