D&D Players, What did you name your party, and why?
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- I don’t know if this is universal, but something my group loves to do is give our group a name - kinda like a band - to be known by, far and wide. When bards sing of us, they sing of the (GROUPNAMEHERE). I always thought that was a really fun part of playing through a long campaign, especially when those names come from a memorable moment. So, DND players; what did you name your party, and why?
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That and Caleb speaking German.
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"The Mighty Nen"
Seriously?
Love all the backstories for the rest!
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"The Domers"
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band of heroes (and their wizard/fixer of accidental catastrophies)
champions of the pantheon (and their cleric/frustrated godslayer)
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Thank you. Glad to be one of the three. ^_^
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The Gang gives murder-hoboing a bad name."
Because if being a DM ain't Charlie Work, I don't know what is.
The Arson Hobos.
Session 1, they burned down a house right out of the gate. Session 2, they burned down an orphanage (aquitted).
To date, they have burned down a whole town. Three warehouses, two ships, a tomb, half a forest, a tower, a fortress, two dungeons, and one mine.
They like fire to deal with enemies.
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“We’ve always been called ‘The Turtle [Friends]’, and nothing else.”
-Puffin Forest (Probably)
This was in the first ever D&D Campaign that we ever finished.
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From that day forward, our group would be known as "The Bane Slayers"
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The druid befriended a puffer fish which proceeded to kill a pirate who fell overboard. They made a pufferfish and crossbone flag and the Jolly Puffers are now the most legendary crew on the high seas. For pirates, the puffer flag spells death. For innocent sailors, it is the promise of swift and humorous rescue.
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@dingusbuttonproductions9356 that sounds painful for the character. What's your class?
@@connormeriwether4486 my character is a scythe wielding Rogue
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DM here, my party named itself..."Pellowschjp of the Phandalin" no typo's present... Playing shattered obelisk and...what can i say. The "the" is just the icing on top
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My first group never had a name, but I lovingly called us "The Frrrrrriend Group" as 5/6 players chose names that started with R (Rook, Reed, Rui, Raiden, Rrihan) and one with F (Fen). We had a good laugh introducing our characters.
Really miss that frrrrrriend group
7:20 I was not expecting Utada. You guys are awesome.
Our dragonborn wanted to have a party name for a long time. After many failed ideas, he finally came up with "the Scaley's". Due to the fact that all but my human artificer has scales. Which the dragonborn later addressed by carving scales into my armor while my character was asleep.
recently finished a long campaign set in Tal'Dorei where we took on the name "Dragon's Bane" because our first major accomplishment was saving a town from a black dragon. currently playing in a campaign in a homebrew setting where the group called themselves "The Fae Fire Court" because almost the entire party were fae, save for me as i play as a tiefling who turned into a dragon(setting thing that can happen)
Coffin Dodgers: Clone Wars campaign. We went MIA due a hyperspace accident. After finding our way back to the republic the acting officer (my character) chose to name the squad “Coffin Dodgers”. He was promptly killed the next session by a Zilo beast and the squad apparently hated the name, but no one actually made any effort to change it so it stuck. In all irony, despite order 66, not another member of that squadron died, including two Jedi and a fuck up, until the most senior of the group died holding off Vader due to being the only one able to act despite their fear.
We're named 'The Cow Gang.'
In this homebrew roleplay our DM made, the world they made had cows non-existent. My characters found this out, and we called ourselves 'The Cow Gang' to confuse our NPCs.
This left us just mooing whenever we're in battle, like some sort of battle cry.
Pet shop rejects: a tall tabaxi, a really short kenku, and an albino kobold
Our team in an Evil campaign is Op-Four. Before that, we were a resistance movement called Delta-Ohm
My party is called the Company of the Purple Sombrero - because they were given sombreros and potions of purpling, and they decided to make it their trademark.
My group has come up with a few names.
1) Bootpig Colony. The players were members of a down-on-its-luck mercenary guild, so they picked an appropriate name.
2) The Silent Ferry. More for the ship they piloted, the Silent Ferry. It started in a Star Wars campaign, as a smuggling ship. In a normal fantasy campaign, it became a ship that would ferry people around while keeping a low profile. Unfortunately for the fantasy gang, the Silent Ferry's captain and owner, Herbert, had to take the ship for wartime use and leave the party behind. However, he did pull some strings and get them a gift.
3) The Wayward Sherbert. Another ship name. After the Silent Ferry was taken away, the party was gifted a refurbished ship they had captured earlier in the campaign. They wanted to name it after Herbert, but the player who suggested the name made a typo and it stuck.
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Swung his Warhammer near the edge of a cliff, and failed a skill check miserably🤦
Cliffhangers (I didn't come up with it)
We never named our parties. Reason being, the players that would DM would get bored of DMing so quickly, we would end up playing with a whole new batch of characters every few weeks or so. Sometimes the "new" DM would want characters of a certain level range for his new "campaign" and we'd be able to use a previous character and gain some more XP over the next few weeks, but the combination of characters would often be different every time we switched DMs. As a result, we each managed to gather a small collection of numerous characters of varying XP levels to choose from every time there was a DM switch. But we never had a single group work together long enough to choose a party name.
“Mistakes Were Made” - Because our campaigns generally involve a lot of them
Me and a few friends decided we wanted an evil campaign. We also let Chatgpt be our GM. It kept throwing necromancers at us so we started collecting all their necromantic items. My harengon bard started integrating the staffs of raising corpses into his lute, so now his music makes the dead rize under my command. The running joke is that no one in the game world knows we're secretly villains. So we call ourselves "The Evil Killers", everyone thinks we kill evil but in reality we're evil and we kill.
I occasionally run a superhero game, as a break from D&D. Normally, the players roll randomly to see what super-powers they get. But for one campaign, I decided to let them pick their powers, thinking they would come up with some odd and interesting combinations. Instead, the min-maxer of the group sat down and came up with the most "optimal" build he could think of, and convinced everyone else to copy it. Imagine an Avengers movie with six Iron Mans in it. I was not thrilled. Since they all took "intangibility" as a defense, and all used Charisma as their dump stat, I sarcastically called them "The Ugly Ghost Squad", and the name stuck.
"Semtex" yes like the explosive it was a abriviation which became lost over time.
Well the origin story behind it was when someone asked what is going on, me (we are a german group) said "Mord, totschlag und schlechte entscheidungen (MTSE for short)" translates to "Murder, homicide and bad decisions" our DM worked wit these words and made Semtex out of it.
My current group is called "The Coolest", because, we are, in fact the coolest:tm:.
I may have been the one to suggest this name, and the dm may have been amused to hear that, and kept it, and so. Here we are!
Mr. Ripper, Musical Edition
All-Bard party called "The Minstrel Cycle"
Thieves guild called "Smooth 'n' Whet" and everyone had related names like "Slip" and "Sly" and "Slice".
We play in a modern urban city where rifts from other worlds open and bring in people and monsters. Due to this the city has been getting the nickname hazards gambit. Our group had long thought about our group name without setteling on anything until I came up with gambit riders, loosely based on "riding on the razors" edge because we were getting into more and more dangerous situations. It kinda stuck from there on^^
The Embers of the Flame, ember because we are good friends with this axolotl druid called ember, he’s chaotic, free and pure and we all love him, we even gifted him his own demi-plane. Flame, because we fight to keep the flame of hope alive.
Our group called ourselves " Death stalkers " we dealt in worlds on the brink of oblivion to take back their knowledge to store away for the forgotten realm. Fought the very worse in the nine hells and the depths of the aybss itself to prevent calamities ment to be told. Think of us as.. your bad day prevention plan
Noodle Arm Harem
It was Curse of Strahd. We were a Plasmoid Druid, an Elf Rogue, and Kobold Warlock. I was the druid.
The elf was a feisty and smart character, I was a wanderer druid who loved to learn about culture and observe people, and the kobold was an argumentative sweet-sour young kobold.
Between the three of us, every last one of us has strength as our dump stat, not a positive strength modifier between us. While in the death house the rogue of course, decided to loot the place.
They found a maid outfit.
Then eventually we got Ireena to join up. It was the first character who had a positive strength modifier, and wasn't even a full PC. After, we got another player to join up, and they played a fighter. We found him suddenly having teleported to us, right in a tree. Still asleep. I remember thinking, "How the hell is he still asleep?" and then I saw his stats. He dumped intelligence. "Oh, he's an idiot." He was also a dex based fighter, so only had like, +1 to strength checks, max.
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"The Bath Beers!"
Well it's pretty self explanatory but every time we go to an inn we get a bath and a round of beers
My character is skeleton clad in full heavy armor trying to keep that detail hidden
So it's the other players trying to get him to come out of his shell
My group has named our selves "The Orthodontists", this is because we have started to take the teeth from all of out fallen enemies. for some more context, we where fighting Goblins and already had to return evidence of the kills in order to collect the bounty, this lead out bipolar half-orc priest to start to take their teeth so he could decorate his club. We have now canonically invented the disassembly line.
We were 'Dumbasses and Dragons', because regardless of what our character's intelligence levels may have been, we always ended up in really stupid situations. Like when we needed to cross a river, so the rogue built a human raft using other party members, including the druid, the wizard, and the ranger.
My group got paid by one of my NPCs who hired them to do odd jobs for her that her status as a member of the Order of the Gauntlet would forbid her from being officially involved in. After a long enough time and a recurring joke of her paying them by pulling bags of gold from hammerspace located under her desk, one player mischievously implied that the NPC was their sugar momma for constantly paying them for "services" that had to "kept off the books". Eventually the group (which includes mostly people who are in their early twenties) started calling themselves the Sugar Babies. The next time they called that NPC their sugar momma to her face, however, she smacked them all over the head and warned them to never do it again. Not that it stopped them
In our current campaign, our Artificer came up with the name “Quality Assured”.
We have yet to have anyone call us out for false advertising, despite the destruction we leave in our wake.
Not technically the group name, but kind of. Our group playing pathfinder were starting off needing a ship to travel on a quest to find clues on the source of a poisoned/tainted drug that took the sanity of the local lords daughter. We find some shifty man with a stolen boat (we learned that later) and eventually due to reasons, we had to rename the ship. Everyone is slinging names like "Excaliber" "Dawn Runner" "Enterprise" or who knows (frankly I forgot the other options) BUT my ork, being a simple, straight forward type blurts out "The Floatswell, because... it floats well"
After everyone stopped laughing it became unanimous, and so we became the new captain and crew of "The Floats-Well"
The Holy Trinity, two clerics and a paladin
The Graphnar Fist. In honor of a tiny mention in the Commodore version of Bard's Tale I or II
3 D&D games, the first one i DM'd the party called themselves Fate's Fortune, the players wanted to continue in the same world with said first party's children who's party name was Fate's Order, and then they wanted to go even further with number 3 and finishing out the family's story with the grandchildren, as Fate's Legacy. 3 generations of adveturers, 3 names, 3 epic stories, and i kinda wish it wouldnt end, but at this point almost the entire party is related lol😂
Well, I _wanted_ to name our party "The Order of the Falling Boots" because in our first session, multiple goblins were killed because we purposefully jumped off a cliff and landed on them. Side note: when it became obvious that we would win, we demanded that the goblins surrender, and one of them responded that only the chief can authorize a surrender. When we asked how we could tell who the chief was so we could find him, he said the chief had distinctive tattoos all over his body. One of us then scrapped a piece of tattooed flesh off his boot and asked, "Like this?" That was him, emphasis on "was". What played out after that was like an HBO drama starring goblins, but that's a story for another time. Since then, we'd made jumping on enemies like the Mario Bros. a mainstay in our repertoire of tactics. However, half the players were fans of the show _The Boys,_ so we named ourselves that, but with a "z". That's what happens when the DM suddenly tells you to vote on a group name instead of letting one develop naturally.
Now that we've started a new campaign, but with most of the original party, we're still kind of using the name, but I've been subtly pushing for "The Devil-Touched Angels", since people who hate us have been calling us "Devil-Touched" and people who love us have been calling us "Angels", and I think we should own it.
Also, did you remix the outro music? It sounds different.
One of the most annoying things about my DND party is that we NEVER really come up with party names. It's only long after the game is done that we typically think one up. This is despite us having several campaigns and 8+ years playing together.
That being said, on a blue moon, we sometimes agree on a name. Here are a few of my favorites:
-The Murder of Heroes / Murderhobos
These heroes actually managed to form a Hero's Guild in their town. In order to sound fancy (and to have a name that wasn't associated with the town) they called themselves the Murder of Heroes. This got corrupted into Murderhobos. Surprisingly, they weren't actually Murderhobos. Yes, one of our party members kept a bandit's severed hand in her bag, and another PC died after he accidentally ate a boat, but for the most part, they were fairly well-behaved.
-The Caravan /or Rawrwrathe and Friends!
Our party, a group who worked for the Silverleaf Trading Company, somehow found ourselves in a monster-run city. Moreso, we were set to enter a gladiatorial contest run by the Demonking of Gnolls himself, Yeenogu. Not really knowing what to call ourselves, we decided on "The Caravan."
We failed to kill Yeenogu, but our party survived. We actually reached level 20, but by then my Fat Cat Wild Mage Sorceress had created enough magical mischief to cause her employer to sack her. Post humorously. Meanwhile, our Bear-obsessed Barbarean, Rawrwrathe (who was actually a city boy named Sid) ended up getting a few major story beats, including accidentally becoming a boss monster, pinning a dragon to the ground, killing my Tabaxi who ate a god, and eventually retiring to run his family's bar. The players loved him, and decided to rename the group, despite the end of the campaign.
-Not Today
When faced with death, what do you say to his face? NOT TODAY!
It was a fun group. Shame my character's head exploded. At least she had company.
This was a while ago, but I was in a group named "The Warriors of Apathy."
And how did we come up with that name, you may ask?
We didn't. We were required to come up with a party name to register as adventurers in the kingdom of Cormyr in the Forgotten Realms. However, our group had no idea what to call ourselves, so while we were waffling around the NPC who was supposed to help with the paperwork finally burst out with: "Why don't you call yourselves 'The Warriors of Apathy' and be done with it?"
Unfortunately for the GM, we all loved the suggestion and told the NPC to use that as our name. (As it happens we ended up becoming an important group and gained some fairly high-ranking friends in the kingdom, but that's another story)
The Rowdy Boys. The old man of the group was a huge Rowdy Roddy Piper fan. Oh wait you said DnD party
my starfinder named our party the motely few and our ship the contingency plan
Greetings ! we are the Flames of Twilight ! We roughly have an alcoholic bard (me), a psychopathic mage, a rogue who likes money, a ranger VERY possessed, a warrior orc with a giant frying pan, a paladin just a little bit naïve, and an elf with pink hair. Aside from the fact that we are ruthless mercenaries, we realised that most of the time we ended up fighting during twilight. so after a while, it went like this :
- Hey DM, what time is it ?
- Uhh... around 6, why ?
- And when does the sun sets ?
- I'd say around 8...
- Ok, we will now take a two hours rest before entering this dungeon ! And then we strike a pose at twilight !
- °_°
Best. Company. Ever.
Just a note that there is empirical evidence that having a party name has existed as long as ttrpg games have.
For example, in the Palladium Fantasy rpg there is a legendary adventuring party that is part of the world's history. That party, called The Defilers, was the party played by the games's creators. That game was published in the 1980s.
All Bard party, The Prismatic Koterie. "TPK ALL THE WAY BABY!"
My players poked a Spirit Naga with a Sending spell because they got drunk and couldn't find it after it regenerated following their first fight. She replied saying she'd send an army of orcs and goblins to attack a nearby town and to meet her in battle unless they want the town's dead on their conscience, so they scrambled to ask the local leader for troops to defend the threat. After prying how they learned of this, they were told in no uncertain terms to head the charge themselves for starting this whole mess. They managed to defeat the greater force with only twelve deaths on their side, donated the loot to a fund to care for the widows and orphans, and got knighted as a semi-reward for doing a good job as well as a politically-expedient move to tie down young talent to the responsible service of the nation. They've dubbed themselves The Knights of the Weasel.
The reason for this name is that there's a sort of running gag in the campaign that there is an absolutely massive weasel out in the world, bigger than a Giant Weasel, which we call the Elder Weasel. No one else in the setting believes it exists unless they've personally seen it, because clearly in the world of dragons and wizards, a really big weasel is just too silly because there's no way they could fit in a weasel hole. The party themselves only got to see it one at a time during separate night watches, and then much later watched it eviscerate an owlbear in self-defense far from civilization. There is only one other NPC that's seen it, so it's as thorough of an in-joke as it really gets. It's not even particularly monstrous or magical, just a really big animal no one else knows about.
While only suggested by me, The Wyrd Company. Mainly by three of the characters being the granddaughters of baba yaga, and their talk of fate and whatnot. So it is about my tabaxi barbarian and a human? Cleric and the weird company we keep.
We came up with the same two years ago, and this was after four years of not having a name. Yes, I finally have a story for something like this. No my DND group are on CZcams, at least they don’t subscribe to this particular channel and only two of them seem to be on Facebook. The group dynamic has shifted over the years, we lost our paladin, our monk is currently MIA for both endgame and out of game reasons, and we have some timeline issues. It’s a mix of homebrew and module, so you can figure out where the sanity starts and ends. Anyhow, we end up landing and never winter and realize a. We don’t have a name. Our home doesn’t have a name either. All the names of the places and ourselves that we have created, we have a place in water deep, it doesn’t have a name, necessarily, at least I don’t remember if it does, but the bar itself that we live over top of is known as the drunken made, or drunken maiden, thank you, Aleeha. Dahlia just so happens to be the bar character that the guy who plays our half work enchantment wizard/pin of unknown plays come and played for the better part of year. With shoes, rather vain, however, not so vain is to be idiotic. Then there is our party in general, we’re a touch insane, OK, maybe a little more than a touch insane. We call ourselves a natural disaster. To my mind, we are walking disaster. The majority of the party are spellcaster, and not full casters, they are half casters like myself, our dwarf warlock, or a cleric/Druitt. The only true Marshall character is the monk who is currently MIA. There is never winter because, we got ourselves, stuck in the weave, and that’s the only place we could find and recently had no home to speak of, and this one I’m actually very proud of. IRL, I found some new aid shop in one of the college towns I lived in, they were two of them, that’s a whole other story, a little tree of life, if you know what they look like, great. If you don’t, it’s a little bit like a big, thick trunk, leafy tree, the trunk is skewed a bit, back in. I want to say it’s the left slightly. In this case, it was small, like the kind you put on your desk, made of metal and fake amethyst. Amethyst just happens to be my birthstone, and since I don’t necessarily decorate my dorm rooms with posters and pictures, I thought this would be a nice desk tournament. No idea where it has gotten to since, but I decided we’re going to name our new home the amethyst tree. If you do know our composition it is: and dictation will mess this up, I am so sorry functionally blind, and this is how it works, one elf Ranger, also your, and possibly the same member of the party, although that’s debatable, especially if there’s a chromatic dragon in the vicinity, or you having to be slaving young children of just about any race, or you attack my party, my character views them as her pack, backstory issues. there’s also a human time travel wizard, he’s walking, talking, cat at cannibalistic curse bucket at the moment/Druid Aladdin elf as in from the Fay wild, there is our half orc and shipment wizard/pin, the warlock I mentioned, has a bit of a gambling addiction, and then there is Monty, like I said, MIA for IRL reasons, note of the drunken master. Now you see why, we, call ourselves, a natural disaster by the way, the way of the drunken Monk has a particular ring that allows him to only feel the good effects of being drunk, you can see how much more that disaster increases.
Hasnt happened yet, but Im calling my party "The Guardians of Illmythia." Illmythia is what Im call my homebrew world in both my campaign I'm planning on starting soon, and a previous campaign where, at least some of my previous players who are still alive, are part of this new campaign and are viewed by some of the citizens of the world as heroes in the last one, specifically a resistance army made up of surviving members of the kingdom they were trying to save (named Authinein) before the world fell to a revived dark dragon God from the last campaign that they were tasked to destroy in the last campaign but failed story-wise.
We're Dja Planque (read as "the plank") because for the longest time the smartest person in the party had a 9 in intelligence and we were pretending to be pirates for a heist. Eventually we got The Professor, a barbarian, to join the group and we were renamed Wrecker's Crew. The Professor's name was Wrecker. lol
My first ever DnD campaign, our party was called the Big Damn Heroes, named by me. I was playing with a bunch of zoomers so none of them knew the reference though.
4:45 The Sewerside Squad is drain bamaged.
Red Champion Slayers, it's a Black Crusade campaign and we killed a champion of each chaos god, I don't know where the "Red" part came from though.
Ahaha…. So. We’re a group consisting of a Human Rogue, Tiefling Bard, Verdan Sorcerer and a Dragonborn Ranger. We spent the best part of 1.5 years of irl time (about 2 months in game) out in the wilderness with minimal contact with civilised humanity. We spent our time eating what we killed, setting things on fire, trying to befriend a Remorhaz (dont ask), causing some minor natural disasters, and generally being, well, Degenerates, so that’s what we became! The Degenerates!
Some of our other chaotic escapades consist of
us distracting a pack of Pirañas with a vaguely humanoid hunk of meat and glowing lights,
the time i played Bagpipes so badly that i managed to buy my freedom from a Fae,
and lets not forget the time that we burned down half of Shadycreek Run because apparently the fact that some stupid wizard walked into my dagger 13 times is still cause for arrest, like come on guys it was 14 years ago just leave me alone!
Our DM named us, accidentally:
With an explosion of unimaginable force, the BBEG appeared. He one-shotted our strongest NPC ally, the old wizard we were convinced was a god in disguise. The cavern we'd entered through suddenly collapsed. The floor started cracking apart, with magma bubbling up. Loosened stalagmites rained down from the vaulted ceiling.
The BBEG drew a breath to speak.
MOOLISH FORTALS, he boomed.
The DM blinked. He was prone to spoonerisms. He tried to correct himself, but it was too late. The whole table was in stitches.
From then on, our party used that name. We were the Moolish Fortals.
"The Freak Show" - We are:
- A Dhampir Bloodhunter/Undead Warlock
- A Hexblood Bard
- A Yuan-Ti Rogue
- A homebrew race (think Hexblood, but draconic instead of fey) Monk
So, all kind of human, but not really. Freakshow
Best name I saw for a pirate guild was, "Kraken Skulls"
My players name themselves "The Flaming Sheep." They did this because the gnome rogue drank a potion that turned him into a sheep. Then the drow warlock poured a potion of dragonbreath into the sheep's mouth. They nearly burned down the magic shop they were standing in. The druid and fighter didn't help them as they were too busy laughing.
So I was playing as a changeling monk in a meeting with a queen alongside my storm cleric dwarf friend. We were asking the queen about the location of Excalibur for our elf ranger.
She said going after a "vistage" like that would be a fool's errand.
I pulled out tessaiga and the cleric brandished mjolnir- both of which not only were vistages but also exalted by us
Me: now about that errand
We were hence known as Fates Fools
Our party consists of my barbarian, a bard/warlock, a cleric/sorcerer, a ranger/fighter, a warlock, and a cleric that belongs to a player that had to move away so he's not really with us anymore.
All but 1 of these characters is a dumbass in some way. Many shenanigans have been had, some while drunk, others with drinking afterwards.
The name we came up with: The Disorderlies.
7:20 think I'm one of the three.... or the +1. Brilliant reference! Also HUFFLEPUFF'S FOR LIFE!!! 🦡🟨⬛🦡🟨⬛🦡🟨⬛
Would the name of the ship for a sea faring campaign count? We called ourselves the crew of the Kraken’s Song. The name fit since we had a few magical items that were instruments, and we were going to get more, and a few of our characters were kraken themed; a fathomless warlock with a octopus familiar and one arm replaced with a tentacle, a sea elf artificer with humongous servant based on an octopus, and the ship had kraken engraving that were magical was the final nail in the coffin for our ship’s name
My players ended up saving a village called Varkov from a cult, so the npcs just started refering to the group as “The Saviors of Varkov”. Felt the name was natural
Our Fallout team is called the Silver Rangers - the name our sapient protectron came up with after my character stole a shiny silvery bus from a cult we defeated. So, we're riding this bus (now featuring a gun turret on top) - a protectron, a supermutant, a few humans, a Mr Handy that works as the medic's assistaint, and a pig rat the protectron has tamed. All except the medic and Mr Handy wearing sombreros, the medic wearing a silvery helmet he took off a dead vertibird pilot.
I was the DM of this game of Curse of Strahd, but the Bugbear Barbarian-Druid coined the name The Sunlight Saboatours.
Edit: Loved the little joke the editor threw in.