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Post by Scott on Sept 7, 2007 7:11:26 GMT -5
Does anybody have any experience with this game? I've been wanting to try it for years, but have not had the opportunity yet. I've heard good things about it.
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Post by geneweigel on Sept 7, 2007 11:32:14 GMT -5
Some player tried to foist it on me back in the 90's but it seemed a lot like... (High pitched whine) SECOND EDITIONWHO SAID THAT?!? (Apologies to Spongebob! ) Seriously, it did seem strangely out of synch with my concepts of fantasy but I believe the entirety of WARHAMMER is that way. So if you find the war game enjoyable then perhaps it might be worth a try. I've never bit into WH because of the prices mainly. The strange style is an afterthought to that roadblock...
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Post by Scott on Sept 7, 2007 20:07:26 GMT -5
I've had the Warhammer RP book for years. The setting seems cool. The only possible complaint is that it may be too molded to the Fantasy Battles game. Currently, it's about 3rd in line for games I'd like to try.
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Post by GRWelsh on Sept 7, 2007 21:21:23 GMT -5
I played it a few times. Ray Rzeszotarski ran a short-lived campaign set in his own original world setting, using those rules. I seem to remember the classes had different routes and skill-sets associated with them. For example if you started as a bounty hunter, a natural progression might be to become a witch hunter. I suppose there is some similarity in that to 2nd edition kits or 3rd edition prestige classes... but you could also draw similarities to 1st edition split-classes, the bard, or dual-classing. I remember having a good impression of the rules in Warhammer, and how everything seemed streamlined and moulded together well, but I didn't play it long enough to really know.
The actual Warhammer Fantasy Setting always looked like a slightly off-kilter version of Europe. Interesting flavor, but not too original, really.
Of course, I love "Mighty Empires" -- the strategic level Warhammer Fantasy game. That is just an awesome stand-alone game. But I've always wondered what it would be like to tie in that game, and maybe the table-top miniatures game, with a fantasy RPG campaign. To me, that always seemed to be what Warhammer Fantasy was built for.
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Post by grodog on Sept 9, 2007 9:35:23 GMT -5
I've enjoyed WFRP although I never played WH minis games. I like the combination of class-based PCs (careers) with varying skills by career. The combat system is brutal, in particular the critical hits charts I like the Old World setting quite a bit, and I consider of the adventures in The Enemy Within campaign among the best ones published in the industry. To Gene's point, though, I can definitely some 2e-like ideas in WFRP, too. In particular, the Elven Wardancer inspired the 2e Bladesinger that seems to have been one of the posterboy classess of 2e powergaming suckitude. In any event, the Old World setting, with it's sense of gloom and impending doom was always a nice horror-fantasy setting, and you can readily insert Cthulhu-like monsters into the background behind the corruption of Chaos infesting the lands (a la "Shadows Over Innsmouth" meets Moorcock's Runestaff or first Corum sagas).
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Post by geneweigel on Sept 9, 2007 10:46:13 GMT -5
The place where we got all our D&D stuff was the HAVEN HOBBY HUT in Woodhaven the next neighborhood over from Cypress Hills. It was a hobby store but the time that we discovered it in late 1980 the entire store was geared towards miniatures. Ral Partha and Grenadier were the big ones with the most shelf space. There were miscellaneous companies that they carried all hodgepodge up then they started carrying Citadel Miniatures in 1982. They made a big space for them and there was a major consensus that the La-lal-la-la attitude that we had found in Fiend Folio was definitely present in these. You could reach out and grab anything from those other companies even a florid and effeminate elf prince with 3 unicorns...no make that 5 unicorns and 2 florid and effeminate elf princes handholding a bashful-faced brownie ( ) and still get better style on average than from Citadel. All those Citadel styles that nobody liked back then I can see in Warhammer from a field away.
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Post by GRWelsh on Sept 9, 2007 16:14:23 GMT -5
I think you can really see that style in WarCraft, too. Every time I see those green, cartoony orcs and oversized weapons, I think of Citadel.
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