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An Australian statistician and role-player living in Japan, interested in the theory and practice of role-playing…

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  • アルソンのアクション選択肢

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  • Simplified Warhammer 3 for High Fantasy

    The easiest first pass at simplifying WFRP3 is to make a stripped-down system for a high fantasy campaign, which means less classes, less actions, longer periods between level progression and more flexible magic systems. It also means using some ideas from D&D to simplify the action system and thus the character sheet, which is the…

  • The Tome of Orphans

    This is a description of a magical tome that the PCs discovered in the grave of a wizard near Ubersreik in a recent Rats in the Ranks adventure. It’s designed for Warhammer 3 but it follows a general principle of mine for tomes: you have to read them over time and make a skill check,…

  • Thoughts on Simplifying Warhammer 3

    It doesn’t take me long, does it? Eight sessions of a system and I start thinking about tinkering with it… The main causes of excess complexity in Warhammer are: Resource Management Action Cards Stances The Dice Critical Wound Cards Now, the dice are non-negotiable – they’re a core part of the reason WFRP3’s system is…

  • Tyranny and Structure in Role-playing

    Noisms at Monsters and Manuals has written a comparison of gaming systems with political theories, dichotomized into “top-down” games (D&D 3rd Edition) and thinkers (Marx) and “bottom-up” games (OD&D) and thinkers (Hayek). Noisms makes it clear what side he falls on (he’s a “bottom-upper,” oo-er), which he characterizes as “the right” (vs. “the wrong”), but…

  • Converting Warhammer 1st Edition to 3rd Edition

    Another of my (several) complaints about Warhammer 3rd Edition is that it doesn’t seem to contain a great deal of flavour about the world, compared to the 1st and 2nd editions. I think this is largely because it is new[1], though I think Fantasy Flight Games are doing the rather nasty trick of assuming that…

  • Example Trap Card: Pit Trap

    My previous post described some ideas for setting traps in Warhammer 3; in this post I present the pit trap card. The resistance side: This is the disarm side:

  • Setting Traps in Warhammer 3

    One of my (several) problems with Warhammer 3 is that it doesn’t contain rules for some basic aspects of adventuring that we all take for granted, including (rather annoyingly) traps. I don’t often use traps in adventures, since I’m not a great fan of dungeon adventures, and I understand that dungeoneering isn’t a big part…

  • Rats in the Ranks Session 6: Dubious German Sausage

    Last night was the 6th session of the Rats in the Ranks campaign, so about my 9th session of Warhammer 3rd Edition. This time, we again were missing one of our players (Mr. Camphor) so we again decided to put off the main plot of the campaign for a random side adventure, which is fine…