Gustav said:
Malik do you plan to expand your compilations even more in the future? Using content from Only War for example?
Here's my angle on those.
In my assessment, there are three pen-and-paper games that FFG makes for WH40k.
Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, and Deathwatch are basically variants on the same game. It uses the same rules and has a very similar play style, just with vastly different thematic and stylistic parts that I think speak for themselves.
Black Crusade, meanwhile, isn't entirely the same game. Many traits and talents work differently, it has new skills and has removed old ones, and so forth. The way Unnatural Characteristics work, for example, is a fairly obvious point, as are the fact that multiple melee attacks are worked off by Degrees of Success (as in a full-auto gun attack) than being entirely separate Tests. Parry attempts are Skill Tests rather than a Weapon Skill Test. I could go on.
Only War is an even larger departure.
When I set out to put this compilation together, it was with the stated intention of simply amalgamating available stuff to Dark Heresy players, which necessary meant cribbing from Rogue Trader in some ways since there's nothing stopping some of that weird stuff - and entirely not-so-weird stuff - from falling into the hands of Acolytes during an investigation or purge of bad guys. Of course, Rogue Trader characters could use it too since we're simply now looking at Availability only rather than a cost in Thrones. Space Marines probably can't even use most weapons intended for mere humans due to their giant muscular hands, but it can be helpful to know what's shooting at you.
When future Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader content appears I will start looking at another expansion, but I'm not planning on doing anything with Black Crusade and Only War simply because I feel stuff from those games are designed to work in them.
