NOMS DE RUES

Using street names and addresses in adventures is one
way to instill a sense of reality in WFRP campaigns.
Preparing for an adventure in a city should involve some
street-naming, and this document is designed to help
GMs create names suitable for the Empire.
Many of the terms on this list can be used as they are,
especially for the roads and pathways of smaller
settlements. In towns and cities where there may be more
than one circular street or alleyway, it is necessary to
label them to avoid confusion. In those cases, a prefix is
usually added to the street type to distinguish it from
others. This practice eventually leads to a whole network
of named streets.
For a street’s prefix, any randomly generated Imperial
forename or surname should work fine. (Examples:
Klatschstrasse or Sigmarsfarhbahn.) Any German word
for a vocation should also be perfect for creating street
names. (Example: Furrmanns Weg, meaning Teamsters
Alley.) The Settlements of Sigmar tables on p. 49 of
Liber Fanatica III contain many words that can be
applied to streets. It is common practice to name at least
one street after the town itself. (Example: Delb Weg in
Delberz.) Furthermore, street names may become
shortened and misspelled over centuries of use.
(Example: Furrmann Weg may become Furweg over
time.)
Remember, this is not a science, so use your imagination
to combine words and switch or omit letters until they
sound good. Some names can be long and unwieldy to
say, which is appropriate particularly for German street
names. It is possible to separate the elements of a long
street name into smaller words. (Example: Klatsch
Strasse or Sigmars Bahn.) Too much of this pseudo-
German naming can make a game map look completely
foreign, so it is wise to use English terms just as often as
those on the following list. An even mixture of the two is
recommended. (Example: Baker’s Platz or Sigmar’s
Road.)
Assigning an address number is simple: just choose any
number that sounds good. It is probably safe to assume
that address-givers started numbering at one end of the
street starting with number 1 and continued down the
street until they ran out of buildings to number. For
convenience, the buildings on one side of the street will
given even numbered addresses, while those on the
opposite side will be given odd numbers. This is not
always the case, however.
Typically an address will be one or two digits in length,
but some of the longer streets in the Empire’s major
cities may be as long as four digits. Buildings containing
many apartments or subdivisions after the original
address was assigned may find themselves with
fractions. (Example: 32½ Handlers Markt for a divided
or doubly-occupied property.)
Addressing schemes need not be orderly or sensible, and
there are more examples of this in the Empire than city
planners would believe. A building facing one street may
have an address on another, if that is where the post is
delivered. Occupied basements, apartments and
subletting can wreak havoc on addresses, causing bizarre
fractions or duplicated numbers to the dismay of
messengers and postmen.
Long streets may be broken up into stretches with
different names, with or without a break in the
addressing scheme. Short streets may have no addresses
at all. In some places letters are used instead of numbers,
as is the case with buildings containing separate
apartments or suites.
In many rural parts of the Empire an entirely informal
system is used (such as ‘the red barn by the river’) and
this may work just fine for villages in which there are
few structures to be concerned with, to which both letters
and visitors are infrequent.
The table below contains terms that may be used to
create street names, or even the names of city quarters
and districts, open spaces, and other locations. In
conjunction with Liber Fanatica III these tables should
make it possible to generate a wide variety of flavourful
names for nearly any person or place that may be
encountered. If those aren’t enough, an English-German
dictionary can be used to determine other terms that do
not appear here.

D100 Location, Street, Etc. Reikspiel

01 academy, school, akademie, alumnat (boarding school), hochschule, musikhochschule (of music), universitat
university
02 alley allee, anruchige gegend (back alley), bahn, durchgang, gang, gasse, korridor, sackgasse (blind, cul-de-sac, dead end), weg
03 animal related gehorn (antler), horn (horn), huhnerhof (poultry yard), loch (kennel), nest (nest), reitergut ( horse farm), treidelweg (horse path)
04 animals aal (eel), adler (eagle), amsel (blackbird), bar (bear), bienenkonigin (queen bee), bulle (bull), biene (bee), eichhornchen (squirrel), eule
(owl), falke (falcon), fliege (fly), frosch (frog), gans (goose), hase (rabbit), hahn (rooster), hermelin (ermine, stoat), heuschrecke
(grasshopper), huhn (chicken), hund (dog), kafer (beetle, bug), katze (cat), krabbe (crab), krahe (crow), krake (octopus), kuh (cow), lamm
(lam), maus (mouse), motte (moth), pfau (peacock), pferd (horse), ratte (rat), reh (deer), schnecke (snail), schwein (pig), spinne (spider),

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