On pp 92-97 of the MT Referee's Companion there is a rather
interesting section on alien languages, including word generation
algorithms and tables for most of the major alien races.
I used the tables to generate some Zhodani names this weekend,
and it actually worked rather well. However, it was an extremely
tedious process, requiring several dice rolls for each syllable.
This process is obviously an ideal target for a computer program.
Has anyone written an implementation of these particular tables
yet, preferably in C ?? If not, would anyone be interested in
such a program ? I'm sure I'll end up writing one eventually,
although I don't know how much I could legally distribute and
I have no intention of violating anyone's copyrights.
Thoughts, anyone?
PS: I haven't heard a thing about the MT questions/observations
I posted a while ago. Were they really THAT dull??!?