I had to look this up on wikipedia.
I'm a big CG fan, my no1 hobby, but WOW is a complete hole to me I know nothing about it - nor do I ever want too..
While I think the system of 4th Edition would be a good fit for WoW as far as currently released RPG systems go, I also think the entire game of WoW just doesn't lend itself well to an RPG in the first place. Blizzard has shown it is perfectly willing to throw the story and mechanics out the window at a later date if it makes for better gameplay, which makes it extremly hard to do an accurate portrayal through an RPG released asynchonously to the computer product.
Well, I've a bit of advice for anyone wanting to attempt to 'homebrew' Azeroth, or anyone else looking into taking the WoW lore for an RPG.
Don't use WoW.
Use the Warcraft - Warcraft 3 games, use the Warcraft Novels. WoW continuously trashes previously established plot-type stuff. I'm not POSITIVE, but I believe the RTS games did not do this as significantly.
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Oh god that's a good one.
Warcraft 3 and the first set of Warcraft books were the start of Blizzard's crazy inconsistency wagon, but if you look hard enough you can even find incongruence’s between Warcraft 1 and Warcraft 2.
Granted, WoW's size and scope kind of necessitates a greater volume of these things, but Blizzard habit of screwing with established stuff definitely didn't start with WoW, and isn't even limited to the Warcraft universe. (StarCraft and even Diablo get hits with this stuff. )
Though I will say WoW was really where things got absolutely nuts, and where I stopped follow the Warcraft series like a fanboy. Then again, I was rather disappointed with Warcraft 3 in regards to its treatment of the existing story. Probably more than the average fan.
I stand corrected, lol. I didn't follow it too precisely, (seeing as I only really played WCIII), but somewhere I'd gotten the impression that the inconsistencies were minor up until WoW, where they threw story out of the window in favor of Arenas&grinds.
Undead Scotsman said:Blizzard has shown it is perfectly willing to throw the story and mechanics out the window at a later date if it makes for better gameplay, which makes it extremly hard to do an accurate portrayal through an RPG released asynchonously to the computer product.