THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR WARHAMMER FANTASY ROLEPLAY ISSUE 13 SPRING/SUMMER 2000 UK £3.00 US $4.95 ‘WARRIORS GRIMOIRE New Combat Skills for Warriors TWO SCENARIOS IM: NEWMAN INTERVIEW Pere, : oll ie! Nitta AND MUCH, MUCH MORE..“EDITORIAL oe ‘The ueston hat maybe eneveryoneslps "What happened the Noverber 1999 elease defor sue 127” Not tha we ike wo gs the Bc or aything bt." wasn our faut! Apologies wo all wha had o wait foro lone, bt {he delay was ou of ou conto. hope you enjoyed it and hough he walt ‘worthwbile and fr those who haven't seen - bay aow! Hopefly hs isoe "You may have noticed we now havea larger compliment of atts cacribtig othe mapaine, ech wither ov mia syle. hope you il age that his improves the overall ok of the mapszine and gives new and ferent perspectives onthe ok ofthe Wabare wold. Torch is ‘weave writers who produce consitely food miter Howes a il the it the mote voices hat cn beer the cer the tapestry at sn be woven lo the Old Word. 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The ping any in WERP foal dowrthsome sng on Manstan Someta andl on Man its Even pli SDAR, Acton Ragan tb Teta oot developed then bul ey were "saretiesinvalved in cover operations a Marr, sen one hyn they ois edt ones Ceres AS moticed ine 0. Not ne one bt eco cats od crud fr the cunt ensare a) CONTENTS See REPORTS FROM THE HEART OF CORRUPTION ‘A Special on Wathammer Fiction. “while part ofthis material does a nice job of escribing the Old World, other parts seem to fi completely violate our understanding of how i arts of the Old World works.” fs ike "Tim Eccles regolar coloma looks at prejudice in the Old World. F"Stessing the regional differences in religion, speech, dress and codes of behaviour can add real flavour to a campaign Kim Newman (ka Jack Yeovil) sharee some of his views on Wathammer fict amongst other things. “there's magic, there's Ors, there's monsters, there's all this guy-stuff and anything could happen.” VTA Prem esetet ‘A set of additional combat skills t0 give ‘warriors the edge they have been lacking for 20 long “What does a warior lear during those frequent training session whilst the wizards lear forbidden secrets ofthe arcane?” Ao re act to News and Brief Reviews, The latest news from Hogshead and the return of Velkyse. “Iseue 18 i out now and with full time editors on-board, it promises to become a welcome regular on the shelves, Nant Arc a set Game eo ier tabu Calaes) Coley Ring Sane Wrstop Depew tnnave Expenerce Pas Iwate Ener reg seein cme Remains of the Knight ‘A complete scenario about 2 long forgotten cevil that will not rest “The cycle has come to an end, the chase finishes withthe fox’s flesh pulled from his bones by the dogs. There wil be a sign and you will knovr the time has come.” The Road To Damnation Al you aced to know to start your own colt. ia WERP that is! “The fewer the members, and the more ignorant of the real goals of the leadership, the more likely the organisation is to remain undiscovered.” Bry C Ria cs 0c) From one small. dirk plaice 10 another in 2 tale of greed and corruption. “Risking all, the family sold their only cow, placing themselves on the verge of starvation” The latest offerings of prise and critism “The Chaos powers are contrary entities. [urge is diseased and rotting, but possesses 1 joyous excitement and enthusiasm for life born of an acceptance of the inevitable." 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Aerial mal iscapyiht athe resestive aahREVIEWS Tnligh ofthe fact thar a number ofthe fiction workscommisioned by Games ‘Workshop have recently become avsilable again - more ofthe Goteele and Felix work s being reissued by GW in three volumes, and moet of the other books are available from Internet auctions - i seems an opportune time to make review ofthese Books: one I hope wil help the usually cash-strapped WERP player to decide where he or she might want o inven their money. Tea be argued that the job of critic is wofold, On the ane hand, to evaluate whether a book is “importants by which I mean, does i belong in that category referred toa literature, snd onthe other hand) to give the reaer some idea of whether a book isenjoyable,andifso, why. The reader can then decide whether to invest che time and money necesary to ead tht book. “Well for those books that collectively make up the “Warhammer” novel, the ist half of that equation is quite easy: Iean say without adoube that none ofthese novels will ever be taughria literature clases at Oxdord, Sorry to bust, ‘your bubble, but there isn't hidden classic amongst them. ‘Doa'e give up on this review jt yet, though, [athe case of these twelve books-some novels, some collections of shore stories- feel compelled to add a third job tothe tasks of the review: to evaluate whether any or al of them, ‘might be valuable to the reader. By this I mean, is there material here that will enhance your Warhammer campaign, as GM or a player? Are thereNPCsto harvest and inser in your gume, settings toemploy, plots ra transfer and run your characers/players through? In fact, do these books expand upon the Old ‘World in ways that are sete to those of us devoted ro Warhammer Fantasy RolePlay? So si back and enjoy an evaluation of the stories written in the Old World andsetinprint- you might ardently disagree with my evaluations or you might ‘wholeheartedly agre, Buti either case, hopeflly {wll alsa manage ro point cout waysin which even the worst ofthese works ight be used to enhance Your owngame The books divide up into four major groups: the three Konrad novels all by David Ferrng: the cree Orfeo novels allby Brian Craig the three Genevieve novels all by Jack Yeovil, and thee collections of short storie, ll edited by David Pringle Teseems, rom discussions with many WERP fane tha there ie something ofa toss-up between the Konrad material and the Orfeo material for whichy among the novela at lat, contains the worst bof Warhammer elated writing currently available, This doesn't mean, however, that either eres of works is ‘uniformly bad, nor that ther is nothing a GM eould take irom the works and ‘extend into his or her campaiga. ‘Konrad sthefirst novel of the cycleittllsthe tory of ayoung orphaned boy's early life, i which he suffers a childhood made tolerable only by the ‘occasional seeret vist of hie only friend, and eventual lover, the daughter of thelocal landowner Latein his teen years, Konrad witnesses te destrction of his entire town a the hands of Beastmen and Skaven, but heis sed fom this fate, Apparently he has been singled out, perhaps by the gods, perhaps by a less-savoury enity, for some yrester role in the workd-andfor some Chaotic plan hinted ar vhroughout the nove inthe form of brief vgnestes which feature Abronze-armoured stranger whose presences always near Konrad quickly meets up with Wolf, « mysterious figure who is part mercenary, part rogoe, part Templar of Sigmar - despite his name and his appearance. Konrad signs on as Wolt'ssquite ad thee travels together begin. ‘They strike out for Kislev, where they slowly build a substantial mercenary army, which Wolf uses to fight Chaos, while preparing himself for an attempt 10 raid an old Dwarfen temple forthe rimoured treasure inside, The rid is made, the obligatory gobline are fought, and Koncad finds hitnelf briefly, apparently, embodiedby the Avatar of Sigmar Heldenhamnmer though Konrad Sousa ecognize it for what ti. In the end Kanead leaves Wolf to pursue his,