A Review of the Role Playing Game Supplement So What’s The Demi-Human Called, Anyway?

So What’s The Demi-Human Called, Anyway? by Creighton Broadhurst is a role playing game supplement published by Raging Swan Press for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. As such, it is covered by the Open Game License and some parts are considered to be Open Game Content as a result.

The supplement is available as a 13-page PDF from DriveThruRPG for $1.99 but was purchased at a reduced price as part of a special bundle. Two pages are the front and rear covers, three the front matter, Contents and Foreword, one page is an ad and one is the Open Game License.

The Foreword mentions that coming up with names for NPCs can be a problem, especially on the fly, and, like So What’s The Human Called? and So What’s The Human Called? II, this is intended to help.

Following this are five sets of tables, for dwarves, elves, gnomes, halflings and half-orcs. All have three d100 tables with 50 results for male and female names; dwarves and gnomes have a table of clan names, elves and halflings one of family names and half-orcs nicknames.

GM’s Crib Sheet has sample male and female names already generated for each of the five species.

So What’s The Demi-Human Called, Anyway? in Review

The PDF is bookmarked with major and minor sections linked. The Contents are to a similar level of depth and are hyperlinked. Navigation is good. The text is two column format or three for the tables and appeared to be free of errors. There are a couple of pieces of black and white stock art. Presentation is okay.

Again, like others in this series, though it is listed as being for Pathfinder, it is actually system neutral and more broadly useful than might be thought. It should be usable with many fantasy settings, depending on whether or not such settings have naming conventions for such species. This is essentially a time saving supplement. So What’s The Demi-Human Called, Anyway? can be found by clicking here.