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2011-04-08, 12:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Name for a Pirate
I need help with names for a few swashbuckling NPC's. I'm terrible at names, so I'm requesting your help. They should be fairly serious (no puns, please), and should be realistic for a campaign that's sort of set in the 1600-1700's.
The setting is essentially "Carribean pirates if magic existed and guns didn't."
I need a name for a captain, a cook, a gunner (blasty sorcerer), and a first mate. They're all human or half-elven.
My thanks in advance.
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2011-04-08, 12:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Name for a Pirate
http://donjon.bin.sh/name/#elvish_male and http://www.rinkworks.com/namegen/ may be of use to you.
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2011-04-08, 12:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Name for a Pirate
Captain [INSERT COLOR HERE]beard.
Wait. I take that back.
Captain [INSERT ADJECTIVE HERE]beard.
No, wait, I take that back again. I forgot elves and half elves can't grow beards.
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The Dread Captain Nullbeard.
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2011-04-08, 01:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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When I think of pirates I don't see people with stong family ties or a very standard home life. So family names don't seem to fit as well. It follows that they might give themselves names e.g. Blackbeard, Bluebeard, etc. So it's not far out there to think that at least some part of their name would relate to a distinguishing feature or prehaps their profession.
Captain Darius Windrunner- an half-elf quick of mind and body.
John Cooke, Butcher, or Fish - the ships cook probably doesn't have a fancy name, because if he were really charasmatic or intelligent he'd probably be doing something more important than cooking.
Janissary- 'cannoneer' female human blaster. her friends call her Jan or Sari. (Janissaries were turkish fighters that were some of the earliest to upgrade to firearms as standard equipment IIRC)
'Crackshot' McGillicutty or Muldoone- blaster type
Montgomery - First mate- human
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2011-04-08, 01:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Are any of them missing bits? "One-ear" and "Ninefingers" always make fun epithets. For the sorcerer, maybe "Shipburner"? As in Josyas Shipburner and Captain James Ninefingers. I can't think of anything for the first mate, and every cook-related name I can think of is a silly pun.
Edited to give real-world first namesLast edited by PollyOliver; 2011-04-08 at 02:13 PM.
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2011-04-08, 02:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Just call the cook 'Cookie'. Simple and descriptive. And if you later want puns, have him wander around the ship singing "The sea is for Cookie, it's good enough for me..."
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Set in our world? I'm a fan of Spanish and French names for pirates, really.
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The captain should be called Fullbeard, which buys him a round of confusion if he needs it when they find out he's clean-shaven.
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Captain [INSERT COLOR HERE]beard.
Wait. I take that back.
Captain [INSERT ADJECTIVE HERE]beard.
No, wait, I take that back again. I forgot elves and half elves can't grow beards.
Captain Fistbeard Beardfist?Last edited by Pokonic; 2011-04-08 at 06:16 PM.
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Re: Name for a Pirate
uh... Dread Pirate Roberts. Come on, you had to see that one coming.
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2011-04-08, 06:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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One of the famous pirates from my Campaign:
All-Hands OnDeck-A flamboyant halfling pirate.
Also nautical/ship terms are popular with pirates. Things like 'big sail' or 'hard hull' or the classic keel as in keelhaul.
Also sea terms, like shark bait, squid eye, hard wave, or briney deep.
And all fun fun goofy ones:
Exxon Landho--who once ran his ship around...
Titantic Icebottom--who once hit an iceberg...
Argo GoldenFleece--an expolorer and avdenturer
Bismark Ironbottom--A big, mean troll
Friday Luckystar--who has bad and good luck
Edmund Fitzgerald-I live on the Great Lakes
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2011-04-08, 06:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-04-08, 07:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Can I post these on this thread? Or do you want to post them?
Last edited by Hiro Protagonest; 2011-04-08 at 07:01 PM.
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2011-04-08, 07:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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http://www.piratenames.net/
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Anyone from here
Or to make your own, the typical way to do it is:
Take a normal name. (first or last)
Take an object related to pirates.
Optional: Take an adjective to add to the object or just use an adjective instead.
Examples:
Cannonball Bill or Short Cannon Bill
Silver Gun Stevens
Peg Leg Pete
Hungry Parrot Elye
Black Anchor Tom
Hairless Arthur
Two Patch Angus (ok, I sort of stole that from Yogscast)
The Cruel Pirate Lewis
You get the idea.
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2011-04-08, 09:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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I simply cannot have a pirate crew without naming the bo'sun Higgs. It's just not possible.
My last campaign actually primarily used a pirate ship for base camp, but the NPC crew mostly used the racial guidelines for their names rather than piratey names. Which is to say, they just kept whatever names they had before they became pirates. A bit prosaic, but you might consider switching a couple of the names up like that, unless you want this to be the piratiest bunch of pirates ever to pirate a pirated thing.
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2011-04-08, 10:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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I must input the idea of a cook named Gibs. Pronounced "Jibbs," like in giblets. I don't think it's unrealistic for the cook's name to be a food pun.
"Cooky" always works, too.
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2011-04-08, 10:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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What about... Captain Derryk Cutlass? Derryk meaning "the people's ruler" and cutlass meaning... Well, awesome pointy thing. Therefore, ruling by the sword.
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I was gonna point to my avatar and suggest you use the name Roberts, but looks like someone beat me to it.
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"Magnus Warfield" is the best pirate name i've ever heard.
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Please do
And rather than just continue to blather on not on topic...
A lot of sailors were common people with common names based on their family trade. It's entirely realistic to name people Smith, Cook, Cooper, etc., and translate into a different language if you want. Personally, I've found that pirates are more interesting when they have fairly common names rather than exotic ones.