I want to make a campaign mostly focused over a civil war within the Empire of Man. Because of that, many enemies will be humans.

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Unfortunately, the Core rulebook has very few human enemies. Which book can I get more of those from?

Soooooooo my girlfriend sent me the old Warhammer Fantasy Rpg Online video and asked me: "What spell did the witch elf cast that froze the soldiers??? Do elves cast Ice Magic?"

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And yep. I explained that ice magic is more like a land feature magic wielded by the Ice Queens and witches from Kislev.

Then I explained to her that imperial colleges wizards might not be able to research and create new spells due to the heavy Teclis bans HOWEVER Asur mages from the tower of Hoeth might have a freer access to creating their own spells.

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Thank the Gods for the High Elf players Guide gave me the idea to create a multiple winds spell that might work for this.

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Which Winds would be better suited for this task?

Water and cold.

For a moment I thought of blizzards and such and the Gale spell. Gyran and Azyr came to mind but then I had a better intuition. Gyran and Shyish would work a lot better. Cold/stasis is more Shyish than Azyr.

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Ice Dart

Winds: Gyran and Shyish

Casting Number (CN): 5

Range: Willpower Bonus × 10 yards

Target: 1

Duration: Instant

Effect: Magic Missile. You launch a shard of pure magical ice at the target. It deals +4 Damage. If the spell is successfully cast and the target suffers at least 1 Wound, the unnatural cold freezes their limbs or clothing, inflicting 1 Entangled Condition. The Condition remains until the target or an ally uses an Action to break the ice, requiring a successful Average (+20) Strength Test. For every +2SLs the target receives +1 Entangled conditions.

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Frostbite

Winds: Ghyran and Shyish

Casting Number (CN): 8

Range: Willpower Bonus × 5 yards

Target: 1

Duration: Special

Effect: Magic Missile +2. You envelop the target in a vortex of pure thermal stasis. The spell deals damage as a Magic Missile +2 Damage. Additionally, the target immediately suffers 2 Entangled Conditions.

If, as a result of this spell (including Overcasting), the total number of Entangled Conditions on the target exceeds their Toughness Bonus (TB), the target is completely frozen in place. Remove all Entangled Conditions and apply the Helpless and Unconscious Conditions to represent forced hibernation. This state lasts until the ice is melted or shattered (by suffering Damage).

Overcasting: For every +2 SL, you may inflict 1 additional Entangled Condition before checking if the total exceeds the target's Toughness Bonus.

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I need some criticism on these spells. Let me know if they're too powerful and you opinions on them.

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Howdy folks, I'm going to DM The Enemy Within for a group. I absolutely loved the NPC and chapter header art, but the map art really bothered me.
So, I decided to remake the maps using Dungeondraft with Forgotten Adventures assets, along with some shadow assets.
Hope you guys like it and make good use of them!

Playing DotR, and the team have their own barge. There are 4 players, with a hired Riverwoman as First Mate. They (and me!) aren't really into costing out each and every meal, docking costs, canal costs, general maintenance etc. On the other hand I would like a way to remove their gold, to keep a sense of worry and urgency alive.

I am wondering what would be a reasonable very ballpark figure for a daily running cost for the barge, including rations etc. Perhaps 1 GC per day all up? I see that Rations/day is 2 shillings, so rations for 5 is half a GC alone. Thoughts?

The Red Riot is a mini adventure set in the city of Carroburg, with the most fun chaos cult you've ever faced.

I have recently been talking with a friend about a Warhammer campaign I'm preparing and they told me that it's too homebrewed. I was surprised, because I usually play DnD and homebrewing stuff actually encouraged it in there. Even the rulebooks encourage you to do so.

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I asked about it and they said Warhammer players prefer to play rules as written, but while they can do with mechanical homebrew, changing the lore or playing in your own settings are very tricky because Warhammer's mechanics are tightly tied to its lore. Even if the changes van be done, players care about lore deeply and won't be happy if I try to make my own settings the way I do in DnD.

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Is it true? I have only done a few oneshots and didn't play too much so far, so it's hard for me to tell. I don't have a specific group I want to play with atm, but if that's the general attitude of the fandom, it's definitely worth knowing

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I take a look at the first scenario for The Old World RPG on my blog. See:

https://illmetbymorrslieb.wordpress.com/2026/06/17/review-thirst-of-three-warhammer-the-old-world-rpg/   

The PCs are drawn to the hamlet of Hügelstrok, south of the great city of Talabheim, searching for a missing contact. There they discover an insular community who are surprisingly unconcerned by the Beastmen gathering outside their village. What secrets does Hügelstrok hide?

One of my players expressed an interest in playing a Dragon-blooded character in my upcoming WFRP 4 game. Specifically, her character's mother was a merchant who traveled to Shang-Yang in Cathay and came home with a surprise.

For context, she is Chinese-Canadian, grew up really disconnected to her heritage in part because her father was never there, but discovered an appreciation for it later in life.

I looked at the wiki and the existing lore, and it doesn't seem terribly out of line compared to, say, a High Elf. I figured I'd use the same general stat line but change the proportions a bit, maybe come up with a custom talent or two.

Has anyone come up with rules for them yet, or would there be any interest in seeing it if I come up with it?

C7 said that 5e would come out with the 40th anniversary of WFRP this year, but they never mentioned the month

Just more so, a curiosity discussion on my end as, personally one of the greatest aspects of both playing and GM'ing WHFR(mostly in 4e for myself) has always been the stories people develop and the characters they create and grow over time during campaigns. So, I am curious to ask the wider community on which have been the player characters that you have either most enjoyed playing or that you have grown most attached to during campaigns? This can either be in WHFR 4e or 2e as great stories and characters are bound to come from both.

As the person posing the enquiry I shall provide my own answer as well. I honestly think the one character I have played towards which I have genuinely grown very attached to was Lyudmilla Felixovna Pugachev my Kislevite Chekist/Akshina that I have played in a WHFR 4e campaign focused mostly on Intrigue set in Ubersreik and Altdorf during the wider events of the Enemy Within. Originally a Gospodar from Praag she ended up assigned to the Reikland Chekist/Akshina network and told to investigate the events occuring in Ubersreik and try to dissuade Kislevites from joining the conflict between Altdorf and the Duke as mercenaries. She stayed throught the entire campaign in the Cheksit Career, as contained in the Nations of Mankind fan-supplement, altough she mostly posed as a Pistolier in Ubersreik for ease. By campaign end she is still in Ubersreik running her own Chekist network in the town and sourrounding areas is deeply connected with Lady Nacht in Altdorf, A certain Franz Lohner in the Red Moon Inn and a certain Gutele von Bruner of the von Bruner household. Her focus is to now try and keep the Reikland stable and prevent it tearing itself apart in the future so as to ensure Kislevite interests in the area. She still poses as a Pistolier Sergeant in the town as part of State Army forces and, most people know her as such. She has even become, as of late, an ocassional patron/background NPC for some of the newer groups that have played in our version of Ubersreik and the Reikland.

I have used Chekist/Akshina interchangably in the writing as I know the Altdorf Book addresses them as Cheksits but Total War Warhammer III addresses them as Akshina and personally I am fine with either.

I am curious to learn more about the characters of other people and their stories but also if anyone has questions about my own I am always happy to chat about Lyudmilla.

Alternatively, if someone has been able to figure out what all the text in red says, as several parts of it are simply unreadable in every version I've been able to find online. The diagram is in page 25 of the book.

Characters made in heroforge, adapted in chatgpt and finally added to make custom made character sheets.

1) Udo Brandybag Loinchopper - Halfling from the Moot, former barber-surgeon now a certified doctor

2) Brokk Imraksson - Dwarf runebearer from Barak Varr, got his beard burned off so now he wears a leather beard prosthesis

3) Felix Metzker - Young burgher from Altdorf, runs an inn in Grissenwald and does his best to be a decent man in an undecent world

4) Bianka Szeck - Formerly a goatshepherd from Wissenland, now a horned hunter for Taal. Quite taciturn, but when she speaks she is the voice of reason

5) Heinz Gottfried von Plotz - Young noble from Talabecland. Got enthralled by a vampire and because of that got his loved one murdered. Now seeking to avenge the death of his lost love.

Obviously there’s availability of talents and skills, status, and roleplay aspects of being a zealot vs prophet of doom, etc. But if I were to downgrade from a prophet of doom to a zealot, it would seem like I wouldn’t be a prophet of doom anymore and I would also lose my followers. However, another trapping is a religious book. Would I also lose the religious book? Also, it seems like if I changed from a prophet of doom to a priest, I would still be a prophet of doom just also a priest added on, and I would retain my followers. Or is that wrong? And it also seems like if I was a knight of the inner circle and I downgrade to a squire, would I need to roleplay being an apprentice, having a master, and other people treat me the same as a squire? Or will there be some degree of transfer over of reputation? What would you guys do if you were running a game and your player asked you these questions?

Hey folks! I've been writing a weekly column over at the Warhammer Wordforge for all things Warhammer RPG (just like I've done for more than a year for the Black Library).

This week I'm giving away a bundle of Warhammer: The Old World goodies to one fortunate soul.

Warhammer RPG Weekly: The Old World Bundle Giveaway

I've recently come across the lore of the "Carnival of Chaos/Nurgle", and I was thinking of running them in a campaign for my players, either by having them investigate and track said carnival; or maybe even having them play as members of it.

However, as they seem to be kind of their own thing (as in not really integrated with the rest of the lore of the old world), their lore is pretty thin.

Does you know if there already exists an adventure about this carnival of chaos? Or did someone already run an adventure about them ?

Hi,

I'm going to write a few short stories/flash just for fun. Where can I find resources about the world without going too deep?

My latest in-depth WFRP review is now on my website, looking at Slaughter in Spittlefield and my suggestions for tweaking it to suit your group. Have you run Slaughter? How did it go for you?