Yet, I still can’t shake a feeling of envy towards Dark Heresy. The books released so far are hardback, glorious colour and lavishly illustrated. The WFRP books are softback, black and white and adequately illustrated. I acknowledge that people might be of the opinion that the WFRP books look better than the Dark Heresy books, simply because they enjoy softback, black and white and so on, so forth. But to me, looking at the production values also gives an indication as to where FFG are putting their resources to use, and what line is generating the most interest and in the end, sales.
And it looks to be Dark Heresy. No surprise there, and great news to fans of the game … which includes me. But WFRP is my game of choice, so I would very much like to see the same level of support for that game. So after two rapid releases, what I’m hoping for now is another pdf from FFG, this time covering the 2009 books for WFRP.
I don’t think the books will be hard cover nor full colour, and I don’t think we’ll get six books. Four seems like a dream, and I’m speculating that we’ll be seeing three new releases and some reprints. This will reflect the general interest in WFRP as one of the third tier roleplaying games after first tier Dungeons & Dragons, second tier Vampire and possibly Dark Heresy, and together with third tier contenders such as Exalted, GURPS, Shadowrun and Pathfinder.
What books we will see is still difficult to guess. The latest releases are companion and compendium type books, which I love, but I don’t really see them being instrumental in gaining new converts to the game. We need something else.
What do you want to see for WFRP in 2009?
/Magnus