Chimera245
2020-08-03, 09:12 PM
I'm starting up a game of Ironsworn, and my background vow is to find some legendary item.
I brainstormed some ideas, asked the Oracle some questions, interpreted the answers, and decided that my character is searching for some legendary item that holds the status of "most people have heard of it, but few believe it exists". I've decided that all my character has to go on are myths and fairy tales, and as such, I'm going to leave the actual identity and abilities of the item to be discovered as I play.
The thing is, I SUCK with coming up with names. And I suck with not-speculating-what-mysterious-plot-threads-could-mean-in-the-future.
So as I try to randomly generate some names, I keep getting lackluster names, and also keep reflexively trying to interpret what the name could mean for the artifact's power.
I'm aiming for something like One Piece's titular One Piece, not Thundercats' Sword Of Omens.
The Sword of Omens, even if you've never heard of Thundercats, is obviously a sword. Presumably, it has some form of precognition-based power. But what the hell is the One Piece? What can it do? Even the people in the show don't know. (except the ones who found it last, but most of them are dead...) It "makes you the King of Pirates" and consists of "everything this world has to offer". That is so vague, yet so evocative.
I want that for MY epic fetch quest. So throw some awesome but vague names at me. Or at least some good random generators.
Thanks in advance.
I brainstormed some ideas, asked the Oracle some questions, interpreted the answers, and decided that my character is searching for some legendary item that holds the status of "most people have heard of it, but few believe it exists". I've decided that all my character has to go on are myths and fairy tales, and as such, I'm going to leave the actual identity and abilities of the item to be discovered as I play.
The thing is, I SUCK with coming up with names. And I suck with not-speculating-what-mysterious-plot-threads-could-mean-in-the-future.
So as I try to randomly generate some names, I keep getting lackluster names, and also keep reflexively trying to interpret what the name could mean for the artifact's power.
I'm aiming for something like One Piece's titular One Piece, not Thundercats' Sword Of Omens.
The Sword of Omens, even if you've never heard of Thundercats, is obviously a sword. Presumably, it has some form of precognition-based power. But what the hell is the One Piece? What can it do? Even the people in the show don't know. (except the ones who found it last, but most of them are dead...) It "makes you the King of Pirates" and consists of "everything this world has to offer". That is so vague, yet so evocative.
I want that for MY epic fetch quest. So throw some awesome but vague names at me. Or at least some good random generators.
Thanks in advance.