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This isn't (yet) a demostrable product so not sure if this is the best forum to ask this... please move if not


I'm writing a medieval sim style game that involves a number of knights from up to 16 medieval noble houses with heraldry, probably some amount of backstory but I need good ideas for house names. This would be for the house rather than an individual's name (e.g. Lancelot's house I believe was Benwick). This is because the knights can die and so will have randomly generated first names.


I was initially going to go for the pseudo-real angle, with house names like Goodwin / Redmond and that sort of thing. But then I thought it might be good fun to instead have the houses as spoofs of things pop culture or even some exilian references?! My only worry is that there aren't 16 that are well known enough.


Couple of ideas I had:


Bannister, house crest could be a ballistrade (Send up of Lannister)
Birodragon (pendragon)


So does anyone have any house name suggestions, or maybe know of a good resource I can use? What Exilian references might work?


Is my fledgeling idea of having spoof names actually a good one? I suspect that since I am asking this in a forum frequented by medievalists the answer will be a no...

One day a man arrives at your door. He arrives gives you a card. It says: "Hi, I'm Alan. I am your 'Friend'."
On the back of the card is written "The company company. An outreach group". The man wanders into your house, sits in your front room and proceeds to look at his phone. You are somewhat pleased to have company, despite his offishness.
The next day, however, the exact same thing happens. A man arrives at your door with a card. Presumably there was some administrative blunder, so you tell him you already have company but he ignores you and lets himself in.
You ask him to leave but this falls on deaf ears, so you decide to get in touch with the company company instead. You search for them on the internet to get their phone number but you can't even find a mention of them anywhere. You spent a long time entering all combinations of search terms to no avail. You try asking the men where they came from instead, but they shrug and say nothing.
The next day the same thing happens so you decide to phone the police, and report these men as trespassers. The police think you are making the story up and refuse to help.
Everything you try does not prevent a new friend arriving each day. After a few weeks your house is stuffed full of disinterested people sighing, looking at their phones helping themselves to your food and laying about the place dozing.


I wish I wasn't up this early.

Sting


(This popped into my head because of the stalk-y lyrics in "Every breath you take")

See Gee

You do all of the things you want with reckless abandon. You are so motivated and fervent that you neglect many of the things you'd rather not do. You neglect cleaning your house because you were busy on the road blowing peoples minds. This leads to a rat infestation that spreads to the whole neighbourhood and you are fined vast sums to get it sorted.


I wish that I did not have to sleep.

It's too explosive. The one time they tried to have it again on the 32nd of August, but it exploded and was never seen again.


Why do birds suddenly appear?

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Haha fair enough. Here's a pic of a session from over the weekend to give an idea of what it's like (note the lack of dice too)

Looks great. If all NPC's have the same abilities as the player you can do some great boss fights. Like the classic "mirror match" boss fight where the enemy has the exact same powers as the player 

Bee