Sybad the Barbarian

I wanted to talk more about that little technique to create names I buried in the bottom of one of the Last-Minute Hexcrawl posts, but I don't feel up to a long-ish post right now. So instead, I'll just demonstrate one little trick for creating barbarian names. I may have talked about something similar before, but here goes: Roll 3d20 and 1d6 together and read left to right, using the d6 as a vowel. The table, again, so you don't have to dig through that other post:

d6	Vowel	d20	Letter	d20	Letter
1	A	1	B	11	C
2	E	2	D	12	W
3	I	3	T	13	J
4	O	4	F	14	Q
5	U	5	L	15	V
6	Y	6	S	16	X
		7	M	17	P
		8	H	18	K
		9	N	19	G
		10	R	20	Z

If two consonants land next to each other and don't seem pronounceable, insert a vowel, either (a) a duplicate of the d6 vowel, or (b) an A or an O, perhaps using the odd/even status of the first consonant as a guide. If the last two letters are the same consonant, just drop the doubled consonant. The result? A pretty decent barbarian name. Anafac. Lagit. Jawgu. Not always great, but good enough for government work.