The Enemy Within Campaign
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The Enemy Within campaign (commonly abbreviated to TEW) is a series of adventures for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
(WFRP) and was originally published by Games Workshop
in the late 1980s. Widely praised by fans of WFRP, including being voted the best RPG campaign of all time by Casus Belli magazine, the Enemy Within campaign has remained an important part of the game for more than 15 years.
Throughout its publication by Games Workshop and, later, Hogshead Publishing, the individual adventures were variously bound and combined. Most often, The Enemy Within was bound together with Shadows Over Bogenhafen in a single volume. Power Behind the Throne was sometimes combined with City of Chaos (originally titled City of the White Wolf), a supplement covering the city of Middenheim
in detail.
Something Rotten in Kislev was quite a departure in terms of plot and style from the other parts of the campaign. It works as a side-quest where the characters are sent out of the Empire to take care of business at the Graf Todbringer's request. Its main purpose is to fill the gap between Power Behind the Throne, in which the Empire is threatened but still holding strong, and Empire in Flames, occurring an undertermined amount of time later, in which, as the title suggests, the Empire is about to crumble. Something Rotten in Kislev is thus meant to make this sudden context change more believable, since the characters were away for a while and did not receive news of the Empire during that time.
The first four episodes of The Enemy Within were generally regarded as the most popular and successful. Something Rotten in Kislev departed significantly from the theme and setting of the previous adventures in the series, while Empire in Flames was viewed by many fans as being an unsatisfactory resolution of the plots developed in the earlier episodes, as well as being considerably more linear than the previous volumes.
When Hogshead Publishing held the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay license, a new ending for the campaign, entitled Empire in Chaos, was created to replace the unpopular Empire in Flames. The project was abandoned when Hogshead returned the WFRP license to Games Workshop in 2002, but fan-produced alternatives such as Empire At War continue.
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is a role-playing game set in the Warhammer Fantasy setting. Over the years, it has been through a number of phases and different publishers, most of which were related in some way to Games Workshop...
(WFRP) and was originally published by Games Workshop
Games Workshop
Games Workshop Group plc is a British game production and retailing company. Games Workshop has published the tabletop wargames Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer 40,000...
in the late 1980s. Widely praised by fans of WFRP, including being voted the best RPG campaign of all time by Casus Belli magazine, the Enemy Within campaign has remained an important part of the game for more than 15 years.
Composition
This multi-part role playing adventure was made up of several linked adventures:- The Enemy Within / Mistaken Identity Graeme Davis, Jim Bambra, Phil Gallagher
- Shadows Over Bögenhafen
- Death on the Reik
- Power Behind the Throne
- Something Rotten in Kislev Ken RolstonKen RolstonKen Rolston is an American computer game and board game designer best known for his work with West End Games and the hit computer game series The Elder Scrolls...
, Graeme Davis (editor) - Empire in Flames
Throughout its publication by Games Workshop and, later, Hogshead Publishing, the individual adventures were variously bound and combined. Most often, The Enemy Within was bound together with Shadows Over Bogenhafen in a single volume. Power Behind the Throne was sometimes combined with City of Chaos (originally titled City of the White Wolf), a supplement covering the city of Middenheim
Middenheim
Middenheim is a fictional city in the province of Middenland in the land called The Empire in the Warhammer Fantasy setting.Commonly known as The City of the White Wolf, is second only in size and influence to the Empire's capital Altdorf. The city stands upon a sheer pinnacle of rock, five hundred...
in detail.
Something Rotten in Kislev was quite a departure in terms of plot and style from the other parts of the campaign. It works as a side-quest where the characters are sent out of the Empire to take care of business at the Graf Todbringer's request. Its main purpose is to fill the gap between Power Behind the Throne, in which the Empire is threatened but still holding strong, and Empire in Flames, occurring an undertermined amount of time later, in which, as the title suggests, the Empire is about to crumble. Something Rotten in Kislev is thus meant to make this sudden context change more believable, since the characters were away for a while and did not receive news of the Empire during that time.
The first four episodes of The Enemy Within were generally regarded as the most popular and successful. Something Rotten in Kislev departed significantly from the theme and setting of the previous adventures in the series, while Empire in Flames was viewed by many fans as being an unsatisfactory resolution of the plots developed in the earlier episodes, as well as being considerably more linear than the previous volumes.
When Hogshead Publishing held the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay license, a new ending for the campaign, entitled Empire in Chaos, was created to replace the unpopular Empire in Flames. The project was abandoned when Hogshead returned the WFRP license to Games Workshop in 2002, but fan-produced alternatives such as Empire At War continue.