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if you have ever DM'd a D&D game longer
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than a oneshot you've probably had to
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come up with names on the fly for some
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characters and that's something that a
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lot of players really struggle with um
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there are no shortage of books and
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guides and random name tables and people
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offering advice that might be hard to
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remember um all of those things
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dramatically over complicate things if
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you want to come up with a plausible
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sounding name all you have to do is take
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a real name and say it wrong just like
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one one character change one uh syllable
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change maybe two if you want the name to
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feel old so like uh say you're looking
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at the name Alexander uh you could
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change the the X in it to a V and now
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you've got Aander and like sure I'd
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throw that on a halfling and no one
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would blink twice i could change the O
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at the beginning and now you've got
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Ollivander and that's how you get the
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name of the guy who makes wands in Harry
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Potter see it it works it works and
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people have been doing it and no one
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notices i've you changed Gregory to like
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Gregory and everyone's like "Yeah that's
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that's plausible maybe a little silly."
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Sure so just it's a quick cheat it works
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really well you can do it on the fly if
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you need to come up with the name of an
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important character ahead of time then
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like yeah go through a few and find one
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that sounds serious and not like a a
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child accidentally misspelled an adult's
