i’m having trouble tracking down wereshark stats for 3.5.
help?

...please?

Try Lost Empires of Faerun; the WotC website says that they should be in there. If I were at home, I could confirm that…

thankyou.

workin on a seafaring campaign and pc’s are gonna need their faces eaten

Have you a copy of Stormwrack, then? That’s de rigeur for a 3.5 seafaring campaign. =)

i’ve got a pdf of it and an actual version coming in the mail. hadozee are freakin sweet.

anyone able to suggest any town names??
i’m putting in as many ports as i can support and some offshore towns and i think i’m having more trouble naming them. i’m trying desperately to not have them all be poo joke names. due to my state arrested development this is nearly impossible.

I find it is rarely an issue to simply borrow generic-sounding names from real-world places. Cities like Capetown and Newport are good examples. Also, if one culture colonised several areas, you can simply name a few of the cities the same thing, only with a “New” plastered on front or a ”-ton” slapped on the end.

A few strategies for naming places, based on some real-life place names I saw in my youth:

- Nothing wrong with naming a place after natural phenomena. Real-life example: Cape Foulweather. It is highly prone to horrid fog, and it once took my mother and me 90 minutes to drive 30 miles because visibility was just THAT BAD.

- Perhaps there’s a striking feature to the place which might have inspired the natives to give it that name. Real-life example: Boiler Bay. If you are able to visit during a particularly low tide (what the locals call a minus tide), you can actually see that a large ship’s boiler has been marooned on the rocks. It’s been there for a couple of centuries.

- Perhaps the above-mentioned natural phenomena remind the natives of something mundane, and the name is based on that. Real-life example: Devil’s Punchbowl. It’s a tiny round inlet (hence “punchbowl”) that is always very rough waters.

Another really solid strategy is to completely or partially name the town after a person (e.g. Haverton, or Haver’s Cove). And remember that if the town has been around for a long time, the person doesn’t need to be alive anymore, or even have any descendants there. Real-life example: Depoe Bay, named after a native American who’d acquired the nickname of “Depot Charlie” and decided he preferred the more French-like spelling of “Depoe”. The Oregon Coast also has several cities named after native American tribes.

If you want me to actually come up with some names, that’s fine, but I’d rather start by giving you some ideas for doing it yourself. =)

most of the stolen names i’m using are stolen fromoregon. in all fairness they stole most of their town names anyway.

and if i timed this right it is the 666th post on this forum

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