@Quicksilver

Good point on the lunch availabilities.

@JephKay

I think it depends on ones perspective. It may be unlikely that of all the thousands of sectors the Kroot chose this one to travel, but on the other hand side, every single other sector would have been just as unlikely. In the same way, it's very unlikely for an acolyte cell not to someday stumble upon a "Rocks fall, everyone dies" situation - the enemy just happened to have a spy posed where he could notice the characters and devised a death trap that deserved its name by not letting the characters slide into lava at a conveniently slow pace while the Big Bad strides away laughing and instead just killing them. Still, we'll likely play the cells that don't have this happening to them. In the same way, of all the systems of all the thousands of sectors of the galaxy, the Kroot walk into ours.

It's just a matter of choosing your samples.

Yay! The first book I worked on has been announced. I'm really, really excited about its release - and not just because it's my first published work (one of those Xenos careers was written by me).

Xenos careers? I'm melting with joy. And I'm quite confident about the quality of them too. Let's hope that the whole supplement is at least as good as the "Inquisitor's Handbook". Can't go wrong with that one.

Well, gratz to you, N0-1_H3r3. I hope your contribution is even better than your fan supplements.

A) Will it contain Ship scale Attack craft and Ordnance rules.
B) Will it cover large scale planetary warfare.

If there is none I'll stick with my own rules and the stuff I've borrowed from Dark Heresy for free.

Looks nice, awesome cover. Looking forward to more information. The main book could benefit from a player's guide. Particularly for more career options, vehicles (Explorers need them even more then Acolytes,) and xenos. A supplement for starships would also be nice but that will probably be another book.

N0-1_H3r3 said:

Congratulations. Always liked your work. Any abhumans?

Definitely looking forward to this. If it has the wealth of content that the Inquisitor's Handbook had then it'll be one of the best books released for the line.

I'm also near-certain we'll be seeing orks as PCs. Unless FFG commissions art for no reason at all.

Okay, after seeing the Ork, here are our demands:

• We want to pre-order this book.
• When we pre-order, we want a link to download the book as a PDF.
• After we finish drooling on the first one, we will print a new copy, or wait for the finished product.

Sounds perfectly reasonable, don't it?

Snidesworth said:

Or there could be an Ork NPC in the book, or an adventure that involves orks, or a section on Ork gear. I mean we saw pictures of daemons in Dark Heresy sourcebooks and they were not PCs.

Then again the possibility to be an Ork Freebooter, or a blood axe Mercenary is always a reasonable considering the nature of Rogue trader. Possibly the two knew Xeno's careers are just blankets that allow you to cover over a number of diffrent races.

TK-4117 said:

I would prefer that. But I have this feeling they will be specific xeno/career.

I don't think you could do do justice to Eldar, Kroot or Orks with only the Origin options available, so I hope the two paths are tailored to specific Xeno races.

“ Frezenio Tenax spoke the words of command and the sealed bulkheads sprang open. Even onboard the Goldrake there were parts of the ship that were not part of his personal fiefdom irrespective of his warrant. The Navigator’s tower was one of them, the chapel of the Magos was another, and the Platform, that bizarre independent brewhouse on his frigate (Fore deck 99) was also traditionally by decree of one of his ancestors an inviolate area. So was Deck 42, the Sinth factory’s own Observer, who acted as the dynasties Seneschal and factor, but of all the areas it was this one he visited the most often, and usually when the she was irritated.
He stepped through onto the deck which in comparison to other parts of the ships the place was light and airy. The walls of the deck were wood panelled and replete with a honeycomb of bunk beds and voidsman units The centre of the deck filled with rows upon rows of scriveners busily scratching way and cogitating, their fingers black from ink and straining with autoquills, some of them with eyesight augmented so as to skim read and translate vast amounts of prose or data over old and worn desks. The whole look was not too dissimilar to the many Administratum departments he had come across during his days as a field notary, before his elevation to Rogue Trader. It would be reassuring infact if it wasn’t for their master. At the far end of the deck like a queen presiding over a court of scribes sat Lwindha Van Chat. Unlike her minions, or indeed most factors he met, she was not the grey man of the dynasty in the back ground. She had the painted and decadent look of one of Beorma Prime’s ruling elite, her gown an elegant assortment of baroque and silk. She was of course not true aristocracy, rather one of the factory baronies who had risen up to a wealthy status. That meant two things, namely that despite her finery’s she was not an airhead imbecile like many of her contemporaries at court. And secondly as manufactorum girl she knew how to handle resources, something that he irrespective of his background didn’t have a clue about. After all he started off as a field notary, but he spent most of his formative years as a Inquisitors Catspaw wielding blade and pistol against all manner of fiends rather than a autoquill. This had caused friction between them. She had him down as a similar creature, one of habit and protocol. Needless to say she was disappointed.

Frezenio walked past the banks of scribes and stood before the large desk. The painted china doll didn’t even bother to look at him, her attention fixed on a dataslate, which set Frezenios teeth on edge.

“Sit”

Frezenio obliged and fell languidly into the chair.

“You called?”

“How long?” She said, still reading her report

“I’m sorry?” This was going to be tiresome

She looked up and fixed him with her emerald green eyes, her face framed by the her puttanesca hair. Her demeanour betraying nothing of the exasperation she felt.

“ How long till we lead the windy paths and return to the Imperium?”

“We have two more systems to inspect and the we shall hit Ingres Blanche and go through the warp gate. Then It will be forty days, with regular translations before we reach Belacar”

“ You do realise we are cutting this fine? Forty days where I have to find decent crew for that new transport ship, not to mention officers we now have and all the other materials personnel and service I have to order to bring to fruition your ambitions…including a lot of starship components”

“Yes I do. Is there a problem? We are on time after all”

“If we had left the windy paths earlier rather than circumnavigating this trail of systems we could have got many of these orders sent in by trading within the expanse, rather than getting back to the Calyxisis sector. Now we have twice as many worlds to colonise, thanks to your nervousness over pirates and that idiot explorator who is cramming my limited cargo holds with useless frakk he keeps finding dirtside. This expedition has been badly organised”

“But we have an extra ship to do this with…thanks to me”

“I very much doubt it’s thanks to you. I still don’t know exactly how much the debtors of the vessel will demand for its use. Anyway the good news is that I’ve found a tome in the Librarium “In Tempestas”, it might be the answer to our problems, it’s a codicil on goods and services in the Koronus expanse and it might save us some time”

Now thats more like its, a proper sandbox book...

The picture mentioned earlier in the thread is named Orc Storm Trooper...

Storm Trooper isn't a very Orc like title so I'm hoping will be two careers available for all 3 of the most wanted Xenos Races...

Kroot, Eldar and Orc...

Though:

PLEASE FFG< CAN WE HAVE ABHUMANS FINALLY???

Santiago said:

[mock offended]What, are mine not good enough for you? I mean, I've been providing abhuman rules since the day Dark Heresy was released...[/mock offended]

More seriously, while I can understand the sentiment, I personally see abhuman PCs as a better fit for Dark Heresy than for Rogue Trader - many of the career paths in Rogue Trader are unsuitable for abhumans (Ogryns only really fit into Arch-Militant, for example; everything else is too clever), while Xenos PCs can benefit from the increased starting power level of Rogue Trader as well as the tone of its setting.

I totally agree with you....but was just a general cry for abhumans...

Your rules are great, though I would love see some official rules...

Snidesworth said:

Hmmm, very suggestive this is. We have an ork, wielding a chainsword of clearly Imperial manufacture, leading the charge for a band of stonefaced human troopers of some variety. Interesting.

Orks would seem to me to need their own book entirely - you could play a boy, a mek, a pain boy, a wierd boy or a runt herd - then choose the clan, then choose the cult... Instead of profit factor/aquisition they could have WAAARGH!

N0-1_H3r3 said:

True. But I see that as more as aspects of the poorly designed Rogue Trader careers. They never really impressed me.

Santiago said:

Origin Path -> Lure of the Void -> Tainted -> Mutant

Meh. You'd have to roll some rather specific mutations to get a good fit for Ogryns or Squats.

Cifer said:

That wouldn't be enough. For an Ogryn, I'd expect at least Hulking and Hideous Strength, possibly with Brute on top. To get that, you'd have to take Ravaged Body and roll.the exact mutations, ignoring that the RB mutations always look chaotic.

Cifer said:

Anyway, the point was that you can in fact play an abhuman with Rogue Trader. You just can't play any abhuman.