I paid a little more than maybe I should have, but I really wanted to re-read this great old chestnut. When it arrived in the mail today it was bundled with a copy of this:
Also enclosed was a note.
Jeffrey,
I am enclosing an extra book, it did not sell at auction, but maybe you could use it, or give it to someone who wants it.
Thanks!
Sharon
No, thank you, Sharon.
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Way to up the awesome quotient! The old Rogue Trader book is the only sourcebook you'll ever need if you want to play some whacked-out sci-fi adventures.
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Nice score. Quite a blast from the past. Keep it up and the next thing you know you'll be picking up copies of the old classics Laserburn and Reaper. ;)
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ReplyDeleteA tactics advice article from an old issue of White Dwarf included a line that read, paraphrased: "And, when all else fails, take a moment to go stare at the cover of the rules, then return to the game and die with honor."
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Back in the day, I couldn't afford RPGs and wargames (nothing has changed), so after my job at one of the game/comic shops ended [the owner sold the place], I earned virtually all my gaming materials by becoming a cut-rate miniatures painter and terrain modeler at one of the _other_ local shops. The main obsession at the time was Warhammer Fantasy Battles (with a side-order of Blood Bowl), so I spent many a day up to my armpits in Citadel figs and/or foam terrain and wax rivers.
ReplyDeleteI had a Halfling army I loved to death.
And in our WFRP campaign, I played a Halfing and the miniature was a Ral Partha, because jesus holy f*ck was I sick to death of Citadel by then :)
I still have it.
The old Rogue Trader book is the only sourcebook you'll ever need if you want to play some whacked-out sci-fi adventures.
ReplyDeleteThat was exactly what I was thinking when I bid on that book.
"And, when all else fails, take a moment to go stare at the cover of the rules, then return to the game and die with honor."
That's totally awesome!
Back in the day, I couldn't afford RPGs and wargames
Affordability was my group's big problem the first time around. I got Rogue Trader not long after it was reviewed in Dragon, but we really never did anything because BattleTech figures had a cheaper entry point. You buy one orc with an uzi and there's not a hell of a lot to be done with him. You buy one Mech and that's a noticeable increase in your BattleTech collection.
Then I sold off my BattleTech lead back when I sold off Rogue Trader. Nowadays I have a good selection of the old paper Mech stand-ups. I might go the same route for Rogue Trader play, but I'm still considering my options.
Lesson:
ReplyDeleteNever part from your gaming stuff. Gaming stuff is way too prone to nostalgic surges.
Or new insight, that sheds new light on the old "no-us-to-it" book.
That´s just what happened to me and my AD&D 2nd ed stuff: I had to go to eBay to make my current project work:
Time Travel in my D&D 3.5 campaign!
Once the players let themselves hurled through ChronoMancy portals, they´ll be handed the version of their character of the rulesset belonging to that era:
Archaic/Stone Age : OD&D
Antiquity/Hyperborean time of the Dragon Wars: AD&D 1st
Parallel Timeline "the world that could have been": RC D&D
Parallel dimension where the Old Ones won the Dragon Wars: Palladium Fantasy
Time of the High Elvish Empire and their struggle against the Spell Weaver incursion: AD&D 2nd
I´m not sure if 3.0 has earned itself a place of it´s own.
It´ll be five evenings with five different styles of awesome!
Set, that sounds like a great way to mess around with the old rules and your players' heads!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great steal! I still have my original 40k Rogue Trader, but I never picked up a copy of the Fantasy Battles. Even though I'm more interested in the 40k, I'm still a bit jealous. It would make a nice addition to the collection.
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