world of warcraft rpg - /tg/

Anonymous10/14/25, 14:00No.96751001World of Warcraft RPG

Anyone remember the WoW rpg? did you enjoy playing it?

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Anon10/14/25, 14:07No.96751039

It was just 3e D&D with a WoW veneer.

Anon10/14/25, 14:35No.96751212

Exactly, it didn't capture "Warcraft" very well. Im currently working up a WoW campaign in MCDM's Draw Steel, which I think will fill the fantasy much better.There is a new Diablo TTRPG coming soon, so there may be a new WoW one at some point

Anon10/14/25, 14:44No.96751271

My group just played the Genesys conversion. It was... okay. The author really wanted some of the worst Star Wars talents added back in.

Anon10/14/25, 15:19No.96751488

It feels so meta to play a TTRPG based on a vidya that's inspired by that same TTRPG.Or a TTRPG based on a campaign inside of a TV show.

Anon10/14/25, 15:29No.96751555

There is a 5e conversion that is okay. It isnt bad as far as 5e goes.

Anon10/14/25, 15:40No.96751647

Only thing that irked me was the warlock prestige class. I think it was an error but youre an arcane caster so you have Planar Binding but the Improved Ally and Planar Cohort say when the warlock casts Planar Ally (the divine variant). Planar Ally isnt even a spell they get in their specialized spell list.

Anon10/14/25, 15:43No.96751673

You mean 4e? I would've preferred a return to AD&D, desu.

Anon10/14/25, 15:51No.96751753

Warcraft is such an incoherent setting, how would it even function as a tabletop RPG? >"I'd like to learn how to fly an airplane." >"Um, you can't. You're a human, only gnomes use airplanes." >"Okay but maybe I can find a gnome to teach me? And then maybe I can teach other humans and we can progress technologically to a similar level as our neighbors who we're closely allied with?" >"No you're a human, humans don't use airplanes humans are still using horses shut up shut up shut up"

Anon10/14/25, 16:11No.96751947

you do mean the actual WoW one and not the warcraft one that came before it? there's a big difference since the first one relied on the random worldbuilding from the rts games compared to the WoW version getting the world based on the mmo. I should really look into it, might be fun getting to play as races not useable in game and fucking around in old warcraft lore

Anon10/14/25, 16:12No.96751959

The first version, which was developed before even The Frozen throne was the betetr one. It very much fleashed out Metzen's Warcraft and set up a more Everquest style of WoW they canned partway in development.

Anon10/14/25, 18:00No.96752835

I don't know or care much for the WoW specific stuff, but there's a lot of neat stuff to use with D&D 3e/3.5. The gnomes were way closer to D&D gnomes than the 3e version, half-ogres without level adjustments are cool, the advanced alchemy rules are great and there's a lot of neat monsters and a few races, and the "Moonglaive" is a cool weapon to have statted, since 3e didn't have "large star shuriken" as a stand-in for the glaive from Krull. I'm sure I might be overlooking or forgetting other cool stuff, and like a lot of d20 lines, it could still get expanded.

Anon10/14/25, 18:16No.96752945

there's this rpg called Drums of War. I don't know if it ever got out of its final alpha. Made by "J Arcane" 5 stats, Strength (which does the usual strength things), Agility (which does the usual agility things and athletics/ranged stuff), Stamina (usual health and toughness stuff), Intellect (which also does perception stuff), and Spirit (charisma, recovery, and resistance to magic/corruption) has the cata races, draenei, worgen, belves, goblins, w/e, also has Death Knight class roll resolution is 2d10, with the TN's being 5/10/15/20/30 Class's go up to level 10 and and have stat bonuses, different rolled health and mana, and gain innate abilities, and leveled up abilities via "talents" that let you grab different ones, like water elemental, living bomb, ice barrier, etc, but only up to 3 shitty pitch but if it sounds interesting find the pdf wherever you go for your usual stuff, the things only 41 pages

Anon10/15/25, 19:29No.96760830

I played a couple of sessions of it, when I was in high school. It's basically just 3rd edition, not much to say. If you like thematic shifts built on that rule set, it's probably fine.

Anon10/16/25, 20:04No.96768722

4e?

Anon10/16/25, 20:12No.96768785

I went through a WoW phase earlier this year or late last, leveled through a vanilla pserver and got all kinds of into the lore and shit. Apparently these TRPG books are fairly canon and contributive to the overall fiction. You'll find them referenced on the WoW Wikis and shit.I looked into this pretty deeply, got the books, did sample character creation and combat: Like a lot of folks have said it's just Warcraft paint on 3e. I was already inundated with 'why did they decide to do this?' 'why is it this way, that doesn't sound right/make sense' questions before I even prepped the first session so I dropped it.

Anon10/17/25, 04:28No.96771879

I was a kid, maybe 10 or so when Wrath came out and I was huuuuge into wow. My parent's didn't get it but bought me this game for my birthday and tried to run a campaign for me to play. It didn't go so well and they didn't understand the rules or world much at all, still one of my favorite memories. I could never convince people to give a wow setting a shot by the time I had a ttrpg group in middle school but used to read that book religiously. I still incorporate WoW inspired stuff into my homebrews. Nobody will ever convince me the Silver Hand isn't tight as fuck.

Anon10/17/25, 23:51No.96777931

I just wanna say that that I ran a campaign with the 5e conversion, and so I joined their discord to look around what material they have. I was very surprised to see people are actually making stuff for Shadowlands and whatever at the time current thing was in the game.I agree, there are some neat things, like the blood god troll stuff in BFA, old elven ruins and stuff Blizz expanded on in Legion etc etc. But man, I wouldn't want to touch most of the stuff with a 10 feet pole. The further the story progresses in WoW, the more things feel like fanfic on fanfic. Yet people actively discuss the trainwreck that is current "lore" and story. Really absurd to me.However it's true, for your own game it shouldn't bother you whatever the people at Blizz came up with in the past decade. Just do whatever, Azeroth is a vast setting, Warcraft is cool.

Anon10/18/25, 16:10No.96782073

I run a setting for this, typically it takes place between WC3 and WoW Vanilla. It works nicely. Lets me do things I want with the world without the RvB mentality.