Mal Reynolds said:
Loswaith said:
Well atleast the Designer Diary was accurate in the title, it speaks much of the way it seems Warhammer has been taken.
The one thing I realy liked about Warhammer was as a PC you are an average joe, now you arent. Henchman AKA mooks, are way past the boundry of the game being about average people becoming more only by circumstance.
Don`t make me laugh? PC in warhammer the Average Joe? What, you took away their FATE POINTS? That`s not nice.
Average people in the Warhammer world don`t have FATE POINTS, heroes and adventurers as well as certain antagonists have it, but not the average run-of-the-mill.
Aaand you spectacularly miss the point. Fate Points are the ONLY things seperating normal people from PCs/major antagonists etc, at least at first career. In something like D&D, the PCs are so ridiculously overpowered compared to NPCs that it breaks realism (not that D&D wants that, its just what made WFRP so much better in my opinion)
The henchmen rules throw enemy protagonists back into being much, much worse than the PCs. However, I do note that there was talk in the article of a non-henchman Gor vs a henchman Gor, so its an optional rule in any case - the intention is probably just to speed up large battles.