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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fuzzlewump" data-source="post: 5366254" data-attributes="member: 63214">I would give Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay a try. I bought (well, received for Christmas) the most recent edition box set, by Fantasy Flight Games, and found it an interesting alternative to D&D. The dice are without a doubt the best part of the game. In my opinion, I can fluff any game to be anything I want; the mechanical differences are the important thing to me. This breaks down at a point, but it works here.When a player for example wants to make an attack, a single roll of a sometimes huge dice pool from that player decides the result. He adds attribute dice for the appropriate attribute, let's say strength. He adds fortune dice for situational things working in his favor, and misfortune dice for the other side of things. He adds challenge dice, which have a high chance of negating the successes of your other dice, depending on how challenging the activity is in a vacuum, which would be the enemies defense in this case. Then he adds skill dice to represent him being especially good at swinging a sword, better than the next guy with the same strength swinging the same weapon.That's just off the top of my head. There may be a few more, like aggressive vs. conservative dice which can replace your attribute dice if you want them to.After you grab that pile of all different shape and color dice (with no numbers on them mind you, just symbols representing success, failure, boons and banes, etc...) and roll it. When you interpret the result, you can actually see why you succeeded or why you failed. If the misfortune dice representing heavy rain added a failure which caused you to fall under at least 1 success, you say your character missed due to the rain. If it was the fortune dice that caused you to hit, then ..yadda yadda.That was without the doubt the coolest part of the game. Other than that, it's all in the groups and DM's hands to make the game and roleplaying fun just like anything else.I'm not sure there are dragons in the Warhammer universe though...</blockquote>

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