Poll #292 - Name our Sword & Sorcery World
Added 2023-01-17 23:30:51 +0000 UTCOh boy, it's poll time! (I love polls.)
Now that we're going to be creating adventures set in our new dark fantasy/sword and sorcery world (don't worry, Dungeons & Lairs will still be setting agnostic), I need a name for the world.
After all, Dark Sun has Athas, Mörkborg has The Dying World, and Conan has Hyboria.
And like those other settings, this is a dark, awful world filled with crude cronies serving diabolical, vile wizards, wretched, aberrant gods, and terrifying, unspeakable monstrosities. The average person struggles to find their way in the world. And those who don't know the song of steel sow the earth with their bones.
Below are some randomly generated names.
Pick the one thing you think sounds coolest.
Comments
Omeria is shelved right now while I enter my moody, punk-rock phase following the OGL kerfuffle.
DM Dave
2023-01-18 22:59:20 +0000 UTCDungeons & Lairs will continue as usual.
DM Dave
2023-01-18 22:58:53 +0000 UTCNo such thing in RPGs. I mean, there's monsters called... rust monsters. :D
DM Dave
2023-01-18 22:58:35 +0000 UTCI'll step out of voting on this one - "a dark awful world..." etc. sounds like something I'd have zero interest in playing/using. Nothing against those who do, so best of luck, but not my thing personally. What else will there be going forward?
Jamie Revell
2023-01-18 05:53:40 +0000 UTC"Hel-" anything is too on the nose, right?!
Succotash, The Comedy Soundcast Soundcast
2023-01-18 03:20:05 +0000 UTCI mean, if you go with Helkara, You can literally tagline every adventure with "Welcome to Hel' >:D" and its not canonically weird to say 'What the Hel are you doing!?'
Dan Gragert
2023-01-18 00:48:10 +0000 UTCWe could pull a Dragon Age, The Sword & Sorcery Setting, “Thesass”. Hm, no…maybe it needs an apostrophe somewhere.
Noxlux013
2023-01-18 00:25:41 +0000 UTCMy wife's name is Erin. Dave's description hit a little to close to home to pick that one. 😂😂
Frank Moore
2023-01-18 00:24:27 +0000 UTCI like Eringard because it sounds good, is short, and we will all pronounce it the same :)
Mark
2023-01-18 00:01:23 +0000 UTCSo this spells the end of Omeria eh?
2023-01-17 23:55:40 +0000 UTCWeird, right? :D
DM Dave
2023-01-17 23:52:56 +0000 UTCHaha yeah I was pretty happy with it
DM Dave
2023-01-17 23:52:21 +0000 UTCThat odd feeling when my choice is already the most popular one...
Frank Moore
2023-01-17 23:46:06 +0000 UTC"And those who don't know the song of steel sow the earth with their bones." Best. Tag. Line!
Chris Spradlin
2023-01-17 23:35:48 +0000 UTCThey're taking the hobbits to Eringard! *checks notes* Isengard ... I meant Isengard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X-AF7fOzW0
Zach Barnett
2023-01-17 23:35:23 +0000 UTC
