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I like Dark Heresy, that’s a given. I liked how the most recent edition of Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play is mechanically similar to Dark Heresy. I’ve never played WHFRP though. When I heard that Fantasy Flight Games had announced a new edition of WHFRP at GenCon, I was pretty stoked. “If they cut some of the cruft that I saw in the WHFRP 2nd ed. rulebook, my friends and I will probably give it a go.”

Well, there’s good news! FFG is holding a pre-release event with an introductory adventure, “A Day Late, a Shilling Short.” Awesome! Did you click on that link? Did you see the accompanying image? Here, let me help.

just... just WTF, FFG? WTF!?

I’m speechless. What’s the point of all this stuff? This isn’t a role-playing game, it’s a role-playing game plus a lot of stuff that’s almost-guaranteed to complicate things.

Is there any point to all of this other than the faint hope that we’ll lose some pieces and need to purchase replacements? Will those special dice add anything to the game that normal dice couldn’t accomplish along with a table? And don’t tell me you don’t like tables — I’ve played Dark Heresy. You freakin’ love tables. It’s almost as though this RPG was engineered with the intention of selling as many superfluous accessories as possible. Kinda reminds me of a certain popular fantasy RPG that also recently saw the release of a new edition.

You know what? I take that last statement back. That particular game just encourages the use of plastic minis — it didn’t add loads of tokens, special dice, and cards from a UFS-style card game.

Hopefully they’ll have this demo at my local Comics-and-Games store. I’ll want to see, in-person, what all this stuff is for.