Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

[Dog Pants]

I finally received my lovely copy of 2nd edition WHFRP today, and the system's actually not bad at all. Far less complicated than 1st Ed, and it retains all the nice quirkiness of the career system and combat. It also has the dark Warhammer setting going for it. So even though I planned on changing the system a little, I think I might actually just stick with it as it is. I have two published adventures and an entire campaign to get on with, so I'm not about to run out of material any time soon, and when I do hopefully I'll have enough of an idea of what's going on to write some stuff. So, anyone fancy it?

Couple of things. First, there's no free PDF rulebook. There's an online character creator here though, and hopefully we can get by with timely advice and book-referring from myself. The other is SLA; I still have one written BPN to run, and several story arcs to finish off. I haven't abandoned it, but I'm hoping a bit of a break in the form of some fantasy beardage will generate renewed enthusiasm to return to old characters when I finish up with this.

[Roman Totale]

So, anyone fancy it?

Yeah!

If it's a "dark" setting I might try and make a moping, introvert version of Glibberig - some sort of Emo Bard

[Dog Pants]

Hooray!

Also, this wiki is a decent source of Warhammer info.

[Joose]

First, there's no free PDF rulebook.

Define "free".

I may be interested, I shall have a nose through the books.

[FatherJack]

So, anyone fancy it?

Yes!

I'll have a poke through that character creator, maybe a haughty elf with an acerbic tone, or a cheeky halfling raised in the gutters.

[Dog Pants]

I did find a pdf of the character creation appendix, hopefully some long lost online resource, so I'll dropbox that later.

[Joose]

You can buy it as a pdf from RPGnow, but its rather costly.

Alternatively, there is a floor based option.

[Dog Pants]

Yeah, it's expensive for a pdf. I couldn't find anything on the floor but it would be handy for all concerned.

[Dog Pants]

I've dropped an excel character sheet in the Dropbox folder. Features include:

* Creation guide - Stats added to your character sheet as you generate them
* Magic encumbrance calculations - Adjusts your movement stats according to your encumbrance

I'm probably going to chuck a healy NPC into the party if it's looking a bit on the small side.

[buzzmong]

This going to be a forum run?

[Dog Pants]

Yeah, I can't really commit the time to TS games, and it won't conflict with Grimmie's D&D that way.

[FatherJack]

I've put an attempt at a char sheet into the Dropbox, wasn't sure about everything so please let me know if it's okay, I bought her a sling but wasn't sure if I needed to check if I could do that.

Alice The Cat is a cheeky Halfling Thief who grew up in the gutters on the mean streets of the city (Altdorf?) but after a few-too-many run-ins with the city guard she has decided to take up adventuring.

It can't be that 'ard, right? I mean everyone and everyfing in the city is tryin' to kill me now, so even if everyfing outside the city is tryin' to kill me, there ain't as many fings out there as wat there is in the city - so it just makes sense, dunnit? Outside the city y'see it's less dense - kind of like the opposite of you.

- overheard conversation with a city guard at the gates

[Dog Pants]

Charming. I don't mind if people want to spend a little starting cash. All halflings get the sling skill don't they?

Incidentally, the campaign will be starting off in a town in Middenland on the edge of the devastation caused by the rampaging Chaos armies during the Storm of Chaos. The town marks the limit of the invasion's advance, in this part of the Empire at least, and is half ruined from heavy fighting. The Chaos horses are in retreat now, but everyone knows their influence will have tainted the land and that straggling beastmen and other monsters lurk everywhere. As characters you have plenty of reasons to be there - refugees returning, looters looking for profit in the ruins, soldiers left behind after the Imperial armies have moved on, sell-swords offering protection from the stray creatures.

[Joose]

The chargen excel doodad seems to be referencing a different version of the book to the one I have, as the page references are waaaay out. Is it for 1st ed?

I don't think it matters that much, as it all seems to work the same (except for the thing about Humans being able to use Provincial Features; as far as I can tell that isn't in the main 2nd ed book).

[Joose]

Oh, also I was looking at FJs character sheet and noticed you have made a small error:

The good news is that when it says "increase by 5%" it actually just means add 5 to that stat, as the Main profile stats (WS, BS etc) are actually percentages. So where you have increased your BS from 47 it should now be 52, not 49.

The bad news is that its a +5% to a main stat *or* a +1 to a secondary stat, not both.

[Dog Pants]

I was getting the info from the little char gen pdf, so they might reference a few different books in there without me realising. I'll have a look. I'll change the % thing, I can see how that would be confusing. I actually updated the character sheet a lot yesterday, adding a hit point tracking box amongst other things. I don't think dropbox has synched it properly though.

[Joose]

To be fair, the books are a little unclear on the % thing too. I had to go do a quick Google to check I was right.

[FatherJack]

Oh, also I was looking at FJs character sheet and noticed you have made a small error:

Thanks, I fixed that.

I was getting the info from the little char gen pdf, so they might reference a few different books in there without me realising

The roll starting career is on the top of P21, and I used that and the pages that follow to work most of it out, I think the human provincial features are on P25

[Dog Pants]

I've updated the instructions with core rules where available and referenced the other books where necessary. I've also clarified the advances thing. Keep spotting the errors gents, I like feedback.

[Dog Pants]

I've added the NPC I'll likely run to the folder, along with more updates to the character sheet. FJ's and Joose's characters both look to be well made, so there are three examples for anyone else who wants to join in. I can always be steampoked for help too. Character sheet has improved the damage tracking a little and added FJ's character notes page, which is pretty handy for developing some depth.