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hello. i have a couple of questions on the way the warhammer review forum (http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=144126&page=1&pp=40) was moderated. i think it was right that tetsujin28 was banned for calling names. i don't understand, though, why Breakdaddy, who at the end of page 6, calls...

that is very true. as a matter of fact, to some extent, D&D has a wider gray scale palette for monsters. orcs might be riding the village because they are evil, or maybe because some horrible monster pushed them out of their caves and now they are starving... i have played many D&D campaigns...

joe: what do you exactly mean with high fantasy, though? my definition might have littel to do with yours! if you call high fantasy a world where there is a lot of awe inspiring and horrible things going on, where magic does exist and it produces great results and inspires great fear in the...

joe, i think that you should not confuse warhammer fantasy battle with warhammer roleplaying. most fans on the net have conceded that the world has changed to make room for more high fantasy stuff in the war game. now, green ronin was forced to introduce at least some of those changes (i am not...

i should really ignore you, but i can't stop from asking this as well: can you name some names? who are these blind "D&D haters" that you are pointing your fingers at? i don't see any!

you see, the point is not whether you can have non combat adventures with D&D or not. i think you're reading something that is not in the statement. of course you can have investigative or political campaigns with D&D, where nobody draws a sword for entire adventures. it's just that, on average...

you know, i do agree with you... even if i have a hunch that the world wouldn't play well with a rule heavier system... i think it conveys a certain old school, not necessarily politically correct feeling, that makes the game fun. but then, i don't agree with people that say that the setting...

just leave him alone. some people enjoy themselves with little... :) even if this thread has very little to do with the review anymore, why following any attempt to turn it into a flame war? if nothing else, some of the posts were interesting for people who were looking for more information on...

ok... so, after some 10 years, i can say i was unfair to the italian publisher... i have to say, though, that the 5th edition of call of cthulhu was instrumental in my change of policy when it came to buying (no more italian translations!). since then, it has been responsile for: 1. the...

i heard that, too. apparently, the common knowledge is that they added more investigative parts and reduced the dungeon crawling bits to make them more palatable to warhammer fans. but that, of course, might be just a myth! besides, this discussion has nothing to do with the reviews anymore...

i see your point, BUT, if the majority of the warhammer games tend to gravitate towards low magic adventures in a civilised setting (be it the Empire, Bretonnia, or what has you), wouldn't it accurate to say that the "flashy" (*) element in warhammer is tuned down a lot? (* i didn't negate the...

so, they can see things differently from you, but if they do they are somewhat misguided... very interesting... :)

the diference is that you don't have them all around the place. you might have hints of them, but my experience with D&D is that you tend to encounter a beholder, a dragon, a powerful undead, demons, and similar monsters once every two or three sessions... not so in warhammer. while the monsters...

it's much worse than Call of Cthulhu, in some regards. for example, the Old ones don't look for worshipper actively (as a matte of fact, most of them couldn't care less about humans...), whereas in Warhammer the Chaso (be it the gods themselves, their cultists, or the chaos warriors and the...

it seems that there is a kind of riot going on on the BI warhammer forums... apparently, the quality of practically any other book except for the basic manual and the bestiary is quite low... (i can attest on the low price/ usefulness ration of the two packs, but not on the old wolrd armoury and...

i agree with that. there are a bit more rules than the original D&D game. some rules, though, are there to add flavour. the insanity rules, for example. so i guess that their implementation comes natural ("ok, you character has been tortured for 5 days by the orcs... you have lost a limb, got a...

at some point in the corebook, there a very short story about an academic who has the opportunity to acquire a forbidden chaos book, masked as a mundane book... you are in the same situation!!! you think you have just bought another RPG, but, in fact, you are one step closer into becoming a...

exactly. i think it's more like a change of perspective than a real change of background. if you know how the old Emperor and Bretonnia were portraited, you can say that the "new" version is just the same tale told by a different story. for example, if you asked the average frenchman what he...

the original take on the old world made it very grim and desolate, but in a different subtler way than Midnight. it was more like "the taint of chaos is slowly corrupting the entire civilised world, and no matter what we do, there seem to be no light at the end of the tunnel", rather than "watch...

now it's time for me to ask: does the space for background information/ scenario advice/ creature information expand from some 50+ pages in the english 4th to the vast majority of the book of the 5th? i had the 4th edition in italian, but when i saw the 5th (in english) i felt it was 300 times...