> Its going to be 'Roleplaying For Powergamers and People Who Dont Want
> Anything Bad To Happen To Them In Their Games.'.
>
> I can see the advert now...
>
> "Why play a mere Imperial citizen when you can play a fully decked out
> monster planet striding Inquisitor? Thats right folks, take the hassle
> out of roleplaying with our system thats tailored to our current
> ideology of 'minimum input, maximum output'!
> Our panel of leading powergaming experts wanted a game more suited to
> their needs. So we've created a system that does away with those
> niggly aspects of building a character up through hard, sometimes
> grinding slog.
> Our £25 thirty individual book enchancments (stretching over six
> years) will eventually supply you with all those brutally
> hard-as-nails characters that you've always wanted to use!
> However if you want to play these characters in the meantime or any
> archetypes we dont list, you'll just have to wait.".

lol

Not that I don't think they're just in it for the money, but the WHFRP is
actually kinda brutal when it comes to combat. I mean, I dislike the system in
general anyway, but from what I've read (a friend bought the new edition) it's
fairly nasty, and not too kind to characters who are silly enough not to
roleplay their way out of danger.

That said, there's no Power Armour, Meltaguns, or omnipotent character concepts
in WHFRP. I totally agree where this is heading...
I only ever played Inquisitor with a pure wargamer once, and he just *didn't*
get it.

"I'm going to use a Marine!"
"You know he's the only character I'm even letting you have, right?"
"I don't care."

"OK, first mission is to find an informant and 'convince' him to tell you what
he knows about the pirate activity in the area."
"I'm sprinting down the street."
"There's cover. You're in a frontier town with plenty of buildings."
"But I'm a Marine. I don't care about cover."
"Fine. One of the guards sees you, and raises the alarm. Another throws a smoke
grenade to cover their escape."
"Still sprinting, this time through the smoke."
"You get peppered with a spray of shells as you emerge from the smoke."
"I have Power Armour. I don't care. Do I see the informant?"
"Yes, while you were clanking your arse down the road, he left his guards to
distract you and ran the other way."
"I shoot him with my Bolter."
"Fine. Splat. His body is reduced to a cloud of mist by several exploding bolt
rounds."
"I win!"
"So... are you going to question him?"


I've said it befor and I'm sure I'll say it again; Marines are zealots, they are
not stupid. Players are stupid.

WH40KRP is just gonna be another way for the munchkin kids (and adults, for that
matter) to twink out.

Phil