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Let’s face it, I’ve definitely been on a Warhammer 40K kick lately, but even if you’re not into the miniatures game, you’ve got to admire the fluff. Black Library gave us the completely awesome Dark Heresy RPG, but its hampered somewhat by forcing players to play within the Imperium with a fairly limited range of character classes. With the RPG rights for the Games Workshop properties now at Fantasy Flight Games, we’re about to see the answer to this criticism in the new RPG: Rogue Trader. This new core setting will allow players to create characters not confined to Imperial space, with greater options for exploration and interaction with the myriad alien species of the 40K universe. The game is fully compatible with Dark Heresy and will be available for purchase at GenCon 2009. Given their amazing production qualities and slavish attention to the history and flavor of the 40K setting in Dark Heresy, this one is very likely to be another FFG winner.
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Point of historical trivia… “Rogue Trader” was announced as the future version of Warhammer back in the 1980s. It sounded great! Then, what Games Workshop (*spit*) eventually published was “Warhammer 40K”, a smashing together of Moorcock, Herbert and Pat Mill’s Nemesis the Warlock, but lacking the charm of any of its influences.
I, for one, was a bit miffed. Although not as miffed as when said company tried to destroy the role-playing game hobby in the UK in the late 1980s – the reason I make a spitting noise when I say their accursed name.
Nice to think that we will finally get “Rogue Trader”, just twenty years later than planned. :)
Actually, if I remember correctly, when Dark Heresy was originally announced, there was mention of three interlocking core book. The first (DH) would be very tightly focused, the second (which IIRC was slated to be called Rogue Trader) was supposed to expand the scope of DH, and the third, to expand it again. Sounds like FFG is simply following along with Black Labs original plans.
The third book in the line as announced by Black Library originally should be Space Marine, a game of political intrigue and romance in……oh wait :)
(ok, shooting aliens and heretics then).
Actually, the third book was “Death Watch”, if I remember correctly. Given the lack of personality within the brainwashed Astartes, it would probably be like playing Counterstrike with dice. But I know lots of people are waiting for that one.