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Luna-tic Scientist


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May
6th
2012

Character naming, my personal bane · 6:47am May 6th, 2012

This has always caused me pain, right back to the days when I used to role play and had to think up something for a character (or lots of NPCs if I was GMing). So much so that first drafts of stories tended to be littered with placeholders like {ALSATIAN1} or {DIRE WOLF4} - yes back then I was writing about talking dogs rather than talking ponies. Nothing changes much. That was until I found the wonderful world of name generators. Without these DOWAS would have been much harder.

http://www.seventhsanctum.com/index-name.php is amazingly useful, as was http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ who I plundered (pun!) as a source of old Norse names for the gryphons. I'll take full responsibility for the 'science' pony names (there are a number of 'easter eggs' in those names...). Of course it's not all been plain sailing; as well as names ponies need an interesting range of colours and cutie marks. Arrggghhh!

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