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Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Player's Guide

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Welcome to the World of Legend

The Empire is locked in unending war. Beyond the light of civilisation, its armies clash with furious Beastmen, marauding Orc & Goblin tribes, and accursed sorcerors. Perhaps you thought yourself safe from such horrors, far from the frontlines, hidden behind tall walls and lofty promises. Such lies no longer comfort you.

You have seen the face of true evil — the corruption of Chaos, the dead returned to life, or the blind and grasping greed of the Empire’s own citizens. Worse, that evil has seen you too, and marked you as a witness to be silenced. To survive, you must find your courage, take up arms, and fight back against the ravening hordes. If fate is kind, you will rise to glory and vanquish your foe. If not, the Garden of Morr will have your corpse.

This 192 page full colour PDF contains everything players need to begin their adventures in Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game. 

  • Everything you need to create a character, including 6 Origins and 30 iconic Careers, from cunning Rat Catchers to tarnished Knight-Exiles.
  • An introduction to the World of Legend, the beloved setting of the Old World tabletop wargame.
  • The grim and glorious rules, a fast-paced, easy to learn, d10 dice pool system with all the lethality you’d expect of gaming in the Old World.
  • Options to customise your character, including 18 Skills to advance, dozens of Talents and Lores to learn, trappings and Assets to purchase, and Endeavours to pursue in downtime.
  • Rules for magic, both lists of spells your Wizard can memorise, and rules for casting your own improvised spells.
  • Favours, prayers, and miracles bestowed by ten of the gods.

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Andrew M July 16, 2025 1:10 pm UTC
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Commenting rather than reviewing since it's only impressions so far --

1. Very interesting and simple systems.


2. Fairly clear, though of course limited, introduction to the Old World. The geography of Talagaad to the Taalbaston to Talabheim might be a bit more clear on first read, but it's not impermeable.


3. Art is professional, though not too often evocative or informative. A bit more violence and birds-eye architecture and a bit less pie-merchant and dwarf blacksmith would have worked. Nice work on clothing in a Middle Europe style, such as the flowery panache of the fighter type, but more work like the front piece of the border bridge would have been good.


3. No enemy statblocks, as others have noted, so you won't likely be playing until the GMs guide comes out.


Overall, a very appealing book and system that requires the upcoming GMs guide to play.



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Cubicle 7 E July 16, 2025 2:06 pm UTC
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Hey Andrew, thank you so much for your comment, we really appreciate it!
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Homer W July 12, 2025 4:59 pm UTC
Interested in buying this PDF but if I buy the hard copy next year can this amount be deducted from that purchase price?
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Cubicle 7 E July 14, 2025 12:39 pm UTC
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Hi Homer, please email [email protected] with your query! All the best, C7 team
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David R July 10, 2025 12:25 pm UTC
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Great book, agree with some of the reviews and comments- would be nice to have stat blocks for adversaries. When is the GM's guide coming?
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Cubicle 7 E July 10, 2025 12:38 pm UTC
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Hi David, thanks for your comment! The GM's Guide PDF will be sent to customer by the end of July!
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David R July 13, 2025 12:51 pm UTC
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Noted, thank you:)
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David R July 13, 2025 12:51 pm UTC
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Noted, thank you:)
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Merlin A July 05, 2025 6:20 pm UTC
I hate Percentile dice systems in Warhammer products. It's what keeps me away from them. Can someone give a brief on how the dice work in this game?
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Dirk W July 05, 2025 8:29 pm UTC
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You take a number of d10 that corresponds to one of your attributes (for example: Weapon Skill value 3) and then try to roll 3 d10 below or equal to your skill (for example Meele 4) value and succeed accordingly.
If you were to roll 3, 4 and 9 in this example, you would then have 2 successes.
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Cubicle 7 E July 08, 2025 12:57 pm UTC
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Hey Merlin, you can check out our recent blog post which explains the system in more detail! https://cubicle7games.com/blog/the-old-world-the-game-system
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Mark F July 02, 2025 9:02 pm UTC
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SOME sort of quickstart adventure or rudimentary bestiary or something included in the book would have been nice. Kind of lame to have the player's guide and not be able to actually... play.
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Dirk W July 03, 2025 7:43 pm UTC
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I would have been happy to see a few creature stats as well. Can't wait until the GM guide is available. I'm sure both books together will make a complete fantastic rulebook. If necessary, you can derive values from the WFRPG 4.
Hold on, a stats block (of a nag suffering from muscle weakness) is available on page 124.
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Mark F July 03, 2025 8:26 pm UTC
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I had a similar idea of converting WFRPG 4 stat blocks. I might be able to use the nag as a baseline for that, nice!
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Dirk W July 04, 2025 6:46 am UTC
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In any case, I will adapt the wounds table with the critical hit table from WHFRP4.
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Jeff H July 02, 2025 4:18 pm UTC
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I really like the 1e vibe of this. Looking forward to running this for my group.
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Dirk W June 29, 2025 9:02 am UTC
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Did I miss something or does the standard horse (page 124) have the same Strength value 3 as a human or elf? I'm no animal expert, but I find this a bit unrealistic and am now worried about the balancing. In my opinion it should have at least Strength 6, Toughness too. That's ridiculous.
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Cubicle 7 E June 30, 2025 2:54 pm UTC
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Hi Dirk, we take inspiration from the wargame, where the Strength of a horse is 3. We reflect the greater muscle mass of a horse by giving them special rules allowing them to act as a mount and pull carriages. One suggestion made during development was to arm-wrestle any creature that actually existed to determine their strength, but this was sensibly shot down early on. All the best, C7 team
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Dirk W June 30, 2025 7:22 pm UTC
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Ok. Thanks for the explanation. If it comes down to it, the GM can add an additional d10 depending on the situation.
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Dean S June 29, 2025 4:28 am UTC
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Firstly, loving this game so far and can't wait to run this! Just a question about the Engineer Career, is it a mistake that Bretonnians can take this Career? Even the information blurb on the page seems to indicate they shouldn't.
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Cubicle 7 E June 30, 2025 2:33 pm UTC
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Hi Dean, thanks for your comment. Bretonnians can become Engineers, mostly in the form of haphazardly trained individuals living in exile in the Border Princes and elsewhere. So it is rare, but not unheard of! There are likely some people also living within Bretonnia who are effectively Engineers, seeing to trebuchets, constructing castles and the like. If you would like to play as one, replace Lore (Blackpowder) with Lore (Military) and replace the option to start with a Pistol with a Crossbow instead!
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Jürgen H June 28, 2025 2:18 pm UTC
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The "The Empire Divided" map seems to have rather poor quality - it looks like it was downscaled from a higher-resolution image and used a bad interpolation algorithm. This is most obvious with the text of "The Empire Divided" at the lower left - if you zoom in, the letters are _heavily_ pixelated.

The other map doesn't have this problem, which makes it even more noteworthy.
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Cubicle 7 E June 30, 2025 2:07 pm UTC
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Hi Jurgen, thank you, this is currently being fixed and we be will be uploading a higher resolution version soon!
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Nikolaus R June 27, 2025 7:41 pm UTC
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Attractive looking game, some crunch but not overwhelming.

I do have one question on Fate: the Rekindle Fate endeavour requires spending a point of Fate.
Does that mean if I burn (maximum) Fate down to 0, I am stuck at 0 forever?
That seems harsh, especially for elfs.
Also, I would expect (current) Fate to matter during adventuring, not downtime.
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Cubicle 7 E June 30, 2025 2:30 pm UTC
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Hey Nikolaus, thanks for your comment! This is indeed the rules working as intended - once you have Burned your last point of Fate, it is forever lost. We will aim to make this clearer in an update. Remember, Elves do already start with an additional Characteristic point over others!
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Nikolaus R July 01, 2025 5:07 pm UTC
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Thanks for the explanation. A short note relating the two rules (burning & rekindling Fate) would be a useful addition.
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June 26, 2025 10:51 am UTC
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NP already made a question about zones and this is a bit sore point for me too. I have seen the use of zones in various 2d20 games, Fate and Imperium Maledictum. I am sure that zones work just fine for movement but so far I have not managed to turn my brain so I could figure out how it works nicely with ranged weapons. As a fantasy RPG this is a lesser issue than in scifi games, but doesn't it decrease the actual range of a bow (for example) if I would use smaller zones? Or how would you handle this? This is an honest question as I would really like to get this to work in this one as well as Imperium Maledictum.
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Cubicle 7 E June 26, 2025 12:18 pm UTC
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Hey, thanks for asking the question! Yes, technically, it does reduce ranges when you have smaller zones. Keep your zones cluttered (especially in IM), and this won't feel as weird as if you just split up an empty plain into many zones, as then it really does feel weird not to be able to shoot across the entire thing! In the Old World Roleplaying Game, you have the idea of Extreme Range, which is really any range on a typical combat encounter map, and you may shoot at that range with most ranged weapons at a penalty. So you can still shoot to a 'realistic' distance, even if you are often better off shooting at targets a zone or two over. A lot of the friction here arises from the fact that modern ranged weapons would be overpowered if modelled realistically in a roleplaying game where you want to have some melee combat too. The design team really appreciates your questions, and we're going to do a short actual play in-house to show a little of how to set up a really engaging combat using zones. I hope this helps!...See more
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June 26, 2025 1:33 pm UTC
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Yes, this helped. Thank you for your answer!
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Jeff H June 27, 2025 3:02 am UTC
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I would love to see an option for normal ranges. I don't mind math and don't care for theater of the mind range bands.
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Bryn G June 24, 2025 3:37 pm UTC
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A tidbit that seems to be missing from the 'Contents' page (page 3) under 'Character Creation' where the 'Empire (Human)' page (page 18) seems to be missing. It simply moves from Dwarf (Page 17) to Halfling (Page 19).

Just wanted to put this on Cubicle 7's radar.
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Cubicle 7 E June 25, 2025 10:23 am UTC
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Hi Bryn, thank you for flagging this! We've now added this to our errata. All the best, C7 team
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Daniel R June 28, 2025 3:48 am UTC
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Make sure you make an Errata submission to ensure they see it! https://cubicle7games.com/errata-submission
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Dirk W June 24, 2025 1:50 pm UTC
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I'm missing Rules for Corruption, Mutations and Fear. Are those in the GM Book?
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Cubicle 7 E June 24, 2025 1:53 pm UTC
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Hi Dirk, yes these rules will appear in the Gamemaster's Guide!
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Dirk W June 24, 2025 2:16 pm UTC
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Hey, this is great. Thanks for your answers (for my other questions, too).
Now I have to convince my group to play WHF 4th Edidtion AND Old World.
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Andrew S June 24, 2025 6:34 am UTC
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Loving the book so far. Any chance of a fillable character sheet?
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Cubicle 7 E June 24, 2025 1:01 pm UTC
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Hi Andrew, we are glad to hear you are enjoying it! We are working on an updated character sheet at the moment, and one that will be fillable too! All the best, C7 team
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Simon P June 22, 2025 7:27 am UTC
This is probably the most modern (in terms of game design) and cleanest WFRP system. I like a lot of ideas presented here, except the monetary/trading system. Characters start with interesting assets and connections, instead of being vagrants with basic equipment, which really helps when trying to run one-shots.
You kinda need a bestiary, that will be in the GM rulebook, in order to play.
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Cubicle 7 E June 23, 2025 1:09 pm UTC
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Hi Simon, thanks for the great review, we are so glad you are enjoying it! The Gamemaster's Guide PDF will be following shortly. All the best, C7 team
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NB N June 21, 2025 3:18 pm UTC
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I was going to pick this up right away but I heard in a review that is uses zones in combat so now I'm debating if I want to go through the effort of converting everything to actual distances/ranges before I buy.
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Cubicle 7 E June 23, 2025 1:27 pm UTC
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Hi NB, this is a question only you can answer! If you have tried Zones and found them not to your liking, fair enough, but at least one of the developers was of the same mindset and now finds them to be really useful! Think of Zones only as a means of abstracting movement distances — they're not squares on a board game. Characters are still in a specific 'place' inside the zone, cowering behind a table, standing atop an overturned cart, and so on. Also, try using smaller zones, this can help give back some of the granularity you might be missing. We think zones are great, and you can have a great time roleplaying with them!
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