WFRP 2nd

[Fellfrosch]

Sending you Ashes of Middenheim might work pretty well, Mr. P: I'll only have time to test Plundered Vaults, so dividing up the workload would help us get everything reviewed in good time. How about this: I'll do the main book, the character pack, and Plundered Vaults, and you do the GM Pack, the Bestiary, and Ashes of Middenheim; just paypal me the shipping cost and I'll pop it in the mail. Sound like a deal?

[Mr_Pleasington]

That sir, sounds like an excellent idea.

Just send me your paypal link and the shipping cost.


@Entropy:  Someone is updating TEW?  Ooooh, where?

[Entsuropi]

Check the BI forums for it, it's on there somewhere. I saw a few mentions of such a thing.

[Fellfrosch]

The review has landed: http://www.timewastersguide.com/view.php?id=1064

I played this back in high school and loved it; the new edition brings back all that Warhammery goodness and mixes it with cool new elements, a much-needed design balance, and some overall great writing. I highyl recommend it.

[Spriggan]

You really need to learn to close your HTML tags Fell, this time it was both the link and italics tags.

Anyway, Both Entropy and Fell teaming up for a review is nothing sacred?

[Entsuropi]

Aw man. You lost my bacon introduction!

[Fellfrosch]

Yeah, sorry. I kept most of your stuff, but I couldn't make the bacon thing work.

[Fellfrosch]

Holy cow, Spriggan: if you thought the html was bad, just imagine how bad the review would have looked if you knew how to spell. That's what I get for writing and editing when it's too late and I have a headache that pulses with unearthly life.

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You know, for having been around RP gamer for most of my life and hanging around the people that come to this board, I never knew WFRP existed or what it was until I read this review a couple minutes ago. I guess the miniatures obscured it from me.

[Fellfrosch]

Well, it's never been a huge game, just a well-loved one by its core group of fans. I'm hoping that the new edition will catch on a bit more, but we'll see.

[Spriggan]

Holy cow, Spriggan: if you thought the html was bad, just imagine how bad the review would have looked if you knew how to spell. That's what I get for writing and editing when it's too late and I have a headache that pulses with unearthly life.

Holy cow Fell it's not my job to spell correctly!

[Fellfrosch]

I know that, I'm just saying that the article was much worse than you thought. You only pointed out a small portion of its many mistakes.

[Spriggan]

It was more of a friendly reminder, since I usealy fix the end tags (for discuss this in our forums) in 4 out of 5 articles you post.

[The Jade Knight]

So, my copy of 2nd edition came in the mail yesterday, along with the Bestiary and Plundered Vaults.

I've been going through the rules whenever I have a chance, and I'd like to say that the game is vastly improved in some big ways (particularly magic, and balancing, and a few other things, like actions), and it's worse in a few little ways (I don't like way they treat some of the weapons, I think the way skills are handled now is more D&Dish I don't like it).

Overall I'm glad I got it, but I'm disappointed that anything got worse since 1st edition.  I mean, there was no point for them to to make the skill system stupider, except that now it's more streamlined for moronic players.

I also think there are parts where the D10 really feels "forced" - where other rolls would make more sense, but they kept a D10 just to make everything D10.

[Entsuropi]

How is the skills system worse? They added the +10/+20 skill mastery thing, for starters.