What follows will be a number of charts for creating city names that are reminiscent of city names of various cultures in the real world. In each case, the city names are broken up into syllables (or sometimes 2 syllables) and you roll to randomly piece them together. If you don’t like the results of random charts, look the options over and piece together some city names that sound right to you. The initial charts are for cities that are based on Chinese and English/United Kingdom city names. In the near future we’ll be adding charts for German, Nordic, Arab, Indian and other cultures.
[...] Random (or not) City Name Charts This entry was posted on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 6:42 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. [...]
Joe – these tables are great. Very fast and good results. Prime candidates for automating via NBOS’ Inspiration Pad Pro (which I think I’ll tinker with over the coming weekend).
Looking forward to the remaining charts.
Cheers,
-Erin
[...] project, Hexographer, as well as real life issues) there were a few November posts centered on random charts to create location names that sound similar to locations in various cultures. (The link goes to a main page that links to pages with charts for Chinese, English/UK, and Native [...]
[...] last year I started putting together a number of random charts to create names that are reminiscent of the names of cultures in the real word. The goal is to make it easy to create names that seem to be from a particular [...]