Collection of Slang Used in the Old World

By Callidon, in Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

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So there is a fairly extensive compilation of slang words/terms/etc used in the Empire and I CANNOT, for the life of me, remember where it appeared or in what format it was in (pdf, book, fan blog...FFG or Green Ronin?). Does anyone recollect something of this nature? And if so where the fudge is it? So far my powers of google-fu are faililng me and I really really don't want to slog through every one of my 1st and 2nd edition books to find it.

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Hmmm i seem to remember something as well. I'll have to go through my older stuff and try to find it. Was it in one of the 2nd edition source books or rule books?

Gitzman

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Dont remember has there been any fan-source about different slang words / sayings. There definitely is many slang words (and probably even more in the novels). Something like "Slim" for example...

Most official WFRP2 sourcebooks do have some different sayings in them. For example just WFRP2 Core Rulebooks:

  • Slang in the Old World (mostly about the money, page 105)
  • The Gods In Everyday Sayings (just some religious sayings, page 174)
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There's some pdf of slang, fan-created, floating around that I've seen.

Mostly very off colour stuff but a few fun ones, Wizards of Light are "glowbugs" etc.

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Sigmar's Heirs is chock full of this stuff.

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Emirikol said:

Sigmar's Heirs is chock full of this stuff.

Sigmars Heirs is an awesome book if you want THE general background book on the old world. Full of great stuff.

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Sigmar's Heirs is also available as a PDF download/purchase at drivethrurpg and the other site.

jh

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There was a pdf for thief slang?

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doc_cthulhu said:

There was a pdf for thief slang?

The forums on hapimeses' website contain rough draft information for the infamous thieves v2 supplement that never was, but I seem to remember reading a beautifully presented fan pdf with all sorts of coloqueisms and slang (quite rude and gritty). I will search my hard drives to find my copy so I can point you to the author and website - although I have amassed a fair amount of lore and fan material and it may take some time to find it between my v1, v2 or v3 directories and all there sub classifications.

The website I listed above is quite evocotive of the "world" of warhammer and a good starting point if you want to start making your / our own directory.

Also note that on Mr Law's (Hapimeses) website there is an excellent article on what the winds of magic are attracted to, so you can always spoof magic sight as certain things attract certain winds (the wind of death being attracted to clocks / time candles, the wind of fire being attracted to luminesence, but also birth, etc, etc). All of these "attractions" can be used to obfiscate (sp?) / cloud magic sight.

Alp