Shadowrun Name Generator

In Shadowrun nobody in the shadows uses the name on their SIN. A runner is known by a street name, the handle a fixer uses when lining up a job and the tag that shows up on a JackPoint post. The classics set the tone: FastJack, Dodger, Harlequin, Hatchetman, Captain Chaos, Kham, Bull, Sticks, Riser, Netcat, Hard Exit, Plan 9, Turbo Bunny and Kat o' Nine Tales. They are short, usually one or two words, and sound like something shouted across a Redmond bar before it stuck.

Good street names grow out of what a runner does or how they got burned. Deckers and technomancers borrow from the Matrix (Zero Day, Dumpshock, Null Sheen, /dev/grrl); riggers and wheelmen from their machines (Pistons, Redline, Rotodrone); street samurai from chrome and ordnance (Razorgirl, Hollowpoint, Move-by-Wire); mages and shamans from their tradition or mentor spirit (Coyote, Manastorm, Wolf Father); and faces from the con (Honey Trap, Cover Story, Payola). Megacorp slang, street talk like drek and omae, and in-jokes about glitches and Mr. Johnson round it out.

The list mixes well-known canon handles with hundreds of originals, plus realistic full names for the SIN you hand a Knight Errant patrol: Seattle is a sprawl of Japanese, Latino, Salish, Irish-elven, Russian and African voices, and a believable legal name should sound like it.