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Hey. We need a name for our campaign setting. The name of the campaign setting itself and the name of the world, if they are different.
Godstone is cool but it suffers from something...

To start, let us do a word association first. From what you know and your idea of Godstone post 1-3 words associated with it. You may post more than once. This is a static word association game so the words revolve around GOdstone. I will give the first word/s.

Wasted Land

Turmoil, Infinite Potential

Desolation, Hope?

Sundered World

isn't Athas? Razz

That would make the world Eberron.

Why not stick with the Filipino theme? That's definitely never been done before. We don't have to look that far either, since modern day Philippines = post-apocalyptic by other countries' standards, lol.

Apokalipto?
lol, i think that's been done, but sounds right. Laughing

So you're saying science without magic kinda name?

I disagree with boy_bakal, but I see his point. steampunk and eberron are not equal, they are rather associated with each other.

Thus if we want to add steampunk, we have to make it as Eberron-ish as we can. It's Xtian's idea, propose a feel. Then we'll see if it's worth integrating or if we'll scrap it.

Then add steampunk, sure. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Kal Dathra. Where did you get that name, Rev? I'm of the opinion that it makes a good Campaign Setting name.

Scratch that...

http://adamcadre.ac/calendar/10001.html

I know, it's one letter apart. But we're geeks. And we'll likely associate with fellow geeks. Possibly, some of them will be Comic Book geeks. Sad

*sigh* Calling it Cracklepoop is starting to get on my nerves. Guess it's working...

Like dragonball and godspell, PCs revolve around certain magic items.

Greyhawk is a name of the place, and the name forgotten realms, indirectly is about the plane.

Samurai X is named because of protagonist himura, so are the names masked rider, shaider, etc.

So let us discuss possible names for our beloved campaign setting.

How about ...

Bone Dancers
because we dance on dead gods' bones...

too much like sky dancers for comfort

something like bonefell, maybe? alternatively corpse or ash-something.

if we're sticking with the pinoy flavor, consider also modified pinoy equivalents. it doesn't have to be all pinoy but we can sneak in the words there... for example, something like Aborna. just like "abo na" (as in abo na lang ang mga diyos) except with an r in the middle Razz

Bonedancer is a MTG card and a strong one iirc.

Aborna sounds .... gay like darna! Kabwush!

Bonefell has necrotic and undead sounding theme and we are working on a wasteland. We are getting there.

How about Laspag? Very Happy

Bonedancers sound like emo skydancers.
Laspag sounds like an R18 movie.
Adorna sounds like an Adarna ripoff children's book that you can buy for ten bucks on a street corner.

Bonefell has potential... Although atm, it just reminds me of Shadowfell. But I think we should work on this name. Very Happy

Been thinking of a buncha names all day, most of which I've forgotten. I think the best I could come up with is Bonethrull. Doesn't really make much sense, but it does sound kinda cool Laughing

Some pinoy words (if we're going for that effect):

*Buto. Bone. lol.
*Hukloban. She's a death goddess iirc.

Old Dragon Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 431

Shatters of the Divine

or

Shatters of the Sacred
(SOS lol)
since gods are dead here...

Don't forget to add the steampunk side.

More pinoy words:
*Barena. tagalog of drill, if my vocabulary is right. a possible steampunk word.
*Tapyas. cut/sliced into pieces. lol
*Makinarya. machinery.

erwin's on an R-18 naming roll. Laughing

Barena, starring Dick Mendoza
Tapyas, starring Priscilla Almeda

Makinarya... Madungis man ang pangangatawan ng mekanikong si Joel, hindi matiis ng anak mayamang si Tonya ang lampungang magaganap...

ROTFLMAO... kidding.

lol.
...

I'm being serious though.

Well, then the serious answer is; the problem with Filipino mechanical words is that it sounds Spanish as well.

Although, that being said, hardcore linguists will say that pre-col words would sound Malay, too. So it's actually a touchy subject.

Other than that, I like Barena, if we can find a way to fiddle with it.

Barena almost sounds like Barren. Very Happy

Barrena. A little too literal, but it might work.