Here are some the new Rogue Trader books I'd like to see:

Bestiary part 2. Cause you can never have too many monsters.

Xenos Starship Codex with hulls and components, for Eldar, Rakgol, and Ork, so you can buld your own xenos ships.

A new ship book, not only with new hulls and components, but also rules for bulding stations.

A faction book, with new charachter options, equipment, antagonists, and ships, for various factions. Thulean explorers, pirates, Imperial Navy, Rogue Traders, ect.

A vehicle book. This is desperately needed. Not only rules for Imperial vehicles, but also small craft and lighters, and xenos vehicles as well. Perhaps with a system to build your own.

A book of eandeavours. This book is also desperately needed, hopefull with a better economic system.

A dynasty book for Rogue Traders. A book with options to builed dynasties and examples of holdings and estates.

Anybody else got any ideas?

I get the feeling FFG is looking for new inspiration, so now's the time if you have any ideas.

Explorator Fleet Supplement. Rules and suggestions for running an Explorator ship, as well as information and neuances of the Magos Errant.

Basically the Rogue Trader version of The Lathe Worlds.

Second, I'd like to have a thick book dealing entirely with setting up Colonies and Space Stations, as well as dealing with planetary politics.

Maybe a book about being a rogue trader in the Calixis Sector. Would be nice with some material that link these two settings more together:

- What power does a Rogue Trader have when they are not in the expanse?

- How are they linked with the different imperial organisations?

- What role do they play in the spineward front and jericho crusade?

I guess I am asking for more cross over material between the different W40K games. :-)

-Xenos starship book-ork, rakgoul, eldar, tyranid, tau, necron, include rules for what a rogue trader might do with a captured one of these xenos starships

-Xenos career book

-stations and battleships book, just make it an imperial navy supplament

-explorator fleet book

-exploration and colonization book

-Ecclesiarcal fleet book

Alox said:

I would like to see a Conversion/udate book that converts rogue trader to OW type of ruleset (especially advancement and combat)

A book/supplement that deals with actual Battleships.

A Xenos character path for Eldar/Tau Characters.

Lightbringer said:

I second all the ideas in the posts above! I want em all.

My two cents…

A book dedicated to each Xeno race that will stand alone as a game yet is fully compatable with RT. Each Xenos book would include material for creating characters as well as details on culture and ships. While some Xenos might not be very playable such as Trynanids a book with a swarm generator and a description with crunch detailing the process of Tryanaforming of a world they are invading would be helpfull .

@DigitalRedneck: One book for each race might be a bit too much, but, as many people have already said before me, be it in this thread or others, a career path for Eldar PCs is really a must and long overdue. Eldar Corsair/Outcast, please!

A second Bestiary would be awesome!

And an adventure supplement with Space Marines in it (I mean, joing forces with them in a shared endeavour, for example) would be really great!

Aajz_Solari said:

All very true!  A Ork book and an Eldar one will sell like hotcakes to starving lumberjacks tho. With the Eldar one being very very long overdue for sure. In fact in vet surprised more Eldar stuff has not been released.  This gives me hope fore a big Eldar book in the works somewhere… (I'm hoping for it too!). 

Your shared endeavor Space Marine idea is also very cool and chock full of ideas and possibilities. I just love it!

I'd love to see a Stryxis Nomad career path, but don't know where that would fit in.

A Craftworld Eldar book would be lovely. I'd kill to see playable Corsairs or Warlocks, and the option to run a full Craftworlder game (like you can with the current Ork or Dark Eldar rules) would make me so happy.

Rogue Trader: Jericho Reach.

• Rules for constructing Battleships.
• Rules for constructing Strike Cruisers and Battlebarges so that Deathwatch players can join in on the fun of ship-to-ship combat and so that GM's can craft their own Astartes adversaries for the heretical/piratical/simply-in-the-wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time players.
• Rules for constructing Chaos vessels so that Black Crusade players can join in the fun of ship-to-ship combat and so that GM's can craft their own Chaos/Heretek adversaries for the players.
• Rules for constructing Ork vessels so that Ork Freebooter players can join in the fun of ship-to-ship combat and so that GM's can craft their own Ork adversaries for the players.
• Examples for "Rules for constructing" include, but is not limited to, such things as: new Hulls, new Complications, new Background packages, new Components, new Ship Upgrades and new Ship Roles.
• Rules for fighting the Tyranid ships of the Dagon Hive Fleet.
• Rules for fighting the Necron ships of the Suhbekhar Dynasty and for exploring the Slinnar Drift.
• Rules for fighting the Tau ships of the Velk'Han Sept and for exploring The Black Reef.
• Rules for fighting the Slaugth vessels of the whatever place they're from. The threat posed by the Worm that Walks has been hinted at since  the Dark Heresy backstory, and they've been heavily implied to exist on the Jericho side of the Warp Gate (The Jericho Reach, under the section on Hethgard in the Orpheus Salient).

If you included the basic rules for using ships so you wouldn't need the Rogue Trader Core book, then you might find interested buyers from people playing the other RPGs as well and not just Rogue Traders.

Alox said:

The answers to the first and last ones have been touched upon though, just so ya no.

In the first case, "not much", and they tend to have even less to do in settled space, since it's settled… You can't particularly find anywhere to set up shop without someone else having a claim on it too.

They don't have a whole lot of play in the Jericho Crusade either. There's a handful of Rogue Traders, and they're all there pretty much because they have good relations with the Crusade General Staff, Deathwatch, or some other Space Marine Chapter or another.

DigitalRedneck said:

Like the Space Marine endeavor idea. Could also provide opportunity to let people actually play the Astartes too (probably Deathwatch, of course).

Though with Eldar, it's like I've always said, Dark Eldar always were the most reasonable to include from a fluff perspective, since they are absolutely mercenary, and consumate survivors. And if working with a Mon Keigh is what's required of them to get ahead in (or back in to) Commorragh society, they're not going to balk at it, because they're very comfortable with getting their hands dirty.

Craftworld Eldar and Corsairs are almost more callous and disdainful of humans in some ways. To Warlocks and Farseers humans are excellent dupes for absorbing Ork Waaaaghs! that could kill a few hundred Eldar in a century. About the only thing the Imperium and Craftworld Eldar can agree on is that Chaos is the most dire threat to the galaxy there is. And Craftworld Eldar don't tend to wander off alone, doing things like joining humans (there is some flexibility with Rangers, but they're not entirely seperate from the Craftworld either). While Corsairs see anyone non-Eldar as a source of.. fun. Their time away from the rigid structure of the Craftworlds is a time for them to let loose and explore the full range of emotions and sensation that the Eldar can experience, which can all too often result in violence. They can even 'become' Dark Eldar during this time, if they go to especially decadant lengths. The important thing though, is that it's all about them and their own pleasure and entertainment, and few would ever lower themself to palling around with a human, by all presentation in the fluff. Dark Eldar work, because as I said they are the ultimate survivors, and will stoop to pretty much any level to avoid the horrible in fate in store for them, upon death.

Emperor Castaigne said:

Yes!  Yesss!!! Gimmie this!