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Statistics: Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

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Rating: 7.68 / Ranking: 17

These ratings are based on 125 ratings with 1.68 average weight and 11 reviews.

This is compared to an index-wide 3.64 average ratings and 1.98 average weight.

This rating earns a medium-high level of trust because of its considerable input.

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All User Comments

Rating	User	Comments
10 / 10	Harvo	Played D&D, right now playing Exalted and Warhammer. The way warhammer is set, makes the game so much more fun then D&D boring attack. But not as exciting in battle as exalted but. I still prefer Warhammer over any game heard or seen. 220 classes. Random classes = Roll d1000. Mutations are great fun, and see how the players react to such things how they cover them up.
10 / 10	Ars Mysteriorum	My absolute favorite setting. The system doesn't shine without players dedicated to their characters, which is no detractor to the setting for me.
10 / 10	Rendrag	Clearly one of the superior game systems out there.. and I have played a BUNCH!! I've played this game since it first came out (in the US) in 1986.. really like the new version from Dark Libraries.. updated and runs better than original.. still have orginal books including the very hard to find Realms of Chaos books 1 and 2.
10 / 10	Nightwalker	This game is fantastic. It has a great, easy-to-use system, easy character creation, and a great setting with more grit than a mouthful of sand. The BRP reminiscent system also allows for greater amounts of characterization than the more popular games of the day.
10 / 10	Mescalin	This game rawks! Yes - I prefer dice-pools as a mechanic - but it is so simple and the use of Fortune Points & Fate points allows for some rerolls etc/ interesting resource management choices. WFRP is fast and furious. Plus its background make it stand out and tall amongst other games. Great fun. Easy to play. so much easier to run than D&D. The stat blocks make sense with little effort - allowing the GM to concentrate on the story and NPCs - rather than rules. Am running The Enemy Within (converted to 2nd ed) - and enjoying every moment. :)
10 / 10	Deadmeat	Easily beats D&D... much better fantasy world, less Tolkien more Elric... Yeah
10 / 10	Allandaros	Warhammer is f#$king METAL. 'nuff said! What, more? Um, great, dark gritty fantasy with the possibility of heroism. And Ratcatchers.
10 / 10	astromancer	Grim, gritty, and grimey, yet fun, full-bodied, and funny. Enough alliteration, it's just so easy to fall in love with your imperfect Warhammer characters, which is one of the things that makes it great. It's D&D with more pungent violence, more realism, and still more humor. And it has one of the best campaigns ever created.
10 / 10	Lazarus	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is, well, Warhammer the RPG, in every sense of the word. It's in the Warhammer universe, has mechanics based upon the same stat line as the wargame ... and is just as compelling and fun.
10 / 10	Ron	The best fantasy roleplaying game I've played. A no non-sense approach to Fantasy with a rich background and easy to play rules.
10 / 10	Shining Dragon	Excellent update for this great (and under appreciated) game.
9 / 10	PsykieKILLA	I find WFRP to be a nice change from the average hack n' slash, hero power level games. Like CoC, the investigative elements, as well as horror breath life into the rich setting. Furthermore, I have found that moral choices in WFRP are played out to be more entertaining. A player who usually sticks to morally sounds, pacifist characters turns to basically a gang leader, organising attack protocols and plans. A great game.
9 / 10	Maggan	A great game and setting that forever changed my way of playing and game mastering. Atmospheric and fast paced.
9 / 10	plaguesman	Really lacks the charm of the original game.
9 / 10	Gregor Hutton	Superior Fantasy game with many highlights and a genuinely enjoyable setting. Career-based character progression, skills like "Flee!" and "Consume Alcohol", gunpowder, Chaos cultists, horror, adventure, even romance (Duellist or Bawd anyone?), dark humour, a detailed game world where nobles and politics are as much a danger as mazes and monsters, plagues, rivers, murder and Fate Points. Ahhhh, pass me the dice, I want to play this again. For what it's worth, my nostalgia still prefers the original hardback to anything else.
9 / 10	Azidhak	The first fantasy rpg I've seen that really brings forth the evils of the feudal system, and does soe with grim humour. Truly excellent and with the 2nd edition the rules are consistent without losing much of the charming quirks of the original.
8 / 10	Ravenpolar	nice grim setting
8 / 10	fhans	Seams a little clunky in parts but fun and atmospheric, easy to grasp rules. Grim, gritty and deadly...let the slaughter begin!
8 / 10	Narcisista	I'm not sure why I like this game so much. I find the setting a boring pastiche of the usual fantasy troupes, and the system I wouldn't usually consider as anything other than functional. Maybe it's the dark humor, or the simplicity of it, but this game does have a certain charm to it that I can't explain, even when I am not ignoring the setting...
8 / 10	BigJackBrass	Patchy and old-fashioned in places (even when it was released) WFRP nevertheless presented a unique atmosphere and setting. Not the most cheerful game ever written, despite the heavy lacing of humour throughout.
8 / 10	eqd	A fetid, stinking, muddy, barbaric world with more than enough savagery for all and a simple system even my more simple players could understand. I converted my DnD campaign to this and never looked back.
8 / 10	Mozart	Something about this game (2nd ed) just feels... right. It has the complete package from looks to playability. Looses a few marks for dependancy on a wealth of suppliments, some of which are less than perfect.
8 / 10	Oliveira	A sprawling mess, but great, great, great.
8 / 10	von Bek1977	Great, dark fantasy, much much better than AD&D, D&D, or whatever it's calling itself now
8 / 10	Zachary The First	The very best in gritty fantasy RPGs. You can almost hear the bones crunching.
8 / 10	Zounds!	DEATH FROM SHOCK AND BLOOD LOSS IS INSTANTANEOUS!
7 / 10	Flexi	Despite having it's own unique flavour, it does not distinguish itself enough from most of the traditional high fantasy staples like halflings, elves & dwarves also found in D&D. The careers are great but a lot of the rules are way too fiddly. Nice selection of building floor-plans. The scenario is good but is really just a series of mini dungeon crawls.
7 / 10	TrippyHippy	The iconic British fantasy RPG. Dark, gritty and with with a dose of sardonic wit. The Careers system gave a real feel of the social fabric of the Warhammer world, the system was simple, tidy (in 2nd edition especially) and I liked the magic system that was introduced too.
7 / 10	Simple Man	Probably the best fantasy RPG on the market right now. Well, unless you own M&M2E and Warriors & Warlocks.
7 / 10	martijnw	Quirky, fun and with bad puns to boot!
7 / 10	gorillacus	A game where the feeble, twisted and hapless hold back the hordes of Chaos(tm). Not to everyones taste.
7 / 10	Skiorht	A quirky bu charming charater generation and a workable game system meet one of the best fantasy settings. The first edition was slightly flawed but more complete in one book. The second edition is much cleaner, but less than excellent value for money.
7 / 10	Yokiboy	The 1989 edition features the best roleplaying game cover ever! The game is very thematic, featuring an empire on the verge of collapse under the pressure of the forces of Chaos. The game has a cool late medieval, early renaissance feel to it, and is very gritty. If you like a good sim-type game, it can be very cool. The rules are better than most people give them credit for, and if you're a fan of the Warhammer Fantasy universe, you'll definitely like this game.
6 / 10	Gitrog	Interesting career path character development. Very rich background universe. Have only made a character but not really played.
6 / 10	Thanuir	Good, if random, character creation system. Not remarkable.
6 / 10	The Baron	Apart from the odd mechanical flaw, an almost perfect game
0 / 10	Doc Halloween	I have not read yet.

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All RPGnet Reviews

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Rating	User	Summary
5 + 4	Owen Cooper	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. [ 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 ]
5 + 4	Fulsrush	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. 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	Joe_G_Kushner	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. After a long rest, the Warhammer world returns to role playing games with the Strength, and Sausage, of Sigmar. [ Read Review ]
5 + 3	orangefruitbat	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. Two games enter; one game leaves. My review compares the 1st and 2nd editions of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying (WFRP) to see which is the greatest. Hopefully, you don’t need to have read either edition to get something out of this review. [ Read Review ]
5 + 4	SteveD	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. The lion awakes. [ Read Review ]
5 + 3	Whymme	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. "Without combat, how can you have a grim world of perilous adventure?" [ Read Review ]
5 + 4	Aesras714	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. A group of new players try their hand in Warhammer's "Grim World of Perilous Adventure" and forget about party unity or tactics. What happens? [ Read Review ]
4 + 4	MonsterMash	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. A solid update to a classic RPG, with an characterful setting only let down by small omissions from the content. [ Read Review ]
4 + 5	jontheman	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. It's Grim. It's Perilous. It's also the only book you'll need for a complete and comprehensive dark fantasy roleplaying game. [ Read Review ]
5 + 5	Travire	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. A salute to a classic fantasy roleplaying game, with many fond memories [ Read Review ]

All Magazine Reviews

Year	Magazine	Synopsis
1988	White Wolf #9	Rating 9/10. "...very workable, adaptable, and most importantly, fun."
1997	Arcane #19	"It's true that in game mechanics terms WHFRP is nothing special. In fact it's downright chaotic, ugly and spiky. But damn me if there isn't a seed of greatness in this game..."
1987	Dragon #124	A look at Warhammer Fantasy, including comparisons to other major fantasy systems.