Saturday, July 2, 2016

78 Nouns for Settlement Names

When it comes time for you to establish a settlement (town, city, farm in the middle of nowhere), adding an adjective to the great proper name you spent all afternoon coming up with can flesh out the town in your mind as well as make the full name that much more exciting for your players.

The following is a list of settlement names. You can add an "s" to some of these. In almost every case, you can place the adjective before the proper name of your town (i.e., Castle Griswick or Mount Griswick), after the name of your town (i.e. Griswick's Glen or Griswick's Crossing), or blend the two together (i.e. Grisburg or Griswood). Also, I'm sure there are similar names in different languages and alternate spellings, but the list is simply here to spur creativity and is not comprehensive.

  1. Bay
  2. Bend
  3. Bridge
  4. Brook
  5. Burgh
  6. Camp
  7. Canyon
  8. Castle
  9. City
  10. Cliffs
  11. Colony
  12. Creek
  13. Crossing
  14. Crossroad
  15. Dam
  16. Dell
  17. Depot
  18. Don
  19. Falls
  20. Farm
  21. Ferry
  22. Field
  23. Ford
  24. Forge
  25. Fork
  26. Fort
  27. Garden
  28. Glade
  29. Glen
  30. Green
  31. Grounds
  32. Gulch
  33. Hamlet
  34. Harbor
  35. Haven
  36. Heights
  37. Hills
  38. Hollow
  39. Hook
  40. Inlet
  41. Island
  42. Lake
  43. Lane
  44. Lookout
  45. Manor
  46. March
  47. Market
  48. Marsh
  49. Meadow
  50. Metro
  51. Mile
  52. Mill
  53. Mountain
  54. Mouth
  55. Outpost
  56. Park
  57. Pass
  58. Place
  59. Plain
  60. Plantation
  61. Point
  62. Pool
  63. Port
  64. Precinct
  65. Prefect
  66. Run
  67. Seat
  68. Spring
  69. Square
  70. Station
  71. Stream
  72. Summit
  73. Toll
  74. Town
  75. Valley
  76. Village
  77. Way
  78. Wood

Are you concerned about my obsession with my dictionary? Is Griswick's Trench the kind of place to raise a family? Post your creative nuggets below and share this post with your friends on Twitter and Facebook.