Editing Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (section)

=== First Edition ===
Published by Games Workshop themselves in 1986, First Edition is... strange.  It was made before a lot of Fantasy's setting had solidified into what we know today, and it shows.  Karl Franz is a weak old man who is assassinated part way through one of the modules for example.  The game was a gleeful mashup of the Basic Roleplaying System used by Runequest and Call of Cthulhu with AD&D, bringing the dynamics of humans, elfs, dwarves, and halflings into a gritty, dirt covered world where every combat had a good chance of permanently maiming a character.  The combination was an instant classic, and Empire In Flames was an iconic introduction to the Old World that would go onto inspire many authors, including William King's Gotrek and Felix series.