by jabberjabber | Dec 24, 2015
When reading the Horus Heresy and Warhammer 40,000 novels, there are a large range of names employed for every culture and sect imaginable therein. The Legio Titanicus are no exceptions. The names for titans appear to be sourced from one of several linguistic origins....
by jabberjabber | Nov 2, 2014
Today, I thought I'd try something a bit more adventurous. Following on from the various random name generator lists I've been toying with, I thought I'd have a go at trying to make a Greek sounding random location name generator. From the outset, I'm going to...
by jabberjabber | Nov 1, 2014
Battles and roleplaying locations are not random places. They have names. This can be seen in publications from Games Workshop (e.g., Lion's Gate spaceport on Terra), through to Dungeon and Dragon's Forgotten Realms setting. So, following on from my posts about random...
by jabberjabber | Jul 3, 2014
On the odd occasion in both real-life and science-fiction roleplaying games, computers will require names. This is particularly true of supercomputers, or computers hosted within one organisation that need to be differentiated from one-another ... rather than them all...
by jabberjabber | Feb 6, 2014
In yesterday's post, I explored some (random) names for English (and Anglo-Celtic) locations. The main bit of feedback I received was the need to do this kind of job for other cultures and backgrounds. I completely agree with this. But the main issue is that as I move...