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<blockquote data-quote="Haltherrion" data-source="post: 5096643" data-attributes="member: 18253">Without being too handy in Excel or a similar spreadsheet, you could quickly make a fairly good name generator by creating columns of name elements and then randomly stringing them together: randomly select number of elements (for a mix of short and long names), randomly index into the name column. Use a COUNT function to determine number of elements in a column so you can add more elements as you think of them.&nbsp;Did the equivalent in Perl ages ago and it generates excellent names and, of course, you can always use different columns of elements for gender, nationality, etc.&nbsp;It would take maybe 30 minutes to setup; less if you are an excel pro, a bit more if you need to use the help doc.&nbsp;Easy enough to setup a page of pre-generated names and print them out for ref use in a campaign as well.&nbsp;If there is interest, I'll throw something together and post it on my campaign wiki.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Haltherrion, post: 5096643, member: 18253"] Without being too handy in Excel or a similar spreadsheet, you could quickly make a fairly good name generator by creating columns of name elements and then randomly stringing them together: randomly select number of elements (for a mix of short and long names), randomly index into the name column. Use a COUNT function to determine number of elements in a column so you can add more elements as you think of them. Did the equivalent in Perl ages ago and it generates excellent names and, of course, you can always use different columns of elements for gender, nationality, etc. It would take maybe 30 minutes to setup; less if you are an excel pro, a bit more if you need to use the help doc. Easy enough to setup a page of pre-generated names and print them out for ref use in a campaign as well. If there is interest, I'll throw something together and post it on my campaign wiki. [/QUOTE]

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