Talk about the game, or about whatever else you want.  We're all just here to have a good time.

First order of business, as folks start filing in and working on character stats - we agreed in the other thread that the PCs are a band of mercenaries, but you may choose any career you want (in terms of char gen) as long as you can justify why you would be in this group.  Use any of the sample careers from the rulebook, or if you prefer we can work out a custom one.

Similarly, combat styles from your career (which are more "professional" than the ones connected to culture) are probably going to be custom for most of you.  The Warhammer world gives too many options for me to want to stat out a bunch of them ahead of time.  Or if this group has been together for a while then maybe you've even developed a combat style that you all share, and we can create that together in this thread.

Lastly, if anyone wants to play as a human from outside of the Empire then we'll work out your culture options, since it's obviously going to be at least a little different from the current offerings.

Hi.

I'm thinking of playing either a human blacksmith/ex-town guard or a dwarf troll slayer (or equivalent).

I was wondering what others might be thinking of playing.

I am an elf.  Still working on profession but, most likely, will be some level of magic.

We seem to be a quiet group. I am still reading through the system and some warhammer background. I will be an elf with a good bit of mystical arts! Still working on the actual numbers and I am working on my background.

On a personal note, I am in my early 50s and have been gaming since I was 12…so for a very, very long time. I started rp’ing with the d&d boxed sets and have played pretty much everything since.

Looking forward to telling some good stories with you guys!

Yeah, we do seem to have lost some of the energy from the interest check thread.  There were a couple people there who haven't popped in here yet so I'll message them and see if they're still interested.  If not then I'll open up the game to whoever else wants in.  For now we have four players, which is fine, but with RPOL being what it is I would always rather have more at the start and then see where things go.

I'm 40, and also started with a D&D boxed set, though I suspect it was a different one than yours Maberos - I had the black box starter set with the red dragon on the cover.  Didn't find my way to WFRP until a couple years into 2e.

With regard to Mythras, I've made one previous attempt at running a campaign but I'm hardly an expert on the system.  We can all do a lot of learning together :)

I'm here, but had a busier than expected last couple of days.

I'm 50, from the UK. I started out on Line Wolf 'choose your own adventure ' books before picking up a copy of 1st edition WFRP in the late '80s. I don't get D&D until 3rd edition and didn't play much of it really. I had most of the 2nd edition WFRP books, but haven't played in years.

Another question, since we're coming at this having played various editions of WFRP - I understand that some folks have strong opinions about the Storm of Chaos and the way that it changed the official setting.  To the extent that I'm relying on my WFRP books for setting info, it's still extremely recent history.  Do you all care?  Do you have a preference about if I keep it in, remove all references to it, move it a couple decades into the past, anything?  I don't know how much this is going to matter, but since it even affects things like "this town currently has a lot of refugees from the invasion, or maybe it doesn't" I'd like to take your preferences into account.

Personally I'd prefer the 1st edition time before the Storm, but I'm happy going with the majority.

I know more about the lore of Blood Bowl than Warhammer Fantasy!  I am ok with whatever you decide.

Looking for connections…calling all elves!!

Hey everyone, Milas here, the Halfling Barber-Surgeon of the Company.

I've been playing since 1999 where I say a group playing AD&D which I knew from Baldur's Gate 1.
Since then I've been playing a whole host of different games including WFRP1 and 2.

I don't have a strong opinion of Storm of Chaos, but it does give some spice to the world.
Edit: Meaning, refugee camps, stories about the invasion, general upheaval. An environment where a mercenary company can thrive.
This message was last edited by the player at 12:50, Sun 19 Nov 2023.

Separate question, something that might be fun to discuss as a group - what kind of reputation does your company have?  Or do you even have one at all?

A name for the group might also be nice, come to think of it...

I got a char gen question that's relevant for everyone, so I'll answer here - rolling for Social Class is optional, and if you do it's just flavor text and does not change your starting money or equipment.

As for a name, a bit cheap perhaps, but "The Grudgebringers"?

In reply to Milas Peterson (msg # 15):

That is just a little dwarfy!  :-)
This message was last edited by the player at 14:22, Sun 19 Nov 2023.

Glorin approves!!

:)

It's the mercenary company you control in 'Dark Omen' and 'Shadow of the Horned Rat'

In reply to Milas Peterson (msg # 18):

Do you know why the dwarves have a book of grudges?

Because they sure can't be the bigger man!

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Grudges are a big dwarf thing. Heck one of their best blood bowl teams is the Grudgebearers. However, I will do what the group wants to do.

Heh, nice one! :-)



Oh, I know.

And I'm certainly not married to the name...


As an aside, connections.


Some history about Milas, if you see a possibility of a connection, shoot me a PM.
This is a first draft and can be easily changed if you have a cool idea.

Milas' family is landed gentry, and he got a good education; he was destined to become a Physician. However months after starting his apprenticeship, his family was assaulted by the Ufferman's Pikers, a ruthless mercenary company often hired for intimidation and coercion. Milas is still figuring out the exact reasons for this action, facts are few and hard to come-by. With his parents killed and the estate sacked, he as abandoned by his (human) master after the first missed apprenticeship payment.

Soon after, he joined the <company> and started apprenticeship under Bruno Khan, the then company's Barber-Surgeon. After his untimely demise, Milas has taken over that role.

Coming back to the Storm, it looks like the votes from the active players so far are either "preferably not" or "don't care too much."  That said, as Milas pointed out earlier, the Storm does create some changes in the setting that give mercs more of a reason to be doing their thing.  Biggest points in my mind being the refugees, economic disruptions, and decimation of many of the proper armies and militias (which is why they aren't the ones going out and solving all the problems with bandits and beastmen and so on).

At the same time, as I've been going through Sigmar's Heirs and trying to pin down a starting location and get an idea of what's happening their according to canon, I find that I like the province-level general impressions but I don't feel inspired by a lot of the given details about specific towns and such.

So with all that said, I'm going to declare "slightly alternate history."  It's still the same Empire that we more or less know and love, it did not have the massive invasion that was the Storm of Chaos, but it has been dealing with a seemingly endless string of smaller incursions from various directions.  Armies are still tied up with that, villages are still getting razed now and then, trade routes disrupted, loyalties questioned, and so on.  But the details vary from what's officially written in the WFRP 2e books, in ways that will be discovered in-game when they matter and ignored when they don't.

And zooming in a little bit, the campaign will start out in the town of Männerholz, in the province of Ostland.  More details to come in the first IC post, and if it's helpful (which it probably will be for me at least) I might also set up a separate thread where we can keep track of setting details as they come up - notable NPCS or organizations, favors owed, etc.