HeyJaredExploring Warhammer
This substack charts a book I’m currently writing about the creation of Warhammer 40,000 and what we can learn from that process. Looking at Rogue Trader (1987) to 2nd edition (1993) and how GW managed to 'bottle lightning' & the creative lessons there!
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A Key Document in the History of Warhammer 40,000: White Dwarf 82 (opens the original)
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Another semi-regular look at key documents in the creation of Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader - this time it is White Dwarf issue 82. Let us dive in!Here is what I write in the book about White Dwarf (WD) issue 82:That October [1986’s] issue of White Dwarf, 82, featured the new Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay game on the cover and inside. This was to be the first overt RPG version of the Warhammer world and would vastly advance the lore and world-building of the setting. It is also n
Exploring Dark Future as a multiverse connected to Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader (opens the original)
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Welcome back! Part 1 of this series is here. If I suggest you start there, if you’re new to the topic, as that will cover what Dark Future is and have more info on its origins. In that article I looked at the fan-theory that the Dark Future game setting was the Warhammer 40,000 setting later in the same timeline (around 38,000 years later!)<a class="image-link
The strange connections of Dark Future and Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader (opens the original)
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Dark Future was Games Workshop’s 1988 car combat game. It was not their first car combat game, that accolade goes to Battlecars, but it was the most developed one they created. I know the game well as I loved it as a kid and was lucky enough to work on a video game adaption a few years back. (If you want more on the history of Dark Future and related topics, check out season 3 of the Auroch Digital podcast, as this post is not a hist
A Key Document in the History of Warhammer 40,000: White Dwarf 110 (opens the original)
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Another semi-regular look at key documents in the creation of Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader - this time it is the White Dwarf issue Let us dive in!Here’s the entry in the book on White Dwarf 110 from the timeline of creation of Rogue Trader:February and WD 110, with its amazing cover of Space Marines by Wayne England, expanded on Ogryns, one of the abhuman factions that were part of the Imperial Guard at the time. It also featured an advert for the Imperial Guard plastic boxed set, as available
The Odyssey of Warhammer 40,000 - Exploring the links between Ancient Greece and Warhammer 40,000 (opens the original)
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Yes, The Odyssey film is out now and yes as a fan of epic prose poems and Ancient Greece history, I’m going to go and see it, and in IMAX too. So this has got me looking back at how this connects to 40K Rogue Trader. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Jf7f!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-med
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