WotC_Rodney's WFRP3 review

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Over at his WotC Community page, here.

I took this as a big take home point: "All that being said, I think there's a lot in this game that's brilliant. I give it a solid B+, and I would play in a campaign of this (and maybe even run one, depending on how easy to run their full-length adventures turn out to be). I think anyone who's a modern RPG designer needs to play this game, familiarize themselves with its strengths and weaknesses, and figure out WHY it does what it does."

I'm even more interested now, in spite of the price hurdle.

 

[Treebore]

The price hurdle isn't bad if you break it down. The bad part is your buying everything at one time.

Your buying about $30 in dice.
$40 or more in books, if sold separately. (edit: just looked at the books again, and going by Paizo pricing they are $70 worth of books)
At the VERY LEAST $30 in cards, probably more like $40 or $50.
and about $10 in tokens.

So your actually getting about $110 to $150 ($140 to $180 after edited book values) worth of stuff if bought individually, so its actually a pretty good deal. Then combine that with the Amazon pre order deal of $63 which I got, it becomes a pretty awesome deal.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Oh, I'm well aware that it is an excellent value, but $100 is still a large hurdle.

I buy in smaller increments as I save up for it. Just means I don't buy other RPG paraphernalia for a longer period while I build up my RPG money bucket. *shrug*

So, like I did for the physical copy of Fantasy Craft after having bought the .pdf, I'm saving. This review pretty much pushed me over my hesitation.

Slight tangent, I haven't seen anyone remark on age-appropriateness of this game. What are the published age ranges? Also, is anyone listed in author/developer/designer credits?

 

[Treebore]

I can't spot an age range given.

As for credits:

Design Team: Jay Little, Lead

Daniel Clark, Michael Hurly, Tim Uren.

Written/developed by a bunch of people.

Then the usual graphics, art design, etc....

 

[catsclaw227]

I've been interested for a while now, but the price is tough around christmas time for me to drop $100 for myself. We need a new vaccum cleaner anyway and my wife says she'll take no less than a Dyson DC25 Animal Ball. That is a $500 drop right there...

 

[arscott]

Slight tangent, I haven't seen anyone remark on age-appropriateness of this game. What are the published age ranges?

Don't think there's a published range. The game is slightly less complex than 3e/4e D&D in play, but the rules aren't laid out with anything close to the same clarity. The more tactile interaction means that it will be easier for some and harder for others, depending on learning style. Still, as a rough estimate, I'd say it's equivalent to 3e/4e D&D

 

[CapnZapp]

slightly less complex

Huh?

D&D 3/4 are both extremely complex games, though in different ways. Or to use the words of the wise: "a convoluted, interconnecting mess"

I don't see that WFRP comes even close, regardless of edition.


Otherwise, great, thorough, honest review - thanks for the link!

 

[Anand]

I've made a 40 minutes video review on the last Warhammer ( Resenha Warhammer on Vimeo ), but it's in Portuguese, my mother language. If there's enough interest, I could put sub-titles on it.

I'm planning to running it for the first time just after Christmas, but I think it's a very cool game. I also got the Adventurer's Toolkit, but I won't use it for the first run.

The rules are pretty neat, I loved the dice mechanics, although I still need to see how smooth they are in-game. I also enjoyed the fact that the system supports social encounters very nicely as well as combat encounters.

Cheers!

 

[evildmguy]

Wow.

I am with the OP for the most part. Based on Rodney's review, I almost want to buy it right now! But, it's a lot to buy all at once. However, it's not price that is stopping me as much as it is that I don't know if I would ever get to play it. While I am grateful for the weekly session that we have, assuming the winter weather cooperates with us, it's tough to add another RPG. My players have already tolerated three different systems over the years. I'm not sure if I could sell a fourth, especially when we are having so much fun with DND.

Further, I have two remote players, so almost need to buy it twice, or components of it, so the remote players have the information as well.

Darn it!

It reads really cool after this review, though!

edg

 

[pawsplay]

If this is the future, I guess I better start pouring the grog. This sounds... distasteful.