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My favourite world was Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay of the 80s. It was explicitly early Renaissance, with analogues to France and the Empire, but also with the un
by dash2 2y ago
My favourite world was Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay of the 80s. It was explicitly early Renaissance, with analogues to France and the Empire, but also with the underlying darkness of the narrative that Chaos was sure to win in the end.
- VagabundoP 2y agoBritish fantasy RPGs in general have far more Jabberwocky (1977) in them than the American ones. Basically everything is covered in shit.
- kergonath 2y agoThat’s fine. I prefer grimdark to cartoonish settings, even if both tend to be a bit camp. Warhammer is better than Warcraft as a setting.
- VagabundoP 2y agoThey have a good amount of "not taking themselves too seriously" as well. The Enemy Within is a great read and I'm planning on running it one day, this has some spoilers about it, but is funny: https://www.reddit.com/r/warhammerfantasyrpg/comments/7hzz1l/classic_rant_how_james_wallis_ruined_my/ https://www.reddit.com/r/warhammerfantasyrpg/comments/7hzz1l... The original blog post is gone I think,
- kergonath 2y agoBrilliant! Thanks for the link. I did not play WRPG (though I know more than a bit of the lore from WFB and things like Mordheim) much but this resonates with some memories :) Some of the pages are on archive.org apparently.