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FAL News: Two new WFRP adventures announced

It seems that Fantasy Flight went and announced two adventures for WFRP at the GAMA convention a couple or so weeks ago. The titles are allegedly Shadows of Empire and Tomb of Thieves. There’s also mention of two titles for WH40kRP; Dark Heresy Gamemaster’s Toolkit and Disciples of the Dark Gods. Whether the first of these WH40kRP titles is a reprint of the previous Dark Heresy Game Master’s Kit, I’m not sure. The second was previously scheduled by Black Industries, if I recall correctly. Here’s the source!

It’s understandable that they chose to do two adventures to start with. Adventures are fairly easy to get going with for a developer, and it will be a way for FFG to get a feel for the system and the world. Also from a commercial viewpoint, they are up against the roll-out of fourth edition D&D during this year. This means that they probably don’t want to sink too much money into launching yet another 256 page rulebook to compete for the few gaming dollars going round the block.

The titles, Shadows of Empire and Tomb of Thieves, don’t conjure any immediate WFRP images in my head. The first sounds like the Star Wars campaign book I’ve got in my shelf, and the second sounds like it’s a module for Thieves World. I’m sure FFG are aware of this, and will work hard to work the right WFP atmosphere into the books.

What I don’t understand is why FFG didn’t announce this news at their own website.

/Magnus

Posted on by Magnus Seter

WFRP: New Fan Supplement

I have two pieces of good news today. First, Dave Graffam’s excellent WFRP site, known as The Encroachment of Chaos, is once again online after a short and terrifying hiatus. It turns out Dave was just in transition between hosting solutions, and that has all been sorted now. As for the second piece of good news … to mark the return of the site, Dave has released a new fan supplement: Hugelstein’s Curiosities, a shop with a vast collection of odds and ends for your characters to buy, use and abuse. I haven’t looked through the document completely yet, but any fan work that lists me as a contributor has to be brilliant! Honestly, I can’t remember what I wrote when Dave asked for input, but I’m glad he’s still around working his magic with word processor and layout program.

Click here for Hugelstein’s Curiosities!

And don’t forget to check out Dave’s other stuff. It’s all there at his site, which was named Best of the Fans by The Altdorf Correspondent last year.

Click here for The Encroachment of Chaos!

Magnus

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WFRP: Black Industries put down

In an incredibly disappointing move, Black Library today announced that Black Industries, the publisher of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay and Talisman will cease publication of games. In a spectauclar display of corporate lingo, Black Library claims they will take this opportunity to focus on the core business of publishing novels.

Well, it was a good run while it lasted, and WFRP have emerged from this stronger than ever. It’s going to be interesting to see how WFRP fans deal with this. If the past is anything to go by, there will be much gnashing of teeth and boasting of prophetic prowess as people fire up their “I told you so”-engines.

The fact remains; BI put out a great game and some great supplements, and their efforts will be sorely missed.

EDIT: here’s the link to the announcement:

The terrible news!

/Magnus