This right here is a true Fantasy setting, Middle Earth is for old farts, Dungeons and Dragons is for nerds, Game of Thrones is for hipsters and Warcraft is for kids.

Warhammer Fantasy this is a Fantasy setting, everything about it just feels perfect, the factions, the races, Elves, Orcs, Dwarves, and Dragons perfected.

I am sorry for blowing my load here but Warhammer Total War has had my full attention when it comes to the Fantasy genre as of late. I mean just look at this awesomeness:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcP3krGwiKM

I even have PDFs of books of the franchise and so much lore.

What if you like both Middle Earth and Warcraft? Do you get to be a young adult then?

Then I'm proud to be an old fart :P I'm sorry, but fun though the games may be, comparing Tolkien's brilliant work to any such game setting is just laughable. And I've never been a fan of Warhammer's setting anyway. I actually ran a few campaigns in Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, because I like the game mechanics, but the setting is way to grim-dark and try-hard for me. I always treated it very loosely in my campaigns.

And D&D is not a setting at all. There are many different settings under the D&D banner - Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, Planescape, Ravenloft, Dragonlance...

And that is partly why I dislike D&D to a degree because it can't just be one setting and stick with it

I mean why isn't Dragonlance and Ravenloft incorporated into Forgotten Realms?

And you may think its try hard and all but I have delved deep and there is more to Warhammer Fantasy than you give it.

If any setting is Try Hard is the Sci Fi version of Warhammer, 40k.

How is a multitude of settings a problem? It gives you options. You can stick to just one if you want. I see literally no advantage to providing players with less options. Yep, 40k seems to be everything I dislike about Warhammer Fantasy times a thousand. Or forty thousand.

Welcome to the Chris Farley thread.

"That was awesome!" :P

Real gamers play MERP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-earth_Role_Playing

:)

The setting and lore got butchered with AOS.

All hail the Sigmarines!

Well if you ran a Spelljammer campaign, you probably COULD tie those different settings together.
Although not so much Ravenloft, as that is a demiplane, and one setting even features modern firearms.

I like all these settings! A nerdy, hipster, old fart kid I am.

You're thinking of WH 40K. The original has an easier atmosphere and its more humorous.

Hmmm I'm an old fart kid it seems :)

I don't know much about Warhammer but from what I've seen and read in White Dwarf it looks great. I've read up a lot more about 40K which is the universe I prefer between the two.

By the way, if you are a big fan of Warhammer then I'd recommend that you get your hands on some White Dwarf magazines if you haven't already. It's not exclusively warhammer fantasy (has 40k and lord of the rings content as well) and it's mostly about the tabletop game but there is a lot in there that's great fun to read. From new units and the lore behind them to my favorite, battle reports (too lazy to properly scan it I'm afraid so here's a photo :P)

I love Warhammer Fantasy Role Play but only if done correctly. If every campaign is full of Chaos creatures it becomes a dark struggle of survival which is not really great. A good Game Master can build up a perfect atmosphere of fear. Everybody is afraid of Chaos but you don't encounter them (almost) at all. It's all about paranoidal fear... now, that's something to remember

I rather like the Warhammer Fantasy setting, but only when it doesn't take itself too seriously. Otherwise, like Breja, I feel it tries too hard at being dark, "mature" fantasy.

Either way, comparing Warhammer to LotR or GoT is ridiculous since they aren't even in the same genre, D&D isn't a setting at all, and Warcraft pretty much IS Warhammer, except lighter and softer.