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Never again suffer the indignity of an elf named “Melf”, a bartender named “George”, or a mysterious unnamed stranger in town. The D&D Name Generator creates countless names for your heroes or NPCs, specific to their gender, race and class -- including titles and honorifics!.

www.wizards.com/dnd/Tool.aspx?x=dnd/4new...

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Post any discussion about the Character Name Generator here. I will check in on this thread from time to time and do my best to fix any issues you have with viewing on various browsers as well as any other technical issues.

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Update 3/11/2010

Update 2/25/2010

• fixed problem with names being generated one letter off. Any currently saved names will change to their corrected values.
• changed the generate name button to ask you if you want to reset the form if you followed a link to the page. 
• clicking "link" no longer actually links you anywhere, instead it opens a small window with a textbox that you can copy & paste a link from.
• added a "print" link below the results area that opens the results in a new window in a printer friendly format.
• fixed some CSS display issues with Safari, Opera, Chrome, and FF.

Known Issues - Fixes

• Sometimes the link box will not appear when clicking "LINK"... Try holding doen your left **** key and refreshing the browser.

Feb 19, 2010 -- 12:02PM, mauss wrote:

Are the last 20 names generated, ones that I generated or overall? There are a couple showing that I didn't generate.

Overall. The generator creates a name whenever the page is fully refreshed so just going to the page creates a name for the last 20 list.

Feb 19, 2010 -- 12:06PM, mauss wrote:

Spelled "provided" as "provoded" in the instructions.
There's a couple incorrect noun/verb agreements:
"Is your characters primarily seen..."
"This generator requires the use of javascript and utilized cookies..." 

Thanx I will fix those.

Feb 19, 2010 -- 12:08PM, mauss wrote:

"Reset Form" doesn't actually reset the form fields. Is it supposed to?

Hmm.. I just tested it on IE7, IE8, FF 3.5.8, Opera 10.10, Chrome 4.0.249.89, and Safari 4.0.4 on my Windows Vista machine and it resets the form for me every time. What Browser/Version and OS/Version are you using? 

Feb 19, 2010 -- 12:13PM, mauss wrote:

Also, I initially did a dwarf sorcerer. Changing the class did not change the name. Is it supposed to or just the aka's? I would think that if you wanted "countless" names, they'd be based on more than just the letters from your name. 

Changing the class will only change the AKA's. The name generates from several tables. The first name is from 6 possible tables for male, female, and ungendered. The surname is generated based on the race of the character.   

Feb 19, 2010 -- 12:18PM, mauss wrote:

The "Printer Friendly" only displays the instructions, not the generated name.

Correct the javascript isn't currently included in the printer friendly page template. I will investigate adding it or creating a printer friendly button that lets you print the specific name you created.

Feb 19, 2010 -- 12:23PM, mauss wrote:

So this is basically a reskin of the old name generator, correct?

Incorrect... it uses the same basic premise for creating names however it replaces the VBScript code base and serverside implementation with javascript. It also includes new data for names and surnames as well as other things specific to 4th edition for the AKA's.

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