I got quite a few recommendations the only one that i'm not keen on is the one by mr. fox, he's a cunt and i'm not sure i would want to play his game even if i got it for free. (I think i actually did get it for free but the dude is such a POS it soured the grapes for me)
I'd use Zweihander. It's sleeker than WFRP4, and there is a fan made rule expansion to play using Zwei rules and WFRP setting:
https://www.kalevalahammer.com/p/blog-page_10.html
IMHO while Zweihander has some interesting ideas (few new professions are fine), interesting spell specific rules for miscast and overcast, Peril, it's also IMHO quite bloated, and not really sleeker. Like a big book of houserules that evolved into new system.
Yes and no. I like SotDL, but the characters feel much more like D&D characters in a WFRP/D&D hybrid setting (and with somewhat of a WFRP life expectancy). It's a fun game, but it doesn't feel like WFRP to me. There's too little of the politics and mundane struggles that I think of eith WFRP. On the other hand, if your WFRP is more focused on the end times and fighting face to face with beasties and Chaos warriors, then SotDL may do it better.
Agree. SotDL is it's own good, but feel is far from Warhammer.
From what I can actually remember off hand, he and pundit I know had a back and forth but as I understand it he’s harassed people not sure if it got legal or not. My reasons are he pretty much copy pasted whfrp 2e filed off the serial numbers and then aggressively goes after anyone who so much as looks at his “IP” sideways. His games lecture the reader on various isms, and my final straw for him was I went into the discord asking about the game. He’s even got a bot in there that filters banned words and phrases and oh boy it is extensive. I think he makes the high lords of terra jealous with how extensive it is. Basically if you’re going to play his whfrp clone then just pirate everything.
From the little bit I actually talked to him the dude just lives and breathes cringe. I didn’t get banned or make a big scene I just quietly left the server and good riddance. Like you know those people you meet and you immediately know you don’t like them?
This is guy who get banned even from SJW servers and sites, for how obnoxious self-centred he is.
Imagine those moments when Pundit makes somehow unnecessary adverts of Lion and Dragon here. Now umph level of annoyance 10 times, and spread it among all possible sites Fox could reach.
I myself in terms of actual Warhammer would go with 4e I guess. Opposite roll combat with advantages is IMHO way funnier than Warhammer 2e fighting. Atribute-skill advancement schemes are also better, without need to constantly move through professions as 1e and 2e had (because now progression within given profession is basically infinite.). I'd say skill based magic is bit more meh, I prefered 2e with it's take making magic bit more own thing. But it's still Warhammer Colour Winds magic dangerous enough to not use it in most situations.