Makes sense. The Kislev and Sigmar books didn't really fit in with the previous books.
I remember these fondly though. Had a lot of fun with classic WFRP before I moved to AD&D.
Have they changed the last two books? I had the original print run from the 80s and after Death on the Reik it went to Death/Blood in Kislev and then some weird thing that ended with Sigmar (I forget the name but I remember the bright yellow cover).
Yes and no. I can see where you are coming from but that isn't it at all. It's definately a case of a system trying to emulate the travel from the books but ultimately failing. As I say, we're all Middle Earth fans, but even the GM (or LoreMaster) feels it doesn't add to the game and actually...
The One RIng.
We had recently played this over the last few months and while it nicely snuggles into the Tolkein lore, the system expects you play like you are reading the books. I couldn't get excited over critically successing a survival style roll only for it to be you locate an overgrown...
Apologies. I wasn't asking for the purpose of using them. It was more a question of are they still there as after 2nd edition I never saw any reference to them.
I don't call for initiative until something happens to trigger it. If the party have snuck up and are watching the baddies unobserved, they get an action to trigger the combat and then we roll for init.
Generally my players don't bother. They are on the road too much or they prefer to take over rooms at the inn.
In my Sunday night Ghosts of Saltmarsh campaign, they started off staying at the local inn before they built bastions. Now that the campaign is moving away from Saltmarsh for a while I...
2nd edition had my favourite psionic system but even that had balance issues. Dark Sun handled it well but I think that's simply because it was built into the setting.
I'd like psionics to use a power point system and have different "spells" to the standard classes where possible.
The only thing I really dislike is that Dragons, Demons, Devils, Giants...etc, are not lumped alphabetically under that heading. The other week I ran a fight with Hill Giants and Stone Giants, and it was just frustrating to keep swapping back and forth. Had they all been under Giant it would...