Lich Name Generator Table

In best gaming-blog fashion, I am writing about my solution to a problem I ran into today in my home game. I hate coming up with NPC names. It's horrible. I was struggling to decide on the name for a lich in a dungeon, and I thought of that old article I wrote about the Abhorrer. Let's use the same formula for lich names. Once you use a result on one of these tables, cross it out and add your own.

Note: This is not meant to be accurate or 'meaningful,' I want a table that will give me a good-sounding name real fast. That's all.

Dave Trampier classic

LICH NAME TABLE:

1A - Male Old Testament Figure (d20)

1. Abimelech
2. Abraham
3. Absalom
4. Ahasuerus
5. Belshazzar
6. Cain
7. Eliazar
8. Elkanah
9. Ephraim
10. Holofernes
11. Issachar
12. Jephthah
13. Lamech
14. Manaaseh
15. Melchizedek
16. Mordecai
17. Naphtali
18. Nebucadnezzar
19. Sennacherib
20. Zebulon

DUDE. GIRLS CAN BE LICHES TOO!
Yeah I know, that's why we have this next table. I didn't like the sound of the Old Testament names for women though, they are either perfectly acceptable modern names (I wouldn't name my lich-lord Adam or Michael, we can't have a swords-&-sorcery lichette named Sarah or Ruth) have that 'ancient world heavy metal' vibe like Abigail or Salome, or sound indistinguishable from the male names (Naamah, Ephrath). So I went more ancient-world with these ones:


1B - Female Greek Names (d30)

1. Amarantha
2. Andromeda
3. Artemisia
4. Antimony
5. Calandra
6. Callixenia
7. Cressida
8. Cybele
9. Cynara
10. Diamanda
11. Euphemia
12. Euridice
13. Hecuba
14. Ioanna
15. Iolanthe
16. Jocasta
17. Lilika
18. Medea
19. Melantha
20. Orphea
21. Philomela
22. Phaedra
23. Sybella
24. Sophronia
25. Theodosia
26. Thessaly
27. Xanthe
28. Xenobia
29. Yolanda
30. Zelenia

2 - Greek, Roman & Persian Official Titles (d66):


11. Aesymnetes
12. Agonothetes
13. Agoranomos
14. Akhoond
15. Amphipole
16. Anax
21. Apodektai
22. Archiater
23. Archimandrite
24. Argbadh
25. Asapatish
26. Baivaparatish
31. Basileus
32. Chiliarch
33. Choregos
34. Dathapatish
35. Dilokites
36. Dikastes
41. Dimorites
42. Diwan
43. Ephor
44. Kanstresios
45. Kolakretai
46. Lochagos
51. Marzban
52. Mirza
53. Navarch
54. Nawabzada
55. Pirani
56. Proxenos
61. Prytaneis
62. Sakellarios
63. Sebastokrator
64. Sebastos
65. Tetrarch
66. Theoroi


3 - Titles Used by Dictators & Emperors (d30):

1. Dear Leader
2. Supreme Commander
3. The Father/Mother
4. Great Architect
5. Brilliant Genius of Humanity
6. Gardener of Happiness
7. Conducator
8. Great Guide
9. Perpetual Dictator
10. His/Her Excellency
11. Uncrowned King/Queen
12. Lord/Lady of all Beasts of the Earth
13. Last King/Queen of [inappropriate, distant or ancient place]
14. Brotherly/Sisterly Leader and Guide
15. Head of All Men/Women
16. President for Life
17. General(issimo)
18. Captain
19. Chief
20. Caesar/Czar/Kaiser
21. Bottom of the Steps
22. He/She to Whom Homage is Paid
23. Ruler of the [cardinal direction]
24. The Pole-star
25. The Divine Order
26. Who Rules all Under Heaven
27. August One
28. Sage-King/Queen
29. of Ten-Thousand Years
30. The One to Whom one Asks an Apology

Roll once on each table and arrange them to taste! Here are a few trial runs, I rolled these straight through with no editing:

Diwan Antimony, the One to Whom one Asks an Apology

Agoronomos Ephraim, Gardener of Happiness

Czaress Iolanthe Dimorites
The Great Architect, Ephraim Archimandrite

General Baivaparatish Holofernes

Yep, this is good. I'm into it. Thank you to: WIKIPEDIA.

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Now it's the weekend, so go have some fun!!