Wearing a spiked gauntlet on your main hand should not be an issue. If you wanted to use it, let say in in fighting, you could just sheet your sword, which is a free action.

I read it as you are just left hanging. Magic is risky to use but very powerful.

I was wondering if it is correctly interpretation that a leather armor cannot negate criticals from a penetrating weapon?
Which means that if a person with a leather chest plate is hit by a pistil in body area and it causes a critical the leather armor cant negate the crit by taking 1 in damage.

Having played a while and realising how important armor points are against critical hits I think that the hand weapons with Hack listed in UiA are superior to those with out. Take an axe. It has Hack and unbalanced. So if you use a shield for party there is no downside to getting Hack. So why would ...

I am wondering if defensive talents like reversal and drilled gives bonus when blocking a ranged attack with a shield?

Thx macd21. How about creatures such as spiders, how are skills hanlded fo rthem. Im looking in the Imperial Zoo and wondering. It would have been nice if the developers had been a bit more explicit or had tested some it for balance. When I look at the Arachnarok spider Im thinking that 4 soldiers (...

Hi all.

Could those of you who have purchased some of the scenarios published by C7 give som examples of how npcs and creatures look stat wise ?

for example the average:
- watchman
- soldier
- Types of Skavens
- Orcs
- etc

Thank you in advance

Ok, so the description of the creatures characteristics are baselines for use.

It would have been nice with some examples of use from the developers.

Thx for the answer

Thx for answering Hyarion. Im trying to see how things are balanced (or not) rules-wise compared to how I perceive monsters etc. So with no modifications to an orc is much weaker than an Imperial soldier, even a level 1 A Rat Ogre would have a hard time against two soldiers (bonus for outnumbering a...

Hi all I have recently bought WFRP 4 and I am wondering a bit about the balance between pcs and monster. So I have a few questions for those of you that have been playing for a while. A starting human warrior has around 55 in WS a Stormvermin 45, Orc 35 and Chaos warrior 55. So are player characters...