We have started our new Warhammer campaign as of February 17th, and we are now gearing up for our second installment on Sunday. I’ve always enjoyed playing low level characters since they are, for the most part, goons. Even better in the Warhammer world is the fact that most players start of in menial careers which have nothing to do with adventuring! We start off as normal people with normal (medieval) careers and as the situation progresses we evolve into our real characters. For example, my last character started off as a Pharmacist, basically an apothecary, then advanced into the Physician career, the field doctor for our party, and was planning on become a deadly assassin by using his mastery of the body, disease and poison.
My current character is an outlaw. It is more of an adventuring career than most at the start, but he is about the only one. Other characters in our group include a pugilist, a tomb robber, an apprenctice priest of justic, a rune smith (dwarven magic enchanter) apprentice, and a fast talking thief (I am not certain on this character yet since he hasn’t joined yet). Everyone is in rather basic careers and are just normal people, if you can call warhammer people normal.
The idea that we start off as snotlings (a warhammer reference, but you should be able to pick it up in context) rather than in an archetype of Rogue, Wizard, Cleric, or Warrior in the D&D world adds an extra level of depth to the game. At least that is how most of us feel while we’re playing Warhammer. Many of us were previously avid D&D players, but have since dropped the habit. Don’t get me wrong, we all still enjoy AD&D (2nd Edition. Death to 3/3.5E) but the characteristics of the WFRP world and the gameplay make it so very interesting.
Anyway, while I’m talking about Warhammer I remembered this Penny-Arcade comic about Warhammer Online from last year:
Penny-Arcade Warhammer Comic
We’re glad that at least one other person enjoys Warhammer as much as we do!
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