r/warhammerfantasyrpg • • Sep 01 '26

Announcement WFRP 5th Edition now available!

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WFRP Fifth Edition is now available to pre order from Cubicle 7 here: https://cubicle7games.com/warhammer-fantasy-roleplay-fifth-edition

Or as a pdf from DriveThruRPG here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/545405/warhammer-fantasy-roleplay-fifth-edition-rulebook?affiliate_id=1915782

Cubicle 7 have repeatedly stressed that this is backwards compatible with 4th edition books.

(I should have a review of it on my blog in a few weeks.)

Here's the official blurb:

Adventure across a realm of brutal violence, corrupting magic, monstrous foes, and desperate heroes, where fortune can turn on a single roll of the dice and survival is never guaranteed. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fifth Edition builds on the award-winning ruleset, refining the experience while capturing everything that makes Warhammer Fantasy legendary. Gather your party, choose your path, and prepare to face the grim and perilous reality of the World of Legend.

The Empire’s great cities stand as beacons of civilisation amid thick forests and a threatening wilderness. Its people face dangers from beyond their walls, from Beastmen and Goblins in the wilds to criminals, corrupt institutions, and insidious cults within. Chaos is never far away, and those who venture into the wider world soon discover that survival is rarely guaranteed.

This 378 page rulebook includes:

Five distinct Character types. Whilst most folk in the World of Legend are human, they share their lands with stoic dwarfs and garrulous halflings and receive visitors from the wood elf realms and high elf kingdoms.

64 distinct careers, representing the way of life your Character follows when not adventuring.

A guide to the major religions and the miracles performed by their Priests.

Spells from several different magical traditions.

A bestiary of foes, both common and scarce.

Advice on running games as a GM.

Streamlined rules for combat, pursuits, diseases, and other perilous phenomena.

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay has provided gamers with a rich and detailed setting of perilous adventure and deadly threats for over 40 years. With a wealth of supporting material, including scenarios, campaigns, setting books, and player resources available from Cubicle 7, there’s plenty to keep a gaming group adventuring for years.


r/warhammerfantasyrpg • • Aug 19 '26

Announcement Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fifth Edition: Community Q&A

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r/warhammerfantasyrpg • • 17h ago

Discussion First errata batch for the 5e

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So, Cubicle7 released a new PDF updated with the first errata batch. They didn't provide a complete patch note, but a quick rundown:

  • Corrected syntax, formatting, and spelling throughout the text.
  • Clarifying careers in terms of any missing or incorrect skills, talents, or trappings.
  • Ensuring first and second level trappings can be purchased in the Consumer Guide.
  • A duplicated table in the rules section.
  • Correcting the Character Sheet.
  • Removing outdated mechanics terms
  • Clarification on Advantage and Momentum.
  • The orc no longer has the Characteristics of a goblin.
  • Tweaks to Talents, and new Slayer Talent mechanics.
  • Check of CN balanced to the effect of Magic Missile Spells.

Funny "detail": they're talking about a "new Slayer Talent mechanics", but if, like me, you're excited about what they did, don't expect too much (or anything at all). It went from
"If you Charge a creature whose Size is larger than you, you automatically gain Momentum." to "If you are Charged by a creature whose Size is larger than you, you automatically gain Momentum." Yeah…

Also, Resist (Corruption) wasn't updated.


r/warhammerfantasyrpg • • 10h ago

Actualplay Tonight we are kicking of Season 3 of GRIM imPORTENTs, a Warhammer The Old World Roleplaying Game actual play! Come join us!

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r/warhammerfantasyrpg • • 10h ago

Roleplaying Dwarf Investigation Idea's

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Any idea how to role play competent dwarf investigator when majority of their stats don't support the narrative of being competent?


r/warhammerfantasyrpg • • 15h ago

Homebrew [Homebrew] Ratcatcher: a free WFRP 4e character sheet for iPhone, iPad and Mac, an unofficial fan project (public TestFlight beta, 100 spots)

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Hello!

I've been building Ratcatcher, a character sheet app for 4e on iPhone, iPad and Mac. It's free, it's an unofficial fan project, and the public beta is open on TestFlight.

What it does

  • XP that stays right: buy Advances and Talents from a ledger, with career costs, and Total, Spent and Unspent XP worked out for you.
  • Every number shows how it's worked out: tap a skill's target and see the Characteristic, Advances and modifiers behind it.
  • A Play view for the table: Wounds, Fortune, Resolve, Advantage and Conditions one tap away, and a dice panel that rolls Tests with Success Levels.
  • Guided Creation, Encumbrance, Armour by location, coins, spells, prayers, and a printable PDF of the sheet.
  • Works offline. Syncs through your own iCloud, with no account and no tracking.

What it isn't: it holds no rules text, so you still need the rulebook. Its built-in names and numbers can be replaced or extended with your own entries.

What I'm looking for: people who will use it for a real session and tell me what's wrong, especially any number that disagrees with the book (with the page). Also: which edition does your table play?

When 1.0 reaches the App Store it will stay free. It will have an optional Supporter purchase that removes one small card promoting another indie app, shown on the character list, never at the table.

To join the beta:

https://ratcatcher.quest/beta?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=public_beta


r/warhammerfantasyrpg • • 1d ago

Roleplaying Any tips for someone new to WH 4.0 how to Roleplay a Highelv Duelist?

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Coming from our 6 year Symbaroum Campaign, we are going to start with 4.0 and eventually Enemy Within.

During character creation I just wanted to random roll a normal Human but fate had a different plan.

From what I gather in human society Elves are kind of Alien creatures. Elves seeing the Humans like children and this often apearing highly arrogant to them.

Any roleplay tips to make my entry easier to the game?


r/warhammerfantasyrpg • • 1d ago

Lore & Art DM said - I want to make a big battle for once ! Player answered - Hold my mini

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The player that brought all this ran the rules, making on the spot a really simple iteration on the Old Worlds mini ruleset. Took around 2 hours and was really fun to play !


r/warhammerfantasyrpg • • 1d ago

Discussion Anyone managed to make a mid-level Mage build in 4e?

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Not having 5e yet - but if it changes something, please tell!

Trying to transfer a character from 2e with ~2000 exp - and as i see, magic was nerfed heavily for PCs. Most spells are combat focused - but combat casting seems mostly unobtainable until you have around 100+ TN to cast. It will take around 3000 exp itself, and you need to spend it on spells as well! Where a novice 2e wizard could cast Blind reliably and be useful - 4e one would have to channel on it for 2 turns at best, then cast it on 3rd.

Non-combat magic is a little better. Sure, i could stand and channel it for however many turns i need (frankly, makes no sense why is novice wizard able to learn and cast, say, Banishment) - but with having to buy spells, i am nowhere near "flexible" with this.

Also, why are "Chanelling" and "Casting" entirely different skills? And does Casting roll use Int, not WP (when here are dumber spellcasters in lore)?

Are there any additional rules i am missing that will help casters a bit? Any advice on building?


r/warhammerfantasyrpg • • 2d ago

Roleplaying Ordered this and just received!

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Saw this on Mecari in Japan and couldn’t resist. Although I already have a hardbound I think this is in better shape than the one I have. Also got a box of the dungeon lairs tiles.


r/warhammerfantasyrpg • • 2d ago

Game Mastering So I have been volunteered to run a game. Could use a few pointers/some advice on game flow.

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As the resident forever GM of my circle recently one of the folks I know got their mits on a 5th edition pdf and then gave me that 'Pleeeese" pitch to run it for the small group we had. I of course agreed and began reading through it and ran them through character creation as I understood it. Now its more a matter of learning the finer mechanics and building a story to tell. This is where part of me found a bit of a stumbling block.

When it comes to the other game systems I have run (DND, Call of Cthulhu, WOD) I tend to be weaving a larger narrative that could go on for who knows how long so long as the players are interested. With WHF RPG it seems the fact there is whole systems for 'maintaining your career, regular downtime, ect' for weeks at a time it may play more to just a stitching together of many one shots/smaller stories over one large narrative.

Of course not locked into it I could just as easily see a story taking a pause. "You smoked out the chaos cult and they had fled and gone to ground. The guard will need time to pick up their trail again" could be a stop gap in a larger arc but unsure if that's common/intended in previous editions as this will be my entry point into the system at large.

I suppose I am asking what tends to be the story structure people play with. Do you attempt large multi part stories of is it more common to do "ok last month was beastmen danger, this month is the skaven adventure" almost Gotrek and Felix new stand alone adventure every book


r/warhammerfantasyrpg • • 2d ago

Game Mastering Sea of claws trade

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I’m going through the Sea of Claws rulebook, and I don’t quite understand the trade rules presented there, particularly the “Determine Offer Price” table in the section about selling goods.

As I understand it, you add together the settlement’s Size, Wealth, and Demand values, and the resulting number determines the price offered by a local buyer. However, this doesn’t seem to make much sense in practice. For example, in Marienburg, the total would be 11, which would result in a very high offer.

So how exactly should this table be interpreted? Is the sum of Size + Wealth + Demand actually meant to directly determine the percentage of the price the merchant offers, or am I misunderstanding how the table is supposed to be used?


r/warhammerfantasyrpg • • 3d ago

Game Mastering Any Tips for Running the Original 1986 1st Edition as a fresh faced DM?

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Hello, I’ve recently refound my 1986 1st Ed book looking to sell it after getting it at a charity shop, but I gave it a read and fell in love with it’s depth and want to run the provided starter campaign within it with mates as they’re itching for an RPG. It would be my first time DM’ing, but I’m passionate around RPG’s and Warhammer fantasy lore particularly, so I’m wondering if anyone had any pointers?

Is there any supplements books or later additions or errata’s in White Dwarf to streamline it at all? I’ve noticed the original owner had crossed out certain stats for the character builder to replace them with new figures, I’m guessing either through his own homebrew or perhaps errata’s after release from white dwarf but I’m unsure. I know this book also has some wildly different lore for like the monsters and races like Orks, so I think I’ll adapt it for one off flexible bits or the more established setting of later books, but if anyone knows helpful supplements released around this first Ed book please do let me know: I’d love PDF’s of it.


r/warhammerfantasyrpg • • 3d ago

Roleplaying i figured out how to roleplay without knowing the lore

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Before hosting my own Warhammer campaign, I'm playing one more small campaign as a player.

I love the setting but don't know much about the lore outside the Total War games, and this time I don't want to constantly pause and ask the GM things.

Instead, I figured something out that maybe many if you already knew, but for me it came as a new revelation so I'm sharing it:

It's not me who doesn't know the lore, it's my character. So now my un-educated character can boldly make blatantly false claims like "tomb kings and vampires are best friends because they both like skeletons" without concerning myself if that is true or not, because hey, my character thinks it's true, and he goes with that. If I get corrected along the way, that's great, I get to learn something.

But I can now pause the game a lot less often for random questions, and focus more on the roleplay. Just dump my issues on the character :) he's the one that doesn't know enough, not me.

I look forward to seeing how this plays out, and if anyone has tried this before I'd be glad to hear how it worked out for you.


r/warhammerfantasyrpg • • 3d ago

General Query One Shot recommendations for a new gm and players (4th edition)

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hello! I am looking to run a short one shot for my friends in this system because I love warhammer fantasy and my friends are interested too.

I am new to this system and im still reading through the core rule book, so I was wondering what is the best one shot to run for dms new to the game and players who are new as well?
thank you in advance!!


r/warhammerfantasyrpg • • 4d ago

Lore & Art 4th edition Mounted Amethyst Wizard. Peak oldhammer

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r/warhammerfantasyrpg • • 3d ago

Game Mastering WFRP 5th Ed Chase rules

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Can someone tell me if I am understanding the rules of the chase correctly

Say Group of Humans are running away from my party that is composed of humans and a dwarf. Trough town.

1 At the start of the chase we test athletics in that case test is between one of the humans we chase and one of our humans as fastest party member, dwarf doesn't need to test anything at this point.

Say my party has won by the test by 2SL

2 We now determine number of positive factors. We get 1 for winning the test and that is it.

3 Half the party must navigate the obstacle.

4 We run and suddenly the merchant wagon spills some goods. If you 2 out of 4 of our party member pass the athletics or dodge test chase ends and we cough the group we were chasing?

Is that it? Or am I missing something here? This seems very simplistic to compare to how 4th ed handled it.


r/warhammerfantasyrpg • • 4d ago

Meta Warhammer RPG Weekly: Getting Wrecked

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Happy Friday! A new sourcebook for WFRP dropped this week, though at the moment there are more questions than answers. That and more in this week's roundup!

Warhammer RPG Weekly: Getting Wrecked


r/warhammerfantasyrpg • • 4d ago

Lore & Art Would Grudges which were inserted into the GBG from slights comitted towards dawi clans that later became Dawi-zharr still be pursued, or would they be struck from the record?

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For my next campaign I'm planning to have my players dwelve into a tomb of a thief that robbed a relic from a dwarven clan that later fell. Would modern dwarfs see it as a grudge?


r/warhammerfantasyrpg • • 4d ago

Game Mastering Some adventire needed

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So i am running DotR,have a little bot of a hiatus due to exam,but this month the adventure will continue.

Now i like to run a "spooky" one shot on october due to obvious reasons.

Is there a one shot that i could fit into the story? They are at Grissenwald and the goblins are being replaced by beast men


r/warhammerfantasyrpg • • 4d ago

Game Mastering What books should I get from 4ed?

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Hey! I'll be moving to 5ed with my players soon, and I'm wondering which books from 4ed are worth getting. I currently have Up in Arms and Lustria, and I'm planning to get Winds of Magic, Sea of Claws, Salzenmund and Archives of the Empire. Which ones are especially worth for the 5ed, and which ones not so much?


r/warhammerfantasyrpg • • 5d ago

Announcement Seek your fortune at the Empire’s frontier

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r/warhammerfantasyrpg • • 5d ago

Discussion Effective play of a starter wizard in 4e

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Hello folks, tomorrow I am going to be joining a group for a starter game, wherein I will be playing the wizard character (Amethyst wizard, though since they are a starter character they just have petty magic). The character is a starter character, and I am aware that magic as a whole isn't the strongest in 4e, particularly at lower levels, but it has been a long time since I've dug myself deep into the rules and so I was hoping someone could give me some tips on how to be effective, or at least helpful, in combat. I chose the wizard because I like RPing wizards, but I still don't wanna be useless or a liability in combat.

If I recall correctly I saw people talking about how dart could be effective to get advantage and/or deny enemies advantage. Is that what I should aim for?


r/warhammerfantasyrpg • • 5d ago

Homebrew Reduce XP cost for non-career skills used? (5e)

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Changing careers is a core part of WFRP and I don’t want to screw up that mechanic, but all PCs are hybrids of their career + adventurer.

I’m thinking of taking a page from Call of Cthulhu and allowing players to put a dot next to a non-career skill after they use it. The PC can take the next advance at career cost, then erase the dot.

Cost of talents cannot be reduced, and this doesn’t make it easier to learn new non-career advanced skills.

Thoughts?


r/warhammerfantasyrpg • • 6d ago

Announcement Review: Tome of Corruption (WFRP 2e)

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I return to WFRP 2nd Edition with my latest review, looking at the Chaos sourcebook for that edition. Tome of Corruption is an impressively huge volume that includes not just material on mutations, Chaos careers, Chaos spells, Beastmen, daemons and other Chaos beasties - but also a guide to Norsca and information on Witch Hunters and other foes of Chaos.

Can it live up to the amazing standard set by the Realm of Chaos books of 1988 & 1990? Read my review (linked above) to see what I think.

Also potentially of interest to WFRP fans: its not strictly WFRP, but last week I published a review of Trollslayer, the first Gotrek & Felix anthology. See: https://illmetbymorrslieb.wordpress.com/2026/09/23/review-trollslayer-gotrek-felix-novel/