Middenland or Middenheim? Middenland. Interesting. It suggests what direction changes to Power Behind the Throne might go in. I wonder if City of Chaos supplement will also appear, or if they're leaving that as is. it's not like WFRP has ever made any distinction between middenheim and the entire i...

One year and still people are crying about shields. I suggest to make a disclaimer noting all the things that each members abhors in 4th and how they individually fixed them. Thus, any new member can find solutions for his own problems. And hopefully we can move on. with the rules as written being ...

as far as going forward, i suggest keeping things fairly open but focused on getting the reader understanding how the adventurers should be motivated as they go forward. maybe putting asides when it seems like there's a lot of ways for them to screw things up. and keeping a healthy dose of fatalism ...

yeah it's miles better to have armor than a shield, especially if you aren't using simplified armor

I can see this as a good strategy maybe when you are at zero wounds and you have brought down to zero your armor AP in at least one location. But it’s not a fantastic strategy, you are increasing the odds of being hit by no small margin, meaning also you are giving more advantage to your opponent. ...

the -20 translates into taking +2 damage, so unless you have a large shield those APs are JUST there for crit negation at that point and i don't think accepting more damage in the hopes of avoiding a random crit is a sound plan. Crits are brutal, personally I think you’d be a fool not to avail of t...

the -20 translates into taking +2 damage, so unless you have a large shield those APs are JUST there for crit negation at that point and i don't think accepting more damage in the hopes of avoiding a random crit is a sound plan.

Sad to see STS go. I didn't post there much, but it was a great resource. Any links to what happened? But good to see there's still a community. there was a change to the laws regarding sites that maintain user data, and server goddess couldn't wrangle the mess of old code into shape for it without...

the only way to explain some of these rulings is they don't actually understand their own game system, which i assume isn't true because My gods but then that leaves that they just don't want to explain things if they get complex. You can't be serious. You mean you're supposed to generate the critic...

they're determined not to address the shield issues, i swear.

Seems fairly well put together, all in all. I'm not sure what you're getting into with the dex stuff but then i prefer to sneak traps into campaigns more often than some people so dealing with them is an actual issue for groups i run.

Shadows over Bogenhafen suggests following on from The Oldenhaller Contract as "less satisfactory" and doesn't add much of a narrative hook; "Bogenhafen is lovely this time of year." TBH, that'd be quite compelling for the Empire if we didn't sll know lovely meant trans-dimensio...

oh no, my problem is they like to try and "force" the game to run like D&D because i'm friends with most of the murderhobo players in the area and as the GM they figure they outnumber me, but that is good advice! thanks anyways zapp

The combat may last a few more rounds as a result, but i like it (testing is of course needed to confirm my gut feel). I consider this a plus, as 4th edition threatens to run too fast for the adventurers to tell if they accidentially got into a bad fight before they at stuck with a party kill. not ...

(Yes, this makes a small selection of Talents into pretty much crap. Solution: tell your players they don't have to pick 'em if they don't like 'em.) it's probably not much work to imply rewrite them as it comes up to fill holes later, i'm a fan of filling holes after all, and i'm pretty confident ...

i think this is actually a very good idea- as you're spot on about the heightened importance of weapon skill and making STR a requirement for players who want to deal heavy blows means that players have to choose between their skills on a very real level. i do have a few questions though: firstly is...

as far as potential game changers perfect pitch is one of the niggling ones, being as it's theoretically available at the start (and has already caused a small argument in one of the two games i've volunteered to assist-rules sort for) second sight ended up being one as the player essentially forced...

no i think it's a good question to ask here. and honestly i don't know there is. leveling is in a weird state for 4th, since you're explicitly given permission to bypass every requirement and restriction if you can get the GM to agree to it which leaves the grimore in a strange abribrary position. i...

Or is it more a sign that magic is weak at lower XP levels but you fear it might become too powerful once 2,000+ XP are earned and spent? Which is sort of what Orin was also saying (if this time I interpreted his words correctly). specifically, my opinion is that 4th ed. magic's problem is the over...

their approach to the grimore is a small concession to allow the GM to avoid the player taking spells they may not want to simply hand them right off the bat. it's an inelegant approach and a little shakey, but at this point i doubt they were thinking they needed better. Past the grimore he has to d...