Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
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Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is a role-playing game set in the Warhammer Fantasy setting.
The role-playing game shares the same Germanic, doom-laden background as the Warhammer Fantasy Battle wargame, although the role-playing game branched off from the war game in the 1980s. However, a player of a modern version of Warhammer Fantasy Battles should be able to recognise the setting and the principal ideas, concepts and races. Statistics from the wargame can be easily converted to the role-playing game.
The first edition is noteworthy for having a dark and gruesome sense of humour in a period when fantasy RPGs were almost universally serious, and for having much better production design than most of its competition at the time.
It was originally published by Games Workshop, then Flame and until recently by Hogshead. The title reverted back to Games Workshop in December 2002. A second edition was published in 2005, written by Green Ronin Publishing and published by Black Industries, Games Workshop's role-playing game division.
Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play is more widely played outside the United States than in the US. Games Workshop has alternated between supporting WFRP, licensing it out to other companies, and ignoring it to concentrate on their miniatures-based games.
Its complex system of "careers" through which player characters may advance and gain skills and improve their game statistics, allowing a player character to start off as a rat-catcher and work his way up to become a merchant or a ship's captain.
- A campaign has been published by Games Workshop: The Enemy Within Campaign.
- Warhammer City a supplement detailing Middenheim.
- Marienburg: Sold Down the River a supplement detailing Marienburg.
- Something Rotten in Kislev a supplement detailing Kislev.
External links
- Black Industries (http://blackindustries.com/) - the publisher of the 2nd edition of WFRP
- Warhammer.net (http://www.warhammer.net) - a large archive of WFRP material and growing community
- Strike to Stun (http://www.strike-to-stun.com/index.php/) - an online WFRP magazine with an active and large forum
- Warpstone (http://www.warpstone.darcore.net/) - an independent WFRP support magazine
- MadAlfred (http://www.madalfred.com/) - website of an author and contributor to WFRP background and game material
- Roysten Crow (http://www.geocities.com/roysten_crow/) - website of an author and contributor to WFRP background and game material
- a comparison of the first and second editions (http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/11/11242.phtml)pl:Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay