Name The Party: the Challengers of Destiny & the Company of the Broken Spear

Name The Party - Ready? Set? GO Let's use this thread to brainstorm ideas for a Name for the Party, this collective of PC's adventuring in Homebrew World. We'll take remarks here, both serious names and jokes for the next 6 days, then eventually I'll nominate some of the best suggestions.   Finally we will wait for a game-day on voice-chat to have group discussion and then official voting. The Party name will spread with your reputation. Name The Party - Quote From Mora I told the Lizardmen to let them know I found the body (okay and give the rest of the team credit too). That's when I realized we didn't have a name for our group! That we must do before we seek counsel with the Lizard King! Name The Party - Influences / Inspirations / Examples The Fellowship Of The Ring (Lord Of The Rings) The Avengers (Marvel Comics) The X-Men (Marvel Comics) The Party (D&D) 15 Men On A Dead Man's Chest (pirate song) Cable Boys (Legend Of Wooley Swamp) The Lords Of Waterdeep (Forgotten Realms D&D) The Knights Of Myth Drannor (Forgotten Realms D&D) Feel free to name some famous examples you like, in your response. Just mark which ones are sourced from existing movies/literature, and which ideas are your new ones for the current Party and homebrew campaign. Name The Party - POST YOUR IDEAS HERE Unlimited ideas, I would like to get at least some remarks or input from every Player. Feel free to brainstorm and lay a list on the table. Post your favorite nickname for the Party, that one you want to push for, or give several proposals and extend discussion. I'll give a few names to kindle the thread, after this I would like to see ideas from all the different players! Children Of Night (Jim Morrison lyrics) Her Purple Legion (Jim Morrison lyrics) Brothers & Sisters Of The Pale Forest (Jim Morrison lyrics) Frog & His Friends Beard & Company We're With The Count The Developers The Cartographers Radio Free Portlandio Portlandio Independent Syndicate Homebrew World Adventurers (With Attitude) List of names you think of ________________________

The Saviours of the Swamp The Things A Dysfunctional Family Mora and the Gang Sanvar and Friends Saving Private Airen(Saving Private Ryan) Torvald and the Beards Horuhk's Hiccoughs Baldur's Gatekeepers (Baldur's Gate) The Silence of the DM (Silence of the Lambs) Our Little Group The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (movie and graphic novel of the same name) Iron Maiden (self-explanatory)

The Wandering Zoo ***Too tired to think of anything else at the moment***

I have to say, I like Beard & Company, or Beard & Co. Other ideas: The Adventuring Legion ... yeah that's all I got for now.

Ryan C. Gaskin said: Mora and the Gang That's pretty good too.

i may be new, but i have an idea Heroes of Might & Magic, or just plain Might & Magic (Game series by Jon Van Caneghem )

A Case of Mistaken Identity.

Five finger discount Trogdor! Burning Sensation Mr. Sniblee's Neighborhood Donut of Bonego Beard Incorporated Fan Fiction

* grin * Great work, team.  We got some material to work with here. Everyone who is currently active in the campaign has participated and pitched some potential party names. I'll consider my DM response, and narrow down a list of Nominations. We can discuss, vote and pick an actual name in the session on Tuesday this week. Last minute ideas will still be taken, here in this thread, up to session-time on Tuesday 22nd.

Seriously, though, since we all have pasts we're overcoming and some idea what "fate has planned," that we don't necessarily want to obey: The Challengers of Destiny.

That is a good proposal, Larry. I want focus our nominations on those that are collective. Every single Player-contributor in this thread has mentioned at least 1 name that would work. Probably the main recommendation from me as DM is going to be --- while I think Beard & Company is really funny and good --- I think the name we choose should be some kind of League or Society that is not named for 1 particular PC leader. So we will have League Of Justice, not Superman's League.  We will have The Avengers, not Iron Man's Avengers. I'll bring forward a list of the qualifying nominations, and open it for discussion in-game today. See you all for game time in 45 minutes!

Name selected by the group!!! The Challengers Of Destiny: The Wandering Zoo

Announcement! February 2016 It's time to take suggestions for a Party Name for the current group, currently called by the DM codename "PC2". PC2 party participants who can contribute party-name suggestions: * SOLID **Baradin**, horse-riding knightly Cavalier gated-in from a distant Arthurian land. * LARRY **Sigma**, Minotaur Ranger Path-maker and forester, with "Furnace" his fire-drake companion. * PAUL **Rajhad**, hooded Halfling rogue with acrobatics. * PAUL **Swargen**, Tall Norse Cleric of Thor. * CHRIS **Wei-Ting**, Flind Earthbender, a type of dog-man with dirt-powers. * SILKS **Cylara Silverbane**, Wild Elf Witch Mage who helps many in spite of being viewed with suspicion. * HANS **Friar Hugo**, Human Priest of Ilmater the God of Suffering. * AEPOD **Ampton Whistlebell**, Gnome Rogue Tinkerer Thief. The Shivering Wagondraggers will be your party name unless the group produces better names to nominate! Ready? Set? Pitch us your best D&D party name for this group ___________ The window is open to list 1 or more (unlimited) suggestions from each Player, from now until next game session date (closing Feb. 29). Post your ideas in this thread, whenever you think of some. Let's get a conversation going this week. Thread needs input from all. On Monday, as DM, I will select the leading Nominations from all brainstorm suggestions submitted timely in this thread.  We will decide the final name together, in-game, next week. Read the thread above, where the group named the original party 5 months ago.  The Challengers Of Destiny are the umbrella organization. The PC2 party is a sub-unit who can have their own name. Your PC2 may choose to join the Challengers Of Destiny when you reach Portlandio, but you can still have a party identity as an independent group wing from your days as the current PC2 party. Here are a couple of name generators to get your gears turning: NAMES SUGGESTED SO FAR: 1. The Shivering Wagondraggers 2.  3. 4. 5. 6. 7/

Challengers CD-2... hey, it worked for Stargate SG-1. Bravo Company? Task Force Frostbite The Skinners The Mullet: Business In The Front, Party In The Back.

Strategic Salvage And Rescues, Limited Salvation Squad The Unclean-Sweepers The Oddsbreakers The Benign Bloodletters

T'gai (Throw Gnome At It) The Greater Portlandio Area Monster Relocation and Employment Service The Freshmakers The Better Ways Bureau Kneecappers For Justice

The Specialists Heroes Mostly Scouts, Scavengers and Spellmakers Bob The Hydra of Hostility : cut off one head, the others get twice as pissed off at you.

Been There, Happened To It The League Of Adorable Warriors First Bank Of Whupass The Here Let Me Keep That For You Society

Furnace And Friends Furnace Repair Which Witch Is Which Talk About Suffering Here Below Rockbent Bent Not Broken The Path Makers Baba Rara Cucu Dada Celestial Explorers Avingon Celebre The Cow-herders The Cow-riders Homebrew Heroes

Furnace and Friends... you know, in his head, we're all probably supporting characters?  And the animated show is about him, and we're his dorky followers? The BOVINATORS MEEP (Meets or Exceeds Expectations Party) Tall To Small Lightnin'-callin', Rock-fallin', Head-smashin', Maul-mashin', Spell-slingin', Revenge-bringin', Knee-cappin', Butt-slappin', Fire-spittin', Crit-hittin', Arbitrators By Force Of Any Moral Ambiguity We Encounter, Band Of General And Specific Issue Explorers, Rescuers, Slayers And Adventurers. (The Challengers of Destiny) ...And The E Street Band.

I would almost have to vote for: The Oddsbreakers - As we have overcome so much adversity on this campaign.

I second Oddsbreakers. I also like Throw a gnome at It.

The Mouse Cart-eers Then A Gnome Came Along With A Catapult And A Song Winter Went Homebrew Safari Astral Weeks Astral Travelers We Are Fire We Are Death The Zookeepers The Pixies Fan Club Awa Avatars By Crom Aye Crom Rumba Friends Of The Vulf Think of a couple more to pitch out,  Aepod, Solid, Silks, Paul.. DM wants to prod all Players to add new suggestions into the thread, even comedy ones at this point. I happen to agree with Solid and Aepod for building consensus towards Larry's wording, up thread. The Oddsbreakers is a fitting name, that will be on the official nominations for Monday. But that means the thread is still open for everyone to say some small list of random names. I want to roll into Monday with titles from a few players on the table, even if The Oddsbreakers is odds-on favorite. Embrace Yourselves - It's Your Name Day

The Company of the Broken Spear (in honor of our destroying Alkarg) Pixie Liberation Front (freeing the pixies)

Excellent. I was trying to think of one referencing Alkarg without saying that evil name, Alkarg.

How about: Snowplowers Beefcake & the Bunions Shining Knight & the Dirty Peasants The Porlandio Scouts: Brawnies Ride the Furnace Inglorious Menagerie Have Spear will Travel Chuck It Xaren Tears for Fears Ilmater: The Suffering  The JV team Spear Breakers Death Pixies Gotta have more Cowbell The Popsicles

The nominations list is coming together! There's something I like about having a variety of super-delegates on the voting list for this. Thanks for the above, laughs, Larry , Solid , and Silks .  So I will still prod Aepod for a few off-the-cuff names by Monday, and then we will have a plurality.   If Paul , Hans , or Eddyall suggest party names, that will be a bonus. Advanced Democracy: Caucus Masters Guide. I will choose the official nominations for everyone to vote Monday from the suggestions in this thread. I'm seeing several that I plan to pick for you all to vote & choose the winning name.

I wish I could come up with some names. I am suffering from some sort of writer's block on this task haha. Perhaps information overload looking at all the clever names people have had so far! 

Aepod said: I wish I could come up with some names. I am suffering from some sort of writer's block on this task haha. Perhaps information overload looking at all the clever names people have had so far!  Alright, fair enough, I'll go easy on you. (After this.) 25 more minutes til this thread closes, if you can think of one now, try this trick ---- D on't you have a fake band-name you always wanted to make or hear?  The Pods?  The Catapulters? Adventurerers Of The PHP?

How about Gnome or GO Home!

RainbowSilks said: The Company of the Broken Spear (in honor of our destroying Alkarg) By party vote from the DM's nominations, the new name of the PC2 party is officially declared: The Company of the Broken Spear And your reputation starts to be sung by the bards, in this title. When the Company returns to Portlandio they may choose to join the larger PC league and original party: the Challengers of Destiny.  The Company of the Spear can be played as an independent sub-team of the Challengers Of Destiny. Only those who are-were originally really in the Company can call themselves members of the Company. The Challengers is a larger, adventuring justice league led by some formidable PC's, who are already patrons of the individual members of the Company of the Broken Spear.

This party is an interesting roster that's played lately around 9th-13th level, 6 regular players 12 PC's 5 Chaotics 5 Lawfuls 5 Good PC's 2 Lawful Good 1 True Neutral PC 1 Evil PC 4 mage-casting 3 priest types 3 roguish 3 warrior classed 3 humans 2 oni 1 bullywug, pixie, ogre-mage, elf, half-elf, dwarf, halfling Chris Airen CN Bullywug Conjurer Mage Chris Puck CN Pixie Necromancer Lex Fuku LN Oni Samurai Lex Torhild LE Ogre-Mage Bard who polymorphs daily Andy Jacob LG Human Priest of Helm Andy Sebastian NN Half-Elf Assassin Rogue Paul Swargen CG Norse Priest of Thor Paul Ultrix NG Elf Militant Wizard Paul Rajhad LN Halfling Thief Solid Torvald CG Dwarf Fighter Solid Baradin LG Human Cavalier Wicked Hemaskas CN Oni Priest of Raven Will this Party get their own name?

Archiving the Party Roster status from The Challengers Of Destiny / Adventures In Homebrew World campaign. ## Evolving world. Character development. ### Relaunched 2015. Continuation 2016, now 2017. Cast includes... #### PC1: The Challengers Of Destiny (original party, now around 10th-13th level): * ★ **Airen**, the unpredictable Bullywug frog-man Conjurer mage, who sometimes rides a giant fly, and "Rhubarb" his Reincarnated Gnome follower (formerly a possessed undead dracolich, originally a Faerie Dragon familiar). * ★ **Torvald**, a peerless Dwarf Fighter who started as an Axe For Hire and rose to become known as The Beard. In love with Hu-Hsien. * **Phoenix Horukh The Golden (formerly, Margrave Horukh The Ashen) (formerly, Count Horukh The Silver)**, Noble Kenku Kemetic Cleric wracked by visions, later kidnapped and interrogated, then freed and appointed executive of Portlandio Province, eventually reborn in the tamped eruption of Active Volcano. * ★ **Swargen**, Tall Norse Cleric of Thor, questing to defeat the tricks of Loki in Asgard to learn secret Midgard locations in our Homebrew World to recover Thor's missing artifacts. #### PC2: The Company of the Broken Spear (currently around 9th-12th level): * ★ **Baradin**, horse-riding knightly Cavalier gated-in from a distant Arthurian land. Became a father. * **Sigma**, Minotaur Ranger Path-maker and forester, with "Furnace" his fire-drake companion. * **Wei-Ting**, Flind Earthbender, a type of dog-man with dirt-powers. * **Cylara Silverbane**, they are an Wild Elf Witch Mage who helps many in spite of being viewed with suspicion. * **Ampton Whistlebell**, Gnome Rogue Tinkerer Thief who re-engineered the Apparatus Of Kwalish submarine for extraplanar travel. * ★**Agent Rajhad**, hooded Halfling Thief with acrobatics and it has Kender dreams; now working for General Yi Bang. #### PC4: (currently around 9th-11th level): * **Azur**, Human Barbarian from Enthegal, left on a mission and returned again. * ★ **Hemaskas**, Oni Raven Priest, masked spirit cleric with feathered shield, attended by clacking black birds. * **Grubar**, Half Ogre Fighter. * ★**Ultrix**, Militant Mage. Sought by the exiled military subversive Kizoku. * ★**Jacob**, a human Watcher priest of Helm. #### PC5: (currently around 9th-11th level): * ★**Torhild**, Ogre Magi who polymorphs daily; reincarnated from Dwarf Skald. * ★**Fuku Hime**, Oni Samurai pledged to her Lord the imperial dragon General Yi Bang. * ★**Sebastian Oakes - The Scarlet Echo**, Half-Elf Assassin Rogue. #### XPC's, Player-Characters who have retired, died, or on hiatus: * **In Town: Kryikh**, a Kenku Bird-man Transmuter (mage specialist in Alteration) with his Owl Familiar. * **Elsewhere: Sandoval**, Elf Warrior Trickster. * **In Town: Friar Hugo**, Human Priest of Ilmater the God of Suffering. * **Elsewhere near Honshar: Millicent**, she's a Militant Elf Mage with an elven coshee dog familiar. * **In Town: Mora**, she's a Half-Elf Rogue Box-man. * **In Swamp Cave: Sanvar of the Scasss**, Lizardman Fighter Barbarian. * **In Town: Kaz**, Minotaur Dawn Priest. * **Elsewhere: Jade**, Rakasta Ninja. * **Controlled: Peek**, often invisible Pixie Thief with a silver collar around his neck. * **Died: Birgitta**, Norse Priestess of Hel. * **Died: Sizi**, Half Orc Fighter. She was liquified by WaterBenderLich. * **Died: Nell**, Elf Thief, swallowed whole by a Yu Lung carp dragon underwater. * **Died: Vriska**, Half-Drow Spider Druid, smooshed and lightning-fried when in the Dread Crown form of 360 spiders. * **Died: Lhiannan SheeFrog**, Beautiful Bullywug Bard who happens to be undead, she adds power to the party but drained energy from Airen. Exploded by Emerald Dragon sonic boom. * **In Town Vicinity: Sabanyan**, ??? some kind of Bird-Man Bard. * **Near Town: Gregory**, a Peasant Hero Fighter from the rural farmlands of Portlandio Peninsula. * **Up North: Kricket**, Kobold Priest with a horned lizard pet. * **Near Tower Descent: Crixus**, Goblin Ranger survivor from a Gladiator background. * **Near Tower Descent: Xrobag**, Goblin Thief Tunnel Rat riding a worg. * **Near Tower Descent: Dominik**, a Gray Dwarf Duergar Thief from very deep underground. * **In Retirement: Chakavi**, Human Elder Veteran Warrior from a distant legion. * **Migrating West: Yokoyama**, Elf Sorceress with a flair for wild magic surges. * **In the Forest near Town: Baart**, Satyr Jester Bard with pan pipes playing magic flute music. * **Searching for the Fountain of Youth: Valkenhayn**, Rakasta Catfolk Invoker mage, early graduate from a distant civilization's magic schools. Yes, we have a bird-man; a frog-man with a faerie-dragon, plus a dwarf, half-elf, and plentiful various NPC's (Human, Leprechaun, Aquatic Elf, etc). It is a multicultural menagerie.