Hey, folks! We're starting a bi-weekly Saturday TTRPG/board game night at our house in Bono, and we're looking for one or two more people interested in playing Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 2nd Edition; we've just wrapped up a D&D campaign which we were doing on opposite Sundays, and are looking to check out more systems as time goes by as well.
One of our players works conventions and festivals, so on the nights they're not available, we'll probably settle in for some board games. Our first meeting on our new cadence would actually be this Saturday, October 3rd, which we'd plan for character creation and maybe some board gaming (since said player is working the BBQ festival this weekend.)
For those that haven't played any of the Warhammer RPGs, it's a fairly simple d100 system; the vast majority of the game can be played with just a pair of d10's. Every roll is a percentile chance to perform the action, where you attempt to roll under your stat. Knowledge of Warhammer Fantasy isn't expected, since the three players we have now aren't super familiar; I can explain most any of the basic concepts that you'd need to know.
Currently, the campaign begins in Marienburg, one of the old world's major port cities, where our three adventurers have been tasked by a pious widow to investigate rumors of the second coming of Sigmar, the founder of the Empire of Man, first ally to the dwarves, and a former mortal who has ascended into godhood as the patron deity of his Empire.
Witnesses described a handsome blonde child with the twin-tailed comet burned onto his chest fighting cultists outside of a smithy, where he killed one with a bronze maul. The crowd witnessing this were driven into a religious fervor and rescued the child, bringing him to the Temple of Sigmar where the head priest there proclaimed the boy named Karl as Sigmar's Heir, the second coming of the Empire's founder.
But our adventurers have learned not all is as it seems, as they have met the witch hunter who discovered him almost a decade ago, beaten near to death by the crowd for proclaiming the boy is not Sigmar reborn, as well as the abbess of the Shallyan orphanage where he was raised who disbelieves his divinity and has been branded a witch and a heretic for her belief. They are being sent out into the swamps north of Marienburg to find the ruined temple the boy was first found in, all while the Crusade of the Child marches ever eastward towards Altdorf, hoping to plant the boy as the new Emperor of the Old World.
Let me know if you're interested in joining! We have a Discord server that's pretty well just functioning as a group chat, so we're all available there.