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Apologise. Make amends.

Not really, no, and not when two other people say the same thing. We would be remiss in locking B up for the crime, but for believing A? Totally acceptable. As would, say, refusing to hire B based on the accusation, or refusing to socialise with them, and advising other people of the same.

The physical book isn’t, but the pdf is. If you preorder the physical book from C7, you get the pdf now.

The plot is pretty much identical to the original. However there a numerous ‘grognard boxes’ sprinkled throughout the book that give alternatives to the original adventure. These are intended to allow GMs to mix things up for players who have completed it before, but are also just interesting...

This. I find the ‘why watch when I could play myself’ argument weird - sure you could, but you wouldn’t be playing this game with these PCs. I’ve been listening to the Glass Cannon podcast. The reason I do so is because I’m interested in the story - I want to know what happens to the characters...

Superman gets plot points if he has enough chargen points left over for them after buying up his strength, speed, heat vision, flight etc.

IMO if you want to run a game with Batman and Superman in the same team, then you need to accept some compromises. And IMO DM Fiat is inferior to giving the players the tools to handle these issues. Superman snaps and attacks Batman? PC spends a Batpoint: ‘Good thing Superman gave me a...

And with regard to 2), that’s something that plot points can be used to represent.

See, I’d rather a system where he can. It feels appropriate for the genre.

Well Something Rotten in Kislev is being completely replaced and the last book extensively rewritten I believe.

Which can be represented by plot points having limitations. They’re not ‘I win’ buttons, they’re a balancing mechanism. They don’t let the Batman character beat Superdude 100% of the time, but they increase his success rate from what would otherwise be zero.

As opposed to the Batman-player being annoyed because his character is reduced to being a sidekick? A lot of games use some version of ‘plot points’ to smooth over power discrepancies. The greater the power discrepancy, the more powerful the plot points need to be to compensate.

None of this matters to an RPG designed to emulate comic books. If you’re emulating comic books and want your Batman PC to be as effective as your Superman PC, then you give Batman a meta currency to deal with these problems. He doesn’t need to know all the different types of super beings out...

Er, no. Plenty of RPGs use some form of plot armour (or something like it). Including as a balancing mechanism.

Well, no. An RPG that was faithful to those settings would give Batman some kind of plot armour, so that he doesn’t get swatted by some godlike villain that superman is punching to death.

Er, what? You can run TEW with another system and still ‘highlight and exemplify’ the tropes. Using SotDL would allow you to run the whole adventure while only really changing the combats.

My guess is that initially GW didn’t have any specific ‘truth’ in mind for the relationship between the two settings. Ask any two writers/designers at the time and you’d probably get three different answers. The Warhammer world was the past of 40k and Sigmar was the Emperor, or it’s a planet in...

And then GW came out and said ‘the Warhammer settings are separate.’ The two settings having the same gods and the like is irrelevant. Game of Thrones and the Forgotten Realms both have dragons, doesn’t make them the same setting. GW left open the possibility that they areparallel universes...

Yeah, to give some idea of the differences: the new setting is set after the gods of chaos got bored of messing around with the Warhammer world - so they destroyed it. And I don’t mean ‘everyone lives in a post-apocalyptic wasteland’ destroyed, I mean they broke it into chunks. Sigmar managed to...

I generally assume the first session or two of any new game is going to be a bit rough. But sometimes a game just isn’t to a group’s taste. I don’t find WFRP 4 as complicated as (say) DnD 3, but then again I was very familiar with 1st and 2nd ed. If you do play it again, just assume you’re...