Warhammer Monster book for d20

[Desdichado]

Thanks for the answers everyone. One of my players is really into Warhammer and would like to see soem of the monsters in my 3.5 game.

Looks like it would be too much trouble to learn about Warhammer (I have never read any of their stuff) and include it.

I don't think it'd be too much trouble, especially if you're just trying to add a little bit of flavor.

Do a search for Warhammer Wiki on Google or something like that. Read a page or two about the Chaos Gods and add some evil cults of Khorne or Slaanesh to your repertoire of villains. Read a bit about the skaven and improvise some--in a pinch, just use goblin stats and give them some kind of diseased bite attack like a dire rat or something. Give them magical support in the form of spellcasters who focus on disease and decay themed spells.

Add some beastmen. Orc stats with a gore attack. Have them hide out in the darker, more twisted woods.

Toss around rumors of an ancient uber-lich name Nagash, from the sun-blasted lands to the south--the "father of Necomancy." A vampire clan named Von Carstein. I wouldn't make Nagash himself appear, but the search for the Nine Books of Nagash, powerful necromantic macguffins, can be part of your campaign.

Voila! Instant Warhammer themed monsters in any D&D campaign. Just make sure that one of your cultists yells out "Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!" when attacking, and your Warhammer fan player will be happy.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Warhammer creatures are easy to convert, it is the background that is hard to get right and carry over to d20.

Skaven = Ratmen but with their own industry based on warp stone. Decay and desease is their theme.

Undead = lots of zombies but Vampires Counts are almost demon lords.

 

[Desdichado]

Warhammer creatures are easy to convert, it is the background that is hard to get right and carry over to d20.

Nah, background is easy to port from system to system.

Vampire counts are very traditional vampires. They work well already in d20. Although I'd certainly argue that iconic Warhammer counts would be fairly high level starting characters to apply the template to.

 

[Voadam]

Pathfinder orcs with their ferocity traits work very well as Warhammer orcs.

Give dwarves tusks, babylon looks, guns, and some exploding chaos sorcery that eventually turns them to stone from the ground up and you've got a WH chaos dwarf.

Turn goblins green and you've pretty much got a WH goblin.

Skaven ratmen can be found in Ptolus or Creature Collection I and II and Creature Collection Revised or in Scarred Lands Warrens of the Rat Men.

Chaos champions you can usually use a blackguard or unholy warrior or evil paladin variant, give them plate mail that never comes off, tons of str and con, and huge weapons and you are pretty set.

google warhammer and you can get plenty of good descriptive info on the WH monsters.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

IIRC the first Creature Collection also had ratmen, which were skaven stand-ins.

However, that book was full of... issues. It had a ton of cool monsters, many of which were overpowered for their CR.

Didn't they release a 3.5 update that fixed most of that? Creature Collection was what I thought of first, too. White Wolf even included a ratman sourcebook later on.

 

[Thanael]

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Vigil-Watch-Warrens-Ratmen-Sorcery/dp/1588461645/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top]Vigil Watch Warrens of the Ratmen[/ame] is a d20 Scarred Lands book that borrows from Warhammer's Skaven iirc.

One of the d20 Ravenloft Gazetteers (the one that includes Richemulot - the wererat domain) has a diseased/warped template for wererats.

 

[Voadam]

Didn't they release a 3.5 update that fixed most of that? Creature Collection was what I thought of first, too. White Wolf even included a ratman sourcebook later on.

They did.

Creature Collection Revised.