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/olcrappy Jan 27 '25

In the core book for 4e witch hunters get a silver sword, is there a difference between a silver sword and a regular hand weapon?

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u/websare112 Feb 08 '25

Cubicle7 wrote a blog post about silvered weapons in 2020. You can read it here:

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u/Nurgle_Pan_Plagi Jan 27 '25 edited Jan 29 '25

A silver weapon can weaken a number of creatures (like lycanthropes and vampires) or hurt them when a standard steel one cannot. Kind of like in the Witcher. A lot of creatures in mythologies were weak to silver.

On the flipside a silver weapon is more brittle than a steel one so it can brake fairly easily.

There is not that much about vampires and lycanthropes to be found in 4e at the moment, so there are no rules for it. There are special rules for them and weakness to silver in 2e Night's Dark Masters.