How do you come up with names on the fly? More importantly, FITTING names in your setting?>"In a group consisting of Sithis, Travok, Anastrianna and Kairon, the human fighter named Bob II sticks out. Especially when he's identical to Bob I, who was killed by kobolds."You could save the exotic names for the important NPCs and use the common names for the generic potion seller, but that's only if you want them to know instantly whether or not they're interacting with someone important. Honestly if I wasn't so deep into my current campaign I'd try to do it with only generic names so this guy is the apothecary, this is the king, this is the one-eye cultist, this is the lich priest, and make it a guessing game if the NPC is important or not.
>>96648839Steal them from other media like sithis and kairon did
Name generators.There are name generators for anything.
Make a random table beforehand and roll on that.
>>96648839Name generation tables.I also like to use Biblical or out of fashion late 19th or early 20th century names. I will also take a name that is embarrassing or awkward (Sidney, Wesley) and either shorten it or have the character not use it in lieu of a nickname, middle name, or surname. Genre has an influence, of course. Sometimes it's just a gut thing, like I had a Star Wars bounty hunter named 'Vex.'
>>96648839Play games. It helps.
>>96648839I usually steal names from literature. Most of the time it's a European esque setting so it fits right in.
>>96648839I find an easy trick is to have a table of prefixes and suffixes, rolling on that gives like a hundred names on the fly.
