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 Jun 30 '25

For the spell The Amber Spear, it states that it hits all targets in a line, losing 1 damage for each target, and that the first target only takes 1 damage. Does this mean that the first target in a line takes one damage, the second person would take WPB+12 damage, and the third person would take WPB+12-1 damage? It also says that if it fails to inflict any damage but i thought all successful attacks do at least 1 point of damage regardless of armor and toughness.

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u/BackgammonSR Likes to answer questions Jun 30 '25

"The Amber Spear only inflicts the minimum 1 Wound (WFRP, page 159) on the first target it strikes."

I assume this is the wording you are refering to when you say the first target only takes 1 wound. That is not what this says. This is saying the rule that an successful attack does a minimum of 1 damage only applies to the first target, meaning the second and onward targets, if they are able to soak the damage down to 0 or less, do not take any damage at all. This same rule also explains your last question.

So,

  1. First target takes WPB+12, minimum 1 wound
  2. Second target takes WPB+12-1. If spell damage is reduced to 0, spell ends.
  3. Third target, takes WPB+12-2. If spell damage is reduced to 0, spell end
  4. And so on

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u/olcrappy Jun 30 '25

Thank you so much! That was the exact part messing me up.