Essentialy for my Premier WFRP 2nd ed editon I would...
- Keep the base system as is and add the initiative system from Dark Heresy - Add a perception characteristic or talent - Add UNNATURAL CHARACTERISTICS! as a mechanic and give a hard cap on stat and difficulty levels - no more than 80 points in a stat or to make a test. This would mean making it clear to DMs you don't roll for every. fucking. thing. as some of them do but thats a DM issue. Your Bloodthirster wants to knock over a wall? Fucking yes, its doing that.
The main tweaks I'd do would be magic, the entire system needs to be knocked down and start from scratch. Essentially I'd stop assuming the college system is the default way to learn magic and assume that hedge wizardry is.
So back of a fag packet this is kind of what I'd do.
That means a lot more insanity, a lot more chaos explosions but it means that every spell is able to be cast by everyone given the right roll and assuming they have learned it (I'd limit the number of spells a wizard knows somehow)
I'd ensure that Elves have a talent or skill that enables them to ignore or mitigate chaos fuzziness from using multiple winds
Spells would have an "affinity" that means they can be cast more safely just using a single wind of magic, this would probably end up increasing casting costs at the costs of less likelihood to make your character go fucking mental.
Add back some elements of elementalists and herbalists back in the game.
Also rituals for common spells rather than just big ceremonies, you could use that for a more ancestor worship based magic career in the Chaos Wastes or nomadic regions.
Clerics would be assumed to be non-magical as a base line, the ToS career should have been the one in the core book but I understand why that wasn't the case. That system also needs a bit of tweaking.
One day if I ever get the time I'll write something up but I am a lazy man.
Liam Myers
But there's also fluff about a fallen Dwarf hold in the Chaos Wastes whose forges are used to make Chaos armor, or how armor is apparently sometimes saved and given to a worthy champion (very specific, not just 'a great warrior' but someone super worthy). And of course you could still get armor from the gods as well, so it's not just chorfs. Just adding on to what is.
Brandon Howard
>Overhaul weapons and armour to be something a little more like pic related (could be streamlined slightly) >Make gunpowder weapons actually viable in both combat and price. >Overhaul the skills taking some inspiration from first edition. Common Knowledge (The Empire) is boring. River Lore is fun. We don't need Trade (Herbalist) and Trade (Apothecary) as different skills. >Remove All Out Attack and allow players to Swift Attack as a half action >Make Disarm and Strike to Stun universal actions that are difficult to pull off. Make the talents a hefty bonus to those actions. >Allow players to switch between basic careers for free, so long as they're actually doing that job in-game and the GM agrees (I've had coachmen moonlighting as smugglers, soldiers as envoys, rapscallions as cartographers and the like but they were never going to sabotage their career progression just to change career for a couple of sessions.) >Bring back Peddlars >Overhaul the economy from the ground up. It's not really salvageable. Use a silver shilling standard. >Boost all stats by about 10-20% to help with the terrible hit chances. >Remove rolling for Critical Value like Dark Heresy, just to cut out a needless extra roll from calculating crits. >Zoats as a playable race
Jacob Perez
There are. What I meant to come across was what equipment you would give a Sorc. Lord if you wanted to fluff him as a Ergrimm. For that matter, if this sort of theoretical game tickles anyones fancy, how would you go about converting a modern Egrimm van Horstmann-model? How would you go about converting a modern Arbaal the Undefeated?
For the latter I'd probably use a Lord of Khorne on Juggernaut as Arbaal, take the standard from a Bloodsecrator and use a drakoth as his mount.
Lucas Fisher
There are a couple of details I would like to touch: -I don't know about Aenarion and Caledon, even though I'm an Aenarion fanboy. Where are they mentioned as gods?
-God's, or at least Human gods, are creates when the emotions of the humans shape the Aethyr (magic stuff), so I guess that The Great Maw is basically the same, but for ogres.
Jaxon Williams
honestly, I wouldn't know how to crunch him, I don't know WoC that well
I could try to suggest conversions though? based off of that model there, I'd say either an Empire/Bretonnian general with a chaos sword, a skull and minor conversions to chaosify it (as that model doesn't look chaotic, and he was originally an Imperial), or a standard chaos lord, mounted on the back of Galrauch. I'd probably leave off the back banner/stand that's on the model now
Jordan Scott
>Aenarion & Caledor They've never been mentioned as gods as far as I'm aware, but they are great heroes of the elves of the same age as Grimnir, Grungni & Valaya, so I added them for completeness
>Human gods That's the general assumption, but given the links between some human gods and Elven gods (Kurnous & Taal, Isha & Rhya, Morai-Heg & Morr) it might be more complicated than that. Maybe the early humans of the Old World worshipped a passed down version of the Elven gods from when the Elves ruled the Old World, which after thousands of years have become their own Aethyr entities?
>The Great Maw This is the weirdest one. The Great Maw literally appeared in the impact crater of a meteor called by Cathayan wizards down upon the Ogre race. It wasn't worshipped before by them, may have been the meteor itself, and changed the Ogres on a significant level after it arrived. It doesn't fit into any of those existing cosmologies
Bentley Brown
why his sword got saggy titties
Jonathan Reyes
Aenarion is the big name first phoenix king. He’s good enough that Morathi still weeps that he & his wang have been dead for millennia and Malekith actually respects daddy. I think Caledor being stuck in the vortex for so long kinda screwed with him.
Daniel Flores
Hey, you don't have to convince me that he is awesome, I already said that I'm his fanboy number one. But that doesn't turn them into a God.
