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I've gathered far too many books on names over the years -- but Troll Lord Games Book of Names and a generic "35,000 baby names" paperback I picked up are by far the two I use the most.
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There are tons of freeware and shareware name programs on the internet. I use one called Name Mage. :D
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AP78 wrote:THANKS asajosh

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But seriously, happy to be of assistance :ok:
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I never heard of that NameMage program before, but I downloaded it now. It looks like it will help alot for minor NPC names. Whew, less work for me. Thanks.
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AllMightyRCB wrote:I never heard of that NameMage program before, but I downloaded it now. It looks like it will help alot for minor NPC names. Whew, less work for me. Thanks.


Ya the same company makes a bunch of naming programs, Artifact Mage, Book Mage, Inn Mage (this one is especially cool). No I'm not a company shill, they just make handy tools for fleshing out settings. Enjoy :)
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If you have a d20 and a d6 you can randomly make names.

roll the d20 for your consonents and your d6 for your volles (a,e,i,o,u,y)

If you roll for the letters in pairs you get a japanese sounding name.
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drewkitty ~..~ wrote:If you have a d20 and a d6 you can randomly make names.

roll the d20 for your consonents and your d6 for your volles (a,e,i,o,u,y)

If you roll for the letters in pairs you get a japanese sounding name.


Going to have to try that........
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