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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BOZ" data-source="post: 1510658" data-attributes="member: 1241">Here’s one that everyone can participate in.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />What I’m looking to do is to create a resource to help people come up with names for non-human creatures by providing examples of published NPCs.  This will probably take the form of a database list that I will keep updated as more examples come up.What I’m looking for is for you to go through your modules, sourcebooks, Dragon and Dungeon magazines, novels, etc and pull out whatever names for non-human NPCs you can find.  Any campaign world, any edition – from Diaglo’s original D&D (1974) to something that was printed this month – will do.  Look for common humanoid races (elf, dwarf, orc, goblin, etc), common monster races (dragons, giants, beholders, etc), and even races that don’t appear too often (lammasu, sahuagin, aboleth, whatever etc…).  go for uncommon races especially.  Hell, we can even go with demon princes and elemental lords and such, since they are really just extra-powerful NPCs anyway.  And I guess we might as well do gods too. (Half-elves and half-orcs are cool, because they often have names that reflect their non-human parentage).When you have one, two, fifty, or whatever, I want you to post them here, listing the full name and any aliases given, what race the creature is, and most importantly what source you got it from.  At minimum, I’d need a proper name for an individual and what race and gender that creature is.  For example, a quote listing “Bob the Minotaur” would be sufficient information to go on.  If a block of text says that there are seven orcs in a room, and their names are listed, then guess what – you have seven orc names!  As far as listing sources, if an individual appears in more than one source, please list every source you understand them to be in.  If a character appears in many sources (at least… 5?) you don’t have to list them all.  If you said “Drizzt Do’Urden, male drow, Forgotten Realms” for example, that would be good enough I think.  If a creature began its existence as another type of creature, it would be good to note that – for example, the lich Acererak (sp?) from Tomb of Horrors should be listed as a “lich (human)”.So, go for it!To get things started, since I happen to have module G1 handy, I’ll do that source right now:Nosnra, male hill giant chief, module G1 Steading of the Hill Giant Chief (1978)Most of the creatures in this module are not named, so that is really all I see for that source.</blockquote>

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