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I'm a Dungeon Master. I'm preparing a PnP game in an oriental setting. Not green forests, castles, kings, crowns, longswords.. It's time (I like to surprise my players) for cutlass, desert, oasis, bazaars, sultans, emirs, harem etc. I'm looking for oriental character names and city names. I'll be happy if you can help me. Here is the list I found so far..
Haroun Al-Rashid Omer Al-Jabbar Mustapha Muad'dib (from dune Khalid Habib Al-ad'din Sinbad Habil El-Reshid Kabil El-Reshid Abd al-Hazrad Jamil El-Kellezir Ahmed Hassan Hazret-il El Nuri Jael Abdul Ahmad Akbar Fahid Ali Farun Rashid Leila Shahrazad
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08-10-2003, 08:08 AM | #3 |
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make up something yourself!
You know what I do to create names for different fantasy settings? I select an appropriate language (which would be Arab, Persian, Urdu or something else in your case) and pick up (or look up online) a dictionary. Then I think up names appropriate for the characters (like Silverbeard Stoneaxe for on old Dwarf) and translate them. The last thing to do is now to lose some letters here and there to make the name sound smooth. Example for smoothing: I once designed a name for a wizard whose great power would be his walking stick. I came up with Arrow-cane (=He who bears a cane that shoots projectiles like arrows ) which I then narrowed down to "Arukan". Sounds original and nobody knows from what simple wordplay you got it.
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08-10-2003, 09:13 AM | #5 |
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What you described is nothing to do with an "oriental" setting. Oriental is far east (china, korea, japan etc.), the names and features described above are middle east, arab world.
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08-10-2003, 09:34 AM | #7 |
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Hey johny this site is great thanks for help!
Vazkez, do you really understand what I'm talking about? I'm talkin about ali babba, palaces, cutlass, desert, sultans, emirs. Of course even in dark sun or dune; middle east and arab culture effects, influences western producers. Oriental is east, these features. If you're still in doubt search the meaning of the word "oriental". ok?
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here is a small website for oriental names. http://www.freeplayers.co.uk/print/p...ntalnames.html sounds chinese right? and if you want to know the meaning "oriental" Quote:
edit: you may be thinking about harems and muslims culture which may be true to some parts of asia but not all. and it is more defined and placed in the middle east or the arabic world. [ 08-10-2003, 09:47 AM: Message edited by: Harkoliar ]
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Orient: "The East, the countries east of the Mediterranean, especially East Asia". Note the especially EAST Asia. The Arab world is west Asia. Well anyway according to that strictly speakin the Arab world is part of the Orient but people usually mean far east when they say "Orient". Just so you know. Most people will instantly think of china etc. when you say "oriental". The stuff you refer to is "Arab world". In fact, yes I can give you some oriental names as I know a lot of orientals. Some people I know are: Xin Qiang Yang EeLin Kuan Typical surnames are Yang, Yuen, Chang, Wong etc. The names you gave are all Arabic names. [ 08-10-2003, 09:49 AM: Message edited by: Vaskez ]
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