FAL News: Deathwatch RPG announced

In a surprise move FFG yesterday announced the Deathwatch RPG, the third installment of the WH40kRP line.

Read more about it here!

The reason I am surprised is that the timing seems odd. I was expecting it a bit later, after Rogue Trade picked up steam and got a few more supplements added to the lineup. But maybe this was needed after those pictures from GW revealed a bit more than they should last week.

Still, I think it is tremendously exciting, and I’m hoping that I can find some energy to run a Dark Heresy/Rogue Trader/Deathwatch crossover some time next summer. Given I get some interest from my players for such a setup of course.

/Magnus

FAL News: WFRP Game Master’s Toolkit announced

Well, it was only a question of how long we’d have to wait. Just recently FFG announced the future release of the Game Master’s Toolkit for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.

Read more about it!

A GM screen and gobs of new cards are to be expected. No new careers though as far as I read it, which is boring. There’s a preview coming in a week or so.

/Magnus

WFRP: Unboxing WFRPv3

I got the box home a few days ago, but haven’t had the time to look more closely at it nor its contents. I did an unboxing with photos, but I guess most of you have already seen other pictures of the game. Still, this might give you some more insights into the package and the components included.

The box is big and thick and a bit intimidating:

The Box

There’s an external slip cover with a “lid” that opens up to reveal more details about what’s inside. The lid is help shut by two pieces of velcro:

The Box

A shot of the box from the side, the lid open. I’m not sure what I think of the logo. A bit too metallic for my taste:

The Box

First edition, second edition and third edition:

The Box

The covers of all three editions in plain view. They are all good in their own ways, but I’m a bit sad that third edition didn’t do the spiky hair dwarf motive as well:

The Box

The slip cover. As you can see, the box itself is wrapped in protective plastic. Which is good, because the slip cover was scuffed and somewhat defaced:

The Box

Top lid of the box removed and placed to the side. First thing I noticed was a catalog for FFG’s other games:

The Box

The four rulebooks and two plastic bags of cards and counters. You also see the cards in different stacks:

The Box

Another view of the cards and a glimpse of the extra ten-sided dice. You might notice that everything is resting on some card stock that’s inside the box:

The Box

The card stock has now been removed, for your viewing pleasure:

The Box

Under the compartments of the card stock I found the character sheets, more cards, dice, plastic stands and the three player boxes:

The Box

Here are the three player boxes folded and “assembled”. The dice are standard size six-sided, shown for scale:

The Box

Here you see the box placed in my bookshelf (showing roughly 10% of my gaming collection). It looks really out of place there, so I might rearrange the whole thing, especially when more boxes are aquired:

The Box

Well, that’s my first unboxing!

/Magnus