What is the name of the world for these settings?
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Desdichado
Hero
What's the name of the planet in our setting? Dirt, or Land or something like that, right? 
Actually, campaign setting names are for metagame convenience. I would imagine that characters within the setting just call it "the world."
Actually, campaign setting names are for metagame convenience. I would imagine that characters within the setting just call it "the world."
Oryan77
Adventurer
Planet Dirt. I like that. Especially if it was 100% covered in water.What's the name of the planet in our setting? Dirt, or Land or something like that, right?
Yeah, I've stopped calling our planet "Earth" a long time ago. Naming the world? That's crazy talk. I'm still hoping to be the first person to welcome an alien race, just so I could say, "Welcome to the 4th rock from the sun. Oh...you want the 3rd rock? I think you made a wrong turn. That's the next one over." It's always fun to give a tourist wrong directions.
Desdichado
Hero
Eh, I stole the joke from a Stainless Steel Rat book.
Heh. Yeah, well, it seemed you got your answer, so I figured rather than just letting the thread slip away, I'd piggy-back onto the idea. Our world doesn't really have a name. Earth? That's kinda like naming your third son "Person" or something like that. I've occasionally thought about the idea that fictional worlds always have names, but unless there's a strong implication that the people on those worlds are going to travel to or meet travelers from other worlds with some frequency, why not just call it "the world" the same as we do? There's no compelling reason to name things if they're singular. The world. The moon. The sun.Oryan said:
Essentially none of those have real names except in science fiction stories where the authors have to distinguish them from other worlds, other moons and other suns.
Mark
CreativeMountainGames.com
For campaign settings, it might be worthwhile to determine if those who are in a position to make a name stick are aware that the world is a planet. Naming planets after gods or after monarchs (which often get plenty of countries, islands, cities, etc. named after them) is a good way to tie a setting together.
Curious About Astronomy: Who named the planets and who decides what to name them?
If you're a DM who utilizes the idea of various languages existing, then creating a number of conventions across your world can be fun and a good way to distinguish the various cultures and languages while stick communicating at the table in whatever actual language all of the players use to game.
Blackmoor and Greyhawk, if memory serves, bordered opposite ends of the Great Kingdom on the Castle & Crusade Society map. Guys from the former would fly down to the latter on 'tarns' (a la Gor).
I'm not sure, but I think they just called the world 'the world' or 'the earth'. It seems to have born the sort of vague resemblance to the Middle Ages that the milieu of Brigadier Young's and Colonel Lawford's campaigns bore to the eighteenth century.
My guess would be that the Martians whom Erac's Cousin visited called Greyhawk's globe Jasoom.
I'm not sure, but I think they just called the world 'the world' or 'the earth'. It seems to have born the sort of vague resemblance to the Middle Ages that the milieu of Brigadier Young's and Colonel Lawford's campaigns bore to the eighteenth century.
My guess would be that the Martians whom Erac's Cousin visited called Greyhawk's globe Jasoom.
Achan hiArusa
Explorer
I thought about taking all these campaign bits and putting them together in a single world: Ghostwalk, Tianguo (from Dragonfist), Jakandor, Asheba (from one of Gygax's works), the Io's blood Isles, and Narajan. Maybe a few more might be in order.
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