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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pogre" data-source="post: 7800449" data-attributes="member: 6588">tldr: the mish-mash of cultures and historical time periods in the WFRP world can trace it's origins to CItadel's extensive miniature line of the early 80s.Part of the reason for the mish-mash of the original WFRP World was WFB1, which was a combination of Wargame and Roleplaying game, was intended to encompass all of the citadel and Ral Partha models they produced. Citadel had the U.K. rights to produce Ral Partha models at the time. The Wargame worked fairly well - the RPG part was fairly clunky. Notably, chaos and other hallmarks of the WFRP world were absent with the original "Harry the Hammer" game.Later, as they began producing Regiments and Renown they were creating world spaces for the miniature releases with brief background notes included in the boxed sets. Some of it comes off as quite racists and colonialists by today's standards. For example: I have a couple of boxes of their Pygmy line and their Nipponese.The truth is each area of the world developed differently and so picking one historical era is difficult. For WFRP, we are talking mostly about the Empire and historically, the Holy Roman Empire - or what is left of it in the Renaissance.Even with the publication of true WFRP 1e in 1986 - there were still sizable holes in the geography and pantheons of the world. WFRP 2e did a lot to smooth out some of the rough spots of the geography, although I preferred the time setting of the first edition. I like the looks of what has come out for WFRP 4e, although it has been a bit skimpy and true geography and world background thus far.</blockquote>

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