Comments on: WFRP2 and the Storm of Chaos http://www.chrispramas.com/2009/09/26/wfrp2-and-the-storm-of-chaos/ The Furious Scribblings of Chris Pramas Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:38:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.10 By: SPQR http://www.chrispramas.com/2009/09/26/wfrp2-and-the-storm-of-chaos/#comment-87 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:38:46 +0000 http://chrispramas.com/?p=27#comment-87 Don't be too hard on yourself. I bought first edition when it first came out, and have all the second edition books. I consider both editions to be great, and don't mind at all that it was set post Storm of Chaos. Ironically, the anti-second edition whiners finally do have something to complain about – the monstrosity that is called third edition!
I'm very, very sad you lost the licence and were unable to produce any more books.

]]> By: Sigmar http://www.chrispramas.com/2009/09/26/wfrp2-and-the-storm-of-chaos/#comment-86 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:01:57 +0000 http://chrispramas.com/?p=27#comment-86 It seems to me that Games Workshop are sometimes constrained simply by their enthusiasm in cross promoting their products.

I guess I can understand them wanting to make sure that there were no conflicting story lines but I prefer your original suggestion ie. that period of time between world changing events.

Interesting blog. I'll be back,
Sigmar

my WFB blog
my Fantasy battles hub

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.chrispramas.com/2009/09/26/wfrp2-and-the-storm-of-chaos/#comment-85 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:26:10 +0000 http://chrispramas.com/?p=27#comment-85 At the time, SoC was being hardcoded into the WFB 7e army books, so in hindsight I can see why it was considered part of the official timeline 5 years ago. Hopefully your licensing bid wasn't penalized because of GW's subsequent waffling. Given the options available at the time, I believe post-SoC was the correct decision.

Arnulfe

]]> By: Chris http://www.chrispramas.com/2009/09/26/wfrp2-and-the-storm-of-chaos/#comment-84 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:26:41 +0000 http://chrispramas.com/?p=27#comment-84 Arnulfe, no, they would not. That's the sort of thing I was suggesting with setting a baseline and then dealing with Storm of Chaos in subsequent books. They wanted me to take the post-SOC approach 2nd edition featured in the core book.

]]> By: Chris http://www.chrispramas.com/2009/09/26/wfrp2-and-the-storm-of-chaos/#comment-83 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:22:46 +0000 http://chrispramas.com/?p=27#comment-83 Julien, by any other company's standards, 4E has sold well. By WotC's standards, I suspect it may not have met expectations. But I'm just guessing based on my conversations with folks in distribution and the book trade. I think what FFG was trying to do was to take something they are good at–making big, expensive boxed games–and apply it to RPGs. If I were them, I'd have tried a proof of concept with the Descent IP before deciding to radically change WFRP.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.chrispramas.com/2009/09/26/wfrp2-and-the-storm-of-chaos/#comment-82 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:07:13 +0000 http://chrispramas.com/?p=27#comment-82 Would GW have allowed you to present the Empire tabula rasa (as v1 did) and then publish a Storm of Chaos campaign with gazetteer info and background for 2522-23?

Arnulfe

]]> By: WILL http://www.chrispramas.com/2009/09/26/wfrp2-and-the-storm-of-chaos/#comment-81 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:35:40 +0000 http://chrispramas.com/?p=27#comment-81 It seems that this story also bears a lesson about meta-plot.

Has anyone ever seen an RPG setting with a heavy meta-plot, where the meta-plot added anything to the game? It seems that a heavy meta-plot inevitably just imposes annoying restrictions on the players and leads to obsolete sourcebooks.

— 77IM

]]> By: Julien http://www.chrispramas.com/2009/09/26/wfrp2-and-the-storm-of-chaos/#comment-80 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:26:18 +0000 http://chrispramas.com/?p=27#comment-80 I really would like to know how well does D&D; 4th edition sell?

This might sound a surprising question for a warhammer thread but when I look at the previews of 3rd edition, it looks like it has been very much inspired by 4th edition.

Do you agree/disagree?

]]> By: James Wallis http://www.chrispramas.com/2009/09/26/wfrp2-and-the-storm-of-chaos/#comment-79 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:37:50 +0000 http://chrispramas.com/?p=27#comment-79 Interesting. Back when Hogshead was publishing WFRP, our line was that the RPG setting was officially five years behind the battle-game setting, which explained the different personality of the Emperor and various other continuity glitches which we promised to iron out in future supplements and actually never did.

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