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<blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 3483203" data-attributes="member: 21938"><p>I think the reason that Woof-Rup (as we old-timers like to call it) has a large UK fan base is (a) it's British and (b) the primary UK role-playing magaizine of the time, White Dwarf was also published by Games Workshop. Over the course of the late 1980s it went from a generic RPG mag to a glorified advert/catalogue for GW, ultimately turning into the miniatures gaming mag that it is today when GW chucked all their RPG stuff in favour of the more lucrative wargames.</p><p></p><p>I used to play a lot of 1st Ed., which is nice although the Initiative system and racial bonuses meant that an elf character could sort out any sort of combat problem before anoyone else.</p><p></p><p>The Enemy Within campaign is, by far, one of the best RP campaigns ever written. TEW is fairly straightforward but has some great RP and world-building moments, such as a French (sorry Bretonnian) card sharp and hungover coachmen, getting muddy, getting drunk, getting rained on and so forth. Shadows over Bogenhafen is a nice Evil Cult in Small Town adventure with one of the best sewer-crawls I've seen. Death on the Reik is a great package, weeks of adventure, sub-plots, ancient mystery and a castle full of mad people named after philosophers. After that it goes downhill. Power Behind the Throne can be a fun RP-based adventure but there is a feeling that all the careful investigation and alliances that the PCs need to set up in the beginning aren't really all that important by the end. I really, really hated Something Rotten in Kislev. For one thing it is completely un-connected to the rest of the campaign and should have been marketed as a seperate product. Secondly, it completely and deliberately hoses the PCs with a '2 kewl 4 jou' NPC. The fact that is was written by the guy who created Paranoia should tell you something. Finally, Empire in Flames was a bit of a let-down as it was far more linear and straightforward than its predecessors. I believe in the Hogshead years they were re-writing it as Empire in Chaos, but that it didn't quite materialise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dr Simon, post: 3483203, member: 21938"] I think the reason that Woof-Rup (as we old-timers like to call it) has a large UK fan base is (a) it's British and (b) the primary UK role-playing magaizine of the time, White Dwarf was also published by Games Workshop. Over the course of the late 1980s it went from a generic RPG mag to a glorified advert/catalogue for GW, ultimately turning into the miniatures gaming mag that it is today when GW chucked all their RPG stuff in favour of the more lucrative wargames. I used to play a lot of 1st Ed., which is nice although the Initiative system and racial bonuses meant that an elf character could sort out any sort of combat problem before anoyone else. The Enemy Within campaign is, by far, one of the best RP campaigns ever written. TEW is fairly straightforward but has some great RP and world-building moments, such as a French (sorry Bretonnian) card sharp and hungover coachmen, getting muddy, getting drunk, getting rained on and so forth. Shadows over Bogenhafen is a nice Evil Cult in Small Town adventure with one of the best sewer-crawls I've seen. Death on the Reik is a great package, weeks of adventure, sub-plots, ancient mystery and a castle full of mad people named after philosophers. After that it goes downhill. Power Behind the Throne can be a fun RP-based adventure but there is a feeling that all the careful investigation and alliances that the PCs need to set up in the beginning aren't really all that important by the end. I really, really hated Something Rotten in Kislev. For one thing it is completely un-connected to the rest of the campaign and should have been marketed as a seperate product. Secondly, it completely and deliberately hoses the PCs with a '2 kewl 4 jou' NPC. The fact that is was written by the guy who created Paranoia should tell you something. Finally, Empire in Flames was a bit of a let-down as it was far more linear and straightforward than its predecessors. I believe in the Hogshead years they were re-writing it as Empire in Chaos, but that it didn't quite materialise. [/QUOTE]
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