Tour The Monuments Of Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play’s Old World
June 25, 2020 by brennon
Cubicle 7 has been showing off a couple of new options for those diving into Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play. The first of these is Monuments Of The Reikland which adds a number of new story beats into the mix for people telling their tales of The Old World.
Monuments Of The Reikland Cover // Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play
In this little supplement for their roleplaying game, you'll find options for including some of these famous and infamous locations from the heartland of The Empire. Here is a breakdown of what you get inside...
- The Statue of Burgomeister Holger Rauck: Never well-liked, the Burgomeister was certain a fine statue would be just the thing to prop up his flagging reputation. The locals disagreed.
- Memorial to the Fallen of the Battle of Auerswald: A memorial to remember an ill-fated charge against the goblin hordes of Grom the Paunch, a small addition by the stonemason hints at a deeper purpose.
- Von Plotzkanal’s Horological Tower: Though Imperial Engineer Gerd von Plotzkanal’s crowning achievement eventually drove him mad, the people of Kemperbad remain proud of this particularly changeable timepiece.
- The Hawk of Mackenstein: Its origins lost to history, the Hawk of Mackenstein is beloved as a good luck charm while sleeping beneath it is said to bring one a long and restful slumber.
- The Paranoth Column: Overlooking the River Schilder, the column is said to be a monument to a former Supreme Patriarch from the Jade Order, Garvan Paranoth, while others claim it was a monument to his folly.
These monuments might be worth exploring as you're on your journey, additional adventure hooks that could take tales off in a different direction.
Converting Old Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play Heroes
As well as the supplement above, you can also pick up their Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play Conversion Table booklet.
Conversion Tables // Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play
This allows you to take some of your older characters and convert them over to work in the new edition of the game from Cubicle 7. Here is how the list of options breaks down within the set...
- A handy chart for converting Characteristics from first and second edition to WFRP’s fourth edition.
- A list of Skills from second edition and their closest match in WFRP fourth edition.
- A list of Talents from the first and second edition and their closest match in WFRP’s fourth edition.
Are you going to be snapping these new options up for use in your games?
Let us know your thoughts below and what your favourite hero is from your old campaigns!
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My first thought was to wonder whether Old World protesters were tearing down some of these statues.
Perhaps the world doesn’t overreact as much as the real world.
Blame the police officer involved not long dead people that did more than be a racist.
No, they’re just more content to be oppressed.
It’s Warhammer, No Lives Matter.
Besides, the Watch are far more benevolent than people think. It’s the Reiksguard you have to be warry of.
The things we do in the real world will always be worse than the things we imagine people could do in games.
I like to think that what we did to Witte de Wit and his brother is a scenario that could have happened in Old Warhammer as well.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/johan-de-witt
And that’s without hints of chaos worship …
Wasn’t that basically how we used to get rid of leaders before general elections?
Well, I guess that eating them wasn’t part of the standard process. But the number of national non-elected leaders that got hacked to pieces by their own people was not exactly small.
Defense against your own people presents a major focus in The Prince (which is secretly an argument on why republics are so much better than princedoms).
I don’t know.
IIRC in the animal kingdom the loser gets exiled from the tribe or something, which is a potential death sentence.
I wouldn’t be surprised if our ancient ancestors did similar things.
However I’m no historian and at best my knowledge comes from documentaries on Discovery Channel …
I wasn’t going back to pre-history. Generally, pretenders to the throne and deposed monarchs were executed.
It was standard practice when a new power took over a kingdom to execute the deposed monarch. If was a people’s rebellion, they would follow the same tradition.
The times the old monarch was left alive was when a surrender was negotiated -and a hefty ransom would enrich the new ruler. But ransoms never appease the oppressed masses.