Dog Moon
Adventurer
I tend to pick a descriptive word and enter it into either etymonline.com or behindthename.com and choose something from what I find, occasionally modifying it. So if I was playing a Bard, I might choose 'Song' and then enter it into both of those sites and see what pops up.
As a DM, with NPC names, I tend to think of random names or to a random generator site to create numerous names at once. Making up random names doesn't work as well for me because there are too many similarities [like most names would begin with a, l, or s, and be like Selyana, Liliana, Rilyana, Alyana, etc. Very [annoyingly] thematic.
As a DM, with NPC names, I tend to think of random names or to a random generator site to create numerous names at once. Making up random names doesn't work as well for me because there are too many similarities [like most names would begin with a, l, or s, and be like Selyana, Liliana, Rilyana, Alyana, etc. Very [annoyingly] thematic.