Star Wars Names: Tips

So I've been tossing this around in my head and I may have found a good method for coming up with futuristic sounding names. I mentioned syllables are like building blocks, and I linked that cool Drow Name Generator thing because sometimes all you need is a beginning, some blocks to play with. While sleep deprived I might have come up with a decent method of obtaining those syllabic building blocks.

So, the idea is that you take a name and reverse it. Don't just do that, though. Because it's really obvious. Instead, say it out loud and use those sounds to "rewrite" a name out of it. Do it several times, and pick from what you've got. Chances are the first name will sound spacey enough for Star Wars. The last name can sometimes be weird, but thankfully Star Wars has a world quirk of people slamming two descriptives together for a last name like we're all Native Americans in a lameass space western, so you can just replace the last name with some thematic adjectives if it ends up sounding bad.

So let's do an example. Say we're playing a Noble who's going to be taking the famous artist prestige class. Say he's kind of a shlub who's not that talented and wants to get into music for the money and not for the art. So we'll start with the name Chad Kroeger for no reason.

Chad Kroeger = Dahc Regeork

Dahc could be Dac, Dace, Datch, Dach or Doc just by playing with the sound a little bit.

Regeork could turn into Regork, Reejork,  Rejak. We're manipulating the sound a lot here because Kroeger isn't giving us a lot of room, but that's okay. If we don't come up with anything, we can also replace this with an adjective smash like Soundkiller, or in Chad's case Buttrocker.

So basically from Chad Kroeger we got a really decent Star Wars name like Datch Rejak. It sounds like plenty of other Star Wars names like Dash Rendar, Anakin Skywalker, or Leia Organa. If I didn't tell you where I got that name, you probably wouldn't track it back to Chad Kroeger anyway.

Maybe this doesn't always fit. Maybe I'm just struck with how well it works with Chad's name. I think this is a great starting point though, especially if you're stumped. A piece of paper, a few names and a few minutes and you're bound to come up with SOMETHING.