For a very different variant, have the mutant not be the murderer. He does believe that he is, though. It's an involuntary shapeshifter who transforms into a monster every night, or every full moon. And in human form he has no recollection of what he does in his monster form. But he sincerely believ...

I’ll probably skip this year, however much I long to meet with you again. Sign me up for 2022, though.

I always thought that it was meant to sound like 'bare belly'.

That Apotheotis game looks good!
Lots of fun, everyone! Too bad that I cannot be there.

A bit later .... I sort of like the idea that the Imperial pantheon is a ‘melting pot’ of the southern pantheon (the town gods) and the Kislev pantheon ( the country gods). It would mean, though, that the Kislev pantheon would have to be expanded with gods similar to Taal and Manon, and that there w...

One could argue that this is because in the Warhammer world the gods actually exist - but if so, why would they adhere to country borders? It is clear for Sigmar, but a lot less for, say, Handrich or Morr. I could imagine a world where the Northern gods are particularly strong in Kislev, and the So...

we do not have many examples of real societies that would be as technologically and culturally advanced as the Empire and practice polytheism in some of its major variants, so the question of realism might be invalid from the very start. Just a quick comment on this: while the Western world has bee...

I think that everyone agrees that the pantheon as described in the WFRP1 rulebook is not very realistic - just like so many other parts of the background. But then, we don’t have to see it as complete. GW acknowledged this by adding more gods to its pantheon - Sigmar, Handrich and Stromfells, to nam...

It's not as much a fear of speaking out against fascism, but an understanding that it is more complicated than "They're the bad guys, we're the good ones (and so it is all right to use violence against them)." Yes, fascism and fascist ideas must be opposed, but without understanding where those idea...

I would agree with that, too. I wouldn't expect any writer from a particular demographic to become spokesperson for that demographic - I just want them to have the chance to write things for the setting that they'd like to see. At the end of that day, that's exactly what I did when I was writing fo...

Which further illustrates my point that mutants are lousy devices for social commentary in WFRP. Errm, what? IMHO, mutant hatred is the archetypical "they look different, so they don't belong here" type of discrimination. If you want to set examples of social exclusion, ostracism, persecution, and ...

Where I had said 'Middle Eastern', I should perhaps have specified; over here it's mostly people with roots in Morocco and Turkey, not so much Araby. That being said, the point I was trying to make (and in which I apparently failed) is that all people of Middle Eastern descent are being painted wit...

Herr Arnulfe, you are looking for a group that would be an appropriate analogue for mutants - look at how Muslims are regarded in Western society. Because the terrorist attacks since 9/11 have been committed by muslims, and because (at least in Europe) crime statistics show a more than representati...

Most of the people in my group have little to no knowledge of the WFB background - in any form. The same in groups that I've tried to start (but which didn't last more than a few sessions) previously. Therefore, IMX, I'm not so worried about changes in the WFB background. I don't know the general ca...

Considered evil by whom? By most characters IN-GAME, sure, but it's also obvious from the rules that they are wrong since anyone, including good-hearted heroes, can get mutations if they're unlucky. Mutations are evil according to the rules. If you accumulate enough mutations you either become a Ch...

I have a mixed feeling about the inclusiveness of WFRP. WFRP society is racist, which is on the one hand specifically done to put racism and discrimination under a magnifying glass - dwarfs regularly discriminated in Empire society and forming ghettoes, (Sea) Elven disdain for anything that is not E...

Last Sunday was a good day. Great game. Players had to deal with giant frogs attacking them, zombies (well, sleepwalkers), a chaos-infested castle and a vineyard full of plants that wanted to catch them and suck them dry. As an epilogue, during the barbecue, I first let each player tell something ab...

So this Sunday the campaign that we've been playing for the last three years or so (or actually even longer) is coming to a close on Sunday. I originally thought that we needed three or four more sessions, but since those sessions would take place during the holidays, when not everyone would be able...

Thank you everyone who has contributed! For those interrested - below is a short summary of where I am heading with this based on your suggestions. ----------------------------------- Campaign background: It is set in 2312. Magnus the Pious has routed the chaos invasion in the north and is busy re-...

You may want to look into Typhoid Mary - a cook for wealthy New York families round the turn of the nineteenth century, who carried the bacteria that caused typhoid fever and spread it among the families that employed her, but she herself was immune to the disease. When one family died, she would fi...