Tenkar's Tavern: A Town By Any Other Name...

Friday, May 11, 2012

A Town By Any Other Name...

Greg Christopher has a thread on G+ asking for folks to throw out ideas for a the name of a town that sits on a hill over a dungeon. It got me thinking, Google has a perfect tool for naming places in your fantasy world - It's the Google Translate Tool at translate.google.com

Personally, I think German makes for some decent sounding location names (this coming from my perspective as a German-American Mutt - YMMV).

Hill Dungeon becomes - Hugel Verlies or shortened to Ver Hugel.

Crag Stone Dungeon becomes - Felsen Stein Verlies, which I can shorten to Felstein Verlies or maybe Ver Felstein.

Sounds much better than a bunch of made up crap ;)

Thanks Greg for kickstarting my brain!

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Spawn of EndraMay 11, 2012 at 1:16 PM
I'd say it should be called The Box, and it is a community of people who offend community standards and undermine legitimate cosplay.
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Friday, May 11, 2012

A Town By Any Other Name...

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