Warhammer Fantasy Role PLay

[1upus]

Just noticed this in the shops down under. Noticed it is half the size of the original and heard rumours that it is using a different rule set.

Anyone purchased the game? Any reviews out there?

I love the setting but was a little wary of the rules in the old edition and was wondering how much change was in the new one.

Thanks

lupus

 

[Ratughoth]

Everything is fixed, you may now enjoy your Warhammer.

 

[loki44]

Here's an excellent review, if you don't mind a few naughty words:

http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/11/11192.phtml

It outlines all of the major differences between 1st and 2nd ed. (I haven't purchased the new version yet though I fully plan to this weekend.)

 

[pogre]

Here's an excellent review, if you don't mind a few naughty words:

http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/11/11192.phtml

It outlines all of the major differences between 1st and 2nd ed. (I haven't purchased the new version yet though I fully plan to this weekend.)

I was a playtester - you won't regret the purchase in the least. Nearly every change was an improvement - and I was a HARDCORE WFRP player for years.

 

[loki44]

I was a playtester - you won't regret the purchase in the least. Nearly every change was an improvement - and I was a HARDCORE WFRP player for years.

Thanks for the vote of confidence. I already know I won't regret it, which is why I'm buying it. Now just to find some players to play it.....

 

[1upus]

Thanks one and all for the link and review of the game. Looks like its another one to add to the list of games I need to get. Am dreading the low bank balance at the end of the week, this isn't helping much either

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Nice review at that link.

I have always been tempted by the world of Warhammer. Seeing so many folk having fun with the stuff, as well as the shelves stocked all over the place, made me wonder what I might have been missing. I bought a starter set, tried a game of it with my brothers, and put it back on the shelf, in case I needed minis for my D&D campaigns.

For a brief time in between D&D campaigns one D&D group I gamed with started a brief DungeonBowl league. Now that was a blast.

I stopped in at my FLGS last weekend and picked up the book, and was seriously impressed enough to almost buy it. I would have if I had the cash on me right then. I came back last Wednesday to give it a second look and they were sold out of WFRP 2ed.
Seems to be doing rather well, I'd say!

 

[loki44]

I bought a starter set, tried a game of it with my brothers, and put it back on the shelf, in case I needed minis for my D&D campaigns.

Please don't confuse the Warhammer FRP with the miniatures game (as is so often done!). They are two totally different beasts as far as I'm concerned. Large-scale miniature battles, and the investment of time and money they take, are not for the faint of heart. The Warhammer role-playing game is really something else. Buy it. You will not be disappointed. (No, this is not a paid advertisement.)

 

[Ibram]

I picked the book up today, and the plundered valuts companion book...

all in all a very good looking system... It did take me a while to navigate the careers section though but I think I have it now.

The basic system looks rock solid, maybe as easy to arbitrate as d20. I absolutely LOVE the magic system (very similar to how the miniature game does magic), it seems to offer great power at great risk (which is how I have always seen magic).

After reading through almost the entire book today I didnt notice any typos (but then I wasnt looking deeply for them). The entire book is in color and the art, like most other modern GW art, is top notch IMO.

The book did feel "thin" to me, but having read it I dont feel like anything was left out.

I look forward to their future releases, and hope to run a game at some point in the future.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Please don't confuse the Warhammer FRP with the miniatures game (as is so often done!).

Oh, I'm fully aware of that now. Or rather a few years ago. By then I was far too deep into D20 everything to have money to spend elsewhere. I've gathered my senses on purchasing D20 anything today.

It may have been entirely a misunderstanding at the time, but way back then it looked like a simple vehicle to lure folks into the money machine of the minis wargame. I didn't want to even start down that road, it was a rational choice. Looking back then it was as irrational as when I decided to play "AD&D" instead of "D&D" because one was "advanced" and the other was "basic", and I didn't think I was a "basic" gamer. Self flattery and all that. I've since bothered to check out what I was missing and I've been figuratively beating myself up over it. The D&D of the "Basic" era was a superior game in many ways.

Since 3e, I've only had so many dollars to spend at my hobbies so I stayed pretty narrowly in the D&D orbit.

I feel this with WFRP is just like my belatedly late discovery of "Basic" D&D. The sort of moment of "damn me! What have I been denying myself all this time out of uninformed prejudice!"

I've looked at WFRP 2nd ed. pretty closely now, I really like what Green Ronin has done, and it feels like a low fantasy game I would enjoy. I will be getting this... as soon as I can summon up some cash that won't interfere with my D&D/D20 scheduled purchases.

Maybe that tax refund I'll be getting...