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This book presents the setting of the Warhammer Fantasy Battles miniature game for roleplay use. It's a dark, gritty world. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay takes the traditional fantasy traditions - elves, dwarves, orcs - and puts a grim twist upon them, in a world where beings battle chaos.
The game design is conventional, but guided by templates known as "careers" and in game progression is through careers. The characters are a hybrid of characteristics or attributes with binary skills. System is percentile roll under with a magic system using magic points.
The game is complete, providing the rules for characters, GM advice, the world setting and the occupants of the world (including monsters).
The game design is conventional, but guided by templates known as "careers" and in game progression is through careers. The characters are a hybrid of characteristics or attributes with binary skills. System is percentile roll under with a magic system using magic points.
The game is complete, providing the rules for characters, GM advice, the world setting and the occupants of the world (including monsters).
Notes on Editions
There are 4 editions of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. Click on an individual title, below, for more information on that edition.Game Editions | [ Add Edition ] |
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| Rules Q&A | White Dwarf #92 |
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| 5 + 4 | Fulsrush | Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (2nd Edition corebook). The RPG version of the wargame finally gets a 2nd Edition after 19 years, and they've ironed out most of the creases to produce a top quality dark and gritty fantasy game. [ Read Review ] |
| 5 + 4 | Cake | Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is back. Bolder & brighter than ever (in a perilous gothic way, of course) the great dark RPG of Games Workshops Warhammer World is finally with us in its second edition. Death & Glory await! [ Read Review ] |
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| Rating | User | Comments |
| 10 / 10 | Deadmeat | Easily beats D&D... much better fantasy world, less Tolkien more Elric... Yeah |
| 9 / 10 | plaguesman | Really lacks the charm of the original game. |
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