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 Oct 18 2007, 04:12 PM
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Great Dragon  Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957  |
It's not Shadowrun specific, but I thought it might come in handy.
I made a random name generator. In many ways it's just a conglomeration of the dataases from other name generators I could find on the web, although I've added nicknames to the options. If you do want a nickname, be prepared to have to do a little mixing and matching though, as the nicknames don't conform to the source filter. For instance, generating 10 Chinese male names with nicknames got me: 1. Rongfang 'DiBi' Tsien 2. Xiumin 'Frankie Breeze' Hsiao 3. Yanjun 'Fat Vinnie' Jianbua 4. Shing 'Shorty' Fong 5. Fai 'Mongo' Lan 6. Jing-wei 'K.K.' Lau 7. Lok 'Madame' Chen 8. Yuying 'Jimmy Nap' Song 9. Shipeng 'Hippie' Shing 10. Xingjiang 'Underdog' Kou Frankie Breeze, Jimmy Nap, and Fat Vinnie don't fit very wel, and if the guy's nickname is "Madame" he'll be an interesting character one way or the other. Underdog and Mongo could fit, as might some others if translated (either actually or by using my lazy man method of "his middle name is Tak Ban, which means Shorty"). If you know of a good website for names, please let me know. Right now I've got Middle Eastern, Spanish, Chinese, Egyptian, English (and Americanized), German, Greek, Hindi, Japanese, Latvian, Russian, African (mostly Swahili), Thai, and Viking names. For a bunch of those I'm having to use first names as a second lookup for a surname because I couldn't find a good list of surnames from that area. They look ok to my layman's eyes, but for all I know they're the equivilent of giving someone the last name of Jimmy or Sarah. I'd like to keep the database growing, so if you've got any cool name resources you use please let me know, especially if they're sorted by region. |
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Oct 18 2007, 04:23 PM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Actually, I like the bizarre Engrish nicknames. They suggest a complete lack of depth and immersion in westernized pop culture.
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Oct 18 2007, 04:53 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 56 Joined: 19-July 07 Member No.: 12,304 |
That's awesome... you should cross-post that in community projects forum.
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Oct 18 2007, 05:39 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...most definitely. This is great especially when you really want names for NPCs rather than thug #1, Bar patron #6, "that troll at the corner table drinking a pitcher sized Long Island " etc.
I'll definitely be using it. |
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Oct 18 2007, 05:50 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,026 Joined: 23-November 05 From: Seattle (Really!) Member No.: 7,996 |
I raid names off of files of people I've relocated at work, especially the funny sounding ones :)
This is a cool toy though. |
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Oct 18 2007, 05:56 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 60 Joined: 4-October 05 Member No.: 7,811 |
Thanks much! Names are my weakness :P
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Oct 18 2007, 06:03 PM
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Old Man of the North Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 9,669 Joined: 14-August 03 From: Just north of the Centre of the Universe Member No.: 5,463 |
Looks cool! I do get some 'interesting' names for female characters, though. Eg.:
Marvin 'Richie the Boot' Ewing Sylvester 'Frankie Steel' Focell Gutxi 'Johnny Sausages' Garbajosa Yukio 'Little Man' Omaro |
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Oct 18 2007, 06:19 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
You got Marvin as a female name?
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Oct 18 2007, 06:27 PM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
English Female 10
1. Hank 'Butch' Warner 2. Charlyn 'Tony Bender' Whittier 3. Siu 'The Cat' Tennant 4. Chae 'Moonbeam' Shefelbine 5. Judie 'Raffie' Marrow 6. Melodee 'Annie' Ritchie 7. Imogene 'Terrorist' Bode 8. Lida 'Skinny Mike' Blackwell 9. Raymond 'Great White Hunter' Bould 10. Riley 'Mike Tally' Weien English Female 30 1. Timika 'Boar Expert' Christman 2. Brittany 'Big Joey' Buttermore 3. Forrest 'The Player' Graham 4. Anibal 'God's Friggin' Gift to Humanity' Sybilla 5. Janella 'Tippy' Bickerson 6. Leslie 'Jimmy Blue Eyes' Atkinson 7. Madelaine 'Fat Fungi' Costello 8. Bethany 'Cavetown' Putnam 9. Paz 'Dr. Do Right' Book 10. Pansy 'The Bull' Aultman 11. Timmy 'Larry the Hood' Cowper 12. Elias 'Jadefinger' Deggeller 13. Donnie 'George' Thacker 14. Ray 'Tony Pep' Federle 15. Willis 'Fat Vinnie' Brauner 16. Stacy 'Peanuts' Perkins 17. Laurence 'Frankie Flowers' Braunhardt 18. Joe 'Big Sam' Ashbaugh 19. Nona 'Petey Black' Harrigan 20. Danial 'Barbie' Orner 21. Raphael 'Fat Andy' Schneider 22. Fumiko 'Big Joe' Cano 23. Alison 'Little Caesar' Mullet 24. Rolanda 'Dick Terry' Chance 25. Modesto 'Little Sister' Rosenberg 26. Cami 'The Peacemaker' Elinor 27. Porter 'Jumbotron' Moonshower 28. Lucrecia 'Fish' Humphrey 29. Melina 'Joe Black' Stafford 30. Chere 'Dick Terry' Busk English Female 30 no Nicknames 1. Carol Park 2. Domenic Peterman 3. Marc Beltran 4. Thurman Wheeler 5. Loyd Overholt 6. Preston Busk 7. Yadira Jelliman 8. Eddie Miner 9. ennith House 10. Antonette Folk 11. Thelma Dean 12. Enrique Aultman 13. Abraham Mens 14. Isaias Edelman 15. Martha Grayson 16. Dominique Askew 17. Diamond Cooper 18. Hubert McGarr 19. Elmer Gaskins 20. Annika Love 21. Alex Hansen 22. Ezekiel Sybilla 23. Jade Bollinger 24. Lowell Price 25. Eduardo Shotts 26. Candida Albright 27. Leonie Maugham 28. Mohammad Bass 29. Charlie Darrouzet 30. Vertie Bowman |
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Oct 18 2007, 06:35 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
Thanks! It must be a problem with the GUI's queries, as those are all definitely male in the database. I'll poke around a bit and see what I can find.
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Oct 18 2007, 07:12 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
Found and fixed. Thanks again!
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Oct 18 2007, 07:40 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 11-October 07 Member No.: 13,661 |
Very nice tool James :)
But i'm afraid there a still some bugs contained. I searched for male German names when an error occurred. So I checked the other languages with the same parameters (10 names, male, no nicks) and found the same bug when I selected Egyptian, Latvian and Russian. When I searched for female names the same error occurred with all languages mentioned above except Latvian. I thought it might interest you. |
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Oct 18 2007, 08:09 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...since there's Latvian, any chance TT/Tir na nOg and Serbo-Croatian might be added in the future? :grinbig:
[...ducks] |
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Oct 18 2007, 08:14 PM
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Technomancer Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,638 Joined: 2-October 02 From: Champaign, IL Member No.: 3,374 |
Moved this from the SR4 forum to the one for Community Projects. Hopefully this doesn't confuse those who knew of it where it was but hopefully you all find it now where it is.
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Oct 18 2007, 08:15 PM
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Technomancer Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,638 Joined: 2-October 02 From: Champaign, IL Member No.: 3,374 |
Elven names (for the Tirs) could be harvested from various fantasy novels, I suppose. Maybe set it up to allow insert access to the databases to a few, trusted persons?
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Oct 18 2007, 08:22 PM
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Technomancer Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,638 Joined: 2-October 02 From: Champaign, IL Member No.: 3,374 |
Gelare posted this bug in the Shadowrun forum thread and I didn't want it to get lost in the thread shuffle that I just did. So, here it is, reposted in all its glory. |
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Oct 18 2007, 09:39 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
Thanks for the bug find! I think fixing the English women problem broke the Latvians and germans. Pesky American chicks! :) I'll hunt that sucker down, but as a consolation prize here's a much more comprehensive random NPC generator.
If you can point me to a good source for the names I'll happily add them in.
I'd like to keep the database hidden for now, although eventually I want to let people add names. But if you have a good source of names or want to email / pm some to me, I'll stick 'em in. |
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Oct 18 2007, 09:43 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
I'd love to. But, um... what's a Patronymic?
Fork them over!!!!!! please? :) Especially the French and Italian ones, as I currently have 0 names in the database for those regions. |
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Oct 18 2007, 09:53 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
It's fixed. The problem is that those region had no gender specific names for them, because the names I had came in a single large block of mixed genders. You'll end up getting some names from the wrong gender when using Egyptian, German, Latvian, and Russian genders, but at least it won't spout error messages. :)
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Oct 18 2007, 10:15 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,978 Joined: 26-February 02 From: New Jersey, USA Member No.: 500 |
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Oct 18 2007, 10:22 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
So if I'm understanding correctly I'd grab a male name of the same region, check the ending letter to see if I need to add a vowel, and add one of the appropriate suffixes randomly picked from the ones available to the NPC's gender?
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Oct 18 2007, 10:25 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,978 Joined: 26-February 02 From: New Jersey, USA Member No.: 500 |
Pretty much. I'm not sure offhand which regions use patronymics, but they have vaguely similar construction rules in most languages.
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Oct 18 2007, 10:26 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
Cool. It's on the todo list. :)
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Oct 18 2007, 11:19 PM
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ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
Neat app.
Got the following when I tried to get 10 female Egyptian names with nicknames in Firefox 2.0.0.7: [ Spoiler ]
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Oct 19 2007, 12:12 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
Use this one instead. I'll probably be removing the name only one at some point anyway, and continuing any upgrades on the full generator. |
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