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Listen to the GEEK RADIO DAILY podcast interview about WARHAMSTER. We’re going to
be BETA PLAYING (not BETA Testing…that’s work not fun) – WARHAMSTER at
ORIGINS 2009. In fact, we’re going to
be BETA PLAYING Warhamster or like 36 hours or something crazy like that. You have to be there. Each session will be 2 hours, and you can
play as many sessions as you want.
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Warhamster Adventurer all WEEKEND LONG. If you’re going
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6406, 6419, 6453, 6531, 6535, 6602,
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the four hour final extravaganza 7219. Keep up with
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THE
WARHMASTER MANIFESTO We
hold these truths to self-evident, that all adventurers are rolled equal,
that they are endowed by their players with certain unalienable rights; that
among these are Death to Trolls, More Death to Trolls, and the pursuit of
Gold (generally taken from the corpses of Dead Trolls). That to secure these rights, Rules Systems
are instituted among players, deriving their just powers from the handbook
(with requisite level based benefits) – that whenever any Form of Gaming
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the Players to alter or
to abolish said rules (and replace them with House Rules much cooler than the
rules in the manual), laying its foundation on the heaped skulls and
skeletons of trolls as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety
and Happiness (generally in the form of bigger weapons and fireball
wands). Now, in English…. Every
once in a while, you just gotta step away from the indie games, and the big
company games, and the massively multiplayer online games – and get back into
the dungeon. You don’t want a lot of
fancy rules. You don’t want complex
motivations. You don’t want cathartic
experiences. You don’t want
innovation. You don’t want to grind
out 50 levels to gear up for a raid.
You just want to BASH BASH BASH BASH BASH Trolls…Welcome to the
Warhamster Manifesto! Thus
we give you the 5 Pillars of Warhamsterian Adventures – 1) You
form a party of random Adventurers in a bar (or at least somewhere they serve
alcohol) 2) The
party decides on an “adventure” 3) You
go to there 4) The
party kills the monsters 5) Repeat Warhamster’s
sincere hope is that you can pick up these rules, pick up some dice, pick up
an adventure, and get to some good Old School dungeon gaming. Warhamster is going to do everything it can
to make it easy. Warhamster knows that
you’re “beyond” old school, kick in the door, dungeon crawling. So is the Warhamster. Warhamster loves the new stuff. Warhamster loves the 4th
Edition. Warhamster loves My Life With
Master. Warhamster loves Dogs in the Vineyard,
and Burning Empires, and Amber Diceless, and all of it. But sometimes you just feel the urge to
cast d4 magic missiles! Sometimes,
you just want to be the doorknob-stupid
barbarian bashing with an oversized club. You just need to backstab stuff. Warhamster understands. Warhamster is right there with you. Warhamster will never judge you. Warhamster will never look down on you. And,
we know that part of what made gaming so much fun back in the day, was that
it was always evolving, always changing.
We understand that. Part of
what makes gamers gamers is not just bashing trolls – but coming up with new
ways of bashing trolls. More importantly, part of the fun was knowing that
role-playing was a great big sandbox to play in, and that no one had yet
mapped every hex, graphed every dungeon, or rolled every die. Sadly, those times are lost to us, but at
least now we got the internets and some cool new toys (much better than ditto
machines and spiral bound notebooks). So, basically, you want a game that feels
like every game you have ever played, but allows you to argue the rules,
rewrite them in the middle of a session, and all the while killing
trolls. And it’s got to feel like a
bunch of toys that you just got out of a toybox. Got it.
Warhamster is here for you. You
still need some role-playing? Oh. What’s that you said – without some
role-playing it’s just Descent (or Hero Quest, depending on your age).* We’ll we see what we can do about that. * We’re assuming its one of those two. If you said it was just Dragon Strike – you
have a serious condition. If you said
Dark World – than we should get together and play games sometimes – that game
was the awesomest! |
