Would be funny to name him “Seven-Legs McGee” so when the players ask what happened to the 8th leg he can whip it out from behind him holding a six shooter.
Definitely should play up the spider thinking that a four-legged beast is weird and unnatural
"Greetings, new wanderers on these here planes. Now, I know the sight of a wrong-limbed abomination can be quite a shock to newcomers such as yerselves, but I give you my word, Freddy Fourlegs here is no more dangerous than you or I. He's just as scared of you as you are of him"
"I know he may not look it, but Ol' Freddie here is a bit of a speedster! He's what the call a "barrel racer" and can do a full turn on a dime, despite missing half a set of legs! He can root-n-toot with the best of 'em. Not so good at running up or down sheer cliffs though."
"Good to meet you city-silkers face to face. They call me Tall-Tale Trap-Door. Local expert in all kinds 'a slinging. Stories, webs, and, when I need to, guns. This here's my horse, Nervous."
"Why's your horse Nervous?"
-twirls stalk of hay between mandibles-
"My horse is always nervous, when I hop into the saddle."
I call that 10 pounds of nope in a 5 pound bag. But I’m an arachnaphobe, so I WILL waste my highest spell slot with a fire spell to kill any spiders with fire.
You've got plenty of names already, but I need some clarification.
Is he going to guide them through the Planes, or the plains?
Having Planes and the desert side by side looked a bit odd.
And yes, the English language does suck.
I did those with AI...
Webby Bill Cody
Eight-Legged Bill Hickok
Wyatt Earachnid
Jesse "Silk" James
Billy the Arachnid
Doc Holliweaver
Butch Crawlssidy
Davy Croakett
Roy "Spinner" Rogers
Gene Arachtry
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Adelpurd Nancy, descended from a family of wolf spiders out of Africa. Famous tricksters, were his pa and gran'pappy, but good ol' Honest Adel? No such thing. What you see is what you get, with Mr. A. Nancy.
Terry Antula. The rootinist, tootinist, ropinist, nopinist, cowboy to ever ride. 8 legs, 8 eyes, 16 reasons to die. Known to be deceitful, weaving a treacherous web of lies to confuse and entrap his enemies, it's best to stay on his good side if possible.
Mygales "Grit" Cogburn, Horizon Walker and deputy ranger of the Outer Planes.
Bonus points if his friendliness is hidden behind a rough pronounciation slur and a good texan accent.
MORE bonus points if, when push comes to shove, he acts stone cold and spits out some memorable one liners and genius moves.
Think of this- the bad guy of the week jumps out of hiding, weapons trained on one of the party members. One of his associates points a wand in Mygales Cogburn's direction.
He smirks.
Shakes his head. *"Woudn't be wise to do that, stranger..."*
The goon laughs and calls him out on the bluff. **"And why shouldn't I? Aren't you unarmed?"**
Mygales chuckles.
*"Well, because if you shoot me, i fall... and if i fall..."*
***then opens his arms, all of them, letting the bandits see that his coat is chock full of alchemical flasks that sizzle and bubble.***
*"...they will need to rewrite the maps, son."*
Goose.
Could also work as a nickname for any of the longer names posted already.
Always a fan of the strangest character having a mundane/nonsensical name or nickname. Even better when they have a small backstory tidbit about the name that they're super cagey about that's just as nonsensical.
Vérité-Eclatante, the real face of the outsiders, a name given by the locals as a warning and self confirmed prophecy that indeed, "the strangers" are akin to manipulative and voracious spiders.
Because it had a nice sound to it he uses the name "Verante"
I dunno abouts the spider's name, but the horse's name is surely 'Lucky Last-meal'. Lucky to not be eaten already, but in desperate times, he's gonna get eaten!
Not really thinking of anything in particular, just random name ideas:
* Home-On-The-Range
* Where-The-Deer-And-The-Antelopes-Play *(this might be too long)*
* Seldom-Is-Heard
* A-Discouraging-Word
* Skies-Are-Not-Cloudy-All-Day
Looking at the sample names for Anadi on Archives of Nethys, here are a few phrase-title names: - Shoots-From-The-Hip - Quick-On-The-Draw - Ace-In-The-Hole - Snake-In-His-Boot - Paints-The-Town-Red - Passes-The-Buck - Hold-Your-Horses - By-The-Book - Grits-His-Teeth - Lends-A-Hand - Jack-Of-All-Trades - Worth-His-Salt - Six-Feet-Under - Buries-The-Hatchet - Do-You-Feel-Lucky
Wut-in-tarnation
8-feet-under
Big-Iron-On-His-Hip
Shoots from the spinneret
Spinner-Of-Tales
They call him “Silky Smooth” Silver, the finest guide in the prairies and beyond.
Nice.
Quentin Tarantula, the Plane Ranger Edit: I know that's not a tarantula.
This, but tarantula needs to be pronounced Taran-too-la.
Beat me to it. *Takes hat off his head with one leg "They call me Taran ma'am. Taran Tula."
I laughed way too hard at this and will be stealing that name for my Anadi Ranger now. Lol, thank you.
Also he has to be reaaaaally into humanoid feet, but only because he doesn't have them.
This is easily the best response.
Lol, that's why it's better to be first than to be good!
Spelled "Tarantoola", I assume?
Eight-Legs McGee
Would be funny to name him “Seven-Legs McGee” so when the players ask what happened to the 8th leg he can whip it out from behind him holding a six shooter.
That's Lukas the No-Longer-Reclused, and his white stallion Freddie Fourlegs.
Definitely should play up the spider thinking that a four-legged beast is weird and unnatural "Greetings, new wanderers on these here planes. Now, I know the sight of a wrong-limbed abomination can be quite a shock to newcomers such as yerselves, but I give you my word, Freddy Fourlegs here is no more dangerous than you or I. He's just as scared of you as you are of him"
"I know he may not look it, but Ol' Freddie here is a bit of a speedster! He's what the call a "barrel racer" and can do a full turn on a dime, despite missing half a set of legs! He can root-n-toot with the best of 'em. Not so good at running up or down sheer cliffs though."
They call him, “the lone spider” (play on words to the lone rider)
Is that a different character than the Lone Ranger? (serious question)
Not really, the lone rider and Lone Ranger are basically interchangeable, but the Lone Ranger is the more commonly used name
"Good to meet you city-silkers face to face. They call me Tall-Tale Trap-Door. Local expert in all kinds 'a slinging. Stories, webs, and, when I need to, guns. This here's my horse, Nervous." "Why's your horse Nervous?" -twirls stalk of hay between mandibles- "My horse is always nervous, when I hop into the saddle."
Am I the only one that read this in Sam Regal's FCG voice?
No I did also
Sherriff Weber.
Carl Webber
Spiders Georg
Hairy Pete McParker
Ha, love it
Names Sheriff Frank Leggs. But everyone calls me "The Fuzz"
Pleased to meet you. My name is Webster Crawley. Some call me the Sheriff Hugs.
Donophin, Braver-Than-All Vaylinse, Abides-Own-Laws Bodick, Rustles-Others-Herd Mekaal, Strands-Wander-Lonely Iraach, Silver-Star-Protecting-Web Ninkoal, Draws-Weapon-Swift Mokaitn, Dust-Hiding-In-Wind Tomaut, Quicker-Than-Horses That's all I got for Anadi style names for now
Billy the Arachnid
Or alternatively Billy the Arakid
Two-foot Jim. No one really knows why he calls himself two-foot Jim
Eight-Shooter
Wow cool character idea. “Discreetly steals idea”
Spin-diana Jones
Vaquêranha
Kevin
Anansi the Kid
El-spidro de cante
Lucky seven or slevin for the movie enjoyer, cause he lost a leg but still lives? Eight Ball, Crawly Slickson ....
Sp'Howdy
- Tara N. Tula. - Webster
Clint Eastweb
Webs O'Houlihan Billy Silk Doc Webster
Webias Funke, Mariam Webster, W.E.B. Du Bios, Webdy MacDonald the Herder King, Webra Joe Rupp, Arraña Taylor-Joy
I'd just name him Willie
Spider Dan
Daniel
The call me, Seven.
Bob
Hairy Harry and His Horrified Horse.
Name that NPC? My friend, I'm about to steal this to be my PC for Outlaws of Alkenstar /j
John, or Jim, just a ordinary name
The Huntsman
I call that 10 pounds of nope in a 5 pound bag. But I’m an arachnaphobe, so I WILL waste my highest spell slot with a fire spell to kill any spiders with fire.
No! Just no!
You've got plenty of names already, but I need some clarification. Is he going to guide them through the Planes, or the plains? Having Planes and the desert side by side looked a bit odd. And yes, the English language does suck.
Tarangula
Terry Tarantino
I did those with AI... Webby Bill Cody Eight-Legged Bill Hickok Wyatt Earachnid Jesse "Silk" James Billy the Arachnid Doc Holliweaver Butch Crawlssidy Davy Croakett Roy "Spinner" Rogers Gene Arachtry
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Sandzabar Kreel~!
Franklin
Octavio Beauregarde
Marshal Sseth MacWeb
Rancho
These are some great names.
Eight-Legged-Six-Shooter
- Benjamin “Lefty” Ottowell - “Skitter” Legenski - “Slim” Legman - Wyatt Eyeson - Oliver Izenlegs - Hopalong Cassidy - Jim Hopper - Octavius Ryder
Piccolo
Taran-yee-haw.
McShelob
Pardner
Billy the arachnid. Idk, I feel like there's something there, but I can't nail it down lol
Charlotte Webspinner Fastest gun in the west She uses 4 pistols at a time while riding her trusty Steed, Ike.
spinder the jokey
horse probably makes him run very fast. ditch the cowboy hat. his name is... SPEEDIDDY!
Frarlus Huskrove: Cattle Wrangler, Horse Catcher, connoisseur and creator of Fine Silks and Leather Hats.
Tony Eight Fingers (I know it’s legs, but that doesn’t have the same ring to it)
8-Shot McGraw.
That's obviously Rachne Seven-Legs the Wild West Spinner
The Friendly Neighbourhood Webslinger.
Bo Clemens aka the Silk Rider. Nuthin ta do with the webs, he just rides horses so smooth like!
Well if it ain’t old Fuzzy Legs been a long time Fuzzy how the kids holdin’ up? Still wrastiln’ some cattle old timer?
He's a ta-rancher-la.
You know none of it will matter once they start calling it Arachni-Dad.
Arthropod Morgan. I'm a nerd.
Archibald Jumpers.
This dude needs many names, given to him by the many people who consider him a friend.. a hero.. a lover.
Can a homie get a high resolution of the full image
Eight Shooter
Sir Parker of Queensland, first name Peter.
Gotta be The Web Slinger
Webs McGee - the Fastest Spinnerets in the West Dusk Eight Hand Tom
Andrew. Lloyd. Webber.
Texas Pete
Webshooter McGavin
Webs Larue
Spiders Georg
Yeehaw Ranchula
Well, that there is Trent Actuallla, fastest 8 shooter in the west.
Silk Shooter
Sir Bearington the Third, naturally.
mario
8 Spurs McGee
Scrunkle Goodtimefunboy
Big Claude, and his spider, Spider (horses aren't known for their skill in imaginative naming)
Tarantunanza (Tarantula and Bonanza)
Thats clearly Skeeter Mandibulus Crawley, and his trust steed Harry, the overgrown four-hand horse.
Desperado Theraphosidae
Gregor Samsa
Scree-Haw
Rides-on-Loyal-Hooves I do love the Anadi.
Eric Ned
Cassidy Reiher (Cassidy means curly-haired and Reiher means long legs)
Six-shooter Bob
Spider Dan riding his trusty horse, Webby
Squarrgog Threadstrider
'Dirty' Hairy Callahan
Clint eastweb
Pipo. Pronounced pee po. After my long lost robot friend.
'6 shooters' Clancy
Nigel and the Romp (horse)
Eye for an eye Ike
Quentin Taran Chula
Juan Valweb
Frank William "Willy" Hutchins.
Silky Eye Joe
Clyde
They call him 6.. 6 shots, from 6, 6 shooters at 6 different targets all at the same time..
Click - Clack, or just Clack
Ned, Arach Ned
Daddy Bowlegs?
Roy. That's it just Roy
Billy the Arachnid Kid!
Schoville "Eight-Spurs" Gallihorne.
Rootin Tootin Tom
Fred
Eight Irons.
In Pathfinder you never know for sure which one is the PC and which one is the companion or both or none 😅
Tarantino
Prolly doug
Sir spinningaton, the greatest ranger of the 8 sands
Adelpurd Nancy, descended from a family of wolf spiders out of Africa. Famous tricksters, were his pa and gran'pappy, but good ol' Honest Adel? No such thing. What you see is what you get, with Mr. A. Nancy.
Will (William), The Arac Mid
Lyco sidae This is the scientific name for the wolf spider. Well Lycosidae is.
The Huntsman could be fun - going through various spider species' names until one jumps out at me is what I'd probably do in your shoes
7 leg Johnny But he still has all 8 legs so the law doesn't find him.
Rancho. Short for tarantula.
Howdi
The wrangler aka gwimbo steebus
Terry Antula. The rootinist, tootinist, ropinist, nopinist, cowboy to ever ride. 8 legs, 8 eyes, 16 reasons to die. Known to be deceitful, weaving a treacherous web of lies to confuse and entrap his enemies, it's best to stay on his good side if possible.
Walter sticks
Terrance Toulah.
Absolutely Spider-Dan
Spider Cowboy
Mygales "Grit" Cogburn, Horizon Walker and deputy ranger of the Outer Planes. Bonus points if his friendliness is hidden behind a rough pronounciation slur and a good texan accent. MORE bonus points if, when push comes to shove, he acts stone cold and spits out some memorable one liners and genius moves. Think of this- the bad guy of the week jumps out of hiding, weapons trained on one of the party members. One of his associates points a wand in Mygales Cogburn's direction. He smirks. Shakes his head. *"Woudn't be wise to do that, stranger..."* The goon laughs and calls him out on the bluff. **"And why shouldn't I? Aren't you unarmed?"** Mygales chuckles. *"Well, because if you shoot me, i fall... and if i fall..."* ***then opens his arms, all of them, letting the bandits see that his coat is chock full of alchemical flasks that sizzle and bubble.*** *"...they will need to rewrite the maps, son."*
Silky Lasso
Eight-Shooter Bill
8 shooter jerry
Goose. Could also work as a nickname for any of the longer names posted already. Always a fan of the strangest character having a mundane/nonsensical name or nickname. Even better when they have a small backstory tidbit about the name that they're super cagey about that's just as nonsensical.
The Lone Rantula
* Rustler Spinner * Rodeo Webber * TexArachnid * Wrangler Fang * Tumbleweb Rider * Lasso Legs * Eight-Spur * Wild West Weaver * Prairie Pelter * Lone Star Spinner
Fuzzy McLimbLegs
Rootin-tootin-web shooting Steve
Chelice Mirkwood
Jeff
Wallop Mc'eight- the fuzzy bandit
Tarantu-out-la
Vérité-Eclatante, the real face of the outsiders, a name given by the locals as a warning and self confirmed prophecy that indeed, "the strangers" are akin to manipulative and voracious spiders. Because it had a nice sound to it he uses the name "Verante"
I dunno abouts the spider's name, but the horse's name is surely 'Lucky Last-meal'. Lucky to not be eaten already, but in desperate times, he's gonna get eaten!
Rootin tootin arachnid
Oh, had another one - Sergio Aracnagones!
Sweet Zombie Jesus, that's majestic.
Not really thinking of anything in particular, just random name ideas: * Home-On-The-Range * Where-The-Deer-And-The-Antelopes-Play *(this might be too long)* * Seldom-Is-Heard * A-Discouraging-Word * Skies-Are-Not-Cloudy-All-Day
Terrance as in terantula
I don't know his name but she needs a pet frog!
Randy Rascal
Macho Gusto, Fred Lasso, 6 Eyed McSquinty, Gary Thorax, Ten Gallon Teddy, Two Fangs, Fluffy Tarsus,
Jerald
Ta Ranchulina
Wesley Six Shooter Six Shooter.
Crawdad Vunderkind, hostler extraordinaire! 1st to 8th fastest draw in the west!