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Months

I wanted a custom calendar for my campaign world, to keep it feeling authentic and like it existed before the characters started wandering around in it. However, I didn’t want the players to have to look up all my random month names every time I used them. What’s the solution? Well, at first I thought I’d just make up names that basically start the same as the existing months (luckily the month names in english are all pretty unique)… but I’m honestly terrible at coming up with names on my own. ...

Author Nate Finch
#worldbuilding #naming

World Names

I had an interesting thought about naming things today. I had a name I liked for my planet (Athos), but a crappy name for the continent where my campaign takes place (Loroth). And it occurred to me that I don’t actually need a name for the planet. Our own planet doesn’t really have a name. The Earth just means “the dirt”… i.e., this thing right here that we’re all standing on. ...

Author Nate Finch
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