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So, trying to find names for the fantasy novel I’m writing for NaNoWriMo is a challenge in and of itself. A trick I’d taken from DnD is a handy resource I took from DM-to-the-stars Chris Perkins, who posted a list of NPC names he used in his 4e campaign at the WotC offices. Only problem was that it seems that Chris decided to go dark online some time back, including deleting his WotC forum profile, as well as the campaign wiki. Thankfully, I’m fairly resourceful, so here, for all of you out there (and largely for me) is a copy of that list.

PREGENERATED NAMES

No matter what the campaign, Dungeon Masters need a ready supply of names for NPCs created on the fly. The following lists were instrumental in naming NPCs for the Iomandra campaign, and DMs are urged to pillage these lists for their own games and even expand on them. If you’re a DM looking for even more names, try doing a Google search on “Czech names,” “Egyptian names,” or some other nationality. A lot of foreign names fit perfectly well in a D&D medieval fantasy milieu. First names are separated from last names, allowing DMs to “mix and match” as they see fit. Only the core Player’s Handbook races are represented, but at the end you’ll also find a list of names that can serve double duty as ship names and inn/tavern names.

NONPLAYER CHARACTER NAMES

Human Male First Names: Anlow, Arando, Bram, Cale, Dalkon, Daylen, Dodd, Dungarth, Dyrk, Eandro, Falken, Feck, Fenton, Gryphero, Hagar, Jeras, Krynt, Lavant, Leyten, Madian, Malfier, Markus, Meklan, Namen, Navaren, Nerle, Nilus, Ningyan, Norris, Quentin, Semil, Sevenson, Steveren, Talfen, Tamond, Taran, Tavon, Tegan, Vanan, Vincent Human Female First Names: Azura, Brey, Hallan, Kasaki, Lorelei, Mirabel, Pharana, Remora, Rosalyn, Sachil, Saidi, Tanika, Tura, Tylsa, Vencia, Xandrilla Human Last Names: Arkalis, Armanci, Bilger, Blackstrand, Brightwater, Carnavon, Caskajaro, Coldshore, Coyle, Cresthill, Cuttlescar, Daargen, Dalicarlia, Danamark, Donoghan, Drumwind, Dunhall, Ereghast, Falck, Fallenbridge, Faringray, Fletcher, Fryft, Goldrudder, Grantham, Graylock, Gullscream, Hindergrass, Iscalon, Kreel, Kroft, Lamoth, Leerstrom, Lynchfield, Moonridge, Netheridge, Oakenheart, Pyncion, Ratley, Redraven, Revenmar, Roxley, Sell, Seratolva, Shanks, Shattermast, Shaulfer, Silvergraft, Stavenger, Stormchapel, Strong, Swiller, Talandro , Targana, Towerfall, Umbermoor, Van Devries, Van Gandt, Van Hyden, Varcona, Varzand, Voortham, Vrye, Webb, Welfer, Wilxes, Wintermere, Wygarthe, Zatchet, Zethergyll Dragonborn Male Names: Andujar, Armagan, Armek, Arzan, Axaran, Belaxarim, Brevarr, Djemidor, Draxan, Fayal, Grax, Iojad, Inzul, Khiraj, Kreytzen, Lejek, Mar, Nazir, Nedam, Nevek, Ravaran, Razaan, Sarax, Sarram, Savaxis, Siangar, Sirizan, Sunan, Szuran, Tajan, Tamajon, Tenahn, Toxal, Tzegyr, Vantajar, Vharkus, Xafiq, Zarkhil Dragonborn Female Names: Artana, Kalas, Khagra, Leytra, Myrka, Naya, Sarcha, Shirren, Sirivistra, Sufana, Tamara, Vrumadi, Zovra Dragonborn Last Names: I don’t have a list of dragonborn last names, since so few dragonborn in the Iomandra campaign have them. However, if you’re hunting for something, check out some of the made-up ship names at the end of this page. Dwarf Male First Names: Agaro, Arnan, Auxlan, Avamir, Baelnar, Balfam, Bariken, Borkûl, Darkûl, Dolmen, Dyrnar, Erag, Ezegan, Ferrek, Garmûl, Glint, Ghorvas, Grimmalk, Haeltar, Halagmar, Halzar, Hlant, Korlag, Krag, Krim, Kurman, Lurtrum, Malagar, Mardam, Maulnar, Melgar, Morak, Orobok, Rogath, Roken, Rozag, Sabakzar, Sharak, Smethykk, Swargar, Thorbalt, Thorin, Tredigar, Vabûl, Vistrum, Wolvar Dwarf Female First Names: Beyla, Fenryl, Grenenzel, Krystolari, Lokara, Lurka, Marnia, Praxana, Rokel, Roksana, Thurlfara, Vauldra, Veklani, Vronwe, Zebel Dwarf Last Names: Ambershard, Barrelhelm, Copperhearth, Deepmiddens, Drakantal, Evermead, Garkalan, Grimtor, Hackshield, Irongull, Markolak, Ramcrown, Rockharvest, Silvertarn, Skandalor, Zarkanan Eladrin Male First Names: Aialon, Elarahal, Jiardem, Laern, Lelyrian, Lephyrr, Loray, Sayadar, Talonien, Vaerlan, Xoneras, Zaquivir Eladrin Female First Names: Allyria, Ayrdra, Deneth, Elseone, Etherea, Istiria, Karanwyn, Lieryn, Ravel, Sinariel, Sydri, Taris, Turue, Vacquiel, Valendra Eladrin Last Names: Lantherval, Lorhalien, Maldranthe, Shalbarain, Sirothian, Starfeon, Zolerii Elf Male First Names: Alarcion, Alathar, Ariandar, Arromar, Borel, Bvachan, Carydion, Elgoth, Farlien, Ferel, Gaerlan, Iafalior, Kaelthorn, Laethan, Leliar, Leodor, Lorak, Lorifir, Morian, Oleran, Rylef, Savian, Seylas, Tevior, Veyas Elf Female First Names: Aryllan, Atalya, Ayrthwil, Irva, Lyfalia, Ronefel, Thirya, Velene, Venefiq, Zereni Elf Last Names: Autumnloft, Balefrost, Briarfell, Evenwind, Graytrails, Mooncairn, Riverwall, Stormwolf, Summergale, Sunshadow, Woodenhawk Halfling Male First Names: Arthan, Carvin, Corby, Cullen, Egen, Ernest, Gedi, Heron, Jeryl, Keffen, Kylem, Kynt, Leskyn, Neff, Orne, Quarrel, Rabbit, Rilkin, Snakebait, Tarfen, Titch, Tuck, Whim Halfling Female First Names: Caliope, Emily, Piper, Rixi, Sabretha, Teg, Tilly, Toira, Vexia, Vil, Vzani, Zanthe, Ziza Halfling Last Names: Angler, Battlestone, Blackwater, Daggersharp, Deepstrider, Hollowpot, Puddle, Raftmite, Skiprock, Silverfin, Tanglestrand, Tricker, Willowrush, Yellowcrane Tiefling Male First Names: Ankhus, Arkadi, Armarius, Armillius, Archidius, Balmoloch, Calderax, Cavian, Cenereth, Chorum, Corynax, Dacian, Daelius, Damaceus, Decimeth, Demedor, Demerian, Dynachus, Grassus, Halius, Heleph, Incirion, Kalaradian, Kamien, Kazimir, Kzandro, Machem, Maetheus, Malfias, Marchion, Menerus, Namazeus, Nensis, Prismeus, Pyranikus, Razortail, Sejanus, Severian, Suffer, Syken, Tarkus, Vaius, Xerek, Zeth, Zevon Tiefling Female First Names: Affyria, Cataclysmia, Domitia, Dorethau, Excellence, Hacari, Iritra, Lachira, Levatra, Mecretia, Milvia, Nericia, Precious, Rain, Samantia, Sunshine, Tenerife, Traya, Velavia, Zaidi, Zethaya Tiefling Last Names: Amarzian, Carnago, Domarien, Iscitan, Meluzan, Menetrian, Paradas, Romazi, Sarzan, Serechor, Shadowhorn, Szereban, Torzalan, Trelenus, Trevethor, Tryphon, Vadu, Vrago.

SHIP NAMES (some suitable for inn/tavern names)

1. What do you think your d&d race would be?

2. What class?

3. What two feats would you have?

4. What has been your favorite d&d character you've played? (NPCs count for DMs)

5. Which of your d&d characters has been the most like you?

6. Which of your d&d characters has been the least like you?

7. How do you go about making a character or NPC?

8. What is the most memorable natural 20 you've ever experienced?

9. Has one of your d&d characters ever died? How?

10. What is your favorite class to play?

11. Have you ever fought a dragon?

12. Have you ever fought a beholder?

13. Have you ever fought a mind flayer?

14. Have you ever had a romance with an NPC or another PC?

15. Do you prefer to DM or play?

16. What is your favorite D&D pod/vodcast?

17. Who is your favorite "celebrity dm?"

18. Do you use props/minis/terrain in your game?

19. How did you discover D&D?

20. If you run a homebrew game, give an out of context spoiler.

21. Drop a picture of a mini you painted (if applicable)

22. Write a brief scene centered around one of your characters!

23. Do you have any art of your characters?

24. Have you ever played any TTRPGs other than D&D?

25. What is your favorite snack for d&d?

26. If you could have one potion from d&d, which one would you choose?

27. If you could cast one spell from d&d, which would you cast?

28. What is the most memorable natural 1 you've experienced?

29. Have you ever been drunk playing d&d?

30. Homebrew or prewritten?

31. Tell me about your current party!

32. Most memorable NPC you've encountered in a game you played in.

33. Do you listen to music while playing? What kinds?

34. Favorite accent to do for characters?

35. Favorite classic d&d trope

36. What was your first d&d character you made?

37. What is the most recent PC or NPC you've created?

38. Goblins or Kobolds?

39. Favorite villain you've defeated?

40. What d&d deity would you be a cleric of?

41. Give an out of context quote from one of your games!

42. Have you ever rolled turn into a potted plant on the wild magic table?

43. Minis and terrain or theater of the mind?

44. Mulligan, Mercer, Murphy, or McElroy?

45. What is the longest session you've ever had?

46. What is the longest battle you've fought or run?

47. Have you ever played at level 20?

48. Does your dm say "How do you want to do this?"

49. Have you ever played an edition other than 5th?

With all the talk of dice munching I thought I’d look for chocolate dice 😁😅

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A cyberpunk vignette

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

I slipped the visor over my head and stared into the abyss.

It was several hours before I unplugged At that point I was hungry, a bit dehydrated, and ready for sleep. But there was no rest to be had; I’d told Martin I would meet him at the diner, and I was supposed to be there in half an hour.

I stepped into my pants, tugged on shoes, and strode out into the hallway. The bulbs were old. Fluorescents. They flickered sickly, throwing down their nauseating light on walls that were in need of painting. It made the hallway seem only half lit. Kinda like a vintage motel. The walls almost looked green in that cast.

I lit a cigarette and walked out onto the street.

Autocars rolled past on their way to who-knows-where. I was on the slidewalk. It carried me up Sixth Street, through the arts district where a little band was playing something sorrowful and bluesy on steel guitar, harmonica, and a rinky-dink drum kit. The singer was wailing like he had a bone to pick with reality. Maybe he did. Maybe lots of folks did. Maybe that’s why they listened. I wondered if it made them feel better about their own lives. Company for their misery and all that. That might not be exactly right, but surely it was on the right track.

Couples sat outside the cafes. They were drinking wine or cappuccino and speaking softly over candles. That must be nice, I mused. To be with someone like that. Somehow my relationships never worked out. They started up real nice and then fizzled out about as quickly. But it never seemed like there was time for tenderness. Not like those people, who seemed happy in their own skin and happy to be with whom they were with. Just talking and laughing and sipping. Yeah, that must be nice.

My life was always a frantic mess. There didn’t seem to be anything to be done about it, either. The only half-way-decent relationship I had had in recent memory was with Selma, and she and I never took it easy, never just sat and got along out on the sidewalks on a nice night like this. Shit was always crazy, and that couldn’t last but so long, and then it ended. All of a sudden. The good times just gave out and there wasn’t anything left but distance. So we said our goodbyes and I got hooked on Void. Now I plug in every night. Sometimes more. It’s a miracle I can hold a job, even if there isn’t much to it. Just stocking shelves part time on the red-eye shift down at Darrel’s Grocery. No, I can’t hardly keep up with that. Not anymore. And it’s easy. At least, that’s what my brain tells me. But when I’m there, when I’m doing it, it seems hard and I want to be elsewhere, anywhere else. I can’t stand it.

The galleries were hopping. There was a drink-and-draw going on in one place. It had nice, big, glass windows and you could see all the bright, smiling faces under the bright light inside drinking their booze and pretending like they knew how to handle a paintbrush any better than their own lives. Maybe they did know how to handle their own lives, though. Maybe it was just me who didn’t. Well, and Selma. She didn’t have her shit together. But maybe that’s different, now. I don’t know. It’s been so long. She sure didn’t know what was going on when we were together. No, I take that back…I guess she knew, sort of. It just didn’t do her any good.

I bet she looks into the abyss as much as I do, nowadays. Damn. I gotta get off that shit. I keep telling myself that and every day a little bit of the color drains out of the world, which only makes it harder, so I keep it up. I come up with excuses. But those are falling by the wayside. Eventually I won’t even need to lie to myself to keep it going. It’s becoming like second nature. Plugging in, that is. Void. Soon I won’t need anything else and I’ll stop coming out like this. I’ll stop looking at all these people with their wine glasses and their painting and their significant others, their ostensibly functional lives. It only reminds me of what I can’t have and that pushes me even further into the abyss.

The diner wasn’t far.

It’s a little corner number that was cattycorner to Soapy’s Tavern, coin laundry and brewery. It, the diner, was called Mike’s. Just Mike’s. No Mike’s Diner or Mike’s Restaurant or Mike’s Good Eats, even. Nothing. Just Mike’s, and it had a little neon sign that seemed quaint in the 21st century. It was all pink and yellow and flashed “food”/“coffee” underneath the name that was half burned out and had been for a while, just like the clientele.

I hopped off the slidewalk and sauntered towards the door. It was a gaudy affair: Chrome. It reflected the neon in a way that was somehow disorienting and I couldn’t figure out why they had it like that; or, at least, why they never changed it, unless it had something to do with money, in which case I could understand but I figured getting rid of those doors might help with that too. If it were any other place something like that would turn me off so hard. But Mike’s was Mike’s and everybody knew it. It was a cozy place for people like me. The ones who weren’t sipping wine or flirting in the bistros.

Corny music was playing when I walked in. Not Elvis, but something like that. It was part of the appeal—the mystique—that was Mike’s. None of the other places had that kind of character. Oh well.

I looked around for Martin but didn’t see him so I walked into the back section. There I found him gesturing through the menu that he must have had memorized by then and only bothered to look at it out of habit. “What’s up?” I said.

“Oh, the usual,” he groaned. “Not much of shit. What about you, Fred?”

“I almost forgot to show up. I was plugged in.”

“I was too, earlier.”

“I do it a lot.”

“Me too.”

There was a silence in which Phyllis decided to dance over and interject. “Y’all know what you’re getting?”

“The usual,” I said.

Martin said, “Yeah, let me get a beer. In the bottle. No glass. I don’t need a glass, not me. I’ll drink it right out of the bottle.”

“Okay…”

“And an omelet. No, wait. Yeah. All right. I’ll get an omelet. With cheese. And maybe tomatoes.”

“Do you want tomatoes?”

“Yeah, well, I dunno.” Martin looked at me pleadingly, as if I would tell him what he wanted. But of course I couldn’t so I just looked back at him like what the fuck. “Yeah, I want tomatoes,” he decided. “But on the side. I don’t want them in the omelet. With the omelet.”

“Okay. Will that be all?”

“Oh, and toast. Let me get some toast.”

“Okay.”

“And water. I really need water. I’m thirsty.”

“All right, It’ll be right up.”

Phyllis scampered off in her graceful sort of way.

I said, “Dude, you seem really tweaked. How long were you plugged in, today?”

“Today? I don’t know. How about this week? Man, I’m not sure. A lot. A whole lot.”

“Maybe you should take it easy.”

“Maybe you should!”

“Calm down, man,” I glanced around at the other patrons. A guy who looked like ZZ Top was eyeing us pretty hard, but everybody else seemed not to have noticed. They were all probably as burned out as we were. “I think I do need to lay off,” I admitted after a minute.

“How much have you plugged in?”

“Every day, man. Every day.”

“Yeah,” was all he said. We sat there silently until Phyllis came back with our drinks. Martin gulped down the water before I even got started and he started in on the beer with almost as much commitment. I wanted to tell him to chill, but decided against it. He’d just tell me to chill, anyway, and keep going. I did tell him: “I think this shit’s messing with our heads.”

“Oh, I know it is,” he said. “But so what?”

“So…you really want to fuck up, like, fucking tweak yourself? Wind up like Harvey?”

“Harvey? There’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. Where’d he get off to?”

“He’s up north somewhere. Connecticut, I think.”

“Yeah? What’s he doin’ up there?”

“He’s locked up.”

“What’d he do?”

“He went off the deep end. At least, that’s what I heard.”

“Yeah, but what’d he do?”

“He didn’t do anything.”

“But you said he’s locked up. What’d he do to get locked up?”

“He lost his shit, man. He’s not in jail. He’s in the loony bin.”

“No way.”

“Yes way.”

“Did he tweak?”

“Yeah, he fucking tweaked. He tweaked big time. Tweaked the big one. I heard they don’t know if he’ll ever be the same again.”

“Well, what happened?”

“He thought aliens were after him. He tried to hang himself with an extension cord from the ceiling fan.”

“Fucked up.”

“For real, man.”

“I’m never going to tweak like that.”

“How do you know?”

“Harvey was nuts to begin with.”

“Maybe we were all nuts to begin with.”

“No way.”

“How would we know?”

“I knew Harvey was nuts. You should have known, too. But you weren’t nuts. You aren’t.”

“I’m beginning to wonder.”

“You worry too much.”

Clank. Phyllis set down the plates. “Here you are, boys.”

“Thanks,” we said.

Martin didn’t lay into the omelet and tomatoes like he had the liquids. The food he mostly just kinda stared at while I ate. I had eggs over easy, with grits and a biscuit. “You’re not going to let that go to waste, are you?”

He shook his head. He looked as fried as my eggs. “Are you all right, man?” I asked.

“Fine,” he said, after a while. “Look, I should really be going.” He dropped some cash on the table as he stood up. “See you later, Fred.”

I finished his omelet. It wasn’t beneath me. Then I paid at the counter and stepped back out into the waiting night full of lovers and art and alcohol, and a warm breeze that held so much renewed promise.

I can do it, I told myself. I was my own life coach at that point. So much good it did me. But I kept telling myself that all the way back to my pad. I can stop. Any time. I should stop now. Maybe tomorrow…No, it won’t be any easier tomorrow. I have to stop tonight. The bistros. The cafes. They slid by into the fuzzy streetlight glow of distance, the same as Selma. I got to the poorly lit hallway and then to my front door. I opened it and shut it and went to the hab panel where I set the lights to few and dim. Then I sat down hard on the couch. Was I tweaking? I didn’t feel like I was tweaking. But how would I know? Did Harvey feel like he was tweaking when he tweaked? All I could think about was trying not to tweak while I looked at the visor that was glaring holes into my mind. It will be easier tomorrow, I told myself. There’s always tomorrow.

Have another 3.5 conversion today. Been tinkering with this one for a while. Since raging doesn’t work the way it use to, I had to do some mad tweaking to get the firestorm rage to work within 5e. I like to think I got it.

Hello, hello, hello! Here is another homebrew Druid subclass. This one was made as a commissions specifically for @nagemeikenu! If you would like to commission me shoot me a message! All commissions are posted privately or publicly depending on what you prefer.

(Also, yes, I know the picture is of a Sorcerer, but I really liked it)

This is a barbarian subclass inspired by the fighting style of ancient Scottish warriors from the highlands. I’m Scottish myself, and I thought d&d-ifying these guys would be the perfect way to utilise all the useless knowledge I have about my country.

Highlanders were taught to rush down their enemies to close the gap between themselves and the enemy. Their wills were unshakable- even a volley of gunfire could not stop their charge. To replicate these tactics, this subclass encourages mobility, granting you features that will let you be constantly moving around the field of battle.

The Chained Ancient, remastered with Artwork!

If your character wasn’t an adventurer, what livelihood would they lead?

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When they were a child, what did your character want to be, or think they were going to be, when they grew up?

The player character to your left admits that they’re passionately in love with your character. How would your character respond?

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What television/book/video game/etc. character would your character be best friends with? (Or: what media character is your character the most influenced by/similar to?

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