How to make lore engaging in Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and TTRPGs
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Let's talk about making lore fun for your games- be it for WFRP or any other TTRPGs. This is primarily directed at games and systems that already have a setting. I use Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay as my example as this is the game system I play.
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Tell me what topic you want me to cover next! Lore or RPGs in general.
How about a video on the undead and the incredible leaders that rule them.
OH SHIT! VON CARSTEIN!
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I think that warhammer is not warhammer without the undead. I will make a video about the vampire clans as well as a separate video on necromancy.
Quinsberry Lodge Could you do a summary video of one of your WFRP games, going over what worked and what you wish could’ve been better or done differently? Or maybe one on your personal process to creating game sessions? There’s so much you can do!
the Empire has sent it’s demands a video about the empire and politics for the peasants so they can understand it easily. Hail to Sigmar.
Hail Sigmar, may you be blessed by his name. I will be covering the Empire in detail. The next video will talk about it a lot.
Ratcatchers and their small but VICIOUS dogs. Dont forget, they are vicious. :D
Love this video, man! I’m about to start a WFPG group with friends and family- and I’m GM’ing, so this video and your concept for a channel is EXACTLY what I need for a source of info and influence to help me build our upcoming games! Please keep making more videos!
Hell yeah! I love the fact that our community just keeps growing. The more GMs- the better! I will cover tonns of lore and talk about gaming in general. Happy to have you on board!
Thanks for the Video and Sourcebook, like your self I like the probably more than the game itself. Looking forward to the video.
what is the karl franz dance off at the start from?
I think WFR would greatly benefit from being demoted to a low fantasy setting. Chaos is out there and real but physically but its distant , like Satan, but like in the medieval mindset, its an internal struggle about temptation. No PC wizards or elves, and orks, beastmen and skaven are also a distant almost legendary threat. This is how I would run it with people who have no idea about the setting. The big anatgonist is chaos but it is present in all manner of courrpution throughout the empire, both literally and metaphorically, this is what players should get when playing this game.
I don't want to be dismissive but Sigmars Empire is not the entirety of the Setting even if the writers are overly in love with it. Bretonnia wouldn't really even exist as a full polity without at least something like Orcs constantly threatening them, etc.Ulthuan has the potential for being a very fun setting for the right sort of elf players, sadly I don't think there is a supplement properly set their yet sadly.
It's not like it's impossible for you to set it in a province that is facing a mostly human threat anyway. This whole video is about Marienburg which is not only not really the empire but is far enough from most inhuman threats that you can run such a campaign there.
Not even to mention the much more more detailed(compared the elves) dwarven material i'm sure players can work with, why throw all that away? Just to make the already overhyped empire the literal entirety of the setting?
Don't get me wrong I think this IS a good way to introduce the setting. I just feel it is a little disrespectful to all the writers to essentially want to throw away entire influental works with a different feel like say: Barony of The Damned as a good example since I see that book cited all over as useful reference in the community.
A lot of stuff in Warhammer, especially the millennia-long history of 40k, is not going to be immediately useful for bums, guards men and coinclippers. But the small things like what a tech-guild does is. GW liked to throw little dnippets of microfiction from unreliable authors in between rules blocks. Sometimes entire small novels.
Loved it, nicely edited, great pace (maybe a tad front end heavy?) but your passion is the winning thing. It's focused, gives clear ideas and is really engaging and funny. Liked, subbed and bell'd, thanks!
I know. I should have made the second part a bit more fun editing-wise. Thanks for subbing!
I would just like to say this video was fantastic and well put together. As someone who is starting a WFRP campaign for first time role players this is a huge resource
I am very happy you liked it! What are you planning to run? What edition?
Currently moving into a new house so we've only done a session 0 with character creation and were running 4th edition. The players are wanting to start their own smuggling operation around Ubersreik
This is exiting! I love crime-related campaigns! I am playing in a campaign now, where we are working for a powerfull crime organization in Altdorf that is run by one of the von Carsteins. We are about to break someone out of the jail, who was convicted with chaos worship and is about to be burned at a stacke. I am planning for it to go horribly wrong :)
@@QuinsberryLodge Sounds awesome! Your video gave me an idea on how to incorporate all the political drama happening in Ubersreik so I thank you
@@andrewschmieg1669 Ubersreik is a cool city. I ran a game in it and it was also political. I will one day make a video about Ubresreik and will definitely tell a story about what happened.
Wonderful video! Congrats and I'm looking forward for more about how to use Warhammer Lore in Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay :D
New video is in the works now! Thanks!
as someone who wants to gm wfrp is this great advice thanks!
There's more to come! Stick around!
Players love my lore, and have for a decade. I've never had a problem getting players to enjoy what they're listening to, until I realized why other people might be having a hard time with it.
Wanna know the secret?
Here it is.
Only write lore that's related to the characters.
Think about it. The PCs are the camera lens through which we view the entire adventure. Why the FUCK are you making it about your NPCs?
What you're describing is an "exposition dump", and it's annoying no matter what media format, whether it be books or live action.
If you're going to write for players, you need to do just that: write for the audience, instead of writing for yourself. If they wanted to study and write lore, they'd all be GMing, but that's not how the game works. You're there to setup a backdrop, which includes lore, NPCs, locations, etc., but what you are NOT there for is to talk, at length, about lore that nobody has expressed an interest in.
And, when all else fails? Just fucking ask. Seriously, it's that simple.
The beauty of games like Elder Scrolls is that lore is optional. You can skip the entire thing altogether and still build a cohesive narrative, but it gains more layers of depth when you flesh it out with more detail.
You didn't ask the players if they want to gather around and listen to you read a story, they agreed to co-create a story with you, with the only difference being that there is only one GM in order to plan out campaigns, bring cohesion to the narrative, and settle any disputes related to the rules or circumstances.
Make your campaign about your players. Even if it's a Grimdark world, make the focus the CHARACTERS struggles, and don't just use your players as a way of activating lengthy dialogues as your drag them around your overly prepared and segmented story.
Really the title should be "how to stop being a snobby GM and interact with your players".
Loved it. Great animations too!
Thanks!
Good Video, it was all right for a first try.
Thanks!
I'm running a d&d 5e game rn set in the old world with a bunch of homebrew rules like corruption tables to better fit the tone of warhammer. I've found that the existence of the wiki and the discord related to that wiki is super helpful and I'm glad to see more and more interest being shown on youtube even if the old world is technically dead. Keep up the videos and I'll gladly keep watching! (Also for topics I wouldn't mind seeing some stuff about Middenheim and Middenland)
Old World will never die! I will sertanly cover the North as it was the setting of my first campaign. I had all neighborhoods of Middenheim printed on cards to give my players for better awareness of the city. Also-a giant city on a giant mountain is epic!
@@QuinsberryLodge Ooh that sounds like just what I need. Also I love the opening animation, where did you find it?
I found this gif on Discord. Rat Catch's Guild has a great warhammer meme stash.
I’m curious why you’d use 5e DnD and not one of the WFRP systems available. The two systems and games are dramatically different in approach it seems like a choice that would only make things harder on yourself in the long run.
@@PilafIsACookingMethod I'm way more familiar with 5e as a system and didn't want to go through the trouble of learning/buying a new system as well as teaching it to my group. 5e is pretty simple and easy to modify and I've been having quite a lot of fun adapting all sorts of monsters and mechanics into it.
good shit. ty. more please.
Thanks! Working on a new script now!
Found this video on riddet and I love it so much.
Thank you!
nice video man looking forward to seeing more.
Thanks a lot!
Great video! Can you please tell what's the song playing in the background
Which timestamp?
@@QuinsberryLodge sorry for the late reply
2:15 for example :)
Just getting into ttrpgs and wfrp. Been a Wargamer for 2 decades. Excellent video, what song is this? It’s badass
Any suggestions on how to use the lore well when using the Savage Worlds rules?
Example of my situation:
I am playing in a situation where it's basically a mordheim city but technically different world but similar lore as Warhammer. This city they are at is under some weird effect that nobody can identify (making it up as I go with random charts from gm emulator) but so far we have ended up with mutants and weird crystals and such so it's basically wyrdstone. I want to have players affect by this weird corruption/chaos but no rules in any of my Savage Worlds handles it well and some suggestions I've found either have you mutating too fast or basically never.
I totally agree with you here. It's how I play warhammer total war. I make my own story. I can project as evil playing good faction or doing what is good while playing an evil faction.
Starting the first session of my WFRP 2e Campaign on Sunday and this was a timely reminder as I rework some of the story. Great video!
I am late to the game but great video. One of my biggest challenge with WFRP is on how to start a campaign. How to justify to have a bunch of normal people involved in all sorts of adventures (a lawyer, rat catcher and a warden are working together?). Would love to have your take on it. Cheers!
I told my players that there’d been a big beastman warherd on a rampage and they’d all gotten drafted into the Lanwehr(militia) to help deal with it. The warherd has mostly gone back to its bloodground now, and the player characters are friends now. Not a perfect explanation, but it is serviceable.
A fucking crime that this video is so underrated
No more content? Sad...was very well done!
What's that tune?
Great video🙌
By the way if anyone here wants to make to make a proper wiki article for Beaky The Pelican that would be very nice, not everyone owns the books and for such a noble hero who is practically keeping so many afloat should not go practically unremembered. Such happening would be a great shame for the whole community.
Great video. I now want to run a Marienberg campaign just so I can get Beaky into one of my games.
Thanks for waking up my baby at irregular intervals ;-)
reat stuff. The PDF is amazing.
It really is!
This is amazing
Thanks!
Awesome video
Thanks!