[Darrin_Bright]

I can live with typos and a few "page XX"s. What I was hoping to see in the sourcebooks is some effort to smooth out the inconsistencies with the previous edition and the Warhammer Fantasy Battles background, which veered away from one another at one point and have now been steered back into each other.

For example, WFRP2 is supposedly set 50 years after the events of the Enemy Within/Empire in Flames campaign. However, Graf Boris Todbringder of Middenheim is still alive, even though he's got a nice little "dramatic death" scripted at the beginning of Empire in Flames.

Emperor Karl Franz, who I think was also brought down to room temperature somewhere in Empire in Flames, has changed dramatically... in Enemy Within, he was a weak invalid patsy being manipulated by corrupt electors and evil cultists. In WFB he's a frothing pillar of pure gryphon-mounted badass. I can actually reconcile this last point which creates some interesting campaign ideas, but I haven't seen hardly anything in the new edition that explains the political situation... they keep mentioning this "Storm of Chaos" but other than a paragraph on the forests being overrun with beastmen hordes, I don't have a lot of details on what's happening.

For example... where are the bulk of the Chaos forces, what cities are they based in, what are their objectives, how quickly are they moving? Sounds like the bulk of the Chaos forces are coming in from the north... Middenheim survived a seige, but how far south have the Chaos forces dared to go? If my players suddenly decide to travel up to Talabheim, will they run into an army, and if so, which one? Has the Empire been able to respond quickly, or is the Emperor having trouble organizing his military forces? Are the southern provinces withholding their military resources, forcing the northern provinces to shoulder the bulk of military losses, thus allowing the southern electors to prey upon the weaker electors and give them the upper hand when picking a successor to Karl Franz?

The changes to Bretonnia I can kinda deal with... the Arthurian stuff is fine, I never did anything with the old version of Bretonnia to get really attached to it. Besides, most of the Arthurian mythos was created by the French... Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table were basically a knock-off version of Charlemagne and his Paladins, and most of the Arthurian source material is written by the French. (You can tell who wrote what by who the most bad-ass knight was... if it's Lancelot, the source is generally French. If it's Gawaine, then it's probably Anglo-Saxon.)

The Valten stuff is probably the hardest to reconcile, mostly because I don't have any WFB books and the new WFRP2 books haven't really mentioned him at all. In the original WFRP, Ghal-Maraz was brought back at the end of Empire in Flames, and disappears as part of the conclusion. Supposedly the Valten story has been wrapped up in WFB, but I'm not sure what page they're on with WFRP2... is he still around, or MIA?

I'm curious if BI will be reworking anything from the previous editions of WFRP other than the random pick-up scenarios from Plundered Vaults. Will we see updates for Lichmaster, Doomstones or Enemy Within?