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Message: <blockquote data-quote="karolusb" data-source="post: 6069632" data-attributes="member: 83359">Tried it out last weekend, thought it was quite fun.  It is clearly an evolution of WRFP3E, they seems to have virtually eliminated dead spots on the dice (Warhammer has a lot of blanks, Star wars very few), they made a number of mechanical changes, generally elimination of needless complexity, which from the perspecitve of a single game session, seemed positive.  The game has it's own flavor, you would never know it shared similar elements from WFRP if you weren't told.  I understand hating the strange dice (and WFRP3E did a terrible job presenting itself as something anyone would want to play, it is much better than any of their ad copy would indicate).  But they read very fast, it took my wife who hates mechanics two dice rolls to have a full grasp of how they worked, and other than cost there isn't much downside.  It took me a few times to get the terminology down (simple is no challenge dice, easy is one etc.), but it came within half a session as well.  The intro module has a few weird parts, makes a few strange assumptions and one section seems like it could have benefited from some serious guidance (if you don't have the combat monkeys 2 squads of storm troopers is probably a very bad idea).  Overall I would recommend it highly (though it's fantasy flight, if you are gonna be turned off by price, expect to be turned off).</blockquote>