The rules are based on the ones created for the gamebooks released by Steve Jackson (the UK Steve Jackson, not the US one who created GURPS among other things) including the famous “Warlock of Firetop Mountain”. First and foremost it’s a part of British roleplaying games history. So why should anyone pick up AFF? That’s easy. The bundles start at $7.95 and $9.95 respectively and can be “leveled” up” for about $20 each for additional material in the “bonus collections”. The “More Fighting Fantasy” bundle adds more material for Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2nd Edition but also for Stellar Adventures, the SF variant co-written by fellow RPG blogger Jonathan Hicks (check out my first look here). It’s the perfect bundle for anyone interested in starting their own AFF campaign. Actually there are two offers: the “Advanced Fighting Fantasy” bundle which contains the Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2nd Edition core rules and a plethora of sourcebooks and adventures. There’s a very interesting offer at “Bundle at Holding” right now for fans of Advanced Fighting Fantasy. Unfortunately 16-pages are not enough to give you a good grasp of the setting if you haven’t played any of the video games before, but I guess the target audience of both the RPG and the miniature game are fans of the series.Ĭontinue reading First Look: Fallout Wasteland Warfare Roleplaying Game →
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If you are a long-time fan of the series you’ll probably notice that not just the newer Bethesda games are covered, but factions and places from the two first games are mentioned as well. The book gives an 16-paged overview of the setting in its second chapter, directly after the introduction. As the first people emerged from the vaults many years later they found a changed world filled with lawless bandits, mutated animals, radiated humans called ghouls and various factions fighting over the scraps left by society before the war. In mere hours millions die, only a handful people survived in so-called Vaults. This war ended abruptly with an exchange of nuclear weapons. Even though fossil fuels and uranium became pretty much obsolete at some point, it is the fight over these resources that eventually starts a war between the US and China. Cars are powered by fusion reactors, there’s true artificial intelligence, robots, and powered armors. But if you have avoided video games all these years, here’s a quick primer: imagine a world culturally stuck in the 1950s, but with highly-advanced technology.
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Especially after the huge success of Fallout 4 every geek worth their salt knows about the retro-futuristic and post-apocalyptic world. I don’t think I need to introduce you to the Fallout universe. The Fallout Wasteland Warfare RPG is both a standalone tabletop roleplaying game and also an expansion of their Fallout Wasteland Warfare miniature game, which I unfortunately haven’t had the chance to play yet.
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A couple of days ago Modiphius graciously provided me with a copy, so I had the chance to give it a first look. Later today Modiphius is going to launch the Fallout Wasteland Warfare RPG Expansion.