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As the Game Master, you will make the lands of the Old World real as you craft the story, the people, creatures, and the mysteries the other players will encounter during their adventures.Everything your group needs to begin its adventures in the Old World is included in the Core set. This Core set is an excellent way to bring new players into the fold, as well as to reward experienced roleplaying with new and exciting innovations. 4 comprehensive rule books provide all the knowledge you will need on the Old World. 36 Custom Dice give you unprecedented game depth and numerous options for story-telling.

Party sheets provide new skills and abilities to keep everyone engaged. 30 different careers and 4 different races offer a multitude of character options.

More than 300 cards keep you in the game, no need to look up skills or abilities. Other Goodies. 36 Custom dice. 154 Action cards. 70 Wound cards.

30 Condition cards. 30 Insanity cards. 30 Career ability cards. 19 Miscast cards. 12 Location cards. 1 Item card.

30 Character sheets. 4 Party sheets. 1 pad of character sheets. 3 Character keeper boxes.

48 Tracking tokens. 6 Stance rings. 6 Activation tokens. 2 Large standups. 47 Medium standups. 12 Plastic bases. 39 Fatigue & stress tokens.

40 puzzle-fit stance pieces. 5 puzzle-fit centre piecesAvailable microbadges for WFRP (all editions).

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So, you lot will have to do. May the lords of ruination spare your souls.Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is a bleakly humorous set in the of.WFRP was originally published in 1986 as a single-volume rule-book, and numerous source and campaign volumes followed. Games Workshop's core business, however, is in the sale of miniatures and other battle-game periphera, and roleplaying publishing has never been as profitable. WFRP was passed around various publishing subsidiaries before being mothballed in 1992.Independent publisher Hogshead obtained the rights to publish WFRP in 1995, though GW retained editorial control to ensure any original material remained true to their canon. Hogshead reverted the license to GW in 2002 when they came under new ownership, and in 2005 Games Workshop published a 2nd edition of the rules developed by outside developer. In 2009, after getting the license, — the publishers of and the RPG, which use variations in the 2nd edition rules — put out a somewhat controversial 3rd edition; support for that ended in 2014.

In May 2017 it was announced that a 4th edition of the game would be released by; the core rulebooks will be released in June (PDF) or July (hardcover) of 2018. Cubicle 7 are also working on, a successor RPG set in the world of the Warhammer sequel,. The original rulebook was often praised for its remarkably bug/exploit-free game engine. The game has been praised for its immersive realism, but equally criticized for forcing players to roleplay the boring periods between quests as well as the exciting adventures themselves.Part, part, part, WFRP shares in its parent setting's bleakness. A solidly, WFRP is uncompromising in its grimness; instead of simply choosing a race and a class, you are advised to roll a dice for a race and a 'career,' which include heroic backgrounds like rat catchers, rag pickers, thugs for hire and tax collectors. After all, life isn't fair, and in, it's downright sadistic.The setting itself is very cynical for a high fantasy, incorporating many low fantasy elements.

The Old World is Europe in the throes of the Renaissance; new civilized cities have begun to rise, throwing up whole new criminal underworlds. Racketeers and drug lords abound, indeed the concept that things like alcohol and drugs can be addictive is yet to be thought of, new 'civilized' physicians cut into patient's skulls looking for 'unclean humours' that plague them. The insane are hounded, out of the fear that daemons have touched them. This being Warhammer, they probably have.

The forces of Chaos are readying their legions to finally take over the world, doom stalks the countryside. But doom has always stalked the countryside, the people of the Old World are fighting a losing battle to stop it from stalking their very homes; indeed many have given up and thrown in their lot with cults dedicated to chaos.The world stands at the brink of annihilation. True, virtuous heroes are needed to turn back the tide of darkness.Until such people can be found, your PCs will have to do.This tabletop RPG provides examples of: NOTE: all the tropes of WFRP's parent setting, apply here as well.: Careers range from gun-slinging highwaymen, assassins, wizards tapping into the forces of creation and plate-armoured knights, to farmers, taxmen, university students and common thieves. Your enemies include (among other things),. If you don't start out as a combat- or magic-focused career, you are essentially this trope by default in the average campaign.: Taken. The majority of typical one-handed weapons - be they swords, axes, maces or whatever - are lumped together as 'hand weapons' with no statistical differences whatsoever.

Typical two-handed weapons like greatswords and mauls are similarly blanketed as 'great weapons'.: Interestingly subverted with the Norscans. While the tribes of Norsca's northern reaches (closer to the corrupting influence of the Chaos Wastes) are certainly villainous, the tribes closer to the Empire are mellow enough that honest trade with Kislev and Marienburg is frequent. In Marienburg particularly, having rugged northmen as bodyguards is said to be rather fashionable among the upper classes,.: The Grey Guardians are sought as diplomats for their wisdom and tact, but their usual job is basically traveling wizard secret or spies, with the grit and cunning that implies.:. This was a rather serious flaw in the first edition of the game. The problem was that, as the player characters advance, their melee attacks got more powerful and more accurate and their opponents got tougher.

Their arrows, on the other hand, got more accurate but remained damage 3 no matter how good an archer the character was. So arrows were powerful against your average thug, goblin or newbie adventurer, but almost useless against a knight, chaos warrior or orc warlord. In addition to this, the higher your skill in either melee or shooting, the higher the chance of gaining an additional damage that with a bit of luck may still anything that is not immune to normal weapons. Furthermore, in missile combat uses a Sudden Death Rule that is, as a rule of thumb, more deadly that normal Critical Hit rules.

In 4th Edition, bows scale in damage as your character's strength increases, while guns and crossbows do not. That said, the amount of strength needed for an average adventurer with a bow to match the most basic gun is extreme (strength bonus 6 or higher).:. When studied, the painting 'A Grim Feast' causes the viewers to slaughter his entire family.

A legend tell Girardi del Vors murdered his wife and her two male lovers after he found them in his house then used their blood and fluids to make this painting before hanging himself. 'The Blessed Ones' painting causes any viewer to gain one Insanity point and, if one drop of blood fell on it then two Unholy Ones are released and, if succesful, the viewer is locked in the painting forever.: Karitamen the Death Scarab, the of the 2nd edition adventure Lure of the Lich Lord.

A sidebar called 'Evil vs Undead' this, pointing out that he is ultimately a complex person with multiple motivations and virtues as well as vices, most of whom he would hold even if he wasn't a millennia-old Tomb King. The final encounter between Karitamen and the player characters is left up to the GM and can be solved nonviolently, with the book only pointing out that certain actions (like defacing his tomb or killing his best friend).: In the 1st edition adventure, The Dying of the Light, the characters meet Dr Balthazar, a alchemist from the University of Nuln.

The cart he is travelling in is loaded with the paraphernalia of his alchemical studies including a stuffed alligator.: It most definitively is not, but fat chance you'll ever see any besides (if you're lucky) your starting leather skullcap and that rusty piece of moth-ridden chainmail you nabbed off that bandit. In the first edition it was.

According to the rules, chainmail or plate armour give 1 Armour Point, which stacks with Toughness (natural resilience) that ranges between 2 and 4 for an average human. This means that an average guy in plate armor is just as resilient as a tough warrior naked. Leather armour was useless against anything but lightest attacks (think fisticuffs). Shields in 1st edition were pretty useful, though.

They protected a character's entire body, and were lighter than a chainmail shirt, which offered the same protection to only the torso, but was heavier than the shield.: Most of the third-tier careers in 2nd edition — especially those that require full plate mail or, hell, anything costing over 100 Gold Coins as a trapping to enter. The highest level wizard career requires 6000 GC worth of grimoires to enter. In Third Edition, Ulthuan Scale Armour qualifies: it looks really cool, but costs 1 more gold and provides 1 less armour then a breastplate, all for a negligible encumbrance reduction.: Everything in the Tome of Corruption supplement for 2nd edition. Everything!.: Magister Oric of Wurtbad, author of Perilous Beasts: A Study of Creatures Fair and Foul, the in-universe equivalent of the Old World Bestiary splatbook for 2nd edition. In his efforts to get as much information for his bestiary as possible, he actually confronted pretty much every sentient creature in his list and spoke to them face to face.

And what's more, in every case, he lived to tell the tale — by the time he published his book, he had been working on it for 50 years and only lost his hand in the process. Which, considering he went face to face with every notable creature haunting the Old World, is highly impressive. While you sleep, your genitals decide to leave you and run off north to the realm of Chaos, in their place you are granted a toothed orifice which lewd suggestions at inappropriate moments.: The main campaign of adventures published for the first edition, The Enemy Within, pretty clearly cannot have taken place as written in the world described by the second and third editions. In Empire in Flames, Emperor Karl Franz and Boris Todbringer are both murdered on separate occasions; Heinrich Todbringer becomes the new emperor, is revealed as the heir of Sigmar, and marries Emmanuelle von Liebewitz. None of this happened according to the second edition.:. Only present in the First Edition of the game.

While broadly similar to their D&D equivalents, there were some differences. The options were:. Chaotic: Basically inhuman evil. Someone who has literally shed their humanity in pursuit of other goals, be they magical power, physical power, eternal life, daemonhood, or just causing mayhem. Similar to Chaotic Evil in D&D. Evil: Nasty sorts fully prepared to throw others under the bus, use extreme torture etc., but still have human motivations, and don't cross into territory. Equivalent to Neutral Evil or Lawful Evil in D&D.

Neutral: Most 'normal' people — albeit with some due to the setting. Mostly care about themselves, but usually willing to oppose extremes of cruelty etc. Equivalent to True Neutral or Chaotic Neutral in D&D. Good: Altruistic and prefer justice over law, and generally don't believe in.

D&D equivalent would be Chaotic Good, Neutral Good, or Lawful Good (as long as the 'Lawful' does not take precedence over the 'Good'). Lawful: If you go too far down the road, you end up here.

These people believe in structure, permanence and order above all else. They are sworn enemies of Chaos, and are willing to go to great lengths to oppose it, and but will also scoff at Neutral or even Good characters for being 'too soft' or 'lacking self-control'. D&D equivalent would be Lawful Neutral.: In The Thousand Thrones, the plot revolves around a young boy named Karl, who was born as a mutant with an particularly potent example of this power. Anyone who hears his voice — even if its only a single unassuming word — needs to pass a difficult Will Power test or become instantly and fanatically loyal to him. Within a short span of time he gathers a veritable army of thralls, who hold him up as the true reincarnation of Sigmar. Karl himself isn't remotely evil, however; he's just a normal boy with a superpower, and his followers are clearly shown to be projecting their own hopes and dreams onto his presence.: Second edition's 'Realms of Sorcery' book gives us two spells in the that lend themselves to. Flashcook causes food to be instantly cooked to the caster's content or causes water to instantly boil; while Taste of Fire turns food, grants alcoholic effects to non-alcoholic drinks, and makes already-alcoholic drinks.

Given that the Lore of Fire is easily the most combat-focused lore in the game, any Bright Wizard who knows these two spells qualifies as this trope.: Instead of gaining levels of 'wizard' or 'warrior', characters instead start with a career and a set of skills from that career. They can then advance their skills and stats in a way restricted by their current career (for example, servants can increase their agility, but not their leadership). Your blow destroys your opponent's hip joint almost totally — the leg hangs limply, a mass of tattered and pulpy flesh with protruding fragments of bone. By chance, one of the bone splinters has severed a major artery, and after a fraction of a second your opponent collapses, with blood pouring out from the ruined hip. Death from shock and blood loss is almost instantaneous.

In 4th ed, critical hits happen when you succeed at a test in combat by rolling doubles (so 1/1, 2/2, 3/3, etc). When this happens you immediately inflict a critical wound on your opponent, no matter how injured or uninjured they may currently be. Critical hits can even occur while you're parrying an opponent's blow, making melee combat much more chaotic and deadly for both sides.:. 1st-3rd editions had critical failures occur during spell casting by rolling doubles on your spell die, or with certain unstable weapons when rolling a 96-100 on your attack rolls. Results may summon Daemons of Chaos, render you impotent, render you and your party and your distant relatives impotent, or merely give you an insanity point. Guns tend to simply blow up. In 4th edition, fumbles are the counterpart of critical hits and occur when you roll doubles but don't succeed on your test.

Because combat rolls are opposed rolls, this means you can both fumble and win a round a combat at the same time as long as your opponent rolls even worse, leading to situations like your slayer beheading that enemy goblin but accidentally getting his axe stuck in his own leg in the process.: The old world is polytheistic, all its major gods command a cult to do their bidding. And their bidding is often very bloody; gods in Warhammer are not moral pillars or but tyrannical masters who will strike you down if you don't give them their due. As such, most of the important people of the empire belong to (often rival) cults, who for all their mutual dislike, hate chaos, foreigners and elves more.: The Estalian Diestro career from the second edition of the game. Estalia is the setting's of Spain and the Diestro is described as a master swordsman (or woman). Their beginning possessions include not simply a rapier, but a set of fine clothes and a bottle of cologne or perfume!.: Never mind characters and NPCs, the manuals can get in on the snark. For instance, the sum total of the 'roleplay hints' for Human characters.

You should know how to play one of these.: Yes, flagellants and Dwarf slayers are playable in all four editions, and yes, you are expected to act like it if you do. In 2nd edition, the 'career choice' for a slayer went troll slayer - giant slayer - daemon slayer - glorious death.: Quite a lot of it, especially in the Knights of the Grail supplement concerning the Kingdom of Bretonnia. Sadly true to the medieval period, women in Bretonnia are forbidden from owning property or managing their own affairs. If you want to play as a female adventurer in Bretonnia, you might have to. Even visiting women aren't unlikely to prefer to pretend to be a man to make things run more simply for the duration of their stay. Xenophobia is seen as a virtue, and openly espousing tolerance is viewed with deep suspicion. Because the ever-present danger of Chaos keeps everyone on their toes.

It's noted (particularly in later source books) that the large cities of the Reikland are the most cosmopolitan and tolerant places one's likely to find in the Empire, and the xenophobia gets worse the further out into the sticks one goes. People with mental disorders are treated with revulsion and suspicion, tolerated only if their condition invokes either humour or pity. Many people believe that insanity is contagious and Witch Hunters have no tolerance for those with mental disorders and put most they encounter to the flame or sword - which is as many of them suffer paranoid delusions so severe that they'd be institutionalized themselves if they lived in our world.: Averted. If your characters encounter things like Greater Daemons or Ancient Dragons, then your characters will almost certainly die. The Monster manual even states that these monsters are to be used for cutscenes. The Greater Daemons of Chaos are living symbols of the futility of fighting Chaos.

Their might is unmatched. Their threat is limitless.

Each and every one of these foul beings have the power to bring low the greatest of mortal heroes. In the first two editions at least it was just about possible for a party of powerful adventurers (i.e.

Those who had an entire campaign behind them) to take out a lone Greater Daemon. The last adventure in the 1st edition Enemy Within campaign pits the adventurers against a weakened Greater Daemon at the very end of the adventure. Can you smell those Fate Points burning up?.

Note that this is a prerequisite for entering the 'Daemon Slayer' career. If you are curious — in the first edition, Greater Demons sic were statted. With 90 to 100% in every applicable stat.: In 1st-3rd edition you were allowed to dodge, but not parry, any incoming ranged attacks. As of 4th edition this is no longer possible unless your opponent is at point blank range (usually within 5 squares or less).: Second Edition features a campaign set in the fallen dwarfhold of Karak Azgal, an of that was laired by a dragon. The dragon is long gone, but the vast underground city is filled with monsters and dwarfen wealth, resulting in a of opportunistic treasure hunters and adventurers known as Skalf's Hold (named for and founded by the dwarf hero who slew the dragon).

The dwarfs maintain strict control over access to the underground; dungeon delvers are required to pay a toll to enter and a tax on any relics they find. Eventually a second, seedier boom town called Deadgate sprang up outside of Skalf's Hold, filled with merchants and diversions extracting coin from adventurers.: The original First Edition rulebook made no mention of D aemons, instead featuring D emons; and all the gods have demon followers, not just the Chaos Gods (which yes means it is very possible to have Good and Lawful demons.) Additionally Sigmar is mentioned briefly as a regional 'lesser deity' and protector of the Imperial Family, implying he is a rather minor god. First Edition as a whole is this for anyone who started playing Warhammer Fantasy at any period after the release of Warhammer's 5th Edition. In addition, some of the backgrounds for certain countries and regions have undergone major changes — e.g. Sylvania wasn't run by vampires, Bretonnia was known for its decadent nobility and had a technology level equivalent to the Empire, Albion was a civilized land, the Hobgoblins weren't allied with Chaos Dwarfs, etc. The Fimir, a minor, rarely-mentioned race in the later editions of Warhammer, are featured prominently — they get a whole page of background plus a full-page illustration.: The Dark Lores (Chaos and Necromancy) have a 10% risk of adding a to your character's appearance or psyche whenever they trigger Tzeentch's Curse.

Chaos in particular also deals in far more disfiguring mutations, though you don't necessarily have to be evil to be affected.: Characters, NPCs and monsters aligned with Chaos tend to be riddled with hideous supernatural mutations, and in 2nd Edition many of the Gifts of Chaos bestowed upon PCs involve developing the physical aspects of daemons, such as having your face replaced with that of a. Furthermore, 'mutant' is counted as its own race, and the Turnskin mutation outright transforms you into a beastman instead.

Finally, if you develop more of these mutations than your body can withstand, you'll degrade into a mindless Chaos Spawn, a freakish nightmare that can only barely be recognized as having once been human.: In Second Edition, the, and careers are essentially this, and the Vampire Lord has the required 'trappings' to back it up. This was made for Erik the, a notorious mercenary. He foolishly commissioned a wizard to make him a sword that could 'cut through things like butter.' The wizard was. Against normal targets, the sword has Damage -3, but it cuts through dairy products with the efficiency of a fine cheesewire. The wizard who made the sword was later found drowned in a.: All over the place. Dwarfs despise all elves (to the degree they gain the talent Animosity (elves) in 4th edition) and distrust halflings, high elves look down on dwarfs and wood elves and consider humans useful but dangerous, wood elves look down on dwarfs and high elves (and Athel Loren and Laurelorn wood elves consider each other's approaches foolish) and consider humans dangerous, humans consider elves odd outlanders, and that's not going into their plain old regular racism against humans of other nations and cultures.

The only playable race to avoid this (on both ends) are the halflings, and that's mostly because everyone else considers them. And anything that resembles a mutant deserves death by torture (emphasis on 'resembles', if you're normal but really hoarking ugly don't be surprised if the locals try to draw and quarter you).: The Warhammer world is implied to be an alternate offshoot of our world where man holds a tenuous grip on the world at the best of times, roughly around the late 1400's. The Empire is very strongly the. Even within the Empire, there is the provinces: Reikland is Austria, Middenland is Prussia, Wissenland is Switzerland, Averland is Bohemia, Stirland is Hungary, Hochland is the Black Forest, and Sylvania is Wallachia if it actually really was run by vampires. This is also served with a side of influence from - Nuln for example with its smoking skyline, advanced steampunk technology and steam-powered lifting bridge has a lot of Victorian London about it. Bretonnia is a fusion of medieval France and England, with. But.

Kislev is a mix of Poland-Lithuania and medieval Russia. Estalia is Spain and Aragon, and Tilea is Renaissance Italy. The Norscans are Vikings. Giant, Daemon-worshipping Vikings on crack.

Should your travels ever take you out that far, to the east there are the large and ancient human kingdoms of Ind, Cathay and Nippon. Separating the kingdoms of the east from those of the west are Ogres. Very big and very hungry Mongol Ogres. To the northwest of the Empire and Bretonnia is Albion, a mysterious island seeped in fog and cold rain, populated by ornery naked warriors and dancing druids. To the south is the kingdom of Araby, and.: Guns are available, but since they're expensive, dangerous to the user and not that much more efficient than bows and arrows, they get overlooked.

Fluff-wise, Bretonnia has it in an interesting way. There forbidding guns, but there is a blanket ban on crossbows, which hasn't been updated after black-powder weapons were introduced. Most people there consider the current interpretation (that guns are vaguely similar to and fill the same battlefield niche as crossbows, and therefore count as such) to be in the spirit of the law, but the fathers of the port of L'Anguille are actively lobbying for a stricter interpretation or outright amendment to the law, so they can upgrade the port's defenses with cannon.

Note that Bretonnia's actual navy already employs cannons,.: There are quite a few, most involving Chaos. Gain (or roll up a specific mutation) and you permanently devolve into a hideous, mindless nightmare of flesh called a Chaos Spawn. Have fun rolling up a new character while your party struggles to fight off what remains of your previous one. There are several instances (such as a spectacularly bad bout of Tzeentch's Curse, reckless use of teleportation powers, or displeasing the Chaos Gods should you serve them) where a character is simply plucked from reality and tossed into the Realm of Chaos to be the plaything of daemons for eternity. In The Dying of the Light, the Fimir have a magical testing ground where their warriors can prove they're worthy of being possessed by Daemons (they consider this an honour). The combats take place on a plane of magical glass.

Those who fall slip right through the glass and become trapped below ground like flies in amber. Not all of them are dead.

The titular villain from Castle Drachenfels has devised many different ways of keeping people alive, but tormented forever in his dungeons. One particularly cruel example is a courtesan whom Drachenfels transformed into an undead skeleton, but still believes she's a beautiful.: Any Bright Wizard of seniority will have coppery or red hair, and will be well ready to set any problems alight.:.

A player can be one, if they so chose. Careers such as Racketeer and Thug explicitly serve as muscle for criminal gangs.

The 2nd Ed. Sourcebook Shades of Empire has a chapter that goes into detail about various street gangs in Altdorf's port district, with particular focus on a trio of influential gangs referred to collectively as the 'Dockers'. As the name suggests, they originated from work gangs who formed fraternities and informal unions, and frequently get involved in bloody turf wars with each-other.: Averted, in a deviation from typical of this kind.

Each nation (and the elves and dwarves) have their own monetary unit, which have exchange rates. Most adventures take place inside the Empire, however, where their currency is generally the only found legal tender.: The Empire has this system of currency, albeit based on: 12 copper pennies to the silver shilling, 20 silver shillings to the gold crown. Confusing as hell for anyone who grew up with decimalized money (basically everyone who isn't British or Irish and born before the mid-'60s).: The 'dramatic injury' head injury result in 4th ed will leave your character with one of these: So impressive, in fact, that it makes social rolls more successful if the scar would be relevant to your attempt (like telling the story of how you got it, as an example).: Human characters in 4th ed all begin with the 'Doomed!' Talent, which must be filled in by the player during character creation with the way in which that character has been foreseen to die. If the character (somehow) manages to die in exactly that fashion, that player's next character gains as a bonus upon creation.: Whereas most other games's art has very good-looking people, Warhammer is famous for averting that. That hunchbacked, grossly fat oaf with a lazy eye and hairy warts is not a mutant, that's a representation of the average Old Worlder. Even the elves aren't pretty in the first Warhammer editions - more scars and eye-patches than a pirate crew.

Though there is some movement away from the 'everyone is fugly' character depiction.: The three-part Paths of the Damned campaign in 2nd edition revolves around the players' efforts to find and destroy three containing the essence of a powerful Greater Daemon of Khorne.: Archaon the Everchosen is portrayed as this in second edition, which is nominally set in the immediate aftermath of the Storm of Chaos. Although his armies were routed at Middenheim, much of the Empire's northeast — particularly Ostland and Hochland — have been totally sacked by the armies of Chaos. Stragglers from Archaon's hordes infest the wilderness, while beastmen herds and Chaos cults galvanized by the recent warfare do everything they can to sabotage the reeling Empire and tip the scales back in Archaon's favor, contributing to the.:. The Rat Catchers are the first line of defense against evil ratmen, the Skaven, who are plotting to conquer the world.

They brave the medieval sewers, full of diseases and instant death, armed with little more than clubs and a small (but vicious) dog, all for below minimum wage. They've learnt long ago to not mention it to the people on the surface, on fear of ridicule.

Most thankless job ever. Used rather egregiously at the end of the second-edition campaign Terror in Talabheim: After leading a heroic resistance effort to liberate the city from the occupying Skaven, the player characters are quickly shooed out of town, and the leaders of the city work to cover up the entire conflict. A subversion is also present; unknown to everyone, a small commemorative statue depicting the party is erected deep within the local Temple to Myrmidia, with a plaque that simply reads 'We remember'.: You can aim for the crotch, which does extra damage.

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In the 2nd edition, the Bretonnia sourcebook mentions the existence of Bretonnian Truffle Hounds, monstrous dogs that are experts on sniffing out truffles. If they eat any of the truffles they find, though, they become psychotically horny and territorial, immediately attacking anything nearby with a Y-chromosome (regardless of species). Removing their ability to compete, shall we say? Bretonnian truffle hunters either wear metal plates over their nether regions and become very good at restraining their dogs quickly, or learn to get a day job as a falsetto singer.: Long term contact with Chaos or Warpstone often induces mutations in player characters. Regardless of whether you choose to fight against or embrace the corruption eventually you will lose your mind. If you're playing Second Edition and you're a Norscan with a mutation, congratulations! You can start as a badass Chaos Marauder, and can later become a Warrior of Chaos!

And it's all downhill from there.: Zigzagged. Guns are extremely deadly if they hit — which reflects in their extremely high purchase price. Barring rolling up a soldier, your average PC will be lucky if he ever sees one. However, the operative words are if they hit.

The Old World being the equivalent of 16th-century Europe, guns are not well noted for their accuracy or reliability (with the exception of Hochland Long Rifles, which are bloody expensive even for firearms). Guns were pretty weak in the first edition of the game (except the ones who could hit multiple targets with one shot, such as the Blunderbuss).: Ratcatchers are noted to live dangerous lives in the Old World because the Skaven make it a priority to get rid of anyone who starts talking too loudly about the 'bigger rats'. Many ratcatchers actively suppress information on Skaven to avoid this.: Any Grey Wizard who doesn't want to be known as such will instead easily appear as anyone else at all, and no one should want to be surveyed by one.: The Norscans, who are a race of superhuman Chaos Vikings, make an appearance as a playable race in the Tome of Corruption supplement in the 2nd edition, and as main antagonists in the Crimson Rain adventure for the third edition Liber Carnagia rulebook.

In the latter, a Norse warband dedicated to Khorne and led by a Chaos Champion known as Olaf Warhound raid the Nordland city of Neues Emskrank in search of a daemon weapon of Khorne. Vignar, an Aesling Chaos Lord of Khorne present in the Thousand Thrones campaign supplement for the second edition of WHFRP was an extreme example of this trope as well as the second most lethal enemy in the campaign, second only to the overall villain of that story.: Mandated in early editions, which resulted in completely random character stats and careers. Some people made house-rules around this, while others found 'making do' part of the charm. Your opponent's head flies off in a random direction, landing 2D6 feet away.: The Fate Points. Burn one and you get to survive — by some extraordinary quirk of fate — an event that otherwise would kill you.

They're very hard to come by, though, and spending them also reduces your base pool of Fortune Points (which are a renewable resource and serve as a more typical ).: Boy, are they. Aside from the variety of common daemon types aligned to the different Chaos gods, second edition's Tome of Corruption contains a system for randomly-generating unique daemons of the, and varieties. You're encouraged to create daemons that are as strange and memorable as possible, with the aid of the book's d1000 mutation chart.: Quite literally; elves have the highest ability score total (two positive modifiers, no negative), a base movement of 5 (about as fast as a horse), don't need to pay tuition fees as wizards, and their career list lacks many of the suckier choices like peasant. They get shafted slightly on Fate Points and Wounds, but not as badly as the Halflings on the latter. Of course, getting those fat bonuses still only partially offsets the fact you have to play an elf in a setting where, in case it hasn't been made clear already, the majority of people are superstitious racists who take ' as something that should be done with any available chopping or bludgeoning implement and plenty of fire.

In second edition, the career is described as the epitome of what a human spellcaster is capable of, and any wizard who reaches this level is among the most powerful and influential practitioners of magic in the Old World. For an elf who reaches this career, they are considered to have finished basic training by the standards of the elven loremasters.

In 4th edition elven wizards can specialize in multiple lores of magic as long as they have the willpower and have obtained mastery in all lores they currently have, while humans can only ever pick one. The elfbow is also the most powerful non-blackpowder weapon in the game, though.: Gnomes appeared in the first edition of the game were they were described as a rare subspecies of Dwarf.

They strongly resembled the D&D version, being nimble pranksters with a talent for illusions and some skill with engineering and smithing. They were never a prominent part of the setting, only being included as an optional PC race in a White Dwarf article (and the memorable parody NPC, Alphonse Hercules de Gascoigne, in the With a Little Help From My Friends adventure.) Gnomes were phased out entirely in later editions of the setting, though there have been fanmade rules to retro-fit gnomes for Second and Third Edition.: As typical, the vampires of the Warhammer world are split into five distinct bloodlines (, and ), though independent vampires are possible. The second edition book Night's Dark Masters features a system for customizing vampires for your campaign, which also reveals that no two vampires ever have the same powers or weaknesses — instead, vampires possess five random weaknesses (the defaults being, and a pair of specific herbs), and gain two random vampiric powers each time they climb up a special career chain (one common to their bloodline, one normally associated with a different bloodline). So you can have a vampire carrying a virulent plague in his bites, who can transform into a cloud of mist to flee danger, but who also spontaneously combusts when struck by and is averse to the sight of an innocent person's tears.: Advanced careers in 1st-3rd editions, which required you to finish a basic career before you could enter one.: What the player characters will be living in. Going by the rules as written, it is unlikely that a new character can afford to wear a full leather suit and have a decent sword and buckler, if these are not provided by his career.

Full leather suit? Your average WHFRP starting character will be lucky if he owns any armour at all. The starting gold (rolled for, of course) is barely enough to buy a character a decent pair of boots. Made clear in the supplement Renegade Crowns (see ) that even should the player characters become rulers they are still going to be scrabbling for every penny.

An especially example of this trope seeing as the 2nd edition of the game, as it added more and more supplements, placed exact prices on every damn expensive thing the creators could think of. The most expensive object in the game would be a best craftsmanship galleon, which following game rules costs a stunning 120 THOUSAND gold crowns in a game where players have much better odds scavenging their equipment than working to make enough money to actually afford pistols or plate armour — both of which at common craftsmanship cost almost 1/500 of the galleon. It's basically just a to players.: the Old World Bestiary features a story about a human child meeting face to face with a Minotaur beastman, but instead of killing the kid, the Minotaur tells him to go back home and return when he's big enough to be a and a better meal.

Given the standards of the Beastmen, who usually kill and eat humans on sight, this Is almost charitable.: Any party member or NPC with 'Firebug', which includes a halfling in the scenario included in the Second Edition Realms of Sorcery splatbook. Generally speaking one of the more debilitating mental disorders.:.

First the good news: one of the supplements has a campaign allowing player characters to create (or more likely steal) a principality of their own! The bad news: said principality is in the monster/bandit/Chaos haunted Border Princes territory, will probably make look vast and wealthy in comparison and comes with a court full of people just itching to the player characters what they did to the last guy.

Some of the better advanced careers are pretty awesome as well; they won't give you royalty, but considering where you start, it's hardly a downturn. With luck, or of first edition, you can work your way up to generals of mercenary armies, ship captains, and so on.: In The Enemy Within campaign, the adventurers at one point save the life of an Imperial Elector Count. And learn a lot of embarrassing secrets about his court. So as a 'reward' they get sent to Kislev, to an area which is the fantasy equivalent of Siberia.: A not-uncommon role for Grey Wizards to play. The best way to figure out what a Chaos cult is doing probably is to join it.: Any references to Rat Catchers or the Rat Catcher career will always mention their most important trapping: a small (but vicious) dog. In second edition's Old World Armoury, a stat entry on common dogs specifically notes that rat catcher dogs have the 'Warrior Born' talent (granting +5% to their Weapon Skill characteristic).: Available as a career choice for characters in 1st edition, indicated to be the 'two-bit' variety of thief who steals individual livestock for simple coin.

In 2nd Edition, cattle rustlers from the Border Princes are said to the most common worshippers of a minor god named Gunndred, who is the patron of violent criminals and those who spread fear. Such rustlers are noted for being.: Troll Slayers in 1st and 2nd edition.

Most combat-related careers usually have some non-combat related skills thrown in to showcase a diversified lifestyle when not fighting anything. Troll Slayers have three skills and three skills only: Dodge Blow (useful only in a fight), Intimidate (also useful in a fight) and Consume Alcohol (useful for giving you an excuse to start a fight). Justified, as the whole point of becoming a Slayer is to be a singleminded, put your prior life (and skills) behind you, and you can't leave the Slayer path once you start it. Downplayed in 4th edition: Slayers start out with enough skills to know how to get around in the world as a half-mad, get very good in, and on reaching Dragon Slayer level have gotten enough grisly stories under their belt to know how to entertain others with them. Their Talent pool is still entirely geared towards combat.: Just saw a particularly grisly murder scene? Turned out that filthy hobo that stole the countess' silverware was a Chaos mutant and just revealed it in front of you?

Happen to be, or stand close to, a wizard (or an elf) for an extended period of time? It's Insanity Points time! Hope you like crippling alcoholism, mandrake addiction, kleptomania, delusions of grandeur or any other number of not-so-funny-anymore medieval mental illnesses, because you'll be stuck with it for the rest of your career.: Particularly in the rural areas of the Empire, elves have basically the same social problems as. Old World Armoury even mentions an 'ear tax' levied on elves, although it's not always enforced.

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Necoho requires nothing from his followers; indeed, it sometimes seems that he would rather not have any at all. /: The bread and butter of Bretonnian society according to the 2nd edition supplement. Many of the chapters on the dukedoms mention a number of regional quirks, most of whom.: Sadly true to the medieval period in real life, in Bretonnia women do not manage their own affairs or own property. So if you want to play a female character, you'll have to pretend to be a man.

Fortunately for such women, Bretonnian culture is some combination of being so hidebound/polite that any woman pretending to be a man in Bretonnia automatically succeeds in doing so, no rolling for tests necessary. Apparently it's common enough that at least one Knight killed in battle per year in Bretonnia turns out to be a woman.: In first Edition, Bretonnia basically was 'ze'. Pre-Revolutionary Frenchjerklandia, to be precise. Also rotten to the bone.: The Enemy Within campaign includes a story about a not-so-bright knight who charged a handgunners regiment shouting 'Challenge! (and thus invoking the controversial rule from Warhammer Fantasy Battle). This being WFRP,.: Bretonnian beer and ale, in stark contrast to their wine. While you sleep, your genitals decide to leave you and run off north to the realm of Chaos.

In their place you are granted a toothed orifice which stage whispers lewd suggestions at inappropriate moments.: Obeys the first law, but not the second and third laws. Also comes with the caveat that every spell has at least a 10% chance of driving the caster insane or causing dangerous supernatural phenomena, successful or not (the more dice you roll to cast a spell, the greater the chance).: In Second Edition, with the right books, its possible to play parties composed of Beastmen, Skaven, and Norscans. Players can even side with the Ruinous Powers and become Warriors of Chaos.: The work of a Grey Wizard's sniffing out corruption or a Light Wizard's banishing Chaos or dark magic is never done, and they are frequently personally moving on to the next task.: In several published adventures, the players are faced with a dilemma about what to do with non-hostile mutants. For example, Ludwig von Wittgenstein, nominal head of a noble family, lives in a castle run by his evil, insane necromancer daughter and supported by cruel, mutated guards, and he himself has mutated into a giant cockroach. However, he personally has no say in how things are done and is content to stay in his tower, playing an organ and with only cockroaches for company. Despite his mutation, he is a thoroughly polite and decent man — when the player characters arrive, he will welcome them and invite them for a chat about art and/or philosophy, offering them brandy and cigars.

Tome of Corruption points out that while many denizens of the Empire have little problem condemning mutants if they're someone they don't know (or like), attitudes change fairly quickly once. Families that experience the birth of mutant children decide to either hide the baby or abandon them in the woods rather than kill them or consign them to Witch Hunters.

Those who wholeheartedly supported euthanization of mutants suddenly become determined to avoid the pyre themselves. If a player gains a mutation, the GM is encouraged to play up the ensuing dilemmas and use them to emphasize just how insidious Chaos truly is.:. For mages, the white wind of Hysh is a colour of magic associated with light, protection and healing.

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There is also Qhaysh, or High Magic,. Qhaysh is not available for, even elven ones, as the time needed to learn how to wield it is measured in centuries. For priests, the Lore of Shallya is a purely defensive lore filled with protection and healing spells, including one in 2nd edition that allowed you to cure insanities.

Its single offensive spell only harms diseases and.: The Marshlight creatures are ethereal that cannot physically harm their victims, instead they mesmerise them and lead them into danger. They are impossible to harm unless hit with a magical weapon which banishes them in a single hit. There is also the petty spell that allows a caster to create a number of lights within 100 yards of themselves and then send them off in any desired direction. The Enemy Within (1st edition) and Paths of the Damned (2nd edition) campaigns end with the players tangling with (and possibly defeating) weakened Greater Daemons. Normally, these nightmares would be a just waiting to happen, but in their reduced states they manage to be weak enough to serve as challenging boss battles.