"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...