Warhammer FRPG returning...

[Warmaster_Horus]

Oh man this is great news, hope the boys at Green Ronin do a good job with this... would also have liked to see a WH40K RPG as well, but I guess Using Inquisitor minus the funky combat system will have to do for now

 

[Azazyll]

I admit that i have never liked the gyrocopter, or the humorous tone taken to both Dwarfs (pointedly without the V) and Orcs, but it is important to realize that the warhammer world is much more advanced beyond the standard D&D game. Bretonnia is the place to go to avoid handguns. The Empire is 16th century Germany, not 13th century France. Steam tanks, repeater rifles and handguns (both of which are infeasable to physics), and the dreaded Volley Gun are all extremely rare and fit well into the sub plot of humanity's friendship with Dwarfs, and the Hochland longrifle is essentially an super tooled up musket, expensive and rare and completely fitting within the time period, when fortunes were spent on hand-crafted guns from dueling pistols to hunting rifle, if for no other reason than to get them to shoot in the forward direction and not explode. And Skaven without warp technology would simply lose all flavor and become wererat look alikes. Essentially, in a world with elves, dwarfs, dragons, daemons, and magic, having technology go a little over the top isn't really going to mess things up too much. It's like the critic who complained the tomatoes were mentioned in The Fellowship of the Ring, saying that tomatoes weren't indiginous to Europe and somehow failing to note that Hobbits weren't exactly wandering around Capetian France either.

I, personally, am looking forward to the mutants. I hope someone will finally come up with a good system for chaotic mutations. And I dearly hope that this version of the rules will not be as restrictive, complicated, and byzantine as the last set. It would also be nice if it dealt with developements that have happened to the story line in, oh, say, the past ten years, which the "re-release" that I bought did not.

 

[Maggan]

Maybe it is silly

I liked the big book.

I really, really, really hope they keep the core rules to one book.

Really, really. One book to rule them all! Or something like that. Sure there are many more books, but I find the idea of a single volume core rulesbook appealing.

I love my 1st printing WFRP book, and would like the 2nd edition to take a similar approach!

Cheers!

Maggan

 

[TSL]

Azawyll is correct.

I would suggest thinking about it as more akin to our world's 30 Years War period with magic.

Grim is the word boys and girls, GRIM.

 

[Krug]

Hope they update the classic modules to the new ed as well...

And a Skaven race book will be a big seller, for everyone knows, da rats will inherit the earth. Mwahaha!

 

[d4]

But the Warhammer World as written at present is a bit worrying. Dwarven Gyrocopters were always an anomaly you could work around, but imperial steam tanks, sniper rifles and skaven with friggin' lightning cannon do make the whole 'grim 'n' gritty' Warhammer world I came to know and love rather difficult to manage.

yes, the world as presented in WFRP is a bit different than the one presented in the miniatures game.

hopefully this second edition will keep the flavor of the role-playing game and not taint it overmuch with too much outlandish stuff from the tabletop game.

(i don't want my PC to go to Middenheim and see a Blood Bowl match, either.)

TSL has it just right: the Empire is the 30 Years War HRE.

 

[MacMathan]

I guess I will have to dust of my Dwarven Slayer mini. So how much variation are we going to see from previous ed, rules-wise?

I realize this is blasphemy(however unlikely) but I wouldn't mind seeing it with stats for many different game systems d20 included.

 

[dead]

If the new edition of WFRP keeps using the d100, maybe Green Ronin can establish a "d100" system brand based on the new edition and call it "generic." Then they can approach WotC and ask if they can produce a d100 system Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms and Star Wars.

 

[elforcelf]

Waaagh.The cult of speed.WH40,000,MUST BE MINE!I never liked minis but love the WH40,OOO setting.elforcelf.

 

[Breakdaddy]

This RawKZ! I was just looking at the abysmal condition of my Warhammer RPG book the other day and wondering when it would finally fall apart. That made me
kind of sad. Im pumped beyond belief to hear this news. The wait is going to kill me, though! Very happy to see Green Ronin is tasked with this, as I have the highest faith in Pramas and company.