haakon1 said:
A week without Gary's insightful commentary is like a week without . . . beer.
So, Gary, I have to think of a good question.
Hmmm, what's your favorite European city, and did you capture aspects of real world European cities in your game cities? Or is each city you invented made from whole cloth?
Actually, the only European
cities I know even vaguely are London and Paris. I have otherwise been only to Amsterdam, Basil, Bologna, Frankfurt, Madrid, Manchester, Milan, Modena, Rotenburg, Southampton, Toledo, and Zurich, thus I am fondest of London and Paris, but really liked what I saw of Amsterdam and Madrid. Smaller places I stayed in or toured and liker include Barbizan, Bath, Cambridge, Ely, Sonning on the Thames...and the town whose name I have forgotten where Francois MArcela-Froideval's parents dwell (a very attractive place on a river, the name of which also slips my mind). There are a few more places also. I enjoyed most of them to some extent, although Manchester and Southampton were at best unremarkable.
There is likely a bit of many of those places in the fantasy communities I have created. The same is true for Marrakech, a place with which I was very much taken. What little I got to see of Casablanca and Wed Laou seemed interesting. Tangier and Tetoun were not appealing in the least, although the souk in Tetoun was a very stimulating place creatively.
As a FWIW, two of the most beautiful women I have ever seen were in Madrid and Old San Juan...but that's anpther sort of story entirely.
Cheerio,
Gary
