Pyramid: Pyramid Review: Game Master's Pack (for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay)

Pyramid Review

Game Master's Pack (for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay)

Developed by Green Ronin Publishing

Published by Black Industries

Designed & Written by Alfred Nuñez, Jr. & Chris Pramas

Cover by Geoff Taylor

Screen Art by David Griffith, Karl Kopinski, Torstein Norstrand, & Geoff Taylor

Interior Art by Dave Andrews, Dave Gallagher, Tony Parker, & Scott Purdy

Cartography by Dave Andrews & Shawn Brown

Four-panel screen in landscape format, cover/map sheet, & 32-page saddlestitched booklet; $14.99

There comes a time when every game gets a screen, but the problem with any such item is not the useful bits of cardboard reprinting all of those handy tables, but what comes with it. Does it come with an equally handy booklet of further references that adds something to the game? Or a scenario that, once run, goes back on the shelf? Further there have been screens, and there have been screens; right at the top for sheer quality in terms of quality and quantity of information is The Sholari's Pack for SkyRealms of Jorune. This is followed by the GM Screen published by Hogshead Publishing for the first edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay; while the screens for both Shadowrun and SLA Industries are examples of this object.

So if the screen for the original Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay was good, how does it compare with the Game Master's Pack for the best-selling second edition of the game? The pack includes a cover sheet with a reasonable map of the Empire and her neighbors on its reverse, a 32-page . . .
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Article publication date: June 23, 2006

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