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- Sat Aug 29, 2020 3:38 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 122398
Re: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
It was there on the WFRP 1st edition character sheet, so it has a long history!
- Thu Aug 27, 2020 1:58 pm
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 122398
Re: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
Is it a problem if some of Warhammer’s presentation of religion veers towards the henothestic, rather than a fuller polytheism? There is good evidence that many of the ancient Greeks inclined to this sort of worship; we know that different Norse gods were popular with different groups (Sagas refer t...
- Wed Aug 12, 2020 8:11 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 122398
Re: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
WFRP religion does show its roots as something Graeme Davis had to quickly come up with to fill in the gaps and incorporate few bits others had created. That said, I think it is entirely workable and overall stands up pretty well. What it lacks is any idea of its mythology. Often the stories about g...
- Mon Jul 20, 2020 9:53 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: WFRP Social Justice & Representation
- Replies: 202
- Views: 196013
Re: WFRP Social Justice & Representation
The Beasts in Velvet character is slightly more problematic, because it portrays someone being driven to psychosis purely by denial of their binary birth-sex. In the modern world, a writer should contextualize the character's psychology to show that her female emotional traits were dominant, and th...
- Mon Jul 20, 2020 9:04 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: WFRP Social Justice & Representation
- Replies: 202
- Views: 196013
Re: WFRP Social Justice & Representation
Agreed, I'd probably avoid dark humour and mental illness for transgender NPCs in 2020. Although I laughed at the crossdressing goblin in TEW and found the gender-repressed murderer in Beasts in Velvet compelling, the 80's was a different time. However, I don't think a GM or writer needs to be gay ...
- Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:48 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: WFRP Social Justice & Representation
- Replies: 202
- Views: 196013
Re: WFRP Social Justice & Representation
One thing that would help, I think, would be actively asking some women, some non-white people and some trans folk to write for the game. That's perhaps the best way to see a bit more diversity in the actual material. I was always sad that Server Goddess didn't have time to post more on StS and tha...
- Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:38 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: WFRP Social Justice & Representation
- Replies: 202
- Views: 196013
Re: WFRP Social Justice & Representation
. If there were any Arabic WFRP players, I'd be curious if they consider mutants an appropriate analogue or whether perhaps Arabyans would be more appropriate. Now if you're talking specifically about ISIS cultists then I could get onboard with the mutant analogy. I’m not sure I’d look for any dire...
- Sat Jul 18, 2020 4:53 pm
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: WFRP Social Justice & Representation
- Replies: 202
- Views: 196013
Re: WFRP Social Justice & Representation
How far should WFRP stray from medieval demographic simulation? Right from the outset WFRP has never felt the need to conform to reality, but RW gender roles were less strict than is sometimes thought (the ‘roaring girls’ of the early 17th century were exceptional but showed that they could, effect...
- Wed Jul 01, 2020 1:53 pm
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Ghosts of nonhumans
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9664
Re: Ghosts of nonhumans
In Something Rotten in Kislev I seem to recall there is a dwarf ghost in the abandoned temple in The Beast Child adventure. I also seem to recollect that the Felix and Gotrek short story The Dark Benesth the World finishes with the ghosts of the dead of Karak Eight Peaks avenging themselves on the g...
- Wed Jul 01, 2020 11:59 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Monuments of the Reikland
- Replies: 12
- Views: 15556
Re: Monuments of the Reikland
Hello, I'm not particularly comfortable promoting my own work, but Wolf suggested that I did in the 4e forum, so that gets me off the hook. My conscience is now clear . Always willing to salve a conscience in a good cause. In the past I mostly wrote Warpstone articles and stuff for the Bergsburg pr...
- Thu Jun 25, 2020 7:47 am
- Forum: 4th Edition
- Topic: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)
- Replies: 202
- Views: 195854
Re: Death on the Reik Update
I'm excited that 'Monuments of the Reikland' came out today - it's the first official thing I've had published for WFRP. I was going for something based heavily in the background but with plenty of opportunities to give GMs something to actually use. I hope people enjoy it. I was absolutely delight...
- Fri Jun 12, 2020 7:53 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Mainstream Media Inspirations
- Replies: 29
- Views: 34165
Re: Mainstream Media Inspirations
I don’t think anyone has mentioned these so far: Film Jabberwocky - ex-Pythons give us a medieval monster hunt with all the darkness and silliness of Warhammer. Pan’s Labyrinth - you’d be hard pressed to be dazzled and inspired in some way by this. Novels The Matthew Shardlake series by CJ Sansom - ...
- Fri Dec 06, 2019 12:56 am
- Forum: 4th Edition
- Topic: Enemy In Shadows Companion Available
- Replies: 48
- Views: 52864
Re: Enemy In Shadows Companion Available
From hazy recollection, but didn’t the Boxtree novels timeline end at the year 2500 (suggesting that was the present)? That makes it consistent with the timelines in the WFRP rulebook (and probably whatever edition of WFB was then current - 4?) but not TEW’s 2512 date. Essentially, this makes all th...
- Fri Dec 06, 2019 12:12 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Missing: Pamphlet about mutants are people too!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9171
Re: Missing: Pamphlet about mutants are people too!
I think it is in a DVD extra (before such things existed) for the Middenheim sourcebook, Otto’s Printworks. It was first published in White Dwarf and subsequently in one of the Apocrypha books, I think.
- Fri Dec 06, 2019 12:06 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: The world's oldest RPG in the old World
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11805
Re: The world's oldest RPG in the old World
This blog chronicles a campaign that's basically the early parts of The Enemy Within run with modified D&D rules (I think 5E, but can't be sure): The Dark Beneath (They have some house rules posted here .) This version notably beefs up the combat encounters - lots more and tougher monsters - wh...
- Sat May 04, 2019 7:32 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Warhammer novels, and short stories
- Replies: 54
- Views: 71403
Re: Warhammer novels, and short stories
When it was published, the more Discworldy parts seemed entirely appropriate to the general feel of Warhammer. This was at a time when White Dwarf published a cross over scenario for 40k and Paranoia though. The ultra dull serious Warhammer was a much later thing.
- Sat Apr 27, 2019 7:58 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Warhammer novels, and short stories
- Replies: 54
- Views: 71403
Re: Warhammer novels, and short stories
While its not essential to read the Jack Yeovil stories in any order, the following, I think, contains the correct chronology: 1. Drachenfels (Prologue) 2. Red Thirst 3. The Ignorant Armies 4. No Gold in the Grey Mountains 5. Drachenfels (Main Part) 6. Beasts in Velvet 7. Stage Blood 8. Cold Stark ...
- Sat Apr 27, 2019 7:44 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Warhammer novels, and short stories
- Replies: 54
- Views: 71403
Re: Warhammer novels, and short stories
Obviously, as everyone else has said the answer to these questions is always Drachenfels . It is the only Warhammer book I would happily recommend to someone without any interest in the Warhammer world. It was groundbreaking in terms of what fantasy novels, let alone game world tie-ins, could be at ...
- Fri Apr 12, 2019 3:14 pm
- Forum: 2nd Edition
- Topic: Lizardmen in WFRP2
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15009
Re: Lizardmen in WFRP2
There was a good article in Warpstone about Lizardmen. It had them as lost servants of the Slann now acting as sort of cargo cultists in the Old World.
- Wed Feb 13, 2019 11:53 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Return of the Gnome
- Replies: 9
- Views: 17342
Return of the Gnome
I see that gnomes are officially back in WFRP 4 and as a playable PC race, according to Graeme Davis’s summary of the contents of Rough Nights and Hard Days . Given their inclusion appears to have been surprisingly controversial at times and the fact they haven’t been referred to as existing in the ...