WHAT'S CHANGED?

A lot of people want more information of what we’ve changed. The following is a brief summary.

Turn Structure:

• Cleaned-up the terminology to make it very clear what you can do, and what happens when.
• Leads to searching for hidden treasure and/or secret doors taking up more time, making the choice to do so (or not) more relevant.

Combat:

• All weapons can now attack diagonally, weapons that could originally do this may attack at a range of one square (with a few restrictions).
• Attacks may be made through friendly models, with some restrictions and risks.
• Updated to-hit tables for game balance.
• Updated weapon and Armour charts for more options.

Movement:

• Diagonal moves now permitted.
• May pass through friendly figures.
• Movement restrictions by Death Zones are simplified.

General Rules:

• Cleaned up terminologies to make them clear, and also applicable in all cases.
• Added more options.
• Dungeon Counters now more common as the dungeon goes on.
• Doors are now two spaces wide.
• Injury Rules clarified.
• Updated Solo Play for updated rules set.

Mystic Powers:

• Four existing Spell colleges rationalised against each other.
• Four additional (Warhammer) colleges added.
• Dark and Necromantic magic expanded into full “Colleges”.
• Spell-casting added to Dungeon Counters.
• Added priestly Prayers for six of the good Young Gods from Warhammer.
• And for two of the evil Young Gods.

Campaigns:

• Updated the Quest Rewards table.
• Revised costs of training.
• Limited training opportunities to make character creation matter.
• Updated town even chart to be more relevant & balanced.

Heroes:

• Brand new Hero creation system, allowing any kind of Hero to be designed and all Heroes to be (broadly) balanced.

Henchmen:

• Brand new Henchman creation system, allowing any kind of Henchman to be designed and all Henchmen to be (broadly) balanced.

Hazards:

• Extra Hazards from White Dwarf added.
• Hazard tables cleaned up and clarified to ensure they auto-scale with the Hero advancement where needed.
• Hazard effects clarified.

Traps:

• Extra Traps from White Dwarf added.
• Trap effects clarified.

Treasure:

• Extra Treasure from White Dwarf and Terror in the Dark added.
• Extra treasures to accommodate new character types and game options added.
• Treasure Tables re-balanced.
• Excessively powerful treasures toned down.
• “Charge” items replaced with Exhaustion system for less book-keeping.
• Treasures now get better as the heroes go deeper into the dungeon.
• De-linked loot from what specific enemies show up. Only general cases matter.

Exploration:

• Integrated principals of Terror in the Dark’s tables for Dungeon Rooms.
• Fewer long dungeon passages, empty passages, etc, for a more interesting dungeon.
• Extra passage features.
• Extra Quest Room options.
• Extra variation in room sizes (large hazards, for example).

Monsters & Bestiary

• Matrices replaced with generic matrices, based on PV and number of figures.
• Matrices now scale with experience of the Heroes
• More and better figures turn up in deeper levels and/or later expeditions.
• Revised stats.
• Expanded bestiary, pulling in as many suitable figures from Warhammer as possible.
• Clear demarcation of enemy types and rules.
• Revised rules for when Sentries turn up.
• “Specialists” now turn up as a result of Dungeon Counters instead of at random.

Quests

• Quest Generator updated.
• Quests updated for new system.
• Updated Quests fixed to auto-scale with Hero progress.