"Caveman Name Generator" Topic

This had been touched on before TMP link but the results were more comical and pseudo American Indian in syntax…walks as turtle, yellow hair deer chaser, etc..

I am looking for a baseline of small bits to put together with a customizable name generator.

oog
og
moo
mog
ta
etc.

and then a profession tag…deer chaser, mammoth eater, cave finder, fire keeper, etc.

So you would get a random, but fairly structured system and get results like…

John Smith…Joo Mak bone carver

Rather than the pure silly.

Any interest or better still, is there a decent caveman name generator out there already?

Ahnoog Firestarter

*waits for forum pedant to inform us that cavemen didn't have names*

All I know is that teaching cavemen to play scrabble was almost impossible. They only have one word, ug, and they don't know how to spell it.

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Come on, you know someone HAD to say it.

Uh, I think you'll find that cavemen didn't HAVE names…

I would have said, aren't they all called Ug? ;)

Ok…let us assume that we are talking about one particular species of prehistoric human…and most likely a later part of the development stage for man given that they were tool makers, artists, and caregivers for their living and dead…these building blocks of intelligent society must establish the foundation of language…spoken language before written language…and cave paintings are a form of written language…and the general thought is that there has been language in some form for at least 1,000,000 years…the zone where we think of "cavemen"…so it is an easy extension to assume that there would be names for the individual…when a person recognizes life and death and the need to express themselves (cave art) then the development of the ego is preset, thus names. If there were any point of communication then there would have been ways to identify the individual.

I am not looking for a debate, simply stating observations…and this is about playing games with miniatures not a paper to be turned in for a grade at university :)

Besides there are no elves, gnomes, wizards, orcs, klingons, superheroes, etc…yet we feel the need to name them…so the idea is that for a game character there should be a name…thus a name generator would be a fun tool.

This is a game reference and casual experiment :)

For a bit of fun try these link
orcish names.I know you wanted to steer away from silly ,some just really sound caveman-ish.Just keep generating new names and pick your best ones.

Go to main page for other generaters a good resource site for names.

Here is a whole list.

link

Here's a few more:
link

and "others":
link

Ok I have been running a rough scaled program and I have a basic functional primary name generator going…still tweaking before I put it into language for the generator…thinking about a random consonant replacement…we will see.

What I have is a direct name converter, so a portion of the original name remains:

(example)

John Smith

John : Joo

Smith : Smey

Joo + Smey = Joosmey (hoos mah)

50% of the time, any letters following the first vowel(s) have a "g" added

So a second time through and we get:

Joog + Smey = Joogsmey (hoog smah)

A third time:

Joo + Smeyg = Joosmeyg (hoo smog)

And it it would be simple to play with the final phonetics:

Hoosmog
Oosmog
Oos mog
etc.

The second portion is the working titles:

1st Oosmog stone cutter
2nd Hoosma deer hunter
3rd Joosmog storm son
4th Joosmah brother wolf

I have a long list of working/living elements that link together with world elements…seems to work fairly well.

:)

Just for fun:

Cacique Caribe

Cah Cahg : Ka Kog/Kakog bone keeper

or

Cahg Cahr : Kog Kar/Kogkar ice wolf

But, let us not forget the late, great Thag Simmons:
picture

Who must've been real because the spiky end of a dinosaur tail is referred to as a Thagomizer at the Smithsonian, Dinosaur Nat'l Monument in Utah and elsewhere.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer
picture

Wyatt

Funny stuff…Thag Simmions
Thahg Sey = Thahgsey (Thag say) stone cutter
Thah Sehg = Thahsehg (Thah seg) son of bear

No avoiding the Thag :)