Names. Whether running the table, creating NPCs, developing characters, or creating a genealogy, developing names is a vital part of the the creative process. Never easy and often quite challenging, we all strive to create names unique both to the person or creature being created and the story or adventure we are telling. Engineering Names has it all.

Engineering Names helps unravel this age-old problem by providing naming conventions for families, non-human races, monsters, regions, and linguistic patterns. These are presented in easy-to-use tables of names and syllabic clustering’s based on real world naming conventions. This allows for the quick and meaningful creation of a host of names distinctive to a character and their culture.