FR/How-To: Generate New Random Name

[MainiacJoe]

I like Crawl's random name generator, usually. I've played a bit of Hepl lately, though I haven't won one yet. Many times the first ancestor name I don't like so well, but I also don't have a name in mind. It would be great to be able on the "Ancestor Identity" dialog to have an option to have Crawl make a new name randomly in addition to entering in a player-chosen one. The best I can think of currently to get a random name on demand is to open a wizmode window and keep generating pan lords until i get a name I like.

[Doesnt]

I feel obligated to note that panlords don't use the same naming scheme as ancestors; they use a bizarre random string generator (that is shared by scrolls, shopkeepers, and the player if you decline to give a name), while ancestors pick a name at random from a large file of real names. You are probably better off worshiping Hep in wizmode than making panlords.

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/blob/mas ... onname.txt has the list in question if you want to spoil yourself, ancestor names start at line 288 or want to know where a name comes from.

[MainiacJoe]

Thanks. Yeah the panlord names were uniformly weird after I made 150 of them.

[MainiacJoe]

Found this. Much better: https://www.wizards.com/dnd/article5.as ... 0010202b,0