Names of places

From: Brian Tickler <tickler_at_netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 19:22:50 -0800 (PST)


> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 13:15:51 -0500
> From: Martin Crim <MCrim_at_erols.com>
> Subject: Top 10 things... (tm)
>
> Thanks, MOB, for your contribution to the list. Another on my list is this:
>
> Basically all the place names. What isn't fake Olde English (Swenstown),
> fake Scandinavian (Jaranshold), or fake French (those Seshnelan areas) is
> mundane (Barbarian Town), just plan silly (Nochet got its name when someone
> asked if this city on the map had a name and Greg said "not yet"), out of
> place (Christian's Bay), or plagiarized (mostly from Dr. Seuss—Prax,
> Koromondol, though "Carmania" is a RW place name).

I have to point out here that many of the names on the original 2-page Dragon Pass/Prax map were names of gamers in the area at the time. Biggle's Stone, Hender's Ruins, Pimper's Block, etc. You can see many of these individuals as contributors to the "All the World's Monsters" series...

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