Fantasy Flight Posts Dark Heresy Second Edition Update.

Fantasy Flight has posted new updates on its Beta for the Dark Heresy Second Edition.

Imperial Guard get RPG from Fantasy Flight

Fantasy Flight Games, which produces the numeorus Warhammer 40,000 RPGs will be releasing a new game centered around the Imperial Guard.  

From Fantasy Flight Games:

“The men and women of the Imperial Guard sacrifice more and gain less than perhaps any other arm of the Imperial Armed Forces.”
      –Commissar Ibram Gaunt

Fantasy Flight Games is thrilled to announce the upcoming release of Only War! In this all-new standalone Warhammer 40,000 roleplaying game, players take on the roles of soldiers in the Imperial Guard, the galaxy-spanning armies of the God-Emperor. Fully compatible with FFG’s other Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay titles, this comprehensive game system explores a previously unseen side of life in the Imperium of Man.

In Only War, each player takes the role of a Guardsman, a member of the Imperial Guard and one of the countless billions of hardened conscripts constantly fighting on myriad fronts at the whim of the Adeptus Terra. In control of this martial alter ego, players go forth at the behest of their officers to fight the eternal and implacable foes of the Imperium – the foul xenos, the mutant, the heretic, and the dark forces of the Ruinous Powers.

Bound by Honour

As Guardsmen, you will be ordered to engage the enemy with a myriad of tactics. Your squad might be responsible for guiding an important dignitary through a perilous warzone, or instructed to infiltrate a besieged fort to deliver important intelligence. With missions as varied as the galaxy’s innumerable warfronts, you and your squadmates must often rely on nothing but your own grim determination and your faith in each other.

Take the role of a Guardsman with one of twelve distinct Specialties, offering unique skills to your squad to complement those of your comrades. Will you bring the light of the God-Emperor to the battlefield as a Ministorum Priest, or will you wield the Imperium’s most cutting-edge technology as a fearsome Storm Trooper? Perhaps you’ll tend to the machine spirits of the Guard’s many war machines as a Tech-Priest Enginseer, or lead the charge as your squad’s Sergeant. Whatever your function, you’ll be a vital part of the Imperium’s vast war machine.

Your Service Begins Soon

Throughout the course of their service, Guardsmen may fight on a thousand nameless worlds, often outnumbered and outgunned by their enemies and fighting in some of the worst conditions that history has ever known. And yet, despite immense opposition (or perhaps because of it), these fearless soldiers are bound to each other by a code of brotherhood and honour. They are the thin line that protects the Imperium from complete and utter destruction. They are the Imperial Guard.

Learn more on our Only War description page, and Check back in the coming weeks. Then, look for it on store shelves in the third quarter of 2012!


THE WEEKLY GIVE AWAY:

40K RPG: The Soul Reaver, Honour the Chapter, The Hand of Corruption

Fantasy Flight Games ongoing RPG series is amazing if for no other reason than the sheer velocity of releases.   Fantasy Flight has announced two new volumes in its ongoing series as well as the release of another volume as a PDF.

Here are the updates from Fantasy Flight:

The Soul Reaver

 

 

“They are a scourge upon our galaxy, the most vile and sadistic of all our xenos foes, and a peril to any who would ply the void in search of profit or gain. Whatever happens, should the shadow of their ships darken your path, pray you die fighting at the helm of your vessel, lest ‘fortune’ favours you and they take you alive…"
      –Magos Domos Agnelain, Explorator

The Dark Eldar are a plague upon the Koronus Expanse; raiders, slavers, pirates, and even Rogue Traders suffer at their barbed lashes and blades. Any who cross the Maw and sail the void of the Koronus Expanse learn to fear the wicked silhouettes of their ships and their seemingly endless cruelty towards all life, including their own. Only vigilance and firepower keep the worst depredations of these terrible raiders at bay, though from the dens of Footfall to the commerce halls of Port Wander there are countless tales of crew lost and ships savaged in their sudden attacks...

Fantasy Flight Games is pleased to announce the upcoming release of The Soul Reaver, an adventure in three parts for Rogue Trader! This epic campaign is a chance for daring Explorers to look deep into the twisted heart of Dark Eldar society in the Koronus Expanse, and pull the greatest heist of their careers.

Find more on Soul Reaver here.

Honour the Chapter

“Today we face those who betrayed our predecessors. Today we bring death to those who turned from the light of the Emperor and broke faith with their brothers. Today we bring honour to those who came before us as we lay low these traitors! For Vilamus! For Guilliman! For the Emperor!"
      –Brother-Captain Haeron of the Marines Errant

The brethren of the Deathwatch are the champions of humanity, the elite of the elite, and the very best the thousand and more Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes can produce. But while many Battle-Brothers are drawn from the most well known Chapters—the Blood Angels, the Space Wolves, the Ultramarines, and others of the First Founding—still more hail from lesser known bodies, the Successors of the great Legions. Some of these Chapters are every bit as famous as their celebrated progenitors, while others are all but unheralded. Nevertheless, all are heroes.

Fantasy Flight Games is pleased to announce the upcoming release of Honour the Chapter, a supplement for Deathwatch! Honour the Chapter provides a wealth of options for players interested in characters drawn from Chapters created during the Second or subsequent Foundings. This comprehensive tome contains new character creation rules, a wealth of relics unique to each Chapter, and plenty of guidance and adventure seeds for Game Masters.

Find out more on Honour the Chapter here.

Hand of Corruption

Meanwhile, Fantasy Flight has turned "Hand of Corruption", the chance to play a Chaos character, in download form.

“The Dark Gods help those who help themselves."   
      –Lord Deon Algonnac, Reaver of the Unknowable Void
A windswept Imperial penal world silently orbits its dimming sun, perilously close to the dark influence of Chaos. To claim such a prize for the Ruinous Powers would bring great favour and glory to you and your fellow Heretics, and its substantial resources would help lay the foundation for your own Black Crusade. But welcoming this world into the roiling bosom of the Screaming Vortex will be no easy task, and the planet holds its own dangerous secrets. Can you bring the corrupting gifts of Chaos to this forgotten world?

Hand of Corruption , an adventure in three acts for Black Crusade, is now available on drivethrurpg.com and rpgnow.com! Presented in one comprehensive volume, Hand of Corruption is an epic story that takes you and your fellow Heretics from the swirling depths of the Screaming Vortex to the far reaches of the Calixis Sector, and then to a parched and windswept Imperial penal world called Saint Annard’s Penance. With a host of challenges designed to appeal to a range of group types and play styles, Hand of Corruption offers ample opportunities for both savvy roleplaying and grueling combat.

 Find out more about Hand of Corruption here.

I will be doing a summary of Fantasy Flight 40K games this weekend because there are so many to keep track of.

40K RPG: The Tome of Fate - Tzeentch gets to play!

The ongoing RPG series from Fantasy Flight Games is nothing short of amazing and does credit to the Warhammer Universe.  I just picked up the volume which features the Sisters of Battle and will be reviewing it shortly.  In the mean time, here is the latest from Fantasy Flight:

“Your naiveté amuses me, child. There is no Fate. There is only the Will of Tzeentch."
      –Verial Jenneque, Sorceress of Q’Sal

Tzeentch, the Chaos God of Change, weaves the unfathomable strands of Fate from his Impossible Labyrinth deep within the warp. For the innumerable masses, Fate is a cruel and arbitrary force...but for the Tzeentch’s chosen few, it is a path to ultimate power.

Fantasy Flight Games is pleased to announce the upcoming release of The Tome of Fate, a supplement for Black Crusade! The first of four books delving into the darkest secrets of the Ruinous Powers, The Tome of Fate presents invaluable information on the Lord of Lies. In its pages, players will learn of his dark servants, both daemonic and mortal, and how his influence is felt across the Screaming Vortex. With new weapons and psychic powers to aid them, Heretics can go forth across that unholy stretch of stars and beyond into the depths of the fallen Imperium, ready to challenge Fate and make it their own.

A force to be feared...or studied

What is Fate? For many Heretics, Fate is what they have fought against their entire lives. It was cruel Fate that led xenos raiders to burn their family to broken cinders, capricious Fate that caused their lesser sibling to gain the family title instead of themselves, uncaring Fate that led the Inquisition to mistakenly torture them as a traitor and thus make them one. Fate has made them into Heretics, and thus they hate it as much as they hate the Imperium itself.

Others with a greater knowledge and appreciation of the True Mysteries know that Fate is never random or meaningless, no blind series of happenstance or coincidence. There is a Grand Scheme to all things, and thus a Grand Schemer. That Schemer is the Chaos Power known as Tzeentch. Those following this god strive to know his ways, and thus the hidden threads that bind all things to his will in the vast tapestry that is Fate itself. Such an effort is surely futile, for no mortal mind can possibly comprehend such infinite complexity, but even small glimmers of the Will of Tzeentch allow for more power than could be imagined. To gain such power, many Heretics are willing to risk all, including madness or mutation, for they know that either they must control their Fate, or Fate will control them.

Sorcery, change, and lies

The Tome of Fate introduces four new Tzeentch-centric Heretic Archetypes, as well as foul daemons, arcane weaponry, mighty daemon engines, and vile minions for followers of the Master of Fate. Players of all alignments will also gain potent new psychic powers and daemonic rites to fuel their struggle against the hated Imperium. The fallen forges of the Hollows, the mutants of Dread Korvaska, and the ancient Necrons awakening from within the Pillars of Eternity: these and other secrets of the Screaming Vortex shall stand revealed. All this and more lies within The Tome of Fate, including a dangerous new adventure on the sorcerous world of Q’Sal!

Do you possess the force of will to stand among Tzeentch’s chosen? Check back in the coming weeks as we preview The Tome of Fate, and look for it on store shelves in the second quarter of 2012!

Black Crusade RPG Collectors Edition

 

Fantasy Flight Games has made a name for itself lately with the highly successful RPGs, Deathwatch, Rogue Trader, Dark Heresy and now Black Crusade.  The artwork is amazing and the books worth buying just for that and the fluff they provide.  These are simply some of the best executed books you will ever find about the 40K universe.

From Fantasy Flight:

“Strength is an illusion conjured by man’s cunning, the weapons he wields and his willingness to use them to tear the faces from his foes."
     –Seventh Tenant of the Blood Child

The Ruinous Powers have taken notice of your patience and devotion, and the time of your reward is at hand. Black Crusade Collector’s Edition will begin shipping from our warehouse next week!

This incomparable tome is bound in crimson leather, with copper-gilded edges adorning its acid-free pages. On the front of the book, a gold embossed Star of Chaos displays your loyalties for all to see. Likewise, the masterfully sculpted resin outer case displays a stylized Star of Chaos, the eight points dripping with the blood of the unworthy as a horrific daemon emerges from its center.

What’s more, Black Crusade Collector’s Edition includes sixteen pages of exclusive bonus content, featuring pre-generated characters with unique backstories, statistics, and art. We’ve already seen one exciting two-page sample: the sorcerer Akhor’menet of the Thousand Sons (pdf, 687 KB). Today, we’re pleased to offer a second sample of this exclusive content, the Heretek Helia Vulka (pdf, 2.1 MB)!

You can order your collector's edition here.