This article originally appeared in Pyramid #19
An Adventure for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
with notes for GURPS
by Graeme Davis
This Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay adventure is set in the castle of one of the Empire's minor noble families. With a few name changes, it could be set almost anywhere in the Old World.
While this adventure may be run with the WFRP rulebook alone, GMs will find Hogshead Publishing's Apocrypha Now a useful aid, especially for the source material on Nobles and the Social Standing rules.
The adventure can be run using the GURPS rules very easily, in any historical, fantasy or horror setting with a medieval or higher tech level. It perhaps works best in a country-house situation set in England or New England in the late 19th or early 20th century. The adventure consists mostly of situations, so there is little actual conversion work for the GM to do.
The characters encountered here are mostly common archetypes — nobles, servants, thugs, spies and assassins — and generic character stats will be sufficient for most situations. The few cultural references are largely self-explanatory: ancient Araby is equivalent to ancient Egypt, and the taggee of Ind are the thuggee of India.
The Chaos God Slaanesh preaches the breaking of all social taboos, and in an early 20th-century horror setting could be substituted with Aleister "the Great Beast" Crowley. Alternatively, or in other settings, Slaanesh could be a Thing Man Was Not Meant To Know.
Preparation
The adventure involves a number . . .
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Article publication date: May 1, 1996
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