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Oct 13 2006, 05:44 PM
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Cosmic Overlord Group: Members Posts: 560 Joined: 26-November 05 From: Denver, Colorado, US Member No.: 9,811 myCENTs:38.41 |
Well, I did this particular piece of coding a few days back, and I forgot to display it to you all here at AstaHost.
I have just started a fantasy RPG forum. The naming rules are pretty strict because it has to be based on a construted langage called Pasen. No matter how much I explained, I thought, it would be hard for a newbie to understand the syllable formation constraints. Hence, I wrote a script and put it at my Drupal powered site, that generates random names for the four races for both genders. http://www.WiseTome.com/name-generator-for-chaos-and-order I wrote the code in PHP (took 3 hours), but most of the time went into tweaking the probability constraints. So, what do you guys think? |
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Oct 13 2006, 11:23 PM
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Premium Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 377 Joined: 17-June 06 From: Adblock life Member No.: 13,992 |
Those are interesting names
--Giants, regardless of male or female, end in either 'k' or 'g' --It seems like all characters have at least two vowels in their name. |
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Oct 14 2006, 07:19 AM
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Cosmic Overlord Group: Members Posts: 560 Joined: 26-November 05 From: Denver, Colorado, US Member No.: 9,811 myCENTs:38.41 |
I would be glad to explain, Aribitrary. As I said in the previous post, all the names are affected by the language of Pasen. The language is actually pretty simple (because I constructed it,
Basically, it follows a syllable pattern of: Syllable pattern: [C]V[E] [C] Optional ordinary consonant: k | t | d | n | p | m | r | l | w | s V Mandatory vowel: a | i | u | e | o [E] Optional ending consonant: n | m | r | l | s Addtionally here are some basic pointers to the names in realm of Chaos And Order:
So, that is it. All names in the name generator are formed of two syllables. So, it goes something like this: C1V1E1[C2]V2E2 But for Female Elf: [C1]V1E1[C2]V2E2 That is it, now, for actually differentiating between the different Races, I just took different subsets of the whole consonant set allowed in that position and also the vowel set, and just tweaked on the probability of few of the consonants. And usually, the male and female names are almost similar, except for the probability distribution of the vowels. |
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