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Here’s some tidbits and references where some of my campaign ideas come from.

• The Broken Hand: The Broken Hand tribe of orcs was originally created when I was probably about 12 years old, trying to write my own master piece that would parallel The Hobbit. That never happened – but the main “bad guys” were a large band of Orcs known as The Broken Hand. That band of orcs had made it into every single one of my D&D campaigns that I have DMed.
• The Ivory Coast: There is a street several blocks from where I currently live where the street name is Ivory Coast. I really liked the name, so when I started the second leg of the adventure (and began 5th Edition) with all new characters; I created a new continent and made the major city called The Ivory Coast with the inland area called The Ivory Vale and came up with the history of the Ivory Coast based on the name.
• Ridgecrest: One day, on our way to (or was it from?) Mammoth (California), I saw a sign for a town called Ridgecrest. I absolutely loved the name and jotted it down on my notepad iPhone App to use one day. When I started the new game with 5th Edition, Ridgecrest was born into my world – but I didn’t have much for it planned out.
• Then one day on my way to work, I pass an apartment/condo complex called “High Ridge.” And that gave birth to the idea that Ridgecrest was split between three area, dependent on the person’s social class; High Ridge (Rich), Mid Ridge (Middle Class), Low Ridge (Slums).
• Shadow Mountain (above Spire’s Edge) is a place up near Mammoth (near Ridgecrest, since I had seen both signs fairly close to one another if I remember correctly).
• West Brook is a street near where I live.
• Pern’s Rest was a name inspired by Dragons of Pern (books, because that area has white dragons).
• New Moon Forest comes from ElfQuest. Cutter’s sword is named New Moon.
• The Fern Dale is the street where I (curently) live (Ferndale).
• Silver Crown castle is an alias for Grey Skull (a He-Man reference).
• Nor’Orn – a goblin NPC comes from Norman Osborn, who is the Green Goblin in the Spider Man comics
• Boogle – Boogle is a boggle who was experimented on and his flesh turned a purplish pink color and is a reference to Boogle from the game Torin’s Passage
• In the world of Kne’Urth – it varies than standard D&D in regards to Driders. Standard D&D – Driders are shunned by Drow. In Kne’Urth – only females can become Driders – and only the faithful survive the process, physically taking up the embodiment of their long, forgotten, ancient goddess
• Sand Sharks – I introduced “Sand Sharks” – sharks that actually swim in the sand in Session 52 of one of my games. This was a nod to one of my favorite monsters in Star Frontiers also known as a “sand shark” that swims through sand. I made the Sand Sharks very memorable to the party (i.e., very dangerous and feared). So that was quite wonderful to have left a lasting impression on the players, since the creatures in Star Frontiers had left a lasting impression on me
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