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An Introduction to Role-Playing (for non-Gamers) You are about to embark on a game filled with adventure and peril, treasures and princesses, high romance and … oh, who are we kidding. You are about to embark on a classic dungeon romp with danger lurking around every corner and death behind every door – or at least a barely socially acceptable license to murder and loot strangers – all leading to a climactic final battle with some fiendish monster and riches beyond your wildest dreams! (Wildness of dreams may vary. Consult your dM.) In the lands of Aurora you and your fellow players take on the mantle of Adventurers: puissant thieves, subtle warriors, pious sorcerers, skulking priests, and suchlike – all hellbent on accumulating the most power and treasure possible. Your quest for fortune and fame will take you from the dark streets of Mudheim, to the darker streets of the twin cities of K’Dar and N’Dar, and, quite possibly, to the darkest forests and the dank, completely lightless, even Stygian, caverns in the dim northern dark wasteland around the Free City of Thunderhawk. How to Talk Like a Gamer If you’ve never played an RPG before, why the heck did you buy this book? Oh, you didn’t buy it. It was free. I see. As I sit here slaving at this keyboard pouring my hot, steaming creative juices into this damnable machine I assumed that I was going to get paid for this crap. I’m not getting paid for this – am I? Well, that at least is like every other RPG every made then. Where were we. Oh yeah, you’ve never played an RPG before. Don’t worry – role-playing isn’t terribly hard. To help you along, we’ve included a set of “fancy gamer terms” that you can throw around the game table to make other people (other gamers at least) think that you are a “real” gamer. Normal people will probably think – well, let’s not dwell on what they probably think. Adventurer – The official name for any player character in a Warhamster game. This is a general name, not like, say, “Morgoth the Wise,” which is the given name of one specific player character. You should see his stats. Hoo boy. dX – Anytime you see a “d” before a number, this is just geeky shorthand for die. Not “Die” as in “Killing Stuff” (even though there is a lot of that in Fantasy Games), but die as in the singular of dice. The number after the “d” represents what kind of “die” you roll. So, “d12” stands for a twelve-sided die. d2 – This is the super dorky way to say flip a coin: heads=1 tails=2. d6 – The properly dorky way of saying a “regular” or “six-sided” die. d20 – A twenty-sided die or [REMAINDER OF PASSAGE EXCISED DUE TO POSSIBLE LITIGATION]. dM – The diceMaster, or the really big dork who runs the game. Miniatures – Also called “minis” or “figs”. A miniature is a tiny metal figure that represents your character in a game. If this was a real game, you would worse than nothing if your “mini” wasn’t a perfect representation of your character. The Basics In order to play the WARHAMSTER TMMTDAG, you will need a few things: a couple of dorks players; a really big dork diceMaster (dM); some paper and pencils; a lot of dice (especially six-siders, but you’ll need some d4s, d8s, d10s, and d12s as well); 3-6 lbs. of lead miniatures (per player); far too much free time; a big table; beverages, junk food; and a copy of EVERY SINGLE WARHAMSTER SUPPLEMENT EVER MADE! (Not your collectible copies. Never bring those to games, because you’ll spill Mountain Dew on them. Bring your other copies.)
An Introduction to Warhamster! (for the Gamers) The Warhamster: Massively Multiplayer Tabletop Dungeon Adventure Game is (pick one of the following): a) A new-fangled online gaming system with a monthly fee and serious crack-like addictive qualities b) An old-fangled generic system for universal role-playing which allows players to bend genres and morph styles to any milieu c) A ground-breaking game system that blends the full power of Narrativist gaming styles with classic Simulationist mechanics d) An large, glossy hardback tome which will outsell all previous roleplaying games e) The first game system to cop to the truth at what lies deepest in a role-players heart If you guessed (E) than you’re right; if you guessed anything else, then you have obviously never heard of 9 th Level Games … Back in the day, role-playing was really just about kicking the snot out of trolls. This was before storytelling, Narrativism, mythos-centric rules design, computer based role-playing map clients, PDF publishing, the internets, or open-source game licenses – heck, we didn’t even really have role-playing yet. All we had some graph paper, some pencils, and a 2 liter bottle of Coke, and whatever poorly written, poorly edited, and abysmally illustrated ditto-printed rulebooks we could get our grubby mitts on. We had a broad sword that did d8 damage, a vague idea what a dungeon was, and a mean itching to KILL SOME TROLLS – and we were happy. So, Warhamster! TMMTDAG (The Massive Multiplayer Tabletop Dungeon Adventure Game for those of your with short attention spans, or acronymlexia) does not require a new video card. It features nothing new, exciting, or revolutionary. It is surely not universal. It can’t spell Narrativist or Simulationist. It is not covered in shiny, tasty cardboard and it probably won’t outsell The World of Synibarr* (heck, we’re giving it away for charity). In the end, it really comes down to one thing – games used to be fun. What’s changed? You have. You got old dude! Way old! Warhamster can’t fix that, but it can help you through this trial – by giving you a game experience that makes you feel like a 12 year old again. So, step right up, we’re gonna get OLD SCHOOL! Warhamster! knows why games were better when you were twelve. You were twelve. Everything was better. The rules were simpler. You had hours and hours and hours of free time to spend crawling through sewers and fighting gondarks! The game didn’t need to change the world. It was just about having some fun with your bros (or your buds, your peeps, or whatever else you called the rest of the Math Club when you were in 5 th grade). So, let’s hop into our time machine** and journey back to the time when games were just plain old stupid fun. We’re going to skip the middlewoman (no reason to be sexist just cause were rolling back the dial on the old time machine) and remove all the barriers that have been erected*** to killing trolls. Huzzah! So you know what you’re getting yourself into – you have to embrace the Way of the Warhamster. Warhamster! fully cops to the ideals that traditional table top role-players have always know, but were afraid to say out loud: 1. Characters are all pretty much the same. Sure, your character may kill trolls using arcane fireballs, or perilous thief skills or devastating axe blows but your character purpose is still killing trolls. 2. Adventures are all pretty much the same. Sure, your adventures may be complex political conspiracies, or world shattering epics about powerful magics run rampant, or heartbreaking romantic tragedies about unrequited love– but in the end, it’s all about going into some dungeon and killing some trolls. 3. Dungeons are all pretty much the same. Sure, your dungeon may be a twelve level sprawling labyrinth painstakingly constructed using real world architectural physics and evoking the majesty of Ancient Egyptians ruins, while subtly referencing the mythologies of J.R.R. Tolkien, but in the end, it’s just a series of connected rooms where the aforementioned characters kill the same trolls. 4. Role-playing is all pretty much the same, you start out in a bar and argue for an hour about what you are going to do, and then you (insert reason you go to the dungeon), go to the dungeon, and kill some trolls. * Though, it might actually outsell World of Synibarr 2 nd Edition. But, it should. It also might outsell Senzar. ** Yes, 9 th Level Games has a time machine. Jealous? *** While I assume that you thought this footnote was going to be an erection joke****, it’s actually a real footnote to explain what we mean by barriers – like role-playing, suimulationism, game mechanics, editing, comprehensive story mechanics, etc. ****Haha. Penis jokes are always funny.
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