Black Crusade, a Warhammer 40K Roleplaying Game
February 25, 2011 by warzan
Fantasy Flight Games have just announced Black Crusade, another 40K RPG.
From their announcement:
It is the 41st millennium, a future in which the vast Imperium of Man stretches light-years across the galaxy. The wildly popular Warhammer 40,000 universe is one of constant strife; for untold billions, merely to be born is to be condemned to a lifetime of cruel suffering under an unforgiving and draconian regime. Only a select few in positions of power possess limited freedom: the Inquisitors who hunt heretics, the Rogue Traders who gather wealth, and the Deathwatch Space Marines who combat the alien threat. Science and technology offer little promise of relief; too much has been lost since the Dark Age of Technology, and all that is left goes to fuel the Imperium’s mighty war machine. It is a universe of grim darkness.
Fantasy Flight Games is proud to announce Black Crusade, the fourth standalone RPG in our popular Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay line! This remarkable experience offers players a new perspective on the conflict between the Imperium of Man and the forces of Chaos by delivering the unprecedented opportunity to play as a Disciple of the Dark Gods, whether as a Chaos Space Marine or a human Servant of Chaos.
Submit to your new masters
The intoxicating lure of Chaos leads untold millions down the path of corruption, and the noblest of intentions offers little protection against its dark influence. A soldier’s bloodlust, a politician's ambition, a lover’s desire, and even a mother’s whispered prayer over her feverish child – they are all the playthings of the Dark Gods. Why resist? Wealth, power, and happiness await those who serve the Ruinous Powers, and the only price is your humanity.
Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, and Deathwatch each portray loyalty to the Imperium from multiple perspectives. Throughout them all, however, one common factor is Chaos: the ubiquitous antagonist responsible for much of what defines this immersive setting. But with Black Crusade, players can examine this exciting universe through an entirely new lens. Who are the characters, and what set them on the path of corruption? Are they willingly in league with the enemies of humanity, or are they merely the deluded slaves of forces far beyond their comprehension?
With countless creative and engaging opportunities, Black Crusade delivers an exciting new roleplaying experience. The days of the Imperium of Man are coming to an end, and the corpse-god will soon fall. Head to the Black Crusade website to learn more, and this summer, prepare to embrace Chaos!
Black Crusade is a roleplaying game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, a setting in the grim darkness of the far future. Players take on the roles of Disciples of the Dark Gods, working against the rule of the galaxy-spanning Imperium of Man and in pursuit of personal glory.
So the Chaos among us finally get to embark on some good old RPG adventures. I feel my RPG character BULLROCEROUS being called to the dark side what about yours 😉
BoW Warren
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Ive always tended to stay clear of RPG’s, maybe its just me but they just seem totally mind boggling. I have to say Im very tempted by some of the 40K ones though. How does one go about getting started, how many books do you need etc?
We’ll hopefully be doing a bit of D&D coverage. It has a nice transition between the tabletop wargame and RPG… perhaps it might just convince you to join the dark side! 😀
BoW Andy
You can easily get started with just the basic rule book. If your entire group is new to RPGs, I wouldn’t recommend starting with Rogue Trader as it can be quite daunting for the GM.
The additional books just add more skills and items, they aren’t required for playing the game though.
Then there are story books that just have adventures in them. They’re nice if your GM doesn’t like inventing his own missions.
The game itself is quite easy to understand. All 3 of the existing 40k RPGs follow the same ruleset and I’d imagine this does it as well.
ONLY ONE, DEPENDING ON WICH ONE YOU WANT TO PLAY, DARK HERESY, ROGUE TRADER, OR DEATHWATCH,THE EXTRA BOOKS ARE FOR GETTING MORE OPTIONS AND OF COURSE ADVENTURES…….
I look forward to it
The fantasy flight 40K RPGs are all self contained but compatible, so you only need one book, but you can use weapons, characters and NPCs from the others at your GMs discretion, so you could have a marine from Deathwatch as a GMPC to babysit you through your first mission in dark heresy, or a dark heresy character someone in the group played before as an NPC in Rouge Trader, maybe even use the whole groups characters as the inquisition forces hunting your heretic hides in black crusade, just to make your players wonder about pulling the trigger or better… Read more »
This will appeal o a lot of my RPG friends but I will have to say that i wont be able to fork out for this one. Will have to keep an eye open on this see how much it costs and possibly pool resources to get it. I will say this tho Fantasy Flight use interesting mechanics in their RPG’s but their community does have problems with proof reading the rules and rules that contradict each other. They can be a little daunting to a new player (i know i had a hard time) but after a while you… Read more »
Sounds good. I’m looking forward to get my hands on this one, because I see a lot of interesting opportunities roleplayingwise.
A Chaos Space Marine’s Diary anyone? (maybe a little more serious)
I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the beasts of war crew throwing down on the RPG table.
You know this next volley of video’s is going to be good 🙂
Stay away from that book ! Burn it ! Don’t listen to it ! The Emperor ProteBLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD !!! Aaaah damn. If you want to start roleplaying in the 40k universe I’d highly recommend Dark Heresy. Rogue Trader is waaay too complicated for beginners and Deathwatch well… let’s just say playing uber-strong-imba-space-marines isn’t as fun as one might think. Dark Heresy puts you in the shoes of an Inquisitor’s Acolyte, which is kind of the “lowest rank” in the Inquisition, and sends you and your comrades to some places where heresy is suspected. Your job is to… Read more »
Oh yeah, one thing for anyone who wants to play any of the games: Falling hurts. A lot.
I still remember the first mission I ever played… A single fall took half of my characters wounds (was like 3 meters) and a demon couldn’t even scratch me later in that mission…
it’s really weird, i was just talking to some dude at work who plays magic about 40k rpg’s and how i should learn something about D&D… maybe it’s time.
now, i still get to paint stuff, right?
For 4th Edition D&D you certainly do… unless you want to go with the gawd-awful pre-painted plastic guff that Wizards of the Coast churned out.
You’ll need to paint monsters and players character miniatures… it’s all good stuff!
BoW Andy
You also can paint your minis if you play Pathfinder (the refined version of the D&D 3.5 edition)… The pre-painted stuff is ghastly.
@elromanozo – Pathfinder… PATHFINDER!!!
Pistols at dawn sir! 😀
Firearms in D&D4, really ?
In any case I’m perfectly willing to try D&D4… again.
Just in case I didn’t quite get what it was about the first time and suddenly decide I like it.
im really new to the old role play stuff so let me get this right as ive seen on GW site figures that acompany the inquisitor game so how does that work then i thought we take the role.
im confused dot com now or just thick.
Strictly speaking, a pen and paper role-playing game is a game where every player assumes the role of one of the heroes or characters in the story spun by the GM (who basically plays everyone else, including the bad guys). In a pen and paper RPG, you may also use miniatures to represent your character (because it’s pretty and allows you to know where everyone is in the room you’re exploring as a group, for example), and there is (in this case, although it is in no way the general case) a combat system that involves using miniatures to represent… Read more »
Ah, RPG’s how fondly I remember thee, if only I had the time I’m sure these 40k games would be fantastic 😉
I’m glad FFG haven’t taken the same approach to the 40k universe as they did with WFRP and to my mind the game looks better for it. Buttom line is as much as I’d love to I cant afford it, oh well, back to call of cthulhu, l5r and battletech.
How’re the mechanics for the 40k RPG’s?.
Some dark heresy videos would be nice, it looks good but never taken the plunge…
Woohoo!!! I can see this being popular over here!!!