A Day Late and a Shilling Short: Spoiler Free Review
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At GenCon, I’ll be running the Warhammer Fantasy RP scenario: A Day Late and a Shilling Short, a quick adventure that can be found on Fantasy Flight Games’ website.
I’m going to avoid talking much about the specifics of the plot, since all of the people who will be playing in the game read the site.
To begin, you won’t be able to just pick this up and play it without owning the game proper. It doesn’t explain the rules, or (naturally) provide the dice. This is an adventure designed to get a campaign going, and explain why it is the characters are together, or introduce new players to the game.
The game begins in a tavern, but only as back story. By the time the players are running their characters, they’re on the road to investigate why a merchant’s wagon is a day late into town. Each character is given a good reason for coming along (except the dwarf troll slayer, but I think that’s just because they felt obligated to include him.) There are a series of combat encounters, which, if run right, could be dynamic and exciting. If the players keep their eyes open, there are some things they can do to tip things in their favor.
The non-combat encounter that follows up all the fighting could be really entertaining and fun. The NPC provided could easily become the most detested character your heroes have ever faced, if pulled off right. I think Bridget is going to be shocked that I’ll definitely be using a voice and facial expressions for this character to really bring home the utter horribleness of him. I could see him as an ongoing annoyance to the heroes in a campaign.
In all, it’s a good scenario. I look forward to running it.
You can get the scenario A Day Late and a Shilling Short at Fantasy Flight Games’ website.
Look forward to hearing about your WHFB experiences. In addition to owning a complete set of 2nd ed and being a huge old school GW fan … I own 3rd ed. I have to admit I haven’t even attempted to run it. My game group has alot of fun with 4e … and its just so duplicative I just really haven’t been able to generate even the most remote interest out of anyone. 2nd ed is different enough from 4e that I can sell the darkness of it all in addition to an interesting d100 system with some very cool chr generation, etc. with 3rd … I pull it out and people are like … “what the heck is that a board game? What … you use cards … there isn’t a book with the rules on the cards explained well .. huh.” So I’d like to actually hear about a real person running the system, etc.
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