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Retro musings on Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and other tabletop games

This blog is a vehicle for my thoughts on Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and related matters. The focus is on WFRP’s first edition, but I also touch on WFRP’s fourth edition, WFB’s first three editions and other old-school tabletop games.

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DO OR DICE

REVIEWS. A short review of Dice Men.

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THE STORY SO FAR

HISTORY. Previously on ‘The WFRP Story’….

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LOST WARHAMMER: CHANGING TIMES

GUEST POST. Robin Low on a WFRP1 campaign that never came to be.

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KTEMA ES AIEI

REVIEWS. Short reviews of Jon Peterson and Ben Riggs’ latest books on the history of TSR.

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SIX YEARS

MISCELLANEOUS. Awesome Lies’ sixth anniversary.

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LOST WARHAMMER: LUSTRIA

HISTORY. A detailed look at the 1991 draft of the Lustria supplement.

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LOGOS & LAWSUITS

HISTORY. How changes in D&D’s presentation reflected its history.

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WEST END FINAL

MISCELLANEOUS. My final Enemy Within fake front page.

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TECHNICAL FAULT

MISCELLANEOUS. A bug has been affecting file downloads from this site, but there is a workaround.

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HOUSE OF THE DEVIL

MAPS. Something for GMs of the Enemy Within campaign.

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SAILING TO DYSTOPIA

MISCELLANEOUS. Jean-Luc Godard and role-playing games.

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LOST WARHAMMER: MARIENBURG

HISTORY. Flame’s Marienburg book.

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STRANGER FONTS

MISCELLANEOUS. Stranger Things and false memories….

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STRANGER THINGS

MISCELLANEOUS. A D&D spotter’s guide.

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LOOSE ENDS

ADVENTURES. Tweaking the Enemy Within Director’s Cut to tie the elements together better.

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THE ENEMY WITHIN THAT WASN’T

ADVENTURES. How the Enemy Within Director’s Cut changed course during writing.

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LOST WARHAMMER: BAKEMONO’S REVENGE

GUEST POSTS. Graeme Davis talks about another oriental supplement for Warhammer.

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INTERVIEW WITH DAVE MORRIS

INTERVIEWS. Dave Morris discusses Tetsubo, an unpublished WFRP supplement inspired by mediaeval Japan.

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GASLIGHTING

HISTORY. Adding a new post to ‘The WFRP Story’.

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WOMB OF THE GODS, PART TWO

GUEST POSTS. Robin Low provides descriptions and statistics for horrors from the warp.

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WOMB OF THE GODS, PART ONE

GUEST POSTS. WFRP writer Robin Low writes about his ideas of the Warhammer world’s metaphysics.

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ON THE WRITE TRACK

HISTORY. Some historical documents relating to White Dwarf in the late 1980s.

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THE NEW OLD WORLD

MISCELLANEOUS. GW’s return to the original Warhammer setting.

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RAT RACE

REVIEWS. I examine The Horned Rat Companion.

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INTERVIEW WITH GRAEME DAVIS, PART TWO

INTERVIEWS. The continuation of my conversation with Graeme Davis, discussing the Enemy Within Director’s Cut and also his new projects at The Rookery.

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