The Springfield School of Worldbuilding
One of the greatest temptations in any budding GM's life is the idea of building up an entire world out of nothing. We'll get into more of that in a later post, but one of the more immediate challenges is that when you make a place you also need to make up it's name. Now, there are a myriad of fantasy name generators you can use when making a town, but I'd argue that the best thing you could get inspiration from is a little Springfield. 🎶 I wish that I had Jessie's World 🎶 (original photo by Gary Gershoff) Okay sorry, not that Springfield. Rather, I'm talking about these Springfields (Springs Field?): According to worldatlas.com, there are 41 Springfields on this map. There are four types of town names: Springfields, Named After People, a combination of the first two, and Other . If you go back far enough into the history of anywhere, that is what you will find. A Springfield is a town name that de...
