Steve Jackson Games - Site Navigation
Home General Info Follow Us Search Illuminator Store Forums What's New Other Games Ogre GURPS Munchkin Our Games: Home

Go Back   Steve Jackson Games Forums > Roleplaying > Roleplaying in General

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 06-06-2022, 05:30 PM   #31
Inky
 
Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: UK
Default Re: [Space/Sci-Fi] I Need Some Names

Turns out that the Watery River (if we're meaning the same one) is a mistake; it's actually spelt Wateree which is the name of a Native American tribe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wateree_River Mistakes are, of course, another way that place names happen! :-D

"Lake Windermere" seems to be pretty well established now ("mere" being another word for a lake), although that one's a bit hard to avoid because it's a way to distinguish it from Windermere, the town.

There's a village in Leicestershire that appears to have had this happen twice - Breedon on the Hill. Yes, "bree" and "don" both mean "hill".
__________________
Looking for online text-based game at a UK-feasible time, anything considered, Roll20 preferred. http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=168443
Inky is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-06-2022, 10:48 PM   #32
RyanW
 
RyanW's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Southeast NC
Default Re: [Space/Sci-Fi] I Need Some Names

Quote:
Originally Posted by Inky View Post
There's a village in Leicestershire that appears to have had this happen twice - Breedon on the Hill. Yes, "bree" and "don" both mean "hill".
There's also the famous Torpenhow, which may mean hill-hill-hill (but is more likely something like "top of a hill hill"). And as another example of how place names don't necessarily make any sense, Torpenhow is pronounced Trupenuh and the nearby village of Blennerhasset is pronounced Blenraysit, because apparently the locals just can't be bothered to say all those letters.
__________________
RyanW
- Actually one normal sized guy in three tiny trenchcoats.
RyanW is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 06-06-2022, 11:41 PM   #33
Agemegos
 
Agemegos's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Oz
Default Re: [Space/Sci-Fi] I Need Some Names

Quote:
Originally Posted by RyanW View Post
There's also the famous Torpenhow, which may mean hill-hill-hill (but is more likely something like "top of a hill hill").
In recent years it has become common (though it is not yet recognised officially) to call the hill outside Torpenhow "Torpenhow Hill".
__________________

Decay is inherent in all composite things.
Nod head. Get treat.
Agemegos is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-06-2022, 11:55 PM   #34
Fred Brackin
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Default Re: [Space/Sci-Fi] I Need Some Names

Things can also end up with odd names through the effects of time and technicalities. This is how I have come to live in the vicinity of the Indian River Lagoon.

If that's a little confusing this body of water that "looked" like a river to the early English speaking settlers turns out to be a long skiny tidal lagoon by modern technical definition. No, the change didn't go over well with the old folks.
__________________
Fred Brackin
Fred Brackin is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-07-2022, 12:35 AM   #35
Daigoro
 
Daigoro's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Meifumado
Default Re: [Space/Sci-Fi] I Need Some Names

Quote:
Originally Posted by Žorkell View Post
Foreigners talk about Gullfoss Waterfall or Dettifoss Waterfall even though the bold ending means the same thing as the following word. Same with other geological features.
I think that's a deliberate choice by translators for place names. All around Japan you'll see the full name of the place in Japanese given before an English translation of the generic noun - such as signs for Yoyogi-koen Park (koen means park) or Meiji-jingu Shrine (jinja being shrine). It might seem redundant but it probably saves confusion with locals or taxi drivers.
__________________
Collaborative Settings:
Cyberpunk: Duopoly Nation
Space Opera: Behind the King's Eclipse
And heaps of forum collabs, 30+ and counting!
Daigoro is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-09-2022, 10:37 PM   #36
tshiggins
 
tshiggins's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Denver, Colorado
Default Re: [Space/Sci-Fi] I Need Some Names

I always liked to use fertility goddesses from different cultures as the names of habitable planets.
Hera
Gaia
Sif
Shakti
etc.

I also like to use classical references to regions for planets in which the initial colony landed in a place that evoked that region.

Columbia -- a planet with an initial colony in a temperate rainforest
Arcadia -- a planet with the initial colony in a lush, thick forest of giant trees
Terra Colorojo -- the initial colony in a place with red-colored soil and sandstone permeated with iron oxides
Albion -- a colony on a temperate, rainy island
Galatia -- A colony in a fertile area perfect for agriculture, adjacent to a nearly-landlocked sea.

Stuff like that.
__________________
--
MXLP:9 [JD=1, DK=1, DM-M=1, M(FAW)=1, SS=2, Nym=1 (nose coffee), sj=1 (nose cocoa), Maz=1]
"Some days, I just don't know what to think." -Daryl Dixon.
tshiggins is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-03-2022, 06:09 AM   #37
Baldo
 
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Italy
Default Re: [Space/Sci-Fi] I Need Some Names

Quote:
Originally Posted by Phantasm View Post
I'm working on my space opera setting, gearing up for a game set there. (My Marvel Shadowguard game is on hiatus again due to burnout.)

I'm looking for names I can use for cities, planets, space stations, and systems for a sector of space situated roughly 40 to 60 lightyears from Earth.

So, ideas? Functional, fanciful, pop/geek culture references and homages, "New $place_on_Earth", and mythological names are all welcome! You don't need to go into detail; I just suck at names (this is known).

And for the record, planet Bob is already accounted for! :)
https://donjon.bin.sh/scifi/name/

Donjon has *LOTS* of names for you, try the other pages too.

In my case, I'm a strong user of the https://donjon.bin.sh/scifi/system/ Generator, see my saved seeds (so far):

1615488385 879454861 1616520441 3442593124 933423994 1469450807 840012237 1618852015 62124397 1619342248 616232957 797391523 1620918965 1623402130 1526578590 782067277 1861781784 1977412488 1009277272 1693112280 1626864275 681546997 30748240 1629105128 1448083013 401889140 4629621370 1629821089 2787036969 595565943 1630577536 2630577536 1631607064 1633338867 1009846309 1635157994 516617169 60590416 1788614553 1639735020 1152692386 1641290461 1643130433 1643459004 741054600 90806500 9181694728 9999990860 1749361966 502294017 391017424 86867473 1648314619 2030007647 1649839797 1649937504 786177003 711911763 (ALKLHA 1690451722) 901861937 76667204 2013378759 1651159723 8152742585 138215448 1614149426 4008895312 19166523 1654079965 1013670919 189276904 134277088 5555556383 517082422 1655629394 1655717675 332160963 1656321587 2063904710 9957010150 615054294 2092856470 397280509 968988333 1658071701 8523986325 1658401955 1992494982

Last edited by Baldo; 07-29-2022 at 01:23 AM. Reason: More seeds I saved
Baldo is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Fnords are Off
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -6. The time now is 02:32 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.9
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.