Names?

VilebrothNull · Post by **VilebrothNull** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 1:38 pm

as i sit at night poundering the rules to this dauntless thing called blood bowl i now learn all your players have to have names, where can i get some quality skaven names and does anyone have any idea of good team names thanks for taking the time to read this like my earlier post siad i am new to this and could use some help.!

reagrds

vilebrothNull

Melifaxis · Post by **Melifaxis** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 1:52 pm

Welcome aboard! Try the search icon and look for player names or team names

Post by **Old Man Draco** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 1:53 pm

As for help. You can always do a search on the search engine. I myself don't mind that questions about names are repeated, cause you get some really nice ones if you keep asking.
At the moment the mind is going blank no names from my side. I usually make names with lots of a's or i's etc in it, so that they resemble each other but stay different.
I've also seen teams take the easyway. Same last name and then a different first name for every player. I don't favour the last option but he, it's a free world.

(BTW Don't let them tell you I'm an OLD loon!

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NightDragon · Post by **NightDragon** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 7:33 pm

Welcome aboard! The best way I think up names is to think of a theme. For Ratscum it is usually to do with plague and such like, but they don't all have to follow this. My new thrower, I have just invested in a rat team after years of refusing, is called Ratus Ratus. Another is called Eeza Reek and so on. You will get there. Look in Encyclopaedias, medieval history books, medical journals etc for ideas and then just corrupt the names. Its good fun. Good luck.

Melifaxis · Post by **Melifaxis** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 7:34 pm

My 2e Skaven are called Fumble Ratsky. Too bad I spend all my time posting and none painting them

MixX · Post by **MixX** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 9:19 pm

Also, your níck "Vilebroth Null" suggests that you read William King.. read through Skavenslayer, there are a lot of great Skaven characters in there for inspiration.. Again, things like "....tail", "....snout", "......snot", "....scum" etc are great names.. and don't be afraid to just call your players something wacky.. a quick list I made up on the spot:

Gurf Thicktail
Glomp Poisonskull
Bigsnout Snothead
Ratfellow McRat (joke, but this is BB mate, who cares!)
etc...!! (now THATS a good name!)

Cheers!!

MixX

Post by **Old Man Draco** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 5:49 am

MixX wrote:etc...!! (now THATS a good name!)

Cheers!!

MixX

you'd get:

etc
etc.
etc..
etc...
etc....

etc!!

Orin · Post by **Orin** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 8:30 am

At least with Skaven it isn't a problem when their names are a bit cheesy.

NightDragon · Post by **NightDragon** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 9:57 am

My ratscum I named the Sakazine WhiteSox.

Djengis_Khan · Post by **Djengis_Khan** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 11:37 am

My skaven team is named: The Ratticate Runners !
and som names for inspiration:
Vandal(stormvermin)
slick shorthand (thrower)
Rio Rat (linerat)
snef slipthrough (gutterrunner)
T.Q. (gutterrunner)
Oxeye (linerat)
Smudge (linerat)
Squiky Wheel (linerat)
Tarsh Surefeet (gutterrunner)
Ramble Jef (linerat)

hope you can do something with this

Djengis Khan

Starblayde · Post by **Starblayde** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 12:17 pm

I set up a rat-team called the Tobaro Bay Buccaneers, most of thenames were lifted out of Warhammer Armies: Skaven.
The SVs were Quark and Rikek
GRs Alarik, Ikit & Skratsquik
Kaskat was the Thrower and a smattering of other names were in their too like Throt, Borhka, Tisquik. The Grey Seer coach was Nartik.

Feel free to steal 'em

bluetooth · Post by **bluetooth** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 12:27 pm

Starblayde wrote:Skratsquik Tisquik

What? No Nesquick?

Grundgen · Post by **Grundgen** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 4:20 pm

Blister, fester and pus are pretty much the 3 magic words I've found for comming up with particularly vile rat names...

Devion Fester-grime
Kerr'ich DarkBlister
Vemmikk VommitPus

Along the same lines as nurgle almost...as I recall there were some fairly old White Dwarf magazines (cira mid-late 80s) that featured random chaos/skaven name generators...they worked with the same idea...compound words with a very dirty/plague-y feel. Just come up with a list of words/adjectives for festering type messes and go from there

Starblayde · Post by **Starblayde** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 5:16 pm

bluetooth wrote:
Starblayde wrote:Skratsquik Tisquik
What? No Nesquick?

Now that would just be silly. As well as tempting fate for some Big Guy to come and turn him into a glass of rat-flavoured milkshake.

Colin · Post by **Colin** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 2:37 am

Mmmmm...ratshake!