WFRP3e is Coming

One Horse Town · July 08, 2009, 02:35:57 PM

Quote from: kryyst;312559That play test originally linked sounds like trollbait or a new boardgame if anything for WFRP. It also sounds like they just mashed 4e with Exalted and made up the rest. I highly doubt that's the face of WFRP 3e. 3e will likely just be an update to the rule changes they've made for Dark Heresy/Rogue Trader and nothing much more.

Dunno. Jay Little is a fan of GNS theory and of Ron Edwards, so anything's possible.

thedungeondelver · July 08, 2009, 02:42:39 PM

I think I threw up in my mouth a little after reading that description of new mechanics.

RPGPundit · July 08, 2009, 03:44:17 PM

Quote from: Saphim;312397But then horror is how you usually react to change.

Only when change sucks. I was wildly happy about WFRP 2e, for example.

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kryyst · July 08, 2009, 04:04:33 PM

Quote from: One Horse Town;312614Dunno. Jay Little is a fan of GNS theory and of Ron Edwards, so anything's possible.

Please don't rain on my bubble world. We are having a parade right now.

The only consoling factor is that if it goes that route WFRP 2nd ed can easily give me 10+ years out of playing it before I feel like bursting my bubble.

Fifth Element · July 11, 2009, 10:14:08 PM

Quote from: aramis;312526WFRP1 is well worth it.

I love that book. I never did get a chance to actually play the game, but man did I pore over that book for hour after hour. I should go dig it out and give it a hug right now.

Spinachcat · July 12, 2009, 06:30:35 AM

Quote from: Fifth Element;313261I should go dig it out and give it a hug right now.

When you are done nurgle-fucking it, holler over some friends, roll up some characters and play the damned thing!!!

Fifth Element · July 12, 2009, 08:30:41 AM

Quote from: Spinachcat;313308When you are done nurgle-fucking it, holler over some friends, roll up some characters and play the damned thing!!!

Unfortunately my current gaming friends are mostly casual gamers. They're comfortable with D&D, so we play D&D. They'll try a new system when it's a different genre, like Shadowrun, but I doubt they'd be willing to take the time to learn a new fantasy game. Such is life.

kryyst · July 13, 2009, 11:31:18 AM

Quote from: Fifth Element;313319Unfortunately my current gaming friends are mostly casual gamers. They're comfortable with D&D, so we play D&D. They'll try a new system when it's a different genre, like Shadowrun, but I doubt they'd be willing to take the time to learn a new fantasy game. Such is life.

Warhammer is a completely different genre from D&D. The settings may be similar, but the stock genre's are night and day.

Warthur · July 13, 2009, 11:35:22 AM

I'm going to join the chorus of people calling bullshit. Fantasy Flight go to all that effort to land the system, continue to use the same system in Rogue Trader (if the Free RPG Day adventure is anything to go by), and as far as anyone knows intends to use it in Deathwatch too... but they're planning to burn it all to the ground and come up with a completely different system? Seems bizarre to me.

I am going to be charitable and assume that the person quoted in the OP got their wires crossed, and they were actually testing a new version of Warhammer Quest, or something similar to it.

Fifth Element · July 13, 2009, 11:44:39 AM

Quote from: kryyst;313591Warhammer is a completely different genre from D&D. The settings may be similar, but the stock genre's are night and day.

As I said, they're casual players. You and I may see a huge difference, but they wouldn't, unless they played it.

kryyst · July 13, 2009, 11:48:04 AM

Quote from: Fifth Element;313597As I said, they're casual players. You and I may see a huge difference, but they wouldn't, unless they played it.

I understand. Just saying. Sell it as a different genre to them. If they are willing to play other games, because they want a different experience. Then you may be able to sell them on it. Killing orcs in warhammer feels a lot different then doing the same in D&D. Plus I mean if you are GM'ing the games you may have some pull there. But then again you know your players better then I do.

Bradford C. Walker · July 13, 2009, 11:48:39 AM

Quote from: kryyst;313591Warhammer is a completely different genre from D&D. The settings may be similar, but the stock genre's are night and day.

This is not apparent to a casual gamer. Warhammer looks like D&D, and you do much the same sort of things as D&D, so for a casual gamer it might as well be D&D. It's like trying to argue that two mid-sized cars with similar prices and appearance are really all that different due to their brand names.

kryyst · July 13, 2009, 01:49:50 PM

Quote from: Bradford C. Walker;313599This is not apparent to a casual gamer. Warhammer looks like D&D, and you do much the same sort of things as D&D, so for a casual gamer it might as well be D&D. It's like trying to argue that two mid-sized cars with similar prices and appearance are really all that different due to their brand names.

So your point is then to not bother trying? I know they appear the same from the outside and at a casual glance. If the players are willing to try a different system, like Shadowrun, because it's a different genre. Then you are half way in getting them to play a different system in a similar setting.

aramis · July 13, 2009, 09:31:09 PM

Quote from: Fifth Element;313319Unfortunately my current gaming friends are mostly casual gamers. They're comfortable with D&D, so we play D&D. They'll try a new system when it's a different genre, like Shadowrun, but I doubt they'd be willing to take the time to learn a new fantasy game. Such is life.

WFRP1 is EASIER than D&D, by a considerable margin.

Get it to table, you won't regret it.

Warthur · July 20, 2009, 08:59:39 AM

Hmmm, it looks like this rumour may be based on garbled accounts of this.