Warhammer Quest Roleplay Book.pdf

· WARHAMMER QUEST ·

ROLEPLAY BOOK

(v1.01)

By Andy Jones

COVER ART

Geoff Taylor

ART

John Blanche, Wayne England, Dave Gallagher & Mark Gibbons

Additional material by Gavin Thorpe, Ian Pickstock and Mark Hawkins

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· CONTENTS ·

INTRODUCTION

SETTLEMENT EVENTS TABLE

THE WARHAMMER WORLD

EQUIPMENT TABLES

Warhammer World Map

The Armourer

The Fletcher

The Weaponsmith

SECTION 1

The Animal Trader

The General Store

The Gunsmith

LINKING GAMES

Why Keep Warriors?

TOUGHER MONSTERS

Naming Your Warrior

Using the Monster Table

The Party

The Right Citadel Miniatures?

Party Composition

The Monster Table

The Party Leader

Monster Table Entries

Linking Adventures

Monsters in Objective Rooms

Keeping Warriors

Wounds

LEVEL 1 MONSTER TABLE

Special Equipment

The Wizard and his Spells

Treasure

PSYCHOLOGY

Equipment and Gold

Healing Warriors

Fear

Healing Standing Warriors

Terror

Healing Warriors on Zero Wounds

Hatred

What Next?

Breaking

Zero Wounds

Prone Warriors

BETWEEN ADVENTURES

Travelling

SECTION 2

How Far do the Warriors Travel?

Travelling to the Adventure Site

The Hazards Table

Extra Journey Time

WARRIORS' DEVELOPMENT

Animals, Carts and Travelling

Battle-levels

The Journey's End

Wizards

Playing the Game

HAZARDS TABLE

Event Cards

Tougher Objective Rooms

SETTLEMENTS

Blocked Routes

In the Settlement

THE PARTY

Buying Equipment

Mixed Parties

Equipment Restrictions

Powerful Monsters

Determining the Shop's Stock

Mixed Battle-levels

Prices

Solo Play

Selling Treasure

Special Locations

Alchemist's Laboratory

TRAINING

Alehouse

Training Time

Alehouse Events Table

Cost of Training

Dwarf Guildmasters

Battle-level Titles

Elf Quarter

Benefits of Training

Gambling House

Extra Wounds

Temple

Extra Damage

Wizards' Guild

Pinning

Settlement Events

Skills

Catastrophic Events

New Characteristics

Catastrophic Events Table

The Luck Characteristic

Living Expenses

Your Adventure Record Sheets

BATTLE-LEVEL TABLES

In Town

148

Maintaining Game Balance

149

The Deeps

149

WARRIORS' SKILLS

Skills and Magic Items

149

Leaving in the Middle of an Adventure

149

Gaining Skills

Conclusion

149

Duplicate Skills

A Typical Turn from a Random Dungeon

150

Barbarians' Skills

Dwarfs' Skills

TRAPS AND SECRET DOORS

151

Elves' Skills

Example Traps

151

What Do Traps Do?

152

WIZARDS' TRAINING

Spotting Traps

152

Wizards' Training

Representing Traps on the Board

152

Extra Power

Secret Doors

152

Power Phase

Healing Spells and Gold

CHARACTER ENCOUNTERS

153

New Spells

Spell Lists

Characters Between Adventures

153

Characters in the Dungeon

153

A Typical Character Encounter

154

SPELL LISTS

Example Character Encounters

155

DUNGEON EVENTS TABLE

WHAT IS ROLEPLAYING?

156

The Turn Sequence

156

TREASURE

Are the Warriors Fighting or Not?

156

The Gamesmaster

156

Dungeon Room Treasure

Describing the Adventure

156

Objective Room Treasure

The Warriors' Surroundings

156

Treasure Tables

Moving the Miniatures on the Board

157

When to Roll

Characteristic Tests

157

Who can use the Treasure

Strength Tests

157

Treasure's Gold Value

Initiative Tests

157

Double Damage

Modified Characteristic Tests

158

Distributing Treasure

Different Situations

158

Different Warriors

158

DUNGEON ROOM TREASURE TABLE

Modifying Tests for Difficulty

158

Degrees of Success and Failure

159

Catastrophic Failure

159

OBJECTIVE ROOM TREASURE TABLE

Luck and Tests

159

Multiple Characteristic Tests

159

Assisting Each Other

160

THE BESTIARY

Willpower - A New Characteristic

160

Contents

New Warriors' Actions

160

Monsters' Special Rules

Reacting

167

Chaos

Controlling Tests

168

Chaos Dwarfs

Warriors' Characterisation

168

Dark Elves

Specialist Actions

168

Giants

Limitations

168

Monsters

Improvisation

168

Orcs and Goblins

106

Skaven

110

CREATING ADVENTURES

169

Undead

114

Monster Tables

117

NEW WARHAMMER QUEST CHARACTER –

THE TROLLSLAYER

172

SECTION 3

THE GAMESMASTER

143

What Does a Gamesmaster Do?

144

Interacting with the Players

144

Being Sneaky

144

Controlling the Dungeon

145

Random Adventures

145

Pre-written Adventures

145

COMPLETE ADVENTURE -

DEATH BELOW KARAK AZGAL

177

Custom-made Adventures

145

Setting Up the Game

145

Playing the Game

145

The Turn Sequence

146

ROLEPLAY

ADVENTURE RECORD SHEET

192

Treasure

148

Campaigns

148

Travelling

148

· INTRODUCTION ·

The Warhammer Quest Roleplay book builds onto the basic Warhammer Quest game that you have been playing so far. it is split into

manageable sections so you can add the many new and exciting rules it contains as you come to them - rules that include more powerful

Monsters, special treasures, magical items, tables full of new hazards and encounters, and details on improving and developing your Warriors.

T he Warhammer Quest Roleplay Book is divided into three sections, each of

which builds onto the Warhammer Quest game. The rules from each section

can be added bit by bit, as and when you are ready, slowly increasing the

complexity of the game. By the time you get to the end of this book, you will

be playing a very different game indeed.

The first section tells you how to link adventures together, and allows your

Warriors to visit towns and cities after their adventures in the dungeon. The

second section shows you how the Warriors can develop their skills,

becoming tougher and more battle-hardened As the Warriors become more

experienced, they can take on tougher Monsters, and win more treasure and

powerful new magic items. At the end of this section is the Bestiary - all the

rules you'll need for the many types of Monster that inhabit the Warhammer

World.

The third section of the book allows you to expand your games of

Warhammer Quest into a full roleplaying system, and introduces a fifth player

- the gamesmaster At the end of this Section you'll find rules for a new

Warhammer Quest Warrior the Dwarf Trollslayer - plus a complete adventure

for you to play.

In Warhammer Quest Roleplay, you can take your Warrior from adventure to

adventure, watching him develop into a mighty hero as he finds more and

more treasure and his fighting skills are honed to perfection. As you play,

your Warrior gains skills, extra Wounds, becomes faster and tougher, finds

many magic items, and so on until he is all but unstoppable in battle!

Of course, as your Warrior progresses towards becoming a true hero of the

realm, he faces ever greater challenges in deeper, darker and more dangerous

dungeons. The Monsters he meets as his career advances become even more

terrifying: ravening beasts of immense power, capable of ripping lesser

Warriors apart with a casual flick of their razor-sharp claws. These Monsters

are many times more dangerous than the ones your Warrior has met so far in

Warhammer Quest, and he has to be very tough to stand a chance of beating

them.

As you keep your Warrior from game to game, you'll find that his treasure

mounts up into a veritable fortune. This book has a detailed section that

covers what your Warrior can do with his gold between dungeons, from

losing it in gambling houses, through buying a suit of armour, to training for

new skills.

If you wanted to introduce all these new rules to your Warhammer Quest

games at once you would need to read this entire book from cover to cover

before your next game, so we have split them into sections. This way you can

gradually build up the complexity of your Warhammer Quest games, starting

with the rules in the first section of this book and then - once you are

comfortable with these - working through the rest of the rules in the other

sections as you wish.

Even within each section, it is not necessary to introduce all the new rules at

once -just start using them as and when you feel ready.

· THE WARHAMMER WORLD ·

The Warhammer World is a place of magic, a realm of adventure where heroic knights lead mighty armies Into battle against the massed hordes

of Chaos sweeping down from the north. On vast oceans the warfleets of the Elves and the Empire clash with those of Orcs. Skaven and Dark

Elves. And in the dungeons beneath the mountains dwell all manner of foul and fell beasts.

I n this uneasy and war-torn domain brave Warriors go forth in search of

adventure, treasure and glory. Many are the tales of great hoards of treasure

and powerful magical items waiting to be claimed by those bold enough to try

- for where there is treasure, so too are found monsters, and the greater the

treasure the more powerful its defenders. Adventure-lust fills the veins of the

young and the foolhardy, but the majority of those who do embark on such a

quest for wealth never return and are never heard of again. One can only

guess at the horrible nature of their deaths, alone and unnoticed in the dark

and lonely places beneath the Warhammer World.

Yet there is never a shortage of those brave, or perhaps foolhardy enough, to

take their chances in the dark, to risk everything in the search for treasure and

renown…

“Is anything hurt?” Sarion shouted down into the dark hole at

his feet.

“Only my pride,” muttered the Dwarf from the bottom of the

pit, ruefully nursing a sore head. “Sorry Skerri, I didn't catch

that,” the Wizard's voice drifted down into the darkness.

“Keep your Voice down, manling.” bellowed the Dwarf. “Of

course I'm alright. I... errr... merely wished to investigate

this.., errr... interesting perpendicular tunnel for secret

doors.”

It sounded feeble to Skerri Redbeard as he said the words, but

there was no way he was going to let a bunch of wet-behind-

the-ears first-timers know he was in trouble.

“I think there might be a concealed treasure chamber here,”

he grunted, feeling around in the darkness just for good effect.

“Hold on then Skerri.” The eager voice of Ranalf the

Barbarian echoed in the inky darkness, followed by a shower

of loose rocks and debris.

“Watch out you oaf.” shouted the Dwarf.

“What do you think you're doing?”

The next moment, the air was knocked out of him as a well-

muscled Barbarian, a slender Elf and a weaselly-framed

Wizard landed on top of him with a mighty thump.

Aghast, Skerri peered at his companions in the cramped

darkness at the bottom of the pit as they dusted themselves

down.

“What in the name of Grungni?...”

“I think I've broken my arm,” moaned Geladron. “Nonsense.”

exclaimed Ranalf cheerily.

“Sarion broke your fall - it's lust a bit sprained, that's all. “

“But, but...” started Skerri, horrified at their sudden

predicament.

Light flickered in the darkness as Ranalf got the lantern going,

illuminating beyond doubt the fact that they were all crammed

in a tiny space at the bottom of a deep hole.

“Right then, you cunning know-it-all, let's be getting on.

Where's this secret door you found?” The grinning Barbarian

was almost quivering with anticipation of some treasure and a

good fight.

“Errr... did you, by any chance, think to bring the rope down

with you?”

Still, such is the lure of riches and honour that some cannot resist their siren

call. They set off into the wild places of the world, far from the cosy

hearthfires of civilisation. Nowhere is this more true than on the borders of

the Empire, largest country in the Old World, where the ancient Dwarf cities

beckon with promises of long-lost gold.

The Empire is the most powerful nation of mankind, an ancient realm of

forest and mountains, seat of human learning and bastion of humanity. Its

great cities are famous the world over, teeming with tradesmen, warriors,

artisans and wizards. To the north, the Empire is bordered by the Sea of

Claws and the proud warrior nation of Kislev. Along all its other borders it is

closed off by grim and brooding mountain ranges, traversable only through

winding mountain passes. To the west, the Grey Mountains form the border

with Bretonnia, while to the east lie the Worlds Edge Mountains, below which

are the ancient Dwarf kingdoms, the source of untold riches.

The Dwarfs are an ancient and long-lived race, and their great kingdom once

stretched the length of the Worlds Edge Mountains in a series of vast,

labyrinthine subterranean cities. These were tunnelled into the living rock

over many ages of hard labour, as the Dwarfs followed the rich veins of

precious metals deep below the ground. Their kingdom was rich beyond all

telling, and the Dwarfs' skills in metal working and forgecraft were legendary

throughout the world. Fiercely proud and jealous of their treasure, the Dwarfs

believed their mountain bastions impregnable. They were wrong.

Drawn by the riches of the Dwarfs, unstoppable legions of Orcs and Goblins

from the Dark Lands threw down the defences and crushed the Dwarf holds

one by one, while vile Skaven armies erupted into the cities from tunnels

beneath. Though the Dwarfs fought bravely, many of their cities fell and the

once mighty empire fragmented.

To their anger, the Orcs and evil creatures who destroyed the cities did not

find all the Dwarfs' fabled treasure: much of it lies still buried in cleverly

concealed hiding places in the deepest caves and tunnels. Over the ages, these

Dwarf halls have been occupied by all manner of fell beasts, from chittering

bats and raging Minotaurs to Undead Lords and Chaos Sorcerers. These once

bright cities have become places of dread - dark, dank caverns where death

lurks around every corner. To descend into this twilight realm is to invite

disaster and to risk a terrible fate at the hands of unseen enemies.

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