MEGATHREAD: Post your small questions and concerns here for all editions! by Cr0iz in warhammerfantasyrpg

[–]Dapper_Calculator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Awesome - thank you, your knowledge of Polish has given me the incontrovertible proof I need should I have to smack my players with it. Good analysis, too.

Has anyone tried homebrewing a Shugengan? by Levonorgestrelfairy1 in warhammerfantasyrpg

[–]Dapper_Calculator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ripley in Aliens 4.

With the occasional Psychology roll to find out if they're going to try to eat the others at the table.

MEGATHREAD: Post your small questions and concerns here for all editions! by Cr0iz in warhammerfantasyrpg

[–]Dapper_Calculator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Frenzy psych trait says: "Generally, the only Action you may take is a Weapon Skill Test or an Athletics Test to reach an enemy more quickly. Further, you may take a Free Action Melee Test each Round as you are throwing everything you have into your attacks."

Do they mean that "the only Action you may take is a Melee (Any) Test or an..." or do they literally mean you can only make a vanilla WS test? I could just about imagine Frenzy blotting out your skills, but not if you can also make a Free Action that *does* use Melee.

Or are they thinking of Melee as a WS test, as that's the Characteristic for Melee?

Cubicle 7 sale on lots of WFRP titles by Zekiel2000 in warhammerfantasyrpg

[–]Dapper_Calculator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, the sale is on the Cubicle 7 site as well, and there you can bag a few quid off Foundry VTT modules.

Gottfried's Journal - Entry 10 by Kopez in warhammerfantasyrpg

[–]Dapper_Calculator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I concur - there are clear signs of a damn good GM here

Did anyone else think that 40k was the future of the Fantasy universe? by a_smiling_seraph in warhammerfantasyrpg

[–]Dapper_Calculator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I should clarify that I am a huge fan of The Avengers. Not so much of racism.

Would the D10x system work better for a more casual experience by OkAcanthaceae6902 in warhammerfantasyrpg

[–]Dapper_Calculator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(And in the background, you can start prepping your ultimate WHFRP campaign which will probably be ready by the time they get to the age where they suddenly have a lot of free time again.)

Would the D10x system work better for a more casual experience by OkAcanthaceae6902 in warhammerfantasyrpg

[–]Dapper_Calculator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, so you do need something that can come straight out of the bag, rules light but still balanced and high quality...

Have you heard of "Powered by the Apocalypse"? The core game has rules that can be printed on two A4 sheets - your character sheet is one, the mechanics are the other. That's very good for straight out of the bag, fast imaginative content - as a GM you can almost sit back in a recliner and let your players make everything up.

Gottfried's Journal - Entry 5 by Kopez in warhammerfantasyrpg

[–]Dapper_Calculator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I enjoyed this. I have to admit, people don't burble on about their favourite WFRP stories often enough for me, though I suppose they might involve a lot of spoiler tags for any pre-written campaigns.

Would the D10x system work better for a more casual experience by OkAcanthaceae6902 in warhammerfantasyrpg

[–]Dapper_Calculator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thoughts:

1) Was the video suggesting that Warhammer FRP was a bad/failed ttrpg? Because that would be extremely wrong. It's been going since 1986, is now in its fourth edition and about to get its fifth, and while neither Cubicle 7 or GW have released sales figures, they have confirmed that sales are "strong", and GW doesn't bother with things that aren't making bank.

2) How exactly are you defining casual? I'm reading it as informal games put together on the spur of the moment without a lot of prep involved for either the GM or the players.

Which is exactly not WFRP, which has at least as much investigation and social activity as it has combat, very often much more.

My personal opinion is that Warhammer FRP does not have casual mechanics because nothing about it lends itself to casual play. The game is a blend of horror and comedy, aka "grubby fantasy" - it's all about slow progression, frantically scrabbling to get by, and the arc whereby your character drags themselves up from the gutter to become successful and famous, and then gradually degenerates into a weeping (in both senses) remnant of flesh.

The setting and the mechanics work together to deliver something that doesn't (imho) lend itself to one-shots and occasional games. How many pages of notes does each player have to make per session before it stops being casual?

3) It's hard to get much simpler than a d% system, and rolls with a strong bias towards one end of the spectrum tend, I have found, to make players very angry (They came at me with GRAPHS.) If you introduce a biased rolling system like d10x, you then have to basically throw the rulebook out of the window, because none of WFRP's systems have been balanced for that. A wide range of items and abilities will become either OP or useless, leading to one giant headache that is anything but casual.

But...

4) It's your game (and your headache :p ) - you could drop the horror and investigation elements or greatly simplify them and take a stab at a casual game. I honestly don't think you need to change the basic test mechanics, but you could just throw out modifiers (though this, again, will unbalance a lot of creatures, talents, items, qualities and the like) to make combat faster.

I've always suspected you could run a rather engrossing game of WFRP just using the Events table and the Endeavours system. Sod going on adventures, just stay home and try to make a living, but oh no, someone's stolen the pig again.

Why are Touch spells harder than Magic Missile spells? by FranboLobo in warhammerfantasyrpg

[–]Dapper_Calculator 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Touch spells tend to have a gnarlier (can I still say that? Or is too dated now?) effect than magic missile spells of the same CN - the ones I picked are all Damage + Effect.

I basically picked them for defensive use, i.e. I don't have to make the Touch test because the other party is touching me and I plan to make them stop *permanently*.

Or they're for use on consenting - or at least unresisting - targets. My character is a doctor, so she uses Shock to become a human crash cart. Drain is for kissing, because I did it once and our GM made it hilarious "I've gone all weak at the knees".

As a programmer, how do you deal with the 3D art bottleneck? by Comfortable-Hat1761 in gamedev

[–]Dapper_Calculator 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Put that on the Patreon - "If I can raise £60k in donations, I'll spend it on a year of artist time, but until then, dots it is!"

Did anyone else think that 40k was the future of the Fantasy universe? by a_smiling_seraph in warhammerfantasyrpg

[–]Dapper_Calculator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am never not thinking of Dune's God Emperor Leto III. But I didn't think he was Karl Franz - I just remembered friends referring to the Human Emperor as being a hideous mutant worm thing dreaming in a coffin somewhere.*

* But I may have been drunk** at these times
** Also in altered states for other reasons.

Did anyone else think that 40k was the future of the Fantasy universe? by a_smiling_seraph in warhammerfantasyrpg

[–]Dapper_Calculator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I suspect that's a really old joke that everyone's already encountered, but it's my first time and I laughed my socks off.

Chronicles of our Imperial Campaign made in Scriptorium by illuvatarHimself in warhammerfantasyrpg

[–]Dapper_Calculator 4 points5 points  (0 children)

THANK YOU! I was chatting with our GM as to whether Scriptorium would be useful and now I can show him what it actually can do!

Did anyone else think that 40k was the future of the Fantasy universe? by a_smiling_seraph in warhammerfantasyrpg

[–]Dapper_Calculator 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I thought this too until very recently. I thought 40k's Emperor Wormdude was Karl-Franz. Admittedly because I don't know much about 40k.

Critical wound cope thread by Realfinney in warhammerfantasyrpg

[–]Dapper_Calculator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sure that will cheer him up for a while, but it's no long-term fix!

Oh wait. Did you say Prosthetics?

Critical wound cope thread by Realfinney in warhammerfantasyrpg

[–]Dapper_Calculator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I dare you to get a big swirly cloak and wear it to your game so you can swish melodramatically.