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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 3184781" data-attributes="member: 25619">Various sources:- Old Webster's dictionary with name meanings.- Beowulf (for Scandinavian humans) and Tolkien names (for elves and orcs)- Mix and match roots and endings in Beowulf or Tolkien.- Phone book- Babelfish translation site.  Things sound cool and Greyhawkian in Finnish.- The Economist (economics and politics weekly magazine), mixing and matching matches of obscure Kurdish, Turkish, Latin American Indian, and Finnish politicians, intellectuals, artists, and business execs.  Again with the Finnish!- TV characters.  I have a dwarf named "Red", whose personality is similar to Red Foreman from "That 70s Show".  Aren't ALL dwarves a lot like Red Foreman?- Beer names.  Red's last name, translated from the dwarvish, of course, is Newcastle.  In dwarvish, it's something no human could pronounce.  Voices don't go low enough, you know.- Geographic names, slightly mispelled.  Thus names like Balnagore (not Bangalore!) and Karakas (not Caracus!).- Names stolen from the 1st Edition PHB or modules.  Krago of the Mountains, Emirikol the Chaotic.  I don't do this, but I've seen people do it.- Random sounds that just sound like a character name: Aramil Nialo, the elf.</blockquote>