Well, crap. I take a vacation and the entire world changes.

For instance, Disciples is now on sale: http://new.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=275 , so all of you not finding it can buy it direct from FFG.

Podcasts gallore!
http://new.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=257
Ross teases about Rogue Trader and... *death*
HOLY CRAP DEATH WATCH!!! Oh SWEEET.
And the review of Disciples really makes me want to get it - MOST WANTED HERETICS. That's a dozen campaigns right there! Makes me wish I had 40K friends so I could PLAY the game.

And... they geek about the 80s. Which for me, was almost before I was born.

http://new.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=278
and... it's downloading.

A second podcast? Fantastic. Thanks for the heads-up, will listen asap.

Hopefully someone listens to the whole thing and posts the down and dirty for us. I tried but after 3 minutes I almost went and slashed my wrists. And I thought the other podcast was annoying, at least it was direct and to the point and not 2 hours 47 minutes of rambling.

But I digress, each his own. And two for me.

The first 12 minutes is the opening. Then everything to the mid-point is Ross, his past and Dark Heresy stuff. Everything beyond that I haven't listened to. I wish I'd taken notes while going through it, but here's what I remember.

• Rogue Traders themselves are playable in Rogue Trader (shock!)
• The Hrud Fusil will appear in Creatures Anathema, though the Hrud themselves will not. Enslavers will, though, along with another RT-era xeno.
• Creatures Anathema will be written from the perspective of an Inquisitor who, having lost many acolytes to the various horrors of the galaxy, has gone about researching them so his next bunch of acolytes can better combat them. There'll be hand written text-boxes from the Inquisitor which could be photocopied and used as hand-outs for your game.
• Orks and Eldar will be a major feature of Creatures Anathema. An Eldar Corsair-King will be presented as an NPC and a potential plot-hook, along with his band of thieving xenos scum. Genestealers are in there too, but this was confirmed in the other podcast.
• Creatures will be presented not so much as a D&D, Monster Manual style stat-block with flavour text, but a proper account of what it is along with any stats.
• Rules for Sorcery, new daemons and new psychic powers in DotDG (old news again).

I know I've missed out tonnes of stuff. For those who want to listen themselves the DH talk starts at 45 minutes in (starting with Ross on his role in the continued development of the game) and finishes up just beyond the 90 minute mark. I might cut the podcast down and upload the relevant bit for people.

Thanks for listening! Just to clear things up, the Hrud Fusil is in Disciples of the Dark Gods , not Creatures Anathema .

(I'm fairly certain I said it that way in the interview, but I can certainly understand the confusion. That is a LONG interview!)

FFG Ross Watson said:

Listening again, and you're right. I now have another reason to stay at home and wait by the front door for my copy to arrive.

I've cut down and uploaded the Dark Heresy related part of the pod-cast. The full thing is worth listening to, since it includes talk of Ross' history and the best description of cherabim I've heard to date. But for those who don't have 90 minutes to spare, here it is.

http://rapidshare.com/files/172216434/D6GEpisode21_DH_Relevant.mp3

Thanks for the shortened version, I wanted to hear all about it, but honestly, teh show was just too juevenile (coming from a guy who spent the last 90 minutes gluing together space marines and dark eldar, and occassionally and accidental space eldar or dark marine, thats saying something).

Trust, Im into all that nerd talk, but in person. Listening to otehr games talk over the radio or pod jsut seems extremely lazy when I can have the same conversations with my friends.

Glad to see the Hrud finally getting tackled, anxious to see how this affects my Unearthed Apocrypha article.

I have been wondering if anyone has thought about tackling a Dark Heresy podcast similar to other game casts like Order 66 for Star Wars or Accidental Survivors for D20 Modern (or the plethera of DnD podcast.)?

Salcor

I think it's a great idea. I can't do the show myself, but I could definitely join in from time to time if someone else were to get it going.

Salcor said:

Perhaps, what could help Ross Watson would be a thread with specific questions about one specific topic at a time. Something like "make my interview", or "the fans over to me"...

It might avoid all the unnecessary stuff, like "present yourself" (looks like AA) or "what games do you play?" (honestly, I don't give a ****).

To be honest I really enjoy the Order 66 podcast layout. They generally focus the podcast around discussing classes, feats and talent, rules questions, and reviews of the latest Star Wars Saga edition releases. Accidental survivors has some other good stuff to it as well. Unfortunately I don't know anything about podcasting, but I have some ideas that might work for a Dark Heresy dedicated fan podcast.

Salcor