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Creative province names... SemiRandom needs you!
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I know there are some very creative folks who haunt these forums, and I could really use their help. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif
The next version of SemiRandom (aka RanDom) will support the addition of a new variation of random province naming. I won't go into all of the details here, but basically, I would like to fill a variety of new name lists for province creators to utilize. Thought it might be interesting to see what the community can come up with. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif Need HOT/COLD/TEMPERATE versions of: PLAIN FARM FOREST MOUNTAIN WASTE SWAMP COAST OCEAN LAKE CAVE Could also include: VOLCANO PENINSULA VALLEY ISLAND LOST Here is an sampling of a list that I have for cold forest provinces: Sparklewood Glitterwood Frozenwood Frozentimber Glitterpine Frozenoak Spikendale Forest of Ice Creakwood Moaningwood Windywood Icywood Crystaleaf Brittlebranch Forest of Crystal Bendingwood Thawingwood Wolvenwood Winterwood Wolvenpine Winterpine Everwinter Neverthaw Whiteroot Frozenroot Winteroot Snowypine Coldwood Coldoak Coldbough Frozenbough Crystalbough Icebough Coldroot Chimewood Frostywood Tinklewood Grandfrost Wood Frozenshadow Whiteshadow Coldshade Tonguestuck Forest of Stuck Tongues Bitterbough Whitewood Whitepine Whiteoak As a general rule, the more thematic and generic the name is, the better. The name lengths should be kept within reason so as not to clutter up the map when province names are displayed. The "Forest of Stuck Tongues" is really pushing it, but I couldn't resist. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif Also of note: Avoid using "The" at the beginning of a name, because SemiRandom will sometimes pre pend "The" on it's own. 7/7/07 - Attached Template.txt to this post. <font color="Green">When submitting names, it would be very helpful if the lists were sorted with headings as to which category they should be in.</font> Please use the attached Template.txt as a guide for submitting name lists. Feel free to chop off any parts/categories that you don't use to conserve screen space. Thanks! |
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One of my notes files which has replacement for using the terrain in the name all the time (forest, mountain, plains, swamp, etc)
PLAINS2.txt ----------- scrubs flats land ravine cleft FARMS2.txt ---------- Grove Groves Ranche Farmlands Farms Orchards Farmstead Villas Holdings Pastures Harvest Harrow Grazings Croplands Reap Croppings Yield Gathers Parcel Rurals Acres Homesteads Landscapes Tillage Manors County Mills LAKES2.txt --------- Coves Stillwaters Mere Basin Inlands Pool millpond Pond Lagoon Lakelet Reservoir Calmwaters Freshwaters Splash Wells Ripples Drink Drinks Floods Wash Standpools Keepwaters MOUNTAINS2.txt ------------- Chain Mountains Range Rockies Sierra Alps Buttes Crags Domes Heights Mesa Mounts Ridge Belt Ascents Elevations Ascends Escalade Rise Cloudbase Horizon Coldmount Highline Peaks Alpines Alpen Panhandle Cleft CAVES2.txt ---------- Cave Caves Cavern Caverns Cellars Cleft Grotto Hole Cavity Den Hollow Chambers Chasm Cistern Sink Sinkhole Lair Niche Pit Shaft Tunnels Trench SWAMPS2.txt ---------- Lagoon Lowwaters Muds Quag Slough Swampland Sinks Quicksand Stench Mosquito-Den Mulch Decomp Rot Flows Fouls Stillwaters Suckwater Wets Bottoms Suckbottoms Goo Damps Humids Sodden Soggy Smudgen COASTS2.txt ------------ Slough Sound Coastline Cliff Cliffs Shore Shores Seaboard Seacoast Seaside Shoreline Embankment Reef Waterfront Voyage Docks Sink Edge Horizon Port Crossing Sails Cruise Anchorage Harbor Harborage Homeport Moorage Jetty Levee Pier Slip Wharf Tide Tides Seaway Brine Briny Deep Inlets Spray TOWNS2.txt ------- City Boomtown Borough Burg Center Hamlet Municipal Place Suburb Town Village xxxxton xxxxburg xxxxshire |
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Words of the above list but not sorted in yet:
rupture crevasse furrow trove ridge ravages midway midding between isthmus bridge causeway simian trade winds hermitage morgue flow voyage motheaten shabby galleries tattered ruggeds mossy straits tankard kettle gremlin quag quagmire slough shaft arbor spine obelisk cauldron bend hutch basin ward watch guard depot dump trench caution horn embattled beseiged strategic warpath tactical retain sidestep lock lough lakelet mere trader traitor homeland vigil |
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Various Province Names from my lists:
Vaca Villa Fair Fields Suisun Fertile Dreams Arbor Lush Lands Plae Grounds Charmed Farms Shielded Fields Gemshire Blind Luck Why Woods Waythru Woods Green Acres CutEmOff Pass Toll Bridge Tolls Lands Slyp Thru Sludge Fens Grain Plains Open Range Croplands Honey Fields Sweet Pastures Villas Furrows Farrowed Fields Plowed Under Pasturia Stench Bushels Silos Tiers West, East, North, South, Upper, Lower, Over, Under, Middle Honeynut Herbest Linkage Grain Plains Ripened Sea of Storms Central Sea Flaxen Fields Grand Oaks Cherry Glen Strawberry Fields River Dale Knot Here Hard Corners Werewood DenDig Villas Bogged Downs Rat Swamp Watta Waste Croplands Smallest Forest Twilligs Grove Farther Fields Gilderland Lack Land Forage Forest Foray Forest Forgotten Forest Forsaken Forest Fortress Forest Fourway Forest Four Rest Forewarned Forest Timber Acres Fhee, Fhye, Fhoe, Fhum Warpath Ember Timbers Satyr Timber Whimper Woods Ysz Lair Hare Lair Dane Plains Great Plains Pivotal Bluegrass Boundary Hellcat Flats Border Hills Headstone Hills Mayhem Mountains Wasted Land Wasteland Dried Up Dead Dale Nested Woods Gelded Range Many Rooted Woods Barking Woods Dead Ends Splyt Ends Cedar Box Copper Claws Position Point Base Mount Apple Orchards Mountains Waist Mountains Waste Wishes Waste Fruitless Plains Fruitful Forest Fruited Forest Lumber Land Slippery Slopes Foundations Fountain Forest Quarry Mount Giant Steppes Baby Steppes Trinket Wave Wall Funnel Mount Crystal Claws Back Pocket Kornur Ghu D'nuff Bogzilla Bootsuck Bogs Otta Belake, Otta Beland Nuther Small Wall InRoad CrossRoads Deadwood Drift Wood Holly Wood Boggled Water Gate waterway Thru Way High Way Gate Way Express Way Broad Way Park Place Marvin Gardens Life'sa Beach Out Fields In Fields Mine Fields Battle Fields Gar Fields Waste Basket Waste Land Stone Wall Fire Wall Kom Plains cleft Daemons Port levees dike Check Point Kom Post Battle Grounds Wild Flowers Vine Yards Wedge Wood Hackers Grove Old MacDonalds Salt Marsh Wesshore, Eashore, Soushore, Norshore Lostinth Woods Rockina, Hard Place Bogey Bogs Bee Flats Frostbite Falls Trinquettes Ssxz Pessy Mists Deep Praved Serfs Up Unfare Wolve Ravine RedRum Outer Foxxen Rainins Pain, Fallsmain, Lyonthe Plains Maresee Dotes, Doesy Dotes, Little Lamsy Divey, Kiddeldy Divey 2, Wood Inchoo Howl Mulch Wood Choke Point Pagan Place Ally Alley Peon Merc Murks drudge minion Under Lyng fiend Imp Portent wedgie token Aiowa Dus Bole Yawn terrace Trees Awn Para Mount Aqua Marine Salted Wells fogs Yew Are Here |
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Some of those are really funny G but I do not think that anyone will get some of them unless they read them out loud.
Here are some of my suggestions. Wikd Wasteland Ballbarian Highlands Norfleet Bluff Enzyte Peak Punk Rocks Teenage Wasteland Korn Fields Golden Showers Crabgrass Corners Warez Wasteland Pirates Site Bog of Eternal Stench Total Wastes Doggie Mount Old Smokie |
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Devil's Chimney
Devil's Pointe Devil's Rock Garden Devil's Deep Devil's Frying Pan Devil's Corkscrew Devil's Keyhole Devil's Bunghole Devil Downs Devil Tree Hollow Devil's Eye Patch Devil's Piss Cataract Devil's Smokehouse Devil Fens Screaming Devil's Grotto Devil's Stomping Ground Devil's Jersey Devil's Haunt Red Devil Canyon Devil's Honeypot Devil's Peppermill Devil's Trace Devil's Rest |
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HOT MOUNTAIN
Blasted Rise Dust Peaks Scorched Range Sun Scratcher Smoking Peak Fire Rock Range Kiln Mountains Hissing Rise Scorched Mesa Bleached Heights Scorchfinger Range Lavaheart Peak |
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Some great names there guys, and some of them are really funny. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif
I especially like the idea of sneaking in a forummer name here and there like "Norfleet Bluff". (That one has to be used!) As much as I appreciate the effort, random batches of names are not very useful to me right now. My fault, as I was not very clear. Version 2.02 of RanDom (the one available for download right now), generates province names by combining words from pairs of lists designated by the province designer. So if the designer is making a wasteland province with some undead defenders, he/she can use the line: @RANDOM landname WASTE Sample name data files for my examples follow... WASTE_DATA1.txt Barren Tired Blistered Murdering WASTE_DATA2.txt Land Waste Desert Sand When the province is placed by the SemiRandom program, it selects randomly between two simple methods: Method #1 grabs a random word from WASTE_DATA1.txt and a random word from WASTE_DATA2.txt and then combines them. Barren Desert Blistered Sand Murdering Waste etc... Method #2 builds a random word and combines it with a random selection from WASTE_DATA2 and then combines them. Kaogirs Waste Eamingo Desert Ograc Sand etc... Sometimes it will pre pend "The" at the beginning of the name. The Barren Desert The Ograc Sand etc... The new method is more of a hack than an entirely new method. It will pick a random word from DATA1 (like method #1), but the DATA2 file is left empty. So when the program grabs a big handful of nothing from DATA2, you can end up with a name consisting of a single word, or a multi word name. Sample data files: UNOWASTE_DATA1.txt Rottenheim Pusmound Skatterskull Sygol Land of Tired Maggots Filthenheim Wikd Wasteland Red Devil Canyon UNOWASTE_DATA2.txt -empty- <font color="green">When submitting names, it would be very helpful if the lists were sorted with headings as to which category they should be in.</font> Following is a template. Just put the name(s) under the appropriate heading. It might make life easier to copy and paste it into your favorite text editor and feel free to chop off any parts/categories that you don't use to conserve screen space. <font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre> ****************HOT***************** PLAIN----------------------------- FARM------------------------------ FOREST---------------------------- MOUNTAIN-------------------------- WASTE----------------------------- SWAMP----------------------------- COAST----------------------------- OCEAN----------------------------- LAKE------------------------------ CAVE------------------------------ VOLCANO--------------------------- PENINSULA------------------------- VALLEY---------------------------- ISLAND---------------------------- LOST------------------------------ ****************COLD**************** PLAIN----------------------------- FARM------------------------------ FOREST---------------------------- MOUNTAIN-------------------------- WASTE----------------------------- SWAMP----------------------------- COAST----------------------------- OCEAN----------------------------- LAKE------------------------------ CAVE------------------------------ VOLCANO--------------------------- PENINSULA------------------------- VALLEY---------------------------- ISLAND---------------------------- LOST------------------------------ ***************NEUTRAL************** PLAIN----------------------------- FARM------------------------------ FOREST---------------------------- MOUNTAIN-------------------------- WASTE----------------------------- SWAMP----------------------------- COAST----------------------------- OCEAN----------------------------- LAKE------------------------------ CAVE------------------------------ VOLCANO--------------------------- PENINSULA------------------------- VALLEY---------------------------- ISLAND---------------------------- LOST------------------------------ </pre><hr /> [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Teddy.gif[/img] http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/Penguin.gif Thank you again for your help! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/Penguin.gif [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Teddy.gif[/img] |
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Thanks Sombre!
That is exactly what I am looking for. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif btw, the template is just a suggestion, not a requirement. A post like Sombre's is perfectly fine. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif |
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Is there any way to do it so that it would sometimes combine from 3 separate lists?
Like this: Red (blue, yellow) Devil's (knight's, oyster's) Canyon (bluff, hollow, terrace) etc. ? |
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