How did you feel that day? How do you feel now?

By Emirikol, in Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

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News for August 2009
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Official Press Release 87
Roleplay for a New (and Grim) Age
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay | Published 12 August 2009 Rating
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FFG is proud to have announced the release of the new edition of the classic Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying Game.

Official Press Release Below:

Fantasy Flight Games Announces Warhammer ® Fantasy Roleplay ™ 3rd Edition

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 12th 2009.

Fantasy Flight Games (“FFG”) announced today they will release Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 3rd Edition, a new version of the classic roleplaying game set in Games Workshop's Warhammer world. This version features an entirely new innovative approach to role-playing, one that FFG hopes will attract a whole new generation of gamers to the role-playing experience.

"We're proud to re-introduce the Warhammer world to role-playing with this revolutionary approach,” said Christian T. Petersen, CEO of FFG. “It is one that harnesses the flavor of prior WFRP editions, but brings about that experience in a more evocative, tactile, and visual way than the past," he continued. "We’ve worked long and hard to to publish a game that we hope will represent a positive paradigm shift in roleplaying game design, production, and play experience. This is not another re-tread of the traditional RPG approach, this is something new, something exciting. Something that existing RPG fans will want to test for themselves."

The massive Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 3rd Edition box, which will retail for $99.95, contains everything a group of adventurers will need to play – four different rule-books, 36 custom dice, over 300 cards, counters, “character keeper” boxes, and much more.

"We're bringing something new to the table," added Jay Little, Senior RPG Developer for the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay line. "This is a roleplaying system that captures the grim and gritty Warhammer world that fans have grown to love, wrapped up in an innovative design and shipped with the stunning production quality that FFG is known for."

Jay Little will be hosting seminars showcasing Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 3rd Edition at the Gen Con games convention in Indianapolis, IN August 13-15, where a preview of the core set and its components will be on display in FFG’s booth. Preview articles will begin their publication on FFG's website – www.fantasyflightgames.com – in the weeks following the Gen Con convention and will continue leading up to the game's release this Fall.

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Well, I wasn't "there" that day… I came to WFRP3 only last year (thanks to my wife offering it to me again after a 15 years break). However, when I did get my Core Box of WFRP3, November of last year, I was really impressed by the game. I am still today, after a year of GMing/playing it as often as I can (mostly online through FG2 though… except with my family every so often).

As I said many time on this board, I think FFG released a great RPG in WFRP3 that could have brought many new players to the RPG genre. They botched the releasing/communication part, but they got the game design part. Many people don't like the cards and bits, I and my family players love them. It makes it much easier to comprehend the state of your character or of an adventure.

As an old but new again GM, I also felt those components made it easier for me to convert/build from old adventures, and to run adventures..

As for today, I am particularly excited about FFG embarking onto their Star Wars RPG, and while they decided to drop the cards and bits (surely too expensive to maintain for an RPG), I'll probably go ahead and design my own. I am also glad they seemed to have learned from their mistakes with WFRP3.

Cheers
Ceodryn

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Coulda, shoulda done a much better job with it. Oh well. I'll buy The Enemy Within and play it with my semi-broken house rules :D

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I did forget to say that I am "relatively" excited about FFG releasing The Enemy Within.

I will buy it, but I doubt I'll ever GM it in its entirety as I don't have a permanent gaming group to do so. I am however looking forward to read it, and as I do so, will remember fondly, my first ever RPG and campaig, the original Enemy Within.

Cheers
Ceodryn

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It's entertaining looking back to it's announcement and then the responses from the people who played the DEMO (back on page 148 or thereabouts of the forums): http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_foros_discusion.asp?efid=149&efcid=46&efidt=234477

People playing it mainly commented on how they liked the system and how it played. Some didn't like "the bits."

jh