Anyone have any tips for naming?

[ravells]

Hi,

I've moved this thread to the Toponomy sub forum as you might find some ideas to answering your question here.

[lokiie1984]

Hi,

I've moved this thread to the Toponomy sub forum as you might find some ideas to answering your question here.

Thanks for the move, i had no idea this section existed, before posting i looked around a bit but i was unaware that "toponomy" had to do with naming. (Even the generic spell checker that all websites use doesn't think its a word lol.) Now I'm off to read through old naming posts

Turns out i had a post in here from last year some time. Some good info in there that i missed.

Now that i know a general idea for who my races take after, i think naming wont be as hard. I think the ones that will trouble me are elves and those that have no earth backing. On the bright side, elves are such a loved race that there are tons of fan made languages to use as reference material. Same would go for dwarves too I'm sure.

[mthomas768]

You might be interested in this name generator: PBE Games: Namer

It uses dictionaries of names from various languages to build letter sequence / frequency graphs and generates new names based on the results. You can combine multiple language sources to tune the results (yes, this is a shameless plug for something I wrote ).