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Thread: World of Warcraft the RPG
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2008-06-28, 04:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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World of Warcraft the RPG
Have any of you guys played it? Is it any good? I was leafing through the rulebook, and it seemed like not enough DnD to be fun like DnD, and not enough WoW to be fun like WoW.
Is it better when one is actually playing it?
Thanks.
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2008-06-28, 04:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: World of Warcraft the RPG
Are you talking about 4E or something else?
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2008-06-28, 05:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: World of Warcraft the RPG
He's talking about this. Though honestly I'm having a hard time telling if it's for real, mostly 'cause I've never played WoW.
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2008-06-28, 05:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: World of Warcraft the RPG
Actually, there are two World of Warcraft D20 based RPGs (well, one is called just Warcraft). Anyway: Products at RPGNow.
Last edited by Matthew; 2008-06-28 at 05:25 PM.
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2008-06-28, 05:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: World of Warcraft the RPG
There are ones for both Everquest 1 and Everquest 2 as well as Diablo. Most are pretty well done if you already like those MMOs but not for those that do not play or have played those games.
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2008-06-29, 06:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: World of Warcraft the RPG
Neither version of the WOW RPG models the MMORPG especially well. Large swaths of text are basically copy-pasted from the SRD, even when it makes no sense whatsoever (Warriors getting lots of feats instead of effective aggro-inducing abilities, Druids as a prestige class, etc - depending on which version you use - both have issues). Further, the balancing is awful.
I wrote a review of the hunter class, specifically, on another website some time ago. Let me see here...
Got it!
Originally Posted by MeLast edited by Swordguy; 2008-06-29 at 06:32 AM. Reason: For Great Formatting
Originally Posted by Dervag
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2008-06-29, 07:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: World of Warcraft the RPG
The Warcraft RPG is not really based on WoW.
Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game was published in 2003, while WoW was not realeased until 2004; so it would seem to be based on Warcraft III rather than WoW, and designed to allow the use of the Warcraft world as a D&D setting, rather than to emulate the game.
The second edition World of Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game was published in 2005, but they did not include the kind of major rules changes that would have been needed to create character with abilities matching WoW characters.
In general it looks like it would be better for a Warcraft III inspired game than a WoW inspired one.
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2008-06-29, 08:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: World of Warcraft the RPG
I have both, but had never the chance to actually play them. I think they are pretty decent, BUT absolutely not WoW. I started playing WoW after reading everything from the first edition, and WoW sucked in comparison, because nobody knew anything about the background, and Blizzard made this dumb speech barrier between the factions. Normally a human warlock who enters Darnassus with a demon would be killed on sight, while a tauren druid would be welcomed. In WoW, it's exactly the opposite. Worse than that (if that's possible) the RP material is NEVER accurate, because WoW changes always to provide new bosses.
If I would ever make a P&P campaign in WarCraft I would take both editions and mix them with the normal 3.5 D&D. Since that's a bit expensive I would say first edition and D&D 3.5 is best, in that material there are the gods, the titans, the dragon aspects, very cool races, feats etc. you only have to allow some D&D core classes and disallow some of the WarCraft prestige classes. The WoW edition has only better spellcasters, and races, but only if you like racial levels instead of LA.