Premades and Precepts

I’ve posted in the past about my fondness for using random generators while simming. For the moments that your own creativity doesn’t cut it, it’s always fun to defer to a random number and a list of elements; it’s all the better when the power of computing and other people’s work does the work for you!

OK, I’ll get to the point now. I’ve added several more random generators to my links, mainly for my own reference, but there’s probably somebody out there who will find them useful too. Hover over the links for a short description of what you can do with them, but note that not all of the links have descriptions. I’m lazy.

Random Title Generator (Internet Archive) – I got some great dramatic/fiction titles out of this. Examples – The Unwilling Tales, Ravaged Edge, The Ragged Dreamer, Wanton Winter.

Fantasy Novel Title Generator – Actually I can’t remember at the moment whether Fantasy is an available genre, but whatever. Finally, you can put names to the vaunted God and Illusion Cycle: The Dream of the Children, The Lollian Rogue, The Discord of Adian, and Master and Empire (coming in Summer 2010).

Random Speculative Fiction Title Generator – you gotta hit this one a few times to get some interesting titles. Like Killing of the Worm, Dark Station, Ghost Vendetta, and my personal favourite: Sword Spam!

By the way, I was planning an update to the lot rotation experiment I had going on. I got up to the middle of the seventh round, but I was let down by two things: boredom with the Sims themselves, and a lack of good housing in Riverview. Unfortunately I’m not that great a builder, and the complex decoration in the building options puts me off a little. Also I don’t like massive lots – another reason to wait for the World Builder to come out, I suppose.

So, I’ve wiped Riverview and I’m currently playing one of the random families that decided to sneak in while Story Progression was left on.