Roleplay Tools

Three free pages for people who have not signed up yet, or who have and would like a second opinion on who they are. None of them asks for an account, an email address or a promise. They live outside the game, at /roleplay-tools.html.

The Name Generator

At /harry-potter-name-generator.html. It rolls names that sound like they belong at a British wizarding school and belong to nobody in particular. None is a canon character, which saves everyone a letter.

  • The default list: 660 first names, split across female, male and unisex.
  • Style filter: Any, Female, Male or Unisex. A few lists have too few unisex names to offer that option, and the page says so instead of pretending.
  • Culture filter: 24 name lists, the Harry Potter default plus 23 cultures, from Celtic and French to Korean, Arabic and Polynesian. A list downloads only when you ask for it, which is thrifty of it.
  • Copy mode: click a name and it lands on your clipboard, ready for a fic, a Discord, or a character sheet. If your browser refuses to copy, the page tells you the name so you can write it down like it is 1990.
  • Into signup: the name you pick is carried onto the account creation link, so it is already waiting in the form when you get there.1

1. Names still run three to fifteen characters, and each name belongs to one student. The generator cannot know whether yours is taken. Nobody can, until the form does.

The House Quiz

At /hogwarts-house-quiz.html. Seven questions, four answers each. Every answer leans toward one House, and the House with the most answers wins. If two Houses tie, the last answer you gave to a tied House settles it, so the same answers always give the same result.

The result is for fun. Nothing is saved, and the quiz has no say in anything. You are sorted at random when you sign up. The Hat has been consulted and declined to read the quiz.

A House change after sign-up exists only through the donation-point milestone described on the House Change page. The quiz is not a loophole, merely a mirror.

The Backstory Prompts

At /hogwarts-character-backstory-generator.html. It does not write your backstory. It asks six questions, one from each category of family, secrets, fears, rivals and similar matters of record, and you answer them. A past you chose beats a past you were handed.

  • Six prompts per roll, one per category.
  • Same seed, same set: a roll is driven by a seed, so the same seed with the same House and name gives the same six questions, in every browser.
  • Optional name: type one and it is written into the questions. It never leaves your browser.
  • Optional House: pick one and some questions lean toward it. Leave it blank for a neutral set. An unrecognized House is treated as blank.

Nothing is saved or sent anywhere. Your character's worst secret remains between you and a text field that forgets it on refresh.

Then What

When you have a name, a vague idea of a House and six answers about your dreadful cousin, create an account. It is free, and it is where the character stops being a document.