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| "Look not so fearful my dear wife, Dribble Beauvoir is a goodly name, it is decided, hehehe" |
That stolid bunch, the Puritans, how novel they were. Such onomastic masters, true namesmiths if ever there were. As you know, they had a trend of using little moral sentences or admirable qualities as forenames, such as 'Humility Brown', 'Humiliation Hynde' or 'Search-the-Scriptures Moreton'. Fabulous, no?
Why not use this method for naming characters? The formula is simple and has much power; REAL WORD+REAL(ISH) SURNAME. Through this we shall leverage both nominative determinism AND semantic satiation. The character's personality will be coloured by their word/name. Simultaneously, that word-name, through repetition, will become just like any other name.
These names have the advantage on pure fantasy names in that they immediately do a lot of heavy lifting and can be formulated expediently (see also my hit post Morpheme+Word+Epithet) whereas fantasy/pseudo-fantasy names can take much longer to come up with and not hit as hard (see the Onomasticon Quernorum and NOM-DE-GROTTE ~ d200 Caveman Names). Of course, both styles of names can be used to create clear cultural differences. Do what you like, I'm not the name police.
I have written 200 examples. There is no random generation here. They've been formulated to be phonoaesthetically pleasing (for me) to say aloud and hear again and again - or at least have a fun mouthfeel. I must stress, they are not Puritan, or Puritan in ethos. They range from more mundane to perhaps deranged. The names are presented in the order I wrote them.
For maximum pleasure, read each name aloud:
d200 cool names you should definitely use in your games, no questions asked
- Fortuitous Baldpate
- Dead Thriftwell
- Gaze-Upon Beesworth
- Doleful Graves
- Prostrate Caruthers
- Lexicon Abelard
- Darling Sallow
- Pitiful Hicks
- Sumptuous Cashman
- Anguish Wilberforce
- Floral Acres
- Happy-Day Cromwell
- Pinch Pigsbody
- Bitch Wiseacre
- Furtive Coxcomb
- Guts Kennedy
- Whistle Weston
- Awfulness Armitage
- Effluvium Whitelock
- Stuporous Beavens
- Furious Binks
- Impertinence Hog
- Influential Pax
- Stalked Sidecastle
- Goodwife Gardner
- Frankness Pole
- Youthful Wheeler
- Obstinate Cook
- Sour Trenchard
- Ladylike Shrubb
- Loveless Oak
- Princely Rowbotham
- Sacrilegious Sargood
- Wistful Sheppard
- Inebriate Blood
- Pittance Pickwick
- Dearth Skinner
- Precious Staggers
- Bitting Sykes
- Incredible Thirdkill
- Lost Marlow
- Goodness Tyndall
- Illness Trumble
- Clerical Poe
- Dreary Anderson
- Illiterate Welsh
- Witty Whitstable
- Shrieking Faversham
- Simpering Styles
- Gnash Warren
- Warring Begood
- Throbbing Farrow
- Friendless Floyd
- Knife Lexington
- Suckle Severus
- Blow Wheatley
- Gentle Perry
- Prankish Black
- Clench Portland
- Auspicious Tunbridge
- Cleft Cornwallis
- Porcine Winters
- Ignominy Carew
- Suspicion Fitzpatrick
- Predestination Sommers
- Moral Norris
- Spring Huntley
- Innumerate Wolsey
- Persuadable Walsh
- Tough Cresting
- Unassailable Reed
- Inevitable Pointer
- Preservation Havemore
- Principles Locke
- Fastidious Gage
- Nothingness Piebald
- Filth Driscoll
- Panacea Nelson
- Torrid Phillips
- Foolish Tancred
- Sunk Bathwell
- Goodluck Caedmon
- Shameful Glump
- Travel Sidson
- Endure Douglas
- Truthful Fillet
- Smell Hunterian
- Flesh Sawyer
- Imp Turner
- Long-Suffering Dee
- Truly-Loyal Cox
- Fate Hastings
- Misdeed Morgan
- Sanguinary Fry
- Trite Marten
- Nicety Snakenborg
- Inquisitorial Scrope
- Sleep Stafford
- Leer Walsingham
- All-Time Tarleton
- Flaccid Salzburg
- Devilish Larou
- Loquacious Pitt
- Have-Not Lee
- Ebullient Rodgers
- Friend O'Brien
- Purpose Palmer
- Omniscience O'Finnigan
- Dread Congrave
- Saintly Hart
- Goblin Teasmade
- Dissipation Boyle
- Fluff Bothwell
- Hardman Peirce
- Pry Goodwill
- Deific Dogsbody
- Dry Jackson
- Doubtful Blanche
- Farewell Pilchard
- Avuncular Underbridge
- Quaff Perkins
- Pungent Hume
- Industrial Kiss
- Assiduous Kane
- Dichotomy Glass
- Innominate Hyde
- Tempestuous King
- Tyranny Koch
- Crank O'Toole
- Loss Featherstone
- Noblest Brown
- Surrender Winterbottom
- Paragon Trotter
- Grip Tottering
- Mock Slowley
- Leap Longford
- Perfection Paine
- Worm Paisley
- Act Ogilvy
- Revenge Forthright
- Tug Whipstock
- Surreal Van Koop
- Regular Day
- Proscribe Smiles
- Gamble Grownow
- Splendiferous Ogg
- Odd Spilsbury
- Ritual Myers
- Switch O'Starr
- Mendacious Jiggle
- Snap O'Keefe
- Ravenous Forcock
- Feminine Moorcock
- Millennium Müller
- Poison Holmes
- Ego Trollope
- Predate Thackeray
- Meek Maddox
- Drinkblood Dampier
- Delirium Hearne
- Strike Scoresby
- Probable Strang
- Immodest Lear
- Id Milligan
- Apery Chase
- Debauch Bofors
- Ataxia Eden
- Please Fitzroy
- Brick Balfour
- Damp Saxon
- Exploit Narrows
- Stiff Dirk
- Impaler Dewitt
- Slasher Crowley
- Treachery Bosun
- Piety Kettle
- Minutiae Duke
- Fabulous Pea
- Spit Flemming
- Astringent Stone
- Tax Purser
- Enquiry Stein
- Stalwart Berry
- Drown Patricks
- Foul Gooser
- Oblong Darnell
- Sacristy Doors
- Halcyon Mustard
- Miserly Chalk
- Eerie Bolangford
- Scream Huxley
- Tragedy Orleans
- Calamity Staves
- Malady Prunk
- Drink Bickle
- Sulphurous Moon
- Medicine Shivers
- Wrestle Dolightly
- Angular Brand
- Bile Derleth
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| Thanks to Prismatic Wasteland for this one This post may be too late for the Names Bandwagon but check it out. |
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