Does anyone know approximately how long it will take for all three parts to be released? I own Tattered Fates but I am delaying running it as I am trying to avoid a scenario that has hit our gaming group with Dawn of Defiance for Star Wars Saga.

Basically I don't want to run Tattered Fates only to wait 6 months to a year for the final part. My group have short memories and we only play once a month as is so breaks between lessen the overall plot arc.

Those who have run Tattered Fates already are those characters still active? Are you not concerned they will be too high rank by the time the next part gets published?

At the current pace of releases, I'd say it will be awhile until the whole thing is done. I'd like to be wrong, though.

You could always give out xp very slowly (as in the recommended amount per session) and reward players in other ways (contacts, items, fate points, a small Rouge Trader style starship), I guess.

I've basically stopped my Dark Heresy campaign because the release pace is a joke. Considering the Radical's Handbook has been "At the printer" for over 2 months, and Damned Cities is slotted for release *after* that, we won't see the 2nd part of Tattered Fates until next year sometime, and the 3rd and final part for 6, 8 months or more.

Ascension is slotted after Damned Cities, so I don't expect that until Summer 2010 if not later. So, had I kept playing, I would have characters who had finished part of an adventure months ago. Filling time with other missions would have brought them to the level cap, with Ascension nowhere in sight, and would have completely derailed the urgency of the Tattered Fates storyline. So, we stopped. Haven't played Dark Heresy in months.

We have played through Tattered fates, and unfortunately,I have given up on continuing it for now, due to the lack of any response by FFG on this subject. We've started playing old school AD&D until I finish work on a modified "Shades on Twilight" adventure as I'm having the Twilight heading for quaddis insead of Scintilla. I plan on having all the popular races represented on it for the P.C.'s to encounter, to intoduce them to the WH40k universe before handing them the keys to their shiny new Cobra class frigate in Rogue Trader. I wont make it that easy for them tho. In answer to your querry, Yes, I'm a little concerned about the rank to adventure level ratio. But I found Tattered fates easily scalable to the current rank of ones acolytes. I may or may not run Damned Cities if and when it comes out. But I refuse to lose sleep over it. It would be nice to see tho.

I understand products slip (I used to work for Microsoft), but it seems very poor business sense to break up the release of a linked adventure like this.

There's always House of Dust and Ash to fill in (and Ascension when/ if released) to tide you over.

If you play monthly, wait until the Radicals Handbook is released, then run an intro adventure or two (to lead the Acolytes up to rank 4, the minimum reccomended starting rank for Tattered Fates), then try a linking adventure, then go with the House of Dust and Ash (around level 6 Acolytes, the top end reccomendation for this) then try another linking adventure. If by this point you find playes advancing to quickly, Acsension could be released giving you more options before Damned Cities is released.

Does anyone know what level it's (Damned Cities) scripted for? I'd guess ranks 6 ~ 8, but have no real clue.

I would sus[ect that FFG is purposly not releasing The Radical's handbook and Rogue trader simultaneously in order to avoid competing with themselves. Gamers are not the most affluent crowd, and often look to their pocketbooks -particularly before buy a pair of 50$+ source-books. If I walked into my local game store last week, saw RT and the Radical's handbook, and only had 50$ to my name, I'd have almost certainly bought rogue trader(I'm in no way suggesting that this is a unanimous position). As it is, of course, I would buy both, as I am a very wealthy man...

I think we will see both Haarlock Legacy and Radicals before X-mas. I feel they will be released alongside the Rogue Trader Toolkit. I agree, they were probably delayed to allow more people access to the RT release.

I was checking the Upcoming Products and Reprints page. There is nothing listed for DH after the Radical's Handbook, (At the Printer) not even "In Development" or "Concept Stage." However, I don't recall ever seeing anything in those two stages (I do filter for just RPGs). Things show up "At the Printer" then move down the waterfall of "On the Boat" to "Shipping Now" to "In Stores Now.

Since "Damned Cities" isn't on on the Upcoming page yet, I doubt we'll see if by Christmas.

The delay will mean that our GM will end up writing his own campaign. We are fairly advanced through Tattered Fates but I think we are going to bin the campaign and do his. I understand not releasing Rogue Trader and Radical's Handbook at the same time but I don't think part 2 of Haarlock Legacy would have caused much of an issue.

I can understand the problem. As a gamemaster I am quite unwilling to utilize material like this when the rest of the campaign is not available. As my gaming group meets (roughly) once a week or so, we would blow through the first book of this campaign in a fairly short amount of time as things go. Typically I utilize these "official" campaigns and adventure supplements to just add something different into my own campaigns from time to time. While one could theoretically extend the material in the first book themselves in an unofficial fashion, that would make using the 2 following supplements very difficult when they come out.

While it is a bit of a pain, I myself intend to just wait till the whole set of the Haarlock Legacy is in my hands before I even plan to make use of them. Hopefully the wait is not too much longer and these things can be finished up and sent of to the printer sooner rather than later if at all possible.

Similar to PtU , I think all three parts for Haarlock's should have been finished and released in one go, as one book. Seems it would have made for better business sense; less to print, and a chance to be conscientious of your market base and the economic down turn most everyone is still in.

Just my two pennce.

-=Brother Praetus=-

Lack of info is the problem. Fair play to FFG they listened re Arkham minatures and have responded. If they have cancelled the Haarlock Legacy, they should say so. If it's still happening, a rough eta wouldn't go amiss