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<blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 5011417" data-attributes="member: 54846">Another source I do is I shamelessly steal from RPG sources. Open up a campaign world book, and steal. Look at their town names, their city names, maybe even Gods or NPCs. If your players aren't very well versed in that world, then they won't notice. I for instance was running a &quot;New World&quot; game, so I looked through ever Jungle adventure or &quot;natives in the wilderness&quot; adventure I could find and stole names of tribes, npcs, places, made a list, then just started tossing them down. The Mwangi Expanse became &quot;Mt. Mwangi&quot; and the Shaoti became an NPC name.Also, I take any word and plug it into an online translator, then keep plugging away until I find an interpretation I like. A few others:5) Native word. Chattanooga and Chicago are two examples of the settlers taking a word from the natives of the region and saying &quot;That's good enough&quot;. Usually it's a misinterpretation (Chicago for instance is &quot;stinking bog&quot; or thereabouts). 6) Common endings depending on language. Places that end in -Ville (Nashville, Knoxville) are French. -burgh (Gettysburg, Pittsburgh) are German. -town (Jamestown) are English. So just come up with a suffix and boom.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rechan, post: 5011417, member: 54846"] Another source I do is I shamelessly steal from RPG sources. Open up a campaign world book, and steal. Look at their town names, their city names, maybe even Gods or NPCs. If your players aren't very well versed in that world, then they won't notice. I for instance was running a "New World" game, so I looked through ever Jungle adventure or "natives in the wilderness" adventure I could find and stole names of tribes, npcs, places, made a list, then just started tossing them down. The Mwangi Expanse became "Mt. Mwangi" and the Shaoti became an NPC name. Also, I take any word and plug it into an online translator, then keep plugging away until I find an interpretation I like. A few others: 5) Native word. Chattanooga and Chicago are two examples of the settlers taking a word from the natives of the region and saying "That's good enough". Usually it's a misinterpretation (Chicago for instance is "stinking bog" or thereabouts). 6) Common endings depending on language. Places that end in -Ville (Nashville, Knoxville) are French. -burgh (Gettysburg, Pittsburgh) are German. -town (Jamestown) are English. So just come up with a suffix and boom. [/QUOTE]

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