NOM-DE-GROTTE ~ d200 Caveman Names

Kennis & Kennis, MADRID SCIENTIFIC FILM

Cavemen have formal names (those with stretched vowels) and informal (without stretched vowels). Addressing a caveman with their full name may net the players a +1 to their reaction roll. Inspired by Idraluna Archive's OD&D Encounter SOPs. Don't dismiss the names as nonsense immediately, thought went into every one and are presented in the order I thought of them. 

The caveperson naming convention emerged on its own in my prior works - caveman-centric adventure sites. For previously named caveperson NPCs, see Lair of the Cavemen aka Thick Thews, Brutish Brows and Heaving Bosoms, the adventure site collection Six Savage Lairs and (the yet unreleased) Pity the Cavemen:

• Raugwalla ♂️
• Grooon ♂️
• Ooolpulgg ♂️ (what a feminine name 💃)
• Eewallaaa ♀️
• Bruugg ♂️
• Big Boruguluu ♂️
• The Oooogun ♂️
• Muurrtunga ♂️
• Lorrgga ♂️
• Eeexpinik ♀️

Temple of the Bear, by Zdeněk Burian

Cavepeople Automatic Name Roller 

Thanks to Paper Elemental for the generator. 

Portrait of the author, by Zdeněk Burian

The Lists:
Cave-Masculine:
1. Duuurguunna
2. Jughmaaaa
3. Wanuuurgaa
4. Anuuurwal
5. Raaanaaa
6. Luuurg
7. Guuurgamaa
8. Uraaanlik
9. Grooogaa
10. Raspaaapaa
11. Naguuulaa
12. Shuhooog
13. Yuuugeenba
14. Krollgg
15. Quwooodaa
16. Wroguuulaa
17. Shobeeegzob
18. Akaaachagaa
19. Muuurzmaa
20. Crooovqwa
21. Ergooomaa
22. Druuuussssaa
23. Udaaaarshub
24. Hwaaaht
25. Oooooooooooo
26. Aaaaaaaaaaaaa
27. Simguuulaa
28. Lokkk
29. Baaatishmaa
30. Owowoon
31. Wahgaawaa
32. Gahaanaaag
33. Murrrkurrrk
34. Blurrrcaa
35. Hooltaalmaa
36. Jaaajaaanak
37. Mroonnwipp
38. Caaawuraa
39. Yuuunk
40. Craavaaanaa
41. Maaamootaa
42. Vaaangovaa
43. Pongopohaa
44. Zojnaaak
45. Orgooonaa
46. Burrrraaaan
47. Yorrrpaapruh
48. Haaapaaadraa
49. Ohwaaawo
50. Ksnaaacwaa
51. Ooowowgaa
52. Hoqaaw
53. Urggurrrgg
54. Oowhoop
55. Agannneeyarrrp
56. Worrrrtuuug
57. Qannnnnn
58. Kolpapaaan
59. Jhurrrgaaandeh
60. Hooshaamaa
61. Harrrrsuurraaan
62. Draaaahhhh
63. Errrrr
64. Uhhhhgggg
65. Snnnrrrrrt
66. Slrrrrrrrsh
67. Burrrrzaa
68. Hurrhurrhurr
69. Thoggggogg
70. Drrrrrr
71. Gerggggugg
72. Wwwwwowchaa
73. Ooogaahh
74. Boogaahh
75. Shrrrrrrkkkkaa
76. Chaaaach
77. Vongoooooo
78. Barrrrrbarrrrbah
79. Graggg
80. Llllllg
81. Ummmguh
82. Raaaaaak
83. Ssssmushhhh
84. Brsssskk
85. Fleeebitaa
86. Agurrrmmm
87. Odfurrrrzzz
88. Odcraaaasaa
89. Ilayaaarajaaa
90. Iskaamsssskk
91. Raaagafommm
92. Woookarayjaa
93. Mbaaa
94. Loooosoo
95. Poyyyytaaavarrren
96. Nnrrmmboo
97. Crooofu
98. Gzzzzmaa
99. Ssssuk
100. Brrurrannnndddaa


Cave-Feminine:
1. Eeeenpunwag
2. Aaaawinwuk
3. Oooolanag
4. Oooojughjugh
5. Ooookanook
6. Qeeepineg
7. Tseeelikan
8. Leeesipwip
9. Saaawupog
10. Duuumama
11. Oooozagdah
12. Oooopremib
13. Qeeesineeg
14. Ceeegineek
15. Aaaaxineep
16. Ieeenogog
17. Aeeestonot
18. Ooaaaxefu
19. Ooofofof
20. Aaakalak
21. Eeeekikik
22. Ofoooosecnag
23. Aaaayapeq
24. Aaaamalaig
25. Vehhhhulu
26. Goolaaaabaanig
27. Izaaaafazhin
28. Edreeegagag
29. Sssssehabag
30. Imaaaawenwen
31. Aaaajaajan
32. Aaaathangaachee
33. Ihaaagahoh
34. Athaaanag
35. Araaaagarej
36. Uzuuuulanam
37. Oooosofig
38. Woomaaanaag
39. Olooooomugug
40. Ecaaaahicah
41. Uhcaaamokop
42. Udoooomazaz
43. Ysssssswihog
44. Xeeeemidid
45. Xaaaazakop
46. Ezoooosusog
47. Uxaaaaaxaman
48. Ozuuuudugit
49. Ysaaaagrag
50. Eeeechaneek
51. Weeeezanope
52. Aaaaapalas
53. Oooopowalas
54. Ashaaaaaadeyet
55. Aaaaababab
56. Ogoooogoyog
57. Ebooooshimak
58. Voooolemish
59. Odooomivmuk
60. Ezeeeeegushek
61. Zzzzzzzbogig
62. Uzzzzzzanolok
63. Ohooo-ohooo
64. Omooookic
65. Ooooloogaloog
66. Igaaaajidec
67. Ubaaaashardoc
68. Okoooolanoom
69. Loooocatwees
70. Efeeescanik
71. Uhhhhgyug
72. Ummmmmeen
73. Ovooomulnam
74. Izzzzzlopig
75. Edeeeelumug
76. Oodaaaanuguk
77. Yoooodinid
78. Yeeegahyuk
79. Yaaaakwaneek
80. Neeelurrrmunk
81. Aleeeevogog
82. Olooomarag
83. Eeecayyyylik
84. Uhhhhuwakwak
85. Errrrluvluv
86. Arrrreeesilag
87. Aaaashoogik
88. Oooomoovipij
89. Eeevllllimig
90. Ayyyyukog
91. Oyyyhogin
92. Ooooshabosh
93. Eeekiwip
94. Ooozumzum
95. Aaazagzig
96. Eeezoonimp
97. Aaavaaliren
98. Urrrrrkuhrem
99. Ooomurug
100. Oooterag

Source unknown, but isn't it great?

Other posts for your consideration:

• Savage Personality Generation. To give these cavepeople some character.
• The race-as-class Talismanic Caveman.
• The Onomasticon Quernorum
• Fantasy Names from Scrabble and Other Word Games
• Name Generator: Morpheme+Word+Epithet
• The adventure locations listed at the start of the post.

d20 dungeon critters you can just snatch up and gulp down

Select thy snack

Some proper dungeon bushtucker. Hey, don’t be squeamish, it's free HP.

For when your players are truly beasts. 

While quick to eat they are somewhat bilious, (especially for the inexperienced dungeoneer) - you can only eat a number of these critters (or portions) equal to your level every ten minutes*. Excess consumption causes HP loss instead of gain. The format is name, description, amount healed per portion (usually the whole creature but some can be divvied up, some must be) and number appearing (No app:). They all go bad after a day.

These varmints can tie into something like the ‘dungeon provides’ result of Wondering Monster’s Tweaked Encounter Dice. Eating these critters does not provoke an encounter check (unless otherwise stated). 

*unless cooked into a meal.

D20 dungeon critters you can just snatch up and gulp down

1. Cake Bug
 - The crème de la crème of dungeon critters. A nine-legged, soft-bodied organism the exact same size, shape, texture and taste as a stodgy, praline and caramel cake. 6 HP or up to six servings of 1 HP. No app: 1d2.

2. Pygmy Cave Dodos
- Little squawking featherless oafs that run in circles. You could fit two in the palm of your hand. Bloodless, dry and stringy. 1 HP ea. No app: 1d6.
3. Cracklers/Poppers
- Bright pink termites that crackle in the mouth and their fat wine-red grubs. Cracklers: 1 HP per dozen, Poppers, 2 HP ea. No app: 1d4 dozen Cracklers outside the nest, inside the nest are 2d6 dozen Cracklers and d20 Poppers. Digging them out may take some time.  
4. Bogtart
- A spontaneously generated homunculus. They play dead when spotted. About a mouthful. Tastes like cherry pie, gushes green ooze when bitten. 2 HP. No app: 1.
5. Vecna's Feathers
- Squamous, silvery moths. Rest on tombs and soak up the evil energy. Just grab them out of the air, then twist and pull. Tastes like vinegary porridge. 1 HP ea. No app: 2d6. 
6. Orc Fingers
- Callous green caterpillar-things, roost under rocks and scatter, clumsily, from light sources. 1 HP per 3. No app: 1d4*3.
7. Molasses Slime
- The runt of the dungeon slime genus. Small, slow, about as acidic as an orange - sweet and cloying in the back of the throat. 2 HP ea. No app: 1.
8. Miasmatic Minnows
- Filtering out the tainted dungeon air, these tiny fish float like sparkling teardrops - just inhale sharply and swallow. 1 HP per cloud/shoal. No app: 1d4 shoals. 
9. Waiffles
- Bone white fairies that want to be eaten. They’ll try to force themselves into your mouth, begging “eat me, eat me” in their squeaky little voices. Considered bad luck to eat but this is just an old wives tale. Taste and texture like fresh candy floss. 1 HP each. No app: 1d6.
10. Spitworms
- Like anemones blooming from the wall, they’re tubular, blue tinted polyps with little yawning fishmouths. They spit harmless neon slime territorially. The texture is like pani puri but the taste is pineapple. 1 HP ea. No app: 2d6.
11.  Headless Gecko
- Eponymous appearance, about an arm's length, mossy skin, completely silent, slow, no head, no survival instinct. Actually a kind of motile fungus. Low on nutrition and flavour but very filling. 2 HP or 2 portions of 1 HP. No app: 1.
12.  Danglers/Larval Apes
- Found on the ceiling, an oxblood-coloured, segmented log with a crude face like a smiling emoji and vestigial paws and tail. A solid, organless mass like a chewy sweet - gummy texture, biltong taste. They’re very heavy. 5 portions of 1 HP. No app: 1d4. 
13.  Snoufflé
- Like a cross between a shaggy snufflesome sea-slug and a buttery croissant. About the size of a swiss roll. 3 HP or three portions of 1 HP. No app: 1.
14.  Flavour Cubes
- Near-transparent tumblesome cubes - will grow into gelatinous cubes if not eaten. Jelliful and eye-wateringly sour. 1 HP for small Cubes, 2 HP for big ones - however, one can only eat 1 every ten minutes. No app: 1d10 small, 1d4 big.
15.  Garloids
- Like geoducks, found nestling in damp corners or the underhang of boulders. Make good pets but remember to water them regularly. Each Garloid is 3 portions of 1 HP (only the experienced can eat a whole garloid). No app: 1d4.
16.  Dungeon Cucumbers
- Like a headily coloured choral reef, flowing, wedged, into the cracks of dungeon walls. These molluscs tongue the air for motes of dust and metaphysical dungeon energy. 1 HP ea (3HP if fried). No appearing 2d20. 
17. Flat Rats
- Like a featureless velvet-furred pancake that ripples around the dungeon floor nibbling up detritus. Taste and texture like chicken schnitzel if you ignore the downy fur. 2 HP. No App: 1d12.  
18. Wormhead Toads
- About the size of your palm. Delectable but the toxic ones look indistinguishable from the good ones. 1d4 HP ea but if 4 is rolled, take 4 HP of damage instead. No app: 1d4.
19.  Stirge Husks
- The infamous Stirge, grey, dead and dried out. Packed with protein, it’s not unlike eating a dried (albeit red veined) apple. 2 HP ea. No app: 1d8.
20. Skull or ‘Helmit’ Crab
- With paper thin shells and delicious insides, these translucent crabs house themselves in the skulls of the dead, preferring helmeted heads. 1 HP, or 3 HP if fully broken out of the skull, though this may take time. No app: 1d4.

1d4 critters you really don’t want to snatch up and gulp down

Combine with the previous table, rolling a wacky d24 to add a learning curve to dungeon critter foraging. 

1. Grave Tadpoles

- Little glistening black spots near-futilly wiggling across the hard stone floor. A cabbagey, fishy taste. Heals 0-1 HP but induces a deathlike coma for 10 minutes, one awakens early upon receiving damage. No app: 1d8

2. Witchcap Wasps

- Finger-sized orange and grey wasps with black witch-hat shaped mushrooms growing from their head or thorax. 1 HP ea but one cannot sleep for 24 hours after ingestion. No app: 2d4.

3. Stewing Gnomes

- Grey-purple coneheaded octopi that, perched high up on their tentacles, ambulate like tiny waddling penguins. Strongly emetic when eaten raw. After vomiting one cannot eat anything else that day. Only good for stewing. No app: 1d4.   

4. Bloodsnipper

- These beaky, crimson-scaled fish move and behave just like rats, scurrying about the floor on its membranous fin-legs. They scream loudly when grabbed, provoking an immediate encounter check. 1 HP ea. No App: 1d10.

Optionally: Each character can roll a d20 to determine their favourite flavour of critter. A PC can eat an unlimited number of that particular critter, ignoring the normal level restriction. You can also roll for whatever critter the characters like least though I’m sure they’ll do that naturally. 

Name Generator: Morpheme+Word+Epithet

Who are these fellas and what are their names? Groupe de sorciers by Lucas Roussel

Millions of names!

Each name is made of three parts. A made-up morpheme, an English word and an epithet or honorific. The names are drawn from lists I wrote; there are 335 morphemes, 345 words and 311 epithets/honorifics. I use words rather than another set of immediately meaningless morphemes for a few reasons: 

• Words colour the name, if the name has ‘cruel’ in it, the name instantly gives a hint to the character (but sometimes it just gives an interesting sound) in a very pulpy way that should be embraced.  

• Words make the name a little quicker to read, the brain picks out the second word; so ‘Zhongcried’ is that much quicker to read and then physically pronounce than a random collection of phonemes like ‘Ibquneche’.

• Along with epithets, words add a touch more memorability to a name for your players. If you generate something alliterative or with some assonance, all the better!

Of course, not all characters should have a name that fits these conventions, though these  principles can be quite effective. If a name is generated and the 'epithet' is in brackets it is an honorific and should be read before the name, not after. For example 'Ozdog (Master)' should be read as Master Ozdog.

Thanks to Paper Elemental for their clever html generator generator which I used for this post and for the Archons March On blog whose many numerous generators inspired me to give it a go myself. 

Click Generate for your name:

Click for the raw lists

Dark/Pulp Dungeon Name Generator

By Esteban Maroto

 A run-of-the-mill table for inspiration or fun. Roll 1d20 for each column. 

D20	Word 1	Of The...	Word 2
1	Cave(s)	Spectral	Horror
2	Temple	Demon-(ic)	Lord
3	Tomb	Eternal	Eye
4	Palace	Pagan	Throne
5	Prison	Impossible	Crown
6	Sanctum	Bleeding	Cult
7	Manor	Crimson	Sign
8	Citadel	Cerulean	Curse
9	Tower	Astral	Entity
10	Fortress	Infernal	Machine
11	Lair	Cannibal	Creature
12	Keep	Creeping	Thing
13	Barrow	Alien	Frog/Snake/Ape/Insect/Spider
14	Chasm	Nameless	Army
15	Isle	Elder	Phantasm
16	Realm	Cursed	Overlord
17	Altar	Dreaming	Queen
18	Domain	Hideous	God
19	Maze	Voodoo	Pit
20	Hall	Undying	Mage