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  • konijn_
    Hellband maintainer
    • Jul 2007
    • 367

    [Hell]Hell needs you ;]

    Copied from the Hellband forum :

    So,

    the reason that my muse left me for Hellband ( it's all coming back as
    I fire back the editor )is that on the second floor of the mage shop
    there is now a mage guild. There are ranks to progress in ( just rank
    I to VI in roman numerals ). The ranks are just gimmicks to get to
    your spell books. Because there are so many spell realms I've had
    several feedbacks that people are just scumming the lowest dungeon
    floors for weeks until they find the last book for their realm. This
    is of course unacceptable, so I devised the mage guild where other
    guild members might offer to trade their spellbooks ( which you want )
    for your spell books ( which because the RNG hates you are off the
    wrong realm ).

    It all started innocently, I generated for each wizard a race and
    spell casting class that is likely to have the offered book ( with
    proper derived sub class name for that spellbook ) and saw how
    horribly horrible the name generator was.
    Basically all silly Middle Earth names.

    So I decided to create a name generator for each race, and the
    'research' and dulness of it all just got me brain dead.
    Still, I want to finish it and I refuse to have the crap name
    generator, so I need a tiny push ( or shove ) in the right direction.

    /* Thomas, Peter, Paul , James , John , George , Matteus ,Marc ,
    filip , Luke*/
    static char *italian_male_firstnames[] = { "Tommaso" , "Pietro" ,
    "Paolo" , "Giacomo" , "Giovanni" , "Giorgio" , "Matteo" , "Marco" ,
    "Filippo" , "Lucas" , "Dante" , "Arcolana"};
    static char *italian_female_firstnames[] = { "Beatrice" , "Deianira" ,
    "Lucia" , "Penelope" , "Piccarda" , "Rachel" , "Carlotta" , "Carla"};
    static char *italian_last_names[] = { "da Casalodi" , "dei
    Bonacolsi" , "da Siena" , "Aldobrandi" , "dei Malavolti" , "Andalo" ,
    "d'Arezzo" , "de'Mozzi" , "di Carignano" , "Argenti" , "da
    Sant'Andrea" , "Berti" , "Brunelleschi" , "Donati" , "Bruni" };

    These are the Italian ones, all the last names are from Dante's work,
    except for Carla Bruni
    If anybody knows of nice/famous Italian names ( pre 1550 ) that were
    in vogue in those days, please tell me.

    I need the same for Gipsy ??? ( I have like 0 knowledge on gipsy
    names )
    Nordic names ( that should be reasonable, I'll steal from norseband )
    Atlantian I think I will still Egyptian names, needs research as well
    Dwarven I will keep
    Elven I will keep
    Ogre should be french or gernan names
    Troll should be same generator as nordic
    Giant should be either a generator based on biblical giants ( are
    there enough ? ) or greek mythos giants
    Titans obviously from greek mythos
    Nephilim I have ( Judaic, I quite like the results )
    Vampires would have Karpatian names ( I dont know where to start )
    Werewolf would have german names
    Skeletons would have British names I presume, maybe I can borrow from
    steamband
    Mummies would have Egyptian names
    Spectres could be any human race generator

    Seelie Fae I should steal from Steam
    Gnomes I dont know at all
    Leprechauns should share with Seelie Fae
    Kobolds should be german or something unique

    All devil spawns should follow angelic names, which are ok

    Elders are Cthulhu like, which is fine. A last hidden remnant of it's
    roots.
    The Guardians have dwarf names now, I wonder what Steam uses for its
    mecha's.
    Horros obviously have the same names as Elders.

    So, if any one feels inspired with feedback or urls with good lists or
    anything, lemme know.

    Cheers,
    T.
    * Are you ready for something else ? Hellband 0.8.8 is out! *
  • valis
    Rookie
    • Jul 2008
    • 4

    #2
    Originally posted by konijn_
    Copied from the Hellband forum :
    I wonder what Steam uses for its mecha's.
    T.
    No random name generator in Steam.
    -Campbell

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    • konijn_
      Hellband maintainer
      • Jul 2007
      • 367

      #3
      Originally posted by valis
      No random name generator in Steam.
      -Campbell
      Gah, thanks for stopping me from wasting my time looking for it

      Cheers,
      T.
      * Are you ready for something else ? Hellband 0.8.8 is out! *

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