Joke names and joke characters. Not just for the obvious, but also: I'm sure it's funny now, but is it going to be funny three sessions from now? Is it going to even be funny after character creation? What happens when someone gets bored with their own joke? I had a player deliberately kill off his own character so he could roll up a new one because it was entirely structured around some one-note joke and he got bored of it. The character didn't even last two full sessions. And yeah, when it's just a stupid name and you stop finding it funny all you have to do is say it's something else, but you might as well have done that from the beginning. It all just ends up being a waste of time
One of my players named his character after a sword in Bleach. He's now been playing the character for over two years so we all just kind of forget about the beginning.
Joke names and joke characters. Not just for the obvious, but also: I'm sure it's funny now, but is it going to be funny three sessions from now? Is it going to even be funny after character creation? What happens when someone gets bored with their own joke? I had a player deliberately kill off his own character so he could roll up a new one because it was entirely structured around some one-note joke and he got bored of it. The character didn't even last two full sessions. And yeah, when it's just a stupid name and you stop finding it funny all you have to do is say it's something else, but you might as well have done that from the beginning. It all just ends up being a waste of time
One of my players named his character after a sword in Bleach. He's now been playing the character for over two years so we all just kind of forget about the beginning.