Did Anyone play the new WHFRPG?

[abhorsen950]

When i first read this i thourght i could help as i was buying it but instead im buying the book not the boardgame and so far ive been told thats a solis RP.

ABH

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

For myself, I'm wondering why call this WFRP 3rd edition? Warhammer 2nd edition is a really good game, and not that old. From a marketing point of view I don't understand why they're not keeping 'proper' WFRP going and making this an entirely new game.

Because it looks fun, I have to say - I'm sure it will be a decent game. But WFRP 2nd edition is an excellent game too, and I can't see too many people converting over from one to the other.

I guess the bottom line is that WFRP 2 didn't make enough money.

Be careful - talk like this lays the way for edition wars.

Let's face it - it is a roleplaying game. No doubt about that. It uses the Warhammer setting. No doubt about that. How can it not be called Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay? Sure, they could call it Warhammer - The RPG, but that would cause even more confusion! (Warhammer - THE RPG and Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 2E? Is 2E the new version?) Maybe they should call it "Advanced Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay"?

 

[TrainedMunkee]

Another good thread was started on WHFRPG:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/genera...inar-movie-dice-mechanic-character-sheet.html

 

[Cam Banks]

I wonder if it uses a system that can be played without the special dice? Even games like DC Universe or Hercules & Xena, which came with specially marked dice, were just "roll a bunch of D6 and treat 1 as botch, 4 and 5 as success, and 6 as critical" sort of thing.

From the looks of it, you've got d6, d8, and d10s in the box but they have special symbols all over them. Reminds me of HeroQuest with its special combat dice. If I lose one or two, I want to know how to fake it.

Cheers,
Cam

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I wonder if it uses a system that can be played without the special dice? Even games like DC Universe or Hercules & Xena, which came with specially marked dice, were just "roll a bunch of D6 and treat 1 as botch, 4 and 5 as success, and 6 as critical" sort of thing.

From the looks of it, you've got d6, d8, and d10s in the box but they have special symbols all over them. Reminds me of HeroQuest with its special combat dice. If I lose one or two, I want to know how to fake it.

Cheers,
Cam

Should be easy enough, right? It are really "standard-sided" dice, so you can always assign numbers and symbols as you like. You would probably want to create a table linking number and symbol and then just roll the standard dice.