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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DaveStebbins" data-source="post: 1336179" data-attributes="member: 1427">I have to add another recommendation for the Everchanging Book of Names. It is simply awesome. With seed names from a specific country or culture, it can produce new names with a similar cadence and feel (using the scientific rules evildmguy mentioned). There are dozens of real-world seed name files and also a bunch from different flavors of fantasy and sci-fi literature. Having distinct sounding names for each region in your world makes a huge difference and makes it much easier to get across the feel of an area to your players. EBoN makes it easy to have lists of hundreds of names available for each region. Whenever you happen to need one, just grab one from the lists you made. It's really not very difficult at all to create new seed name files; I've done it myself more than once (though it was years ago, just before a major upgrade - SOMEDAY, when I have the time, I've got to go back and re-generate those name lists to make them more accurate to the original sources). I've never used JHNamegen, so I can't give a useful opinion on it. TableSmith is a great tool with dozens of useful pre-made tables. I recommend it very highly. IMO, it is the Swiss Army knife of gaming utilities. But for generating names, nothing comes close to EBoN in my book. -Dave(edit - better explanation and formatting of my response)</blockquote>