WoW Rpg...any good?

Gundark · Sep 24, 2005

is it quick to stat up guys..? or about the same as rregular D&D...which would be worse since etools wouldn't work with it

Henrix · Sep 24, 2005

WoW?
I'm getting a blank here, all I can think of is Worlds of Wonder, a Chaosium product from the early eighties. Probably just means that I'm too old!

Dagger75 · Sep 24, 2005

World of Warcraft.

Haven'd played the RPG, but played the computer game for a while.

Henrix · Sep 24, 2005

Ah, of course!

Gundark · Sep 24, 2005

yes World or Warcraft rpg (pen and paper)...which is considered to be the the 2nd ed. to the warcraft rpg

Psion · Sep 24, 2005

I like it.

I like how they break the spellcasters into paths and like how they get around the issue of ECL races by applying paragon classes. A great example of d20 cross polination.

Dark Jezter · Sep 24, 2005

It's a really good product. Good rules, great artwork, and nearly 400 pages worth of content. I also like the new rules for building and governing communities. The only real complaints I have with the product is that some of the stuff in it contradicts with the Warcraft storyline that has been established in the games, and that orcs did not get a paragon class when they clearly should have gotten one.

Highly recommended for anybody who plays D&D (as there's lot of stuff in it that you can steal for your own campaign), and it's pretty much a must-have if you're a Warcraft fan.

Impeesa · Sep 24, 2005

Not sure... I have all the '1st ed' Warcraft RPG books, but so far I've passed on the WoW RPG after taking a flip through it at the store. It's a massive book, priced accordingly, and as near as I can tell 90% of it is stuff I have in the PHB, stuff I have in the older Warcraft books, or stuff that's been changed for no purpose other than to cater to the computer game crowd. Then again, I invested in the original books because I loved Warcraft and wanted to bring some of it into my D&D game, not because I had the time to get a Warcraft game going. Take my brief rant with a grain of salt.

--Impeesa--

Dark Jezter · Sep 24, 2005

Impeesa said:
Not sure... I have all the '1st ed' Warcraft RPG books, but so far I've passed on the WoW RPG after taking a flip through it at the store. It's a massive book, priced accordingly, and as near as I can tell 90% of it is stuff I have in the PHB, stuff I have in the older Warcraft books, or stuff that's been changed for no purpose other than to cater to the computer game crowd. Then again, I invested in the original books because I loved Warcraft and wanted to bring some of it into my D&D game, not because I had the time to get a Warcraft game going. Take my brief rant with a grain of salt.

--Impeesa--

I also have the original Warcraft RPG book from 2003, as well as all of the suppliments (with the exception of Magic and Mayhem). After buying the WoW RPG and reading through most of it, I decided that the WoW RPG is the way that the Warcraft RPG should have been done in the first place; it improves over the original in practically every aspect, with updated races, classes, a new magic system, new rules regarding death & dying, hero points, etc.

Plus, the suppliment books are still compatable with the new version.