those of you who read monte cook's lj will prolly have already seen this article. the rest of you can now look at it too.

so i finally got around to properly playing with the random name stuff i talked about last month. thanks to kelc42 for the tip on ActivePerl. works like a charm. i'm curently playing with a dataset of French and Russian male names. some samples:
( Fruensschian names, cut for space reasons )

being a d&d geek, i've been playing with Chris Pound's random name generator for a while. (well, seeing as i' don't have Perl on my boxen yet, i've mostly been looking at his regularly updated random generations.) but he's missing some obvious language choices. i just found this site, which looks like a good place to compile data sets. now i have ( Read more... )

ok, this may only be cool to RPG geex, but i's one, thus:
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pound/

episode #62 of Order of the Stick, and specifically the line noted in the subject, completely justifies its existence (not that it needed it).

rotflmao!

ajb