I was a snooty teen but then, like now I adored witty wordplay. The winner of the in-house GW league, “The Washington Deadskins”. In the mid 90s I encountered a name that I both loved and hated in a White Dwarf. ![]() Why not take the Middenheim Motörheads to the championship? There are many ways to tell the same joke. ![]() Maybe you prefer furious metal over American football? No problem. They tickle at the 4th wall but leave it intact, they give us a sideways wink without breaking character. These are the greats to which we all aspire. The most classic tool in naming BB teams is of course the real world reference. If so, I thought might share a few tips I have picked up along the way. Or maybe you just think your carefully painted orcs deserve a better name than “Da Orcz”? I thoroughly enjoy the cheesy exercise of finding just the right pun and proudly presenting it in my league. I think jokes are funny, you think film titles and IMDB lists are funny.īut maybe you're like me. We have different views on naming as a concept. Now, if you’re one of those coaches on Fumbbl who name their team “Robocop 2” and all the players after the actors, that’s okay. It’s also the reason I profoundly enjoy when coaches I play against name their teams with a good pun or reference without breaking the meta of a Warhammer-ish world. It might just be my favorite part of the game. And superfluous nonsense wrapped in silly fluff and lowbrow meta jokes, like a very long sentence referring to itself. Since my days on Fumbbl I've worked as a writer and translator (where you get to think a lot about puns and how to rewrite them) and thought I would share what I've learned about naming stuff.įootball is a game of inches. I have had plenty of bad names on Fumbbl (and IRL). I haven't really been on Fumbbl for around seven years. And if you come to my house to field "Teletubbies Season 4" you get the bad chair. Then I wrote it down and needed a blog to share in a couple of tabletop groups.Īnd I don't really hate you for naming your team something stupid. Last night I was working on a name for an app, got high and startet thinking about Blood Bowl. ![]() EDIT: Wow, I didn't actually think anyone on Fumbbl would read and comment on this.
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