Decado Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 I recently painted Reaper #2644 Boar Demon to use in my campaign. I am currently in the process of creating him in PCGen and am looking for some help with coming up with a name. I have never used a demon, let alone named one, in my campaigns before but some one this bad deserves a name! Any help would be appreciated. Decado Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaperbryan Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 My Suggestion - Go To http://babelfish.altavista.com/, type in some mean sounding phrase, ask it to translate it into German - then take a few random syllables from the result. For example: Kills Puny Humans becomes Tötet kümmerliche Menschen - which becomesTotenliche If you like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusoe the Painter Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 I need to make up my Markov chain based name simulator, and give it some dictionaries of names. Given a set of words, it extracts statistics and makes new words with similair look and feel. Give it a list of german words for germanic sounding fantasy names, or welsh words for elfin names ( Welsh garbling is the main source of Elven in LOTR ). Should write it up. It'd require Python to run, but then it's customizable. Or some nice gent with windows could do a py2exe for me to make a standalone app for windows... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill_Adcock Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 Create an unpronounceable jumble of letters with far too many consonants. Ex: N'Gmoch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lars Porsenna Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 Give it a list of german words for germanic sounding fantasy names, or welsh words for elfin names ( Welsh garbling is the main source of Elven in LOTR ). I was under the impression that Tolkien's elvish was based more on Finnish than Welsh. I know Tolkien used a lot of names from British history (the names of the dwarves in The Hobbit were all Saxon), but I never thought his elvish looks Welsh... Damon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decado Posted June 29, 2004 Author Share Posted June 29, 2004 Thanks for the replies guys. Off the top of my head I came up with Drak' Tak' Thul. I am also seeing what I can come up with on babelfish, thansk for the link Reaperbryan! Decado Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoshi Posted July 2, 2004 Share Posted July 2, 2004 I name my demons after ex-girlfriends. It makes them even scarier! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haldir Posted July 3, 2004 Share Posted July 3, 2004 Well you could have named him "Snuggles" & when the PCs asks why......... Randy M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJCarrington Posted July 4, 2004 Share Posted July 4, 2004 At the risk of talking about the competition, GW has a neat name generator on their website: Daemon Name Generator Not too often they post up something for free (that's also usefull... ) AJC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixminis Posted July 5, 2004 Share Posted July 5, 2004 Fuzzywumpus S'Nuf Ul'Uf Ugus (Fan's of Sesame Street should recognize this) Het everzwijn (Dutch for Boar) jabalí (Russian) - Could be said Ja - BAL - EE.... sounds kinda demonish? Rgds, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Errex Posted July 5, 2004 Share Posted July 5, 2004 jabalí (Russian) - Could be said Ja - BAL - EE.... sounds kinda demonish? Uh, actually, that's a word we use in spanish for boar, but, since my knowledge of russian is almost null, (and the fact that their word for beer is also very similar to the one in spanish), it wouldn't be too surprising that this was another common origin word between both languages... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankthedm Posted July 6, 2004 Share Posted July 6, 2004 At the risk of talking about the competition, GW has a neat name generator on their website: Daemon Name Generator Not too often they post up something for free (that's also usefull... ) AJC wow, I like it. Thanks for link! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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