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Mojarn Piett
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Post subject: Warhammer Roleplayer using AD&D 3.5 Core Rules  Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:49 am |
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| Quote (netepic @ 14 2003 Oct.,13:51) | | I will give you and Primarch first pick of the characters, then open up the rest to PBEM.com |
How about I take the dwarf? Are troll slayers allowed? 
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netepic
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Post subject: Warhammer Roleplayer using AD&D 3.5 Core Rules Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 10:55 am |
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Ah - the infamous naked dwarf  , I don't have an issue with Troll slayers from a game mechanics perspective, what I do find though is that they are awkward for the party as a whole, this is the same with the Elven Wardancer. For a round the table hack and slash they are ideal, but when roleplaying a troll slayer, seeking out a heroic death at all times means that the party is often drawn into conflict and results in either the PBEM bogging down or the party splitting and leaving the Dwarf to it.
It also prevents the GM from deliberately creating situations which the party cannot handle in straight combat, for example.
The party creeps into the Slaaneshi temple, the cultist guard utters a silent scream as his throat is slit ear to ear by Louis, the Brettonian assasin. As he collapses to the floor, a single black rose marking his fall. The party slithers along the balcony overlooking the main ceremony, hundreds of cultists are partaking in a blastphemous ritual of such depravity as to turn the stomach of the most steel minded characters. In the centre absorbing the worship of his minions is a single Keeper of Secrets brandishing his whip and cavorting round driving his followers to a state of heaving ecstacy, the party drops back out of sight and then Gustav the Kislev thief notices the fabled 'Eye of Randar' a massive diamond the size of a fist. Signalling to the party they slip to either side of it's pedestal and prepare to eliminate the two guards quickly and silently when the deep roar Thungrim is heard, bellowing his fury the gnarled and scarred dragon slayer leaps forward and over the balcony into the mass of cultists slicing through them like a butchers cleaver through fresh meat.
Silence falls as the party watches a horde of cultists reinforce the two existing guards for the eye including a group of Daemonettes. Then Ragnar the Norse barbarion mutters. "Alright, fes up, who told the Dwarf?"
Admittedly somewhat over the top and high fantasy but it illuminates the roleplaying strain having a naked dwarf can place. Feel free to have a Dwarf character, but to be honest I am somewhat uneasy about having a Trollslayer or Wardancer .
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