Barf Forth Apocalyptica
the swamp provides => Rogue Trader: Apocalypse => Topic started by: theloneamigo on July 01, 2011, 08:32:23 PM
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I originally pitched this game to my group as Blackadder in Space; not the standard grimdark violence opera that seems to categorise most of the 40k universe, but something more along the lines of a British comedy series like Red Dwarf. At least, seems to categorise the 40K universe nowadays - certainly back at its birth, in the old Rogue Trader era, it was written with enormous lashings of dark satire and comic humour - see here (http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/wtf-rogue-trader.php?page=1).
Of course, the best way to do something funny is to play it reasonably straight, and let comedy emerge from the situation. This has worked well in play, but it's also lent a somewhat more epic, political tone to events - somewhere between Game of Thrones and Red Dwarf, a dynastic adventure dramedy. I think this is probably the sweet spot for Rogue Trader: Apocalypse play; somewhere between light-hearted and grimdark, epic and comic.
Media that directly inspires design & play
Blackadder
Red Dwarf
The Ciaphas Cain novels
Game of Thrones
Farscape
Mara of the Acoma
The Borgias
Rome
The Eisenhorn novels
Into the Maw... (http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?489083-Rogue-Trader-Into-the-Maw-or-How-I-Became-Incredibly-Wealthy) on RPG.net