Rogue Trader rule book fan errata?

orkwrangler

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I am aware of the errata in WD96 and WD97 and the revised points values in The Book of the Astronomicon. I am uninterested in publications that go far beyond that. I know later revisions changed a tonne of stuff.

In an effort to refresh some old skills I have started to implement a Rogue Trader personality generator in software. I knew there were a load of mistakes, misprints and ambiguities in the book but there are even more than I remembered.

Some of it is fairly trivial. I assume distort fields (page 145) are refractor fields.

But would you price lethal and paralysing needle pistol chemicals separately? Why else call out the chemicals as a separate points cost (page 59) on page 144? When you roll a needle pistol do you automatically give both at 1pt each, or randomly determine the chemicals? See pages 58, 59, 73 & 144 for a lack of details.

So, has any fan group with a bent towards the role playing side of the game has already gone through it all with a fine tooth comb and answered these kinds of questions?
 
Sounds like an interesting project. Can’t recall worrying about these inconsistencies when playing as a kid, but tended to use the army lists from WD and Compendium.

You say this is planned for an RPG? Sure there are more detailed modern 40k rpgs that avoid these errors with better rule sets for roleplay?
 
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