r/warhammerfantasyrpg • u/Cr0iz Moderator of Morr • Feb 26 '24

Meta MEGATHREAD: Post your small questions and concerns here for all editions!

Hey everyone, please post your smaller, technical questions here. We may have directed you here from a removed post or from the last megathread.

If you don't receive an answer within a few days then do feel free to make a separate post, make sure to say you didn't get an answer here. You might also want to visit Rat Catcher's Guild, the WFRP Discord. They have a dedicated Q & A channel and can be a lot more snappy with answers then here on Reddit. This is the invite link: https://discord.gg/fzYuYwT

That's all! Special thanks to everyone answering questions for helping people out on the last thread.

Previous megathread is here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/warhammerfantasyrpg/comments/101935w/megathread_post_your_small_questions_and_concerns/

If you still have unanswered questions/topics there, you may want to migrate those here :)

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u/_Misfire_ Sep 02 '24

RAW, only a roll equal or below the tested Skill or Characteristic will make a Test successful, and not the positive SL. Page 149. Valid for both Simple and Dramatic, and it was confirmed by the devs. If you roll above, and yet somehow manage to get positive SL, you fail the Test, with positive outcome. But the Talents Tests line won’t be triggered, you fumble when rolling a double etc.

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u/iKruppe Sep 02 '24

Thanks! Right, so climbing, rolling higher than your skill, getting negative SLs, then adding your Agi which turns it positive, still means you technically failed? But how does that work with the SL table of Yes but, yes and, etc? Do you disregard the SLs and just read it as a 0SL failure, or do the positive SLs turn the result in a positive?

I guess for Channeling wizards it's irrelevant since channeling is worded such that you add however many SLs there are, negative or positive.

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u/_Misfire_ Sep 02 '24

Climb is Strength based, not sure what you mean by adding Agi? You get the SL directly from the test. It is the difference betwen 10s digit of the tested Skill and 10s die of the roll. Test line of the Scale Sheer Surface if the test is successful will contribute, as well as any appropiate equipment (GM discresion).

Whatever interpretion is up to GM, and how the narration looks like at the moment. It could be barely pass, or pass, with some consequence.

Channelling is an Extended Dramatic test, but you can still fail or pass those individual Tests. If your character has Aethyric Attunement (taken one or more times) it will contribute to the Channeling Tests, but only if the individual Test is successful. Having Channeling of 64 and two levels of AA, and Practical Robes, when rolling 64 (Test is successful) will result in 3SL, meaning +3 will be added to the Extended Channelling SL pool. However rolling 65 will give +1SL, since the Test line of the AA talent is not triggered. It makes a difference.

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u/iKruppe Sep 02 '24

Arboreal lets creatures add their Agi to Climb tests.

Alright, yeah it makes a difference when the lines say "a successful test" but those robes add their +1 regardless of success, so a failure on the test could still result in a +1 SL somehow, which seems odd to me.

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u/_Misfire_ Sep 02 '24

Arboreal is a trait reserved for NPC. The PC have Skills and Talents with different game mechanic.