RPG Name Generator

A good RPG name tells the table who your character is before you roll a single die. The conventions are surprisingly stable across D&D, Pathfinder, Skyrim, Dragon Age and most MMOs: humans get medieval-flavoured given names with an English, French or Germanic surname (Roland Ashcombe, Sabine Duclair); elves get liquid, vowel-heavy names with nature compounds (Lirael Vesperwind); dwarves get short Norse names and forge surnames (Brogan Ironmantle); halflings get cosy diminutives (Posy Hilltopple); orcs get hard consonants and a deed-name (Thokk Skullsplitter). Tieflings and villains lean on dark, Latinate sounds like Malachai Vex or Erasmus Gloam, and JRPG heroes favour short, bright names such as Ryne, Ciel or Kaede.

The second convention is the epithet. Plenty of memorable RPG characters have no surname at all, just a descriptor earned in play: Mira the Swift, Gerda One-Eye, The Ferryman Ulo. These work especially well for NPCs, because players remember what someone does long before they remember a family name.

This list mixes every one of those styles so you can grab a name for any class or race, and it leans original rather than canonical: nothing here is a major character from an existing game, so you can drop a name straight into a campaign, a character sheet or an MMO login without a clash.