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Liber Fanatica - Volume III : The Game Master ’ s Guide

Foreword

his third volume of the Liber Fanatica consists of three parts: In the Articles section you will find

contributions on various aspects of gamesmastering WFRP, with topics ranging from an in-depth

look at designing campaigns to expanded skill rules for WFRP2. The Tool Shed houses a selection of

hopefully useful tools for designing and running WFRP scenarios. The Appendices consists of a

collection of material on using the Internet in different ways for playing WFRP: Email, Online Chat and

Message Board.

Apart from thanking all the writers for their individual contributions, James Walkerdine deserves

special recognition for once again stepping forward to do the layout. Jude Hornborg has added new

energy (and a website!) to our ongoing project, and Wim van Gruisen proved yet again to be a candid

and constructive commenter. John F Foody and Robin Low did a thorough job with the quality control.

Last but not least I would like to extend my gratitude to the persons who have made the Liber Fanatica

available from their websites, enabling the success of the first two volumes.

The worldwide WFRP community also deserves recognition for all the encouragement and kind

comments since the release of the first two volumes. In fact, the international nature of this hobby

repeatedly comes to my mind: the collaborators on this volume come from five different countries, and

the readers of the previous volumes hail from many more. When writing this, the French translations

alone of the first two Liber Fanatica have each been downloaded well over 1,000 times!

Well, before I add another page I better let you go enjoy this volume. The beers are in the fridge, the

table is set, and the guys are here any minute now. It is going to be another great night of WFRP.

Henrik Grönberg, December 2005

Editor Liber Fanatica III – The Game Master’s Guide

Liber Fanatica - Volume III : The Game Master ’ s Guide

Disclaimer

Table of Contents

This compendium is

completely unofficial

and in no way

endorsed by Games

Workshop Limited.

Articles

Writing a Campaign .............................................................................3

by Wim van Gruisen

Handling Horror and Insanity .............................................................12

by James Walkerdine

Convention Scenarios ..........................................................................16

by Alfred Nu ñ ez Jr.

On the Table........................................................................................19

by Jude Hornborg

Win, Lose or Draw...............................................................................23

by Jude Hornborg

Chaos, the Chaos

device, the Chaos logo,

Citadel, Citadel Device,

Darkblade, the

Double-

Headed/Imperial Eagle

device, 'Eavy Metal,

Forge World, Games

Workshop, Games

Workshop logo, Golden

Demon, Great Unclean

One, GW, the Hammer

of Sigmar logo, Horned

Rat logo, Keeper of

Secrets, Khemri,

Khorne, the Khorne

logo, Lord of Change,

Nurgle, the Nurgle

logo, Skaven, the

Skaven symbol

devices, Slaanesh, the

Slaanesh logo, Tomb

Kings, Trio of Warriors,

Twin Tailed Comet

Logo, Tzeentch, the

Tzeentch logo,

Warhammer,

Warhammer Online,

Warhammer World

logo, White Dwarf, the

White Dwarf logo, and

all associated marks,

names, races, race

insignia, characters,

vehicles, locations,

units, illustrations and

images from the

Warhammer world are

either ®, TM and/or ©

Workshop Ltd 2000-

2005, variably

registered in the UK

and other countries

around the world.

Used without

permission. No

challenge to their

status intended. All

Rights Reserved to

their respective

owners.

Tool Shed

Character Traits ...................................................................................38

by Henrik Gr ö nberg

Settlements of Sigmar .........................................................................49

by Henrik Gr ö nberg

Changing Seasons ................................................................................51

by Henrik Gr ö nberg

Inns of the Empire................................................................................53

by Henrik Gr ö nberg

Ex Libris Imperialis .............................................................................57

by Henrik Gr ö nberg

Tales of the Rover ................................................................................66

by Henrik Gr ö nberg

Appendices

Playing WFRP by Email ......................................................................75

by David Hatch

Playing WFRP Online .........................................................................79

by Jude Hornborg

Playing WFRP by Message Board........................................................81

by Philip Hamilton

Credits

Editor/Layout : Henrik Grönberg, James Walkerdine

Feedback and Proofreading : John F Foody, Henrik Grönberg, Wim van Gruisen,

David Hatch, Jude Hornborg, Robin Low, Dave Keville, Adrian Maddocks, Martin

Oliver, Dorothy Rachovides.

The Liber Fanatica is a compendium of articles dedicated to the Warhammer

Fantasy Role-Playing Game. Published December 2005.

The work is offered free of charge to all interested parties and is not to be sold in

any form. It may be printed or offered for download if distributed free of charge. All

the documents comprising the Liber Fanatica, including the cover and contents

page, belong together and are to be kept that way. Individual articles from this

compendium cannot be published or distributed separate from the other parts of

Liber Fanatica without the explicit permission of the article’s author.

All original material is copyright to the respective author.

Email the Liber Fanatica guild at Liber.Fanatica@gmail.com

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Liber Fanatica - Volume III : The Game Master ’ s Guide

Articles

Liber Fanatica - Volume III : The Game Master ’ s Guide

Writing a Campaign

by Wim van Gruisen

his article is about creating RPG campaigns.

The focus is on Warhammer Fantasy

Roleplay (any edition), but the topic is generic

enough to be of value for other RPGs as well. A

campaign is nothing more or less than a series of

adventures, in the same setting and usually with

the same group of characters. A good campaign,

however, is quite a bit more than that. This

article intends to give you some instruments with

which you can make your campaign better.

WFRP Campaign ’ s

The Enemy Within

- The Enemy Within

- Shadows over Bogenhafen

- Death on the Reik

- Power behind the Throne

- Something Rotten in Kislev

- Empire in Flames

This is the quintessential WFRP campaign,

widely recognised as one of the best roleplaying

campaigns ever written. The PCs become deeper

and deeper involved in a plot to have the Empire

descend in a civil war, and deal with those Chaos

cults to profit from it.

The last volume is both very difficult to get your

hands on, and seen as one of the weakest parts

of the campaign. Further, it does not fit with the

world in WFRP2. For all these reasons, Alfred

Nunez has taken it upon him to write an

alternative ending, Empire at War .

WFRP is a good game for running a campaign –

for one thing, campaigns were, and are,

published for the game. The The Enemy Within

campaign for WFRP’s first edition is generally

known as one of the best fantasy campaigns ever

published for a roleplaying game. Other

campaigns were the Doomstones campaign and

the privately published A Private War by Tim

Eccles. They are out of print now, but with a bit

of luck you can find them on Ebay. For the new

edition, Black Industries has published The

Ashes of Middenheim the first part of their new

Paths of the Damned campaign. The sidebar

mentions all published WFRP campaigns that the

LF team knows of.

We can distinguish between different kinds of

campaigns. The simplest one is the episodic

campaign, in which the PCs face a different

problem every session. They fight beastmen on

Backerstag, are opposed by mutants on Marktag

and discover cultists on Konigstag, all without

one encounter being related to the other. It is sort

of the A-team approach to adventuring; every

session a new adventure, and rarely is one

related to the other.

Doomstones

- Crossing the Border (a small introductory

adventure published in Hogswash)

- Fire in the Mountains

- Blood in Darkness

- Death Rock

- Dwarf Wars

- Heart of Chaos

The Doomstones campaign is rather atypical in

that it is set far from the civilised world. It is also

more high-powered than the standard WFRP

setting, with the PCs getting their hands on a

number of insanely powerful artefacts, the

Doomstones.

The rambling campaign is a bit more structured;

this one is characterised by longer story arcs,

and different adventures are related to each

other, the ending of one often leading into the

next one. There is no clear end, however, with no

single goal which the stories lead to. This

campaign can go on forever. A comparable TV

program would be your average soap.

A step above the rambling campaign is the

structured one; here we have a campaign that

has a definite beginning, middle and end.

Adventures during the campaign are in the

service of this structure.

Each type of campaign above adds some

complexity to the previous one. This article

concentrates on structured campaigns, as they

are the most comprehensive. Simpler types of

campaigns are automatically covered.

A Private War

- A Private War

- All Quiet in Kislev

- Homeward Bound

- Wheatland Colonies: A Pass Too Fa r

Not part of the official canon, this campaign was

published privately by Tim Eccles. The tone is

much more down to earth, and magic and

monsters are noted by their absence. The stress

is much on the evil that men do.

Mini campaigns for WFRP1 can be found in

- The Restless Dead

- Return of the Lichemaster

- Dying of the Light

Paths of the Damned

- The Ashes of Middenheim

- The Spires of Altdorf

- The Forges of Nuln

This is the first campaign written for WFRP

second edition. As this is still being in

development, we’ll refrain from discussing it.

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