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by Theo
Fri Sep 01, 2023 5:36 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Papering over the big crack in Power Behind The Throne [spoilers]
Replies: 4
Views: 2543

Re: Papering over the big crack in Power Behind The Throne [spoilers]

I suggest reading Theo's great ideas on solving exactly this issue. https://theenemywithinremixed.wordpress.com/2022/08/18/a-less-linear-power-behind-the-throne-finale-part-i-the-finale-as-written/ Would be great to read, if anyone followed this. My group is at beginning of the end of DotR. I am st...
by Theo
Mon Feb 14, 2022 6:48 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Torture And Burn
Replies: 6
Views: 4568

Re: Torture And Burn

The taint of chaos is cancer. To a person, and to the Empire. In a person it's established that any taint will spread and inevitably lead to them succumbing to the call of Chaos. It's no mercy to spare them. Interestingly, if the character actually did observe empirically, he might eventually figur...
by Theo
Mon Feb 14, 2022 5:27 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Spoilers EiR - 9 Eyes
Replies: 3
Views: 3610

Re: Spoilers EiR - 9 Eyes

The whole '9 Eyes' thing kind of feels like an underdeveloped afterthought of a plot.
by Theo
Mon Feb 14, 2022 5:24 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Torture And Burn
Replies: 6
Views: 4568

Re: Torture And Burn

Okay thx Orin. Just not sure I have the stomach to burn people. Good thing it's only a game. How about just playing a profession where you don't have to be an evil piece of shit? Then again, actually playing a decent and humane witch-hunter would be an interesting subversion. He'd probably be consi...
by Theo
Wed Sep 29, 2021 3:20 pm
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Advice for getting the WFRP tone right for scenarios?
Replies: 13
Views: 10714

Re: Advice for getting the WFRP tone right for scenarios?

This may be obvious, but there should not be a dungeon in a WFRP adventure. You can have a mine or sewers or a dungeon in the sense of a jail. But you must not have a D&D dungeon in a WFRP scenario. Another thing are monsters. Just use the classic ones from the old world. Don't extend into an i...
by Theo
Wed Sep 29, 2021 2:42 pm
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)
Replies: 202
Views: 191464

Re: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)

I do think this was a difficult spot for the writers/developers to get out of: be true to the original, retain the themes and complete the plotlines of earlier installments, smooth out the WFRP v1 to WFB v7/The Old World inconsistencies, do it in a couple of hundred pages and make grognards happy. ...
by Theo
Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:36 pm
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)
Replies: 202
Views: 191464

Re: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)

Some first impressions of Ruins, cross-posted from the Facebook group WFRP Game Masters: First off, I think it’s fair to call it a reimagining, or reboot, of Empire in Flames. The basic structure is pretty much the same and a lot of elements – characters, incidents, places, etc – are in both but thi...
by Theo
Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:35 pm
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)
Replies: 202
Views: 191464

Re: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)

Totsuzenheni Yukimi wrote: Mon Sep 27, 2021 2:49 am I noticed that it was £5 more expensive on the Cubicle 7 website than the other volumes.
It's some 50 pages thicker.
by Theo
Sat Apr 10, 2021 9:47 am
Forum: Fan-made Material
Topic: Alternate Castle Wittgenstein maps
Replies: 23
Views: 36838

Re: Alternate Castle Wittgenstein maps

I finally finished my revised and completed version. It's on my blog: https://theenemywithinremixed.wordpress ... tive-maps/
by Theo
Tue Mar 02, 2021 6:36 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)
Replies: 202
Views: 191464

Re: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)

I'm intrigued by the Graf's Garden Party. Does it bear any similarities to the similarly named event in WFRP3's The Enemy Within ? Well, the format is somewhat similar, there are a number of NPCs bickering with each other, and there's a hedge maze (but no escaped monsters hiding in it this time). I...
by Theo
Fri Feb 26, 2021 1:21 pm
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)
Replies: 202
Views: 191464

Re: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)

I completely get your point - there's always a risk with Warhammer that writers get so wrapped up in creating interesting NPCs that they forget about GMs and players discovering or interacting with the stuff that makes them interesting. It's more of an issue when you're dealing with the powerful NP...
by Theo
Fri Feb 26, 2021 9:13 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)
Replies: 202
Views: 191464

Re: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)

My only gripe is the idea – obviously tempting thought it was – to make Nastassia and Brünhilde each other’s nemesis/archenemy. It’s another instance of the bad Warhammer habit of making everything about the cool NPCs. That was my doing. I wanted to give Nastassia a flaw, because otherwise she's at...
by Theo
Fri Feb 26, 2021 7:13 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)
Replies: 202
Views: 191464

Re: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)

The odd thing is that Power Behind the Throne makes several references to Middenland and the duchy of Middenheim being separate entities, and Nordland rather than Middenland being ruled by Middenheim in 2512 (as well as heavy foreshadowing about Nordland separatists). That could all be a matter of ...
by Theo
Fri Feb 26, 2021 5:55 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)
Replies: 202
Views: 191464

Re: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)

The odd thing is that Power Behind the Throne makes several references to Middenland and the duchy of Middenheim being separate entities, and Nordland rather than Middenland being ruled by Middenheim in 2512 (as well as heavy foreshadowing about Nordland separatists). Either way, it's a minor quibbl...
by Theo
Fri Feb 26, 2021 4:04 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)
Replies: 202
Views: 191464

Re: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)

Some impressions after a quick read-through of the Power Behind the Throne Companion: First off: the tagline “The essential companion for campaigning across Middenland” is completely misleading. There’s pretty much nothing in this book about Middenland, let alone campaigning across it. It all focuse...
by Theo
Mon Dec 21, 2020 3:04 pm
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Middenheim: City of the White Wolf
Replies: 43
Views: 41256

Re: Middenheim: City of the White Wolf

Also, since apparently now one of the four viaducts to the city actually comes down from the mountains, it might make sense to also make this an aqueduct collecting water from various mountain streams, rain and snowmelt. Though I was also intrigued that the new Power Behind the Throne seems to descr...
by Theo
Mon Dec 21, 2020 1:56 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)
Replies: 202
Views: 191464

Re: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)

Here's my first thoughts on the new PBtT after a first read-through (cross-posted from the GMs group on Facebook): Short impression: Very close to the original, more so than I had expected. Longer thoughts: First, of course, the book is very pretty as we’ve come to expect from C7. My favourite piece...
by Theo
Fri Dec 11, 2020 1:36 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Middenheim: City of the White Wolf
Replies: 43
Views: 41256

Re: Middenheim: City of the White Wolf

A new revision of the PDF is now posted. The 400,000 figure for the population is indeed a typo with an extra zero. Heh, that's actually unexpected good news. :) I was sure they were doubling down on their absurdly huge numbers. Of course, having 40,000 people live on top of a big rock plateau with...
by Theo
Tue Nov 17, 2020 7:35 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)
Replies: 202
Views: 191464

Re: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)

My preferred fix for the personality change of Boris Todbringer from 1E to 2E is simple: in the "canonical" timeline, Wasmeier's plot was successful and the Graf was actually replaced by an imposter. Thus they seem like very different people for the simple reason that they are different pe...
by Theo
Thu Oct 08, 2020 3:33 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Middenheim: City of the White Wolf
Replies: 43
Views: 41256

Re: Middenheim: City of the White Wolf

How many months after death on the reik would this be released? Extrapolating, could christmas 2021 give us empire in ruins? Not that I would rely on the target dates given by C7... We haven't had any release date on Power Behind the Throne itself, have we? It was some 9 months between Enemy in Sha...