Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay?

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 12:48 am

Water work?

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:32 am

frigidmagi wrote:Water work?

Sailors, fishermen, marines, smugglers, that kind of thing.

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 5:25 pm

So who wants to go first? I'll walk you through character creation. I'll be gentle, I promise.

Cpl Kendall · Post by **Cpl Kendall** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 6:02 pm

All right, well I do have time to RP, just not run one. I'll go with a Human, some sort of nautical trade hopefully heavy on the survival skills.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 6:23 pm

Found the core book. I'll be back in a bit with a character proposal.

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 6:26 pm

Okay, we'll start with stat generation (career comes after). WFRP is the ancestor of Dark Heresy, so a lot of this will be familiar to you.

We start by generating

Weapon Skill
Ballistic Skill
Strength
Toughness
Agility
Intelligence
Willpower
Fellowship

for humans they are all 2d10+20

Then we apply Shallya's Mercy, where we replace one stat roll of your choice with an average (31).

Cpl Kendall · Post by **Cpl Kendall** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 6:30 pm

Weapon Skill: 31 (replaced the original 24 with Shayllya's Mercy)
Ballistic Skill: 34
Strength: 31
Toughness: 45
Agility: 37
Intelligence:43
Willpower: 32
Fellowship: 30

Attacks: 1
Movement: 4
Magic: 0
Insanity Points:0
Wounds: 13
Fate Points: 3

Race: Human
Name: Marcellus Nijssen
Height: 5' 9"
Age: 29 years
Gender: Male
Weight: 165 lbs
Birthplace: Marienburg
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Siblings: 1

Skills: Common Knowledge (The Empire), Gossip, Speak Language (Reikspiel),Navigation, Consume Alcohol, Common Knowledge (Wasteland)

Talents: Mimic, Very Resilient (+5 Tg), Savvy, Orientation (+10 on Nav rollls)

-common clothing, consisting of shirt, breeches, tattered cloak, worn boots, belt,
-dagger
-backpack
-blanket
-wooden cutlery
-wooden tankard
-axe
-11 gold crowns
-Fish hook and line
-spear

Cpl Kendall · Post by **Cpl Kendall** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 6:34 pm

Oh, hang on. I did those rolls on a web dice roller. Would you rather I used the boards, forgot we had one.

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 6:34 pm

Nice!

Okay next is

Attacks: that's a 1.

Wounds: 1d10 and consult the table

Movement: 4 for humans

Magic: 0.

Insanity Points: 0. Insanity points are nastier in this game.

Fate Points: This is where humans kick much ass. 1d10 and consult table.

Cpl Kendall · Post by **Cpl Kendall** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 6:45 pm

I'm gonna have to trouble you to consult the table for wounds and fate points for me CC, the books aren't accessible for me right at the moment.

Wounds:

Fate:

I've added the other stuff into my previous post.

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 6:51 pm

Congrats Corporal, you maxed out. 13 Wounds and 3 Fate Points.

Now, assuming you're an Imperial, starting skills and talents are next.

Skills: Common Knowledge (The Empire), Gossip, Speak Language (Reikspiel)

Talents: Two 1d100 rolls on the Talent table.

Cpl Kendall · Post by **Cpl Kendall** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 6:56 pm

Edit: Imperial should be fine. I'll add those wounds and fate into my previous post as before.

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:00 pm

Mimic and Very Resilient. Very Resilient rocks the house, giving a +5 bonus to your initial Toughness. Go ahead and record those where you're tracking your talents and up your Toughness by 5.

So now we'll feed you a nice bowl of gravel and talk about your career. There's a couple ways to go:

1) Pick one that you really want. Ben will probably go this way with Apprentice Wizard because he's spell whore.

2) Roll three times and pick the one you like.

3) Just roll until something you like turns up.

Doesn't matter to me how you do it.

Cpl Kendall · Post by **Cpl Kendall** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:03 pm

I think I'll just go with Fisherman if you've no objection.

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:17 pm

Cpl Kendall wrote:I think I'll just go with Fisherman if you've no objection.

None at all. My brother's character is my big, long lasting WFRP campaign a couple years back was a fisherman.

So lets talk Fisherman. Now we get to this little thing called an advance scheme. Every career has one. These are the advances you can buy to your characteristics while in the career. You need to keep track of your advances because they don't stack. Thus if you buy +10 Toughness in career x and go to career Y that gives you +15 Tougness, you can only by +5 Toughness to take it to +15. Record keeping goes like this.

Initial + Talent mod
advance scheme
current total

You'll see it on any character sheet.

Anyway, here it goes.

Fisherman offers +5 on BS, +10 Strength, +5 Toughness, +10 Agility, +5 Intelligence, and +2 Wounds.

You get one advance free which can be either +5 on an attribute or +1 Wound.

The game uses Toughness and Strength Bonus just like Dark Heresy, which is just the tens digit of your Strength or Agility so Strength 43 is Strength Bonus 4.

You get the following skills

Common Knowledge (The Empire or the Wasteland), Consume Alcohol or Haggle, Navigation or Trade (Merchant), Outdoor Survival, Perception, Row, Sail, Speak Language (Riekspiel or Norse), Swim.

You can buy the skill and talent options you didn't take after character creation. If you take a skill you already have (like Common Knowledge: The Empire) you get +10 with it.

Talents: Hardy or Savvy, Orientation or Street Fighting.

Cpl Kendall · Post by **Cpl Kendall** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:23 pm

Cynical Cat wrote:
Cpl Kendall wrote:I think I'll just go with Fisherman if you've no objection.
None at all. My brother's character is my big, long lasting WFRP campaign a couple years back was a fisherman.

So lets talk Fisherman. Now we get to this little thing called an advance scheme. Every career has one. These are the advances you can buy to your characteristics while in the career. You need to keep track of your advances because they don't stack. Thus if you buy +10 Toughness in career x and go to career Y that gives you +15 Tougness, you can only by +5 Toughness to take it to +15. Record keeping goes like this.

Initial + Talent mod
advance scheme
current total

You'll see it on any character sheet.

Anyway, here it goes.

Fisherman offers +5 on BS, +10 Strength, +5 Toughness, +10 Agility, +5 Intelligence, and +2 Wounds.

You get one advance free which can be either +5 on an attribute or +1 Wound.

Ok, so the above are what I can purchase in this career with my XP. I don't get them free by picking the career correct?

The game uses Toughness and Strength Bonus just like Dark Heresy, which is just the tens digit of your Strength or Agility so Strength 43 is Strength Bonus 4.

Understood.

You get the following skills

Common Knowledge (The Empire or the Wasteland), Consume Alcohol or Haggle, Navigation or Trade (Merchant), Outdoor Survival, Perception, Row, Sail, Speak Language (Riekspiel or Norse), Swim.

All right, I'll go with Navigation, Consume Alcohol, and Riekspiel. I'm going to have to ask you what Wasteland is.

You can buy the skill and talent options you didn't take after character creation. If you take a skill you already have (like Common Knowledge: The Empire) you get +10 with it.

Talents: Hardy or Savvy, Orientation or Street Fighting.

I'm going to have to ask you to explain what each is.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:26 pm

Human

WS: 30(free advance, 35)
BS: 32
S: 24(replaced via Mercy, 35)
T: 34
I: 26
A: 31(Lightning Reflexs, 36)
WP: 30
FS: 33

Attacks: 1
Wounds: 12
SB: 3
TB: 3
Movement: 4
Magic: 0
Insanity: 0
Fate: 3

Skills: Common Knowledge(The Empire), Gossip, Speak Language(Reikspel), Command, Performer(Musician), Charm, Gamble, Read/Write, Ride.
Talents: Lightning Reflexes, Sixth Sense, Etiquette, Luck, Specialist Weapon(Fencing), Specialist Weapon(Parrying)

Equipment: Foil, Main Gauche, Noble's Garb, Riding Horse WIth Saddle ANd Harness, Common Clothing, Tattered Cloak, Dagger in his left boot, Backpack with blanket, tankard, cutlery, a sword.

Valuables: 12gc, jewelry worth 42gc,

And just because I -love- random generation...

Career: Noble

Height: 5'11"
Hair Colour: Red
Weight: 165
Eye Colour: Purple(WTF?!)
Trait: Missing Eyebrows.
Siblings: 1
Star: Vobist The Faint(Darkness and Uncertainty)
Age: 30
Birthplace: Middeland, Small Settlement
Name: Magnus

Cpl Kendall · Post by **Cpl Kendall** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:30 pm

Actually, screw it. I'll go with Common Knowledge (Wasteland), Savvy and Orientation. Let the chips fall where they may.

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:32 pm

The Wasteland is the area around the great free city of Marienburg, which seceeded from the Empire. Its a coastal city on the edge of the Empire and at the mouth of the River Riek. If you take Common Knowledge: Wasteland your character is from Marienburg.

You get one of those stat advances free, either +5 on an attribute or +1 Wounds. Every starting character gets one free stat advance.

You have the option (but are not required) of buying the skills and talents you don't start with free that were marked with the "either or" description.

Hardy: It gives you +1 Wound on your starter profile.

Savvy: +5 Intelligence on your starter profile.

Orientation: Innate sense of direction. +10 on all Navigation rolls.

Street Fighting: unarmed combat skill. +10 on all WS checks fighting unarmed and +1 on unarmed damage. Good for tavern brawling.

Cpl Kendall · Post by **Cpl Kendall** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:36 pm

Thanks muchly.

I took that free +5 advance and put it on Willpower, which was the weakest stat. Also took the Wasteland, Orientation and Savvy.

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:40 pm

Little details

Shallya's Mercy replaces a roll with an average, not a reroll. Nitram, did you just roll lousy on your money or did you miss the extra 1D10 GCs that Nobles start with?

Starting gear: Everyone gets

-common clothing, consisting of shirt, breeches, tattered cloak, worn boots, belt,
-dagger
-sling bag or backpack
-blanket
-wooden cutlery
-wooden tankard
-hand weapon: that's a sword, axe, mace or similar one handed straightforward weapon
-purse with 2d10 Gold Crowns. A gold crown is real money. 20 silver shillings to the crown, 12 brass pennies to the shilling.

Fishermen also get: Fish hook and line, spear.

Cpl Kendall · Post by **Cpl Kendall** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:41 pm

Cynical Cat wrote:
Shallya's Mercy replaces a roll with an average, not a reroll.

What's the average?

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:44 pm

Cpl Kendall wrote:
Cynical Cat wrote:
Shallya's Mercy replaces a roll with an average, not a reroll.
What's the average?

Average of 2d10 is 11 so for a human its 20 +11=31. Other races have some variation in stats (badass Halfling BS, for example).

Cpl Kendall · Post by **Cpl Kendall** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:46 pm

Cynical Cat wrote:
Cpl Kendall wrote:
Cynical Cat wrote:
Shallya's Mercy replaces a roll with an average, not a reroll.
What's the average?
Average of 2d10 is 11 so for a human its 20 +11=31. Other races have some variation in stats (badass Halfling BS, for example).

Ok, so my WS winds up being 31 with Shallya's Mercy anyways.

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:53 pm

So that's character generation. You're now ready to be dropped head first into trouble.

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