Need to Know Basis: The PCs

[M-Type]

Pretty OT, but I didn't want to bother creating another thread for something so trivial.

Anywho, does anyone have any sort of name generator? I mean, there's plenty on the internet that I use, but I'm looking for something I can have table-side without lugging my laptop into the picture.

American names are easy enough, but I'm looking for something that can do Polish/Russian, War Pac nationalities that the PCs may come across.

Has anyone seen anything like this?

[Medic]

You could try googling "Russian Names" or "Polish Names". It should yield at least something. Another way is to pick names from the news, dissect them and combine the parts. For an example Dimitri Medvejev, Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin dissected and combined would make Boris Vladimirovits Medvejev. (That is, the Russians use their father's name as a middle name, for an example Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.)

[kato13]

Originally Posted by M-Type

Pretty OT, but I didn't want to bother creating another thread for something so trivial.

Anywho, does anyone have any sort of name generator? I mean, there's plenty on the internet that I use, but I'm looking for something I can have table-side without lugging my laptop into the picture.

American names are easy enough, but I'm looking for something that can do Polish/Russian, War Pac nationalities that the PCs may come across.

Has anyone seen anything like this?

My thought is to use the Olympic name database

http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/

to allow a quick name from almost any country.

[Rainbow Six]

I usually use lists of sports personalities as well. For Polish, Russian, and French male names I usually check the wikipedia listings for their national football (or soccer if you prefer) teams then mix up first names and surnames as Medic suggested. For female names I usually try tennis players first.

[dude_uk]

Originally Posted by Rainbow Six

I usually use lists of sports personalities as well. For Polish, Russian, and French male names I usually check the wikipedia listings for their national football (or soccer if you prefer) teams then mix up first names and surnames as Medic suggested. For female names I usually try tennis players first.

Beat me again!

World Cup squads. Just click a nation and their squads on the right.

[Medic]

Reminds me of a joke in a Finnish TV-show in the 90ies.

A sports commentator is reading the sports news in the TV. "Kalina Kulakova and Raisa Smetanina fought. The quarrel begun, when Kulakova gave Smetanina a razor for birthday and Smetanina, angried by the gift, kicked Kulakova on - what's this? On the balls? Okay, I'm off to the pub..."

[M-Type]

Excellent, thanks for the great info. I'll have a list of names I can pull up if needed, just got to remember to cross 'em off!

I was also thinking about giving certain individuals (Polish that are pro-NATO for example) 'Americanized' names. Like 'John' and 'Tim' and such, because the US troops that were stationed in the town weren't gonna bother learning the correct Polish pronunciation of their true names. They could joke about the names their Americans gave them. Or the players could even give the people names, whatever works.

[stg58fal]

Originally Posted by Medic

Reminds me of a joke in a Finnish TV-show in the 90ies.

A sports commentator is reading the sports news in the TV. "Kalina Kulakova and Raisa Smetanina fought. The quarrel begun, when Kulakova gave Smetanina a razor for birthday and Smetanina, angried by the gift, kicked Kulakova on - what's this? On the balls? Okay, I'm off to the pub..."

I have a feeling that's a lot funnier if you're Finnish....

[Medic]

Originally Posted by stg58fal

I have a feeling that's a lot funnier if you're Finnish....

I believe, it is pretty universal. Just kind of hinting, the two lady skiers would have used male hormones for getting better at their sport, in not-so-subtle way...

[M-Type]

And if anyone was wondering, I use this tool for creating random names. Go figure, there's an app for iPhone and iPads, of which I have neither.