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Last week we brought you part one in our new series of WFRP Blog posts. If you missed it you can catch up here. Today, Cubicle 7 writer Ben Scerri is looking at Success Levels. Join the chat over on Facebook and Twitter and let us know what you think! 

Hi, folks! It’s Ben again. The Old World is a brutal place, where it’s a struggle just to get by, and all-too-often you’re only winning because someone else is losing more than you… So today, I’m going to tackle something very core to the game: Success Levels!

Hang in there, buddy.

Success Levels (SL) come up in three main areas of play: Dramatic Tests, Opposed Tests, and specifically Opposed Tests in Combat. Let’s begin at the beginning, shall we?

Success Levels in Dramatic Tests

Sometimes it’s not good enough to know if you merely succeed or fail, and we need to know how much of a fool (or, Sigmar help us, a hero) you made of yourself. In these instances, we use Dramatic Tests. The Test follows the same

This is the first in a series of in-depth Cubicle 7 WFRP blog posts from one of our writers, Ben Scerri. The aim of these posts is to give expert advice and insight into many different aspects of Warhammer. Take a read and join the chat over on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram! Click here to find out a little more about Ben! #WarhammerWednesday

Hi folks, I’m Ben, a writer on Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th Edition — and I’m here to do my very favourite thing: talk about WFRP! It’s been a joy to see everyone dive deep into the new edition with such gusto. So let’s wade in, sword swinging and… hmm...

If we are fighting, I should really use something to defend myself with, right? Should I parry with my hand weapon, get myself a shield (and then, what size?) or should I pick up a specialist parrying weapon? And it looks like I’m not the only looking to find the best way to muck in, 4th Edition has given us more options than ever before to defend ourselves —

Author Graeme Davis and producer Andy Law about the their work on RN&HDs. Available for Pre-order here .

Today, WFRP fans count A Rough Night at the Three Feathers among the game’s best adventures. It was reprinted in two WFRP1^st edition compilations: The Restless Dead, published by Games Workshop in 1989; and Apocrypha Now, published by Hogshead Publishing in 1995. In 2005, eighteen years after it first appeared, it was adapted for WFRP2^nd edition in the Black Industries collection, Plundered Vaults.

GD: A Rough Night at the Three Feathers was an adventure for WFRP1^st edition, published in Games Workshop’s White Dwarf magazine in November 1987. I wrote it largely as an experiment, to see whether multi–plot adventures could even work as it had never been done in roleplaying games before. In the years that followed, I wrote two more adventures in the same style. The first, Nastassia’s Wedding, appeared in Steve Jackson Games’ Pyramid #19

Rough Nights & Hard Days offers five interlinked scenarios for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay written by series veteran, Graeme Davis. These can be played as stand-alone adventures, or combined into an epic five-part campaign, where the Characters become embroiled in a bitter dispute between two of the Empire’s quarrelling noble houses. Rough Nights & Hard Days also introduces an entirely new playable species, and presents a variety of pub games to amuse and confuse players.

Rough Nights & Hard Days Includes: 

• A Rough Night at the Three Feathers: a quiet evening at the riverside inn becomes very eventful indeed.
• A Day at the Trails: a much-awaited trial-by-combat becomes memorable for all the wrong reasons.
• A Night at The Opera: an evening of cultured opera descends into farce and horror.
• Nastassia’s Wedding: a celebrated society wedding does not go according to plan.
• Lord of Ubersreik: competing factions gather for a ball that quickly becomes a battlefield.
• Pub Games: one learns

The WFRP Starter Set contains everything needed to bring the grim and perilous world of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay to life. Whether roleplaying for the first time or preparing for your next epic campaign, this box is for you.

With over a hundred pages of adventures, rules, and setting, as well as maps, handouts, custom dice from Q WORKSHOP, Advantage tokens, rules references, ready-made Characters, a simple GM Screen, and more, this boxed set is the perfect starting point for anyone interested in WFRP.

The Adventure Book

The Adventure Book invites players of all experience levels into the rich, roleplaying playground of Ubersreik. For beginners, the starter adventure, Making the Rounds, introduces the harsh realities of life in the troubled fortress-town and takes you step-by-step through the rules. For more experienced hands, there are 10 scenarios aimed to expand your WFRP games, offering new locations, new characters, and new horrors to uncover.

Coming in at 40 pages,

Today we have another free adventure for WFRP: Night of Blood! This time it's a classic; Night of Blood is one of the most played WFRP scenarios of all time. It was originally written over thirty years ago by Jim Bambra for WFRP 1^stedition, and was published in White Dwarf 87 in March 1987. Later, it was republished in the WFRP 1^st edition supplement, The Restless Dead, and has been a firm fan favourite ever since. It's a brilliant introduction to WFRP in just a single evening’s play, and can be added to any Old World campaign with ease. So, it’s our absolute pleasure to present Night of Blood to you all, updated to WFRP 4^th edition by Lindsay Law.

It’s a dark, stormy night, and the forest creaks as foul creatures howl through the undergrowth. As freezing rain slices from the roiling sky and attack threatens from all sides, the desperate adventurers stumble upon the warm glow of a fortified inn. But everything isn’t as it seems, and soon the unwitting

This week we present 'WFRP Adventures Afoot in the Reikland',  a supplement to Chapter 10: Glorious Reikland from the WFRP rulebook.

Adventures Afoot in the Reikland! is written by Ben Scerri and offers over fifty adventure seeds for the Reikland locations presented in WFRP. To ensure they are easy to use, all locations are marked in bold text, but most of the ideas can be relocated to almost any part of the Empire with little adaptation. Each entry in the supplement presents a complete story idea that can be adapted as you see fit, or act as the background for your own adventure ideas.

So, strap on your hiking boots and get ready to hit the roads, for there are Adventures Afoot in the Reikland!

Download here for free: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/260781/WFRP--Adventures-Afoot-in-the-Reikland?affiliate_id=169435 

Check out our new Bundle of Holding offer, not only are you getting an amazing product at a super price, you’re also supporting a great charity – Doctors Without Borders. But you need to be quick, this is a limited time offer!

For $11.95 you get the Starter Collection packed with everything you'll need to begin your grim and perilous adventures; the WFRP First Edition core rulebook (1986) and two city sourcebooks, Middenheim and Marienburg. This is the perfect opportunity to dive into the Old World for a fraction of the street value of these acclaimed RPG classics. Head over to https://bundleofholding.com/presents/WFRP1E to purchase now!

You also have the opportunity to Level Up to unlock the Campaign Collection and receive ALL FIVE adventures in the legendary Enemy Within series. If you break the threshold price of US$24.51 (only US$12.56 more!) Shadows Over Bogenhafen, Death On The Reik, Power Behind The Throne, Something Rotten In Kislev and Empire In Flames