2.) Yes I do plan to go again this year along with a few of our hosts and friends and regulars. Happy to hook up and get some games on while there.

1.) I just made an order for the Creature Vault, Black Fire Pass, Signs of Faith, and Omens of War…and couldn’t find anywhere online that had the dice packs in stock. Checking threads on BGG and FFG, this seems to have been an issue for a while now… You seem to be in the know, are FFG winding down this product line? Is it in danger of being discontinued now that they’ve just barely fleshed out all of the core rules?

2.) I heard you mention KublaCon in Episode 0. We are down on the central coast, near Cal Poly, and I have been the last few years to play in the Warmachine tournaments there…I am seriously considering leaving the minis at home and looking for some WFRP sessions there this time around. Are you, or any of your group planning on running anything this year?

Regarding dishing out critical wounds, I as the GM really wanted to get everyone busted up since it was the finale and the fighting was getting crazy. We took a few liberties to wrap things up in as cinematic way as possible. =)

Fun episode, I always think the adventures that throw a party together, rather than being a party already, make for the best stories. Friends overcoming difficulties in a quest is fun to hear but strangers with reason to distrust one another, who bicker and fight amongst themselves as much as them fight ‘evil’… that’s good listening!

this situation while entertaining is why i always have the PCs know each other and trust each enough to work together in situations where their lives could be on the line.

at this point i dont think it would be “realistic” for prudence and dave’s character to ever travel together let alone trust each enough to fight a combat where their lives are on the line with the other character nearby. i am quite curious how this is going to be resolved

I try it by rightclick “save target as”. The download stops after 3,6 MB.
When I click on the play symbol it stops after roughly 3 minutes.

The enemy within episode I can download up to 8MB before it stops.

Thanks!

Chris made a great drawing of Khelga shortly after the turned which i’ll probably post some time on the facebook page.

An excellent end for the unwittting servants, I shall miss hearing their ongoing adventures… but look forward to hearing new adventures from the reckless dice group in the enemy within campaign.

I have the episode downloaded and hear it soon. But at my home PC I can only download 2,8 MB and then it stops. I have tried it on several days several times. Is the file ok?

At the beginning I thought it could be my connection, but I have tried to download other podcasts of similar size and have been able to do it without a problem. I’ll try to download them again another day, but just wanted to let you know.

And thanks a lot for sharing the podcast. It has a very good quality and is full of great ideas.

Good job.

I think after the horror we all felt, both as characters and players, that we were so traumatized that the unresolved ending was perfectly fitting. We walked out of the house, blinked at the sun, and bleary eyed, walked home without saying a word to anyone. It was like a major mental blow to everyone, where the true horror is that the bad guy got away, and really, everyone loses. #iLoveWarhammer

Me likey.

That is all. Thank you.

Thanks for your continued service!

I myself would be wary of giving any pets their own turns for fear they would upset/outshine the other players, you are essentially adding a second character for one player.

H.R. Giger would have his fun with something like this.

Also when the Ork is killed in the cave, just to handle it story wise is a good move to spare playtime.

Great Episode.

I prefer playing in scenarios written by the GM. They feel far more personal and are usually more interesting. I think you should do more of these types of episodes, and have a few segments on how to use bad guys and the like.

SBV podcast has entire episodes dedicated to that but you don’t need to be like them, just a quick 10 minute section on “Beastmen as antagonists and how to use them in an adventure” or “Types of adventures you could have in the Grey Mountains”.

Some little adventure leads which will spark the budding writer to try something other than written adventures. People say that “I only play written adventures because I don;t have time”. I find that writing your own work is far quicker and easier than trying to interpret someone else’s.

This “putting aside our differences” is a new concept for my group. Perhaps I should make them listen to this episode as a “teamwork” example.

The scenario will be available later this year as Emirikol is helping me enter it into the 2012 scenario competition.

Definitely not for everyone that’s for certain. There certainly is a lot of chatting in this one and it’s 100% non combat, did you pick up the clues or did you not like the concept of the final scene?

Example:
1. How do the PCs get drawn in? (e.g. hired by local merchant, suddenly they are attacked and must seek vengeance, etc.)
2. They found out the problem and have been hired, so they need to go to the library to find out more (or quiz some peasants)
3. They follow their first clue to a combat, which gives them two more clues
4. Their second clue turns out to be a red herring
5. Their third clue leads them to a puzzle or a problem solving issue. (e.g. Bunch of skill checks, or a progress tracker). This gives them a major foretelling about who the big bad evil guy (BBEG) is at the end. They have two new clues towards how to get to the BBEG
6. Clue #1 leads them to another combat with clues or a red herring.
7. Clue #2 leads them to a mysterious location where the BBEG is no longer at (abandoned rebel base).
8. They follow up to the Henchman of the BBEG
9. They fight the BBEG/final showdown.

You can break it down into acts if you need to. Maps and NPCs sometimes help me visually grasp an idea.

Hope this helps!

Jay H

If you would like to offer some constructive criticism for discussion i’m sure it would be well received.

Gitz

Cheers,

Curtis Jackson (Grolsch Van Eyke)

Great Story and also a very funny party.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0aOBaQJ-KA

Cower and tremble!

I stand by my original opinion of good job and best one since witches song (not better than witches song as that’s my favourite adventure so I’m biased). If you had the luxury of a long campaign you could foreshadow the big bad. eg dwarf in nearby hold saying “long ago and evil beyond imagination plagued these lands, Mithrad the Dwarfslayer (or something)……”. Maybe a statue of a human fighting a similar beast (blown out of proportion due to folklore) in grimstot and a local legend of of it, maybe it was a dwarf and the dwarf is a local legend, saved the town but the evil escaped to hide amongst the hills for all eternity? Maybe come across another abandoned hold with paintings of Mithrads (or whatever it’s name was) destruction.

Of course for review and live play purposes your team aims to play as close to the adventure as possible with the resources given to you to provide us with relevant feedback so you could never really do that. Sure HoT has some plot holes but if your a GM with the time on their hands and the motivation to alter written adventures you could fill them in pretty easily by the sounds of it.

I liked it.

What do you know about Gromm Helga? Boy your dwarven “friends” sure have changed since he returned. You see them talking amongst each other in Khazalid. You don’t know what they’re saying. Who’s to say there not talking about you?

Don’t let the dwarves constant rattling about honour and loyalty fool you. Deep down you know it’s all a lie, there just as selfish as an Altdorf street rat. They talk amongst themselves see because they don’t want you to hear . They’re talking about you lady, how to get rid of you and steal all that gold you’ve got.

Gromms the problem see, he’s the one causing the divide. He aint so high and mighty when he’s asleep, maybe you should slip a dagger in his ribs? You know he’s going to do it to you. If I were you i’d sleep with a dagger beneath your bedroll, one eye open and be wary next time your “friends” invite you out to the forest all alone.

Can you really trust these dwarves? Do they have your best interests in heart? If so how come they are always trying to get you killed in danerous situations? Food for thought adventurer, that’s all……

This adventure was published in 1st editon module called “The Reckless Dead”. I HIGHLY recommend this module as it consist of gems in warhammer’s adventures pantheon. Almost all of the adventures published in “The Reckless Dead” are superb. Oh, and I GMed some of them with rules from 3rd edition without any problems.

We are gearing up to have Chris (Grom) run The Mirror of Desire (the Slaaneshi adventure from Lure of Power) next. I’m not quite sure how Thorin is going to loose more limbs in this one since it is largely a social adventure but it should be good fun.

Having Gromm back was great, I felt the dwarfs had gone soft with Helga nagging at them all the time, good to see them returning to their gruff and unaccommodating selves. I like the third wheel feeling, the dwarves and their mates with their injokes and their culture and Helga the human feeling left out to some degree with them not answering her questions and such.

Danger Dave managed to further worsen his position, because of this I am now expecting Thorin to attain at least one permanent wound per adventure, if he doesn’t I would feel like I missed out somehow.

Also Helga should consult this following guide on bear handling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ogQ0uge06o

Note the diet of bugs, fruit and honey and apparent love of lethargy and Jazz music.

Yes, I’ve listen to this podcast some time ago. It was superb but I don’t remember rules. Boooo.

As an addition for the quest of the peanut I have forgotten a party in Lustria. The Amazons, surviving Norse Women of an ill fated expedition who rule the land from in their jungle hut towns, scantily clad, blonde and bronze skinned. Like a village full of Jwowws, all the male juice heads are slaughtered after their first night with queen Snooki.

So asking them about the fabled peanut might result in some adult entertainment and/or violence plus an itchy rash.

We love our Nutella here too but peanut butter is definitely more of a staple.

I love your questing idea! I’ve been toying with the idea of making a Halfling character and I think yours is an interesting character background suggestion — a well-traveled halfling who is trying to broaden the Empire’s palate by finding and introducing exotic foods.

Thanks for listening!

In Germany, Italy and France as far as I know there is no real school bread peanut butter fraktion. The place of the sweet and high energetic breadsurface is solely ruled by nutella or simply butter and jelly. You can buy peanutbutter in most german supermarkets today, but its sold number is in no comparison to the sold nutella mountains in the markets.

And as for peanutbutter in the old world. The peanut wasn’t common in the middle ages in europe, as the potato wasn’t too. Both originate around the andens in south america. The potato was brought into europe around the 16 to 17th century by the spains and englishmen, so maybe the old world has in Tilea and Estilia its first potatohouses in the opening. But the peanut needs tropic or subtropic climates.

As for Helga, maybe you should visit the lizardmen in their steaming jungles in lustria. Maybe they politely offer you a peanutbutter sandwich before they cut your beating heart with a very sharp obsidian knife out.

Another source might be the High Elfes who had a lot of different outposts around the world, some of them in the southern hemisphere. (Citadel of Dusk, Fortress of Dawn) But High elves might be the best lead to find the peanut. As of my dwarven point of view, they always seem to me as the guys who eat their peanut butter sandwich with the edge cut away.

But be sure to take the official merchant routes to Lothern in southern Ulthuan or they will burn your ship and let it rot on the bottom of the sea. And never leave the merchant quarter in the city or they will kill you instantly or torture you to death.

So either way, bringing the peanut butter into the old world might be a task for an epic journey through the Known and unknown Warhammer World.

keep up the great work and im hoping you guys are able to tackle the enemy within in podcast form when its released.

-ryan

Long Drong the pirate is set around Barak Varr and the Pirate Islands of Sartosa. It is the same Location but the story is quite different. So I don’t think there is a connection. But who knows, dwarfs are a stubborn folk, maybe some of the survivors have fled east to Barak Varr during the war.

Here is some situations where you can add party tension that I found:
- A character guiding the others through the wilderness gets them lost!
- A character gets a treasure/clue/favor but decides to keep it to themselves. (even if the others are unaware)
- A character leaves the party at a critical time to pursue own agenda.
- In or before a combat encounter, the characters are not in agreement of tactics and start a lengthy discussion about it.
- A character steals, cheats or backstabs another character in the party!
- A character insults or behaves badly towards another party members family/friends/leaders/race/religion.

…and so on.
I find my players are responding well and even roleplaying off the tension meter occasionally. Also, keep in mind that the punishment for advancing up on the meter is not very grave for the players so use it!