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by Theo
Mon Jul 22, 2019 3:56 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: The Enemy Within Remixed, Season 2: Death on the Reik (campaign report)
Replies: 44
Views: 56932

Re: The Enemy Within Remixed, Season 2: Death on the Reik (campaign report)

I finally finished updating the blog I've been working on to document the campaign. It contains the same recaps I've been posting here, plus some brief notes on the backgrounds and characters. From now on I'll be posting the recaps there and linking them from here. https://theenemywithinremixed.word...
by Theo
Tue Jun 18, 2019 2:59 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Reworkings of The Oldenhaller Contract?
Replies: 9
Views: 14236

Re: Reworkings of The Oldenhaller Contract?

Thanks for helping out, everybody. In the end I decided to put together another scenario, but if I should return to The Oldenhaller Contract later on this will all be very helpful. :)
by Theo
Sat Jun 08, 2019 4:21 pm
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: The Enemy Within Remixed, Season 2: Death on the Reik (campaign report)
Replies: 44
Views: 56932

Re: The Enemy Within Remixed, Season 2: Death on the Reik (campaign report)

Season 2, Episode 7: The House of Herzen The second battle of Schwarzspitze Before the brigands could leave, there was another ruckus. Their leader Schneider was going to execute the wounded brigands that couldn’t be brought along (to preempt them selling him out to escape the gallows); Wernhart st...
by Theo
Thu Jun 06, 2019 2:30 pm
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Reworkings of The Oldenhaller Contract?
Replies: 9
Views: 14236

Re: Reworkings of The Oldenhaller Contract?

Thanks for the input, everyone. :) That other game conversion of the adventure https://grimandperilous.com/warhammer-fantasy-roleplay-conversion-the-oldenhaller-contract/ And if I have some time later I'll post some extra rants about the adventure flaws... Thanks. And I'm always interested in a good...
by Theo
Wed Jun 05, 2019 2:50 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Reworkings of The Oldenhaller Contract?
Replies: 9
Views: 14236

Reworkings of The Oldenhaller Contract?

Over the summer break in my ongoing TEW campaign I'll be running a short side adventure for a player who was absent during much of the spring, as a "flashback" happening during her character's absence. I'm currently leaning towards basing its climax roughly on The Oldenhaller Contract. Now...
by Theo
Tue May 28, 2019 3:17 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: The Enemy Within Remixed, Season 2: Death on the Reik (campaign report)
Replies: 44
Views: 56932

Re: The Enemy Within Remixed, Season 2: Death on the Reik (campaign report)

Season 2, Session 6: The Battle of Schwarzspitze Most of this session was taken up by the fight with the brigands who were occupying Schwarzspitze (Black Peaks), the home of Etelka Herzen. As we picked up where we left off, the adventurers quickly tried to get their bearings. Apart from the woman f...
by Theo
Fri May 03, 2019 4:08 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Warhammer novels, and short stories
Replies: 54
Views: 68831

Re: Warhammer novels, and short stories

It's all good, although maybe a bit more like Warhammer meets Discworld than just Warhammer in the stricter sense we have now. As others have said, Drachenfels is probably his best Warhammer novel. Indeed. At his best - as in Drachenfels - Kim Newman's writing style comes across as somewhere betwee...
by Theo
Fri May 03, 2019 4:06 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Rough Nights & Hard Days
Replies: 21
Views: 29207

Re: Rough Nights & Hard Days

I wrote some thoughts on RN&HD on the 1E fans Facebook group that spilled out into a whole review. Here's the relevant bits: Judging from a read-through only so far, I really liked this. It does feel very much in the spirit of the classics, but with modern production values and unobtrusively mod...
by Theo
Sun Apr 28, 2019 4:09 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: The Enemy Within Remixed, Season 2: Death on the Reik (campaign report)
Replies: 44
Views: 56932

Re: The Enemy Within Remixed, Season 2: Death on the Reik (campaign report)

Season 2, Session 5: Dmitri While Marike and Courage were off doing something else (1) Zima and Wernhart continued their enquiries in Grissenwald. They thought to visit the town’s sole apothecary, who indeed turned out to know Etelka Herzen as one of his best customers – she would buy various ingre...
by Theo
Wed Apr 24, 2019 8:00 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Warhammer novels, and short stories
Replies: 54
Views: 68831

Re: Warhammer novels, and short stories

I'll just pop in to second the recommendations for Drachenfels. It's great stuff: both a good story in itself, a fun gothic horror pastische and an interesting riff on stories and storytelling themselves. Of course, it's wildly out of sync with the later Warhammer canon (and played pretty fast and l...
by Theo
Tue Apr 23, 2019 1:16 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Town garrison/militia, and WFB
Replies: 10
Views: 13846

Re: Town garrison/militia, and WFB

If I were running a larger skirmish or battle - next time I see that coming up is when/if my players storm Castle Wittgenstein with the outlaws :) - I'll probably be using a more abstract mass-combat system. My favourite so far is GURPS Mass Combat - I've already done a conversion of it to my BRP-b...
by Theo
Sun Apr 21, 2019 1:40 pm
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Town garrison/militia, and WFB
Replies: 10
Views: 13846

Re: Town garrison/militia, and WFB

If I were running a larger skirmish or battle - next time I see that coming up is when/if my players storm Castle Wittgenstein with the outlaws :) - I'll probably be using a more abstract mass-combat system. My favourite so far is GURPS Mass Combat - I've already done a conversion of it to my BRP-ba...
by Theo
Sun Apr 21, 2019 1:31 pm
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Your opinion on Thousand Thrones and Restless Dead campaings
Replies: 29
Views: 35767

Re: Your opinion on Thousand Thrones and Restless Dead campaings

To be honest I was working at the time so while I ran the Restless Dead I only really ran the sections that I had 2E conversions for already, except for Horror which is not well regarded. I retrofitted the excellent Warpstone adventure One Minute to Morr, as well as the 3E magic boxed set adventure...
by Theo
Wed Apr 17, 2019 5:55 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Enemy With Shadows Details
Replies: 33
Views: 45824

Re: Enemy With Shadows Details

Well, in fact, the conclusion of "The Oldenhaller Contract" suggest that player characters might flee Nuln toward Bögenhafen in order to play "Shadow Over Bögenhafen". "The Oldenhaller Contract" was presented as a potential initial introduction to that scenario, before...
by Theo
Tue Apr 16, 2019 3:10 pm
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Your opinion on Thousand Thrones and Restless Dead campaings
Replies: 29
Views: 35767

Re: Your opinion on Thousand Thrones and Restless Dead campaings

I've finished my read-through of the adventures section of The Restless Dead, and thought I'd throw down some brief thoughts on them, and what use I might find for them personally. Not sure if it's useful to anyone, but there you go. :) General: As I've already said above, I think Carl Sargent's wor...
by Theo
Tue Apr 16, 2019 2:04 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Your opinion on Thousand Thrones and Restless Dead campaings
Replies: 29
Views: 35767

Re: Your opinion on Thousand Thrones and Restless Dead campaings

I think what is particularly weird is it feels like in Restless Dead they couldn't change the adventure text, so the notes often contradict the published adventure. While it makes for somewhat clumsy reading and reference, I actually kind of like this in that it gives a very transparent insight int...
by Theo
Tue Apr 16, 2019 1:38 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Enemy With Shadows Details
Replies: 33
Views: 45824

Re: Enemy With Shadows Details

Some of the encounters are from the Restless Dead/White Dwarf. I'm not familiar with the Pandemonium Caravan, and when I ran Restless Dead I skipped the Hidden Jewel - is that the one that purports to be an alternative star to TEW? The Affair of the Hidden Jewel is a lightweight swashbuckling adven...
by Theo
Sun Apr 14, 2019 10:26 am
Forum: Fan-made Material
Topic: The Enemy Within Remixed: NPC Portraits (fanart, kind of)
Replies: 13
Views: 20899

Re: The Enemy Within Remixed: NPC Portraits (fanart, kind of)

I haven't got a lot of drawing done for a while, but here's a new piece: the in-game portrait of Etelka Herzen (and her cat) the PCs may find when visiting her house in a session or two. https://theenemywithinremixed.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/etelka_herzen_portratt_ram3.jpg Etelka Herzen and Schat...
by Theo
Sun Apr 14, 2019 8:05 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Miragliano, The Missing City
Replies: 2
Views: 5187

Re: Miragliano, The Missing City

Judging from what I could find by way of the Wayback Machine, this seems to contain the same text.

https://www.grognard.org.uk/WFRP1-Archi ... gliano.zip
by Theo
Fri Apr 12, 2019 5:55 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Your opinion on Thousand Thrones and Restless Dead campaings
Replies: 29
Views: 35767

Re: Your opinion on Thousand Thrones and Restless Dead campaings

As someone who is pretty amazed by the amount of work and thoughts you're putting into your own TEW campaign, I doubt I can add any thoughts of value to you, but I'll try. Now I'm feeling a little bad. I probably sounded much harder on TRD than I meant to. :) Actually I quite agree with your points...