Guides for namers
How to choose a name you'll love, how to say it, and how ours are made.
Guide · 8 minute read
How to name a D&D character you won’t regret
A practical guide to naming D&D and fantasy characters: sound, meaning, culture, table-friendliness and the seven mistakes that make names hard to love.
Guide · 5 minute readHow to pronounce fantasy names
A plain-English key to pronouncing fantasy and D&D names: how Namewright respellings work, stress, tricky letters like x, c, th and ae, and the apostrophe.
Method · 7 minute readHow we build fantasy tongues for names
The method behind Namewright: consistent constructed naming languages, phonology, a shared concept lexicon, sound repairs at word joins, filters and pronunciation.