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<blockquote data-quote="VariSami" data-source="post: 6099128" data-attributes="member: 6698543">I'm a shameless borrower. While I do use some &quot;original&quot; names such as Zan-See-Ovr for a Synad merchant in my Planescape campaign (each part denotes one of his &quot;minds&quot;), most names I use are either relatively common but with an exotic surname or borrowed from somewhere else (MTG being a personal favourite). Of course, borrowed names can easily turn ridiculous if the players realize where they come from and start associating the character with the name's origin. Thus, I make as obscure references as I can in relation to the play group. The sources have included Gintama, Pokémon and MTG, for example. How many here would realize the truth about &quot;Abel Gallade&quot; and &quot;Valentin Saanait&quot; for example?When creating original names, one of my trusty techniques is entering a word in an online dictionary and looking at all the foreign words that mean the same. The most epic sounding ones can then be borrowed or corrupted a little. A fresh example is a changeling by the name of Bev Eidis (it seems beveidis means &quot;faceless&quot; in Lithuanian).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="VariSami, post: 6099128, member: 6698543"] I'm a shameless borrower. While I do use some "original" names such as Zan-See-Ovr for a Synad merchant in my Planescape campaign (each part denotes one of his "minds"), most names I use are either relatively common but with an exotic surname or borrowed from somewhere else (MTG being a personal favourite). Of course, borrowed names can easily turn ridiculous if the players realize where they come from and start associating the character with the name's origin. Thus, I make as obscure references as I can in relation to the play group. The sources have included Gintama, Pokémon and MTG, for example. How many here would realize the truth about "Abel Gallade" and "Valentin Saanait" for example? When creating original names, one of my trusty techniques is entering a word in an online dictionary and looking at all the foreign words that mean the same. The most epic sounding ones can then be borrowed or corrupted a little. A fresh example is a changeling by the name of Bev Eidis (it seems beveidis means "faceless" in Lithuanian). [/QUOTE]

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