WFRP 1 Easter Eggs: Dwarf Wars

The fourth adventure in the Doomstones campaign, Dwarf Wars was adapted from The Halls of the Dwarven Kings, an AD&D adventure in The Complete Dungeon Master series. It was re-statted for WFRP by Brad Freeman and I developed it for Flame Publications. Art was sourced mainly from the Games Workshop archives, with occasional bespoke pieces by Tony Ackland.
The ArtAs with all other Flame products, the cover image was reused from elsewhere. This one was a John Blanche piece that I first saw on the cover of GM Publications #4, Paul Cockburn’s semi-independent AD&D magazine that ran for a total of five issue in the hiatus between the closure of Imagine and Paul’s editorship of White Dwarf.

There is only one joke in the art that I could find: the robot in the store room (area 23). It is based on the Republic Pictures robot that appeared in Commando Cody and elsewhere.

In the original printing, you can barely make out a fragmentary eagle image on the robot’s chest, with Dwarf runes above it that spell out part of the name ‘Republic Pictures.’

There are not joke names in the adventure, as far as I can recall.
I wrote up Poltergeists as a WFRP monster. Unsurprisingly for an invisible creature with no potential to become a miniature, they had never appeared in Warhammer before.
Once again as a sop to the GW Design Studio, I added a short appendix on running the adventure using the Warhammer Fantasy Battle rules, and took the opportunity to plug GW’s Dungeon Floor Plans series as well as the recently-published Warhammer Siege.
Doomstones 5 (or 3*): Heart of ChaosThe finale to the Doomstones campaign was an all-new adventure, published by Hogshead in 2001 – more than a decade after Dwarf Wars first saw print. It was (very) loosely based on an outline I had written at Flame (more on that here), but I was not involved so I’m not able to comment on any Easter eggs.
*The Hogshead printing of the campaign consisted of three volumes. The first two bundled Fire in the Mountains and Blood in Darkness together, and the second did the same for Death Rock and Dwarf Wars. Heart of Chaos was the third volume.
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