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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jasonbostwick" data-source="post: 5151649" data-attributes="member: 34924">I picked up WFRP3 at Christmas but was only able DM one session so far. I really enjoyed the session and hope to play more this summer, possibly replacing 4E as the go-to game for my group. The party sheet, in my limited experience, is a very cool concept but it was hard to figure out a use for it at the table. Certainly the shared talent was very nice and worked a lot like teamwork/guild feats do in 3.5/4e. I think the players had some sort of power that gave them a bonus to stealth checks, and it helped them act as a team to sneak up on some goblins through the underbrush.  I didn't really increase the party stress too much because the party worked extremely well together the entire session. I tossed one or two on when their was a bit of a disagreement about whether or not to steal a sword from a skeletal guard in a tomb, but otherwise didn't touch it. The sheet is interesting in that it eliminates a great deal of the normal intraparty tension by unifying the groups goals in adventuring. The stereotypical conflict (in D&D at least) comes from the archetypical Lawful Good paladin trying to convince the party rogue to help defend a temple instead of looking for treasure. If everyone in the party is a Servant of Justice, this tension is gone. As Nift said though, this isn't all that bad - in my case it definitely encouraged the party to 'say yes' a lot more than usual. It eliminated the problem of players being contrary just to make things interesting, and any disputes came up over legitimate discussions of the best way to accomplish something, rather than a back and forth over whether or not something was worth doing. It also leads pretty well to group character creation, and more importantly creation of the party as a whole rather than as a group of unrelated characters. The Party Sheet pretty much eliminates the 'four adventurers meet in a tavern' cliche, and give the players a good reason why they've already banded together.Hussar - I don't think it really spells out how to assign the sheet in the book, but I let my players pick the sheet that they felt was most appropriate for them after they'd generated their PCs. In the future I might even have the players decide on a sheet first, and then generate characters in line with that.[Standard, by-the-books character generation is essentially random - rolling dice to see if you can be a race other than human, and the player draws three cards and picks one to choose their career. Ability and power generation is a point buy.]The 'card' is more of a 6"x8" sheet and it doesn't seem to be suggested that they are drawn randomly. The rulebooks don't really spell out the option of changing sheets midway through a campaign (one of a number of things they're fairly unclear about), but the option is certainly there and wouldn't really impact anything else. Longtooth - Regarding minis, the combat system is fairly abstract and definitely not mini-centric. It doesn't use squares or absolute distances, just range bands (engaged/close range/long range) to gauge relative positioning. The game ships with standup counters to track this (punchboard cutouts of all of the PC careers and monsters in the beastiary). After one encounter of fiddling with the standups (of which there is only one per creature type, so I wasn't able to accurately represent the 3 goblins the party was fighting) I put them aside and just used my D&D minis. Even without the fiddliness of the grid, there is still a lot of room for tactics in combat. The Stance system and Fatigue and Stress turn it more into a game of gauging risk and resource management, but there was a lot to keep us interested.</blockquote>

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