Now that it appears that 2e is coming to an end, what was the single best book? If you could use only ONE book besides the main one, which would it be?

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Define, "coming to an end"...
Is there a press release I missed?

One of the big GW people posted about playtesting 3e. Be afraid.

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I'm going to run with Tome of Corruption. Chaos is iconic in WFRP. A nice big chunky book devoted to chaos and using it in game is great. It caters to 'big spiky shoulder pads' evil as well as the subtle 'this book is going to mess with your mind and corrupt your soul' evil. It provides rules for playing a chaos champion and his retinue, albeit a lighter version than we saw in realms of chaos. It has in-depth background for playing witchhunters. It has rules for playing various beastmen and a nice chapter on playing a Norseman. It also has a d1000 mutation table with results like beast with a 1000 eyes.

It is so full of information I cannot do it justice. As a DM, or a player with an interest in chaos you'll more than get your moneys worth.

Quote from: RPGPundit;313078One of the big GW people posted about playtesting 3e. Be afraid.

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I'm pretty sure he's just fucking with people.  It combines too many unbelievable claims- dice pools, boardgame, not having time to roleplay.  It's just too contrived.

But to answer the question at hand, I have to go with the Old World Bestiary, despite its lamentable lack of Zoats, Fimir, and Razorbeaks.  The awesome quotes section almost hides the fact that the book is only half useful content (which should have gone in the overpriced corebook)!

Quote from: RPGPundit;313078One of the big GW people posted about playtesting 3e. Be afraid.

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I guessed I missed that.
The post doesnt sound very promising.
Is this GW attempt to re-own the game as a RPG/Boardgame hybrid?

Quote from: Lawbag;313318Is this GW attempt to re-own the game as a RPG/Boardgame hybrid?

Certainly looks like it, though I'm still not convinced this isn't a hoax, personally.

While the Bestiary, Tome of Chaos, and Tome of Sorcery are certainly must have books.  If I had to pick a favorite I'd have to go with The Border Princes.  I think it has to be one of the most useful RPG books in general.  While it's certainly Warhammer centric.  It's map creation and population rules are useful for any game.

As for that 3e post, still seems like BS.  There's been more and more Warhammer content being released by Fantasy Flight Games with the Chaos Board Game, a just announced LCG and talks of them redoing a Warhammer Quest style game.  They also just released more 2e pdf's.   I don't doubt that there will be a 3e Warhammer.  That' play test though isn't it.

Im not sure FFG could, would, or should even do a Warhammer Quest styled game.

They already have a couple of them, the most notable being Descent.

Wouldn't that be a bit of a conflict?

Unless they are like, gonna make a Warhammer themed version of Descent which makes lots of sense, especially if GW gets to make and sell more overpriced miniatures for it.

And I have 2nd ed Fantasy and plenty for it so it doesnt much matter what they do.  They can't take it away from me after all.

Say it with me people:

A NEW EDITION DOESN'T MEAN YOU HAVE TO STOP PLAYING THE OLD ONE OR BUY THE NEW ONE.  

Show some backbone, seriously.  We consumers have more power than we realize if we would stop being whores.

And I am going with the Bestiary.  That's good reading.  I wish the 40K monster book was that awesome.

Quote from: Captain Rufus;313645Im not sure FFG could, would, or should even do a Warhammer Quest styled game.

They already have a couple of them, the most notable being Descent.

Wouldn't that be a bit of a conflict?

While it may seem like a conflict I don't think it is.  They have Talisman, Descent, WoW: The Board Game, WoW the Adventure game, Runebound, Middle-Earth Quest.  Then you've also got Starcraft, Tannhauser, Doom, Gears of War (coming out), Conan, Dust, War of the Ring, Knights & Warriors and A Game of Thrones and Chaos in the Old World.

Basically they already have a ton of content that overlaps itself.  They all have certain similarities they are all different and will appeal to different people.  While I personally have no desire to play Doom, Gears of War actually appeals to me.  By the same token I don't like Talisman, Descent and I'm not a big fan of Runebound.  I really like WoW:TAG and would really love a Warhammer Quest style game even though I'm a big fan of another game called Dungeoneer that's got some similarities.  

They'll have no problem selling a Warhammer Quest style game at all.  Warhammer is currently one of the best selling IP's around and it's ganing massive ground based on the internet buzz that pops up anytime anything new is mentioned for the game.

All of them.

2nd "funny," answer:  Pirates and Privateers (my own little joke about the best WEG Star Wars supplement, tee-hee).

My answer:  I'd have to go with Tome of Corruption as I just think its so damn cool, but everything listed so far is golden in one way or another.

Tome of Corruption owns my ass. Endless monsters & other crap that can be thrown at the players.

After (or lacking) that, Old World Bestiary, since the monster section in the main book was pretty poor IMO.

What I'd love to see is a Warhammer 2E Revised, one book, consisting of the following:

   the WFRP 2E core book
   Old World Armoury
   Old World Bestiary
   Sigmar's Heirs
   the extra spells from Realms of Sorcery
   the extra spells from that cleric book

At this point, you'd have a tome that could give the first edition WFRP book a run for its money. It would be pretty complete, and could give years of play with just one book, like the 1E book did for me.

Hey, I can dream...

Renegade Crowns was the only 2E supplement I got (I never felt like upgrading to 2E at all) and I thought it was spectacular. The line could have used a dungeon and treasure generator book/web supplement though.

The WHFRP companion. Just a bunch of cool extra stuff,

It was a hard choice between that and Renegade Crowns. Kingdom generating is a lot of fun.

I think for me it'd be a tie between Tome of Corruption and Renegade Crowns; both are awesome.

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