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Post by admiral on Jan 12, 2019 14:28:47 GMT
Howdy! I know this may be a thorny one on EEFL, given that many players around here are disappointed with the direction of T9A, and in particular with T9A as a wargame. That is all fair, but I still wanted to leave this here (because this forum is on the spam list of relevant fantasy hobbysites  ) since T9A as a creative project can still hold a lot of promise outside rules and background for the core factions. ...and some of the better ideas can always be nicked and reverse-engineered for Old World duty if you ever feel like it.  Cheers!  |
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Post by knoffles on Jan 13, 2019 9:20:10 GMT
I think that’s a very nicely written article. Thanks for spamming 😉.
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Post by TheREALricksalamone on Jan 13, 2019 13:26:53 GMT
It’s still a no from me. These people could have kept playing Warhammer Fantasy with us.
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Post by And Again... on Jan 15, 2019 8:53:27 GMT
Ahem... Warhammer has little to do with LotR yes there're dwarvs, elves, halflings but they are a closer to a parody of LotR ones, they bring the racial features to extreme. And it wasn't even classic, if you read old interview they always said they wanted something different from American high fantasy ( which is classic fantasy.. D&D and so on) and more based on european and world history, not many fantasy setting have landsknechts
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Post by Naitsabes on Jan 17, 2019 4:17:27 GMT
Howdy! ...and some of the better ideas can always be nicked and reverse-engineered for Old World duty if you ever feel like it. I think this is a good point. Not so much for the world building where warhammer really doesn't need any help. But, they have some interesting scenarios and ideas on how to spice things up with missions etc. They recently brought out a supplement with that kind of material. it's in 'alpha' (they sure go full hog on versioning and project management), so I didn't bother to look at it more closely but, I think eventually that'll be a neat resource and easily adapted for proper warhammer. |
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Post by saniles on Jan 17, 2019 10:41:25 GMT
Eighth Edition for Life.
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Post by admiral on Jan 17, 2019 11:04:21 GMT
Classic in the sense that it isn't magitech steampunk. Contrasted with Age of Sigmar, Warmahordes and the like, both D&D and Warhammer are classic settings as regard tech-level. And yes Warhammer has lots to do with Tolkien, even if taken to parody levels. The treatment given the various Dwarf holds and their wars speak volumes as but one example: This was something you wished to see in Lotr, but which Warhammer did actually delve into. It's however a smörgåsbord setting, in that there are Orcs-Elves-Dwarfs and an overall historical basis (Gondor is Byzantium, Umbar/Harad is Carthage/Barbary States/Arabs and so on - WFB went even further with the historical basis) from Tolkien; and demons; and undead; and lizardmen and so on. You can see several of the same modes of thinking ticking in both Lotr and Warhammer, even though the tone is of course much different. Warhammer Fantasy is fantastic and well worth developing further as a community project. Rejecting T9A for rules is more than understandable, but there are so many background developments in T9A that runs in the spirit of Warhammer in areas that GW never explored in depth (or at all), that I'll keep you, and many other forums, briefly updated on some of the more exotic ones. See it as paths not taken, of design choices made differently for intellectual curiosity and sake of inspiration.  8th edition is great fun, for the record. Keep it up! Cheers! |
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) since T9A as a creative project can still hold a lot of promise outside rules and background for the core factions.
