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by Capitaneus Fractus
Tue Sep 02, 2025 4:34 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Does a character without Swim just... drown? (RAW)
Replies: 1
Views: 527

Re: Does a character without Swim just... drown? (RAW)

As for the first edition of WFRP, characters without swimming skill start to sink after a number of rounds equal to their their T bonus. Then, they lose 1 W per round. When they reach 0 W, they're drowned.

To have a system a bit closer to reality, I would ask to the character who doesn't know how ...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Sat Aug 30, 2025 12:32 pm
Forum: Fan-made Material
Topic: Musings of a Black Cowl
Replies: 1
Views: 424

Re: Musings of a Black Cowl

I'll follow it. Many thanks.

As for “perhaps it’s also because this was the fag end of the WFRP3 line. There’s very little original artwork: the new material amounts largely to portraits of each of four key NPCs, with the rest filled out by “stock” Games Workshop pieces you may have seen before ...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Thu Jul 31, 2025 5:44 am
Forum: 2nd Edition
Topic: Number of career entries and exits
Replies: 11
Views: 339062

Re: Number of career entries and exits


The career tags system in WFRP3 is really good. Instead of having entries and exits, anyone can go from any career to any other career (although there are some baked in limitations, like some are starting career only, you have to complete the previous wizard career before going into the next one ...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Fri Jul 11, 2025 5:56 pm
Forum: 3rd Edition
Topic: Teach me about the career tags system
Replies: 11
Views: 398327

Re: Teach me about the career tags system


It makes career progress more flexible, but the lack of guidance makes it also more difficult, as players now have to work through a book of more than 250 careers to find out which careers are opening up for them. I don't know if every player is waiting for that.


You might produce an index ...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Wed Nov 13, 2024 6:26 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Mainstream Media Inspirations
Replies: 32
Views: 2410220

Re: Mainstream Media Inspirations

I've not read it yet (I'll wait a translation), but I thing that the first chapter of Katrin KELLER's Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Early Modern Holy Roman Empire is interesting nevertheless, for whoever wants to avoid the complacent fantasies of an equality of genders in the Empire, but wants ...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Sun Jul 28, 2024 12:10 pm
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: The two views of Bretonnia
Replies: 11
Views: 42336

Re: The two views of Bretonnia

I think I've already recommanded it: Robert Merles's Fortune de France is an interesting novel to inspire an Early Modern Bretonnia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_de_France

A TV adaptation was made:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27644193/
by Capitaneus Fractus
Sat Jun 15, 2024 5:59 pm
Forum: Fan-made Material
Topic: 2e Replacement Insanity Rules
Replies: 1
Views: 14401

Re: 2e Replacement Insanity Rules

On a different basis, I've discovered the insanity rules of Unknown Armies, and I like what I've read.

I think it might also be something to look at. Perhaps, linking the hardening on the psychological stress to a path toward one of the chaotic gods:
Helplessness either to Nurgle or to Zuvassin ...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Sat Jun 15, 2024 5:47 pm
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Where the other Gideon reads Warpstone
Replies: 17
Views: 53549

Re: Where the other Gideon reads Warpstone

(I have nothing to comment, but I read with interest. Thank you very much.)
by Capitaneus Fractus
Sat May 18, 2024 7:31 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: The two views of Bretonnia
Replies: 11
Views: 42336

Re: The two views of Bretonnia


Has any attempt been made to reconcile the two ideas? I should think that there is plenty of room in Bretonnia for both.


I had, a long time ago, at the time of WFB6 and in the earliest times of WFRP2, but I think that all I did was undoubtedly mostly lost.

There was, in fact, three official ...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Sat May 18, 2024 6:21 am
Forum: 1st Edition
Topic: Bundle of holding, why without Doomstones 5?
Replies: 7
Views: 39279

Re: Bundle of holding, why without Doomstones 5?


Sure, Hogshead released them in pairs. Since I own the original flame versions, I always think of heart of chaos as #5.
Should I offer my copy of part 5 to C7?
Or is there a copyright issue with #5?


The French edition was translated for Descartes Éditeur from Flame Publications', so the ...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Mon Jan 15, 2024 10:14 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Character advancement
Replies: 9
Views: 22153

Re: Character advancement

For the templar, it depends of which god serves the said templar...
Myrmidia? -> knight of the Blazing Sun (Up in Arms, p. 32)
Ulric? -> knight of the White Wolf (UIA, p. 34)

Another god? Either adapt from those two careers or use the knight (Warhammer fantasy roleplay, p. 111) or the warrior ...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Sat Jun 24, 2023 1:35 pm
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Mainstream Media Inspirations
Replies: 32
Views: 2410220

Re: Mainstream Media Inspirations

Jack Ketch wrote: Thu Jun 22, 2023 4:43 pmThe Voynich Manuscript by ?????
It is an anonymous manuscript.
There are some hypothesis on its eventual author... They are summarized here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_m ... hypotheses
by Capitaneus Fractus
Mon Jun 19, 2023 5:49 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Mainstream Media Inspirations
Replies: 32
Views: 2410220

Re: Mainstream Media Inspirations

To conclude my previous post, instead of the A to D classes of WFRP1 (or to the Gold to Bronze of WFRP4), I would use the following ranks, as a first steps:
A: The princes ( die Fürsten ) which is of use for powerful NPC only.
B: The lower nobility, the knighthood ( der niedere Adel, die ...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Mon Jun 19, 2023 5:28 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Mainstream Media Inspirations
Replies: 32
Views: 2410220

Re: Mainstream Media Inspirations

I've read again, in Le Nouvel Aporcryphe , Graeme Davis's and Mike Burton's new rules for social intercouse, "Social Level", on how class and standing should affect the game. It was initially published in White Dwarf #138. I made a connexion with this presentation of Early Modern Germany by ...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Thu Mar 31, 2022 2:35 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: The Oldenhaller coat of arms?
Replies: 5
Views: 11295

Re: The Oldenhaller coat of arms?

Coats of arms aren't reserved to the nobility. Merchants had coats of arms both in Early Modern European parts of Earth and -if I'm remembering correctly some city supplements such as Bögenhafen's or Marienburg's- in the fantasy setting of the Warhammer's World.


Heraldry spread to the burgher ...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Thu Feb 17, 2022 8:06 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Old World Medicinals
Replies: 4
Views: 13733

Re: Old World Medicinals

Damien Lyonnet's Medicinalis libri was a very good fan French supplement for WFRP1... Probably difficult to find, now.
by Capitaneus Fractus
Sun Feb 13, 2022 11:59 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Old World Religion
Replies: 5
Views: 12467

Re: Old World Religion

That is because there were many eras of influence for Warhammer, which settle down in layers: ragbag of many fantasy influences without much inspiration nor critical thinking; a learned adult critical universe whose dystopian aspects are used as a mean to implicitly critic real world prejudices*; a ...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Sun Jan 02, 2022 12:16 pm
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Imperial Calendar
Replies: 31
Views: 76939

Re: Imperial Calendar

I would like to finish that project...

To summarize it:

Day: Rhya's rotation.

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The Mannslieber calendar:
Year : 12 mannths;
Mannth : 33 days (cycle of Mannslieb: 33 days and 8 hours);
Kalend : the first day of the mannth, at new Mannslieb (not part of the week);
Week : 1/4th of a mannth ...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Sun Nov 14, 2021 9:36 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Looking for input on Greenskin- hunter adventure
Replies: 5
Views: 11293

Re: Looking for input on Greenskin- hunter adventure

yoroba wrote: Sat Nov 13, 2021 8:47 amI am tweaking the setting a bit a'la the Goblin Slayer manga. In this universe there are only male goblins. This means they can only reproduce by abducting females of other races.
In Warhammer, that is the case of fimirs.