Dear WotC - You suck at names.

[Wulfram]

The Shadowfells would be better, IMO. One fell is a bit small. "Shadow" is a much over used word in fantasy, but this is one of the more acceptable uses.

Feywild is a bit meh, but at least it's not cheesy like the wizard stuff.

 

[Lorthanoth]

'Wild' can be used as a noun denoting "An uninhabited or uncultivated region. Often used in the plural: the wilds of the northern steppes." - that's how I read it, not as a condition which of course would make no sense. The same with Shadowfell - it's a bleak moorland.

They both conjure up images of forbidding places where mankind shouldn't be. Works for me. Maybe not enough people are familiar with 'fell' and 'wild' used in those senses. Thanks WOTC for expanding vocabulary!

 

[Charwoman Gene]

*strikes a match*

Feywild? or Emerald Dream?

 

[Lurks-no-More]

I actually think that "Shadowfell" is fine. It's evocative enough.

There's something about the particular way that the portmanteau is employed in "Feywild", however, that makes it sound modern and bland.

I think splitting the word apart improves it. "Fey Wild(s)"?

 

[JeffB]

WotC..

You are TERRIBLE at coming up with names. "Emerald Frost"? "Feywild"? "Shadowfell"? WTF?

Those are horrid, lame, pathetic names. Please find someone who can make non-terrible names. Or, if that's not possible, put up submission contests to come up with better ones.

Amen. They're coming up with the kind of cheese I did when I was 8.

I prefer Gygaxian naming conventions, but they could take a page from Glorantha, Tekumel, The Rolemaster worlds (Shadow World/Iron Wind). Hell, even Arduin.

 

[Wormwood]

Amen. They're coming up with the kind of cheese I did when I was 8.

I prefer Gygaxian naming conventions, but they could take a page from Glorantha, Tekumel, The Rolemaster worlds (Shadow World/Iron Wind). Hell, even Arduin.

An epileptic with a Boggle set could come up with names virtually indistinguishable from those found in Greyhawk and Tekumel.

 

[JeffB]

An epileptic with a Boggle set could come up with names virtually indistinguishable from those found in Greyhawk and Tekumel.

And I still prefer them over pre-teen style creativity

 

[Simia Saturnalia]

And I still prefer them over pre-teen style creativity

That sounds like a personal problem.​

 

[Frostmarrow]

I like cool sounding compound words just fine. What i do like even more is compound words that consist of one cool word and one cheesy, lame, weak word.

 

[Thaumaturge]

Total agreement. Pronounceable, fittingly descriptive, and memorable.

+1

Thaumaturge.