Flumph Name Generator

Soft, polite names for D&D's friendliest aberration

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Generate flumph names for D&D: puffing sound names like Floop and Pfwee, glow names like Softglow and Tickled Pink, polite thought-names like Gentle Warning and Pardon-the-Intrusion, cloister names like Cloister of the Warm Vent, and pet names like Sir Floats-a-Lot.

About flumph names

Flumphs are the gentle oddities of Dungeons & Dragons: small, lawful good aberrations that drift through the Underdark on jets of air, feed on the psionic energy of other creatures and speak only by telepathy. They live in groups called cloisters, and they are known for warning kindly adventurers about the mind flayers and other horrors whose thoughts they have overheard. A flumph also glows, and the color follows its mood: soft pink for amusement, green for curiosity, deep blue for sadness and crimson for anger.

The rulebooks give flumphs no official naming convention, so every name here is invented in a style that suits the creature, and the list keeps five kinds in equal measure. Sound names copy the puff of the jets (Floop, Pfwee, Whuff). Glow names come from the mood colors (Softglow, Curious Green, Tickled Pink). Thought-names are how a telepath's name might land in a listener's head, as a phrase instead of a word (Gentle Warning, Drifts-Above-Still-Water, Sorry-to-Interrupt). Cloister names cover the group itself (Cloister of the Warm Vent, The Drifting Choir), and pet names are what a party ends up calling its floating friend (Pancake, Flumphrey, Moral Support).

How to choose flumph names

  • Match the kind of name to who is speaking. A flumph introducing itself by telepathy suits a thought-name such as Means-No-Harm, while the party's nickname for it can be as silly as Dumpling or Hubcap.
  • Let the glow do some roleplay. If you name a flumph Quiet Blue or Amused Pink, describe its light changing when the mood at the table does.
  • Name the cloister as well as the individual. Flumphs are social, so a line such as "I am Floop of the Still Pool Cloister" gives players a place to look for later.
  • Keep sound names short and breathy. Say Pfwee, Whuff or Hoom aloud: if it sounds like air leaving a small balloon, it fits.
  • A flumph that has been listening to a mind flayer colony can carry its errand in its name. Overheard-Something-Troubling or There-Are-Illithids-Nearby is a plot hook and a name at once.

Frequently asked questions

Do flumphs have an official naming convention in D&D?

No. The D&D books describe how flumphs live, feed and communicate but give no official naming convention for them. The names in this list are invented in styles that fit the creature, from sound names such as Floop to thought-names such as Kind Regards.

What is a good name for a flumph companion?

Parties tend to give a flumph sidekick a fond, slightly silly name. Sir Floats-a-Lot, Flumphrey, Pancake, Little Buddy and The Party Conscience are all in the list. If the flumph objects, it will say so very politely.

What is a group of flumphs called?

A group of flumphs is called a cloister. A fifth of the list names one, such as Cloister of Gentle Updrafts, The Drifting Choir and The Warm Vent Fellowship, and these work as locations or factions in an Underdark adventure.

Why are some names written as phrases with hyphens?

Flumphs speak only by telepathy, so a name may arrive as a meaning instead of a sound. Hyphenated thought-names such as Hovers-at-a-Respectful-Distance or Did-Not-Mean-to-Startle-You are one way to show that at the table. This is a style invented for the list, not a rule from the books.

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This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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A: 16 names

  • Abalone
  • Acid Drop
  • Afterglow
  • Ahwoo
  • Air Freshener
  • Alabaster
  • Alarm Red
  • All Colors at Once
  • All-Is-Well-for-Now
  • Amberlight
  • Amused Pink
  • Apologies-in-Advance
  • Apricot
  • Asks-Before-Reading
  • Auntie Flumph
  • Aureole

B: 26 names

  • Banked Glow
  • Beanbag
  • Bearer-of-Awkward-News
  • Bedside Glow
  • Beg Pardon
  • Beret
  • Beware-the-Left-Tunnel
  • Bimble
  • Biscuit
  • Blibber
  • Blini
  • Bloofa
  • Blurble
  • Blush
  • Bobbin
  • Boing
  • Borrowed Dream
  • Bottlecap
  • Breathe-Slowly-Now
  • Breef
  • Breezy
  • Briefly Crimson
  • Bub-Bub-Whuff
  • Buttercream
  • Button Mushroom
  • Bwoop

C: 39 names

  • Calm Presence
  • Calm Reach
  • Candlewick
  • Captain Flumph
  • Careful Question
  • Carries-No-Grudge
  • Cavelight
  • Celadon
  • Chapter of the Deep Vent
  • Chimney of Small Lights
  • Cinder Rose
  • Clear Conscience
  • Cloister Above the Black Lake
  • Cloister of Borrowed Thoughts
  • Cloister of Gentle Updrafts
  • Cloister of Kind Warnings
  • Cloister of Patient Listeners
  • Cloister of Shared Dreams
  • Cloister of Soft Replies
  • Cloister of the Dripstone Hall
  • Cloister of the Echoing Well
  • Cloister of the Ninth Stalactite
  • Cloister of the Quiet Shaft
  • Cloister of the Slow Spiral
  • Cloister of the Third Descent
  • Cloister of the Warm Vent
  • Cloud Nine
  • Coaster
  • Common Good
  • Company of the Upward Breeze
  • Contented Pink
  • Coral Flush
  • Cornflower
  • Count Flumphula
  • Crimson Flash
  • Crumpet
  • Cumulus
  • Curious Green
  • Cymbal

D: 15 names

  • Dandelion
  • Dawnpink
  • Designated Worrier
  • Dewlight
  • Did-Not-Mean-to-Startle-You
  • Dim Lantern
  • Dinner Plate
  • Dirigible
  • Do-Not-Wake-the-Aboleth
  • Doily
  • Dollop
  • Driftmoot
  • Drifts-Above-Still-Water
  • Duckweed
  • Dumpling

E: 4 names

  • Earnest Apology
  • Eefoo
  • Eep-Whoo
  • Eyestalk Eddie

F: 41 names

  • Fa-Thip
  • Faint Star
  • Fair Warning
  • Featherfall Shaft
  • Feeling Blue
  • Feep
  • Fernlight
  • Ffwah
  • Fih-Fwoo
  • Firefly
  • Fithoo
  • Flapjack
  • Flickerling
  • Floats-Politely-By
  • Floo-Floo
  • Floop
  • Flumpelstiltskin
  • Flumpet
  • Flumphernickel
  • Flumphius Maximus

F, continued

  • Flumphrey
  • Flumpkin
  • Flurp
  • Follow-Me-Please
  • Fond Farewell
  • Foomf
  • Footstool
  • Forget-Me-Not
  • Forgives-the-Startled
  • Foxfire
  • Friend-of-Lost-Travelers
  • Friendly Caution
  • Frittata
  • Fsss
  • Fwaff
  • Fwee-Oop
  • Fweet
  • Fwip
  • Fwoomble
  • Fwoosh
  • Fwump

G: 15 names

  • Galumph
  • Gathering of the Nine Glows
  • Gentle Beacon
  • Gentle Reminder
  • Gentle Warning
  • Glad Tidings
  • Gloaming
  • Glowmere
  • Glows-When-Asked
  • Glowworm
  • Good Intentions
  • Goody Two-Jets
  • Grateful-for-the-Meal
  • Green with Curiosity
  • Grotto of Rosy Lights

H: 30 names

  • Ha-Pwee
  • Haa-Shoo
  • Hahf
  • Hahloo
  • Halcyon
  • Harmless Drifter
  • Harrumph
  • Hassock
  • Hearthlight
  • Heather
  • Helpful Aside
  • Hiss-Puff
  • Honest Counsel
  • Honeyglow
  • Hoo-Pah
  • Hoofle
  • Hoom
  • Hopes-You-Are-Rested
  • Hovercraft
  • Hovers-at-a-Respectful-Distance
  • Hsss-Pah
  • Hubcap
  • Humble Suggestion
  • Hummle
  • Hums-When-Content
  • Hup-Hoo
  • Hush Lilac
  • Hushoo
  • Hushwater
  • Hwee

I: 8 names

  • If-It-Is-No-Trouble
  • Iff-Iff
  • Immf
  • In the Pink
  • Indigo Sigh
  • Inkwash
  • Iridescence
  • It-Will-Pass

J: 2 names

  • Johnnycake
  • Jujube

K: 7 names

  • Keeper-of-Borrowed-Thoughts
  • Keepers of the Quiet Fork
  • Kind Observation
  • Kind Regards
  • Kindhollow
  • Kindly Light
  • Kite

L: 22 names

  • Lambent
  • Lampshade
  • Lanternfall
  • Lanternlight
  • Latke
  • Lawful Good Lou
  • Lazy Susan
  • Left-Turn-at-the-Glowing-Moss
  • Lemon Drop
  • Lilac Hour
  • Lily Pad
  • Listeners at the Colony's Edge
  • Listens-Before-Speaking
  • Little Aurora
  • Little Blimp
  • Little Buddy
  • Little Triumph
  • Little Wisp
  • Looph
  • Lotus
  • Low Ember
  • Lowlight Commons

M: 19 names

  • Manners
  • Mauve
  • Means-No-Harm
  • Mild Objection
  • Milkglass
  • Mind-the-Drop
  • Mistlight
  • Mmm-Hoo
  • Modest Request
  • Mood Ring
  • Moof
  • Moonmilk
  • Moonstone
  • Moral Support
  • Mossglow
  • Mother-of-Pearl
  • Mournful Azure
  • Mr. Tentacles
  • Murmle

N: 5 names

  • Nacre
  • New Leaf
  • Nightlight
  • Nimbus
  • Not-That-Mushroom

O: 12 names

  • Omelet
  • Omfa
  • One-Who-Knocks-First
  • Oobloo
  • Ooo-Wuff
  • Oopsie-Daisy
  • Opaline
  • Open Mind
  • Order of the Gentle Jet
  • Orderly-and-Kind
  • Overheard-Something-Troubling
  • Overheard-the-Elder-Brain

P: 50 names

  • Pa-Foof
  • Paff
  • Pah-Pah-Poof
  • Paladin's Pal
  • Pale Gold
  • Pale Green
  • Pancake
  • Panna Cotta
  • Parasol
  • Pardon-the-Intrusion
  • Passing Thought
  • Patient-as-Dripstone
  • Peaceable One
  • Peach Haze
  • Periwinkle
  • Pfiffle
  • Pfoo
  • Pfwee
  • Pheh
  • Phloo
  • Phlumm
  • Pht-Pht
  • Pierogi
  • Piff-Paff
  • Pikelet

P, continued

  • Pilot Light
  • Pimf
  • Pinkmist Hollow
  • Pip-Pip
  • Placemat
  • Plip
  • Plish
  • Ploof
  • Ploomba
  • Plum Shade
  • Pok
  • Polite Cough
  • Pondlight
  • Poppadom
  • Pot Lid
  • Pot Pie
  • Potpourri
  • Primrose
  • Professor Flumphington
  • Pss-Hoo
  • Puddin'
  • Puffball
  • Puffet
  • Puffle
  • Pweep

Q: 6 names

  • Quesadilla
  • Quiet Blue
  • Quiet Company
  • Quiet Thanks
  • Quietly Concerned
  • Quietrise

R: 11 names

  • Rainblue
  • Ravioli
  • Reading Lamp
  • Regrets-the-Smell
  • Remembers-Your-Name
  • Respectful Disagreement
  • Rests-Above-the-Vent
  • Rises-with-Warm-Air
  • Risewell
  • Rose-Tinted
  • Rosy

S: 42 names

  • Safe Passage
  • Saffron
  • Saucer
  • Scone
  • Sea Glass
  • Seafoam
  • Seeing Red (Rarely)
  • Seldom Red
  • Shared Thought
  • Sheen
  • Shell Pink
  • Shfff
  • Shoal of Soft Lights
  • Silence-Between-Friends
  • Sincere Welcome
  • Sips-at-Passing-Dreams
  • Sir Floats-a-Lot
  • Skunkling
  • Small Courtesy
  • Snoof
  • Snuffoo

S, continued

  • Soft Correction
  • Softglow
  • Softlanding
  • Someone-Is-Listening
  • Sorrow Blue
  • Sorry-to-Interrupt
  • Soufflé
  • Speaks-Only-When-Needed
  • Spray-Was-an-Accident
  • Spring Green
  • Squiff
  • Ssshaa
  • Stay-Behind-Me
  • Steady Glow
  • Steady Regard
  • Steady-in-the-Updraft
  • Stillhover
  • Stinky
  • Stray Thought, Returned
  • Sunset Flush
  • Swiff

T: 96 names

  • Takes-Only-a-Little
  • Tambourine
  • Tastes-Only-the-Surface
  • Teacake
  • Tells-What-the-Mind-Flayers-Dream
  • Thank-You-for-Thinking
  • The Apologetic Assembly
  • The Blue Hour Drift
  • The Celadon Grotto
  • The Considerate Cloud
  • The Council of Soft Lights
  • The Dream-Sippers' Circle
  • The Drifting Choir
  • The Drifting Cloister
  • The Eddy at Deep Fork
  • The Far Chimney Cloister
  • The Floating Senate
  • The Fumarole Fellowship
  • The Gentle Hover
  • The Geyser Garden
  • The Glimmerdeep Cloister
  • The Glow Below
  • The Glowing Quorum
  • The Good Aberration
  • The Hall of Even Breaths
  • The Hanging Garden Cloister
  • The Hollow of Kind Thoughts
  • The Hovering Concord
  • The Hush Above the Water
  • The Lantern Drift
  • The Lights Under Hollowrock
  • The Listening Hollow

T, continued

  • The Long Exhale
  • The Low Cavern Cloister
  • The Moss-Light Cloister
  • The Pale Green Accord
  • The Pale Lantern Cloister
  • The Party Conscience
  • The Patient Bloom
  • The Pink Dawn Drift
  • The Politest Conclave
  • The Quiet Float
  • The Rising Column
  • The Roost at Mushroom Falls
  • The Rose-Glow Cloister
  • The Rosewater Hollow
  • The Seven Lamps
  • The Small Bright Company
  • The Stalactite Roost
  • The Steam Garden Choir
  • The Still Air Assembly
  • The Still Pool Cloister
  • The Sulfur Spring Cloister
  • The Surface-Thought Society
  • The Thermal Circle
  • The Thirteen Who Wait Politely
  • The Thoughtful Flock
  • The Unhurried Assembly
  • The Updraft Commons
  • The Wafting Order
  • The Warm Spring Bloom
  • The Warm Vent Fellowship
  • The Warm Wind Moot
  • The Watch on the Illithid Road

T, continued

  • The Wayfarers' Cloister
  • The Well-Mannered Swarm
  • There-Are-Illithids-Nearby
  • Thinks-in-Soft-Colors
  • Thip
  • This-Way-to-the-Surface
  • Thistledown
  • Thoop
  • Those Who Float Together
  • Thought-Left-on-the-Doorstep
  • Thoughtful Teal
  • Thoughtwell
  • Thrumble
  • Tickled Pink
  • Timely Hint
  • Tiny Chaperone
  • Toadstool
  • Tootle
  • Tortilla
  • Tread-Softly-Here
  • Trivet
  • Truth-Told-Gently
  • Tsee
  • Tsss-Poof
  • Tuff-Tuff
  • Tuffet
  • Tumbleweed
  • Tup
  • Turnip
  • Turns-Slowly-Toward-Kindness
  • Tweedle-Oo
  • Twilight Blue

U: 1 name

  • Underglow

V: 3 names

  • Vent-Home
  • Verdigris
  • Violet Hush

W: 27 names

  • Wait-Here-a-Moment
  • Wardens of Fair Warning
  • Warm Amber
  • Warm-Thought-in-a-Cold-Cave
  • Warmdraft
  • Watcher-at-the-Edge-of-Thought
  • We Who Mean Well
  • Wheee-Oof
  • Wheef
  • Wheeple
  • Wheesh
  • Whew
  • Whiffle
  • Whiffy
  • Whirble
  • Whish
  • Whoomp
  • Whoopsie
  • Whuff
  • Whumph
  • Wibble
  • Wishes-You-Well
  • Wisteria
  • Witness-to-Dark-Designs
  • Would-Rather-Not-Say
  • Wub
  • Wumble

Y: 1 name

  • You-Are-Not-Alone

Z: 2 names

  • Zephyr
  • Zeppelin