cryingmanlytears:

So I’ve been doing lots of D&D world-building lately and I’ve kind of been putting together lists of words to help inspire new fantasy place names. I figured I’d share. These are helpful for naming towns, regions, landforms, roads, shops, and they’re also probably useful for coming up with surnames. This is LONG. There’s plenty more under the cut including a huge list of “fantasy sounding” word-parts. Enjoy!

Towns & Kingdoms

• town, borough, city, hamlet, parish, township, village, villa, domain
• kingdom, empire, nation, country, county, city-state, state,
  province, dominion

Town Name End Words (English flavored)

-ton, -ston, -caster, -dale, -den, -field, -gate, -glen,
-ham, -holm, -hurst, -bar, -boro, -by, -cross, -kirk, -meade,
-moore, -ville, -wich, -bee, -burg, -cester, -don, -lea, -mer,
-rose, -wall, -worth, -berg, -burgh, -chase, -ly, -lin, -mor, -mere,
-pool. -port, -stead, -stow, -strath, -side, -way, -berry, -bury,
-chester, -haven, -mar, -mont, -ton, -wick, -meet, -heim, -hold,
-hall, -point

Buildings & Places

• castle, fort, palace, fortress, garrison, lodge, estate,
  hold, stronghold, tower, watchtower, palace, spire, citadel,
  bastion, court, manor, house
• altar, chapel, abbey, shrine, temple, monastery, cathedral,
  sanctum, crypt, catacomb, tomb
• orchard, arbor, vineyard, farm, farmstead, shire, garden, ranch
• plaza, district, quarter, market, courtyard, inn, stables,
  tavern, blacksmith, forge, mine, mill, quarry, gallows,
  apothecary, college, bakery, clothier, library, guild house, bath house, pleasure house, brothel, jail, prison, dungeon, cellar, basement, attic, sewer, cistern
• lookout, post, tradepost, camp, outpost, hovel, hideaway,
  lair, nook, watch, roost, respite, retreat, hostel, holdout,
  redoubt, perch, refuge, haven, alcove, haunt, knell, enclave,
  station, caravan, exchange, conclave
• port, bridge, ferry, harbor, landing, jetty, wharf, berth,
  footbridge, dam, beacon, lighthouse, marina, dockyard, shipyard
• road, street, way, row, lane, trail, corner, crossing, gate,
  junction, waygate, end, wall, crossroads,  barrier, bulwark,
  blockade, pavilion, avenue, promenade, alley, fork, route

Time & Direction

• North,
  South, East, West, up, down, side, rise, fall, over, under
• Winter,
  Spring, Summer, Autumn, solstice, equanox, vernal, ever, never
• dusk,
  dawn, dawnrise, morning, night, nightfall, evening, sundown,
  sunbreak, sunset
• lunar,
  solar, sun, moon, star, eclipse

Geographical Terms

• Cave,
  cavern, cenote, precipice, crevasse, crater, maar, chasm, ravine,
  trench, rift, pit
• Cliff,
  bluff, crag, scarp, outcrop, stack, tor, falls, run, eyrie, aerie
• Hill,
  mountain, volcano, knoll, hillock, downs, barrow, plateau, mesa,
  butte, pike, peak, mount, summit, horn, knob, pass, ridge, terrace,
  gap, point, rise, rim, range, view, vista, canyon, hogback, ledge,
  stair, descent
• Valley,
  gulch, gully, vale, dale, dell, glen, hollow, grotto, gorge,
  bottoms, basin, knoll, combe
• Meadow,
  grassland, field, pasture, steppe, veld, sward, lea, mead, fell,
  moor, moorland, heath, croft, paddock, boondock, prairie, acre,
  strath, heights, mount, belt
• Woodlands,
  woods, forest, bush, bower, arbor, grove, weald, timberland,
  thicket, bosk, copse, coppice, underbrush, hinterland, park, jungle,
  rainforest, wilds, frontier, outskirts
• Desert,
  dunes, playa, arroyo, chaparral, karst, salt flats, salt pan, oasis,
  spring, seep, tar pit, hot springs, fissure, steam vent, geyser,
  waste, wasteland, badland, brushland, dustbowl, scrubland
• Ocean,
  sea, lake, pond, spring, tarn, mere, sluice, pool,
  coast, gulf, bay
• Lagoon,
  cay, key, reef, atoll, shoal, tideland, tide flat, swale, cove,
  sandspit, strand, beach
• Snowdrift,
  snowbank, permafrost, floe, hoar, rime, tundra, fjord, glacier,
  iceberg
• River,
  stream, creek, brook, tributary, watersmeet, headwater, ford, levee,
  delta, estuary, firth, strait, narrows, channel, eddy, inlet,
  rapids, mouth, falls
• Wetland,
  marsh, bog, fen, moor, bayou, glade, swamp, banks, span, wash,
  march, shallows, mire, morass, quag, quagmire, everglade, slough,
  lowland, sump, reach
• Island,
  isle, peninsula, isthmus, bight, headland, promontory, cape, pointe,
  cape

More under the cut including: Color words, Animal/Monster related words, Rocks/Metals/Gems list, Foliage, People groups/types, Weather/Environment/ Elemental words, Man-made Items, Body Parts, Mechanical sounding words, a huge list of both pleasant and unpleasant Atmospheric Descriptors, and a huge list of Fantasy Word-parts.

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rpgtoons:

xanth-the-wizard:

I decided to make a list of DM stuff that I personally use or think are important to know when it comes to being a DM. So here’s my list:

Medieval Fantasy City Generator: This generator is now my LIFE. It generates incredibly complex cities with good customization. (Thanks to plantkat for sharing this site in their post here)

Naming Your Towns/Cities: Now that you’ve made your city, time to name it and give it some character! This post contains lots of great information.

Index Cards Rule: Fuckyeahdnd shared a SUPER convenient way of keeping track of turns and HP in combat. I use this system now for every single session I run.

Tricks & Traps: I am AWFUL at coming up with good Dungeon traps and challenges, this PDF includes some incredible ideas. The original poster, Courtney C. Campbell also runs a blog where she shares tons of great stuff. (Thanks to we-are-rogue for sharing the PDF in their post here)

Playing Different Types of Characters: Writeinspiration has a masterpost on how to write/play lots of different types of characters.

Unique NPC Jobs: Lauraharrisbooks wrote a list of different Fantasy Jobs which can help populate your world with some unique characters! Another similar post by Thewritershandbook also covers Common Occupations in the Middle Ages. 

Developing Characters by Threes: Monticusrex’s method of creating characters help you really flesh out who they are. Useful for Players and DM’s.

Troublesome Players? Speak Up: Dicebound brings up an incredibly great point. If someone is being a jerk, speak up and call them out. This is especially important and relevant now to crush awful behavior before it even has a chance to show it’s ugly face.

List of D&D Resources: And finally, pretty much anything you might need for D&D. 

(Character stuff, spells, online communities/ways to play, etc..)

A lot of people contributed to this post but thank you Mushroomancy for posting the original list.

Donjon: And finally, this site is a great resource for looking up Spells and Monsters along with tons of other generators. Not every single Spell or Monster is on here, but most are listed.

(I tried to give credit to the original posters or the actual URL for websites, unless those sites or URLs were no longer active)

Incredible list!

impossiblyhardprincess:

outside-the-government:

readysetgaikokujin:

vaudevillellain:

Have you ever been listening to Rainymood and thought, “Yeah, this is good … but it would be nice if I could customize the sound more, or if there was a little more choice.

Let me introduce you to MyNoise.

MyNoise is a customizable sounscape looper with so many options, even within each soundscape.  So say, for instance, you really love rain sounds when you write or study or relax.  Anything.  I know I’m a big fan of rain sounds.  They have a page for that.

But say you like really high, pattery rain, and LOTS of low thunder.  Here’s where MyNoise really stands out: you can customize that.  See those sliders with all the cute colors?  That is your equalizer. You can adjust the levels based on what you want to hear more and less of.  Here’s how it looks when you want high, pattery rain and low, rumbly thunder:

But say rain isn’t really your jam.  Say you want something a little more ambient, a little more background noise-y.  Something with people.  Well, they have customizable coffee house chatter that even has the levels listed for things like “kitchen,” “babble,” and “table”:

Or say you miss the ocean.

Or say you miss your cat.

Or say you miss your spaceship.

Or say you miss the dungeon where you and your team of scalawag adventurers used to explore and face off against, say, dragons.  In the dungeon.

This site is seriously so helpful, and those are just a fraction of every kind of sounscape the site has to offer.  The best part is that if you want to layer it with music (for instance, I’ll layer a playlist + rain + coffee shop if the scene I’m writing takes place in a coffee shop), you can adjust the master volume, meaning all of your layers stay at their respective volumes, just louder or quieter.

Enjoy!

OH MY GOD

Y’ALL I JUST STARTED USING THIS TODAY BUT THIS HAS BROKEN THROUGH MY WRITER’S BLOCK LIKE NOTHING ELSE.

TRY IT.  USE IT.  LOVE IT.

Gonna try this later. Seems like an amazing great idea