#orcslayer

Orclsayer (1985) is where the pre-release of the GURPS combat system of Man-to-Man suddenly feels perilous to me. It is branded as a GURPS product, but also as “a combat supplement for Man to Man,” as if M2M was it’s own thing. Glad they got the branding sorted out before it became a real confusing issue.

Anywho, I am not sure what to call Orcslayer. I would not call it a combat supplement, actually — that implies to me that there are new combat rules. It introduces Yrth, a campaign setting that would later be expanded on in GURPS Fantasy, but it really isn’t a setting book — you just get some bare bones sketching of a locality and its politics and factions. Most of the book is dedicated to nine combat scenarios linked by roleplaying vignettes. These aren’t nearly robust enough to constitute a “campaign” and they don’t really feel like what I’d call an adventure, though I suppose that is the closest to what it is in form. I like the formatting, actually, with the roleplaying interludes clearly framed out before and after the equally clearly presented tactical battles. There is a lot of advice on how to run the battles effectively and most of them have interesting criteria and special rules that make them all feel different and exciting. I enjoy how linear the whole thing is, and how the writing acknowledges it but advising the GM to pretend to roll for things like NPC reactions that are preordained.

After I posted Gotrek the Trollslayer last week (surprisingly he got just one like - can´t imagine why though) I had to give you my version of his best “friend” and companion the poet Felix Jaeger (Jäger). 

This mini was created by “Dark Sword Miniatures” (https://www.darkswordminiatures.com) and is part of the Game of Thrones series. This one is normally “Jon Snow” but it seemed perfect for Felix Jaeger. He wears a red cloak and an often repaired mail shirt and wields a magical dragon hating sword that sometimes takes over his mind (whenever a dragonlike creature is in sight).

Well take a guess who that could be and who´s stories I have been reading lately. 

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Enough time? Well than here comes the big reveal. This my friends is of course the legendary Trollslayer Gotrek Gurnisson. 

I have read a lot of Warhammer novels in my time but never have I met with a cooler character than Gotrek who, in my eyes at least, is wielding one of the twin axes of the dwarven god Grimnir and thus is nearly undefeatable. 

Anyway I wanted to have a mini for this great character for a long time and than, Scibor Miniatures (http://sciborminiatures.com) created a “wild dwarf chieftain” that looked exactly like I imagined Gotrek to look.  So I bought that wild dwarf, sculpted a nosechain and an eyepatch for him and there he was Gotrek Gurnisson the mad slayer.