sounds like the Holzenauers might have some nefarious dealings to keep themselves on top of things to me.....

my general view of endeavours (haven't USED them, just looked 'em over) is they were designed with the approach of "how can we make things the players don't want to do easier" which they do without asking the question "does this help or hurt the GM's ability to move the story forward in a natural fa...

There isn't any disagreement between us on that part. As far as I understood your messages, the disagreement is rather on the fact that a polytheist society wouldn't realistically forbid the worship of a god of its pantheon, something that you deny while I do not. Am I correct? specifically, i'm sa...

In a polytheist society, things are simpler. Gods are natural phenomenons that we know and Khaíne wouldn't be considered, alone, as being "a positive part of the political system" more than the rain, the sun, stars, wind, birds, ageing, insects, illness, the moon, birth, air, sea, death, clouds, &c...

(That is why the whole "Sigmarite" vs "Ulrician" conflict in TEW isn't realistic neither in a polytheist context: that is a copy-pasting from a purely monotheistic event, the Schmalkaldic War, within a context that couldn't support it). i want to just lean over and point out that the sigmarite/ulri...

Alleging that "[p]olitics and religion not mixing well [would be] a fairly standard foundation of human behaviour" show that you adopt a pure Abrahamic monotheistic frame of reference on politics, religion or "human behaviour", which is simply absurd to considerate polytheist politics, religion or ...

politics and religion not mixing well is a fairly standard foundation of human behaviour, so that's not an issue to me. also i've never considered elven colonies as part of the "old world", as that's a human distinction. honestly to the elves and dwarfs it's more of a "new world" by their histories,...

i understand you feel you should explore how khainite worship could work, but i want to make it clear that the lore outright states that the cult of khaine is outlawed, full-stop, throughout the old world. the cult itself is simply linked inexorably to ritual murder and anti-social sentiments and re...

you can't really abstractly channel- you have to channel towards a casting cost, then cast the spell when you hit the casting number. once you match the casting number to make your casting roll and add the channeling result to it. if it fails there's an automatic miscast from the channeled magic. so...

khaine's cult is forbidden because the cult murders people as part of their faith. it's not a religious position it's literally most of the are murderers and considered incitement to violence. knowing what an edgelord khaine is he probably likes it that way..... In a polytheist society, murderers w...

i mean it's a tzeentchi cult- those are rarely actually cut and dry. also it's pretty reasonable to leave room for the GM to shuffle matters about.

pointing out the confusion and then just leaving ti in the air as "something of interest" smacks of terrible work on their part though.

the etiquette talent is one of those things that i feel was dropped into the book without much thought (probably used in some adventure testing to good effect due to the way the group was playing) and then never properly balanced or developed for the game. as something for very restrictive groups wh...

it's really more of a bit of argument for those playing the campaign once again and using meta knowledge to mess with the cult, really. i guess they wanted to discuss it but couldn't find reason enough to put it in a book...

With RAW and a defending with a low WS, is the expected value of damage reduction still positive? In other words, would it make sense to choose not to roll for defense basically like in ranged combat? Did anyone do a statistical analysis? It's probably depending on the attackers WS. rules as writte...

pages 514 (opposed tests) and 159 (calculating damage). the final Success Levels result of an opposed test is the difference between the winning and losing rolls, and damage is calculated based on the final SLs generated by a roll, not the roll itself. if it makes you feel any better, i didn't play ...

rules as written, the damage bonus is always the difference in SLs between the successful attack and failed defense, so your example would be +5.

It is intended as a shortcut for getting a talent you might want to get without spending a long time climbing a career tree you aren't interested in. it's kind of important to understand that while the trappings of the career system still exist, 4th edition's system is much more freeform in it's und...

Keep in mind, if its being used in the 2nd hand without the appropriate talent there is a penalty applied. Even in the case of a shield. The skill Melee Parry removes this negative for shields. to clarify what he said, there's a penalty for using a weapon in your off-hand, and using a weapon with t...

There are corrections and changes in the later PDF's, so I'd assume at some point a change in the Printers proofs has got to happen. PDF corrections may not be done to the required standard for proper printing or even in the same format needed, so i wouldn't assume anything of future printings unti...

So, by default, Cubicle 7 don’t take the opportunity to fix things when they reprint? I can't speak for their plans going forward, only that at the time of release they didn't currently have plans to make any corrections to the initial books in future printings. i'd suggest contacting them about it.