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
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
As Far as am am aware nothing has been said to confirm these supplements are adventures - indeed what I have heard from FFG and BI staff leads me to believe they will not be.
ReplyDeleteHey, very interesting! I know some people are speculating that "Shadow of Empire" will be "Sigmar's Heirs on steroids", but apart from that, I've picked nothing up.
ReplyDeleteI hope you're right though. With Thousand Thrones and the rest of the offering from BI, there are quite a few adventures out there for WFRPv2 already.
Hmmmm ... ok, if they're not adventures then I think they are "leftovers" from BI.
/Magnus