The Convention For WFRP by WFRPers

Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th August 2008

For more Information visit the official TimCon-Website or our forum-thread for TimCon.

I came across this topic when browsing through the Warhammer forums of FFG and found it a very interesting topic. We all know the situation when the PCs encounter a group of monsters and a battle starts. Some of the PCs are involved directly in hand-to-hand combat while others try to support them by firing with bows, crossbow or guns at the enemy. The WFRP rulebook p. 130 states that a character firing into melee suffers a -20% Ballistic Skill penalty.  But what happens when a shooter misses? Does his missile just miss or could it actually hit another combatant in the melee?

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Unlike the lands that became the Empire and Bretonnia, the southern Old World was relatively untouched by Dwarf and Elf. The first Human migration from the south occurred hundreds of years after the Elder Race prevailed against the invaders that surged into the world when the Chaos gates collapsed. These semi-nomadic tribes settled along the river valleys and seacoast of Estalia, Tilea, and the southwestern Border Princes.

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