Team Name?

[ThisAdamGuy]

My WIP is a litrpg that follows a small team of adventurers who are famous for taking on dungeons that are way higher levels than them and winning. I'm having trouble coming up with a name for them, though. I thought about "Team Underdog" or "The Underdogs" but I'm pretty sure that word's been used to death in this genre. I thought about "Team Dark Horse," but that doesn't really roll off the tongue, and most people probably don't know what it means anyway. I almost went with "Team Anklebiters" since they would probably think that was funny, but this is a name other people are supposed to have given them, and since they're seen as heroes, it wouldn't make sense for people to give them a sarcastic name.

So, any suggestions? I'd rather stay away from overly tryhard-sounding names like "Giantscourge" or "Titanslayers."

 

[Our_Lady_in_Twilight]

The Challenge Runners?

 

[Deleted member 206441]

Achievement hunters

 

[Garolymar]

Is the name something they enter into like an adventurer's guild or do they just call themselves it on their own, like is it recognized? Side tangent, my guild in WoW is called the Headlass Horsemen cause the dude who named us couldn't spell, maybe you could do something funny like that.

 

[ThisAdamGuy]

Is the name something they enter into like an adventurer's guild or do they just call themselves it on their own

Yes, they're part of a guild

 

[Garolymar]

Yes, they're part of a guild

Could be a funny ongoing gag. Something they don't have the money to change on the sign up forms so they have to live with the mistake whenever it comes up lol.

 

[ThisAdamGuy]

Could be a funny ongoing gag. Something they don't have the money to change on the sign up forms so they have to live with the mistake whenever it comes up lol.

That's not the vibe I'm going for

 

[Our_Lady_in_Twilight]

So let me apologise in advance, I might be nosing a bit too far into your worldbuilding here, but if you want them to come off as underdogs, how about not giving them a proper name at all? Suppose the guild only allows teams that have achieved a considerable fame and notoriety to choose a custom name and coat of arms, whereas the lesser workaday teams just get a number. Your guys are simply known as 'Team #7' in official records, but gain the unofficial nickname of 'Lucky 7' as their legend grows?

 

[Garolymar]

(I'm a noob at Litrpg stuff so I have a few questions) Are the levels actually seen in world? like do the peasants calling them heroes actually know they're low level or is that only something they see?

I had an idea if they are seen, like Low Rollers (Small dice, big hearts, good strategy)
The Grits sounds good to me too I dunno, it's kinda like, they aren't perfect and they're out of their league but y'know they got Grit.

 

[ThisAdamGuy]

Suppose the guild only allows teams that have achieved a considerable fame and notoriety to choose a custom name

They are famous. They're the ones who have figured out how to exploit their classes to the point that they regularly run dungeons with level recommendations twice as high as their own.

Are the levels actually seen in world?

Yes

 

[ArchlordZero]

The Birthday Party

 

[Garolymar]

They are famous. They're the ones who have figured out how to exploit their classes to the point that they regularly run dungeons with level recommendations twice as high as their own.

Yes

So they're kinda like minmaxers? would that make sense for people to call them that though, maybe the term is too gamey for the setting?

 

[BearlyAlive]

Tryhards. Because they try the hard places?

Trailblazer, Pathfinder, Wayfairer.

Moon's Kissed, Mad Dogs.

 

[ThisAdamGuy]

I've spent all morning brainstorming, and the best I've been able to come up with is Fortune's Fools, since they're taking huge risks but luck always seems to come out on their side. I also like the idea of people coming up to them, and they're like "So you want to be a Fool?" What I don't like is the alliteration, but I can't think of anything that rolls off the tongue as well. Fortune's Idiots and Fortune's Imbeciles sound too clunky.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

This has often been a stumbling block for me and the people I gamed with in the past.
In superhero games we had Aegis (something the GM tossed out idly as an option for our government-funded group, and we all glommed onto) and Last Rights (a group where over half the PCs had their own deaths as part of their origins); for an archival team, until it wound up used for a TV series, I had a team just called "Legends" (the press of their era named them "The Legends of Chicago," but at the time the games were taking place, most of these Legends were dead or retired, and Chicago had been destroyed thanks to an alien invasion).
Our last HackMaster party was very Cleric-heavy, so when we registered and created a team banner, we were "The Holy Rollers."
Fortune's Fools sounds like a fitting name (and might be taken as a tribute to the late Robert Lin Aspirin's "Phule's Company" books).