I've found the best way to come up with a good sounding name that the character manager will accept is to use a name generator and/or take part of one generated name and combine it with another. The character manager has a built-in name generator as well. Last I checked I wasn't real impressed by the names the ingame generator generated but you can easily combine aspects of the generated names for your own.

Also check out:

http://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/

as well as

https://elanthipedia.play.net/Category:Languages

Elanthipedia is the Dragonrealms wiki. If you take a look at the languages page for the race you plan on rolling you can get a feel for how your name would sound based on the dictionary listing and choose something similar or use an existing word from the dictionaries with a slight modification to it so you aren't walking around as 'apple tree' the paladin. Example: the Ilithic (Elven) word for 'apple tree' is almalne. If you were rolling an Elf you could probably choose Almalnen or Alumalned.

Don't choose a name that starts with the letters 'My'. The parser interacts with 'My-names' horrendously.

If you choose a long name people will probably shorten it as a nickname so choose something that doesn't end up in a terrible nickname for you.

If you choose a name that requires finger gymnastics to type it's going to result in a lot of people mistyping your name.

Keep in mind that naming conventions in the west have been inherited from latin and greek. If your character is male, choosing a name that ends in a consonant is going to sound more masculine to most people. Choosing a name that ends in a vowel, especially 'ia' tends to sound more feminine. Depending on how you want to portray your character this is important. Your name will be a facet of your character that people will interact with most.

>>Hijinkstheturtle: I'm a new guy on the block and have been trying to choose a name and have found that I can't even make a name for myself. A bit of a bummer (but understandable with how long this game has been running), but I was hoping someone could help me out on this. I've even tried just randomly typing letters on the keyboard to see if I could come up with something and even those were supposedly taken?? o.O

Exactly what syntax are you using to choose a name?

Last year, we had a player who thought every name he tried was taken, but it turned out to be a syntax issue: http://forums.play.net/forums/DragonRealms/Discussions%20with%20DragonRealms%20Staff%20and%20Players/General%20Discussions/view/12708

The naming instructions say:
CHOOSE (name) to choose your character's name.

This player was typing the parentheses, which the Character Manager won't accept as a valid name. (It accepts only letters, not punctuation marks, numbers, or spaces.)

So you should be typing CHOOSE Firstname, not CHOOSE (Firstname).

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