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    Bugbear in the Playground
     
    PaladinGuy

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    Default Need a Name for a Faction!

    I allowed one of my players to play a warforged despite them not being a part of my setting if he'd figure out the details.

    He decided he was the prototype for a sort of super-soldier. His story is that many different specialists put aside their differences and tried to create something together, and created Robocop. He eventually learned to override his 'programming' and ran away. He didn't want this faction to be a part of the story, and that he'd traveled very far to make sure they'd never find him.

    Problem is, I need a name. What would this sort of group call themselves, a collection of specialists from all sorts of profession with the goal of creating Robocops?

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    NecromancerGuy

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    OldWizardGuy

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    The emporium

    5min of thought that's all i got

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    Orc in the Playground
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    The Most Prestigious and Secretive Order of Arcanists, Smiths, and Martial Adepts for the Promotion of Excellence in Innovation.

    Or “The Order”, for short.

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    The Forge of Peace

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    Bugbear in the Playground
     
    PaladinGuy

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    Ya'll are the best <3

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    Orc in the Playground
     
    BlackDragon

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    The Iron Fist?

    Or the Iron Smiths if wanting something slightly more subtle. It's simultaneously threatening and open to gags where confused listeners mistake the group for mundane what-the-heck-else-would-you-be-smithing smiths.

    Rulers' Refinery, if the countries themselves backed the research.
    Last edited by dragoeniex; 2019-08-25 at 11:31 PM.

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    Default Re: Need a Name for a Faction!

    Alternatively, the identity would be placed around the project rather than the team involved. Project manhunter, the enforcement project, etc
    Roll for it
    5e Houserules and Homebrew
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    Bugbear in the Playground
     
    OldWizardGuy

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    Give them a sigil that is unpronounceable (and is branded onto the warforged's butt). No need to have a Common name.

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    Default Re: Need a Name for a Faction!

    Quote Originally Posted by Bjarkmundur View Post
    I allowed one of my players to play a warforged despite them not being a part of my setting if he'd figure out the details.

    He decided he was the prototype for a sort of super-soldier. His story is that many different specialists put aside their differences and tried to create something together, and created Robocop. He eventually learned to override his 'programming' and ran away. He didn't want this faction to be a part of the story, and that he'd traveled very far to make sure they'd never find him.

    Problem is, I need a name. What would this sort of group call themselves, a collection of specialists from all sorts of profession with the goal of creating Robocops?
    He's from crashed spelljammer ship, or he entered a one way portal, or bargained with world hopping entity so he's literally worlds away from his creators.
    Nale is no more, he has ceased to be, his hit points have dropped to negative ten, all he was is now dust in the wind, he is not Daniel Jackson dead, he is not Kenny dead, he is final dead, he will not pass through death's revolving door, his fate will not be undone because the executives renewed his show for another season. His time had run out, his string of fate has been cut, the blood on the knife has been wiped. He is an Ex-Nale! Now can we please resume watching the Order save the world.

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    Barbarian in the Playground
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    Default Re: Need a Name for a Faction!

    Every one of the following can also double as a band name for the bards playing at the tavern:

    The Ferrous Legion

    The Clockwork Conquest

    The Silicon Shamans

    The Transresistors

    Those What Play At God

    The Arcadian Institute for Advanced Life Studies

    Bob, of the Builders

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    Bugbear in the Playground
     
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    I don't have any specific suggestions, because my brain is tired, but you could consider adapting or just plain using the name of a real-life masonic or similar order/society.

    Add in words like Brethren, Fraternal Order, or somesuch, and you're good to go!
    ~ Composer99

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    Adventures in Eaphandra

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    This can be found in my extended homebrew signature!

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