I Might Have to Run a Bad RPG System Next Week!

[Don Durito]

The Enemy Within Campaign, Which the OP has indicated is desired, isn't just set in the WFRP world, but it's the definitive product on the setting. If you don't do the WFRP setting tropes, the adventure simply does not work, because the adventure is written for and to highlight and exemplify those tropes, and the places and peoples of the Empire..

So, your "not being precious to the setting" amounts to "ignore the whole adventure save for combats" in this case.

I'm very conversant with the Enemy Within - easy to run with Shadow of a Demon Lord).

 

[macd21]

The Enemy Within Campaign, Which the OP has indicated is desired, isn't just set in the WFRP world, but it's the definitive product on the setting. If you don't do the WFRP setting tropes, the adventure simply does not work, because the adventure is written for and to highlight and exemplify those tropes, and the places and peoples of the Empire..

So, your "not being precious to the setting" amounts to "ignore the whole adventure save for combats" in this case.

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.

 

[aramis erak]

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.

The post replied to claimed¹ that fidelity to the setting is not important to the adventure, not that it can't be run in other systems.²

If you choose a system which is built inherently counter to the tropes, then either

1. you're not going to be using the system unmodified or
2. you're not going to be running the adventure with the setting tropes intact

Choice 1 means the benefit of that system switch becomes irrelevant
Choice 2 can break the adventure, and generally damages the experience of adventures based strongly upon the setting tropes.

TEW is VERY strongly tied to the setting tropes.

As an exemplar: Doomstones can be run almost unmodified in D&D by use of the same named monsters... as a low-level adventure.
D&D Module B2 can be run in WFRP the same way, but note that it routinely kills starting characters.... some of the more social B and X adventures can be ported in similarly.
Meanwhile, Lichemaster really doesn't work all that well by this port method... a D&D cleric makes short work of the badguys, and the whole cringe-worthy threat is lost... Because the mechanics violate the tropes. (Not to mention, there's no real good direct conversion for rat-men/skaven.)

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¹: or at least strongly implies.
²: It can, as is evidenced by peoples suggestions, including my own, of using WFRP2 or Zweihänder.

 

[Don Durito]

The post replied to claimed¹ that fidelity to the setting is not important to the adventure, not that it can't be run in other systems.²

No it didn't - as evidenced by the fact that we have a quote function and you didn't use it.

What I meant was 'don't sweat the small stuff'.

Are you aware of the principle of charitable reading? It basically holds that when you interpret something someone else says as being inherently stupid or ridiculous you should stop, pause, and consider whether it's you who has the wrong end of the stick.

If you choose a system which is built inherently counter to the tropes, then either

Are you familiar with Shadow of the Demon Lord?

I mean obviously, Shadow of a Demon Lord is heavily influenced by Warhammer and shares many of the same tropes.

I, not being an idiot, would hardly have suggested it otherwise.