Early clones of D&D so seem to miss essential points of D&D. Not to blame them! For instance the first Warhammer box set absolutely was a war game first and an rpg almost as an afterthought, imho. It was cool.I found a Russian PDF of it online when looking for it. It looks more like a boardgame, but I'm using poorly practiced Russian skills and google translate to dig into it. And, getting a few pages in, it's got 5 atts... strength, dexterity, wisdom, constitution, courage, rolled on 4d6k3...
So it's not exactly a direct D&D lift...
The original W40K:RT claimed to be an RPG, but the only concessions to RPGishness vs minis-wargame being:Early clones of D&D so seem to miss essential points of D&D. Not to blame them! For instance the first Warhammer box set absolutely was a war game first and an rpg almost as an afterthought unlike D&D.
I had a very good copy of that white box for a long while.The original W40K:RT claimed to be an RPG, but the only concessions to RPGishness vs minis-wargame being:
I don't have 1st Ed Warhammer Fantasy Battles, but by 3rd, it was squarely moved away from RPG to purely minis-wargame.
- Rules for recovery of wounded out-of-action figures
- random equipment
- lots of fluff text.
Also, Warhammer really isn't that early... 1983...