Have any of you used WFRP for a setting different than the "Old World"? How did that turn out?

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I'm surely in the minority, but I like wfrp more for its system than for the setting.  The Old World is cool but there are some things that just get on my nerves.  I hate that everything revolves around chaos and I like a bit earlier technology level for my fantasy as well (ie- I don't like guns).  Mainly though, I just hate having to follow someone else's setting.

I haven't done it yet, but I keep wanting to run a standard D&Dish game using wfrp in a bog standard fantasy setting.

If you ask me you could do a lot worse as a standard, gritty and more-realistic-than-D&D fantasy system. It's not as if the mechanics are really tied to the setting in any serious way. Actually I could see it being used for historical medieval games. Just cut out the magic, which is a small part of the game anyway, and the chaos/insanity.

I've used real world Renaissance Europe as the setting. That was more because of my hard-on for historical maps than anything else though. Kept the magical things in, but dropped the other humanoid races and the monsters, bar daemons and undead.

I guess that made it run a bit like a more up to date Ars Magica. Didn't last long though and was merely an excuse to use my maps and have the players actually know where they were. If i recall correctly, they got smegged by a charge of Polish freelancers.

I've long considered using the mechanics to do a super-gritty Greyhawk.

Lord Hobie

...Provided you're playing in the city itself, gritty fits perfectly.

Quote from: One Horse Town;293745I've used real world Renaissance Europe as the setting. That was more because of my hard-on for historical maps than anything else though. Kept the magical things in, but dropped the other humanoid races and the monsters, bar daemons and undead.

I guess that made it run a bit like a more up to date Ars Magica. Didn't last long though and was merely an excuse to use my maps and have the players actually know where they were. If i recall correctly, they got smegged by a charge of Polish freelancers.

I've done the same, the characters fought the Ottomans and got involved in Papal scheming, it worked extremely well.

Ravenloft for an one-shot; I would revisit it.

Edit: Especially if I could use this thread for visuals.

I really home-brewed the setting; eliminating the stress on Chaos and Law, created my own religions, cultures, and communities. I dropped the Free City of Haven into it, as well as Lankmar (AD&D version) and Sanctuary (from the Thieves World boxed set by Chaosium). I fleshed out Araby (or whatever they call the desert kingdom). In the end, I transformed the Old World into a different place.

I haven't yet but I've been thinking about it.  Then again it could be argued that I've never even run WFRP with the core setting because I'm hardly what anyone would call a scholar on it.  I name drop some cities/countries here and there but in the end my campaign isn't really Old World beneath the surface.

Some years ago, I used the rules to run a couple bog-standard fantasy games for my group. Even though we were using WFRP 2e rules, we weren't specifically adventuring in the Old World. I just treated it as an extension of my existing D&D campaign. It worked fine.

I think it would be a natural fit for Titan, the Fighting Fantasy world.

I just got Dragon Warriors a couple of weeks ago and while it is pretty nice, I thought its world and adventures would work a lot better with the wfrp system.

Quote from: The_Shadow;294022I think it would be a natural fit for Titan, the Fighting Fantasy world.

And Orb, for The Way of the Tiger, gamebooks.

Regards,
David R

Damn straight.  It would rock in Titan. Especially in Port Blacksand.

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