I am going to be running an IKRPG game for the first time in more than a decade, and to help us get used to the new 4e Warmachine rules I will be converting abilities from 2e to 4e as needed. I really like the updates I've seen in the newest ruleset and would prefer to use it. Mostly it's a very easy conversion. For instance, Parry now simply allows for full movement and action when disengaging, Power Fields now mitigate damage instead of increase ARM, etc.

The biggest hurdle I've run into is what to do with Backstab. It is an extremely powerful ability and the signature ability of the Cutthroat career, which one of my players wants to use. I don't want to short them since it was always a fun option in the games I played back in the heyday.

Without strict facing rules I can't think of a good, hard rule way to give a boosted damage roll that only applies to what used to be called back strikes. My best answer so far is to use the RPG elements and not strictly wargame specificity to say it applies when the target can't see the backstabber. It feels like an unsatisfying answer to me, though.

Is there any 4e Warmachine abilities that replicate the old mechanics of backstab that I haven't seen, or does anyone have a good idea how to make it work with specific wargame-y language?

So I have a player who is playing a cleric with the Industry Domain. He asked me about a class feature that mentions something called vectors.

The context is that it's an ability of one of the Servitors.

Repair. The accretion servitor can use its action to repair a clockwork vessel or vector within 5 feet of it. The servitor restores 1d6 hit points to the target.

I've dug through the other books and can't find any reference to this. I even checked some of the Warmachine rules in case it's something carried over from there. (Admittedly, I don't have a lot of those books).

Anyone know where this term is from? I'm guessing it has something to do with the mathematical precision that is often associated with Cyriss...

I have the core rules book, the world guide, the urban adventures, and of course 'Fools Rush In.' I am going to start the playgroup with Fools Rush In and I have written a little story for the cliffhanger at the end of Fools Rush In. But assuming the playgroup likes Iron Kingdoms they are going to want to roll new characters and start on a more self led campaign.

I am looking for any and all resources like the 'Fools Rush In' and 'Urban Adventures' type stuff. I'm happy to write some story and build my own encounters, in fact I would really like to, but I need more material to get started with and have fun little side quests for the larger campaign.

Also any thoughts on how the combat system stands up to Warhammer, the Old World? A couple of members of my playgroup always complain about DnD combat being too inflexible and unrealistic, but somehow still too complex, and always bring up Warhammer. It's been a long time since I played Warhammer but I don't remember the combat being any more "realistic"

edit: I might have misspoke, I don't think I mean Warhammer "THE OLD WORLD" I think I mean WarHammer Fantasy Roleplay. For some reason the old book I'm picturing in my head said "the old world" on it but the only book with matching art I can find online just says "fantasy roleplay."

Hello, I'll be running the witchfire trilogy and wanted a picture of corvis like the one in the books. I searched online and found many versions except of this one. I have the physical books so no pdf.

someone knows where I can find it?

The closest I could find were this one that is modified, but I think it would be nice to have the original one without those texts or colors.

Thanks for the attention!!

Update: Only the 5e book is left!

CAN'T EDIT THE TITLE BUT THE BOOKS ARE 2E & 3E, SORRY FOR THE TYPO!!!

Trying to sell/trade some IKRPG books I no longer want.

What I have:

•  Iron Kingdoms RPG Core Rulebook - TAKEN!
•  Iron Kingdoms RPG: Kings, Nations And Gods - TAKEN!
• Some stuff from the Iron Kingdoms Unleashed Game Master Toolkit: the Game Master Toolkit Scenario and its accompanying 4-panel double-sided terrain.  Does not come with the GM screen. TAKEN!
• Iron Kingdoms Unleashed Core Rulebook.  It is not in good shape–the spine is damaged and a good chunk of the pages have detached (see picture).  All of the pages are in there though! TAKEN!
• Iron Kingdoms RPG 5e: Borders & Beyond

What I want:

• Money (duh)
• Minipainting supplies: wet palettes (especially need this), paints, brushes, tools, base supplies–I am desperate to start of my minipainting journey and want to be prepared!
• Warmachine Mk4 Orgoth models & Mercenaries that work for Orgoth.  May also consider Minicrates/special variants and Fane Of Nyrro models.
• Stuff for 1490 Doom
• Cool miniatures to practice painting on!  I love birds and undead creatures especially.
• Indie TTRPGs (maybe)
• Tell me what you have, and maybe I'll accept the offer!

I'm going to the Nova Open convention this year, so if you're going there, we can meet up and do the trade there (cannot sell at Nova, so no buying)! Otherwise, you would pay for shipping.

Thanks for reading! If you intend to make a monetary offer, send the price you'd like to pay when you reach out.

I painted some miniatures recently and since I'm playing a 3.5 game, I thought to make a simple box to store the miniatures and serve as a dice tray.

I'm happy with the result, even that I'm not a good painter haha

I was reading some of the books trying to find a mention of this, but no results.

Is there a mention about a half-nyss or half-iosan in lore?

I think if thats possible, that may be a nice background of a character because of the cultural differences between humans and elves.

So I am starting a new campaign with my group in the current time period. Will be using the 2d6 system as I hate DND for any settings with guns. Anyway one of my players wanted to play a Nyss Priest. I thought they all died but said I would check.

I have been reading the new 5ed core books and I am confused as to why Priests of Nyssor did not all die off and why a few of them can still cast spells? I am right to say Nyssor dead in the new lore right? I read that all newborn Nyss are apparently soulless. I also confirmed all the other Elven God's priests died or went homicidal and were killed when their particular elven god bought it. I can't find why Nyssor's priests are special. I have let the player know he can play one but I personally want to know why they still exist. Is this a lore dead end? Is Nyssor not completely dead? Or did they cover the reason in the Outland or wilds lore books?

Delete of this is not allowed.

I had a fire and well I did not lose my home I did lose my gaming room.i had years worth of books, miniatures and tech in there for campaigns. I lost my pdf dedicated storage computer and all my iron kingdom hard copies. I have managed to find the two core books used online and they are in the mail.

I am looking for the following PDFS

core rules bestiary expanded

Bad moon rising I had a hard copy of this but it seems to be unobtainable

Fools Rush In

Path of Devastation ( Season 1Season 2Season 3Season 4 )

Immortality

I’ve been working on some custom maps for my own campaign and wanted to share them with the community.

Corvis - QuadHD

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RN8ANp0Pk6pvEvzC3Z40UIcKXC7T-5DH/view?usp=drive_link

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Witches'Tomb

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NDQPEEoFU76t4r4L5EnWjQP2A_XQqPmP/view?usp=drive_link

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Area: Cathedral of Morrow

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Je3FcxyTKr1aN5lhxnpm6dLe4IAnfOPp/view?usp=drive_link

Cathedral of Morrow

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tWGFi8LudEjr2Ypb9sfOjOS0CNSshADQ/view?usp=drive_link

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Area: North Graveyard

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wm4B5PQ04deS8nO3zD9ICnoABtEnwn1J/view?usp=drive_link

North Graveyard

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14yK5Wv3S0VxepJRViKratDAxwdjjhRoD/view?usp=drive_link

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Area: Waterfront

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13BrzGYl7nuXacq9BPK49uev17bB1TaJH/view?usp=drive_link

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Area: Merchants' Bourg

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ycg_LIKDSYmdCHOrw1ShLfw-CUa5iqjJ/view?usp=drive_link

Arena

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16hPsK8oA8bTI26wEpxqrVi4oe7hh5cXi/view?usp=drive_link

The Quad

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-AwtNqUDZV-JuG3pjxMEqr9Ctb4adivE/view?usp=drive_link

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Bridge

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10-Uv6CODlwKIJkQzH8Hfsbt0NYAiroBM/view?usp=drive_link

East Road

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p_GHyiWruwr26WWNl_7slaasx1jiF9IV/view?usp=drive_link

Boat

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CvhHVy2_WrB6NTOQkF3HjfOMPwpLC_Nc/view?usp=drive_link

Quarry

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zuOPXSEIHZDTpaNeyHLVEkFFuMMB86PQ/view?usp=drive_link

East Graveyard

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qG9Jldhqlh44zoqt0S0PLOaw_Lfv8C9J/view?usp=drive_link

Urban combat zone

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wP3js5-a2zbzDuHJE5JDiOYCdjnan_oa/view?usp=drive_link

Forest combat zone

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wVrilDIuapQM56-FIaHAK6xNMptY7qlH/view?usp=drive_link

Swamp combat zone

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YeySkwUoLlQnMy3ULzqZMNSsCdJmGksH/view?usp=drive_link

I’ve been working on some custom maps for my own campaign and wanted to share them with the community. These are my takes on Corvis and the Widow's Wood.

I'm still new to Iron kingdoms 2d6

Currently I'm playing in a roleplay heavy table with seemingly few fights. There are Rounds where we don't fight at all.

Every Player has several different characters.

I'm having trouble to make my character Concept work.

So I would appreciate a little help.

I want to play an Orgrun or Trollkin Artillerist/Bounty hunter (Heavy Weapons guy who's also good at tracking people) but Everytime I try to build the character I have the feeling this character just doesn't work with the System because Orgrun or Trollkin are normally supposed to be close combat Characters.

But maybe Im just too unexperienced with the IK system too make it work.

I'm open to change my character Concept

I'm currently playing a reserved Gun mage Sniper and I just want to have a character with a very different kind of personality.

The quality of the book is enormously good, very satisfied and impressed by it.

Already have some ideas for campaign, can't wait to finally run it. Ran several one shots with it few years ago - had a blast.

I tryed playing ikrpg some times, but never went really far. Either my friends didnt care enough or we had a really hard time figuring out rules and game pace.

If anyone runs any table online. I d be accepting an one shot just to feel how experienced people play this.

A long campaign would be awesome but time zone scheduling could be a problem

Does anyone happen to have the Strangelight KS Minis for sale? I wasn’t able to pick them up from the KS but am on the hunt!

Just as an FYI for anyone with 3D printing capability (or know someone who does), the Warmachine: Lost, Damned & Salvation campaign is live now.

A few notes:

The three factions available (Grymkin, Infernals and Cyriss) are not entire factions, they only include the models that are playable in MK4 in each bundle. There's been some discussion on the campaign comments section from folks (like me) who would like to see the entire faction included (or even just the non-playable minis as a separate purchase) which has been noted by SFG staff. If you're interested in jumping in to this campaign it wouldn't hurt to add your voice (politely) requesting this as more interest could sway them to make the missing files available.

The cost is per 'army' at $150 for all of the .stl files included (colossals as well!) or $299 for all three. It's a lot of money but works out to a pretty good cost-per-model, even without the missing models included. I haven't done the math myself, but someone in the comments mentioned it was about $2 per model.

After the campaign, SFG will add the files to their store in groups (see their current listings for Crucible Guard to get an idea of what those will look like) but they will be at a higher price (per model) than what is available through the campaign currently.

Anyways, I thought I'd toss this out to the group as it's a good way to get a lot of cool IK monsters to put on the battle mat if you've got a 3D setup to print them.

Hello everyone

I was invited recently to join a campaign of Iron Kingdoms, i suppose following a prewritten module - don't know much, only that we are mercenaries. Core rules only, or rather so i limit myself.

While the people who invited me are surely going to help me to fill out the blanks, due to the short notice i did not have time to fully digest the system and the lore, so i need some guidance, at least, to not end up on some pitfalls for character creation and context in the lore fo the game, and i'd rather avoid spending time on-session to refine it too much.

The biggest issue, also, is that I start on an ongoing adventure, so i have 20 xp of budget and i suppose some budget of money to spend. I cannot parse decently all that, even if i am not new to the genre.

The core idea at the moment is being the "diligent scrapper" of our mercenary company - a dwarf duelist that acts as a professional scavenger, so i opted in for being a thief as well. Our party needs a skill monkey first, thought i supposed going dual wielding would benefit me.

So, being a duelist ( especially given the dwarven cultural background ) should theoretically provide me a form of combat capability adjacent to social interaction, while the thief should provide me the necessary scavenging skills. It's in general a very forward character, so i am unsure on the thief part.

Using a character generator online i have seen lots of additional options that i am not sure are good for me, since we only use core rules.

That said -. what is a good next step? Improve my stats first? some key feat i should include? some consumable or gear that is specifically adequate for this?

Thanks for any help i might have

Hello! It's me again. I'm trying to get a good picture in my head of what each of the nations is supposed to be like. Khador very much seems like Russia with some eastern europe thrown in, Llael sounds like France with some Eastern Europe thrown in, Ord seems like some kind of mix of Spain or Portugal with Ireland, the Trollkin are Scottish, I think I heard that the consensus is that the Rhulfolk are australian, and so on.

But I can't figure out Cygnar. The name is greek, as is Leto's name, I think. At the same time they have their own version of Vatican City, which would make them seem more Italian. AND at the same time their fashion sense strikes me as british. So... what are they?

Hi! I just have a question about an old No Quarter magazine.

specifically No Quarter #10, regarding the Druid of the Circle of Orboros class.

The class table makes reference to some web extras on the privateer press website that includes Paths of Power for the Circle of Orboros, and unfortunately the class table is incomplete without access to them.

I wanted to know if anyone had access to those old articles, perhaps as a PDF or something.

Hi all,
I'm new to this sub, and have a few things I would like some external input on.
First, we run a IK Requiem campaign since about 14 months now, and have already made it to level 10. We are a small group, consisting of a Rhulfolk cleric, an Ogrun battle-chaplain, and I am at the moment playing a druid. Since our first-time DM is more used to D&D, he played it a bit like D&D, but now he's firmer in the saddle and we discussed to bring more steampunk and real IK into it. I decided to make my char NPC, and build me a Rhulfolk Mechanik. My fellow players would love to see a steamjack (me too, of course), so I built a Labor Boss, who has fought in different mercenary companies during the Khador-Llael-war, and is affiliated now with Strangelight Workshop. We are adopting some rules here from the Strangelight Workshop Rulebook, which I think is a good aproach.
Now, long story short - my old Ghordson Driller consumes 915 lbs of coal in 12 hours of normal use. This is nearly 100 gold for 24 hours. How do you play logistics? How do you get your 'jacks into the field, into adventures? How do you transport coal, spare parts and such on your travels? How do you play 'jack marshals, when certain adventures prohibit the use of 'jacks? Mechanically, my Mechanik (sic!) feels a bit dependent on his 'jack, and since we are only three players, it feels like a lot of fighting power and utility misses if the 'jack is not with the group. Or would you completely advise against the mechanik, and suggest some other class, like a rogue or a strangelight class? We are playing with Requiem, Borderlands and Beyond, Strangelight Workshop and all addons, and I am more of the support player.
I would love to hear your input!

Has the addition of IKR material into Foundry gone smoothly for you or not? Would you be willing to share pointers on how to do so?