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<blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 7653170" data-attributes="member: 58416">Interesting.&nbsp; I'll give it a shot.&nbsp; I'm curious what I can come up with&nbsp; on the with your article as a guide and trying to quickly wing&nbsp; something, so here we go.&nbsp; 1. Name the village.I'm&nbsp; going to try taking some of the unsuitable words you listed and see if I&nbsp; can turn them into something usable.&nbsp; Sometimes, when I'm winging it, a&nbsp; quick glance at a drink somebody has or a poster behind one of the&nbsp; players can provide some syllables to inspire.&nbsp; Cheerios, Hamburger,&nbsp; Dell...&nbsp; Hamdell or Dellham seem mostly ok, but perhaps a little plain.&nbsp;&nbsp; I watched The Hobbit recently, so the desire to work &quot;shire&quot; in there&nbsp; somewhere hit me.&nbsp; Dellhamshire sounds pretty good.&nbsp; The 'h' is partially silent.Sometimes,&nbsp; a word by itself might not be suitable, but parts of that word added to&nbsp; something else might be.&nbsp; Language tends to have patterns of sounds and&nbsp; syllables which we recognize, and sometimes taking those common sounds&nbsp; and given them a different order can result in something familiar enough&nbsp; to be easily accepted by the mind, but made just exotic enough to mask&nbsp; that you pulled a name from a player's bag of chips or from a popular&nbsp; game.&nbsp; If you have more time to prepare, you might even go to one of the&nbsp; free language translators online and pick out some common letter&nbsp; patterns from other languages to sprinkle into the names of your world.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 2. Determine the location of the villageI want Dellhamshire to have some life to it, but I'll try to settle on something simple and quick.Dellhamshire&nbsp; is a small village nestled among a set of rolling hills.&nbsp; For as far as&nbsp; the eye can see to the east and west, there are flat plains and&nbsp; grasslands.&nbsp; Several days to the North are jagged and harsh looking&nbsp; mountains.&nbsp; Roughly a day's journey South from Dellhamshire is the&nbsp; Cheery Coast and the city of Hamdellton.&nbsp; &nbsp; 3.&nbsp; Points of InterestOverall,&nbsp; Dellhamshire is a quiet rural community without many of the amenities&nbsp; found in larger settlements.&nbsp; However, it is the nevertheless important&nbsp; to the region.&nbsp; The largely flat land to the east and west is among the&nbsp; most fertile in the region, and grain from here is exported to larger&nbsp; cities for food.&nbsp; There is also a unique breed of indigo wool sheep bred&nbsp; by one of the local the farmers.&nbsp; While Dellhamshire may not have the&nbsp; wide variety of resources that a larger settlement might, travellers can&nbsp; easily find Grundy's Bistro, the Wet Thistle Inn, and a blacksmith at&nbsp; the center of town.&nbsp; There is also a humble stone tower scarcely two&nbsp; stories high which serves as a makeshift government or military building&nbsp; on the rare occasions when it is needed. 4. Key PeopleSolomon WyseA&nbsp; local farmer who breeds a unique type of indigo wool sheep.&nbsp; He breaks a&nbsp; lot of the stereotypes typically associated with a farmer in a small&nbsp; town.&nbsp; Easily one of the wealthiest men in Dellhamshire, he is always&nbsp; dressed in fine clothing.&nbsp; He owns a large plot of land on the Northern&nbsp; edge of town and maintains a small private security force.&nbsp; Denneris GrundyA&nbsp; large powerfully built man with a seemingly constant five o'clock&nbsp; shadow who can appear rather menacing in spite of being armed with&nbsp; nothing more than a frying pan and a ladle in most cases.&nbsp; The owner of&nbsp; Grundy's Bistro, he's well known among the other residents for his&nbsp; straight forward approach to solving problems when asked for advice and&nbsp; for experimenting with a variety of soups and lightly pan-toasted&nbsp; sandwiches.&nbsp; Gwendis AlbrightThe owner of the Wet Thistle&nbsp; Inn; Gwendis is a tall and lanky woman with rather plain facial features&nbsp; and straw-colored hair.&nbsp; She's naturally suspicious of travellers and&nbsp; is prone to gossip about the people who stay at her inn.&nbsp; The inn itself&nbsp; is a simple building which seems to be scarcely a step up from sleeping&nbsp; in they hay of a stable.&nbsp; The common area has only a large fireplace&nbsp; and a desk at which Gwendis is usually seated.&nbsp; Each of the available&nbsp; four rooms has only pile of furs to sleep upon.&nbsp; Sergeant Jamison YoderA&nbsp; military veteran, Sergeant Jamison Yoder was recently &quot;promoted&quot; to the&nbsp; position of constable in Dellhamshire.&nbsp; He is tasked with ensuring that&nbsp; Dellhamshire remains secure due to the importance of the food the&nbsp; village produces for the rest of the region.&nbsp; He tends to be dismissive&nbsp; of the importance of his position, and he views it as a punishment to be&nbsp; stuck in a small town without any promise of &quot;doing anything great&quot;&nbsp; with his career.&nbsp; He's evasive with his answers when asked why he would&nbsp; have been punished.&nbsp; He is a wiry man of no great stature, but his small&nbsp; and thin frame is obviously solid as well; he is muscled in such a way&nbsp; to remind you of perhaps an ever so slightly too thin jungle cat.&nbsp; He&nbsp; has a handful of new recruits who were sent here to aid him after&nbsp; reports of increased goblin sightings made their way to Duke Hamdell of&nbsp; Hamdellton.&nbsp; Sergeant Yoder has yet to see a goblin or much of anything&nbsp; interesting at all during his tenure here and is more than willing to&nbsp; express such to anyone who will listen.&nbsp; Also of note is the&nbsp; current absense of a blacksmith.&nbsp; While there is a forge, there is&nbsp; currently no smith in town.&nbsp; The previous smith recently died, and a&nbsp; professional replacement has not yet been found.&nbsp; In a pinch, a few of&nbsp; the local farmers can complete simple tasks such as making horseshoes or&nbsp; simple farm implements, but the quality of the work tends to be poor.&nbsp; 5.&nbsp; AdventuresI'm&nbsp; at a bit of a loss here.&nbsp; Based on some of the personalities and&nbsp; details I came up with, I have a few vague ideas, but nothing solid at&nbsp; the moment. If anyone else has an&nbsp; idea, feel free to share and/or use what I have here as the basis for something else.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Argyle King, post: 7653170, member: 58416"] Interesting. I'll give it a shot. I'm curious what I can come up with on the with your article as a guide and trying to quickly wing something, so here we go. [B]1. Name the village.[/B] I'm going to try taking some of the unsuitable words you listed and see if I can turn them into something usable. Sometimes, when I'm winging it, a quick glance at a drink somebody has or a poster behind one of the players can provide some syllables to inspire. Cheerios, Hamburger, Dell... Hamdell or Dellham seem mostly ok, but perhaps a little plain. I watched The Hobbit recently, so the desire to work "shire" in there somewhere hit me. [B]Dellhamshire[/B] sounds pretty good. The 'h' is partially silent. Sometimes, a word by itself might not be suitable, but parts of that word added to something else might be. Language tends to have patterns of sounds and syllables which we recognize, and sometimes taking those common sounds and given them a different order can result in something familiar enough to be easily accepted by the mind, but made just exotic enough to mask that you pulled a name from a player's bag of chips or from a popular game. If you have more time to prepare, you might even go to one of the free language translators online and pick out some common letter patterns from other languages to sprinkle into the names of your world. [B]2. Determine the location of the village[/B] I want Dellhamshire to have some life to it, but I'll try to settle on something simple and quick. Dellhamshire is a small village nestled among a set of rolling hills. For as far as the eye can see to the east and west, there are flat plains and grasslands. Several days to the North are jagged and harsh looking mountains. Roughly a day's journey South from Dellhamshire is the Cheery Coast and the city of Hamdellton. [B] 3. Points of Interest[/B] Overall, Dellhamshire is a quiet rural community without many of the amenities found in larger settlements. However, it is the nevertheless important to the region. The largely flat land to the east and west is among the most fertile in the region, and grain from here is exported to larger cities for food. There is also a unique breed of indigo wool sheep bred by one of the local the farmers. While Dellhamshire may not have the wide variety of resources that a larger settlement might, travellers can easily find Grundy's Bistro, the Wet Thistle Inn, and a blacksmith at the center of town. There is also a humble stone tower scarcely two stories high which serves as a makeshift government or military building on the rare occasions when it is needed. [B]4. Key People[/B] Solomon Wyse A local farmer who breeds a unique type of indigo wool sheep. He breaks a lot of the stereotypes typically associated with a farmer in a small town. Easily one of the wealthiest men in Dellhamshire, he is always dressed in fine clothing. He owns a large plot of land on the Northern edge of town and maintains a small private security force. Denneris Grundy A large powerfully built man with a seemingly constant five o'clock shadow who can appear rather menacing in spite of being armed with nothing more than a frying pan and a ladle in most cases. The owner of Grundy's Bistro, he's well known among the other residents for his straight forward approach to solving problems when asked for advice and for experimenting with a variety of soups and lightly pan-toasted sandwiches. Gwendis Albright The owner of the Wet Thistle Inn; Gwendis is a tall and lanky woman with rather plain facial features and straw-colored hair. She's naturally suspicious of travellers and is prone to gossip about the people who stay at her inn. The inn itself is a simple building which seems to be scarcely a step up from sleeping in they hay of a stable. The common area has only a large fireplace and a desk at which Gwendis is usually seated. Each of the available four rooms has only pile of furs to sleep upon. Sergeant Jamison Yoder A military veteran, Sergeant Jamison Yoder was recently "promoted" to the position of constable in Dellhamshire. He is tasked with ensuring that Dellhamshire remains secure due to the importance of the food the village produces for the rest of the region. He tends to be dismissive of the importance of his position, and he views it as a punishment to be stuck in a small town without any promise of "doing anything great" with his career. He's evasive with his answers when asked why he would have been punished. He is a wiry man of no great stature, but his small and thin frame is obviously solid as well; he is muscled in such a way to remind you of perhaps an ever so slightly too thin jungle cat. He has a handful of new recruits who were sent here to aid him after reports of increased goblin sightings made their way to Duke Hamdell of Hamdellton. Sergeant Yoder has yet to see a goblin or much of anything interesting at all during his tenure here and is more than willing to express such to anyone who will listen. Also of note is the current absense of a blacksmith. While there is a forge, there is currently no smith in town. The previous smith recently died, and a professional replacement has not yet been found. In a pinch, a few of the local farmers can complete simple tasks such as making horseshoes or simple farm implements, but the quality of the work tends to be poor. [B]5. Adventures[/B] I'm at a bit of a loss here. Based on some of the personalities and details I came up with, I have a few vague ideas, but nothing solid at the moment. If anyone else has an idea, feel free to share and/or use what I have here as the basis for something else. [/QUOTE]

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