- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Fantasy Flight Publishing,U.S. (10 Feb 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1589944801
- ISBN-13: 978-1589944800
- Product Dimensions: 27.7 x 21.1 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 784,470 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Heroes rise from all walks of life in Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. From the lowly peasant or meager rat catcher to the wealthy noble or questing knight, fate might snare anyone in its fickle web. The Career Compendium is designed as the ultimate, comprehensive career reference for both players and Game Masters, and explores the many different paths heroes may take during their adventures. The Career Compendium features more than 220 official careers spanning the entire breadth of the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay line, and includes eight brand-new careers, expanded career entries, revised character creation charts and references, hundreds of new adventure seeds and plot hooks, and Master Indices, plus updates, official errata, and clarifications for previously published careers.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
It's always the way with Warhammer Roleplay - every new supplement seeks to add new careers to the canon. As a result, this book is a pleasent addition, compiling well-over 200 careers in one place.
The career entries themselves are very good, each one has an entire page dedicated to it, including some plot hooks. This space also allows a greater degree of background than, say, the core book was able to offer.
The careers come from a variety of previous published material including the supplements for Bretonians, Dwarfs, Tome of Corruption and Kislev. There are also 8 brand new careers included (see what I mean?)
A huge bonus of this book is that by including all the careers in one place they can now be linked together and the authors have taken full advantage of this fact, creating brand new starting career charts and giving new logical career entries and exits.
The downside, however, is pretty obvious. Almost all the material printed here is taken from other works. If you already own the entire WFRP back catalogue then there is little new stuff here to interest you (unless you're a completest) but for those who tend to pick and chose then this Compendium is excellent.
Another problem is that it only reprints the careers, not the rules that go with them, so career paths such as the Runesmith or Ice Witch will be useless unless you also purchase the relevent tome.
And, as with most roleplay books, it could have benefitted with a more thorough proof-reading before publishing as some of the career entry/exit lists differ.
The career entries themselves are very good, each one has an entire page dedicated to it, including some plot hooks. This space also allows a greater degree of background than, say, the core book was able to offer.
The careers come from a variety of previous published material including the supplements for Bretonians, Dwarfs, Tome of Corruption and Kislev. There are also 8 brand new careers included (see what I mean?)
A huge bonus of this book is that by including all the careers in one place they can now be linked together and the authors have taken full advantage of this fact, creating brand new starting career charts and giving new logical career entries and exits.
The downside, however, is pretty obvious. Almost all the material printed here is taken from other works. If you already own the entire WFRP back catalogue then there is little new stuff here to interest you (unless you're a completest) but for those who tend to pick and chose then this Compendium is excellent.
Another problem is that it only reprints the careers, not the rules that go with them, so career paths such as the Runesmith or Ice Witch will be useless unless you also purchase the relevent tome.
And, as with most roleplay books, it could have benefitted with a more thorough proof-reading before publishing as some of the career entry/exit lists differ.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
This is an excellent and very useful book for both GM's and PC's in the WFRP line.
As far as I can determine, this wonderful tome holds all the character options from all of the supplement books released by both Black Industries and Fantasy Flight Games. There are, as always in FFG books, some typos and I hope later editions correct these often blatantly obvious mistakes.
However, it is a wonderful and useful book with short ideas and plot hooks to use interesting characters as both NPC's and PC's in your adventures...
May Sigmar go with you...
As far as I can determine, this wonderful tome holds all the character options from all of the supplement books released by both Black Industries and Fantasy Flight Games. There are, as always in FFG books, some typos and I hope later editions correct these often blatantly obvious mistakes.
However, it is a wonderful and useful book with short ideas and plot hooks to use interesting characters as both NPC's and PC's in your adventures...
May Sigmar go with you...
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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14 April 2009
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The Career Compendium is an excellent resource guide to all of the careers in WFRP, especially if you don't have many other source books. All of the pages are wonderfully detailed with those awesome illustrations that are all over the WFRP books. If you have a lot of the other source books, then this one isn't really necessary, though it IS helpful having all of the careers compiled in alphabetical order. The new careers are pretty cool, some of which are easy favorites in my opinion. It's also nice to have full descriptions of the careers, along with some extra tidbits inluding famous (enter career here)s and "a day in the life" sections. All in all, it's a very well done source book, but not necessary for the deep-pocketed RPer that already has all the other books.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Very useful book for WFRP players.
21 Jun 2009
All the careers published in the previous WFRP books regrouped into one volume. It give more information about each of them. The book included, also, some new careers. It doesn't included non-human career such as the Skaven and vampire. The book is very useful if you don't have or plan to have ALL the previous books. If the players, excluding the GM, have to get only one book, this is the one.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Good Buy for people getting into WFRP
12 Jun 2009
This book is one of those that are great for people just getting into the system but not necessary for anyone who owns all the books. Essentially FFG went through all the warhammer material and copy/pasted the careers into one book. I do mean copy/paste because several error in the previous books (improper links for entrance/exit, typos) still exist. Here is what I like about the book even though I own all the WFRP books.
1)Easy to use reference with all the possible careers listed alphabetically
2)Decent charts in the appendix to chose careers by category (like WFRP v1, Ranger, Academic etc..), Province, etc. Also include is a huge D1000 chart to cover all the beginning careers
3)Little information tidbits on the career. This can be a simple paragraph of "day in the life" to possible adventure hooks for the careers.
In conclusion, if you own the majority of WFRP sourcematerial, you can pass on this book. If you don't or want easy reference to all the careers, look into picking up this book.
1)Easy to use reference with all the possible careers listed alphabetically
2)Decent charts in the appendix to chose careers by category (like WFRP v1, Ranger, Academic etc..), Province, etc. Also include is a huge D1000 chart to cover all the beginning careers
3)Little information tidbits on the career. This can be a simple paragraph of "day in the life" to possible adventure hooks for the careers.
In conclusion, if you own the majority of WFRP sourcematerial, you can pass on this book. If you don't or want easy reference to all the careers, look into picking up this book.
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