If I remember correctly I read somewhere it was going to be D&D before ending up as WFRP. To be fair the end of The Enemy Within suffers from much the same, Empire in Flames has been re-written by fans a few times (and was going to be rewritten by Hogshead when they had the licence). And whilst I enjoyed Something Rotten in Kislev I always felt needed a re-write. Still the first bits of The Enemy Within are pure WFRP. Somewhere I have my mostly done rewrites of both those parts of the story, I can't remember if I finished them or not, probably not!
That tallies with what I have read about the Doomstones campaign too.
I ran up to the end of Shadows Over Bogenhafen with my gaming group in my final year at uni and it was an absolute blast, though some parts of WFRP1 were a bit messy for me. I've got the gang back together to continue that campaign, playing through Death on the Reik in my own game system, "Zorn: The Wrath of God" which will see publication after I can pay someone to do the layout for me. Takes a page out of Old School Renaissance d&d-based systems, applying that philosophy to Warhammer, and we've only played one session but I think it's working quite well.
Cubicle 7, so it says. They's the ones what got the rights to Warhammer Fantasy these days, yeah? Someone can correct me, but I do doubt Games Workshop would let it fly if someone tried to make bank off their property! Or at least so I'd expect from the bunch.
Ah, fair enough then ^_^
i ran tew as it was initially released and played a heavily modified version of sob and pbtt about 15 years ago.
Actually kicking off with Manic's tomorrow. Anyhow hopefully that way as you say we'll avoid people sitting idle in the first game and it gives us a chance to rough out some background for characters, decide who might know who and how the party came together, etc.
A few decently priced copies for sale/bidding atm:
