WotC_PeterS: Charecter Names NEW: Town/Location Names

[Doug McCrae]

Greyhawk: So many bad names, so very many.

Verbobonc, Stoink, Shiboleth, Hochoch, Glot.

 

[Kaodi]

I do not think all anagrams are necessarily bad, but using the same name as a source over and over and over and...

But perhaps I should not be talking. After all, my cleric's name is an anagram of his gods ( Sarvith of Vathris ) .

 

[Lizard]

It's now going to be a struggle not to throw in a town called Hamletburg, or something similarly asinine.

I've heard many english names, if translated, are things like "Hill hill hill", because each succeeding wave on conquest stuck their own word for "Hill" after the previous word for "Hill".

Sort of like "Shrimp Scampi". Or the "Rio Grande River".

But, hey, if we all grew up thinking there was nothing odd about the city of Metropolis...

 

[Xethreau]

Sherlock von Hercules
Thorp, God of Peasants

I lol'ed

 

[DarkKestral]

"The City of Townsville..."

Kudos to those who can place it.

PPG?

 

[Scholar & Brutalman]

I've heard many english names, if translated, are things like "Hill hill hill", because each succeeding wave on conquest stuck their own word for "Hill" after the previous word for "Hill".

Torpenhow Hill is the example.

 

[Scholar & Brutalman]

"The City of Townsville..."

Kudos to those who can place it.

Well, there's a Townsville in Queensland. Named after Robert Towns, according to wikipedia.

 

[Nathan P. Mahney]

"The City of Townsville..."

Kudos to those who can place it.

There is a real City of Townsville in Australia. But I know it's from a movie... Can't think of which one.

 

[MerricB]

Townsville is one reason why the other inhabitants of Australia are wary of Queenslanders.

Cheers!

 

[hong]

Why did they decide to hold Gencon Oz in Brisbane?