The fourth adventure in the Doomstones campaign, Dwarf Wars was adapted from The Halls of the Dwarven Kings, an AD&D adventure in The Complete Dungeon Master series. It was re-statted for WFRP …| Graeme Davis
The third adventure in the Doomstones campaign, Death Rock was adapted from The Feathered Priests, an AD&D adventure in The Complete Dungeon Master series. It was re-statted for WFRP by Brad Freeman and I developed it for Flame Publications. Art was sourced mainly from the Games Workshop archives, with occasional bespoke pieces by Tony Ackland. […]| Graeme Davis
The second adventure in the Doomstones campaign, Blood in Darkness was adapted from The Lost Shrine of Kasar-Khan, an AD&D adventure in The Complete Dungeon Master series. It was re-statted for…| Graeme Davis
It’s well known that the Doomstones campaign was adapted from a series for AD&D called The Complete Dungeon Master and sold by Simon Forrest and Basil Barrett under their Beast Enterprises imprint. A freelancer named Brad Freeman was hired by Games Workshop to re-stat the adventures for WFRP 1st edition, and the resulting manuscripts were […]| Graeme Davis
Lichemaster was originally titled Return of the Lichemaster, and that title can still be seen on the headers of the even-numbered pages. The title on the cover was changed by Bryan Ansell, who felt that simpler was better. He was also behind the bright (some might say garish) cover colors of many Games Workshop products […]| Graeme Davis
It’s well known that Empire in Flames was rushed out to bring the Enemy Within campaign to an end. The manuscript was written extremely quickly by Carl Sargent, working to a brief which proba…| Graeme Davis
It’s fairly common knowledge by now that Something Rotten in Kislev was not in the original plan for the Enemy Within campaign. Ken Rolston became available and GW management thought that his name on a WFRP product would help boost U.S. sales. I don’t know how much of a brief he received – I think […]| Graeme Davis
Last week’s post covered most of the silly names in Power Behind the Throne, and sharp-eyed readers called out a few more in the comments. This week, I’m moving on to the adventure itse…| Graeme Davis
Getting all the meat off of a particularly long-winded and railroad-y type of bone.| Mediums and Messages
Published in 1987, Warhammer City started life as a background section in Carl Sargent’s manuscript for Power Behind the Throne. Unlike the town section in Shadows over Bögenhafen, though, it…| Graeme Davis
The last post covered in-jokes and pop-culture references in The Enemy Within and Shadows over Bögenhafen. This time, let’s take a look at Death on the Reik. The name of this adventure was a …| Graeme Davis
Classic? More like ass-ic... I'm sorry everyone| In Places Deep
The outtakes from Advanced Heroquest Undead Supplement (published as Terror in the Dark) continue this week with two more locations from the quest generation system: Necromancer’s La…| Graeme Davis
Last week I promised you the monster tables to go with my previous AHQ posts (Fiction, New Hazards, Undead Monsters, Dark Wizards, and Other New Monsters). Turns out I was lying. Yo…| Graeme Davis
The excellent Jordan Sorcery just posted an in-depth look at Flame’s last publication for WFRP 1st edition, Castle Drachenfels, and that’s brought a few memories to mind so I thought I&…| Graeme Davis
My YouTube feed just showed me a short from the excellent Jordan Sorcery about this iconic John Blanche painting ( and it shook loose a couple of memories from the early, early days of Warhammer Fa…| Graeme Davis
