The late Gary Gygax wrote an adventure called "Necropolis" for his Dangerous Journey's system that, IMO, is everything a RPG campaign shoul be. There is a D&D version, and I won't speculate as to which came first, but the Dangerous Journeys version is the best written and more closely follows a WHFRP-like system (skill based versus class based).

I think a conversion to WHFRP3 would be awesome, but even an "inspired" version would be cool.

The Mythus (dangerous journeys) setting is an alternate, fantastic earth setting. Necropolis takes place in the mythical "Egypt" in the "Valley of Kings". The main protagonist is "Rahotep" a lich of great power. The adventure itself consists of getting to egypt and to the valley of kings, finding the "lost tomb" of Rahotep, breaking into th tomb and overcoming the deadly traps (think Acerak and the Tomb of Horrors), finding nine evil artifacts that contain Rahoteps spirit, and Finally defeating Rahotep. Along the way, evil gods intervene, desert nomadic cultists thwart, and the very desert hinders the PCs attempts.

The Old World and WHFRP seem a great system for this adventure. Travelling to Araby, and to the "valley of kings" could be part 1 (rank 3), Investigating the Valley and environs could be part 2 (rank 4), and navigating Rahotep's tomb and defeating the sorcerous Liche Rahotep could be part 3 (rank 5). I think the nature of travelling out of the empire into such a hostile environment, its costs, and the epic danger of a powerful liche call for it to be an adventure for the higher ranks, although a full 5 rank epic campaign would be cool too.

Has anyone else read this adventure? Is there any desire for adventures outside the empire? I am too new to the system to attempt a conversion or a full campaig of this magnitude, but I would love to be a part of a discussion on the broader outlines.

I think there are sourcebooks for Lustria, Border Princes, Bretonnia, Tilea and the Land of the Dead. That could be used for adventures beyond the empire. Havent seen any on Estalia though, which is strange for a human country.

I always wondered what was in the other areas of the warhammer world since if you ever looked at the map, it only seems to focus on a small area of the world. There are the humans of Cathay, how did they get there, what other races exist out in the unexplored parts of the world. Also the mountain ranges of the world edge go all the way down to the South Lands, are their old dwarven settlements down there? Since the Slaan / Old Ones, did alot of experiments in the world, are their secrets out there to find. But for adventurers, its more likely gold to obtain. Lore does mention 2 gates to the realm of chaos, but only stories of the northern one are told, nothing is ever mentioned what happens at the south one.

So, yes i have wanted to travel the warhammer world, but am stuck in the lack of lore.

You could have your adventurers travel down from the Empire though the countries I mentioned, or sail there. Knights Panther were explorers of the Lands of the Dead from what I remember, maybe have a tie in with those, maps information or something.

Trying to search for the adventure.

Here is the Amzon Link to Both versions:

GDW Published Version for Dangerous Journeys System

Necromancer Games Published version for d20 (D&D 3E) System

You can find reviews on both if your google-fu is good, but most are for the d20 system. The main story is the same, and its the story that makes it worthy of a potential WHFRP version.

As an aside, Dangrous Journeys was an interesting system. Character creation crunch and development is pretty intense. It was short-lived due to lawsuits, and lejendary adventures was a watered down replacement that went nowhere. If Gygax were alive today, a Kickstarter would certainly be forthcoming I am sure!

Try looking for this .

Lure of the Liche Lord from 2nd Edition. An adventure that takes the PCs out of the empire and exposes them to the Tomb Kings. Should have a similar to Necropolis (DJ version came first by the way. ;-)

stormofswords said:

Awesome! I'll have to pick that up. Given the synopsis I think they may very well be very similar.

stormofswords said:

Well, DJ was published first, but I am thinking Gygax had notes for D&D well before DJ, then the TSR rift and chaos happened, and perhaps Necropolis is some of the contested IP…Thats all speculation, of course.