Info on the WFRP city Middenheim?

[blackshirt5]

Maybe a spell point system would be good for Warhammer?

 

[Carnifex]

Yeah, it's not an impossible challenge, certainly. Do you also use anything like a shrunken massive damage thresh hold, or anything like that?

Well, I may well use one lower than massive damage being 50, yes However, in general, I find that d20 combat, especially with no healing back-up, can be quite lethal anyway.

 

[Carnifex]

Maybe a spell point system would be good for Warhammer?

I'm not really convinced that it would, since it has the same discrepancies from the WH magic concepts as spell preparation does; it would work if you could get some sort of reflection of the winds of magic into it though...

...hmm... another possibility would be a AU style spell preparation thing (you have X spells known per day, chosen from a larger list, though that list would be constricted by what actual spells the mage has in his book) but with no limits on how many spells could be cast per day - EXCEPT you'd need to make maybe a Spellcraft or Concentration check whenever you wanted to cast a spell, and this could vary depending on the levels of magic defined by the winds of magic in the area.

I should really see if I can find out how the old WFRP magic system worked again. It might help answer some of the problems.

 

[Carnifex]

*does a little bump*

 

[NewJeffCT]

*heads off to check 'em out*

Anything you could use out on eBay?

 

[Carnifex]

Anything you could use out on eBay?

Sadly the one of use ended early due to Buy It Now, so I didn't get a chance to set up an ebay account and bid for it

 

[Numion]

In some ways, AU is even higher magic than D&D. I'd think the challenge with using a d20 conversion is to keep the game from going over the top. D&D is a very much light, high fantasy game in comparison to WHFRP.

Well, the city of middenheim does have wizards doing flying shows with spells, druids freezing the pond for ice skating and they have wizard cops. Not exactly low- or rare-magic, IMO.

A more defining attribute for the feel of the warhammer world is that its human-centric and a bit racist.

 

[Carnifex]

Well, the city of middenheim does have wizards doing flying shows with spells, druids freezing the pond for ice skating and they have wizard cops. Not exactly low- or rare-magic, IMO.

A more defining attribute for the feel of the warhammer world is that its human-centric and a bit racist.

One thing I'm really gonna try and go for is that, while not *low* magic, the setting is such that superstition is rife, and magic still *feels* magic rather than mundane...