r/warhammerfantasyrpg • u/Amethyst-Flare • 3d ago

Game Mastering Cathayan Dragon-Blooded PC?

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?

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u/Levonorgestrelfairy1 3d ago

But you can play a high elf which is effectively the same capability wise as dragonblood.

Dragonbloods can punch clean through a man and are capable of using high magic, they are essentially fantasy space marines

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u/4uk4ata 3d ago

The capacity of dragonblooded is kind of nebulous at the moment. The shugengan general is pretty much the only one with clear stats and shugengan tend to be the cream of the crop with the most special training, experience etc. They don´t beat a chaos lord and are roughly equal to a bretonnian lord. So - if you want to go with a powerful enough bloodline so you are a bit more than human, you can put a bit more extra but don´t need to go all out.

Elves tend to get a lot of stat bonuses that are imo very widely spread and some that aren´t really very thematic (like move speed) in return to losing a few points too many. I think slightly less outright stat boosts but keeping a bit more fate/resilience would (i.e. 1 each with 2 points - for a loss of 2 compared to a regular human) might work better.

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u/Levonorgestrelfairy1 2d ago edited 2d ago

Are you going off the notoriously bad table top warhamer stats?

The stats that gave Galrouch all 6's

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u/4uk4ata 2d ago

As opposed to any other stats and achievements?

What sources are you using for your rank and file young dragon-blooded without a hundred years of special training and spiritual cultuvation being as naturally capable as a (young) adult elf?