BlogWhy I won’t review ‘The Thousand Thrones’…
Sunday, October 5th, 2008When I relaunched Strike to Stun a few months ago I planned the first review published on the new site would be ‘The Thousand Thrones’ (TTT). From the previews it sounded very promising and I expected another great epic campaign for WFRP. When I finally got it and quickly browsed through it I was left with a strange feeling. A feeling that left me expecting the worst… But anyway I always try to stay positive and so I tried to read the book. And I tell you what: after more than two months I wasn’t able to finish reading through. And not because of lack of time, no, because it is so bad. The first thing that came in mind was ‘Dying of the Light’. Like this old WFRP1-campaign TTT was not written by one author but a group of different authors. This means that you have just a collection of separate adventures that are following a red thread. Sometimes you get the feeling that some of the adventures have absolutely nothing to do with the major campaign. And as every adventure was written by diffent authors the quality is also varying greatly between average and utter crap (sorry for this word). I stopped seriously reading the book in the chapter where the adventurers got arrested and while not staying in jail they have to search for a chicken (!) instead. I cannot deny the feeling that Black Industries wanted to quickly throw a last adventure at the market before they closed down as I cannot imagine that they had a serious quality control running on that stuff. So I decided not to write a “real” review about that supplement. I can only give you this advice: if you haven’t bought it yet, don’t waste your money. There are a lot of good fanmade campaigns out there that are far better and for free. I hope that TTT was not the first in a series of bad publications for WFRP. Hopefully FFGs forthcoming material will be of better quality than TTT.