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/ZealousidealClaim678 Apr 16 '25

4e: im confused about how critical hits work, or more specifically how do i know the amount of critical wounds.

Am i supposed to track how many times a critical effect has occurred (rolled on a table) or is there something else which determines the amount of critical wounds you have?

How are they tracked when a creature has 0 wounds and gets critical wounds vs getting random critical hits by rolling doubles?

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u/BackgammonSR Likes to answer questions Apr 17 '25

The player normally should be responsible for tracking their number of active critical wounds. Otherwise I suppose its not a big hassle to keep notes for yourself either.

All critical wounds, no matter how obtained, count. Keep in mind some critical wounds don't have lasting effects so aren't really a concern.

I will say this - I've never had a player die from too many active critical wounds... so I personally wouldn't stress much over it.

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u/ZealousidealClaim678 Apr 17 '25

If a pc gets hit which would bring him into, lets say negative 3 wounds. Does he receive 3 critical wounds or just 1?

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u/BackgammonSR Likes to answer questions Apr 17 '25

Just 1. Let's say you roll for the Critical Wound and he has a broken arm - the broken arm is the critical wound and is considered as such until it heals. Let's say he gets into an other fight and take a crit, but it's just a stubbed toe - then no problem, that doesn't do add up since there is no long-term wound.

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u/clone69 Apr 21 '25

Just one critical wound, but the roll on the critical table is made with +10 for each wound below 0. So, in your example, those negative 3 would mean +30 to the critical table. And since 100 is instant death, that would mean anything above 70 means the PC is dead.

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u/ZealousidealClaim678 Apr 21 '25

I dont recall that rule. On what page is it?

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u/clone69 Apr 21 '25

Seems I got that wrong, or it was a house rule from my GM. The book says that if you take less negative wounds than your TB (so if you have TB 4, 3 wounds remaining and take 5 damage, effectively taking you to -2) you roll with -20 to the critical table with a minimum of 01. Page 172 of the core rulebook.

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u/ZealousidealClaim678 Apr 21 '25

Hey no biggie! Happy gaming 👍