{"id":473,"date":"2023-06-22T16:45:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T16:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefoxae.com\/?p=473"},"modified":"2023-06-22T16:45:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T16:45:40","slug":"when-my-brain-stops-my-favorite-generators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thefoxae.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/22\/when-my-brain-stops-my-favorite-generators\/","title":{"rendered":"When My Brain Stops: My Favorite Generators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes, my brain does not want to cooperate after I&#8217;ve asked it for four hundred other names of things: people, places, cults, whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Generators are awesome for this exact thing.  And maybe you won&#8217;t get the perfect idea, but I&#8217;ve found that generators are perfect for restarting my brain like one of those pull-to-start chainsaws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So here is a list of my favorite name generators &#8211; I hope you&#8217;ll like them, too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Generators from SeventhSanctum.com:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seventhsanctum.com\/generate.php?Genname=disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Disease Names<\/a> (Ancestral Fester!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seventhsanctum.com\/generate.php?Genname=jokegrimoire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Grimoire of Questionable Spells<\/a> (Conceal Onion Dip, anyone?)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seventhsanctum.com\/index-name.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A whole list of name generators<\/a> (fantasy themes, pirate ships, evil folks, cat beings&#8230;)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seventhsanctum.com\/generate.php?Genname=envision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Envisioner<\/a> (classic stories and legends&#8230; with a twist!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Generators from FantasyNameGenerators.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasynamegenerators.com\/bookstore-names.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bookstore Names<\/a> (Bound to Be Good?  I love a pun.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasynamegenerators.com\/death-worm-names.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mongolian Death Worm Names <\/a>(this is&#8230; very specific)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasynamegenerators.com\/elizabethan-names.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elizabethan Era Name Generator<\/a> (first and last names!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasynamegenerators.com\/order-names.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Secret Society Names<\/a> (The Society of Invincible Children has terrifying implications)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Other Generators I Like<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.reedsy.com\/plot-generator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reedsy&#8217;s Plot Generator<\/a> (you can even lock the aspects you like)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.behindthename.com\/random\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Behind the Name&#8217;s Name Generator<\/a> (can filter by origin)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/storygen.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TV Tropes&#8217; Story Generator<\/a> (get tropes for settings, plots, villains, etc.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rollforfantasy.com\/tools\/culture-summary-creator.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Roll for Fantasy&#8217;s Culture Generator<\/a> (the same person who does Fantasy Name Generators)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chaoticshiny.com\/superstitiongen.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chaotic Shiny&#8217;s Superstition Generator<\/a> (See a mushroom? Your relationship is toast.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope some of these lead to some great ideas for you.  Let me know if you get inspired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, my brain does not want to cooperate after I&#8217;ve asked it for four hundred other names of things: people, places, cults, whatever. Generators are awesome for this exact thing. And maybe you won&#8217;t get the perfect idea, but I&#8217;ve found that generators are perfect for restarting my brain like one of those pull-to-start chainsaws&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefoxae.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefoxae.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefoxae.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefoxae.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefoxae.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thefoxae.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"http:\/\/thefoxae.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefoxae.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefoxae.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefoxae.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}