I’ve written many fantasy name generator apps over the past 30 years, and I’ve come up with a pretty good algorithm for randomly generating names. You can find two online name generators I wrote here and here.
Randomly generating names of any style is actually simple enough that you can do it manually without a computer. Instead of using a computer to randomly generate names, you can use syllable lists and dice.
With this project, I want to write a book resource that shows people how they can generate names of all different types, and include dice roll tables for randomly generating them.
The best name generator book I’ve seen so far is The Nomicon, by Matt Finch. However, I have a slightly different method of generating names that I believe works better. Therefore, while I have only good things to say about Matt Finch’s work, I believe I can improve upon the name generation tables he laid out in The Nomicon.
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