Warhammer 40K RPG(s) Announced

This is going to be a busy period for new game announcements. With the GAMA Trade Show (GTS) going on right now new games are practically falling from the sky.

Rather than post the press release (which you can get to by clicking the headline above) let me point out the most interesting aspect of the announcement. That is, there will be more than one game. The first game, Dark Heresy puts you in the role of an Inquisitor and Retinue. Later games will focus on Rogue Traders and the Death Watch Space Marines.

The cool thing about getting multiple games is that I've always thought that it would be tough to impossible to cover the entire scope of RPG possibilities with just one game in this setting. Apparently the good folks at Black Industries felt the same way. Personally, I'm more interested in playing an Imperial Guard grunt than I am playing a Space Marine or Inquisitor, but I can see how I might be in the minority there. Of course, being a Rogue Trader could be quite interesting.

The sad part is that we're not going to see Dark Heresy until 2007 and the other games will follow the first in 18 month installments.

I'm truely excited about this... and I don't want to wait until next year dagnabbit!