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World of Warcraft is an online role-playing experience set in the award-winning Warcraft universe. Players assume the roles of Warcraft heroes as they explore, adventure, and quest across a vast world. World of Warcraft is a "Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game" which allows thousands of players to interact within the same world. Whether adventuring together or fighting against each other in epic battles, players will form friendships, forge alliances, and compete with enemies for power and glory.

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What is the Warcraft RPG?




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Welcome to World of Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game!

You've clicked those units and completed those quests
online. Now is your chance to make Azeroth and the stories of its
heroes and epic battles truly come alive. With World
of Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game (the WoW RPG), you can explore the world of Warcraft at your tabletop, in sagas of your own making.

The WoW RPG is a tabletop roleplaying, also called a pen-and-paper roleplaying
game. Imagine you and a bunch of your friends, sitting around a table, eating
pizza, drinking sodas, and inventing stories set in the Warcraft world. That's what the WoW
RPG is all about. Each player creates a character that represents his alter ego on Azeroth, much like in the World
of Warcraft
computer game, except for one player: the Game Master. The Game Master
controls everything except the other players' characters.

The Open Gaming License

World of Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game uses the Open

Gaming License (OGL), created by Wizards of
the Coast. The WoW RPG, therefore,
is fully compatible with the world's most popular tabletop roleplaying game—and
with just about any other game that makes heavy use of a funny-sided die called
a d20.

Unlike the World of Warcraft computer game, in the WoW
RPG there are no limits
to the feats you can accomplish, the maneuvers you can attempt, and the lands
you can explore. That is the power of tabletop roleplaying games: if you can
imagine it, you can create it. And the imagination is a more powerful video
card than anything nVidia can create.

To play World of Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game, one
player in your group needs the WoW RPG core
book. That's it. The WoW
RPG book is a complete game, containing everything you need to create epic
characters and forge your own legends in the Warcraft world. The other books
provide additional options: more character types to play, more loot to discover,
more foes to overcome, and more lands to explore.

Welcome to World of Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game! Azeroth will never be
the same.

A New Edition
The WoW RPG core

book updates the rules from the previous Warcraft RPG game.
Why, you might ask, did we make a change?

Quite simply, we could not miss the opportunity to update, improve, and evolve
the game in conjunction with the release of Blizzard's World of Warcraft MMORPG.
More importantly, we took the significant step this time of going the OGL route
so that we could freely explore and express all the facets of the Warcraft
computer games in the pen-and-paper version. The end result is a game that
faithfully honors the core concepts presented in the original Warcraft RPG and comes closer to the vision of the Warcraft universe as developed by Blizzard.

The WoW RPG book uses the same basic rules system as
the previous edition, so the older books—the Warcraft RPG book,
the Alliance &
Horde Compendium, Magic & Mayhem, Lands of Conflict,
and Shadows
& Light — are compatible with the new edition and are valuable
resources for your adventures on Azeroth. You will see some important
differences between
the revised and original Warcraft RPG games, and we wrestled mightily
with each change that we incorporated (the bruises are still clearing up,
trust
us). Therefore, we offer a free conversion document [download]
to help you make the transition to World of Warcraft the RPG.