Of all the supremely weird material put out during the early Rogue Trader days of Warhammer 40,000, perhaps none is stranger or more dissonant with current lore than the original book about the space orks. Waaargh The Orks! was released in 1990 and serves as an interesting artifact of Warhammer 40,000 at its least grimdark.…
In the previous adventures of Rogue Trader George Larrinicus Davidoff and his cruiser the Emperor’s Undiminished Enthusiasm, Larry and his crew investigated a distress call from a remote Mechanicus research station on the edge of the Alenic Depths only to find the station destroyed. A lone survivor explained that brutal aliens attacked the station and…
Rogue Trader George Larrinicus Davidoff, aboard his crusier The Emperor’s Undiminished Enthusiasm, is traveling through the warp en route to set up an ambush. The plan is to intercept the aliens who attacked and destroyed Stygimatus Station and made off with the Adeptus Mechanicus’ experimental warp drives. A call has been placed to the Ultramarines…
Fantasy Flight Games followed up 2008’s Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy RPG with the very, very slightly more light-hearted Rogue Trader in 2009. This game allowed players to take on the role of a titular rogue trader and their crew of dark future dorks. They could go trading, exploring, and conquering space in cooperation with the…
After Rogue Trader, but before 1989’s Warhammer 40,000 Compendium, Games Workshop released a collection of house rules and White Dwarf excerpts called “Chapter Approved: The Book of the Astronomican.” Chapter Approved books would be released periodically for the first several years of Warhammer 40,000’s life, but this very early book was a limited release and…
The red-covered Compendium was the first major release from Games Workshop to follow 1987’s Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. The book compiled some new material with things that had previously been printed in the pages of GW’s Warhammer magazine White Dwarf. If the original rule book painted a broad portrait of a wild and intensely strange universe…
In the first part of our Dark Heresy adventure, Inquisitor Farael Badus tasked Steve’s veteran Imperial Guardsman Icarus Toughman with unraveling the mystery of a planetary governor’s missing pet. Accompanied by Adeptus Arbites dominatrix Animae Fabuloso, Icarus found hedonism reigning in the upper hive and an imposter of the pet left behind. The governor’s aide,…
It is the 41st Millenium. A time of fire and skulls and, for some reason, orks. The Imperium of Man faces insidious threats from the forces of Chaos. These evil gods live in another realm and corrupt the minds and bodies of mortals who serve them. Only the Holy Inquisition, and roughly 20 different branches…