Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

BrookM wrote:Ah, found our creed:

Cross the Stars and fight for glory
But 'ware the heaven's wrath.
Take yer salt and hear a shipmen's story.
Listen to the tales of the gulf,
Of stars that sing and worlds that lie
Beyond the ghosts of the rim.
But remember, lads, there aint no words
For every void-born thing.

Bonus pretzel to the one who can say where it is from and who wrote it.

....



Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from port wander
Aboard this tiny ship.

The mate was a mighty voidsman,
The skipper brave and sure.
Five thousand guard set sail that day
For a three year long tour, a three year long tour.

The Warp Storm started getting rough,
The tiny ship was tossed,
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
The sector would be lost, the sector would be lost.

The ship is now in orbit around this uncharted desert world
With Gilligan
The Skipper too,
The Rogue Trader and his wife,
The pict star
The Inquisitor and Mary Ann,
Here on Gilligans World.

Gah, I fething hate that show! If that's where the author got the inspiration for the intro then he shall pay! Pay I tell you, pay! Damn you Chambers!

Apparently Amazon is taking pre-orders for Daemon-Hunter, says it will release sometime in April.

Amazon's taking pre-orders for all the books in the three 'upcoming' fantasy RPG documents. Amazon's release dates though are about as rock solid as a bowl of jelly, so don't put too much faith into that.

I cannot put any faith in amazon at my current location, since I am of course on the opposite side of the planet, and right now I am having a "Codex: Orks Race", to see if GW goes fasta, since I ordered Deathwatch and a Codex: Orks on the same date from Amazon, and got Deathwatch I think 2 months earlier, and I still have no book of Orky greatness.

Otherwise, at least there is a book coming out.

Nice update for today...

The fires of war burn brightly from star to star. Everywhere, the fortresses of Man are steeped in blood, and ancient enemies appear from the darkness. Sensing weakness, they gather for the kill. They know, as we know, that night approaches and all mortal life shall be extinguished. We know, as they cannot, that there shall be a new dawn and a new day when we will rise and they will be driven into the darkness forever.

A free downloadable supplement for Dark Heresy is now available on the support page! Heresy Begets Retribution is a companion for both Ascension and Blood of Martyrs, and it introduces a new Ascended Career specifically for Adepta Sororitas characters.

linl to take you to links.

Now that's what I'm talking about.

That's what should have always been there.

And the Fire Lance/Flame Hammer is there. Excellent.

Very nice. I wonder why they left it out of the main book though? Not that I'm complaining that it's here

One element of book production that we often don’t think about is the printing of those books. From what I know with other companies – and there’s no reason to presume that FFG is immune to this – when you print something you print in page batches. Those batches might be 8 page batches, 12 page batches, 16 page batches and so on.

So if you’ve got a book that is 244 pages long and your printing deal with the printer (somewhere in China no doubt) is for 16 page batches, you either cut 4 pages (to make it 240), or you find another 12 pages of content. Given that the cost for an extra batch of pages would increase exponentially over the course of several thousand copies, they often cut the pages rather than add more.

And then later on they can release them as PDF’s – doesn’t cost any money to ‘print’ a PDF outside of the staffer who compiles it and uploads it.

FFG usually goes the extra mile and fills the last few pages with ads for their horrible "Twilight Imperium" board game.

BrookM wrote:FFG usually goes the extra mile and fills the last few pages with ads for their horrible "Twilight Imperium" board game.

i rather like TI. it's a bit long i'll give you but otherwise enjoyable.

That's why those adds are there. If they've filled all but 1 or 2 pages, then ads are the easiest way (rather than cutting 10+ pages of rules).

warboss wrote:

BrookM wrote:FFG usually goes the extra mile and fills the last few pages with ads for their horrible "Twilight Imperium" board game.

i rather like TI. it's a bit long i'll give you but otherwise enjoyable.

"Bit long" is a bit of an understatement.

BrookM wrote:

warboss wrote:

BrookM wrote:FFG usually goes the extra mile and fills the last few pages with ads for their horrible "Twilight Imperium" board game.

i rather like TI. it's a bit long i'll give you but otherwise enjoyable.

"Bit long" is a bit of an understatement.

true... but as long as you go in knowing that from the time you crack the box to put it away *should* be 6-8 hours, it makes for a fun afternoon/evening with friends.

I always find PDFs annoying. I wish they'ed make compilations of them into a Dark Heresy: Apocrypha book or something.

I'd not thought of the print issue (teach me to post when I'm half asleep!). I guess the other reason for releasing it as a pdf is that it could theoretically be used for the old SoB career into Ascension... maybe.

BaronIveagh wrote:I always find PDFs annoying. I wish they'ed make compilations of them into a Dark Heresy: Apocrypha book or something.

Who knows, maybe they will one day when they have enough.

Where is this pdf by the way, I was in a situation in which I could actually look at it, but could not find it.

It's still on the front page, under 'Heresy Begets Retribution'. Failing that, jump into the FFG Forums and in the Dark Heresy section Mack has made a thread for it, so the PDF is there as well.

Thank you, next time I get a chance I guess I will have to go to the local USO and download it

Sorry, you lost me. USO?

Kinko's or office supply store.

The USO is a morale center for deployed troops, kinko's is sort of inaccessable to me at the moment or any office supply center as well.

http://fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=1905

Many Rites, Many Battles


Rites of Battle, an important upcoming sourcebook for Deathwatch, will be on store shelves within a few weeks. Rites of Battle fills an significant niche in the game line by providing additional options for players and GM's alike, plus plenty of additional rules, background, and setting information about the Deathwatch and the Jericho Reach. This book is a comprehensive guide for any Deathwatch campaign.

An outstanding writing team was assembled for this project, consisting of Owen Barnes, Andy Chambers, Ben Counter, Graham Davey, Lee Gunby, Andy Hoare, Jason Marker, Sam Stewart, Andrea Gausman, Tim Huckelbery, and Kevin Rubitsky. Many of you will no doubt recognise some of these talented writers! Over the coming weeks, we'll be taking a closer look at some of their specific contributions. Today, let's begin with an overview of what Rites of Battle will bring to your Deathwatch campaign.

Rites of Battle contains 256 pages of content, and the writing team filled every page with new material for any Deathwatch campaign. Chapter I includes rules for the Trials that a Space Marine must pass as an Aspirant in order to be accepted into the Chapter, a section detailing the celebrated Imperial Fists Chapter, and a description of how to integrate Successor Chapters into your game. In addition, Andy Hoare crafted something many fans are really looking forward to, a thorough system to create your very own personalised and custom Space Marine Chapter!

Owen Barnes wrote in an earlier designer diary about the sections for Honours and Distinctions, and he also created some expanded rules for using Renown that go along with other additional rules for Solo and Squad Mode abilities. Yet another helpful section of the book involves Advanced Specialities, including rules for advancing your Deathwatch Space Marine into some specialised roles such as the Deathwatch Chaplain and the Deathwatch Keeper.

Chapter III focuses on expanded wargear options, including a robust description of the various marks of Power Armour that the Adeptus Astartes have used down through the millennia, and additional relics to enhance the abilities of your Kill-team.

Next, Rites of Battle contains a thorough set of vehicle rules and vehicle stats for the Space Marines, Chaos, and Tau forces. The book concludes with a look inside the mysterious walls of Watch Fortress Erioch, featuring profiles of many of its denizens, including Inquisitors, Space Marines, and more shadowy individuals who remain within the halls of Erioch for a number of reasons.

Over the next few weeks, we'll have more designer diaries about Rites of Battle from the writing team, plus previews and much more! Stay tuned to the website for more information to come. For the Emperor!

I cannot wait for this book. But did any'a y'all notice this:

Darknite wrote:An outstanding writing team ... consisting of ... Andy Chambers ...

That's right. They got Andy back for this one. I don't know how, especially given he works for Blizzard now and doesn't really 'do' this kinda stuff any more, but they did. I'd love to know what sections he wrote.

Well, he is "creative director" for WoW, so his job mainly is thinking of new ways to phrase "kill 10 bunnies and collect their droppings"

Sadly, they've also got Ben Counter on board.

BrookM wrote:Well, he is "creative director" for WoW, so his job mainly is thinking of new ways to phrase "kill 10 bunnies and collect their droppings"

Sadly, they've also got Ben Counter on board.

I'm fairly certain that Chambers has nothing to do with WoW, just SC2.

Which would explain why he's doing this, because rumor mill says he got kicked off that project after butting heads with the rest of the design team.

But I dunno. Maybe he just missed the 40kverse.

H.B.M.C. wrote:I cannot wait for this book. But did any'a y'all notice this:

Darknite wrote:An outstanding writing team ... consisting of ... Andy Chambers ...

That's right. They got Andy back for this one. I don't know how, especially given he works for Blizzard now and doesn't really 'do' this kinda stuff any more, but they did. I'd love to know what sections he wrote.

Probably the same way you get a lot of people out of retirement: a check with a one and a lot of zeros after it and made out to 'cash'.


And I thought he was still director over at WoW too.

Again, Chambers was hired as a "creative director" for Blizzard.

I think they just put him on the project for Starcraft II and let it go from there, because I can't find him listed as having worked at all on Cataclysm or Wrath of the Lich King(both of which have released since he signed on with them in 2007), nor can I find mention of him on the creative staff for Diablo III.

Most ExCELLENT!!!! ANDY IS BACK,may be that ass for a GW president finally got his head out of it.May be we will get lucky he will start doing some codexs,some of theese new ones really stink.

He was never fired. He quit.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Plus, he only does "contract" work now, outside of being on a permanent contract with Blizzard.