r/warhammerfantasyrpg • u/AwesomeLiesBlog AKA Gideon • 9d ago

Discussion LOST WARHAMMER: INDEX - Collating the now-bewildering number of Awesome Lies posts on unpublished Warhammer content

https://awesomeliesblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/lost-warhammer-index/
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u/Crusader_Baron 9d ago

From the article on the Trolls and Ogres supplement, it feels like working on WFRP in the late 80s/90s wasn't great. Is that the case? Did it prevent us from getting some great supplements?

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u/AwesomeLiesBlog AKA Gideon 9d ago

Yes, there was some internal disruption at GW and an abrupt move to deprioritise RPGs (that I'll cover in some future writing), which derailed a lot of plans for WFRP.

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u/Crusader_Baron 9d ago

Thank you for your answer! Do we know why this happened? Was it a 'mistake' or was the RPG not selling/popular enough?

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u/Zekiel2000 Ill met by Morrslieb 9d ago

Graeme Davis has talked about it at length, eg in an interview with Jordan Sorcery (on YouTube).

Increasingly miniature sales were prioritised by GW management, and there was a vague attempt to use RPGs to sell miniatures too, which inevitably failed. So WFRP got hives off to Flame Publications, a subsidiary company, with a very small staff and a very small budget and hardly any support from GW. That lasted a couple of years before being shuttered.

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u/kikilores 9d ago

I could imaging some chart showing selling miniatures generated alot more revenue with less costs