Player Names

In FUMBBL, you have to give all your players names. These can be fantasy-style names, names of your friends, funny names....it's up to you. Obscene/offensive names are not allowed, and neither are names such as "Lineman 1" - it's not in the spirit of the league.

Random Name Generators and Name Lists:

If, however, you are one of the many coaches who struggles to think of player names, then there are a number of sites that can help, by listing existing names or generating random names. Here are a few:

• Black Industries Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Name generator:
  • http://www.blackindustries.com/?template=WH&content=generatename
  • Generate names for Human, Dwarf, Halfling and Elf players. Also links to other racial name generators

• Fantasy Name Generator:
  • http://spitfire.ausys.se/johan/names/default.htm
  • Link recorded as dead on 27th March 2008

• 20000 Names (with regional lists):
  • http://www.20000-names.com

• Behind the name (random name generator)
  • http://www.behindthename.com/random/
  • The main page also has a lot of general information about names that might be useful: http://www.behindthename.com

• http://www.barrowdowns.com/middleearthname.php

• Daemon Name Generator from GW:
  • http://uk.games-workshop.com/hordesofchaos/name-generator/1/
  • http://oz.games-workshop.com/games/warhammer/hordesofchaos/extras/generator/default.htm
  • http://us.games-workshop.com/games/warhammer/hordesofchaos/extras/generator/default.htm

• Big variety of name generators:
  • http://www.seventhsanctum.com/

• Another page with a number of generators (not as exhaustive as Seventh Sanctum)
  • http://www.rpginspiration.com/index.htm

• Everchanging Book of Names (EBoN):
  • http://ebon.pyorre.net/

• More Name Generators:
  • http://www.rinkworks.com/namegen/
  • http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/toys/namegen/
  • http://www.squid.org/tools/names/
  • http://www.igsgames.com/Utilities/NameGenerator/NameGen.html

• Lizardmen name generator:
  • http://us.games-workshop.com/games/warhammer/lizardmen/extras/name_gen/default.htm
  • or
  • http://uk.games-workshop.com/lizardmen/name-generator/1/

• Skaven name generator:
  • http://us.games-workshop.com/games/warhammer/skaven/extras/name_gen/default.htm
  • or
  • http://uk.games-workshop.com/skaven/name-generator/1/

• Ogre name generator:
  • http://uk.games-workshop.com/ogrekingdoms/ogrenames/1/

• Find your Viking name!
  • http://www.thequarter.org/Media/VikingName.php

• Orc name generator:
  • http://www.orcs.ca/orcsmain/resourcename.html

Race Specific resources:

It's always a good idea to do some background reading if you want to create a really authentic Warhammer-world team. Often, Games Workshop's Warhammer world draws on real-world mythology and history. Of course, Games Workshop draws even more heavily upon the works of J.R.R. Tolkein, writer of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and associated books such as the Hobbit and the Silmarillion.

General

• Encyclopedia Mythica:
  • http://www.pantheon.org/mythica.html
• Mythology in Wikipedia:
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology
• Encyclopedia of Arda:
  • http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/default.asp
• Ardalambion:
  • http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/
• http://www.classbrain.com/artmovies/publish/article_83.shtml - A course in Tolkien languages!
• Yamada Language Center:
  • http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/tolkien.html

Amazons - Based upon the Amazons of Greek myth:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazons
• http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/AMAZONS.html

Lizardmen - GW based the Lizardmen fluff on Aztec, Inca and Mayan history/mythology:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_mythology
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_mythology
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_mythology
• http://www.mayalords.org/

Norse - Draws upon real Norse mythology (maybe that's why so many Scandinavians play BB?)

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology
• http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/AMAZONS.html
• http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ONNames.htm

Elves - Based very much on the Elves of J.R.R. Tolkein. He even created two Elven languages, Quenya and Sindarin (you hear it spoken in the Lord of the Rings films!)

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quenya
• Quenya-English Dictionary - http://www.rialian.com/quenya-english.htm
• A course in Quenya - http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/qcourse.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindarin
• Sindarin dictionary and search engine - http://www.jrrvf.com/hisweloke/sindar/

Khemri - Derived from Ancient Egyptian mythology (and loads of Mummy films!):

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt
• http://uk.imdb.com/find?tt=on;nm=on;mx=20;q=mummy
• http://www.virtual-egypt.com/index.html

Fumbbl Name Generator Bookmarklet:

There is a simple application that lets you generate a team-specific player name with a single click in your browser (the names were compiled from the aforementioned sources).

You can install it simply by dragging it onto your Bookmarks Bar, find the details here:

http://roante.github.io/fumbbl-namegen/

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