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Generating Fantasy Names by Rolling Dice

Steve Alvesteffer
November 6, 2025

You don’t need to be particularly creative, use artificial intelligence, or any fancy software to come up with good names. I’ve devised a system where you can come up with decent names simply by rolling dice and combining results from a set of tables.

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A Simple Rules Change for Faster Dungeons & Dragons Sessions

Steve Alvesteffer
October 24, 2025

In DnD, combat tends to take up most of the game time, and my players hate that. To make it more fun for my players, I came up with a few simple rules changes to drastically shorten combat encounters by reducing the number of dice rolls required to bring combat to its conclusion.

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