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Getting Skulls in the monster bowl The most common triggers for players to have to put skulls in the bowl are rolling 1s, breaking rules, taking multiple actions, using dangerous toys and gaining story tokens. I’m sure that enterprising diceMasters will come up with more ways over time, but for now, let’s focus on these. ROLLING SKULLS - The truly math nerd-tastic of you may have noticed that it should be really easy for an Adventurer with some good gear and a high Stat Die to accomplish most tasks. A 5 th Level Adventurer will NEVER fail a roll against a DEFENSE of 4…so, why should I even roll the dice? Well, in Warhamster you must always roll, because you may “Roll A Skull”. Whenever you roll a die and you roll a “1”, you don’t automatically fail (like in most games). Instead, you just “rolled a skull” and have to donate a SKULL to the MONSTER BOWL. This makes lower Stat Dice (especially d4s) dangerous to roll. SPECIAL NOTE: Damage rolls and movement rolls don’t generate Skulls… GAINING STORIES - When the Party is in a TOWN phase, an Adventurer can take a skull to gain additional STORIES to use while in Town. More information on that is explained in the TOWN PHASE section (xxxxx). TAKING ADDITIONAL ACTIONS - Adventurers can take an additional (or actions) on their turn, by adding a Skull to the Monster Bowl. diceMasters can take advantage of this as well, by removing (spending) a Skull from the Bowl to give an additional action to one of the monsters during the dM turn. BREAKING A TIE - Adventurers can choose to cough up a skull to the Monster Bowl to break a tie in their favor (watch out, the dM can “spend a skull to do the same). The DANGEROUS Edge - Some POWERS and GEAR may have the keyword DANGEROUS attached to them. Whenever a player uses a +DANGEROUS power or item, they must donate a SKULL to the bowl. RULE BREAKING - While it is true that we all like to play chaotic characters*, Gamers as a rule crave order! Rules systems are filled with (bet you can’t guess it…) rules! And while rules were meant to be broken, there should always be a penalty for doing so (otherwise you wouldn’t need rules and game designers like us would be forced to write pathetic Battlestar Galactica fanfic and blog about Star Wars themed undergarments). Whenever an Adventurer breaks a rule – give them a SKULL! The most common rules violations will be players forgetting to “role-play” their bogies, or failure to remember house rules.** *Especially high level Chaotic Neutral Assassin Barbarian Sorcerers that can explain away their wholesale slaughter of innocents and enemies as “I was just playing my alignment dude”. ** Bar Gamers Note: For instance, a play group that really likes to imbibe libations and has a penchant for crafting rules systems to encourage such imbibation (imbibatude???) could create a HOUSE RULE that says, “Whenever an Adventurer takes a SKULL, they have to immediately say “Thank You Sir, May I have Another.” So, when they forget that, they are breaking a rule….
Spending skulls So, what’s so bad about a Bowl Full’o Skulls. Nothing – if you’re the diceMaster. A lot if you’re the players. The dM can “spend” SKULLS from the bowl to produce all kinds of effects, though generally it’s to create random monsters and screw the players over. You see in Warhamster, the dM gets POWERS just the like the players….any of these powers can be used during the dM turn – and the number of SKULLS “spent” is listed (under the phase that it can be used during). dM POWER I Need More Minions! Dungeon Journey Town 1 skull per Minion Of course the Big Bad has more minions. Add one additional minion to the board for each skull spent. dM POWER Dungeon Journey Town Twisted 1 skull The dM can move or rotate one of the DUNGEON TILES. Generally, this is because of the awesome power of the Big Bad, or an Evil Deity with architecture issues. 1 Skull. dM POWER And Now For Something Completely Different Dungeon Journey Town 1 Level per X It was going along so smoothly…and then they got sidetracked (which usually happens during RPGs, with side conversations about Star Wars and Monty Python.). A dirty trick for the dM to pull when a party is heading to, from, or preparing for a Dungeon. The QUEST that the party was planning on gets delayed – as the party has to go on a QUEST selected by the diceMaster. For each 2 skulls spent, the Side Quest gets 1 Danger Level. dM POWER Wandering Random Monster Dungeon Journey Town x x x Ye old stand-by. The diceMaster gets to grab a random monster, and throw it at the party. A dM can’t use this power in a Dungeon Room that already has a monster in it (unless the party has killed all of the monsters in it, and then it’s effectively an empty room, n'est-ce pas?). For each skull spent, you get 2 Levels of a Monster (i.e. spend 3 skulls get a L6 Random Wandering Monster). dM POWER Dungeon Journey Town Trapped X By spending some skulls, the dM can turn anything into a trap (with stats equivalent to a minion). dM Dungeon Journey Town POWER And Again! 1 When the Monster’s have their backs against the wall (or whatever counts as their back in the case of Gelatinous Cubes and various ooze and jelly monsters), the dM can spend 1 Skull to give one of their monsters an additional action. This is really helpful for running away, laying on the extra damage sauce, and for digging your way out of jams.
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Page 4 and 5: An Introduction to Role-Playing (fo
Page 6 and 7: THE WARHMASTER MANIFESTO We hold th
Page 8 and 9: ADVENTURER JOB BOGIE STAT DICE DEFE
Page 10 and 11: Standardized Adventurer Test What w
Page 12 and 13: PARTY GOALS Goal Description Game E
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Page 18 and 19: Bogies Bogies are negative abilitie
Page 20 and 21: Powers LiST Power ATHLETE Certifica
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Page 24 and 25: Power GRAZE DEAD Certificate PHD MB
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Page 28 and 29: Power POLYMORPH (S/T/O) Certificate
Page 30 and 31: Power Stat Die All the Time SUMMON
Page 32 and 33: STEP STEP FIVE FIVE Array Your Stat
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Page 36 and 37: ARMOR Since the desire to “not di
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Page 40 and 41: STEP STEP TEN TEN DING! GRATZ! Did
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Page 44 and 45: How to kill things! Adventurers are
Page 46 and 47: House rules! If you need us to expl
Page 48 and 49: The Simplicity of Setting Difficult
Page 50 and 51: This is the tasty part of the game
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Page 70: BONUS ONUS ONUS MATERIALS MATERIALS
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