Today, we're moving onto the Commoner Archetype. Here's a sneak peak at the Artisan!

http://grimandperilous.com/?p=486

Happy Monday, all! Today, let's take a look at a profession underneath the Warrior Archetype, the Berserker!

http://grimandperilous.com/?p=495

As a quick wrap-up from today, we wanted to share with you a look at some of the Natural Hazard rules in ZWEIHÄNDER. Natural Hazards include a number of perilous challenges a Character may face: falling, suffocating, sickness, poison and a host of others. We vacillated between sharing the rules for venereal disease or intoxication. First up, we'll show you our vision of how intoxication works. Stay tuned tomorrow to learn about venereal diseases (and other sickness as well)!

http://grimandperilous.com/?p=501

Stay tuned tomorrow for venereal disease!

As a part of our ongoing sneak peak at Professions, come take a look at the Preacher, one of the 12 Professions assigned to the Academic Archetype!

http://grimandperilous.com/?p=512

As promised, come take a look at Sickness and Disease in ZWEIHÄNDER. We've included a few examples of those we plan to include in the final product.

http://grimandperilous.com/?p=517

"Bloody Flux cannot be cured."

"Grey Plague cannot be cured."

"TREATMENT
There is no known treatment for Red Death.

CURE
Red Death cannot be cured."

VENEREAL DISEASE
"TREATMENT
Arguably difficult to treat, some barber surgeons have had luck inserting a number of instruments into the genitalia to relieve the pain of urination (a curved iron rod, wooden catheter, lice and mites). A dull knife may be employed to scrape away any pustules or lingering warts, but only serves as a temporary solution. As the sickness continues to worsen, it may result in the necessity for the infected to take opiates or other sedatives to relieve themselves from pain. It requires a successful (Challenging -10%) Heal Test to relieve the effects as below.

CURE
Venereal Disease cannot be cured."

Nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.

JG

Today, we take a look at one of the twelve Standard Professions in the Commoner Archetype, the Barber Surgeon.

http://grimandperilous.com/?p=521

As a closing to the upcoming holiday weekend, we present to you one of our favorite Professions in the Commoner Archetype, the Rat Catcher!

http://grimandperilous.com/?p=524

We're closing in on our final beta internally, codename "GRIMDARK Edition". We're cleaning it up for public consumption now, and will release the documents over the course of the next couple of weeks.

However, you can get a sneak peak at the new Character Sheet, alongside the new mechanics, by heading to our home page. It will take you to a Dropbox link for the revised three page sheet.

http://grimandperilous.com/?p=529

An excellent article was just published about the "death" of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay over at Order of Gamers. ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG even received an honorable mention!

http://www.orderofgamers.com/wfrp-3rd-edition-is-dead-long-live-wfrp/

It was pure speculation at first, but the announcement of WFRP 4e has almost been confirmed by https://plus.google.com/communities/107044249245152105868/stream/230ef600-bcef-4b1a-a06b-69c2844366db">Chris Birch of Modiphius.

This is a grand idea, as I absolutely love http://www.modiphius.com/mutant-chronicles.html">Mutant Chronicles 3rd Edition. The ruleset is clean, fun and promotes the "dark" attitude prevalent in British RPGs with a grim & perilous feel. However, Chris Birch, Jay Little and the rest of the team from Modiphius have a large hill to climb if they wish to capture the hearts of the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay community.

With every new edition of Warhammer, there has been a distinct lack of new, sponsored content. What about Estalia? Norsca? Lustria? Halflings in Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 3E? The other lands outside of the Old World? Fortunately, the http://www.liberfanatica.net/">Liber Fanatica and http://forum.strike-to-stun.net/index.php">Strike to Stun community have helped fill in the gaps, providing rich content for fans to place into their own campaign.

Jay Little, creator of the most experimental, controversial and community-splitting version of http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite.asp?eidm=93">Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, will likely be put in charge of development. However, if WFRP 4e is built upon the backbone of the 2D20 system, it could be a real gem. Only time will tell. But it must have new content promoted for adventures outside the Old World.

Either way, http://grimandperilous.com">ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG is here to stay (http://grimandperilous.com/?page_id=95">and will still be completely free). There's plenty of room for us all to play in the sandbox.

Cheers,
Daniel Fox
Lead designer of ZWEIHÄNDER http://grimandperilous.com">Grim & Perilous RPG

EDIT:

As an update from yesterday, I spoke with Chris Birch by email. In fact, they are not announcing WFRPG 4e. This is a real shame. Good news, and potentially bad as well.

The ultimate question is this: what does Games Workshop and FFG intend to do with the license for the roleplaying game? Will Warhammer live on as Diskwars with FFG, or will we possibly see syste,s-agnostic, supplementary material from Games Workshop?

We have received numerous requests to outline the rules for Magick in ZWEIHÄNDER. As a start, let's take a look at a Profession within the Ranger Archetype, the enigmatic Hedgewise!

http://grimandperilous.com/?p=539

We ran a poll a few months back, requesting what race the community would like to have added to ZWEIHÄNDER. A number of choices were suggested. The top two contenders were Ogre and Ratkin. As complement to the other Races in ZWEIHÄNDER, we've added the Ratkin to our upcoming beta 2 entitled "GRIMDARK Edition".

http://grimandperilous.com/?p=545