WFRP - THIRD Edition Announced from FFG

[CelticMutt]

Urgh. I was hoping the books would be decent size to justify the price better, but in those Con pics, the wizard book looks pretty thin.

 

[Logan_Bonner]

What about after the session? You write it all down? Keep the "sheets" with everything (cards, markers, dice) attached to them on your shelf?

It looks like it comes with boxes for your "sheet," kind of like Descent.

 

[Obryn]

Urgh. I was hoping the books would be decent size to justify the price better, but in those Con pics, the wizard book looks pretty thin.

Yeah, all of the books look pretty thin. I don't know how much text you get with it. Like I said before, cards can serve as a replacement somewhat, but I'm skeptical if most of the game is on them.

Those pictures leave me ... confused.

I'll give anything a try, but as of right now it's not going to get my $100.

-O

 

[Rykion]

Urgh. I was hoping the books would be decent size to justify the price better, but in those Con pics, the wizard book looks pretty thin.

It's hard to say if those are actually the books or are simply mock-ups. Someone at Gen Con would have to let us know if they have any copies of the real books to flip through. *hint hint*

 

[JRRNeiklot]

"Custom Dice give you unprecedented options for story-telling"

Has anyone ever found the type of dice you use to arbitrate mechanical elements give you "unprecedented options for story-telling"? Or effect the story-telling much at all?

GM: Roll to see if you attack, flee, or parley. Ooh, a fumble, you drop dead from fright.

 

[teitan]

FFG has always struck me as an odd company with their products. They produce things I want and then I look at the price tag and set it back down. I'd love to play Descent for example, but I just can't justify the price tag, even discounted, because I wouldn't play it regularly enough. A friend bought their Marvel Superheroes game & it was fun but very, very odd & not reflective of comic books by any means. LOL. Nice minis though.

I'd like to check this out, but at 100 bucks I don't think I can justify it at this time. I don't even have a regular D&D group right (first time in 10 years) now. Maybe if I could find some players who wanted to do more than D&D (when I get a group), but I really want to play Mutants & Masterminds myself.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

GM: Roll to see if you attack, flee, or parley. Ooh, a fumble, you drop dead from fright.

If that's how it works, they certainly have the grim & gritty nailed down.

I hope there will be some play reports from GenCon or playtesters up soon. Because, as Moridin said, the presentation is so different from "traditional" games...

 

[Korgoth]

Best case scenario: they produce 20 million units, sell five of them, go out of business, someone else negotiates for the WHFRP license and brings it back down to earth.

Funny how if you want to play it with more than 3 players you're supposed to buy extra packs.

 

[Jan van Leyden]

"Custom Dice give you unprecedented options for story-telling"

Has anyone ever found the type of dice you use to arbitrate mechanical elements give you "unprecedented options for story-telling"? Or effect the story-telling much at all?

As I mentioned upthread, the rather obscure Throwing Stones used cutom dice as well. Each d6 had a special combination of symbols: there were sword-symbols for melee, bow-symbols for ranged attacks and quite some others as well.

Your character was partly defined by the set of dice you selected for him; advancement ment to add another die to the set. For any action you had to roll all the dice of your character and counting the relevant ones. Say your character attacked the orc with his sword, then you counted the "swords" rolled and, iirc, added some fixed value.

For your sword figther you wanted to have dice with lots of swords on them, somtimes two or three to one side of the die.

In the very short lived test-run we performed, we used the other, not counting dice to interpret the action. So the orc rolled too few "swords" to hit, but the dice showed several agility/skill symbols? Looks like it was too much concentrating on evading your blows to effectively attack!

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Best case scenario: they produce 20 million units, sell five of them, go out of business, someone else negotiates for the WHFRP license and brings it back down to earth.

Funny how if you want to play it with more than 3 players you're supposed to buy extra packs.

Excuse me? Why do you wish people to lose their jobs and have their hard work and efforts gone for nothing?

Here's my best case scenario: May you live in interesting times.