How do you guys think up names for your games. Like the title of the game, and all the villages and cities and names of NPC's.I find in all circumstances (even writing a story) that I have trouble thinking of good names.
It would be cool to hear how people think up there names.
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Jackolantern
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Re: Names
Most of mine are basically random thrown-together syllables, but then I kind of get a system going after a few of them. Other times I take part of a real word and contract it with made-up syllables, or it is just a compound of two or more real words that sound cool together
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Re: Names
If I'm stuck for a name of a village/npc/whatever, I use a fantasy name generator (Google - there are tons of them out there) and keep getting lists of names until something triggers a good name in my mind 
I've never used a random name, but usually it'll trigger my imagination to come up with a name.
I've never used a random name, but usually it'll trigger my imagination to come up with a name.