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town names
« on: January 30, 2011, 04:47:10 PM »
If you can't think up a good name for a town in an RPG,
Try this:
1: Think of one word that describes your town.
2: Go to google translate.
3: Type in the word from step one.
4: Pick a language.
5: Hit the translate button.
I came up with some pretty cool names.
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Re: town names
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2011, 05:00:23 PM »
The town of Zehmli. (Town of Awesome)

Fantastic idea.
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Re: town names
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2011, 06:14:22 PM »
Way better than just stringing together nonsense syllables.  "Fuh...dorf...cag...town!"
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Re: town names
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2011, 07:33:32 PM »
I got a great one:
isolerad
It means isolated in Swedish.
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Re: town names
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2011, 07:46:26 PM »
Take a word, mountain for example.
Remove the consonants: ouai
Insert new consonants: Conutai.

Its a method that often works quite well for me.
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Re: town names
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2011, 11:30:28 PM »
Rinkworks.com has my favoritest random name generator. Mostly because of the long list of settings. If the specific one you need isn't there there's something close. (Really long names make good names for wizards or genies for example)
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Re: town names
« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2011, 03:16:47 AM »
For me, naming the places in my game world is like naming children. Each name is considered with great care and personally fitted to the characteristics of the thing I'm naming. Random name generators can sometimes inspire me, but I'd never just churn out a bunch of random results and make a map with them. Why, it wouldn't feel like my world at all...

Hey Zoo, how's that smaller avatar coming along? ;)
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