Generic homebrew fantasy setting

>playing D&D for the first time soon
>get pre-made dwarf fighter, just needs a name
>find some online generator that gives a dozen first names and last names from which to choose
>first name "bum"
>last name "rag"

DM laughed for minutes.

>Generic homebrew fantasy setting
>All of the names are pretty standard "thing+thing" such as "Black Mire", "RotWood", "Drake Rock" or "Dwarf Home" and are all named after basically what they are or who lives there.

Simplicity is crucial to good design. People try way too hard and don't realize that it's completely unnecessary and feels forced.
The names that have stuck for 'real' places have always been just as simple and lazy.

If you want to come up with a con Lang, you could just follow that formula, but in foriegn.

The first kingdom of the Dwarves, the richest, their most sacred, their most storied.

Dorf Ohm (Dwarf Home)

Or if you want to be fancy (Home of the Dwarves)

>bitching about names
Never fear, I'm the GM!

DUFF THUMPO

WHIFF TAPPLENACK

SHUNT DUNTZ

RIGGZ BARTON

COOL JAMES

THE LAMARCKEY BROS

VAZZ SCRUBBLE

LUMPS KELLY

>homebrew fantasy setting uses a single generic fantasy trope
>autistic player convinces themselves that fun is no loner possible

However I will be using the name Duff Thumpo in the future.

As someone who knows history and geography I can ensure you that "Silver"+place tends to be a lie.

What about "Silver" + "ina"?

That's how actual location names are though. They're just old enough we don't recognize the language anymore.

>Nibba's woms't'v'd complain'st about apos'traphes
Bone apo'teeth

...

Given that it was Platinum... still a lie.

Fucking this,
out of all the names that have stuck with me over the years is 'The Sea of Teeth'
It's mountain peaks sprouting out of the ocean.
Stupid simple name.

I use hasani.net.phtemp.com/names.html
for my names

A typical name for a somewhat reoccuring character is 'Blasa Seraphina'

Excessive use of apostrophes is usually a clear sign that the person is just making up names that he thinks looks "cool" with no thought given to what they actually mean or how they are to be pronounced.

It doesn't help that in the real world writing systems where they are used they can mean widely different things. In some, like French and English, they are just a reminder that some letters have been dropped but don't change the pronounciation at all. In some cases in English and other languages they are used to separate affixes from the rest of the word (for example 'eagle's feather,' though granted, in most cases in English this still stems from omitted letters 'hacker's code' would have been written 'hackeres code' in a world without apostrophes). In others, like romanizations of Arabic, they are used to represent a glottal stop. In some languages they are used to modify the letters they stand next to, in Breton, for example, c'h is [x] but ch is [ʃ].

>Dorf Ohm
If you're going to make a conlang, don't do this. Put effort into it. Don't just make it English with some scrambled letters.

No lie, I take names of hearthstone cards and tweak them a bit rather than put apostrophes in my name

You can't add apostrophes to Warcraft names anyway, otherwise you start lacking letters to pronounce it.

>not using apostrophes
Man, they're the best tool for making bullshit hard to say names for bugmen, squids, mushrooms, and really anything weird enough.

They're really absolutely fucking not though. In all of those instances you mentioned there's way better tools to use for an alien language, such as available sounds due to mouth shapes, to use than random apostrophes that no one can tell what they're supposed to represent.

oh, they represent the "AGHTCHKT" noise.
Or, really, any other guttural pronunciation you want.

Similar to how ferdinand hermishermishfermihermishermishire can technically be said any way you want as long as you mumble and harrumph and moustache hard enough.

>bugmen
>mushrooms
I would imagine these creatures wouldn't even bother given themselves names.

Maybe if you're BORING.
Man, I've had such a trouble trying to explain to people online the idea of a hivelike society that still retains some individualism.

It's either 100% hive or everyone is an individual to them.

>he doesn't have names like Reggin, toggaf or tnuc

No I mean not even in a hive like society.

so, what, do bugs just have a fetish for being really unclear in your mind or something?

>the "AGHTCHKT" noise.
That's just a random string of letters that no one still is quite sure what you actually mean with when you write it down like that.

>any other guttural pronunciation
>other
None of the letters you used are usually representative of a guttural sound, however.

A bug's life is so short and focused on eating/breeding/animalshit, I don't think they would really develop a keen sense of self.

>he doesn't use the back of his throat to make this noise
Freeeeeeeak

user, even goblins develop a sense of self.
GOBLINS.

Bugs have even less time to develop that than goblins.

>Make town
>Town name translates, literally, to "silver mine"
>Town uses the color in its banners, clothing
>There's an annual silver festival, because the mine is the center of the town's economy
>The mine produces tin

You'll notice I said bugmen, not bugs.
Though, even still, saying "bugs have less time to develop" is boring, because you are in a fantasy setting and they can be as eternal as a lobster if you want.

lol it's fantasy is a dumb excuse for EVERYTHING. What's the fucking point of using bugmen if they're basically going to live and think like mammals?

Because they're actually fairly hivelike, despite still retaining some individuality.

I don't know why people in person seem to get this immediately, but people online seem to want to argue with it forever.

Also, you can never have enough weird races for players to save or fight.

Yes you can. Nothing annoys me more than loads and loads of fucking sapient species. More than like four, and I start getting annoyed.

Well, you're free to get pissed off and have bad taste if you want.

>having loads of dumb, poorly thought out races that don't matter because there's one under every rock is good

Like I said, you are free to get angry and have bad taste.

>Of course that’s just my opinion.

My sword named is Madragora because when I take it out it screams.

If the name are not linked to something it's sad. . .
EVEN IN VIDYA like LoL they have links (most of the times) look at Cho'Gath, it's a derived from Shoggoth

Call everyone a nickname and a wasp last name.

Fight-or-Flight Jones
Deep Well Wellington
Big Boy Tripp