Random table: d100 Luso-adjacent names

19 Aug, 2024

Playing TTRPGs as a non-native English speaker is funny: you'll be playing a cool module like "Winter's Daughter" or "Black Wyrm of Brandonsford", and then suddenly out of nowhere comes a certain chap or gal with a nice five-dollar name like Sir Chyde or Wyllt or Myrddin -- names that are made to sound "old and knightly" to Anglophone ears, but to the rest of the world... perhaps ends up not ringing the same bells?

But what if we replaced these old medieval anglo-saxon names with old medieval portuguese names? That's exactly what Marcos Miotti did with Moledro, a wonderful table of d20 names for Cairn. I highly recommend checking it out!

Taking this idea a little bit further, I decided to make a d100 table, drawing from more sources than Miotti did, but also taking more liberty to change the names, making them less historical and sometimes more fantastical, without losing their lusophone sounds (hence Luso-adjacent -- some of these names did not really exist!). You can check it down below, or download it here as a PDF. Enjoy!

d100 Luso-adjacent names

My sources were:

• Spanish, Portuguese and Basque names - Medieval Names Archive
• Spanish Names from the Late 15th Century
• Medieval Spanish Submitted Names