Dark Age of Sigmar: Grave Robbing

What atrocities are perpetrated under the cover of night?  Even the dead are not safe from the ravages of the Dark Age of Sigmar.  A Brain, an Eye, and a Heart can fetch a high price at market.  They can be used to cast a forbidden spell, brew a noxious potion, or even augur a malign portent.

Efengie Season 3 Postmortem

Last month we wrapped up Season 3 of the Efengie Campaign.  I've compiled the battleplans and story into a campaign book entitled "Coalescence Aftermath".  This season opened with the first Coalescence event, and meandered its way through the better part of 2017.

Orm

Orm likes marauding, reading the collected works of Rotigus' plague prophecy, and spreading blight.  He hopes to someday visit the Garden of Nurgle.  He was raised in a Nurgle worshiping tribe with kind and loving parents who lavished him with wonderful diseases and plagues; but it seems that fate had something else in store for him.

Dark Age of Sigmar: Against the Darkness

I like to imagine that the Dark Age of Sigmar is filled with grim survivors eking out a living in the inhospitable landscapes of the mortal realms (as evidenced by my previous battleplan).  These villagers take shifts stoking the fires that protect them from the encroaching darkness each night, keeping the horrors that dwell there at bay.  Sometimes, though, the things in the dark are worse than the occasional Chaos Spawn, or other twisted abomination that can be shot down with crossbows and put to the torch come morning.

Tallpox

When summoning Daemons, it's easy to make mistakes.  When Wex the Pustulent first attempted to summon a Plaguebearer of Nurgle, his faith shook for momentarily.  He stumbled over the words of the incantation and, when he finished, a mangled and broken mound of flesh and bones lay on the ground before him.

The Shepherds of Rot

The Shepherds of Rot began as a band of beasts and drovers who roamed the Vale of Efengie searching for Nurgle's favoured pets.  They were formed under the leadership of the good-natured (but obnoxious) Larvulous, Gadfly of Nurgle, but have since expanded into a loose coalition of warbands that fight together at times.

Larvulous' Abominations
(left to right)
Rotbelly, Larvulous, Tallpox, Plaguebearer

Dark Age of Sigmar: Quests

I have also come up with a new narrative mechanic for the "Heart of Darkness".  When you create your warband, if you'd like, you can send them on a Quest.  For example, shown below is a warband roster for "(General Name) and the Lake of Blood".  A Quest is a special warband roster that includes rules that may replace some of your normal Allegiance abilities, and present challenges to your warband that show its story progression and eventually lead them to either success or failure.