Turns out he’s two kobolds in a trench coat. His name depends on who’s on top that day.
The elves know me as Fi’ang Yalok. The dwarfs know me as Zoenen Hoogstandjes. And I am also known in the Northeast as Gaismunēnas Meistar.
But the local humans call me Phil the Drunkard
Seriously, why are the local humans such dicks? Had a human wizard that was known as Katherine the Great by the wizard-hating dwarves, because she spoke draconic and brokered a peace between them and the kobolds. The orcs called her Katherine the Timeless, because she got ahold of a potion of heal, and a philosopher’s stone before her 17th birthday, and made herself a potion of eternal youth/ immortality. The local humans called her Katherine Lady of Death…
Fangy Yelly
Hey if it’s good enough for From software…
Or when you didn’t come up with a name for an NPC.
“There are those that call me… Tim?”
I’m looking at you, Olórin, Mithrandir, Incánus, Tharkûn, Greyhame, Stormcrow, Láthspell, and/or Gandalf.
Different scenario but in my first time dming I ended up naming two characters Phil… they were both bandits.
That’s when you turn it into a running gag, and see if anyone notices before they’re clearing out whole camps simply named “Phil”.
Lol, they didn’t outright kill all the bandits so they ran into them again several levels later. It was a fun time
Adventure is Nigh (a D&D actual play starring Yahtzee) had both a prisoner and a guard called Jeremy in episode 1. It was pointed out, so roughly a quarter of the NPCs in season 1 were named Jeremy.
Hah, my first time, I had one of the bandits yell “Sammy!” to another, a name I just grabbed on impulse. Sammy was also one of the PC’s names…
