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<blockquote data-quote="Trit One-Ear" data-source="post: 6100253" data-attributes="member: 6678017">Many posts above have covered using less-commonly used languages, which is a trick I use myself. I've found Estonian works to fill in the gaps where other languages don't. It gives a nice mix of rougher sounding words and more fluid, elegant sounds, making is useful for both orcish and elven languages.I also use the steal-a-name technique, often mashing first and last names from different characters together to hide some of my tracks.I cannot strongly enough recommend saying your names out loud a few times before your players hear them. And old Mutants and Masterminds game I ran had the ill named Crier (as in town crier) as an ally the heroes met. Soon the puns began (&quot;quickly, to the whaa-bulance!&quot; Or &quot;his sidekick, The Sniveler&quot;), and he was quickly renamed mid-session to The Herald. I've also written names which have sounded good once or twice, and looked great on paper, but once I had to say their names 30 times a session became a minefield of verbal gymnastics. Definitely test out your names, kids.Trit</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Trit One-Ear, post: 6100253, member: 6678017"] Many posts above have covered using less-commonly used languages, which is a trick I use myself. I've found Estonian works to fill in the gaps where other languages don't. It gives a nice mix of rougher sounding words and more fluid, elegant sounds, making is useful for both orcish and elven languages. I also use the steal-a-name technique, often mashing first and last names from different characters together to hide some of my tracks. I cannot strongly enough recommend saying your names out loud a few times before your players hear them. And old Mutants and Masterminds game I ran had the ill named Crier (as in town crier) as an ally the heroes met. Soon the puns began ("quickly, to the whaa-bulance!" Or "his sidekick, The Sniveler"), and he was quickly renamed mid-session to The Herald. I've also written names which have sounded good once or twice, and looked great on paper, but once I had to say their names 30 times a session became a minefield of verbal gymnastics. Definitely test out your names, kids. Trit [/QUOTE]

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