Fantasy Flight Games has announced a fourth installment in their Warhammer 40K RPG series: BLACK CRUSADE!
Holy shit! We've been talking about playing Chaos in one form or another since Dark Heresy, and now we can finally do it with full mechanical support for both human and Space Marine heretics! I know Valkyrie is excited and so am I!
So far not much has been revealed, given that we've got an announcement and a brief introduction to the nature of Chaos to go on, but I am definitely waiting with baited breath for what's to come. I think it's a safe bet that we'll see a second book with expanded rules for the followers of each god, along with a host of sweet vehicles and equipment. With the release of Deathwatch: Rites of Battle, we've got official mechanical support for Dreadnoughts, so it would be a shame to have to wait to field one tainted by the whispering Warp.
Hopefully we can see something like a total "bad guys" game come from this, where more xeno races become available to players as well. Yeah, there's the Ork Freebooter and Kroot Mercenary in Rogue Trader: Into the Storm, but I'm talking about support for a revival of something like GorkaMorka, where everybody can be a unique Ork character, or a Kroot, or Tau, or something other than human for once. With Dark Heresy: The Book of Judgement on the horizon, we're looking at a new way to approach the gang warfare of Necromunda, so the possibility is there.
I really want to run something other than 40k, although I have a strange drive to be the one running it, and all these cool new releases I've been reading about aren't helping. Another cool one is Only War, a supplement for Dark Heresy to take the Guardsmen career path much more literally. That's just the Dark Heresy stuff, too! Hats off to Fantasy Flight for really fleshing out these lines into full-on games unto themselves. I just wish they wouldn't tell us so far in advance when all this cool stuff is coming out.
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