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by Capitaneus Fractus
Mon Jan 15, 2024 10:14 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Character advancement
Replies: 9
Views: 3555

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 priest...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Sat Jun 24, 2023 1:35 pm
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Mainstream Media Inspirations
Replies: 29
Views: 33066

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: 29
Views: 33066

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 Ritterschaf...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Mon Jun 19, 2023 5:28 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Mainstream Media Inspirations
Replies: 29
Views: 33066

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 b...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Thu Mar 31, 2022 2:35 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: The Oldenhaller coat of arms?
Replies: 5
Views: 4912

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 class ...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Thu Feb 17, 2022 8:06 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Old World Medicinals
Replies: 4
Views: 7177

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: 6300

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: 47903

Re: Imperial Calendar

I would like to finish that project... To summarize it: Day: Rhya's rotation. --- 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 minus the...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Sun Nov 14, 2021 9:36 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Looking for input on Greenskin- hunter adventure
Replies: 5
Views: 5182

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.
by Capitaneus Fractus
Fri Sep 17, 2021 2:40 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)
Replies: 202
Views: 191320

Re: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)

And Daemonslayer...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Mon Aug 16, 2021 3:34 pm
Forum: Fan-made Material
Topic: Starting Character Generators (with more humans now!)
Replies: 1
Views: 6743

Re: Starting Character Generators (with more humans now!)

I would name the species "human" and add as a "nation" the notions of "Reiklander", "Middenheimer", "Middenlander" or "Nordlander"...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Tue Aug 03, 2021 4:29 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Eureka! 4E conversion
Replies: 9
Views: 8605

Re: Eureka! 4E conversion

I discover (and am very surprised) from the introduction that "inflammable" means "not flammable" in English (at the exact opposite of its French and Latin meaning from which the word was borrowed: in-["on"] -flamm-["fire"] -able["able to be"] = &quo...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Mon Jul 19, 2021 12:39 pm
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
Replies: 128
Views: 119534

Re: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?

You've already made those fallacious allegations few pages earlier and you were already proved wrong . Errare humanum est perseverare diabolicum . I feel that it would be better, if possible, to avoid going round in circle again and again. On magic and warp: places of strong magic are place hugely s...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Sun Jul 18, 2021 1:30 pm
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
Replies: 128
Views: 119534

Re: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?

Here is a still very rough development and structuration of my previous thoughts...: The universe is constituted by two dimensions. One material universe that we all know and one immaterial universe, which is called the immaterium and by many other names such as the warp, the void, the Empyrean, the...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Sat Jul 17, 2021 12:41 pm
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
Replies: 128
Views: 119534

Re: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?

Are there any published sources that state that the Warhammer Gods of Law view burning at the stake as specifically a human sacrifice? (Rather than just a grizzly punishment for a serious crime). There are really few official sources on Warhammer chaotic gods of Law. The concept was abandoned befor...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Fri Jul 16, 2021 1:47 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
Replies: 128
Views: 119534

Re: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?

So, here we are, here is the way you argue on your own points... the chaos dwarfs are noted as having mutated, with their sorcerer priests being the most prone to mutation (page forty-seven of the old chaos dwarf army book), and the sacrifices being done for the entertainment of the selfsame sorcere...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Thu Jul 15, 2021 5:09 pm
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
Replies: 128
Views: 119534

Re: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?

as much as fract enjoys expounding on why he'd like to believe the chaos dwarf god could be lawful, i remain entirely unsupportive. there's nothing to his very long posts but extended arguments to consider his interest without any material to encourage it, and the chaos dwarfs are noted as having m...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Thu Jul 15, 2021 3:41 pm
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
Replies: 128
Views: 119534

Re: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?

Leaving aside real world history this all started with idea that the Chaos Dwarfs and Hashut could be a cult of law. I think this is preposterous. The example of using Aztecs didn't convince me. Regardless of how it might convince or not convince you (which I feel do not matter at all in itself and...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Thu Jul 15, 2021 2:22 pm
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Beyond The Enemy Within campaign, upcoming releases
Replies: 56
Views: 60681

Re: Beyond The Enemy Within campaign, upcoming releases

I found this rather interesting and it took me down a short rabbit hole. We share same interests and like to explore the same rabbit worlds, I presume :) I'm glad to read your researches. Just two points that might complete them: There's no mention of the word in The New Shorter Oxford English Dict...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Wed Jul 14, 2021 4:38 pm
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Beyond The Enemy Within campaign, upcoming releases
Replies: 56
Views: 60681

Re: Beyond The Enemy Within campaign, upcoming releases

The correct plural of dwarf (the regular continuation of Old English dweorg) is dwarrows (from dweorgas), later levelled down to "dwarfs" (probably under the influence of the French and Latin accusative plurals, which are commonly in -s ). The latter, "dwarfs", is the plural used...