Frequently Asked Questions
Feel free to email me with your comments or suggestions. I don't promise to respond to all of them, but I'll read them. You can also sign my shiny new guestbook if you don't feel like bothering with email.
Q: Can I use these generators to give me ideas for my novel/short story/RPG? I'll give you credit/money/a link!
A: Sure, and while acknowledgement is nice it's not required. All I've provided here is a set of tools for coming up with your own ideas; anything worthwhile you make with those tools is yours. (Of course, if you're using the fannish generators, we're both messing with other people's property and you need to remember to give them credit.)
Q: How did you write all these generators?
Q: I want to make my own generators, can you show me how?
Q: I want to make my own generators, can you show me how?
A: Well, most of them I didn't. I used Steven Savage's PHP templates, or in one case a script from another site that I asked permission to modify, and I created my own data sets to plug into them. You can do the same; Seventh Sanctum has a couple of helpful tutorials as well as the templates. I did write the Palette Generator from scratch, mostly by trial and error and poring over the PHP manual.
Q: I have an idea for a generator; will you make it for me?
A: I might, if I like it, and if it's not too complicated. You could also go to Seventh Sanctum and post in the forum there. Lots of generator geeks are hanging out there looking for projects!
Q: Will you separate the Fantasy Name Generator into boys' and girls' names?
A: No. They're made-up names. They don't have inherent gender, because they're randomly created. Any name it gives you, you can use for a male, female, or otherwise inclined character as you see fit.
Q: Is there a way to download the generators to use offline?
A: No. Sorry.
Q: One of your generators offends me. You're going to change it, right?
Q: I think one of your generators might offend someone out there who is totally not me, honest, I'm just trying to help. You're going to change it, right?
Q: One of your generators is ~*factually incorrect*~. You're going to change it, right?
Q: I think one of your generators might offend someone out there who is totally not me, honest, I'm just trying to help. You're going to change it, right?
Q: One of your generators is ~*factually incorrect*~. You're going to change it, right?
A: Wrong.
Q: pls send me price quote and shipping
A: Do you even go here?
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