Place Naming Table

Place Naming Table 

By: Jesse C Cohoon

Many times when trying to come up with names for your place, you want to come up with a place name that has some significance. Choose a place name and roll 3d20, one for each column on the table to give your town/ village/ sanctuary a unique feel.

D20	Description	Race/ Monster	Specific Feature
1	Amazing/ Marvelous	Elves	Stone/ Tombs/ Caves
2	Wondrous/ Mysterious	Gnomes	Forest / Trees/ Druids
3	Frightening/ Thrilling	Humans	Architectural Features1
4	Automatic/ Mechanical	Dragons/ Dragonlike creatures2	Mountains/ Valley/ Caves
5	Marvelous	Dwarves	Beauty/ Ugliness
6	Ancient/ Ageless	Were-creatures/ Shapeshifters3	Clouds/ Weather
7	Paragon	Merfolk/ Aquatic Creatures	Swamp
8	Laviscous	Giants	Water Feature(s)/ Ice
9	Bountiful/ Rich	Undead4	Lights/ Darkness
10	Despairing	Planar Creatures5	Technology
11	Dazzling/ Enticing	Constructs	Crystal
12	Hypnotic	Snakemen/ Yaun-Ti/	Glass/ Mirrors
13	Ghastly/ Haunting	Beholders	Musical Instrument/ Bards
14	Destitute. Poor	Equinoids6	Lava/ Fire
15	Musical/ Melidious	Plant Monsters	Smoke/ Steam
16	Dangerous/ Deadly	Ogres/ Orcs/ Kobalds	Weapons & Armor / Fighters
17	Wailing/ Sorrowful	Dryads/ Nymphs	Friendship
18	Skillful/ Masters	Insects/ Spiders	Robes/ Monks
19	Soulless / Soul- Sapping	Mind Flayers	Clerics/ Sorcerers/ Wizards
20	Harmonious	Mimics	Cure/ Plague

1. Architectural features include: Skyscrapers/ Pyramids/ Obelisks/ Standing Stones, etc. 
2. Dragonlike creatures include: Dragonborn, Lizardmen, Wyvern, & Dragonnes
3. Shapeshifters around the world
4. Undead can be broken up into living corpses: Draugr, Vampire, Ghoul, Jiangshi, Mummy, Revenant, Skeleton, Lich, Wight, Zombie, Grim reaper; Incorporeal spirits: Shadow, Banshee, Ghost or Phantom, Poltergeist, Spectre, Shadow person, Wraith
5. Extra Planar Creatures include Gensai, Angels, Demons, Elementals
6. Equinoids include horses, centaurs, pegasai, unicorns

For instance if you rolled 2,12,13 you could come up with Sesna: the trilling city of the musical Snakemen. Note, not all combinations will come up with something useful, but after a few rolls, you can come up with something of use.

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