I have purchased the core set and started a game with three of my friends.

Now one of my friends wants to get a set of rules for himself as well in addition to all the basic cards he needs to describe his character.

Which product should he buy? As far as I understand it the Player's Vault does not have the rule book in it and the Player's Guide does not have the action cards? So to get both the rules and the cards he's pretty much either stuck buying both prodcuts?

Thanks in advance!

Heya,

There are a couple options for him.

1. Buy the Guide, and then follow the Support link from the game page on this site, and have him print the Basic Action reference and cut them out and sleeve the cards (if he only wants a set of basic actions).

2. Buy the Guide, and then buy the Adventurer's Toolkit. That has a copy of all the basic actions, as well as 10 new careers, and some other fun stuff that can contribute to the group.

3. Buy the Guide and the Vault (which has 3 sets of basic actions, and tons of other goodies).

Hope that helps.

If he's only looking to get the rules/actions for his character then a guide and a vault will do that. Actually a guide and just photo copying or writing down his actions on the the expanded character sheet. If he's looking to get the the rules, the gm rules, the magic rules, dice, tokens etc... he's better off to get the core box set.

Your looking at a similar enough price to the core box to buy the vault and guide. I'd buy the core box, you also get the other goodies and most importantly dice.

Check this out: Flowchart for WFRP3 products

Thanks for everyone's responses. I especially liked the flowchart

While it seems to me that the $100 for the core box is very justified I find it very unfortunate that for a player to learn and join a game he has to spend $100 just to get the players' guide and toolkit.

All he would really need is the Player's Guide. Since he's your third player, your core box will have enough basic action cards for him as well. If you have been playing for a while you certainly have been using the cards anyhow. If he wants to get deeper into the game, a better bet would be to buy a copy of the core box rather than the Player's Guide and Vault. When you add the price of those and consider the pile of dice that comes with the core box, he would make out rather well.

If he intends or think he might want to run his own game one day, the core box is really the only way to go, despite the price tag.

EDIT: Oops, too slow to beat Kladan, sorry mate.