Must Have Rogue Trader! Damn I am practically drooling over it in anticipation.

Stoked. This plus Ascendancy tells me where I can take my DH characters once they hit max ranks.

Yeah looking forward to this
Time to start thinking about a swashbuckling adventure on the rolling empyrean.
Raiding imperial vessels and living it all up in the seediest spacebars :D

Definitely looking foward to that day, my friend, we should get there in, what, a decade or so from now? Hope you've got plot planned for that long...

[Apologies to everyone else - I'm playing in both of WarriorPoet's DH games]

I'm workin' on it, I'm workin' on it...

What ended up happening with Creatures for those who pre-ordered on Amazon, I heard they repeated a major fubar on everyone, hope it didn't happen again.

I still need to get a copy of that...

it is a cool book and all, but they could have spent pages or made whole books on Orks and Genestealers.  Speaking of Genestealers you can still get a Black Industries "apocrypha" online for free and it has in my opinion much better stats for the stealers, not to mention goes into their whole cult and gives stats for each cycle the bug is in.  Anathema just throws out the typical stealer at you and that is that.  Yeah still out there, 19 page PDF, much better than Anathema in my purple opinion. I hope they do one on orks, but this probably won’t be around too long, of course GW and FF are clueless about a lot of stuff so who the hell knows?

http://www.koldborg.eu/genestealer.pdf

  I got mine through Amazon UK, no problem. Having had a chance finally to read through it properly I think I'd have to say I'm impressed. There's a really good spread of creatures, all of them well-thought out and atmospheric, and the adventure hooks give loads of good ideas on how to use them. They've done everything they can to encourage you not to just throw a random monster at your PCs. I'd have liked a little less space given to art and a little more to squeezing in a few more creatures seeing as that's what I've bought the book for, but that's just me being crotchety and old-school. I wouldn't have wanted any more space given to Orcs though - you've got a pretty good overview there (a lot more than I remember getting in my old copy of Rogue Trader, and that was when that was all you had on 'em, now there's no shortage of fluff out there if you want to find more). I agree the lack of discussion of genestealer cults is disappointing, though. I have a vague memory of reading stuff about patriarchs holding their hybrid and apparently 'normal' human descendants in thrall as they slowly built up an army of purestrains to lay waste to a world... but that was way back in the day. Are hybrids still counted canonical?

Apocrypha is the BI PDF on vehicles.  There are no stats for 'stealers or anything else (other than vehicles) in it.

Just checking out the link you sent right now...hmmmmm.....

Not sure but back in the day I sooooooo wanted some of the Ork hybrids.  Heck I'd still get them if I could find them.  I'm sure they are on Evilbay somewhere but with the amount of figs I still need to paint I can't justtify getting more.

Not much of an article but I love the pic!



http://www.fantasyflightgames....ge_news.asp?eidn=537

I just read through this thread and the linked articles. I'm drooling after this book myself. I've been trying to find a ship based DH games for a time now without luck. This system seems be the thing I've been waiting for.

That'd be the Dark Reign Genestealer supplement, written by some of the members there.

I'd know, I'm an admin there :P

Another articles about RT is out and it has me thinking evil thoughts!



"Will Rogue Traders encounter the fearsome Ork and their clumsy vessels? Yes, indeed, and always more of them than any sane man would like. Planets overflowing with gems, death-beasts, and precious metals? Rival Rogue Trader and Explorator fleets bristling with lies and macrocannon? These things also. The treacherous Eldar? Certainly, for they always have an agenda to fulfill. Charred worlds of xenos tombs and deadly artefacts orbiting cursed stars that died before their time? Ruined Imperial colonies? Space hulks belonging to foolhardy Rogue Traders gutted by the jagged warp? Mayhaps. Pirate scum who crawl before altars to the Ruinous Powers? A mythic STC upon a world of charred hive-ruins? Dark voids where man was not meant to tread, and where ghost-ships sail the Empyrean? The horrid remains of doomed archeoexpeditions who dug too deeply? Primitive beasts who carve tech-devices from the living jungle? Cities of stone suspended in the void? Worlds of heathen men who have never known the God-Emperor? A dark threat from a forgotten past that trumps all others? Well, you'll have to wait and see."


http://www.fantasyflightgames....ge_news.asp?eidn=561

One of the more encouraging things to emerge so far about Rogue Trader IMHO. They're confirming the main setting is the Halo Stars, and that there's scope for just about anything you want to put out there, including (and I'm particularly glad about this) worlds of pre-Imperium human settlement. Now that sounds like something really fresh and new for 40K and what's more something that is a great contrast with DH. RT and DH characters will likely have diametrically opposed worldviews, one seeing the Imperium as the hope of humanity, to be guarded against the threats of the outer and inner darkness, the other seeing hope as potentially found outside the Imperium, in the undiscovered riches of the Halo Stars. I'm starting to get more and more excited about RT now it's starting to sound more like privateers raiding the New World and less and less like Serenity meets 40K...

http://www.fantasyflightgames....ge_news.asp?eidn=570

An article about Navigators.

I can't believe I didn't see this on a chat or think of it earlier, but can you imagine how much treasure still is at the bottom of the shallow atlantic plate and the islands, billions of dollars worth of gems and gold literally billions maybe one or two I guess you throw billions around like a pink five dollar monopoly piece.  Now can you imagine billions of worlds all most likely with some way of leaving the planet, in the high millions for that tech level and then add in the xenos, holy crap the book could just be called Pawn Broker: The next to the furthest future.

Has any one heard of how they are going to handle the physics aspect of space travel, just juice up the table top, oh man that reminds me too Man O' War, dammit I have to go say goodbye to another cool game, talk about the stunty subs and ork things, although rolling for wind gets old a little fast.  The game made it too realistic and people started hopefully admire what early captains of War Vessels accomplished, brilliance.  Thank you Union members and Mafia related teamsters an 8 hour day and now we get drunk and forget what happen let alone why we were off today anyhow.  And Navy lads and sailors who now have a gun ship that can transform into three parts and go almost seventy miles an hour, small warheads optional. This would look ridiculous at close range the new ship next to a junker and eight guys with 30 year old AK-47's, overkill naw it's the Navy we make everything blow up, one thing we learned from the British Army, how to blow things up with style and panache.

Hey brother, dont forget my Marine Corps. We blow things up as well. And we learned it from the Royal Marines, of which we are the younger red headed step child to.

Damn straight. The British Armed Forces are some of the best in the world (except the SAS, who are the best).

Sweet!

http://www.fantasyflightgames....ge_news.asp?eidn=579

Finland isn't one of the countries where the even is. Must wait for the pdf. Is anyone going to run the adventure? I'd be eager to play in one.

Me too.

FF is doing such a awesome job, that now I have to own free copies for the art, if Langley did the cover he is now the GW master.  June 20th, just drool for two weeks.  Rouge is going to make the CON huge this year.

I'd be up for a run-through of the intro game too.