help me name my disaster

[Galethorn]

How about...

The Year of The Bad Stuff That Happened

The KT Extinction Event

The Day the Gods Called In Sick

Yeah, that's about the best I can do. Not helpful, really, is it?

 

[glass]

The Long Night

The Dark Time

The Breaking

The Harrowing


glass.

 

[birdchili]

When you said "stay away from stuff like 'the Cataclysm'" I'm not sure what you meant. You want something more specific, or more unique-sounding, or what?

more unique-sounding I suppose (though I will admit to some temptation w.r.t. "The Weiss/Hickman Effect" (ahhh memories...)).

thanks to you jokers I am now considering a shift from a humanity-under-siege/man vs. nature campaign to one of high comedy. thanks

the world is still very-much in flux as far as my design goes (which is somewhat bad given that we're already playing, but you do what you have to do). I have a general knowledge of the causes and circumstances of the event-under-discussion, but no one of relevance in the game world knows anything, so it's moot w.r.t. picking a name.

 

[werk]

more unique-sounding I suppose

Make something up from scratch...

THE:
figgling
rugger
twib
steech
glarnabachk
yuloo

I figure that's how they came up with cataclysm and ragnarok in the first place...

 

[The_Gneech]

How about setting it on the Klingon homeworld and calling it "The Time of Tribbles?"

-The Gneech

 

[Desdichado]

I kinda like vaguely Oriental sounding long adjective phrase names. The Night of a Thousand Tears, or the Day Mother Earth Took Revenge on Her Children or something like that.

Then again, the most prominent cataclysm of our own early/pre-history is simply called The Flood, so maybe simple names work just fine after all.

 

[Simplicity]

I like Celestial Upchuck Thursday...

But if I had to throw some in... ummm...

The Change.
The Era of Something You Don't See Every Era

 

[Vraille Darkfang]

It doesn't have a name.

To speak of it is taboo.

It brings bad luck.

It brings Death.

To speak of it is to invite destruction upon your house and all you hold dear.

A myth says that if every time anyone speaks openly of 'That which has No Name', then They might hear & return to wreck more devestation upon the land.

(That's going the Lovecraft route by the way).

So, name it Cthulhu, Azatoth, Hastur, Dagon; Lots of Great Old ones to choose from.

And, if your players insist on delving deeper into the past.... You can break out those CoC Sanity rules!

 

[birdchili]

Then again, the most prominent cataclysm of our own early/pre-history is simply called The Flood, so maybe simple names work just fine after all.

I actually like the simple names ("The Day" wouldn't be out of place given how I've named other things - I kind-of like it, actually).

"The <synonym for disaster>" or similar is what I'm mainly trying to stay away from.

 

[Desdichado]

Well, you could be a little more specific than The Disaster (or thesaurus entry for Disaster). The Breaking, or something like that. Although that'll make you sound like Robert Jordan.