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Version: 0.9 (draft)

Step 2: Earn Renown

In this step, you must roll a dice for each fighter in your warband that took part in the battle and that doesn’t have the BEAST or THRALL keyword. This is called a renown roll. You may add 1 to the roll for each of the following that applies:

  • The fighter wasn’t taken out of action during the battle.
  • The fighter took an enemy fighter out of action during the battle

On a 6+, the fighter earns a level of renown. In addition, you can select 1 fighter in your warband to be marked for greatness. Make 2 renown rolls for that fighter, instead of 1.

  • When a Hero earns a level of renown, they can either improve a characteristic or select a heroic talent.
  • When a Henchman earns a level of renown, they can improve a characteristic. However, they cannot improve each characteristic more than once.
The Lad's Got Talent

When a Henchman earns their fourth level of renown, they are promoted to a Hero. They immediately lose the Henchman keyword and gain the Hero keyword instead, and may either improve a characteristic or select a heroic talent.

Improve Characteristic​

When improving a characteristic, select one of the fighter's characteristics and increase it by 1. The Health characteristic increases in increments of 2 instead. For Bravery, where a lower value is better, decrease it by 1 instead. A fighter's characteristics can never be improved beyond their racial limit:

Racial Limits​

KeywordMoveFightShootHealthBravery
Human6”66243+
Skaven8”66205+
Vampire8”86302+
Ghoul6”63244+
Daemon8”84302+

Heroic Talents​

A Hero may select a Heroic Talent from any of the following specializations. A fighter cannot select heroic talents from more than two specializations, and can never have more than five heroic talents.