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Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 21:33:00 No.14752733 View View Reply Original Report

/tg/ I'm pretty bored of playing Dork Heresy and Rouge Trader, I'm interested in the Warham Fantasy RPG , but uh, like most people I dunno anything ABOUT Warham Fantasy. Do I really need an extensive knowledge about the setting before I can make a really good adventure? If so what should I read to broaden my understanding?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 21:35:00 No.14752741 Report

Quoted By: >>14752755 >>14752761

Shits the same as any other generic high fantasy setting.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 21:35:00 No.14752745 Report

Quoted By: >>14752748

>>14752733
2nd or 3rd?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 21:36:00 No.14752748 Report

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>>14752745
Please don't play 3e OP.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 21:37:00 No.14752755 Report

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>>14752741
go back to your deep and unique 40Gay kid

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 21:38:00 No.14752761 Report

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>>14752741
It's not high fantasy though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 21:39:00 No.14752767 Report

Quoted By: >>14752819 >>14752849

Imagine a world where the Scandinavians worship Chaos, the Americans are lizardpeople ruled by frogs, the Canadians are evil elves, there's an island in the middle of the Atlantic filled with regular elves, the Middle East is Egyptian undead, and there's a mountain range between Europe and Russia/Asia filled with dwarfs.

And giant sentient rat-people under everything.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 21:40:00 No.14752774 Report

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Its HRE with lots of grimdarkness. Make peasents really stupid, nobles corrupt, cities overcrowded and the forest full with lurking beasts. Just like 40k.
Read the Sons of Sigmar supplement. It will give you the key elements for a game.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 21:41:00 No.14752779 Report

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Gotrek and Felix is pretty much required reading; those books made me want to play WFRP so badly when I read through the first few.

The Old World of Warhammer Fantasy is basically Renaissance Europe with elves and dwarfs etc, and a lot more pleasant than 40k. Sure, people are dying, and there are rat monsters in the sewers nobody knows about, but at least the Empire know how their tech works and seem to be holding together pretty well.

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Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 21:46:00 No.14752806 Report

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2e WFRP is one of the best RPG systems ever. Hands fucking down.

The core book explains about all you need to know about the setting.
The setting map is basically Europe, with the Empire being Germany.
You can even disregard a lot of the setting details if you want and just play it as a grim fantasy setting at the verge of the renaissance where magic exists but is dangerous and rare.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 21:48:00 No.14752819 Report

Quoted By: >>14752831

>>14752767

And Russia/Mongolia is Ogres that are capable of eating anything.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 21:49:00 No.14752831 Report

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>>14752819
I was just listing the differences to real life, not the parts that are the same.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 21:50:00 No.14752842 Report

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There are lots of little details that can make for fun references in a game, but it is not required. I'm running a game with a group that has one veteran of the setting, one guy who's getting into it, and three who haven't read anything outside of skimming the core book, and they all manage to have a decent time.

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Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 21:50:00 No.14752844 Report

Quoted By: >>14752861 >>14753031

Cathay and Nippon supplements WHEN, GW?

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Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 21:51:00 No.14752849 Report

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>>14752767
The middle east is just the middle east. The civilisation of mummies are in Egypt, but there's also Arabay. They are Arabs.

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Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 21:51:00 No.14752850 Report

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Play 2nd edition. For lore: Lexicanum, various WHRP suplements (linky: http://www.mediafire.com/?j8jeey9tkf4a6), main WHFB rulebooks.

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Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 21:52:00 No.14752861 Report

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>>14752844
Never. Ever. The fan ones are largely meh, too. The only fan supplement for an unexplored part of the setting I really dug was the one on Tilea, which worked its ass off to be a fun book to read instead of a rehash of a wikipedia article.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 21:59:00 No.14752901 Report

Quoted By: >>14752908 >>14752914 >>14752954

Hasn't Games Workshop for all intents and purposes closed down WFRP for good?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 22:00:00 No.14752908 Report

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>>14752901
You could say that. Luckily for us, 2e is all we'll ever need. You can't improve on perfection.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 22:00:00 No.14752909 Report

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>>14752733
What is the green lady supposed to be in OP's pic?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 22:00:00 No.14752914 Report

Quoted By: >>14752916

>>14752901

pretty much, mostly because it's not Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader

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Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 22:01:00 No.14752916 Report

Quoted By: >>14752939

>>14752914
the guy's wife ended up tainted by Nurgle

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Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 22:06:00 No.14752939 Report

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>>14752916
oh its from that comic.

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Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 22:09:00 No.14752946 Report

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That's some pretty fail semi-realistic armor.
Amors like that are extremely annoying as you have a hard time moving your arm up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 22:11:00 No.14752954 Report

Quoted By: >>14753007

>>14752901
GW hates Warhammer Fantasy in every form.

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Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 22:22:00 No.14753007 Report

Quoted By: >>14753012

>>14752954

Yeah, I'm sure they hate the thing that makes them a ton of money and is their most popular product in a good chunk of the world.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 22:23:00 No.14753012 Report

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>>14753007
Apparently the profits they make from 40K in the US alone eclipses what they make from Fantasy worldwide, why else would they put so much emphasis on 40K all the time?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 22:27:00 No.14753031 Report

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>>14752844
>Cathay and Nippon supplements WHEN, GW?
for WHFB prob next summer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 22:29:00 No.14753039 Report

Quoted By: >>14753140

Yeah outside scandinavia and a few other places WH40K crushes WHFB (and it's getting there in scandinavia too).

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 22:44:00 No.14753140 Report

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>>14753039
last I checked 40K only dominates Fantasy in the US

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