¤ Bretonnian Cities: Classification, Comments, etc.


    "I've found that all the descriptions of Bretonnian towns in your manual page 274-277 amount to the same thing; The Bretonnian nobility is decadent and corrupt, the poor die of hunger, and from all kind of awful diseases and calimities without any of the nobles even caring about it; not to mention crime that seems to be more common than anywhere else in the Old World. Dare I suggest however, that we may be missing some important information that could help us get a better idea ? Please pardon me, but it seems like these descriptions were written by a Marienburgese scribe, frustrated for not being given a good seat at the Opera in Oisillon. Throughout this text, I see only compassion for the poor and criticism of the aristocracy..."

written by the Talabeclander baron Gunthar von Karajan in the year 2506


All the Bretonnian cities as described in the WFRP seem somewhat unpleasant and some seem so awful that you will have major trouble as a GM to convince the PCs to even go near the place. This is problem, particularly since City Adventures play such a great role in WFRP. Our general impression at Bretonnia-Project is that some of the description in the rulebook are just too nasty to be true, and that they need to be taken with a pinch of salt. In Bretonnia-Sourcebook, we have worked at writing complementary description, which make the largest Bretonnian cities (Guisoreux, Quenelles, etc.) more useful for Bretonnian Campaigns. Obviously, this is not to say that the lower-depths of the Bretonnian Cities are the nicest of places...




¤ In Search of Bretonnia 01-03-2005