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Interesting, I would say that WFRP was almost all lore. The obvious 100 pages of descriptions about the world and who lives in it, religions and so on. But also the career system, each career helps build the world and creates a feel. Something as simple as the coachman career for example. It tells us the Empire has highways, toll keepers, in places they are lawless, they are raided and so on, it helps set a tone. The career also mentions the guilds and teamsters and that not many stay in the job long enough to benefit from the pension. Each career for me helps build up the world and adds lore/fluff/whatever you will. Likewise many of the skills help build a feel for the world. There is a heck of a lot in WFRP that helps make the world I think….
Fair points Mike, particularly the mention of the career descriptions, in my defence I was thinking of the World Guide chapter alone rather than the bits and pieces scattered throughout the book, I still stand by my point that it took TEW to flesh out the Empire (which lets face it is the prime gaming location)and to turn it from a simple fantasy Holy Roman Empire to how many of us now view it, as a corrupt, cult & chaos ridden, failing state with deep religious, political and even racial issues.
I’m also inclined to think that gleaning (or even re-gleaning)the lore from the book now, having had 30+ years of WFB army books etc and all the imagery, makes for a different experience than reading it back in the day when there was little other information about the Old World, certainly 14 year old me, whilst loving the system(especially the careers) and the world, basically played AD&D/MERP in the Old World until I got my hands on the first 3 parts of TEW which changed the tone of the game entirely, by expanding and creating a deeper background to the world(Empire), from then on we played Call of Cthulhu in the Old World
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Oh, I can see myself book marking this thread!
They use 8 day weeks and 11 month years? Did not know that.
[Full Nerd mode – on] they don’t, its 12 months, of either 32 or 33 days plus there are 6 Holy days that fall between some of the months1(sorry when it comes to WFRP I am a massive geek, I have pretty much everything ever made for both V1 & V2 inc Warpstones which I even contributed too – albeit very slightly).
Anyone here ever post on the sadly now defunct STS forums?
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Just received my latest Man O War ships fresh from the printers which includes a Dwarf and Skaven fleet and some additions to my other stuff:
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So here is the cave painted with no extra bits added, all you see here is just the cast model. Now, that this version is done, time to pimp it up.
This is looking awesome, any pics of the reverse side or is just blank?
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More great work OldBen1
Northern Monkey, I have been reading your blog for years! As for the cars, they are 1/64 scale. It’s hard to find cars from the 20s. They are all matchbox repaints. I tend not to love the garish colours they paint them. I know that the majority of cars in the 30s were actually black, so I prime them black and dry brush one colour. I found two more, a truck and another sedan. There is a guy here who sells them at the flea market for a few dollars each. As Innsmouth is crumbly, it makes it easy to weather. I really like your Gamecraft miniature buildings. You did a great job painting the mdf. It’s hard.
So you’re one of the few eh! Ive been using 1/87 scale cars for railway modelling although they are expensive, I have recently found a set of Kinder egg toy cars which are roughly 1/87 too but cost £5 for 4, they just need a quick repaint:
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My other determination is to last as long as possible playing it without saying ‘We could add some house rules for that couldn’t we?’ as I think the small pleasure this concept gives is nested in its extreme simplicity. *You might, if you know these rules be going ‘Errr Pat? The Ancient rules don’t cover Biblicals?’ but actually I think the definition of Cavalry in that set better suits Biblical Chariots than it does Classical Cavalry. Make one of the Infantry choices an additional archer instead and I think it will be fine.
erm, isn’t that basically a “House Rule”
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thanks guys, it seems I achieved my aims with the overall look
DSG, no sadly they’re long OOP as Joker mentions and as I have heard from other sources the moulds are no more! However the infantry with the plumed helmets are still available from RPE
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I err in the other direction — my tendency to organize my units based on pack contents is a source of great hilarity among my friends.
this is how I do it and it generally results in having very few spare, unnecessary minis, which keeps the mountain down and saves a few quid too
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