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- Thu Mar 04, 2021 12:50 pm
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 124977
Re: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
There are polytheistic societies with henotheistic and monotheistic tendencies. The Warhammer cults are, however, presented as being polytheist but are, in fact, described and understood by rules to be monolatric (and sometime even lightly suggested being henotheistic, with the idea that all gods wo...
- Thu Mar 04, 2021 10:46 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 124977
Re: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
If I indeed agree with you it looks like "monotheism", I feel it is, then, unrealistic as a polytheism, which was, for me, the subject of that thread. (I am not arguing that monotheism couldn't be a realistic religious culture for the Warhammer World , but that, by choosing to present the ...
- Wed Mar 03, 2021 2:22 pm
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 124977
Re: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
So in conclusion and to bookend this post I don't really know what is being driven at when it is noted the pantheon is unrealistic. Is it meant that there are entities that are not worshipped but should be? Do you mean the way existing entities within the Lore are worshipped should be different? Do...
- Thu Feb 25, 2021 3:07 pm
- Forum: 4th Edition
- Topic: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)
- Replies: 202
- Views: 200792
Re: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)
Pregenerated characters?
Is The Ritual suggested to happen in a specific moment? Is it no longer set in Delbrez, or is it suggested to happen in Delbrez on the road to Middenheim?
Is The Ritual suggested to happen in a specific moment? Is it no longer set in Delbrez, or is it suggested to happen in Delbrez on the road to Middenheim?
- Thu Feb 25, 2021 1:49 pm
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Empire Military Organization
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16594
Re: Empire Military Organization
Pratzen's Le Vol de l'Aigle ["The Flight of the Eagle"] is the best Strategy Roleplaying Game I know. The rules are for Napoleonic Wars however, so a good adaptation would need to have some knowledge on Renaissance's warfare, but I'm sure that it might be very interesting to any War campai...
- Sun Feb 21, 2021 7:43 am
- Forum: 4th Edition
- Topic: Where are you starting the PCs in the 4e Enemy Within?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 17117
Re: Where are you starting the PCs in the 4e Enemy Within?
You are right. They weren't originally designed for The Enemy Within campaign. I add them as an introduction scenario, in order to more progressively let adventurers see that things go weirdly at the beginning and in order to introduce earlier the non player characters that are intended by "The...
- Sat Feb 20, 2021 8:49 am
- Forum: 4th Edition
- Topic: Where are you starting the PCs in the 4e Enemy Within?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 17117
Re: Where are you starting the PCs in the 4e Enemy Within?
[previous message have been edited with links] About the solid map, more than one decade ago, I did made this unfinished map: http://maitre.du.monde.free.fr/Jdr/Warhammer/Empire/cartes_reikland.png (The scale is 5 miles to a hex. The image can be zoomed somewhat.) Most of it is too empty (and probab...
- Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:10 pm
- Forum: 4th Edition
- Topic: Where are you starting the PCs in the 4e Enemy Within?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 17117
Re: Where are you starting the PCs in the 4e Enemy Within?
This is how I might see an introduction to The Enemy Within Campaign : Start in Bakersdorf, a very small village of the Talabecland in the countryside of the city of Volgen, near the Northern Barren Hills. Players are young Talabeclanders, who probably worship with about as much devotion Ulric and S...
- Sat Feb 13, 2021 7:30 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Empire Military Organization
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16594
Re: Empire Military Organization
Osprey have good books on how Early Modern Armies were organized. Those three booklets had a great influence on my understanding of how should be armies of the Empire. - https://ospreypublishing.com/the-landsknechts-pb - https://ospreypublishing.com/armies-of-the-german-peasants-039-war-1524-26-pb -...
- Sun Nov 29, 2020 5:35 pm
- Forum: Fan-made Material
- Topic: Alternate Castle Wittgenstein maps
- Replies: 23
- Views: 39031
Re: Alternate Castle Wittgenstein maps
Not really related, but a very long time ago, I have made this document (without key, so players could progressively discover it) which superpose the different layers of Castle Wittgenstein, and underline few layer inconsistencies, such as the scale, the wind rose (but that might perhaps be an error...
- Mon Nov 23, 2020 8:34 am
- Forum: 4th Edition
- Topic: Middenheim: City of the White Wolf
- Replies: 43
- Views: 42771
Re: Middenheim: City of the White Wolf
It's stylistic, with the number of buildings representative rather than literal - like the Hogshead Marienburg map or many historical city maps Alas, it looks like obvious and unhidden that it was done on a graphic tablet. That is my main problem with this map. Many if not most contemporary illustr...
- Fri Nov 20, 2020 4:43 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: What and where is Zaiyon?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 41981
Re: What and where is Zaiyon?
I roughly imagine that the Khazalid "Zaiyon" might be wrote in Klinkarhun by the trigram ᛊᛉᛋ, ZYN , /zajon/, (or made more explicit by the tetragram ᛊᛉᚻᛋ, ZYON ). With the following declension, if Khazalid grammar might be considered as possibly close enough to Khuzdul's: nominative singul...
- Thu Nov 19, 2020 4:29 pm
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: What and where is Zaiyon?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 41981
Re: What and where is Zaiyon?
Archives of the Empire: Volume I will cover "Imperial Dwarfs: While they think of the Karak’s as their true home, many a dwarf has never set foot on ancestral lands, instead living at the very heart of the Empire"
https://www.cubicle7games.com/middenhei ... f-out-now/
https://www.cubicle7games.com/middenhei ... f-out-now/
- Thu Nov 19, 2020 9:06 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: What and where is Zaiyon?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 41981
Re: What and where is Zaiyon?
Thanks and sorry. I rephrased it.
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 3:17 pm
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: What and where is Zaiyon?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 41981
Re: What and where is Zaiyon?
My feeling is that the Biblical return to Zion isn't the same thing as Zionism (albeit Zionism obviously legitimates itself from the Biblical return to Zion). Zionism isn't simply the willingness to return to Zion. It is more than that. That is why the willingness to return to Erebor isn't necessary...
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 2:52 pm
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: What and where is Zaiyon?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 41981
Re: What and where is Zaiyon?
Okay, I wasn't understanding your suggestion because I didn't even thought about Zionism, which is a 19th-21th century movement (albeit it obliviously have older roots), that I wouldn't thought to establish in an early 16th Century inspired Germanic flavoured fantasy civilization such as Warhammer (...
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 1:58 pm
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: What and where is Zaiyon?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 41981
Re: What and where is Zaiyon?
Even so, artists are responsible for inferences that logically arise from their RW analogies. For example, you can't dress the Imperial Guard in WW2 German uniforms and then claim that any similarity between the Imperium and Nazi Germany is purely coincidental. Noticing you've made our thread reach...
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 10:24 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: What and where is Zaiyon?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 41981
Re: What and where is Zaiyon?
Be honest, which group of occupiers do you associate with "reclaiming Zion"? The Crusader analogy could maybe work in Karak Eight Peaks if the Muslims are Skaven. Romans are a stretch due to the historical period. In fantasy fiction works, we can imagine everything. A people inspired by A...
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 9:27 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: What and where is Zaiyon?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 41981
Re: What and where is Zaiyon?
If Zaiyon is analogous to Zion in the Dwarfs=Jews analogy, then I don't see how greenskins could be anything but Muslims (or Crusaders). I feel that is probably because you confuse induction and deduction, which constitute the very significant logical gap that lead to the illogical path you've took...
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 7:59 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: What and where is Zaiyon?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 41981
Re: What and where is Zaiyon?
Plus, if the original Dwarfholds are Zion, does that make greenskins the Arabs/Muslims? There is no logical connexion between "original Dwarfholds are Zion" (which isn't exactly what the text state, by the way) and "make greenskins Arabs/Muslims". Orcs and goblins might or might...