That’s right – it’s time for a new LPC Fantasy Names product! What do you get this time? 100 new names, inspired by my own drives around Colorado three new ways to transform those names into thousands more and a page offering more details on how to use the new transformations using a “letter tile” approach…
Last week we created the villainess Umani out in the grassy sea with a watchful eye on the Kingdom of the Dead. And we even went so far as to create a few minions for her protection… Agrios the were-bear, her giant eagle Roccan and giant owl Caillea, as well as a pack of were-wolves…
Where do you go for character names for your campaigns or writing? Place names? Any kind of names? Would it shock you if I said that if you drive anywhere regularly, you’re surrounded by a sea of possibilities? 🙂 Almost a year ago now I wrote an article for Jeffrey Tadlock’s Iron Tavern blog called…
It seems these little explorations into the darkness of my muse are more than just characters, but characters and little bits of story as well. I like it! Today we have… Today’s Recipe: Mix and match from both Insta-NPCs #2: Quirks and Madness and Little Spaces: Fancy Meals Today’s Ingredients: “Walks on toes” and “Paranoia”…
Continuing the new effort I started yesterday, I thought I’d toss out another member of the infinite troupe of characters… Today’s Recipe: Mix and match from both Insta-NPCs #1: Motivation, Attitude, and Appearance and Little Spaces: Scary Basements Today’s Ingredients: Greed, Condescending, & Shaggy (IN1) and Touch, Taste, Print, Pinched, & Greasy (LS:SB) Today’s Setting:…
As gamemasters and writers of all kinds, our worlds are full of an infinite cast of characters well beyond what our players bring to the table. Who plays these myriad roles? Where do they come from? Where are they bound? “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have…
Amazingly I had a little time to do some things with the site over the weekend… I realized that all the random generators were broken after the site redesign, so that’s been fixed. Sorry about that! I added two new random generators to the mix. Little Spaces: Abandoned Places and LPC Fantasy Names I. They’re not the…
Names are tricky beasts in RPGs. Sometimes you can come up with just the right name at the right time and other times you’re left grasping at straws. It’s at those times it’s handy to have a resource available to help you come up with something on the fly. Whether it’s for a PC or…
Today’s design post is a bit of a ramble around some ideas that have been bouncing around my head of late… Names have meaning. They provide handles to concepts. Unique identifiers to attach to unique nouns, whether they are people, places, or things. But they can do so much more. They can suggest history. Hint…
As I continue to work on the next One Spot, I’ve also been trying to polish off a new product. LPC Names will be something like Little Spaces in that it combines a list with a bit of directions and some examples. But I was pondering those directions a bit. A list of names isn’t…
