August | 2025 | Graeme Davis
6 posts published by graemedavis during August 2025| 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
Just posted for free and paid members of the Monster of the Month Club: August’s reprint is an AD&D1 Deities & Demigods treatment of the Egyptian crocodile god Sobek, from Imagine magazine in 1984.https://www.patreon.com/MonsteroftheMonthClub Want to support my work? If you’ve enjoyed the content on this blog, please consider supporting me by making a small […]| 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
Just posted for paid members of the Monster of the Month Club: August’s Monster of the Month just might be the ancestor of all headless riders, from Sleepy Hollow to Ghost Rider. Usable with all – and I do mean all – tabletop RPG systems. Paid memberships start at just US$1.00 per month, so don’t […]| 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
Power Behind the Throne was written out-of-house by Carl Sargent, so it was less affected by the Design Studio silliness that you’ve seen in previous products. As you’ve seen in the last post, though, Carl Sargent was far from humorless. Here are some things I found while re-reading the adventure: I’m sure there are more […]| Graeme Davis
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 grew and grew. The city-state of Middenheim was a far larger proposition than a simple market town, after all, and we had also seen city […]| 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
A lot has been written over the years about the Easter eggs and in-jokes that were scattered throughout Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay’s first edition. Between 1997 and 2001, I wrote three articl…| Graeme Davis
Ogre priest by Tony Ackland, from the Doomstones adventure Blood in Darkness. Ogres were first presented as playable characters in WFRP in 2021, when Cubicle 7 published Archives of the Empire, Vol…| Graeme Davis
Thanks for reading my blog. If you like what’s here and would like to see more – or you just want to throw a penny into my digital tip jar – here are two ways you can do it. Thank…| Graeme Davis
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
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: Underground Battlefield and Dwa…| Graeme Davis
The outtakes from Advanced Heroquest Undead Supplement (published as Terror in the Dark) continue this week with the first two neutral locations from the quest generation system: Cem…| Graeme Davis
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: Monastery Catacomb and Sanctuar…| 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
Carrying on from the previous posts (Fiction, New Hazards, Undead Monsters, and Dark Wizards), here are some more outtakes from my manuscript for Advanced Heroquest Undead Supplement…| Graeme Davis
Carrying on from the previous posts (Fiction, New Hazards, and Undead Monsters), here are some more outtakes from my manuscript for Advanced Heroquest Undead Supplement, parts of which be…| Graeme Davis
Carrying on from two previous posts (Fiction and New Hazards), here are some more outtakes from my manuscript for Advanced Heroquest Undead Supplement, parts of which became Terror in the Dark. Thi…| Graeme Davis
Following on from a previous post, here’s another section of “Advanced Heroquest Undead Supplement” that didn’t make it into Terror in the Dark. This time, it’s a sele…| Graeme Davis
My recent post about the Castle Drachenfels book for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay prompted some readers to ask about the very last thing I wrote for Games Workshop: the Terror in the Dark supplement …| Graeme Davis
A Reddit thread on r/oldhammer just sent me down a memory rabbit-hole, and since my recent post on the rather silly origins of the Knights Panther got a much bigger response than I expected, I thou…| 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
