Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader

Now I know what it's like to be you.

So they originally come up with this idea, and they start forming it, and they're going to call the game Rogue Trader.

Hate it.

I know.

It's a stupid name.

But that was what they were going to go with.

They were going to call it Rogue Trader was going to be the name of this new spinoff game.

Sounds like

I've worked on a whole bunch of Warhammer 40k roleplay, the majority of that line.

And if you like the lore behind Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, The Death Watch, The Inquisition, and quite a bit of the Imperial Navy, then, you know, I had a lot to do with that.

Heck yeah.

I was also on the US White Dwarf team for a couple of years, and that's where I know my 40k from.

Let me double check.

13 degrees here in Iceland, so it's a heat wave.

I'm also trying to check if Cypher appeared in anything prior to this, because sometimes random characters existed in Rogue Trader, but I don't think Cypher existed in Rogue Trader, unfortunately.

No, he is a second edition character.

Yeah, it's the Olympics at the event.

So, like, your normal army that wins, you know, a painting award at your local Rogue Trader tournament, that's, like, the Olympic qualifier, bro.

And now you're actually competing against all the other dudes who also win best painted at their RTTs.

Not everyone gets a bronze, not everyone gets a silver and not everyone gets a gold.

By the way, fun fact about this, I was looking it up this morning, so Dante was in the first edition of the game, which is technically the second edition.

It's a matter of how you wanna look at it, 'cause you had Rogue Trader and then second edition.

There was no first edition 40K.

But I looked up the models available.

You spoke about Gamma World, and I'm sure a lot of this has come from or been inspired by Gamma World.

I also, back in the day, in my misspent youth, had a copy of Wama 40,000 Rogue Trader, and that had a massive table of mutations, and this is just taking me right back to it.

And lots of them are very much along those lines.

Yeah, well, there's only so much you can do without a mechanism like the void giving you a set of, again, specific material conditions that you have to worry about.

Just to what extent, like we know that Noise Marines obviously use sound at some capacity.

I would guarantee that there's, you know, tribal drums with Space Wolves or whatever it is and, and like music may not have the cultural aspect that we kind of see in our world, but you know, it- I'm sure it plays a part.

Of course it does.

And, um, and I'm really hoping that, uh, Nickelback doesn't exist in the 40K universe.

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Sloppy Bilepiper.

Uh, he's part of, uh, he's a Nurgle unit, and he has a like bagpipe.

He's got a bagpipe if you look him up.

I'm Ross Watson.

I am a game designer and author you would know me from most of the warhammer 40k role-playing game line i was the creator of wrath and glory death watch rogue trader numerous other things if you like the lore for rogue traders the inquisition or the death watch a lot of that is me i also did a several warhammer 40k video games including battlefield gothic armada and i was part of the us white dwarf team for a couple of years so i have a lot of 40k knowledge and i'm excited to share it today

Now,

one thing I should mention before we get too far down the line, I just finished a book that Alexis and I both really like.

Oh, it's so cool.

I was just like, this is rad.

This is so Rogue Trader, but Eldar.

I was so into

I have worked on a bunch of Warhammer 40K stuff.

Mostly, I'm well known for the Warhammer 40K role-playing game line, Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, Death Watch, and many others.

Wrath and Glory was my creation.

And I've worked on a few of the Warhammer 40k video games, like Battle for the Gothic Armada, which is in the Classics bundle, if you want to go find it.