"Naming a gaming group" Topic

There is a core group of us who game regularly, most for three or four years, together. One has suggested a group name might be appropriate. What's a winner?

"My friends"?

we are "mike foxtrot" – let people interpret MF any way they want… ?
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Tim

I think what you do is take the name of your first pet… and the first street you ever lived on…

Truthfully, I think having a bit more factuals about your club would help inspire… games you focus on, forces you play, name of town or place you play… stuff like that.

I went with "They Who Meet in Darkness".

Seemed fitting for my basement.

Whatever you choose, it should be a name that evokes the bold manliness of our hobby. Oops, sorry, I thought I was posting to my militia groups board. :)

seriously I'd go for something that says what and where – ie bob's Danbury gamers.

Do yourself a favor and use a geographic name that allows others to tell where you are at and what you are doing.

Spokane WWII group.

Not terribly wow! but if you are looking to play a game in the Spokane area you know who to contact.

mjc

Working the locale in, like Quidveritas suggested, is good. I used to be part of the Northern Utah Tactical Society, which not only provides the location, and an amusing acronym, but also conveyed that we were a bit light hearted, and weren't, well, incredibly hardcore (as in "The facings for that regiment should be reddish orange, not orangish red. Take it off the table and go home!").
Grelber

One should have fun. I used to belong to the "Atlantic Simulations Society." Abbreviation of the name was forbidden in the society bylaws.

One of my favorite things in Battleground WWII occurs on a D20 morale check. A "20" roll results in a Craven Coward. The figure runs away, smartly. The Craven Cowards is a name that appeals to me.

A nephew of mine has a Chihuahua named, Thor. I'm not sure how that can be extrapolated into a game club moniker, but I liked it.

The local newspaper listed a man arrested for shooting someone in the head (non-fatally). (Bullet never penetrated the guy's head.) The given name of the felon was Deathray Anderson. I wondered whether the pronunction was Dea-Thray, or whether he went by just "Ray." It occurred to me that adding "Deathray" to any group name would be compelling.

I have belonged to two different wargames clubs over the years. The frist was the "Mailed Fist Wargames Group" the second the "Manchester Area Wargames Society". At one point another club sprang up in my locale calling themselves the "Huscarles".

The Mailed Fist club uses the logo of the British 6th Arnoured division. The Manchester club has its own logo combining a Greek Helmet, Brown Bess and M16.

With most names when you first come up with them they seem silly but over the years they become the right thing.

Another club I was a member of was the Manchester University D&D club but they decided to change their name to the Manchester University not the D&D club because nobody played D&D. After a bit of debate and one group claiming to be playing D&D the club name changed to "Manchester University Almost Not the D&d Society" or MUANDS for short. Over the years as students left the root of the name became forgotten until a few years ago the renamed themselves again. This time the name chosen was "Vague" simply because nobody had any idea what MUANDS stood for :D

Definitely include the name of the town or city if you could ever possibly want to interest anyone else in joining.
With the location in the name people will find you when they google.

Our local group is the Kanawha Riflemen – named after a local civil war (and pre-civil war) unit. Kanawha is also the name of our county.

Our is Petard Wargames – originally intended to be taken as a blast against the strictures of boring competition games that we all hated. Also, as a device used in the C17th, to reflect the fact that all the founders were from a C17th re-enactment group.

Names of our local gaming related groups have been over the years (in order of appearance):

Hearts of Lead
MIAW (MId-Iowa Association of Wargamers)
History in Miniature

Most of the groups I've been in over the years didn't actually have a name. Of those that did, some of the more memorable ones were:

BAGS (Bloomsburg Area Gaming Society)
HOGS (Hopatcong Organized Gaming Society)
PIGS (Picatinny Interest Group Something)

Lords of War

"a Chihuahua named Thor"

So many questions.

Including the one probably asked by his friends: "How can such a small dog hold so much gas?"

To which the reply, muffled by a hand completely unsuited to its current role as a methane filter, is likely: "If he were holding it we wouldn't be having this problem. Open the ed windows!"

"Members Only"

Works particularly well for an all male group.

Attributed to Girls with Slingshots webcomic.

We are the Mid-Atlantic Gamers.Guess where?
Most of us are from around Frederick MD so my first thought was Frederick Area Gaming Society.Somehow it didn't take.

I once belonged to the ICD wargaming club in Decatur Illinois. The name? I Can't Decide!
VR
James Mattes

The Harrogate and Ripon District (HARD) Wargamers is in my view a regrettable name, as we are composed of flabby old men, flabbier middle aged men and a couple of weedy teens. I have seen Harder Pontefract Cakes.

Choose Wisely, Indy.

Pat

> We are the Mid-Atlantic Gamers.Guess where?

Atlantis?

The pseudo-group I belonged to in the DC area never really had a name but, when we were pressed to provide one for a mention in The Courier, I pulled 'Holy Alliance WarGamers' (HAWG) out of thin air. I'm not sure anyone else ever used it though.

LT

We are the Mid-Atlantic Gamers.Guess where?

St. Helena?

I've always favoured Toronto West Amateur Tacticians Society. Work out the acronym yourselves!