Stuff of Geeky & Gory Nonsense

I am really lazy when it comes to blogs. I might bookmark them and then (after few months of “nah, let’s not go there”ing) I’ll just delete them.

But sometimes something simple and/or simply good comes along I begin to take interest. So let me point you towards to blogs that need to be mentioned as excellent source of inspiration for running WFRP (or other rpgs for that matter).

Stuff of Nonsense is gaming blog by a fellow liberfanatic. The writer of this either has too much time on her hands or the best games ever as she takes quite a lot of time to prepare for the games (something I personally tend not to do at all…). Lengthy posts seem to be kind of trade mark of hers but as she has interesting things to say I don’t mind this at all.

Another new finding for me was a picture “blog” called Geek and Gory. It not what you could call “friendly for children” but if you are just browsing through the web you can spend hours here just looking at his findings. Great art for gaming purposes is guaranteed.

STOP THE PRESS!

I just noticed the Reckless Dice Podcast has changed their domain. Their new site can be found HERE.

Our Campaign Logs Added

During to day I’ll be adding our gaming logs from Fantasy Flight Games official forums here. I’ll be doing this because some of the older posts on the forum cannot be reached anymore and I do not want to lose these. They can be found HERE.

I also hope that they will inspire GMs and players alike!

If You are writing a gaming blog why not send a link to it to the Daily Empire? I can link them or if you would like I can even offer to host them here with all the necessary attachments.

SHPMotWOW!

The latest version of Gitzman’s Super Huge Detailed Map of the Warhammer Old World is up and running on his SITE. If you’re wondering the location of Grunewald Lodge, Geissbach or Caradué search no more!

I think I’m speaking for the whole community as I express the gamers’ huge gratitude for this enormous and necessary project.

Great work!

edit: I just noticed I already skipped a day without a mutant. I made up for it and there are currently four ready-to-use mutants in Inspiration > Other section. All of them are quite sad cases. Maybe I should write a more happy mutants? Like four turtle like beastmen living in the sewers of Altdorf?

A Mutant per Day Keeps the Enemy Within

…or something.

But reading through WFRP2 supplement Tome of Corruption I gained a feverish vision of writing an usable mutant per day.

Now I know that at least someone keep track of my RSS feed so I won’t be spamming their feed with daily posts but will post them HERE possibly catching up when something interesting turns up.

But let’s start with the idea that started this project.

Klaus Fleming 
Noble, Ruler, Nordland, Slaanesh

In the cold and windy coast of Nordland a knight and bailiff of Qvidja (a small settlement west from Hargendorf founded by Klaus’s forefather Joachmin). Flemings have ruled their fief with a hard grasp before but Klaus has become the epitome of ruthless bailiff.

While serving in the navy of Elector Count von Raukov Fleming attacked a Norscan coastal village slaughtering recklessly adults and children alike in the name of Sigmar. After the battle was over a weeping widow came to Fleming and before anybody could stop her the witch had laid a curse on the knight. After this Klaus fell ill and was returned to his home.

The bailiff could not eat or drink and was withering away before the eyes of his loving wife. Who was shocked to tears to learn of his husbands condition. Late at night when his wife was weeping for him Klaus woke up from a feverish dream to feel a irresistible hunger and thirst. Seeing no chalice of water he grasped his wife and licked away her tears.

After that night Klaus grew stronger. Soon he was able to walk the palisades and inspect his troops but now his wife was withering. And it was not long before he died of grief.

Since then Klaus has learned that he can only satisfy his hunger by drinking tears. And a seemingly endless supply of peasants has kept him going. What he does to those poor souls in the dungeons of his castle none dare to guess but whispers of Chaos worshiping are bound to rise sooner or later.

As is a a rebellion of peasants…

The Gathering

I tend to look for other games as a source of inspiration any time that something new comes along. “Could this be used? Still looks cool, how could I use this?”

With the new incoming set for Magic the Gathering I’ve no trouble of thinking about “how”.

The new set called Innistrad has magnificient art work that I simply as Warhammerish as it gets (maybe excluding Witcher concept art, but then again I’m a fanboy). All GMs should definitely take a look at the art. It is dark and grim setting of Transylvanian horror.

Seriously.

Check it now! HERE

Should you be looking for usable art the later settings of MtG are quite good too. They tend to be quite high fantasy, but with enough searching you can find almost anything.