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False. There are about 30 published items for the system. Less than half of them are available direct from FFG, not all of them are hardcovers and that excludes the core book, which you'll note is not available. Less than half are also available through RPGNow. They never finished bringing...

You mean just no in your OPINION right. Because in my opinion any claim that "X reduces the complexity in Y" (which is exactly what the original claim was) needs to be supported by some evidence to be considered worth taking into account. In fact anytime someone makes a quantitative relational...

No, I would suggest that you had no basis for your opinion and dismiss it as not worth consideration. Everyone is welcome to an opinion, that doesn't mean all opinions have the same value. So what you did was made a claim about bookkeeping involved in WHFRP. Then when called out and asked to...

And I asked what examples, which you failed to provide. Even when provided with specific examples to the contrary. You're entitled to your opinion, I'm entitled to try and figure out where that opinion comes from or if it's completely unsupported. Are you really reading, or are you skimming...

I can't have two d10s on my character sheet? That's quite a shocking relevation.. how have I been doing it all this time? Umm.. so? Good luck getting enough dice. There aren't enough in the core set to go around for that. It's a ridiculous proposition on it's face. You have "power" cards...

That stuff is still on the character sheet. You called it 'frustrating'. Tracking values for stats (I'm not even sure that that means.. you mean writing them down? That isn't very difficult), recording experience points (again... not hard), number of advancements (you don't have to track these...

There are 'boards'. There are also plenty of board game style mechanisms. If someone dumped these components in front of you your first thought would be that they were from a board game. In fact that's EXACTLY what we (and others we happened to overhear) thought at Gencon.. that they were coming...

Given the timelines involved and the comments from the devs (and drastically different system) it's fact enough for me. There's a strong enough inductive argument that I'm comfortable with stating it the way I did. The only way you're going to get real confirmation one way or another would be...

Yes, it's still an RPG, but with heavy board gamey mechanisms. Not really unexpected from FFG, or from a game that wasn't originally going to be WHFRP3e. Define support. It's not going to have the same level of support as D&D, but not many games do. My impression from attending the various...

Which bookkeeping was that? Looking just at the die mechanic it's become vastly more complicated. For example in combat: Old way - roll percentile, if it's under a target you hit, reverse the digits to see where, GM or player narrates the hit or miss New Way - select dice to form pool...

No. There are no maps. This was explicit at Gencon. Combat is resolved by relative positioning.

Yep, that info is in the PDF. I'm sure that memorizing the symbols is no problem. My issue is in regards to all of the die pool manipulation that needs to occur for every roll. It's not Shadowrun 1e but it's heavy. (In some cases I'd argue that the custom dice make it worse tbh).

They haven't released any info that I didn't hear at Gencon and I was trying not to rehash the same complaints :) So my opinion remains the same, this is change for the sake of change. And it's change for the sake of twisting the game to fit FFG's vision of gaming...lots of board-gamey...

Yes. It's not completely lacking in mechanical information, but it is predominately fluff. What little mechanical information there is isn't necessarily 4E specific either. The mission in the back is 4E specific, but easily modified. It's probably around 90% (maybe higher) setting and neutral...

It took them awhile to start doing that. There wasn't an explicit tag in iTunes either at first. It was a bit irritating for those of use with kids, though you're only going to get burned on it once ;)

To be honest I have yet to find a good 4E podcast that isn't coming out of WotC and I only find a few of those useful. None of the ones mentioned so far cut the mustard for me.

Let's not start handing out rose colored glasses. The odds of running into serious gamer-funk is pretty high at Gencon (or any con for that matter). It happens, but it's not a big deal (usually). Certainly not a real reason to stay away.

Among others: There's a convenience store back towards the stadium, across the street from the Comfort Suites. That's about a half mile walk from the ICC. There's a CVS up towards where the symphony hall is, which is a little over a mile from the ICC.

There is no map. Ok that's technically untrue, there is no square by square (or hex by hex) map combat. Combat was abstracted out to only deal with relative distances (similar to Agon). There are no minis included but there are standees. As far as adventures themselves location cards were...

I'm looking for the best (or most interesting) 4E encounters you've... encountered. Sometimes they're spread across threads (See the good commend in the PoS thread). I have quite a bit of 4E material I haven't read yet (everything by WotC, every adventure by GG, among others), and I'm willing to...