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The "Zweihander RPG" pdf is free to download until Nov 1st!

Started by HMWHC, October 31, 2017, 05:32:08 PM

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HMWHC

October 31, 2017, 05:32:08 PM
I know there was some sort of kerfuffle with the guy who made Zweihander here at theRPGsite but I missed all that.

IMO though whatever that was all about doesn't detract from a pretty darn good RPG Clone of the old WFRP rpg. The art and layout of is fantastic throughout, despite the Asian Halflings and Black Elves (If it's supposed to be set in a Grim and Dark European Pastiche, could we please just skip the SJW'ifying of the setting) and other assorted semi-PC artwork here and there. Anyways even that isn't a really big deal or deal breaker as the art even when it's SJW'ish is still excellent.

So anyways it's availible to download for free for well till tomorrow I guess so grab it while you can.

Zweihander download
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Manic Modron

#1
October 31, 2017, 06:06:46 PM
Pretty sure that kerfluffle isn't contained to one site.  I have the book from the Kickstarter though and I generally like what is in it.  I don't know if it is enough to make me play it instead of 4th edition WHFRP when it comes out... Or even GURPS.  But it is a decent read with good ideas in it.

S'mon

#2
October 31, 2017, 07:16:26 PM
http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?36782-Zweihander-Banned-for-Sockpuppeting

I'm not playing or reading this guy's game.

His penis art thread didn't help, either.

DavetheLost

#3
October 31, 2017, 09:06:35 PM
I'm interested enough in it to grab it for free. I'm very unlikely to ever run or play it, so I'll be honest and admit not interested enough to pay for it.

Abraxus

#4
October 31, 2017, 11:41:07 PM
The PDF is free so why not.

David Johansen

#5
October 31, 2017, 11:47:56 PM
I wonder how the people who paid for it feel about that?
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Abraxus

#6
October 31, 2017, 11:55:39 PM
Do you know how many companies have done such a offer. Free PDF for a limited time. So many rpg companies. Like new editions it's a good chance of it happening. I get that it might be annoying for those who paid for the PDF. I'm also not going to pass up on getting the PDF free. Nor lose a single nanosecond of sleep over it. Guilt trip attempt, recognized and failed badly.

Manic Modron

#7
November 01, 2017, 12:19:23 AM
I'm not sure if I would have supported the kickstarter if I knew about all of this before hand, but as long as I have the thing I can feel safe encouraging people to pick it up for free.

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't pay for it at this point, though.  Might as well milk everything I can out of it.

HappyDaze

#8
November 01, 2017, 12:30:50 AM
Quote from: David Johansen;1004837I wonder how the people who paid for it feel about that?

I paid for it a while back. Don't really care that it's now free, but for that price, I'll encourage others to give it a look. I thought it was alright but not quite good enough for me to want to learn all of the little differences that separate it from WFRP.

LouGoncey

#9
November 01, 2017, 01:47:53 AM
Not too fucking great, to be honest...

LouGoncey

#10
November 01, 2017, 01:49:14 AM
Quote from: David Johansen;1004837I wonder how the people who paid for it feel about that?

Not too fucking great, to be honest...

Pyromancer

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November 01, 2017, 02:00:26 AM
Quote from: David Johansen;1004837I wonder how the people who paid for it feel about that?

"But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny? Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?"
"From a strange, hostile sky you return home to the world of humans. But you were already gone for so long, and so far away, and so you don\'t even know if your return pleases or pains you."

Willie the Duck

#12
November 01, 2017, 08:03:38 AM
Quote from: Manic Modron;1004797Pretty sure that kerfluffle isn't contained to one site.

Author seems to be in a class of his own in terms of angering people with his behavior (and that without being an overly combative hothead like most people who piss everyone off). It's mostly from the unrelenting self-brand-promotion, which most people actually 'get', even if they don't like.

That said, I would pick up a free copy of this product if a WFRP retroclone was in my wheelhouse. Those who paid for it got it ___ years ago, when it was 'worth' more. I don't get angry when someone else gets a book out of the bargain bin that I paid full price to buy and read a year earlier.

Omega

#13
November 01, 2017, 09:17:27 AM
So how much of it is stolen WHFRPG rules and how much is original work?

The way he was touting it before it was just short of a flat out copy of the original with the names changed.

David Johansen

#14
November 01, 2017, 09:24:27 AM
Quote from: Pyromancer;1004857"But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny? Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?"

But in that story the guys who worked one hour were still pissed.
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