The design itself however weren't created by the Letraset Type Studio, but were based on a 1950s revival of a much earlier typeface. I'd like to say that I'd followed the same manual process, but I didn't. These would have been originally set using Letraset rub-down transfers, each individual being rubbed off and so stuck down to a sheet of paper beneath. The headings in Warhammer 1st edition and on the character sheets are Egyptienne.
The main body text is set in Basic SV, a slightly grungy digital recreation of Cubic PS. Having done the heavy lifting on the typographic research some time ago, getting the historical accuracy down was the easy part, and in terms of design the biggest challenge was to create enough room for the player to write everything with a blunt HB pencil, but keep it bare-bones and avoid the urge to over-design it.Īs I've mentioned the typography in various places before, but not here, some notes on the typography follow: In revisiting them, updated some of the layout and added a Regiment sheet for armies as an alternative to the scrappy notes on bits of graph paper torn out of an old exercise book (which is after all, properly old-school). Originally designed for my long dormant Play-By-Post game Deathspell Arena, the character sheets were intended to match the low-fi aesthetic of 1st Edition Warhammer, the flyers and box set inserts put out by Citadel during the period.
Granted, they weren't rated very highly on first release, but as a rules-light addition to Warhammer they work well enough, and when you consider that WFRP1e itself was little more than WFB 2 with simplified combat, an extra decimal place added to the stats, and a careers system bolted on, there's no reason not to dig it out and run with it. It's often overlooked that Warhammer Fantasy Battle 1st edition, or rather Warhammer: The Mass Combat Fantasy Roleplaying Game to give it it's proper title had rules for Roleplaying. Warhammer 1st Edition Character / Regiment Record Sheet
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