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• D&D session prep — Eight generators that cover a tabletop session from hook to loot.

What's in the section

Most of the tools here are name generators, but not all of them. Some name things, such as a character, a kingdom, a tavern, a sword or a god. Others give you the material you build a character or a campaign from, such as personality traits, flaws, motivations, a short backstory, a quest hook, a prophecy, a coat of arms or a whole pantheon. A third group covers the power systems people borrow from anime and comics, such as quirks, devil fruits, cursed techniques and breathing styles. The name generators are split by people and by game. An elf page and a dwarf page sound different from each other, and a D&D page, a Pathfinder page and an MMO page each follow the conventions of their own game.

For game masters

You can use these at the table. When the players walk into a town you didn't plan for, one click names the town, the inn, the innkeeper and the local cult. Most pages have a count field, so you can generate a whole party, a ship's crew or a map's worth of rivers and forests at once. Quest hooks come with a patron and a twist. Place names come with a detail you can build a scene around.

For writers and worldbuilders

Writers tend to work the other way: generate forty results, keep one, and use the rest as prompts. The character pages are most useful here. A random flaw paired with a random motivation often gives you a more interesting character than you would have planned.

Where the words come from

Each page has its own word lists and patterns, and each result is built from them at random. The lists are original and are not copied from rulebooks, novels or games. Where a page is named after a published game or setting, it copies the naming style but not the trademarked names, and the site has no connection with any of those publishers. A random result can still match a published name, so check before you use one commercially.

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