Origins Missions

Posted by gbprime on 1. July 2010 09:22

While we're waiting on Ranillon to get the pics and results from all our events sorted out, let's talk missions.

This is what we got the most negative feedback on this year, particularly the missions for the Rogue Trader tournament.  They were a little too "Fourth Edition" for some people, and did not properly allow or account for current edition deployment or rules options.  They were also not available online ahead of time, as has become custom with other RTT's around the country.

To this we say... you're absolutely right.

Like everything our crew does, the missions were delegated to one of us, and that person had real life hit him hard recently.  The result was missions that were delivered to us literally AFTER game 1 of the RTT was underway.  Jim and I listened to the feedback you were giving us, but decided that rewriting the missions for games 2 and 3 while game 1 was underway was not wise.  So it was missions as written and make improvements for next year.

So let's talk next year.

We are running again in 2011 with as many or more events and as much or greater prize support and trophies.  But this time we're getting all our ducks in a row well in advance.  Missions will be posted on this blog well ahead of time.  We're designing 6 missions in total and getting feedback from you, the community.  Then our staff will pick two missions for the 3 round RTT and put up a poll for the 3rd mission.  So all of you will be voting on mission number three.

Thanks to the 40K Basement folks for summing all this up and letting us know what major points need improvement.  If they, or any of you, have any other feedback on how Origins games were run this year (positive OR negative) please leave comments on this post or send us email.  We are listening.