Warcraft pen and paper RPG2009-12-31 00:00:00will it be for fans of the Warcraft RTS games to get into playing the Warcraft RPG?
E. Deirdre Brooks - I hope it won't be hard at all. The setting familiarity is already there -- anyone who's played any of the Warcraft RTS games will find something to recognize in the RPG. It's all the same world, taken to a different level of detail. Granted, the RTS is geared toward armies while the RPG focuses on individual characters, but Blizzard already moved in that direction with Warcraft III. The
heroes in that RTS form the focal point of the missions, and it's that way in the RPG -- except that fans can make their own heroes from the ground up and dictate everything they do.
The only tricky part might be learning the rules. The Warcraft RPG requires the use of the Dungeons & Dragons revised 3rd Edition rules from Wizards of the Coast. Still, D&D is pretty easy to get into.
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