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Share your Warhammer FRP stories with me

Started by Benoist, March 08, 2011, 04:38:44 PM

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John Morrow

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Quote from: Benoist;444690Any memories that particularly stick out?

An old lady in a tidy house full of jars of jam insistently inviting a PC to sit down for some tea... before turning into a werewolf and trying to rip his throat out.

A player's character getting the insanities "talks to self" and "talks in sleep" so he never shut up.  I knew I was running the game well when players would roll their own insanity dice without prompting. :)

Bruno and Bruno, the not too bright gravediggers working for a local necromancer, one with a dead bunny named Bobby draped over his shoulder that he'd talk to and about.

An artifact consisting of 6 naked figures (3 male and 3 female) that start out joined together forming a cube.  If a PC plays with it, they'll find out that they can remove the figures.  If they do, it will fall apart and they can try to put it back together, like a sort of pornographic puzzle.  They'll find it quite challenging, and cursed, picking up an insanity point each time and won't be able to put the puzzle back together until they've developed an insanity.

A PC who thought he could teach the pacifist followers of Shalya to fight by leading a chaos hoard to their monastery.  He was wrong.

I ran a short game that involved a lich in a sarcophagus from Araby being moved down the Reik aboard the river barge in the Warhammer Companion by riverboat, with the lich slowly controlling the minds of those on board.  Most of the PCs survived by abandoning ship, only to spot it the next day heading purposely down river with an Eye of Horus newly painted on the sail.  Note, Warhammer FRP adventures don't have to have a happy ending and sometimes surviving the adventure is victory enough.

I had a Halfling Mafia in Mirigliano in Tilia, roughly modeled on memories of the Eubeen Hadd NPC write-up from the April Fool's section of Dragon #60.

It was interesting running Vampire PCs with the 1st Edition rules that required them to drink blood constantly just to wake up.  The PCs started calling Snotlings "shots" because they were only worth one blood point.  

There was the game (I recently mentioned this in another thread) where two players insisted on playing elves but didn't want to pay good elves (as per the 1st Edition rules, Elves could be Lawful, Good, Evil, or Chaotic but not Neutral -- my house rule was that Elves had to believe strongly in something and a Neutral elf would accumulate an insanity point a week until they got an insanity that shifted their alignment away from Neutral) so they both decided to play Evil elves.  The situation was that they were sent to a magic school in a city to learn magic, taking the place of two wood elves that had been killed on the way there.  One of the character fell for a bar maid and started seeing her.  Then they ran into some dark elves looking for a sacrifice and the virginal bar maid fit the bill.  The player, determined to be Evil, turned the bar maid over to the dark elves... and then regretted it.  He then fought the dark elves to get her back, turning on the other player character, the character's brother, in the process.  That led to the now-Good character hunting the still-Evil character.  This was an early manifestation of my idea that Evil should be Evil, not simply naughty or unpleasant.

I ran a pick-up one-shot of Warhammer FRP while in Japan at a JIGG (Japan International Gamer's Guild) meeting with a Japanese player.  He chose to run an elf.  Part way into the game, he made it clear his elf was female, which seemed to fit the common stereotype in Japan and I found that amusing.

ADDED: A few more that I thought about.

The player who played a "Mafia Princess".  At the start of the game, she was sheltered and her father wouldn't let her out of the house.  Then the black wagons with the repeating crossbows showed up and wiped out her family and everyone else in the house, with her narrowly escaping with her life.  Warhammer FRP is pretty good for genre-mashing like that.  One of the early Warhammer FRP books, Drachenfels, has a character that's basically a Clint Eastwood gunfighter in it.

I primarily viewed Warhammer FRP as fantasy-horror and often looked at the horror as a choice between Alien (a single shadowy menace stalking the players) or Aliens (overwhelming bad guy hoards).
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