WHFRP 3

Crazy Aido

Anyone played it yet?

I ran a short campaign that died a bit of death, but was just wondering if anyone else was running it or wut wut wut.

What do people think?

Sarky

I tried, I did. But it doesn't do anything that the last edition already did with fewer dice and fiddly little bits that always get lost. I doubt you'll ever see it run at a convention.

The dice system is pretty nice, to be fair to it. Any other game, maybe I'd approve. But I think it's wholly unnecessary for WHFRP. All they really needed to do was hire an actual editor for 2nd ed. and stop releasing tiny hardback books for stupid amounts of money.

Crazy Aido

So did you buy the box?

My wife got me the box and also really helped out with the whole storage end of things. Elastic bands, tiny little tin boxes and such.

WHFRP 2 was a catagory of misspelled woe, I agree, but such a game! The tome of corruption and the tome of salvation were my two best buys. I almost have them all.

I actually look at WHFRP3 as a completely different game, in the same way you could enjoy a game of DnD 4 so long as you had never heard of 3.5.

Crazy Aido

So yes, to follow up with a shameless bump...

I would like to either run or participate in such a game, anyone know somewhere with interested parties?

Conall Cernach

What's the difference between 3rd ED and First? I'm showing my age a bit here but I played first when it was first released and quite like the setting and the professions. I didn't like the combat system or the fact that you were limited in your WS etc. for all eternity based on what you rolled on start up e.g. you have a soldier with 30 WS starting out but even with changing professions a few times you can only ever achieve 70 max (I think).

Crazy Aido

It's a much different system now, it's no longer percentiles or anything...

Conall Cernach

Crazy Aido wrote: »

It's a much different system now, it's no longer percentiles or anything...

I might just check it out then.

Crazy Aido

So... Horrified yet? TOld you it was different didn't I?

Crazy Aido

So, did you get a chance to look at it?

Baggio...

I personally prefer the first two editions that were released. But it's all good if yiz' are enjoying the game.

Crazy Aido

True enough, wfrp2 is actually a good system and it's backed up by a lot of top notch background. Wfrp3 is in a sense a very different game from the previous two systems. It includes a system where you can, (wait for it) succeed at stuff on a frequent basis...

Sarky

Pfft. Half the fun of WHFRP is the catastrophic failure and punishing consequences...

Crazy Aido

True, haggling for a chicken usually results in catastrophic mutation. (Though we all know chicken wrangling makes you blind oooooooooh)

I can work with this system though. Before I would have been, I dunno, scared, worried, afraid I might kill them to easily, now it's all in the hands of the dice. Critical hits are easy to pick up and a bugger to get rid of, and you can play the slow fine-I-can't-kill-you-but-I-can-hit-you-with-nurglings-that-will-be-easy-to-kill-but-hey-is-that-a-tentacle-growing-out-your-ear? game...