Generally speaking, I like to think about the cultural etymology of my character - for example, if the character is from a dark forest-like setting, I might use a slavic or Germanic name, in reference to the darker fantasy of Eastern European fairy tales. For an Elf, I tend to use Tolkien’s elvish languages for helping decide a name. I also might take the setting or other factors into play when making this decision.
Once I have the etymology down, I go to a name etymology site like Behind the Name (or a translation site if using a fictional constructed language), and look for a name whose meaning and feel seem to fit the character. Some bastardisation of spelling or length can be used to make something other players can easily pronounce or which has an easy diminutive others can use. For last names, I either do a patronymic using the same method above, research family names from the same culture as the first name, or simply use a regular word translated into that language.
This works for me, and ensures that the character’s name feels consistent across its parts. I also use the same basic strategy when naming NPCs as a DM, so all NPCs with similar backgrounds share etymological roots in their naming.
So Caerwyn's advice is solid if names really matter in the game you're playing in. Check with the DM about naming conventions, like the above advice fits a game world that those conventions adhere to, but that's worldbuilding so if you're a player, that's more a collaborate with your DM than something a player usually gets to proclaim outright.
As a DM, I generally don't enforce naming conventions from the get go, but pay attention to what the characters name themselves, and may riff off it. But if I'm going into a world "blind" I just go for "fun" and "cool". A name like Ford Subaru gets a wink from the rest of the table but otherwise gels for a Gnome who's preferred weapon is the quarterstaff. I heard the phrase "Verbal Salvo" in a discussion the other day, and I'm not sure who they'll be yet, but that's something I'm holding onto for a name.
There was a web comic I used to read where the author had a Dr. Strange type vs. another Dr. Strange type, first guy was named Claverack Hillsdale (which are close locations in New York state), the antagonist was Hampton Jitney, which is the name of a trucking company.
I listen to a college radio DJ named Carlson Street, and often take a highway exit leading to that road on my way home.
What I'm saying is, lacking any formal name conventions, just look for phrasing that "pops to you." If you're doing a Ranger/Monk you might want to say google image "sacred forest" or "meditative woods" and you might find a park or a forest with a name you can lift.
This actually isn't that far off from what people do when naming actual people, some families have naming traditions they adhere to in accords with family and faith, others do it to honor other people, others look through naming books for one that "pops" and check it's meaning, and some folks try to make reference to advances in aeronautical engineering.
How about Cataract Windwine? Or Sisqo Thong? Or Georgio Lukacs?
EDIT: oh, another naming convention I used, compound a traditional male and female name, and then add a cocktail as the surname. Tommary Sazarac, Jeraldsue Gintonic, Sheilamark Manhatten, etc....
If in doubt use an anagram generator and put in some combination of words and see what comes out, Monk Ranger can become: Kroger Mann or Morgan Kern or Kermon Gran or Marge kronn.
I mean like how a warlock and a sorcerer is a coffeelock
Oh. That's much less interesting.
There's no official portmanteau name for a Monk/Ranger. "Coffeelock" isn't just any old warlock/sorcerer, it refers to a specific grey-area strategy for manufacturing unlimited low-level spell slots with a mid to high level multiclass. If you're looking for a clever mixy name, you may want to specify subclasses. Something like a Monster Hunter ranger with monk levels could be referred to as a Monster Puncher (as could any monk, but still). If you're doing something like Gloom Stalker/Way of Shadows then you're basically just a regular magic ninja. Horizon Walker/Open Hand could be a Horizon Slapper; it's a bad multiclass but an amusing name riff. Beastmaster/Four Elements would be Sergeant Meme, Master of Failure.
Gonna have to look for something clever specific to your particular mix, really.
Edit: Thematically, something that communicates his solitary nature makes sense. Both classes are like, distant from society usually. Wanderer might appeal to you, lol.
Hollow unbreakable arrows are the most OP common magic item, and my current method of coming up with insane combat shenanigans.
if you make a steel pipe with one end closed and a nozzle on the other, you can enlarge it, fill with any liquid, and then drop concentration, creating a high pressure squirt gun. (or a pipe bomb, depending if it holds)
I have a monk / ranger and trying to come up with a gud name for him like ?
What's his species?
What's his background?
What were his family's circumstances when he was born?
Which setting is he in?
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Bob McGillicuddy. JK.
This.👆
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Generally speaking, I like to think about the cultural etymology of my character - for example, if the character is from a dark forest-like setting, I might use a slavic or Germanic name, in reference to the darker fantasy of Eastern European fairy tales. For an Elf, I tend to use Tolkien’s elvish languages for helping decide a name. I also might take the setting or other factors into play when making this decision.
Once I have the etymology down, I go to a name etymology site like Behind the Name (or a translation site if using a fictional constructed language), and look for a name whose meaning and feel seem to fit the character. Some bastardisation of spelling or length can be used to make something other players can easily pronounce or which has an easy diminutive others can use. For last names, I either do a patronymic using the same method above, research family names from the same culture as the first name, or simply use a regular word translated into that language.
This works for me, and ensures that the character’s name feels consistent across its parts. I also use the same basic strategy when naming NPCs as a DM, so all NPCs with similar backgrounds share etymological roots in their naming.
So Caerwyn's advice is solid if names really matter in the game you're playing in. Check with the DM about naming conventions, like the above advice fits a game world that those conventions adhere to, but that's worldbuilding so if you're a player, that's more a collaborate with your DM than something a player usually gets to proclaim outright.
As a DM, I generally don't enforce naming conventions from the get go, but pay attention to what the characters name themselves, and may riff off it. But if I'm going into a world "blind" I just go for "fun" and "cool". A name like Ford Subaru gets a wink from the rest of the table but otherwise gels for a Gnome who's preferred weapon is the quarterstaff. I heard the phrase "Verbal Salvo" in a discussion the other day, and I'm not sure who they'll be yet, but that's something I'm holding onto for a name.
There was a web comic I used to read where the author had a Dr. Strange type vs. another Dr. Strange type, first guy was named Claverack Hillsdale (which are close locations in New York state), the antagonist was Hampton Jitney, which is the name of a trucking company.
I listen to a college radio DJ named Carlson Street, and often take a highway exit leading to that road on my way home.
What I'm saying is, lacking any formal name conventions, just look for phrasing that "pops to you." If you're doing a Ranger/Monk you might want to say google image "sacred forest" or "meditative woods" and you might find a park or a forest with a name you can lift.
This actually isn't that far off from what people do when naming actual people, some families have naming traditions they adhere to in accords with family and faith, others do it to honor other people, others look through naming books for one that "pops" and check it's meaning, and some folks try to make reference to advances in aeronautical engineering.
How about Cataract Windwine? Or Sisqo Thong? Or Georgio Lukacs?
EDIT: oh, another naming convention I used, compound a traditional male and female name, and then add a cocktail as the surname. Tommary Sazarac, Jeraldsue Gintonic, Sheilamark Manhatten, etc....
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
I mean like how a warlock and a sorcerer is a coffeelock
If in doubt use an anagram generator and put in some combination of words and see what comes out, Monk Ranger can become: Kroger Mann or Morgan Kern or Kermon Gran or Marge kronn.
You also have the good old Fantasy name generators: https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/dungeons-and-dragons.php
Xanathar's Guide to Everything has whole charts of names based on class, culture, and much more. Page 175 I believe?
IMO, the best thing any Monk player can do is dip two levels into Ranger. I just call it a “better monk.”
And it’s only a “coffeelock” if they specifically go Pact of the Tome and take the right Eldritch Invocation.
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Oh. That's much less interesting.
There's no official portmanteau name for a Monk/Ranger. "Coffeelock" isn't just any old warlock/sorcerer, it refers to a specific grey-area strategy for manufacturing unlimited low-level spell slots with a mid to high level multiclass. If you're looking for a clever mixy name, you may want to specify subclasses. Something like a Monster Hunter ranger with monk levels could be referred to as a Monster Puncher (as could any monk, but still). If you're doing something like Gloom Stalker/Way of Shadows then you're basically just a regular magic ninja. Horizon Walker/Open Hand could be a Horizon Slapper; it's a bad multiclass but an amusing name riff. Beastmaster/Four Elements would be Sergeant Meme, Master of Failure.
Gonna have to look for something clever specific to your particular mix, really.
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Obviously, a Ranjunk.
Edit: Thematically, something that communicates his solitary nature makes sense. Both classes are like, distant from society usually. Wanderer might appeal to you, lol.
Better than a Monger. 😂
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Monk+Ranger= Brother Leaf
Ranjunk Monger or Monger Ranjunk could work.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
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Hollow unbreakable arrows are the most OP common magic item, and my current method of coming up with insane combat shenanigans.
if you make a steel pipe with one end closed and a nozzle on the other, you can enlarge it, fill with any liquid, and then drop concentration, creating a high pressure squirt gun. (or a pipe bomb, depending if it holds)
There's a redditor that made a list of multiclass names: https://www.reddit.com/r/DnDHomebrew/comments/k099a7/a_complete_list_of_multiclass_names/
Their suggested moniker for Ranger/Monk is "Wayfarer."
Canto alla vita
alla sua bellezza
ad ogni sua ferita
ogni sua carezza!
I sing to life and to its tragic beauty
To pain and to strife, but all that dances through me
The rise and the fall, I've lived through it all!
Manger
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