Hello, Rogue Trader fans!

This week, I'm happy to present Rogue Trader writer Tim Huckelbery, as he discusses some of his work—the Armoury chapter of the Rogue Trader Core Rulebook.

Enjoy!

So I can cut people to shreds with an Eldar gun? Or even pray the Orcs actually made a weapon that fires not just because its being held by an Orc? I like it.

Wow...that only leaves one concern. Do you really not have to lead women and children so much?

To add to the comments on the news page...

Release date please.

Kinda neat and all, but these are the kind of things I like to read after I have the book. Kind of like listening to the commentary of a movie AFTER you've seen it. No point in getting the commentary before the actual content, ya know?

And yeah...any idea when the release date is?

there is... nothing interesting about this designer diary. A couple of name-drops for items we're meant to get all excited about ("Oooh, Crux Beam Guns, what do they do?")

ok, maybe not nothing . RT was written collaboratively over the internet - that's new info, and vaguely interesting to those of us who like wrting rules and hope to eventually break in to the industry. Tim's design philosophy? not so much.

When you have a significant number of people out there with the rules already, and the book's release content finalised there are so many interesting things you could talk about - post-release support strategy, the plan for Dark Heresy, whether there will be any interoperability (we know the systems are compatible, but in what ways ?) Sample ships - complete ones. Cut content you could release as web supplements without packaging in a new book to released sometime next year. Of all these interesting things (which would appeal to people with and without the book), you went with a page or soof Tim talking about guns.and not even going into any detail.

Even taking one of the new guns (the Crux Beam Guns, for example) and going through the process of creating it, from initial concept, through working out stats and how other people contributed, to the background for it and balancing it with cost and rarity, would have been a far more interesting designer diary than what basically amounts to "Here are some names of new things" and some vague mumblings about design theory.

Stats for digital weapons?

I would steeple my fingers and smile in delight, but I might blow my nose off.

Yeah, great. When is the book coming out?

I wish they would give us some more sample adventures. Perhaps some more info on the horrors that lie in slumber in the wretched stars of the Kronus Expanse. Maybe even the structure of the Imperium's presence in the area and the politics as well.

Please however kind sir give us the worst case scenario for the release date.

I'm also disappointed with the lack of content with the diary. While I appreciate the teams work, I quite plainly don't want to hear it now. I want actual stats, comparisons, charts, and samples of combat. Not some misleading article that fails to actually speak very much on its topic.

Yeah, Rogue Trader, nice to see you again.

Where´s Radical´s Handbook?

TorogTarkdacil said:

And you are asking that on the Rogue Trader forum?

Tetragon Tanebrae said:

WHOOOOOOSH