DnD City Name Generator

The most famous D&D cities share a trick: the name is a compound you can picture, and it says what the city is. Waterdeep is a deep-water harbor, Neverwinter has warm rivers, Baldur's Gate was a walled port built by a sea captain, Silverymoon is an elven-influenced city of magic, and Zhentil Keep grew around a fortress. Greyhawk, Irongate and Mithral Hall work the same way. A second school uses invented words with a regional sound: the soft Amnian sound of Athkatla and Murann, the hard Thayan Bezantur, Eberron's clipped Sharn, Wroat and Korth, Dragonlance's Palanthas and Tarsis, and the Underdark's Menzoberranzan and Gracklstugh.

Name your own city by deciding who founded it and what it is for. Human trade capitals take English compounds or a possessive (King's Reach, Queen's Harbor, Ravens Bluff). Dwarven cities sound struck from stone and often carry a title word (Citadel Adbar, Kharn Durak). Elven cities flow with liquid consonants (Silvanost, Aelindor). Desert and southern cities borrow Arabic and Mulhorandi shapes (Calimport, Qasr Ibrahel), northern ones go Norse (Skaldheim, Hrafnvik), and drow and orc cities pile on harsh clusters (Ched Nasad, Mok'Thar). Metropolises also earn epithets (City of Brass, the Free City of Tolm) that towns never do.

This list mixes canon cities from every major setting with original names sorted by culture, terrain and mood.