April 28, 2015

Hey Writers/Game Masters!

Overly Devoted Archivist Uncategorized (plus I'm not sure using an actual language for names is a very good idea), I used to ride the small rickety train from Bedford to Bletchley, making notes in my head of all the wonderful names I passed, writing 0 Comments

therobotmonster:

If you’re ever stuck for a character name for a sci-fi or fantasy setting, I found something to help!

Google Translate + Esperanto! Just type in a two word phrase and you get a character name. It works nearly every time.

For example…

Numeron K’var, that sounds like a mid-level imperial bureaucrat to me. 

But wait, you say, surely that’s just a fluke, I mean…

Ok, so Salato runs the best restaurant on the Urathi peninsula, but what about something harder, something meme-y?

Iri Rapida, the message courier. A little on the nose with the surname, but this is genre fiction. How about a film-editing term?

Hi there, head of the thieves’ guild. What else?

Awesome. 

I just use the names of the villages around my hometown. I’ve already got Aspley Guise, Higham Gobion, Marston Moretaine, Husborne Crawley and Moggerhanger (the ideal name for a ship’s cat).