Dear WotC - You suck at names.

[Cam Banks]

I want to name an astral dominion the Banefane. It'd be very awesome.

Cheers,
Cam

 

[Plane Sailing]

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.

As always with opinions, some may share them and many will not.

I'm like many others that think that they are fine with coming up with names. I think Shadowfell is great and Feywild is OK (I'll probably just use "faerie" or "Seelie" though).

I greatly prefer these to the nonsensical names which kept me away from Greyhawk all those years ago

 

[Wormwood]

I greatly prefer these to the nonsensical names which kept me away from Greyhawk all those years ago

How can you not love names like Fruztii, Wegwuir, and Cruski?

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Fortunately, I've discovered the civ advance of Literacy and wrote my own campaign setting, with names that I like. Nations have names like Tanllwyr, Aetheland, and Eisenmark. (The first is only pronounceable for people who know a smattering of Welsh. This is by design, because I am a [strike]bastard[/strike]loser.)

Lemmeguess...it's pronounced Bob?

Names are hard work, you know.

Brad

 

[(contact)]

Total agreement. Pronounceable, fittingly descriptive, and memorable.

+1

I really want the names for things in D&D to be evocative of the thing. The Shadowfell and Feywild are far better than names that might sound cool but impart no inherent meaning.

 

[Desdichado]

I don't think people should be allowed to mock fantasy names unless they also explain what they think are good fantasy names, so that the mocking can continue...

I think Kirin is a great fantasy name... because it's too weird for real life.

 

[Mallus]

Wrongdale!

That's beautiful!

My next campaign is going start in Wrongdale, wherever that may be... and it'll probably involve the Pope of Wrongdale, or perhaps the Anti-Pope of Wrongdale...

 

[kiznit]

I think Kirin is a great fantasy name... because it's too weird for real life.

Speaking of, Ki-Rins better show up in the 4E monster manual or I'm going to have some choice words!

 

[Reaper Steve]

I like 'Shadowfell.'
'Feywild' I wasn't too fond of until I realized I couldn't offer a better alternative. Using 'Faerie' or 'Green' is suboptimal because the place is so much more than faeries living in forests. The Feywild encompasses all climes (as it miirors the prime material) and much more than just faerie types. So, after I thought about it, I like it, too.

 

[Merlin the Tuna]

I direct your attention to a tiny sampling of Magic place names:

Keld
Llanowar
Mercadia
Phyrexia
Ravnica
Sarpadia
Shiv
Thran
Urborg
Yavimaya

The land of prison murder?

At any rate, I've been a fan of pretty much every name so far but Golden Wyvern. Yes, even Emerald Frost.