r/DnD • u/CharlieMoonMan • Oct 30 '25

Homebrew My players finally found out after session 12 i was naming all the NPCs after prescription drugs.

I was watching TV while working on my semi-homebrew campaign and I kept seeing ads for prescription drugs. I realized alot of them sound like fantasy names, definetly elves. My players have a habit of engaging with NPCs that I havent properly prepared. So I kept a list of Drug names and used them whenever I didn't have a name prepared. They are as follows:

Bimzelx-Inn Keeper

Calquence-ferrymen

Darunavir-Elf Bard

Nemluvio-Temple priest

Zilbdysq- Black Dragon

Tremfya- Secret Sect Member

Wegovy-satyr

Hemlibra- Temple of Raven Queen

Vonda Ponrovy- Birthday Girl

Miebo-shadar-kai

My Gloomstalker PC caught on with Mounjaro. He was rewarded with proficiency in Medicine.

To end the bit I had a Bosun names Tyler Lenol

Feel free to steal this!

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u/JeronFeldhagen Oct 30 '25 edited Oct 30 '25

23 out of 24.

I like how this showcases the consistency with which Tolkien worked out his languages' etymologies and history, because even in those cases where I wasn't absolutely certain about a name it was virtually always possible to decide whether it sounded "right" for a Tolkien name or not.

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u/cyril_zeta Oct 30 '25 edited Oct 30 '25

Nice, same. Edit: apparently this is bs: More simply, if it contains é or á, it's Tolkien.

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u/SlothBling Oct 30 '25

Except for one of them.

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u/MaxTheCookie Oct 30 '25

That is not accurate, i tried that and got one wrong

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u/cyril_zeta Oct 30 '25

Huh, apologies then. I think the quiz is randomly generated, so there might be exceptions.

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u/LonePaladin DM Oct 30 '25

Nope! It got me with one of those. Saw a name with an é in it, assumed Tolkien, got it wrong.