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- Wed Sep 16, 2020 6:46 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
- Replies: 128
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Re: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
Interesting take on atheism in a polytheistic society but I personally feel that you're going to heavily into a monothesistic view when describing the opposition to atheism. References to a "Godly Order" makes little sense with no clear big cheese in the pantheon. I think that a fear the a...
- Mon Sep 14, 2020 4:32 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Sillyhammer
- Replies: 19
- Views: 23342
Re: Sillyhammer
Grail pilgrims as a kind of fotball fan clubs for their chosen grail knights, complete with hooligan behavior and rivalries with other bands of grail pilgrims And once our group, I wasn't the GM, went to Würtbad in Stirland to spend an evening watching "Stirland Pro Wrestling" games. Prett...
- Sun Sep 06, 2020 9:45 am
- Forum: Fan-made Material
- Topic: Custom minor deity concept: Pharos, God of the Dark Light
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10634
Re: Custom minor deity concept: Pharos, God of the Dark Light
Second version of Pharos, God of the Dark Light. I've taken your comments into account and tried to work them into my vision for the god and his cult. EDITED: Fixed some language errors. Pharos https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQPNJJMW0cBt7R94ocxowMVoDI3pzZrFyPUEg&usqp=CAU ...
- Sat Sep 05, 2020 12:57 pm
- Forum: Fan-made Material
- Topic: Custom minor deity concept: Pharos, God of the Dark Light
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10634
Re: Custom minor deity concept: Pharos, God of the Dark Light
I should note that future versions will probably have Pharos be a bit harsher as I told my GM I intended for him to be a fairly harsh god, but not outlawed or evil like Ahalt or Gundred. ***** I like the dark light concept. I think the 'Light and Dark' miracle should offer an improved chance of noti...
- Thu Sep 03, 2020 5:24 am
- Forum: Fan-made Material
- Topic: Custom minor deity concept: Pharos, God of the Dark Light
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10634
Custom minor deity concept: Pharos, God of the Dark Light
This is a little something I proposed to a GM in our group. When we try the Enemy Within to 4th edition I wanted to play a character associated with this minor cult. I'm throwing it up here for some feedback before I submi a final version to the GM for approval. Pharos https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic...
- Mon Aug 31, 2020 5:05 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 125625
- Wed Aug 26, 2020 6:21 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 125625
Re: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
Just a thought to add to all the interesting points all of you made: Comparing to real world gods makes sense, but there is a big difference: in the old world you can assume these deities exist in some way. Miracles and the Warhammer rules prove it. In the real world we do not have that strong argu...
- Mon Aug 24, 2020 11:54 pm
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 125625
Re: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
I mostly agree with Capitaneus Fractus in his points, although I would add that most species, cultures etc. probably have a few divine actors of their own to turn to in addtion to the gods that are worshipped across the lines. In addition I don't see why pretty much every god could not have lax, mod...
- Sat Aug 22, 2020 11:30 am
- Forum: Den of Tzeentch
- Topic: Homage to Chuck
- Replies: 10
- Views: 18426
Re: Homage to Chuck
Also, count in my support and appreciation of Chuck's work and the forum.
- Wed Aug 12, 2020 5:53 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 125625
Re: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
Hi everybody, we do not have many examples of real societies that would be as technologically and culturally advanced as the Empire and practice polytheism in some of its major variants, so the question of realism might be invalid from the very start. However, when one looks at the Imperial pantheo...
- Tue Aug 11, 2020 12:57 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 125625
Re: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
Hi everybody, we do not have many examples of real societies that would be as technologically and culturally advanced as the Empire and practice polytheism in some of its major variants, so the question of realism might be invalid from the very start. However, when one looks at the Imperial pantheo...
- Mon Aug 10, 2020 12:20 am
- Forum: 4th Edition
- Topic: Guild membership
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8637
Re: Guild membership
As I said, I have a ton more on guilds in WFRP, including detailed systems on the economics, training, careers, etc. If there is interest, I could write it up in future. I would love for some more material on guilds. And perhaps even on criminal organisations. In fact, especially on criminal organi...
- Fri Aug 07, 2020 2:23 pm
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Thought Experiment: EW with bad guy PCs
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15975
Re: Thought Experiment: EW with bad guy PCs
Fair enough, you know your group a lot better than we do. 🙂 If I were to go this route myself, I’d be inclined to have all the PCs be members of one specific Cult (e.g. you’re all Yellow Fang, or all worshippers of Ahalt) to bind them more closely together, but YMMV. This is certainly a possibility...
- Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:18 am
- Forum: 4th Edition
- Topic: Guild membership
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8637
Re: Guild membership
Thanks for sharing.
- Thu Aug 06, 2020 2:03 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Thought Experiment: EW with bad guy PCs
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15975
Re: Thought Experiment: EW with bad guy PCs
[Even in "Enemy Within" so far we've had one Khorne cultist, one Slaanesh cultist and a Chaos Dwarf and the party didn't fall apart and we didn't indulge in random acts of "Stupid Evil" activity. We did even have the Khorne and Slaanesh cultist in the same party, along with a ze...
- Mon Aug 03, 2020 11:03 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Thought Experiment: EW with bad guy PCs
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15975
Re: Thought Experiment: EW with bad guy PCs
I think that a party such as you are advocating would collapse fairly quickly, as Herr Arnulfe predicts. Theft, torture and murder pale quite quickly - I believe cartoony type villains have a chance to last longer as PCs, such as Skaven or Goblinoids. Having said that, one could take each player as...
- Thu Jul 30, 2020 8:28 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Thought Experiment: EW with bad guy PCs
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15975
Re: Thought Experiment: EW with bad guy PCs
Based on my experiences playing evil campaigns, TEW would be far too long for a thought experiment. Most of the satisfaction of playing an evil PC comes from entertaining the other players with your interpretation. Players don't tend to derive much enjoyment from committing evil acts in-game. Based...
- Wed Jul 29, 2020 12:55 pm
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Thought Experiment: EW with bad guy PCs
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15975
Re: Thought Experiment: EW with bad guy PCs
You seem to have divided the Empire into 'forces of Order' and 'forces of Chaos', of which i'd say (even in fourth edition) the majority of the Empire's populace, including the sample PCs given in the original TEW, do not belong to. Further, in so far as they exist, the 'forces of Order' (aka Solka...
- Wed Jul 29, 2020 11:08 am
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Thought Experiment: EW with bad guy PCs
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15975
Re: Thought Experiment: EW with bad guy PCs
To the members of the Honorable and Fraternal Order of the Extremely Irate Water Buffalo, a very sophisticated Chaos cult, the Purple Hand is nothing but a bunch of amateurish hacks who risk too much. If they succeed, they risk bringing more witch hunters to the area (who might accidentally find/ex...
- Tue Jul 28, 2020 12:06 pm
- Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
- Topic: Thought Experiment: EW with bad guy PCs
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15975
Thought Experiment: EW with bad guy PCs
This is something that I've been thinking a little about. I am currently playing EW for the first time with my group and so haven't read the whole campaign. But I still wanted to discuss the following scenario of playing this, and possibly other, campaigns from a bad guy perspective. I have no curre...