I was never into Warhammer anyway, but with this, I can understand why I’ll never be.
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Woops. Typos changing the meaning of my posts there. I meant:

Having read a bit more, I’m now worried that they are trying to do away with things like the low success rates, high likelihood of death and dark settings for something more akin to traditional RPGs where PCs are bastions of strength and can take on enemies with barely a scratch. So, in other words, I’m worried that it’s taking the Warhammer out of Warhammer.
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The Bear and the Sloth very much echo my reaction upn seeing the FFG site. Honestly, I feel I should have seen the writing on the wall when Dark Heresy turned out to be the glossy monsterous coffee table that it is. (No. No typeo.)

I like FFG they make some very, very fine games. But, this just pisses me off. I had wanted to expand my 2e WFRP collection. I was looking forward to it. I just thought of another clue I missed. The Career Compendium. Minute these companies start putting everything in one place for the fans, it seems to mean they’re getting ready to garotte us with a new edition.

Mallard Duckers.

It’s this sort of thing that drives previously honest consumers to piracy.
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Heh. Looks like there’s a Warhammer Old School Revolution brewing.

http://alifefullofadventure.blogspot.com/2009/08/warhammer-frp-3e.html

http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2009/08/wfrp-news.html

I hate to say it grognards, but it’s looking like the industry isn’t much interested in what you think. They’re looking at making money off the new generation.

I’m predicting that, despite blog/forum whining, this game will be pretty good AND sell very well.

You know, you can stop whining about my blog post and take your piss and moan storms somewhere else.

(I’m totally kidding, of course. Being parodic. Poking fun. I appreciate people coming by and expressing alternate opinions).

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Also admit to expecting a port of DH into WHFRP – not as cut up as all that though – FFG don’t do cheap books and DH/RT take up enough budget kthxbi. Still the hardcore fans will shell out anyway. Still I also play 4E so it’s not like this isn’t happening to me already. /

“Unparalleled story-telling opportunities.” This is at the level of Arnold Rimmer playing Risk isn’t it?
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http://icv2.com/articles/news/15631.html
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I was actually quite impressed by the design, based on what I’ve heard here: http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffg_content/wfrp/3_media/wfrp3seminar.html
They obviously took the stance that cards were the way to go, and built some pretty awesome stuff off of it; randomly selecting a starting career? Shuffle it. The wounds system is equally awesome; “I took 3 of my four wounds, but one of them was a ringing blow to the head and the other was an arrow piercing my arm muscle”.

Now I don’t know enough of how it plays/was tested to see if the whole comes together, but at the moment I want to give them full marks for bravery, and zero marks for marketing! Fast clear-up is only a concern when you realise how card-based it is, and “amazing revolutionary mechanics” with no information just makes people scream!

As to the actual mechanics? Very multi-layered, possibly too information rich, in that they may overload new players. Lot’s of interpretation of the dice, sitting for a moment and then laying out the scene of what your guy just did, and what happened to him.

My intuition is as follows; players roll for themselves as before, but this time roll a quantity of d8s and d6s, representing skills and training, vs d8s that represent difficulty penalties. Aside from the obvious shift in probabilities, which I suspect make success more common but more conditional, two big differences that seem to appear are that players do much more of the narrating of their own opposition, (with the assumption that you’re only playing wfrp if you like seeing your character face awful stuff), and the addition of 4th ed style action cards.

In summary, it sounds like everway and 4e teamed up and did a two pronged attack on wfrp from either side, but ended up killing the “basic roleplay” element and leaving most of the rest of it there. I expect the new one to be more like a horror paced shadowrun of all things, with the back-handed victories and handfuls of dice.

I’d be interested to see what happens with rules creep, my anticipation is that this may be a game that handles it much better than most, just like mtg does, and I’d also like to see what happens with people making their own group cards; that could be a whole new conduit for game advice from more experienced rp-ers.

Oh I know what you mean! I’m hoping that “heroic only” is an exaggeration, and that stuff is simply expansions of the later careers. Not sure where I got that hope from though!