Alternative Names for Fantasy Adventuring Groups
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Alternative Names for Fantasy Adventuring Groups

Duncan Thomson
Talking Door Vanquishers, Resurrected, Shautha's Sharpshooters, Company of Dartcliff, Steel & Spell; and The Critical Hitters.

Some less regular name for adventuring groups with tables for Something that Happened, One Worders, Insert Name Here, Adventures of a Place, A Little Weird and Meta.

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Alternative Adventuring Group Names

Many groups of characters bear names, whether ones they've chosen for themselves, gained through their exploits or others have given to them.

These names might come from something that happened during play, something that can be summed up in a word, based around a name or a place associated with the party, something stranger or a meta thing reaching out from things at the table in real life.

There is a random generator for Adventuring Group Names at Chaos Gen, and a PDF of Adventuring Group Names at DriveThru RPG.

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Something That Happened

An event from the past, or something that comes up during play.

d10
1 The Trouser Thieves
2 Ogre Canyon Survivors
3 Talking Door Vanquishers
4 Coffin Inspectors
5 Pit Jumpers
6 Seven Met in a Tavern
7 Order of the Frozen Orc
8 Failed Caravan Guards
9 Lost in the Woods
10 Dungeon Surveyors

One Worders

For some groups one word is enough...

d10
1 Sentinels
2 Badgers
3 Storytellers
4 Stinkers
5 Resurrected
6 Dungeoneers
7 Vanguard
8 Snapdragons
9 Lovers
10 Potioneers

Insert Name Here

Drake's Irregulars could easily be Fala's Irregulars, Irri's Iregulars or Tarag's Irregulars

d10
1 Drake's Irregulars
2 Kilvar's Doom
3 Yevelda and Her Merry Marauders
4 Shautha's Sharpshooters
5 Erevan's Astral Riders
6 Zora's Slayers
7 Levin and the Lizards
8 Orel's Avengers
9 Delg's Delvers
10 Seipora's Flaming Eagles

Adventures of a Place

Each entry uses a town or city name. These can easily be replaced for something in the game setting.

d10
1 Company of Dartcliff
2 Windwater Wolves
3 Steadfast Six from Baerngard
4 Bold Bandits of Muschester
5 Vanquishers of Tinriver
6 Yeolund Five
7 Golden Band of Harez
8 Peaceful Swords of Boarchester
9 Shepham Squires
10 Heroes of Helmslant Rush

A Little Weird

d10
1 Crazy Bunch
2 Caravan Guard Crew
3 Bardic Order of Rapid Retreats
4 Steel and Spell
5 Dragon Hoard Looters
6 Riders of the Stone Cow
7 The Grand Musicians
8 The Young Harpers
9 Four Dwarves and a Dog
10 Knights of the Scrawny Squid

Meta

Names can refer to in-game and out-of-game elements.

d10
1 Third Time Lucky
2 Dungeon Masters
3 The Friday Knights
4 Just One More Door
5 One Shot Wonders
6 Critical Hitters
7 Hard Mode
8 The Contingency Plan
9 The Third Watch
10 Embarrassingly Effective

More Random Tables

There is a random generator for Adventuring Group Names at Chaos Gen, and a PDF of Adventuring Group Names at DriveThru RPG.

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