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Second edition was my entry point to this game as well, taught by a Polish man who could hold all the secrets of the scenarios from us. He didn't expect so many barrels to be thrown from stairwells however.

C7 has done a tremendous job! Beautiful art, terrific rule set, great stories. Their customer service is also great - they’ve helped me out on a couple of occasions.

Am literally just getting into WFRP and TTRPGs in general. Have got the Humble Bundle starter set and about to GM it for my sons. Been getting everything ready and am quite excited about the whole thing! 😁

Love it. I’m Just discovering 4th edition after playing 1st edition in my childhood. Love the setting, love the system. Cubicle 7 have done a good job on 4th edition and the books are gorgeous. Also great VTT support with Foundry as well

The Old World is an amazing fantasy setting.

I'm just getting into WFRP 4e now with 2 of my buddies. We're doing mini sessions and multiple timelines so each of us get to DM for 3-5 sessions and switch. So we all get to play a bit and DM. I just did my first go round and it's really a great system. Combat feels dangerous and rewarding. There's so much information in the book, so it's a little slow just grasping everything but it does flow quite well. D100 is just so simple. Definitely excited to see how it goes long term. i just created my first character - We are playing as human sigmar priests going South to Araby on a campaign for Frederik the 3rd to bring Sigmar's word and gain a foothold in the South.

I played Warhammer FRP back in the late '80s/early '90s just after taking the gateway RPG drug the was Dragon Warriors. It was the cover art that primarily attracted me, although GW products were heavily pushed in Warlock magazine so that may have played a part. First edition had some of the best cover art I've ever seen on any RPG. It screams 'pick me up and play me now'.

Old World WFRP has definitely been one of my longest running TTRPG obsessions.. I bought the first edition in the mid 80s within a year of it release. I forget the exact year but I was playing original AD&D at the time and thinking this world was so much heavier and more exotic than the standard heroic high fantasy style Greyhawk game settings TSR was running at the time. It's definitely a classic even if GW blew the setting up in favor of the absolutely dreadful Age of Sigmar. Absolutely groundbreaking and has influenced my hobby interests even until this day. Thumbs up on this video

Getting back into WFRP with 4th Ed after heavily playing 1st and 2nd Edition first time round in the 80s and 90s. I want everything from the Cubicle 7 store but my bank manager won’t allow it all at once! Love everything about the game and the setting. Hope to see more WFRP content on this channel.

I can't speak for 1st or 2nd edition, I only have the 4th but that one is absolutely brilliant. You said that they had no reason to put the Guide to Ubersreik in and yeah, right, but I'm so glad they did. It's just mindblowing how they managed to keep it interesting and fun to read and at the same time give the reader ways to actually use the book. I think the starter set is worth getting for the guide alone. And the rest of the publications are as good. Cubicle 7 has done an amazing job and you can see that they clearly love their own game.

Awesome video on WFRP! Would love MANY MORE videos on WFRP, particularly 1st & 4th editions and all their supplement books! Thanks!

Yes! More WFRP please! Maybe some „best of“?

Really good overview - thanks for posting it! I bought first edition during my Uni days in the early Nineties and loved the setting. SO different from DnD! Also have second and fourth editions, but I think first will always have a special place in my heart. Really liking fourth edition and just bought the guide to Altdorf. Thanks for firing up my enthusiasm for WFRP again!

I GM'd 1st and 2nd edition, I loved this game so much. I even used it to run a D&D campaign.

I’m a 100% behind you on this one! I liked first edition, but the real fun came with 2nd ed. We played it all the time! I’ll skip the third ed rant I feel coming, let’s just say it’s garbage. Now we are about to start on fourth edition and I’m super excited! Glad to hear you like it, I’m sure I will too. What to play? I’m gonna make me my first ever Slayer ❤

1st and 2nd edition WFRP. Thanks for the share!!

Margin of success is actually something 3e did. At least something to say about that edition;) It was not Warhammer. But the System was reinvented later in Starwars and Genesys RPG and there it is really cool.

I've only played WHFRP once, about 20 years back. It was a one-shot set in, I think, Middenheim during the RPG's version of a Blood Bowl tournament. I don't remember any of the detail, but it was suitably madcap.

If you ever sat with your friends and said "Wouldn't it be cool if a rat exterminator, a riverboat laborer, and a grave robber had to save the town from goat men?" this is the game for you! The design choice to mostly steer away from the heroic table top wargame careers and choose common village careers I will never understand.

Got the core book about a year or so ago and really love the setting, mood and the art. Great book. Problem is I have no-one to play with. 😄 Finding games online seems difficult as well, but still keen on getting more supplements just to read.

Huge fan of WFRP, thinking of picking up again and probably going to stick with 2nd. I picked up the 4th ed starter, and had real issues with the amount of railroading the adventure not only includes but demands. I have a few more of the books from the humble bundle deal. And 4th is a well put together produce but to me railroading is a cardinal sin in roleplaying. "2nd I am also very familiar with and it seems easier than learning a new system, plus I have an extensive collection of source book.

I became aware of the RPG in the early 2000s, during Warhammer Fantasy's 6th edition I believe. I never got into the tabletop as a kid in the 90s, because it was for rich kids from the big cities. But we played a little with the pdf of the 2nd edition years ago, which I "found on the web". But I had the opportunity to get the 1st edition of the RPG for free a few weeks ago and I REALLY need to break the stranglehold of the more developed setting (no vampire bloodlines, subterranean lizardmen, gnomes, fimir, zoats) and rules set (fewer and unbalanced careers, magic points). We're creating characters and dipping our toes in my simple advanture on Saturday. Any advice for this confused Hungarian?

Currently working on my own set of house rules for Fourth Edition that I call Adventures in Mordheim, so I can blend my two favorite Warhammer tabletop games into one

I own the hogshead reprint of 1st edition, 4th edition and starter set

Just getting started in 4e with some friends in the new year!

The 4e core book is great quality but the two and a half pages of dense errata is a bummer. I still need to go pencil in all the essential fixes. Occasionally consider pulling out my old battered 1e copy and giving that a go. Loved that thing. Too bad the old splatbooks and adventures aren't available for print-on-demand.

How crunchy is WFRP 4? I used to DM very rule-full systems (D&D, Pathfinder, WoD, etc) but now that I am older and returning to the hobby I am looking for something more fluid and easy to play. Would WFRP 4 fit that?

I swear that 1st edition book has the same wear in the same spots mine does.

I like this world so much that I basically adapted the Symbaroum campaign to it. Digression (and open question) : Am I the only one who finds Halfings much more interesting in WH than their main Middle Earth counterparts/inspiration?

Why I like Warhammer so much, is it promotes ROLE play and the settings matter. It's not a level dominated design.

You were definitely right about the "rambling" part. ;) I was not too keen about 4th edition though as I prefer 1st and/or 2nd edition. While I applaud Cubicle 7 on retaining most of the original dna of the gaming mechanics I really didn't approve of the wokeness that has crept its way into the new books, mainly when you take a scrutinizing look at the new artwork they had commissioned for this edition. The sort of representation and inclusion on display is just at odds with the Old World and sometimes even outright non-sensical. While you shunned the 3rd edition I actually found it quite intriguing tbh. For once, FFG tried something new with the game system (e.g. custom dice) and card-based gameplay. Also, a lot of their artwork and the many handouts were gorgeous. While only with the later release of their Genesys rpg books the new mechanics were fully streamlined, WFRP 3rd featured a lot of the early concepts of that game system. Ultimately, however, I found it ill-fitted with the Warhammer world and returned to the earlier editions and the original percentile-based gaming.

I wish I had played more Warhammer Fantasy RPG in my long gaming career. But sadly finding players willing to get into that system has always been a challenge. Like you said, in Warhammer, you are not really playing heroes. You play regular folks, with ''normal'' jobs, that are thrown (often involuntarily) into conspiracies, stumbling into plots and corruption, being at the wrong place at the wrong time. But I find that most players prefer the more high fantasy world of D&D, or Pathfinder, where they can end up being 'super-heroes' with almost god-like powers, fully equipped with multiple magic items, on a level way above the average people. * * * 2nd edition of WFRP basically did a good job on balancing the careers/classes. They also revamped the magic system. Like you, and most WFRP players, I skipped 3rd edition completely. I haven't made the jump into 4th edition yet, but from what I've seen, they seem to have streamlined the careers so they ressemble more the classic rpg style of being a single class instead of jumping from career to career to grow your character. The magic system also seem to have been revamped and balanced even further.

Awesome video! I'm really interested in wfrp4 and Warhammer in general but the community over here is nonexistent. Based on your immense experience is it possible to do it with a solo PC? Can you please share your thoughts on that?

More WFRPG content, please!

Cool game, though very complex always picked a bounty hunter mates picked bodyguard and Priest of sigmar. The wizard was too complex and you had to carry tons of components if I remember rightly

I've been playing wfrp 4th ed for about 2 yrs now. The jepody is real, we are seriously under powereed, my party is proper max-minned. I went from a Road Warden to a Witch hunter. My copy of first ed is a lot more battered then yours!

I ran the Fantasy Flight edition. Fun, but too much stuff.

I find 4th edition adds needless complications. 2nd edition was a more elegant, intuitive game.

Hmm, most players I know resent the (partially) woke gender policy artwork in the 4th edition rulebook. And yes, that includes actual women that really play. I had a look myself, and does not look too bad, but I get what they mean. In the grimy, dark old world, women are free to be Witch Hunters (!!!), freely travel by themselves and can become Knights. This aside, is the new stuff more or less compatible with the first edition? I have seen Greame Davis has been involved in the development, he likely also made a couple supplements.

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Sure wish I could find someone here in Salt Lake to game with... I've been here now almost a decade and STILL I can find NO ONE who ANSWERS ANY of my postings in the FEW gaming houses/shops! It's a real shame too as It's a GREAT system "IF" you can actually give it a REAL chance! Oh well, I'll just keep on trying tho now at 60 I'll end probably end up with it being BURIED with me! LOL! (btw, I have the ORIGINAL Hardback Version Copy and one of the add-on softback books (the #1 of a small series))

I had and read the 1st Ed hardback.. Loved it.. But never played.. I love the world, The Old World, and Warhammer of course... Want to RP in it..