Rogue Trader Campaign Inspirations V – Cowboy Bebop
This post differs from the rest of my campaign inspiration posts, because, though I would I really like to run a Rogue Trader game with a Bebop feel to it, I felt that this was something that would not carry across well [...]Read on >>
Rogue Trader Campaign Inspiration IV – Syndicate
My first CD-ROM drive, bought during the mid-90s, came bundled together with 4 games: Ultima 8: Pagan, SimCity 2000, Wing Commander 2 and Syndicate. I spent hours fighting Kilrathi, battling titans, building arcologies a[...]Read on >>
Rogue Trader Campaign Inspirations III – Mass Effect
If I had to create a ranked list of my favourite CRPGs, the Mass Effect series would definitely find itself somewhere in the top 10. Considering that I’ve recently played the 2nd installment (after replaying the fi[...]Read on >>
[Rogue Trader] Expanding on X-COM styled research
Most (6/8) of my Rogue Trader PbP group managed to get together for a face-to-face session last week. This was the group’s first RL session and the first ‘full rules’ session for some of the players. Th[...]Read on >>
Quiet on the Southern Front
I’m back online after an extended session of travel and gaming. Though I don’t have time to write a proper post at this moment, I do have the time to let you know what to expect in the near future. Upcoming p[...]Read on >>
Gencon
Man, the costume contest was intense this year* Okay, here it is finally. Now that I've been able to catch up on sleep and unpack everything that happened, here's my post about GenCon 2010. Let me preface this by saying [...]Read on >>
Southern Comfort
Heave to, and prepare to be boarded! Why, hello there Gentle Readers! So, there were no posts last week because I had a furiously busy Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday then The Wife, The Kid, and I piled in the car and de[...]Read on >>
The Life of Riley
Heave to, and prepare to be boarded! Why, hello there Gentle Readers! So, there were no posts last week because I had a furiously busy Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday then The Wife, The Kid, and I piled in the car and de[...]Read on >>
Choosing a Sci-Fi RPG
July 31, 2010 from The Kyngdoms
Filed under: Dark Heresy, RPG, RPG Hub, Rogue Trader, Star Wars, Traveller
I’m thinking of picking up a sci-fi rpg. It would be something different from what we normally play and I think fun also. I’m certainly drawn to running something along those lines anyway. The question is, wh[...] Filed under: Dark Heresy, RPG, RPG Hub, Rogue Trader, Star Wars, Traveller
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[Rogue Trader] Campaign Inspirations II
The Rogue Trader core book suggests that new Warrants of Trade should come with attached conditions. These conditions can be used to set up the group’s first endeavour or mood and theme of the game. Since many of m[...]Read on >>
[Rogue Trader] Campaign Inspirations I
Most of the inspiration for my current Rogue Trader play-by-post game comes directly from the available 40K material. However, I also draw a lot of inspiration from other titles. Today, I intend to start discussing the i[...]Read on >>
A Comedy of Errors
Welp, they made it. Our first night of Rogue Trader was a pretty rousing success. Here's last night's game log. Enjoy! For ease of reference, here are the players: Marneus Machariel - Rogue Trader Bors Tovon&n[...]Read on >>
Risk Assessment
I'll take min/maxing for fifty, Trebek! Let's get this out of the way right off the bat, I love it when bad shit happens to characters. Your character, my character, it doesn't matter. When a cunning plan doesn't su[...]Read on >>
[Rogue Trader] Rumours: All-Purpose GM Tool
I’m a big fan of using rumours to add a bit of life (and the occassional plot hook) to a RPG game. As some of you may know, I’ve been running a somewhat experimental Rogue Trader play-by-post game, where play[...]Read on >>
Run Out the Guns Boys, It’s Time for Rogue Trader!
All ahead full! So, as my tens of regular readers know, my gaming group just finished up a long-term epic scale game that was a mash-up of Shadowrun, In Nomine, and Call of Cthulhu wherein we nuked Hastur and then went m[...]Read on >>
Friday Mea Culpa: No Excuse Edition.
Mea culpa, mea culpa... Okay, look. I know going over two weeks between posts is total bullshit. I know I've let down my tens of readers, and for that I'm sorry. I don't really have a good excuse, not one that[...]Read on >>
[Rogue Trader] Introducing X-COM style research
Last month, I had the following to say about my Rogue Trader PbP game: With this game, I decided to step away from the classic PbP format (well, at least as I have experienced PbP in the past), trying to focus on explora[...]Read on >>
Hastur, Hastur, Hastur. See? Nothing hap…
Welp, that's it. Sadly, we did not all die in a nuclear fire while being consumed by a Shoggoth. There were, however, a few casualties. While we were crossing Lake Hali in a boat made of bones, Franco, our own Wayne Smit[...]Read on >>
Hey! You! Looka here!
Hot damn! My first assignment for Fantasy Flight, in which I developed a whole bunch of awesome new rules, has finally been announced! Just look at it. I couldn't be more proud of the work I did here. So, save[...]Read on >>
Cake: the final frontier
Earlier this week, I wrote about the play-by-post Rogue Trader game I’m running. In game, the players have just defeated a group of saboteurs/insurgents within their fleet. Several prisoners were taken and inter-pl[...]Read on >>
[Carnival] Voidfaring through the drought
This month’s RPG Blog Carnival, hosted by allgeektout, asks bloggers to share their experiences about surviving a gaming drought. Earlier this year, my Durban-based Rogue Trader group broke up as two members of the[...]Read on >>
Friday Bonus Post: Marines! We Are Leaving!
Oh, Marines. Look at how awesome and over-the-top you are... Guess what, Gentle Readers! You know who has two thumbs and just landed an assignment writing for Fantasy Flight's Deathwatch line? *points to self* This guy![...]Read on >>
Better Late than Never, Eh?
It's ours, Precious! Today is our birthday, Precious. I know it's been woefully quiet this week at the Gamewerks, but don't fret Gentle Readers. The Furnaces are burning and the gears are grinding and the belts are movin[...]Read on >>
Fantasy to Heresy: One Warhammer to the Next.
Afterthoughts: WFRP3e So last post, I gave a bit of a rant of how I saw the 3rd edition of Warhammer Fantasy Role Play. Well, about a week later, I may be shelving it for a while. I found the mechanics fun, but due to [...]Read on >>
The Old Girl: Vehicles as Characters in Your Game
"She's not old, she's in her prime." I'm not going to lie to you gentle readers, I'm an inveterate gearhead. I love machines of all kinds, but vehicles especially turn my crank, as it were. Anything from a 50cc min[...]Read on >>
In the grim darkness of the 41st millenium, there is only Desire
Several blogs celebrated the release of the first Nevermet Press PDF by running a series of distributed workshop posts. The authors of these posts took Michael Brewer’s villain concept, the Desire, and ported her t[...]Read on >>
[Durban] A brief update
On Saturday, I had the pleasure of attending the Durban 27 Dinner. I had the chance to meet some of Durban’s internet presence, chat about paladins (this really happened, and, so what? My paladin is awesome.) and[...]Read on >>
Jason’s Weekend with Ross and Sam or Where all the coffee is strong, all the waitresses are good looking, and all the game developers are above average.
Hey kids. I'm back on track after the whirlwind of the holidays, so I figured I'd celebrate by actually updating the 'blog. Shocking, I know. Anyway, let me tell you about my weekend, wherein I went to Minneapolis to han[...]Read on >>
Fly Spaceships, Get Money, Cleanse Xenos: Getting to know Rogue Trader.
Before I started writing for Fantasy Flight, I'd never given the 40K setting much thought. Not for lack of interest, because there was a lot about the setting that I liked, but because it was a miniatures game and the la[...]Read on >>
[Durban] Learn to role play: Rogue Trader – Dark Frontier
In the grim darkness of Durban, there is only gaming at Destiny Bookstore. Join us for the second introductory Rogue Trader adventure, the sequel to Forsaken Bounty, Dark Frontier. Date and Time: 27 February 2010, 10:30 [...]Read on >>
[Rogue Trader vs. 4e] Skill Challenges
My first forays with Fourth edition skill challenges provided mixed results. While I found disarming complex traps fun and interesting (especially when used as part of a combat encounter), I found exploration challenges [...]Read on >>
The Most Embarrassing Player Death…
This is the story of how I (almost) died in session three of the on-going Rogue Trader campaign I’m playing in. It was, at least, a glorious near-death experience. The only reason I wasn’t rolling up a new ch[...]Read on >>
Coming Soon: Rogue Trader Session Podcasts
Get ready for good times, because cbpye.net is going to be hosting the recorded play sessions of my Rogue Trader group (that is to say, the group in which I play. I do not GM for this group). Be sure to subscribe and l[...]Read on >>
The Year in Awesome 2009
I have been a bit remiss with Games of State of late. My post-graduate course is leaving me with little time for socialising away from books, let alone sitting down to blog regularly. Hopefully 2010 will see my post rate[...]Read on >>
Rogue Trader Character Profile: Serafina Heinstein-Fueller
November 17, 2009 from Games of State
Filed under: Fluff/Inspiration, Other Systems, RPG Hub, Rogue Trader
I got a little bit carried away when I was writing my character bio for Rogue Trader. I quite like the idea of a megalomanic heretic who believes she can fix the entire Imperium. Background During the period in which [...] Filed under: Fluff/Inspiration, Other Systems, RPG Hub, Rogue Trader
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News: FFG Stuff, Rogue Trader CharGen, and More!
Fantasy Flight Games recently announced that the Radical’s Handbook has arrived, so we should expect it to be available very soon. I’m looking forward to reviewing this one! Also noteworthy: FFG is on Faceb[...]Read on >>
(Possibly) Make Your Rogue Trader Character Absolutely Ridiculous
First, a warning: this might be considered a Character Optimization article by many. I don’t think that’s really fitting in this situation, because there’s a massive chance for this to backfire horribl[...]Read on >>
Review: Rogue Trader
November 2, 2009 from Games of State
Filed under: Dark Heresy, Other Systems, RPG Hub, Review, Rogue Trader
Rogue Trader, is the second core rule book in the Warhammer 40K Roleplay series. While it’s predecessor, the extremely successful Dark Heresy, followed the adventures of a group of Inquisitorial Acolytes, Rogue Tra[...] Filed under: Dark Heresy, Other Systems, RPG Hub, Review, Rogue Trader
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New Rogue Trader Character Sheets
Like a papyrus zombie, my character sheets have returned! Why settle for those fancy official character sheets that burn through your ink, and don’t even have the decency to make optimal use of the space on the pag[...]Read on >>
Rogue Trader Character Generator Update
You can have a look at the Rogue Trader Character Generator here. I guess you could call this a milestone, albeit a small one. All of the data regarding character generation (aside from items and psychic-specific stuff[...]Read on >>
Review: Rogue Trader
Rogue Trader is here, and the lot of you interstellar rapscallions can thank my friend Dylan for loaning me his shiny new book for a bit. I’ve got it so that I can make a half-assed character generator, but I migh[...]Read on >>
I’m Not Dead; Let’s Talk Rogue Trader
If you’ve gotten so lazy that you haven’t updated your blog in almost half a year, you’ve gotten pretty lazy. The last thing I posted was An Early Look at Rogue Trader Characters. Well, since then Rog[...]Read on >>
Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader Going Cheap!
While I’m slightly annoyed at Fantasy Flight Games for the delay of Rogue Trader – it has had a positive upshot. Amazon are now selling it for £26 or $38. That’s getting pretty close to being half of t[...]Read on >>
[Rogue Trader] Drooling over the limited edition
I’m a 40k fan. I think I might have mentioned that a few times along the way. I love Dark Heresy. It’s sexy and awesome. It took 20 years for us to get an RPG from the original release of Warhammer 40,000: Ro[...]Read on >>
[Report] Durban Game Day 2 – Rogue Trader
This post may contain spoilers for the Rogue Trader quick start adventure. </spoiler alert> Yesterday, I was part of the 2nd Durban Game Day, aimed at reviving the Durban (and KZN, as a whole) gaming scene. After[...]Read on >>
An Early Look at Rogue Trader Characters!
Breaking news, Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader fans! Recently posted to the Rogue Trader official website are two bonus characters for Forsaken Bounty (the introductory Rogue Trader adventure, available freely on June 20t[...]Read on >>
Radical’s Handbook and Rogue Trader News
Hello again, everyone! Yes, I’m late with the conclusion to the Inquisitor’s Handbook review. I promise that it is forthcoming, but things are a little hectic here now. This quick little post should hol[...]Read on >>
Play the first Rogue Trader adventure @ Free RPG Day
I just saw this over at Purple Pawn and had to relay to you, the Emperor’s servants, the good news. Friendly local game stores participating in Free RPG Day (that’s June 20, 2009) will receive Forsaken Boun[...]Read on >>
