WFRP3 in playtest..are they going the way of the MMO?

[DeadlyUematsu]

In a game where you should be playing Bright Wizards, you typically wind up playing Tavern Wenches. It just doesn't make sense to me. It's like playing a Star Wars rpg where you have to roll your class, and the chart contains "Moisture Farmer" and "Nerf Herder", but no "Bounty Hunter" or "Jedi".

Yep. I like WHFRP but I always thought WHQ was a much better WH game and that WHFRP was THE Adventures of a Simpleton RPG.

 

[Vyvyan Basterd]

In a game where you should be playing Bright Wizards, you typically wind up playing Tavern Wenches. It just doesn't make sense to me. It's like playing a Star Wars rpg where you have to roll your class, and the chart contains "Moisture Farmer" and "Nerf Herder", but no "Bounty Hunter" or "Jedi".

This is the one part of WFRP that I did like. And rolling Fisherman or Rat Catcher was less of a burden than people make it out to be. One of my players rolled Fisherman and squacked constantly about it. He wanted to be a Fighter-Type. Thing was, he was the best combatant in the group! And he had the quickest exit from his career to other careers that appealed to him more.

 

[Maggan]

It does make me wonder when the WHFRP edition wars will begin, though.

The wars have been waged for years and years, and have involved the same kind of bitterness and unability to see things from different angles as the D&D edition wars.

Just on a much smaller scale, and at other forums.

/M

 

[Bumbles]

Just on a much smaller scale, and at other forums.

What scale? 15, 25, 28, 32? Are they going up to 36 or 40? 54 even?

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

What scale? 15, 25, 28, 32? Are they going up to 36 or 40? 54 even?

Planck Scale.

 

[Primal]

WFRP v.2 is a great game and dice pools and cards is a little disappointing to me.

Hmm... I don't know -- I generally like dice pools, but I don't think they necessarily fit WFRP very well. It's a big change if they're going to move away from the percentile rolls, and I'd hate to see cards or boardgame elements taken even further from 2nd edition.

As far as WH online goes, the guys in my group quit it "because it doesn't feel like WFRP", so I don't think it's necessarily a good idea to emulate the mechanics of that game. I haven't tried it myself, though.

 

[Kunimatyu]

"going the way of the MMO"? Hardly.

"going the way of a FFG boardgame?" Quite.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Damn it. I think I'll sell my WHFRP 2 collection then. I don't trust that the new version won't make the old rules material incompatible. Time to rev up my eBay account . . .

 

[CelticMutt]

There's a big long nasty discussion on this at RPGnet, divided into three main sides - the side that embraces a new edition, the side that hates the idea of a new edition, and the side that thinks this is all a big joke or misunderstanding, and that there is no 3rd edition in the works.

I lean towards the 3rd view, with a healthy dose of "I don't care as long as the fluff stays the same, the career system stays, and everything else works well."

But I will have to go on a rampage if they don't put out an Elf book on the quality level of the Skaven book eventually.

 

[kitsune9]

There's a big long nasty discussion on this at RPGnet, divided into three main sides - the side that embraces a new edition, the side that hates the idea of a new edition, and the side that thinks this is all a big joke or misunderstanding, and that there is no 3rd edition in the works.

I lean towards the 3rd view, with a healthy dose of "I don't care as long as the fluff stays the same, the career system stays, and everything else works well."

But I will have to go on a rampage if they don't put out an Elf book on the quality level of the Skaven book eventually.

I'm kind of leaning more to point 2 and 3 myself. I'm kind of opposed to a new edition, and beginning to think it's a joke to begin with.

An elf book would be nice as the Skaven book is really cool.