Pictures from my last couple sessions

[Nachie]

Nothing fancy, just taken on my phone. If people are actually into it I might add more to this thread as time goes by; we're playing once a week lately.



Getting ready for the first session: Doboshova's Inn!



In a high snowy pass along the World's Edge Mountains, the brave warriors attack a small garrison of Night Goblins guarding a secret entrance to the ruined Dwarf hold of Karak Azgal.



Death Below Karak Azgal: After spending half the session backtracking to the Well of Doom to retrieve the Berserker Sword they had used to weigh down a chest covering the opening from which giant spiders had been pouring out, the warriors encounter several unexpected events in a row and are ambushed by what must have seemed like a never-ending tide of greenskins!

[Necanthrope]

Looks great!
It's always good to see someone playing WHQ. The only thing I can say is, get those dungeon doors painted and go round the edges of your board sections with a black marker.

You'll be surprised how much of a difference it makes.

Are you playing through the Karak azgal adventure from the rpg book or is this one you've written yourself?

[Nachie]

Yeah, I really gotta get those doors done haha (and the HeroQuest furniture!) I'm sort of without a good place to paint right now unfortunately, but as soon as I can salvage a good desk from somewhere I'll be spending the rest of the winter on little projects like that. I have a ton of peasant NPC figures that need to be painted up, too!

That's a great idea about the board sections, it'll especially help with the ones from White Dwarf I think since those tend to have a bit more "fuzz" around the edges... I've also been using a lot of "D&D" maps by various companies. I wish the "dungeon tile fad" had been around when WHQ had first come out, but of course we all know who did it best

We're playing through the Karak Azgal adventure in the RPG Book, but there have been some differences because I'm running a much more in depth campaign. First of all, the warriors all met each other at an Inn in the Border Princes where they were captured by an evil witch and had to escape, forming the basis of their first little adventure. Without that intro and some of the items they picked up from it (plus the visit to a settlement in between) I don't think they would have made it this far into Death Below Karak Azgal (they're almost through the second Deep).

The Witch Hunter and the Warrior Priest had originally been traveling together investigating disappearances in the area when the very witch they were looking for took them prisoner. The Wizard had travelled all the way from Altdorf investigating the attempted theft of the Grimoire Necris by one Alberto Laranscheld, but Laranscheld's father's minion, the hunchback Luthor, had enlisted the help of the witch - who had already been performing sacrifices for the family, leading to the disappearances - to try and kill the Wizard. So the players have already met Luthor briefly, and by overhearing conversations are somewhat aware of the existence of Gunther Laranscheld.

The Barbarian was originally traveling with a Dwarf named Rorek Grunnson, who he had spent many months at sea with. Whilst in Barak Varr they learned that Rorek's cousin Ironbeard was now head of the Grunnson clan, and Rorek set off towards Karaz-a-Karak to find out what happened to his cousin's father and grandfather (Grimcrag and Ungrun, respectively). Rorek was killed dramatically in the witch's inn, and with his dying words asked the Barbarian character to carry on and find out what was happening, which gave the all-human party an "in" with the Grunnson clan and led to their accepting the quest to go into Karak Azgal. I've also been using the Karak Azgal sourcebook from WHFRP, and given everything a lot more depth than just "OK, roll three event hazards and you're there".

If the warriors succeed, they will be joined back at Karaz-a-Karak by the captain of a Dwarf patrol that they had met on their way into the stronghold earlier. This should be fun, since we'll have a party of five warriors which means I can throw even MORE nasty stuff at them!

I'm also setting up Lair of the Orc Lord: the warriors heard of a growing Orc power in Fredrickburg, the first settlement they went to. By the time they get to the next settlement (which should also be nearby to Karaz-a-Karak) they will meet refugees from Fredrickburg, which was completely wiped out by Gorgut's forces. They've also fought and wounded Skabnoze, and the new Dwarf player will enter the game a little early as he encounters the wounded Shaman while on patrol in the mountains, being helped to safety by a host of Gorgut's minions.

When the warriors get to this next town I think I'll run "For Love or Money" from WHFRP Plundered Vaults and then have them attacked by a full WHFB-sized Orc army and have to defend the town with just a few members of the garrison and militia to help out. Once they survive this they should be prepared to track the retreating Orcs back to Mt. Gunbad and play through Lair of the Orc Lord (unless they decide to do something else, of course).

I've got a lot of stuff planned for the future, but what I'm really looking forward to the most is that I've started converting the Paths of the Damned WHFRP campaign into WHQ

Here's another picture:



The warriors are ambushed by zombies shortly after slaying a Mummy in the Halls of the Dead.

[Mister Magister]

Holy moly, that sounds like an ace campaign! Good show, sir!

[Purplebeard]

Great. It is nice to see some game pics!

[Ironmonger]

Moarpixplezthnx...

[Nachie]

Thanks everybody

Didn't take any pictures this last session, but the warriors made it through most of the 3rd deep in Death Below Karak Azgal and the Warrior Priest crushed Skrunch the Black Orc in one hit with a to-hit roll of six from his warhammer and a damage roll of double fives! Also notable was that the Wizard defeated Alberto Laranscheld the necromancer he had been chasing since Altdorf in single hand-to-hand combat.

This coming Sunday they'll probably rescue Grimcrag Grunnson and the party will be joined by a new Dwarf player before we take a two week break for the holidays. I'll be sure to take some pics of our next session!

[Nachie]

Buliwyf Stonecrusher leads a patrol of Dwarf clansmen from Karaz-a-Karak against a column of Night Goblins traversing the World's Edge Mountains on their way to bolster the forces of the Orc warlord, Gorgut. The Goblins drag along with them the badly-wounded Orc Shaman, Skabnoze, who clutches in his claw the Doom of Grishnak, an amulet stolen from the corpse of Ungrun Grunnson in Karak Azgal.

[Necanthrope]

Looking really good! What rules did you settle on for the clansmen in the end?
And are you making those outdoor floorplans yourself or are they commercially available?

Keep the pictures coming, please!

[Nachie]

Thanks! I used the stats for clansmen from Citadel Journal, which are:

W: 5
M: 3
S: 3
T: 4
WS: 4
BS: 4+
I: 2
A: 1
Dmg: 1D6

Except I totally forgot about their move of 3, which didn't really change the game much since the goblins ended up getting first strike anyway when the Dwarf player decided to charge rabidly instead of trying to sneak up on the gobbos.

I also gave the Dwarfs a point of armor from their shields, which in retrospect was probably too much of a buff. The Dwarfs wiped out the whole column, including a Big Boss (with only one point of armor) and a shaman, and only lost three of their own number. A few more were badly injured, but all in all it was a pretty one-sided conflict. I allowed the Dwarf player to start with a healing potion (2D6) which he needed after getting hit by a particularly nasty spell, but that was really the only spotty moment.

Skabnoze was being dragged by three goblins who could only move 2 inches a turn, but all they needed was to be able to escape off of a board edge and they managed to do that right as the rest of their buddies were getting cut down, so all-in-all the encounter served its purpose very well.

Those outdoor tiles are from Set D of the Reversible Gaming Tiles by Rackham, which is unfortunately not a company anymore so the sets are OOP and relatively hard to find (though maybe not so much in Europe, since Rackham was a French company). I believe they originally went to a miniature skirmish game called Cadwallon. Some of them (the urban exteriors tiles) are not that great in my opinion, but the outdoor ones are beautiful and they can all be flipped over to portray the same setting but at night time, which is fun. Best of all, they are 12x12 which is much more luxurious than any of the standard WHQ tiles.

I've also been using a lot of tiles and maps from D&D, and having a blast with those. Anyone interested in new resources for tiles, I did a thread about it here:

http://bwarhammerquest.runboard.com/t90389

I also use lots of Paizo flipmats, also discussed in the above thread. Since WHQ came out there has actually been a "tile revolution" in roleplaying, and now is really the best time to be collecting maps and stuff!

Our group isn't going to meet again for a few weeks unfortunately but I'll definitely keep posting photos here as I remember to take them!

[Necanthrope]

Wow, nice work on the Museum thread! I think I've decided where my christmas bonus is going!

[Daniel36]

First off, kudos for creating so much more than just a simple dungeon dash. The way you incorporate an actual storyline and use those Rackham tiles to good effect, it must be a joy to play in your campaign. You managed to draw me in just by typing about it and showing some pics.

Smart use of dungeon tiles as well! Seeing all those in action, I would almost consider going back to grid based for my skirmish RPG game. I won't, but it looks really nice.

[Nachie]

Thanks for the kind words, y'all.

Right now my game is very limited by storage space and the fact that we just play on a big piece of a plywood set on a couple sawhorses in my buddy's garage, with a black tablecloth overtop. I've had a blast playing WHQ with full 3D terrain in the past, and hopefully I can find some folks to do that with in the near future, or maybe even get an opportunity to make some of my own.

Way back when Mordheim came out (well, it wasn't really that long ago) my friend and I got so inspired by the setting that we made a ton of ruined buildings and played a never-ending campaign where the warriors were constantly defending a half-wrecked city from a large Skaven horde. This was like a singular highlight of my early gaming career (I was probably about 14 at the time), and I yearn to someday recreate those scenarios.

Stay tuned in three weeks or so for updates on how the conversion of the WFRP adventure For Love Or Money goes, and on the other side of that a massive siege scenario including war machines and chariots. For more info on where this campaign is going, see this thread: http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=325563

[Purplebeard]

This sounds promising!

[Nachie]

Hired by a local noble to retrieve his daughter from the charismatic bandit leader she has run away with, the warriors enter the thieves' hideout and discover something much more sinister is afoot...

[Necanthrope]

Good to see you're still playing Nachie.

Lets see some action shots though!

[Purplebeard]

Yes - action shots!

[Nachie]

Action shots, eh? Ask and you shall receive! I apologize in that these are just some quick photos taken during gameplay from my POV as GM, so I tend to just get a lot of the backs of models

Tonight was also the first time I started using critical hit tables adapted from the Mordheim rules, and I have to say that they were absolutely fantastic. Still need some tweaking, but I doubt I'll ever play WHQ without them again!



Carrying the sick and apparently pregnant Julianne back to town, the warriors are ambushed by a Rat Ogre and several clanrats intent on recapturing her.



A vicious melee breaks out on the ground floor of the Dustermann estate.



As the town watch arrives to secure the ground floor, the warriors move upstairs to see that the Skaven have fought their way into Bela Dustermann's study, where the noble has tied his daughter down to a table and seems to be performing some dark ritual over her.



Shortly after the warriors arrive to finish off the Skaven chieftan, Julianne completes her horrific transformation into a mutant of Chaos. Watching the players' reactions as I described her mutations and placed the miniature on the board has got to be one of the more rewarding experiences I've ever had as a GM.



Buliwyf Stonecrusher and Simon Weimar are both knocked to zero wounds during a particularly harrowing turn of the climactic battle.

[Purplebeard]

Hehe nasty!

[Necanthrope]

Looks fantastic Nachie!
Id love to play in your campaign, it seems to fold together the best bits of an rpg and WHQ.