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Liber Fanatica - Volume I : The Character Compendium

Foreword

(this is the boring stuff – the goodies start after this)

he Liber Fanatica were born in the WFRP2 playtest forums, where playtesters could meet, co

notes and talk to the designers (who sometimes even talked back, but spent most of their time

designing the game). Put a hundred and sixty playtesters together in a virtual room, give them a set

rules to talk about and you’ll be amazed by the results.

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In my case it began with career classes. Careers in WFRP1 were divided in four D&D-like classes,

which determined what starting skills a character had and what career he would be following at the

beginning of the game. Twenty years after that game had been written and on the eve of WFRP2, the

WFRP community considered those classes as rather outdated. We playtesters were thus happy when

we found out that they were absent from WFRP2. However, there was nothing that came in its place,

except for a single long d100 table with all the new basic careers. I missed the grouping of careers that

the old, outdated classes had provided. On the forum I suggested a more intelligent form of classes,

which I dubbed ‘backgrounds’, and a number of other playtesters liked that idea. We were quite happy

when the designers announced that a next playtest version would have background tables – but

disappointed when that version appeared and the tables were just meant to determine your

character’s eye and hair colour and whether he had any warts. So I wrote my own background tables

and showed them to Henrik Grönberg, another playtester. He liked them a lot and we refined them

them, and starting writing more articles as well.

Meanwhile other people were posting brilliant things on the forums. Jude Hornborg for example

presented his Ten Questions, an elaboration of the Ten Questions that popped up in version 4 or such

of the playtest, with the stress not so much on who you character is, but on how to play him. Håkan

Cervin wrote a combat system that used all the elements of the one in the playtest, but organised

them in a better way than what was found in the official playtest version at that time.

And then the playtest ended. Green Ronin and Black Industries had developed the system to their

satisfaction, helped (and sometimes hindered, I suspect) by massive input from the playtesters, and

were now ready to move to the production phase. Since the playtest forums would serve no purpose

anymore, we were informed that they would be closed. Amid the sentimentality of saying goodbye to

everyone, a few of us who were creating things, got together and decided to develop things further. We

wanted to create material which provided support from us, WFRP fans, for WFRP2, and offer it for free

to the WFRP community. The idea here was that by cooperating we could make sure that the ideas

proposed in our different articles would work together. So we started the Liber Fanatica – fan books –

something that would prove more work than most of us had originally expected. The results can be

seen here. I hope that you like the result as much as I enjoyed the process of creating it.

I’d like to thank a lot of people. The playtest forums and everyone who participated there get my

thanks first – they proved to be a fertile ground for new ideas. Black Industries should be mentioned,

as we got support from them too – including opening the playtest forums especially for us so we could

mine them for research and ideas, after they had been closed for all the other playtesters. People in the

Playtesters Guild worked hard to make this product – some of them who I would like to thank

personally include Henrik, whose ideas so often were very close to mine that developing those ideas

together (even before the Guild was founded) was something natural, and James Walkerdine who

bravely stepped up to become editor for Liber Fanatica II and lay-out man for both volumes.

Wim van Gruisen

Editor, The Character Compendium

Liber Fanatica - Volume I : The Character Compendium

Disclaimer

Table of Contents

This compendium is

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Ten Questions - Expanded ...........................................................................3

by Jude Hornborg

Character Backgrounds.................................................................................4

by Wim van Gruisen

Character Motivations ................................................................................ 15

by Henrik Grönberg

Career Guidance ..........................................................................................21

by Wim van Gruisen

Psychotic Careers ....................................................................................... 22

by Wim van Gruisen

The Lost Careers ........................................................................................ 23

by Wim van Gruisen

Converting Characters from WFRP1 .........................................................38

by Wim van Gruisen

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Introduction

Welcome to the Liber Fanatica - Volume 1: The Character Compendium .

Like its companion volume, The Perilous Arts, it is a document that

supports Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, second edition.

The focus of this volume is on the character, more in specific the PC. The

articles in here offer ways to give more depth to generating and playing a

character, adding character background and motivation to the figures and

data already generated by the rules in the rulebook, and discussing how

motivations and careers give more depth to the character and thus enrich

the game.

Considering that many WFRP2 players have wide experience in, and

materials for, the old version, this volume also offers a conversion guide

for WFRP1 characters and converted careers from the first edition

rulebook.

Wim van Gruisen

Editor

Credits

Editor/Layout : Wim van Gruisen, James Walkerdine

Feedback and Proofreading : Håkan Cervin, James Flinders, John Foody,

Henrik Grönberg, Robin Low, Martin Oliver, James Walkerdine.

The Liber Fanatica is a compendium of articles dedicated to the

Warhammer Fantasy Role-Playing Game. Published March 2005.

The work is offered free of charge to all interested parties and is not to be

sold in any form. It may be printed or offered for download if distributed

free of charge. All the documents comprising the Liber Fanatica, including

the cover and contents page, belong together and are to be kept that way.

Individual articles from this compendium cannot be published or

distributed separate from the other parts of Liber Fanatica without the

explicit permission of the article’s author.

All original material is copyright to the respective author.

Email the Liber Fanatica guild at Liber.Fanatica@gmail.com

Liber Fanatica - Volume I : The Character Compendium

Ten Questions - Expanded

by Jude Hornborg

section of the rulebook help to give your

racter a background and personality, but not

much of a handle on how you can play him. The

questions below expand the ten questions

somewhat, focusing on how to roleplay that

background and personality.

1. Where Are You From?

How will your ethnic origin be clear through

roleplay? Accent? Mannerisms? Dress?

2. What Is Your Family Like?

How has your family background shaped your

personality and prejudices?

Your answers to these questions are not set in

stone. They are here to help you to roleplay your

character. They are guidelines, not rules.

3. What Is Your Social Class?

Do you look down on the lower class? Resent the

upper class? Strive for upward class mobility?

Ignore class divisions altogether?

4. What Did You Do Before You Became An

Adventurer?

How will your profession manifest itself through

roleplay? Mannerisms? Dress? Hygiene, or lack

thereof?

Are you still working in your last career? If so,

how do you combine it with adventuring?

5. Why Did You Become An Adventurer?

What can the GM dangle in front of you to

motivate you?

6. How Religious Are You?

How will your religious values influence your

behaviour? How often do you pray? Do you

favour one god? Do you go to temples and attend

services there?

7. Who Are Your Best Friends and Worst

Enemies?

How would you react if confronted by your worst

enemy? Flee? Fly into a murderous rage?

How much would you sacrifice for your best

friend? Your life? Nothing?

8. What Are Your Prized Possessions?

(Anything listed here will likely be destroyed or

taken away by the GM

for narrative effect. Don't take it personally.)

How would you react to the loss or destruction of

these items? How far would you go to retrieve

them or avenge you to who destroyed them?

9. Who Are You Loyal To?

Are you a leader or a follower, and how will this

be conveyed through roleplay? Types of followers:

blind, skeptical, opportunistic etc.

Types of leaders: manipulative, charismatic,

reluctant etc.

10. Who Do You Love/Hate?

What will you do if you meet this person?

cha he Ten Questions in the character generation

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Character Backgrounds

by Wim van Gruisen

he Empire is wide and populated by people

with all sorts of backgrounds. These

backgrounds typically explain the skills and

talents those people have, their outlook on life

and how they earn their daily bread. This article

gives a method for taking these backgrounds into

account when generating characters.

Background Selection Table

Background

01-12 Bourgeois

13-25 Mercantile

26-37 Military

38-50 Rural

51-62 Urban

63-75 Wanderer

76-87 Waterline

88-100 Wilderness

First choose or roll for a background (see the

Background Selection Table below). Then, for

that background, roll first on the Skills and

Talents Table (below) to see how many skills and

talents you gain from your background. Then go

to the page for that background and roll on the

respective tables there to see what those skills

and talents are. Finally, roll on the careers table

for your background to see what your starting

career is.

The above is a general table. However, GMs are

encouraged to make specific background selection

tables which fit their campaign, or give players a

list of which backgrounds to choose from.

For the table above, if an elf or dwarf rolls a

number divisible by 10, check the Elven or

Dwarven background instead of the one indicated

in the table.

These tables replace the Random Talents table in

chapter 2 of the rulebook. The trappings

mentioned in this article replace the general

trappings in that chapter. Characters obtain the

skills and talents for their race from the

rulebook, in addition to the background skills

and talents from this article.

Skills and Talents

Roll

# Skills

# Talents

1-3

4-6

Instead of rolling on the random talents table in

chapter 2, Halflings roll once more for a

background skill or talent (player’s choice) while

humans roll for one extra background skill and

one extra talent.

7-9

See text below

Backgrounds in WFRP are not that simple, or

easily separated. They often overlap. Perhaps

your life balanced between two different

backgrounds, perhaps you moved from one sort

of background to another – that is for you to

explain.

Choose or roll a secondary background. Then roll

again on this table (re-rolling any further 10).

Take the number of skills and talents indicated

by this last roll. However, one skill and one talent

should instead be rolled on the secondary

background table.

Throughout these books you find a number of boxes with text like this. They contain simple ideas to make the

rules easier, or more interesting, or more fun. They come from different sources. Some were favourite

alternatives from WFRP1 and will work as well with the new edition, others were proposed during the playtest,

while still others have proven their value in other RPGs.

Have a look at them, think of how they would fit with your players’ style, discuss them with the group if you

want, and try them out. By cherrypicking the rules you and your players like you can customise Warhammer FRP

to fit your group.

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