FFG is dumping all of their WFRP3 stuff on a sale. Does it mean reprint edition with minor rules tweaks or are they maybe dropping the line? They're selling it below wholesale, so I don't think its simply to drop stock (because it screws over the FLGS's). Another option is that they're making it really priced the way an RPG should be priced to try to snag some players.
Speculations on their business decision?
Well, it certainly is a Black Friday sale but it probably does not bode well for the WFRP 3rd ed. line. Community regulars on the FFG boards have been speculating for some time that the plug is going to be pulled. No hard info but an inference from the lack of new WFRP products, announcements, etc. from FFG over the past year. The sale seems to have increased the community's suspicions.
Or it is simply FFG's way of saying Merry Christmas (I hope).
Wouldn't surprise me in the least to see it cancelled. No new releases in what? 10 months now? Definitely a game on its last legs. Can't say I miss it though.
Oh look, the wilderness years have returned.
I'm leaning more and more towards just a big black friday sale, but the sale is pretty steep. 60% off?
I just pray to Khaine that they're not going to produce a edition-rehash. We badly need new stuff beyond the PODs.
jh
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When the boxed set first came out, I decided to put down the 100 bucks and pick it up. I heard good things about the other edition of WFRP. I had played some tabletop 40k, too.
I did not like it. I like my combat on a grid with minis, this was way too abstract. I also did not like how they had custom dice, took a little while to get used to.
POD is what's kind of bothering me. Not that they're putting it out, but that its so over-specialized and obscure. They could have diversified the actions, but instead they put out a neck of stuff for Celestial wizards, Shallyan priests, Dreadfleet (?!?), etc.
It seems like a cheap-attempt to say, "We're putting stuff out..yea, it's practically useless, but shut up and stop saying we've abandoned the line."
Meanwhile the release of The Enemy Within mini-campaign has been drug out 3/4ths of a year.
I love this game and it's system, but the handling of the release schedule, the atrocious back initial editing and writing of the core rules, and over-complication with "socketing cards", stances, unnecessary and petty tracking of fatigue and stress just doomed its larger success from the start.
Could they have pulled it off with the rule-set of star wars? That is a question that remains open.
jh
I love the system, but it has been tough to find players.
Any of you in the greater DC area?
In service,
Rich
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