Warhammer Horror! Visiting Castle Drachenfels

[@thelastredcoat1662]

Drachenfels was my first WFRP campaign, and is still possibly my favorite. It was an intense introduction for sure! I wish there were more campaigns with a similar tone.

[@AnvilOfDoom]

Oh my god, I never thought about Drachenfels in relation to The Old World It's never happening, but that would be amazing 😄

[@dr3dg352]

Ooo I bought the Genevieve omnibus back in high school, and Drachenfels is the first of the included novels! Can't wait to finally start reading. 🥰

[@Gigasius]

Ever since I read it years ago, Drachenfels has become my favorite Warhammer book. The setting, the characters, atmosphere, I love it all! I re-read it practically every year.

[@jordansorcery]

I'm expecting I'll do the same!

[@lewisdavies9998]

i think the important thing to remember about the Drachenfels book from Flame is that it was the last book released before Flame publishing got shut down. So i feel like it was the team just going "screw it, lets play a classic" before the lights got turned off. Just the complete opposite of all those Marienburg articles.

[@jordansorcery]

This is a very good point

[@Jackalblade9]

As someone who's both ran and played Tomb of Horrors, I tend to feel these funhouse adventures are really more fun to read than they are to experience in play. But for reading and experimenting, they can be incredibly educational and inspirational. Thanks for this little tour through Castle Drachenfels, Jordan, and good luck with your own new castle!

[@ashes2ashesuk]

Issue 117 is indelibly etched into my memory, that cover! WFRP stats for Genevieve! It was great

[@colinmoffat5215]

Burg Drachenfels is a REAL castle in Germany. Although it was home to a dragon not a necromancer

[@colinmiddleton8127]

We were there a couple of weeks ago. Gave me little chills as I walked upto the remains of the keep.😊

[@richardharrison4762]

I love how matter of fact you stated that! It was the home of a dragon, as one does.

[@zaynevanday142]

I still have my Black Library Collection it lives on my Fighting Fantasy themed Bookcase 🔥

[@MiniatureRealms]

Great to have you back! Such a great story, I’d love to play the supplement in WFRP one day.

[@jordansorcery]

Cheers Stu!

[@RSBurgener]

This would be perfect for my WHFRP character from high school, an elven priest of Morr. He was like a cross between Vampire Hunter D and Dream from the Sandman series. He was pretty badass. Just don't know if it would be enough!

[@nagashthegod]

I have run Drachenfels 3 times over the years, every time one of my groups heads West into the mountains it somehow ends up there. One group fled early, the high level one was a bloodbath who eventually made a fighting retreat, but the best was a post Sigmar's Blood-inspired campaign group who basically brought an army fresh from wiping Sylvania clean. Gave me a chance to kill of lots of named NPCs to rachet up the stakes whilst allowing the PCs to just about make it through. Drachenfels is such a characterful big bad, they loved striking him down for good...... ?

[@wmandthings]

Did the whole novel on audiobook in one go working through the night on model commissions. There's a few things you notice that don't jive with 'modern' lore but such a great book and setting!

[@edwardblacklock2446]

Love the Jack Yoeville books. Thanks for this!

[@Spenglenoodle]

Curse of Drachenfels is very faithful, I recommend you check a video that has the group dialogues about the great enchanter. I find it amusing the witch hunter's official stance is 'Drachenfels never existed but if we catch you talking about that play or anyone goes missing near the castle, there will be questions.... and a red hot poker'. You can also see some familiar scenes within the castle such as the poisoned feast and can earn keep portraits that are the novel cover arts. Very excellent game

[@blackdenim23]

Love me some Warhammer vampires and “wet” undead! Great job as always Jordan!

[@Doramian]

What a glorious video thank you soooo much ! I've done the scenario back in the golden age and still have the book ❤. What great memories you just raised again.

[@iatebambismom]

I still have the white dwarfs with Drachenfels, Gotrek & Felix et al

[@jordansorcery]

Some classic issues!

[@secondeditionwargaming]

Awesome video. I never got involved with the fantasy/WHFRP back in the day but I'm loving these videos on them. 👍

[@JamesGraham1974]

One fun aspect is that Kim Newman retained the copyright to his characters, and Genevieve kept popping up in his other novels - notably including the Anno Dracula series, which is a counter factual history that imagines what if Dracula “won” in the original novel.

[@jeremiahsafford1389]

Do any of his other characters appear in his other works?

[@JamesGraham1974]

@@jeremiahsafford1389 An explicit counterpart of Drachenfels appears in a couple of his short stories as Constant Drache. More significantly, Chantal Juillerat from the Demon Download cycle appears in his story Seven Stars.

[@jordansorcery]

I have Anno Dracula lined up for when I next get some downtime!

[@davemclay5083]

Good job Jordan. This was a fun presentation. Very enjoyable.

[@hooliganblack832]

I was always quite taken by the four coloured rooms evoking good, evil, law and chaos. It was years later that I learned this was an homage to the Masque of the Red Death.

[@leemcalister4125]

Aaah that John Blanche artwork!!

[@keyanklupacs6333]

Oh this was featured in the gotrek & felix vampire slayer novel!

[@rrwholloway]

Ooooh. Perhaps there’s a Warhammer Quest campaign that could be made?

[@Jackalblade9]

Ye gods, I'd love to see that.

[@jordansorcery]

Seconded!

[@laurencepenfold]

First and best of the Warhammer novels.

[@danbrown2473]

Castle Drachenfels was an awesome campaign. Very unforgiving if party not organised and prepared. Had 1 party make it through with no losses. All left on zero Fate points and wounded.

[@cameronstone4495]

Vermintide's Castle Drachenfels is looking pretty good despite the fact Karl Franz blows it up at the end of the book.

[@jordansorcery]

I quite like the relatively subtle retcon in the WFRP book that it is 'indestructible' which I took to mean Karl Franz may have ordered it blown up, or they even did blow it up, but the next day it was just...still there!

[@30035XD]

You are the best Jordan, love you man!

[@gabrielwalton4097]

Ah you really got me into the mood to read some of these 👌

[@CosmicOutpost]

Ahhh such a great setting and character! Will we see you running Actual Plays of WHFRP here? 🤔

[@jordansorcery]

I'd love to try something like that one day!

[@CygnusMaximusXIII]

I'd be HERE for L5R RPG content! My group and I are still actively playing (albeit 4th ed.).

[@andrewjones4568]

I think you are wrong about Drachenfels being the only novel with these characters. I am fairly certain that several characters from the book are also in Beasts In Velvet. Another fantastic Jack Yeovil novel. A fantasy who dunnit set in Altdorf.

[@jordansorcery]

You’re quite right, of course!

[@paulmiddleton8487]

Easily the best GW novel ever... Outrageous that no miniatures were ever forged!

[@jordansorcery]

Totally agree!

[@spyroslapatas3013]

kEEP UP THE GOOD WORK JORDILOOOOVEEE!!!

[@anotherzingbo]

How many times can you say "Sigmar Heldenhammer" inn one combat round, Jordan? 😂 A miniature for Drachenfels would be really great to see.

[@calvanoni5443]

I used to have all those modules Carl Sargent did for D&D, Great stuff!

[@artbin79]

I’m a huge fan of Drachenfels. It would be great if Cubicle 7 could bring it back! I think Genevieve shows up in an Age of Sigmar novel.

[@jordansorcery]

I'd love to see either come true!

[@wmandthings]

26:00 I feel like this was a mild breakdown from moving stress hope you're good 😅

[@chrismcguinness5405]

That would be a cool live stream game. I hope you do it one day.

[@zaynevanday142]

Drachenfels was before Nagash ? That’s new to me 🔥

[@iatebambismom]

@@zaynevanday142 Nagash and the whole history of Necromancy and Khemri was created whole-cloth in the Undead Armies book, '94ish?

[@joadams8022]

@@iatebambismom I read both soon after they were first published, and it seemed clear to me back then that Nagash was a re-working of Drachenfels, as in the character and his (its?) role in the setting.

[@jeremiahsafford1389]

Both in publication history and in-universe, Drachenfels is older than Nagash.

[@ineptwizzard]

Little bit of a shame you didn't mention Powe Behind the Throne. I do think that's some of the best work Sargent did.

[@jordansorcery]

Fair point!

[@pauls3585]

I enjoyed the novel. I read around 1990 and again last year 👍

[@jordansorcery]

I've absolutely fallen for it - such a terrific read

[@AM-uw3gp]

Sounds like a fun place to visit

[@jordansorcery]

The fun doesn't stop. Forever.

[@KacpaYankowski]

Best. Scenario. Book. Ever.

[@rupertjones5197]

Going to start on those 3 weeks after I finish g&f

[@harbl99]

"So, you copied my homework a little bit huh?" -- I6, Ravenloft

[@NefariousKoel]

Castle Wittgenstein from Death On The Reik probably fits that better.

[@LukusOh-ii1xi]

Be interested to hear you delve into the Doomstones wfrp campaign

[@jordansorcery]

I briefly owned some of the Doomstones back in the day, but never really did anything with them - I'd be interested to revisit them myself!

[@emberwickart]

the curse of drachenfels map certainly has an accurate vibe to it, although it doesnt quite recreate the events of the book! The demon whispering to you is Belakor, originally imprisoned in the catacombs beneath the castle (in the game). The map does open up with a floor trap though!

[@Warbhammer]

I have to say that I enjoyed the surprise Maxïmo Park reference!

[@jordansorcery]

we can beat the sun, as long as we keep moving...

[@MannnisEi]

Hearing about how the original Drachenfels adventure was supposed to kill you finally explains why those Vermintide 2 levels are so brutally difficult

[@jeremycarnes1656]

Damn if they aren't some of the best gaming I ever played, though.

[@uniteallaction]

Love it

[@batjutsu]

Castle Drachenfels was inspired by Bläck Fööss with their fun b-side song Drachenfels (1986)! 😍😆 kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYHZaIKJopmjr8U "Ich will nicht auf den Drachenfels. Ich will nicht auf den Drachenfels. Ich will nicht mehr." Nice to hear mention of the Tomb of Iuchiban! Squeak-squeak! 🤩🐀🌠

[@jeremiahsafford1389]

Where did they get the name from?

[@angelx9724]

Also read the Drachenfels paperback, it's really good. I'd love to play the Wfrp, anyone know if there are good scans out there?

[@bobg7806]

Just started up a Rogue Trader RPG campaign ... have been tempted to lift this module and convert it to 40k for them to discover on a lost planet....

[@jordansorcery]

Love it!

[@Nightbreed24]

It's kind of weird, that Kim Newman's mutants are kind and misunderstood. My 1st edition grand campaign will end in that castle by the way, only a few more scenarios to go. :) IC 2512, the Great Enchanter has returned and has a plan this time: to conquer a piece of the Reikland with the help of his captains. He's been pulling the strings behind my party's back and they figured it out twith the help of a friendly hedge wizard NPC (alectryomancy).

[@wildandwackywade]

Where can I get this RPG book I am interested in running it for my group

[@jordansorcery]

It’s still available as a PDF reissued by Cubicle 7. Here’s my affiliate link in case you decide to buy it! legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/310789/Warhammer-Fantasy-Roleplay-First-Edition--Castle-Drachenfels&affiliate_id=3995912

[@TombKingTristan]

Wolfrup- It has taken me so many videos to understand what that means, and I’m too embarrassed to put a number on it (17?) WHFRP - WHolFRuP. 😂

[@badnamebob]

Maaaaaaaaaaaaybe explain that “wufrup” means Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay the game. You know, for us slow people. Anyway, delightful as always and good luck with the move. The one time books well and truly suck!

[@somthingbrutal]

Kim Newman kind of continued the adventures of Genevieve, he reworked the character in to his Anno Dracula series of books

[@jordansorcery]

Very eager to read some Anno Dracula!

[@vogless]

Hey Jordan, what’s your opinion of the current WFRP?

[@mattprior5883]

I hadn't heard of Drachenfels until they released the Genevieve omnibus under the Horror banner, which I think was a mistake as I was expecting a full blown horror story 😂

[@jordansorcery]

It definitely plays with genre conventions, but Drachenfels at least throws some real horror punches I thought

[@stevenkennedy4130]

Castle Drachenfels influenced Castle Ravenloft.

[@zaynevanday142]

Jordan was there ever a book on the timeline of the old World ? 🌍

[@rrwholloway]

There’s a hard to get hold of old book called “the world of warhammer” that’s pretty good, and the 4th edition Empire Army book has a whole page “important events in imperial history, at least for the Empire of Man.

[@Pantouflor]

I'm not a fan of Kim Newman and didn't appreciate the Drakenfels novel. But your video was a spooky roller coaster, and the Castle of Drakenfels game book looks like a lot of scary fun!

[@margaretwood152]

🦇🩸

[@benstehn]

Did you read the follow up book by Kim.

[@jordansorcery]

It's coming up in the GW Books Club in the next few months - I'm very excited to read it!

[@PatrickOMulligan]

The Prince Luitpold?

[@jordansorcery]

According to Drachenfels it's the luxury liner named for the eldest son of Karl Franz (or perhaps for Franz's father the Emperor Luitpold before he was crowned)

[@jeremiahsafford1389]

6:02 What does "Ex-Protagonist" mean?

[@Bawzasteel]

In WFRP characters go through a series of careers. It indicates that the bounty hunter had the previous career of protagonist. A protagonist was a thug who went around picking fights with people and robbing their victims once they had been defeated.

[@TheKid_88]

Jesus Christ the original book is almost 1000€ worth

[@u.s.1974]

There is no k-sound in Drachenfels. It's the ach sound like in Bach or Sassenach. Look up to the scots how to pronounce the -ch sound.

[@lewisdavies9998]

not how the author pronounces it... kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZOQdpqohb-YpLssi=JMlhoNwsKzTL18uQ

[@u.s.1974]

@@lewisdavies9998 They why didn't he write the name how he pronounces it. (It was released here in Germany under that name too. And there is no hint to pronounce it the anglo way.)

[@lewisdavies9998]

@u.s.1974 because Warhammer Fantasy is full of silly references and vague German, so it was the optimum way to make it look vaguely Germanic but sound like the name Dracula.

[@u.s.1974]

@@lewisdavies9998 That approach was better solved with Drakenhof, the castle in Sylvania. Also, see cultural appropriation

[@noops9220]

Drachenfels is the weakest bit about an otherwise great novel… he’s like a Mary Sue for evil