Of course crit negation is your first priority. That said, a -20 penalty can halve your chance at succeeding on the Test. And the best chance of avoiding death and defeat is to win your Tests. Throwing that away just because there's a 10% risk of a critical in the RAW is and feels very dodgy indeed...

that's a generally bad choice because at full wounds giving your opponent bonus damage is still a real risk of getting taken down to no wounds in one blow with the level of damage variance in this game. that would only start being viable after a lot of advances to boot S/T/ the hardy talent. That h...

I can see this as a good strategy maybe when you are at zero wounds and you have brought down to zero your armor AP in at least one location. But it’s not a fantastic strategy, you are increasing the odds of being hit by no small margin, meaning also you are giving more advantage to your opponent. ...

the -20 translates into taking +2 damage, so unless you have a large shield those APs are JUST there for crit negation at that point and i don't think accepting more damage in the hopes of avoiding a random crit is a sound plan. Crits are brutal, personally I think you’d be a fool not to avail of t...

the only way to explain some of these rulings is they don't actually understand their own game system, which i assume isn't true because My gods but then that leaves that they just don't want to explain things if they get complex. You can't be serious. You mean you're supposed to generate the criti...

Hello, Just posting here a thread I already posted in a bunch of other sites, because I would like to collect as many replies/opinions as possible. I went through the rules of WFRP 4th edition, and read some posts from people who have played one/several sessions. My impression is that playing a Wiz...

If you want an official answer, it has been answered time and time again. They even made a post about it. Here is an official post: https://cubicle7.co.uk/wfrp4-in-defence-of-defence/ While extensively describing why they like shields, it doesn't in any way address OP's question. It actually side-s...

If you are defending and have an AP 2 shield in your offhand, your options are: With Melee (Basic) skill: 1. Roll using main hand weapon. Gain +1 SL (Defensive). 0APs. 2. Roll using offhand shield. Gain +1 SL (Defensive). 2APs. -20% on Melee (Basic) test. If you have the Melee (Parry) skill you can...

Rough Nights was briefly on Drivthru earlier, but was quickly taken down again (though some lucky souls managed to get it in the interim!). So should be soon.

Andy Law has confirmed that the pregens will not be the ones from the starter set.

It was renamed Dirty Fighting.