This is sounding much more useful than the crappy GM kit.

If you guys missed my post from late last week, I've updated the Component List with a generic list of components and cards for The Gathering Storm.

I've also created a separate component list for The Gathering Storm that has the specific names and details.

** The Card & Component List May Contain Some Spoilers! If you are going to participate in this adventure as a player, you may wish to skip this list.**

These resources can always be accessed via the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Support Page.

Qingtian said:

Awesome! Details about the stuff quoted above would be apprecieated.

PanzerKraken said:

Man, you're a ray of sunshine on every forum!

Good news to gamers in the UK. Leisure Games have literally just had delivery of both the GM's Toolkit AND the Gathering Storm. They will be at Salute 2010 at the Excel Center in London, this Saturday. If you contact them before lunchtime on Friday they will put aside copie/s for you to be picked up at Salute, otherwise it will be first come, first served there. They will post to you as well, though I would get in touch ASAP. I don't work for Leisure Games, though I have bought numerous products from them over the years, and hope fellow gamers will find this information useful for acquiring these much awaited products. Happy gaming!

LeBlanc13 said:

80 pages

ajtheronin said:

Drinking rule is pretty much 1st drink with no roll required, with each additional drink you add on 1 challenge die for the test. There are condition card that cover people who are drunk, and a card which I assume was for morning after.

Spell cards are not at work unfortunately, I will post the title of the cards later.

Qing, the list of card titles is available online already.

Maybe you could give ppl a page count for the different sections of the book? Like how much space is devoted to the town/part 1/etc.

keltheos said:

Stromdorf runs from p.9 top.22, which covers the town and surrounding lands, still reading my copy at the minute...

ragnar63 said:

Some stores got their copies today - mine did anyhow, I picked up both! Never thought I'd see the GMs kit in the UK!

Qingtian said:

More than I expected. 80 pages can give quite a bit of information. Maybe there is hope for this product. I look forward to reading through it.

InfinityDoctor said:

I like that. 13 pages is meaty enough to describe a setting but not so much that much that leave nothings to the imagination (and therefore GM creativity).

What's the amount of each type of standup?

Sounds good! I should get mine about mid-may (stupid Amazon), and it sounds like it was money well spent.

I'm really happy with it - and nobody these days spends nearly thirty quid lightly, so I'm glad I didn't feel like I'd wasted my money! (It was an expensive day for me, with the GM's toolkit and Unknown Regions for Star Wars at the same time...)

Stromdorf is a suitably dreary, squalid, disease-ridden backwater - a town that should have thrived, but didn't. The Stromdorf chapter is nicely evocative, the town has character and there should be sufficient opportunity for side-adventures of your own design (allowing for the dramatic device of the growing storm, of course - haven't finished getting everything straight in my head yet, so not sure how much of a constraint that will prove to be.)

With regard to stand ups, you get 23 of them (of varying sizes) - I don't want to say what they are because of spoilers, but between them they represent 16 different characters/creature types.

InfinityDoctor said:

What they are specifically is what I wanted to know :/ Oh well, hopefully someone posts a picture. sometime soon :]

mykelsss said:

Yeah, sorry, I'm not wanting to post a complete list, cos knowing whats on the stand ups would pretty much tell any players reading what they were facing in the adventure. I suppose I can say that, of the "group" monsters, there are three identical stand-ups for each group. Everything else is an NPC or unique monster.

I'll wait to see when I get mine. Something to be surprised about. Is the art nice?

Oh, and is there a map of Stromdorf in there? (as 'in the book' since there wasn't one in the components list IIRC)

there is a complete list of components on the support page including the stand ups; obviously the list contains spoilers....

Does the adventure seem fun?

Any transition from Eye for an Eye?

The art is to FFG's usual standards, so no complaints there.

There's no map of Stromdorf in the book. There is an abstract map on one of the handout cards, which really just shows the main locations in relation to each other. I guess they went for a more cinematic approach, not needing to show every single building and whats in there.

The adventure is indeed fun and makes good use of the tracker mechanics, amongst other things. There is no direct link to an Eye For An Eye (unless I missed something, I'm still reading in between posting here) - there is a brief paragraph in the section about getting the players involved that mentions a means of moving from the end of an Eye For An Eye into Storm, but the idea given isn't one I'd use myself.

There are suggestions for each of the Party Types, but GMs will probably find their own reasons to get the PCs to Stromdorf, based on their own characters history, goals etc.

Just saw the component list....

Is this the 'meat' of the game that I've been feeling is sorely lacking? (glimmer of hope appears in doubter's eye.)

Everything sound interesting except for the missing map. I can't stand when companies do that. Here is a city to use as your base of operations.. but we will only give you a rudimentary map if any, for you to use.

The irony for me is I've been working on converting some 2e campaign stuff over so we can keep playing (mixing in my own adventureness to it, but makes life so much easier to use something pregen to build from) but we've had a couple delays that have postponed our sessions rather than waiting for TGS to arrive. It took so long, but now that it's here it looks like I can just run it instead. (and digest enough to get rolling tomorrow evening)

Darrett said:

Same sentiment here. Dumb ol' Amazon. Looks like it will be well worth it.

New innovative ways to use the tracker mechanism? Anyone want to expand on that?