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>necron
>player
what

>>54483200
There are homebrew rules for playing one in The Fringe Is Yours homebrewthingymajik. I think it was that one.

Don't really know why or in universe how you would play one, tho.

>>54483026
serious question

if the average man is 180 cm

the average space marine 220 cm

how tall is the the average primaris space marine?

and how tall is the average primarch?

>Years since my last RT game ended
>still haven't found another one

A-anyone running a game of Rogue Trader?

>>54486284
Nope.

>>54484328

We allowed a necron once. It was basically "I woke up and don't know what's going on so I will follow you until I get my bearings." He played him like an old man Paladin, constantly rambling about ancient codes even while getting magdumped by enemies. It was pretty funny at times, but it was a short game.

I figured this'd be the most appropiate place to ask as there's no 40k fluff general or something like that. What are the best 40k novels? I've been thinking of running a game but need to get into the setting's "atmosphere"

>>54488862
I think there's a list on some other board. It also depends on what type of game you are running. Obviously, Deathwatch is a different setting than Rogue Trader and so on. I personally like the Ciaphas Cain series, the Eisenhorn series, and the Gaunt's Ghost series. Eisenhorn is good for Dark Heresy while Gaunt's Ghost and Ciaphas Cain are good for for Only War. There's also a smattering of other stuff you could use for other lines in those series as both Ciaphas Cain and Eisenhorn have Rogue Traders. If you want to run Black Crusade, there's the Nightlord Omnibus which I haven't read yet but people seem to like.

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>>54477506
>An Only War game? Can we get a brief synopsis of what you have in mind?

The start of the game I have planned, at least, is that everyone has been shanghai'd and black-bagged from across the Ultima segmentum and beyond, chosen for a specific but unknown task. It doesn't matter if you were a noble, a hive scum, a former guardsman, or even just got unlucky on your way to the store, you find yourself aboard a massive voidship with no idea what is happening. The regiment itself is a secret, as is almost everything else - the point for the start is to have everyone knowing nothing, just like their characters. By the end of the first session, though, I'm confident that everything will be explained and everything will make sense. I can say a few things however - you will be fighting xenos and heretics and other enemies of the Emperor, so you won't be secretly chaos or genestealers or whatever, and you'll be normal humans, so no secret spess mareens or skitarii or nothing. I'm also restricting some of the specialties available - while all the regular guardsmen specialties are open and unrestricted, the only specialist open will be the techpriest. It will take place in modern time, so post Indomitus Crusade, though due to time dilation of the Great Rift, time is relative.

I have a call to players already prepared, but I'm not recruiting until I get my job situation sorted out over the next three weeks.

>>54486284
I will be on Myth-weavers, but I wont be player hunting for a week or so.

>>54490419
I'll be keeping an eye out for your announcement then

>>54490369
We need an image of the Deathwatch cover saying
>Nazi Niggers In Space

hey, /40krpg/, its been awhile. Its MEGAguy, anything that requires my attention in the MEGA? Or can I disappear for a another few months for no reason?

>>54490745

There was a copy of Lathe Worlds OEF in the last thread, and Faith and coin oef a few threads back.

How industrial is the Imperium of Man?

Like, are there brands of mass-produced clothing that can be found across entire sectors? Or are most "brands" feudal creations of local craftsmen/companies that are restricted to a few planets in one system?

I'm mostly asking because I'm thinking about clothing descriptions for my NPCs. Like, how customizable can clothing be, would it tend towards uniformity or eccentricity, and what are the odds of having lots of similar clothing items available en masse when they're not uniforms or if they're for special occasions, like tuxedos.

>>54490745
There are updated versions of Lathe Worlds and Faith and Coin. Finally, we don't have shitty scans.

Other than that, do you take homebrew stuff?

>>54491508
Yes, I do, and if there's new versions, give them here, I'll swap them out

>>54491582
Here's the Lathe Worlds link.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/jbeb2ty4hx8kxcc/Dark+Heresy+-+DH18++-+The+Lathe+Worlds.pdf

>>54491582
This should be the improved Faith & Coin:

https://www.sendspace.com/file/di8xlu

>>54491508
Faith and Coin

https://mega.nz/#!NNQjxTLb!IVEklUVbSSYUHNKKq3T_4_rl3jN82sfdlDhqW7c4jkQ

>>54491808
>>54491841
>>54491845
Alright, all better.

>>54491942
>>54491845
That was the wrong link. It's the old photoscan version.

This is the OEF Faith and Coin.
https://mega.nz/#!h4lhxCpJ!OXftz8u1grFB5tncNKJaWTE4YDKj36ZtZZM2W2u_yGw

>>54492170
Ok, now its fixed.

>Party is tasked with visiting the head of a hive
>Mention offhand that the only people said head would grant an audience with are Nobleborn, Mechanicus, and maybe Arbites with a warrant.
>The party is suddenly fixated on either impersonating a member of the Mechanicus, or kidnapping an Arbite and stealing their stuff so they can try getting in that way
>They don't realize how fucking horrible of an idea this is, despite me dropping hints and almost flat out telling them "this won't work and will end badly."
>They won't budge because "MUH SUBTLETY," even though that went out the window when they started shooting people in the street in front of witnesses

This has made me rethink how to go about recruiting players in the future. Clearly I need to grill potentials more because I don't think I could stomach more of this lolrandumb shit.

>>54492443
Couldn't they have flashed the rosette or name dropped their inquisitor?

>>54492521
They were given specific orders not to in their briefing by their Interrogator. I've found that if you let a party do that sort of shit from square one, then all you're going to get out of the campaign is a bunch of INQUISITION FUCK YEAH series of events that have less subtlety than the Kool Aid man or an Eversor loli.

>>54492554
Oh. Were none of them a highborn, admech, or space cop?

>>54492443
>MUH SUBTLETY
Wait what? What's not subtle about their plan?

>>54492588
The part where they shot a bunch of people in public

>>54492572
One's a highborn, but that's about it. Like I said, they haven't even considered that possibility after mention of Arbites and AdMech

>>54492588
Anon you don't just pretend you're a member of the AdMech or the Arbites without getting into some serious shit. Even if not caught, it's borderline heretical (in my book) and will earn them the hatred of either group.

>>54492599
Are they talking about the Subtlety rating? Just tell them it's shit now.

>>54492618
Wait, the fuck? You told them they couldn't get in unless they were highborn, Arbites, or Mechanicus, and they immediately tried to go for the Arbites/Mechanicus options when they had a HIGHBORN IN THE PARTY?

>>54483026
Anyone interested in a lewd game of either DH2 or OW?

>>54492799
Like I said, they're not bright.

>>54492828
>Lewd
>One of the primary enemies for OW are dark eldar

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>>54491372
Planets that have even the most basic level of industry will produce their own clothing - after all, its something that everyone wants, but needs to be tailored (rim shot) to the planet specifically.

More civilized planets will tend to favour Imperial designs (Gothic, Victorian, skulls n shit, whatever), but that doesn't stop worlds where geisha or war paint is the norm. It's a big galaxy after all.

>>54492828
Why not RT, where PCs can be dark eldar, magos biologis, etc? Or BC, because drug fuelled murder fuck parties?

>>54492928
Because he probably has a rape fetish and wants to force lewds on unsuspecting acolytes/guardsmen

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>>54493093
>force lewds on unsuspecting acolytes/guardsmen

A fate worse than death

>>54492921
But what about when you go above and beyond the planetary level? Like, if you're Acolytes or a Rogue Trader?

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>>54493235
Then it becomes a matter of preference and accessibility;
- Rogue Traders and Inquisitor's have the power and resources to acquire whatever accoutrements they want, and the more eccentric ones would have a variety of exotic shit that they had procured or had acquired.
- Acolytes and Rogue Trader crew would be similar, but would be more dependent on their superiors, probably needing to be on world to buy stuff, but there would be a supply accessible to them.
- Guardsmen would be dependant on their regimental quarter master, and once their uniform supply had dried up, they'd look for local replacements.

But you could assume that if the planet had an established Imperial presence, you'd be able to find your standard grimdark-esque fashion.

>>54490426

>Tfw you want to play RT/OW
>Tfw you're going to bootcamp next month

>>54494102
No lie mate, once you're out of boot, you'll find groups on base, Especially if you're posted in more remote areas.

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My Black Crusade party is super fucking retarded and they're all going to die, possibly when I blow up the ship out of frustration. I just had to get that off my chest.

>>54494169
>My Black Crusade party is super fucking retarded
How is this different from a normal black crusade party?

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How did the birth of the Great Rift affect your games?

>>54490615

Should probably be the cover of First Founding.

>>54494214
They're retarded in relation to a normal black crusade party.

>>54492554

I've generally found that GMs who say "No rosette, never" are the kind of GMs with Cluster B personality disorders who GM to play god and torment their players.

>>54494400
Greentext or story time

>>54494400
Give examples of how retarded they are.

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>>54494224
it didn't, cuz most games aren't set in 99999999999.M41

Do you guys think Sonic Blasters should have Storm? They dropped it in Black Crusade for some reason.

>>54490745
Hey everybody, I'm not great with computer stuff, but I have a copy of No Surrender on my iPad. Can someone tell me most convenient way (For Mega guy) to get this to Mega guy?

>>54495149
Transfer it to your computer and then upload it?

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>>54494518
Mine is, but the effect is minimal;
>>54494224
>Inquisitor is super fucking stressed all the time
>Guardsmen on board are veterans of Cadia
>Probably gonna have a perpetual pop up at some point

Information compartmentalisation is big in my game, so events outside the acolytes sphere don't reach them.

>>54495149
MEGAguy is going to sleep for awhile, will add it in whenever I wake up.

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>>54483026
>Out of the many xenos races playable, which one irks you the most, or you find hardest to fit in your games? Maybe the Tau or their Kroot allies? Or perhaps the Dark Eldar or their more restrained corsair cousins? What about the Necrons or Orks?

All xenos PCs are MEME characters and should be airlocked (players too if possible).

>>54490745
Where were you when MEGAguy resurfaced, /40krpg/?

>>54492443
Politely advise them that some of their actions may have compromised their Subtlety by way of communiques or possibly hitmen from their Inquisitor.

>>54493235
...whatever you want. Sector and beyond is your fucking oyster.

WFRP question: Can humans learn runesmithing?

My player is wanting to play an autist with perfectionism and nobody is a dwarf.

>>54495881
IIRC, Runesmithing is taught only to descendants of certain Dwarf families

Who has cool home worlds, backgrounds, or roles they think are missing from DH2? Even just ideas?

>>54495881
You have other general for that anon. I am frequent visitor of both and the other one needs you more.

BC question: How hard is it really to stay unaligned? What rules are missing (in any of the splats' content) for unaligned characters?

>>54496140
Agreed there, but he pointed out that the Rune of Stone only requires it to be perfect to work.

I can't argue it because his character is a perfectionist, so, I ask you.

>>54496203
Please direct me there.

Redpill me Dark Heresy.

I might start GMing a Dark Heresy campaign.
Already have some experience GMing Deathwatch.

>>54496259
>I can't argue it because his character is a perfectionist, so, I ask you.
Doesn't matter that he's perfectionist if he doesn't know how to do it properly.

>>54488862

The Eisenhorn and Ravenor series are good - more on the High Level Inquisitor side of things, but they showcase a lot of the setting.

On the Mechanicus side, the Lords of Mars series is really neat - if a bit schizo-cyberpunk for some. Also has a good showing from SM's, guard and a Rogue Trader.

The actual Dark Heresy novels aren't bad either - and they're set in Calixis, so they have some good descriptions of Scintilla and so on.

Primaris stats when?

>>54497378
When you make them.

The amount of people wanting to be spoon fed is atrocious. Prolly because the summer is here?

Does anybody saved the Mandragora Apocrypha? Before the Autistocalypse?

>>54494224
I'm not going to use it at all. My game is stuck in 5th edition so no new stuff allowed. Now you can call me whatever you want and I'll continue to play game I enjoy.

Also what the fuck, where did the rollforheresy go?

Corrosive weapon quality
>If a target is struck by an attack from a Corrosive weapon, the Armour points of any armour worn by the target in that location are reduced by 1d10 points.
>If the Armour points of the armour are reduced below 0 or the target is not wearing any armour in that location, the excess amount of Armour point damage is dealt to the target.

Mixing armour
>Characters can wear multiple armours if desired, but the protective qualities are not additive.
>When an area covered by multiple pieces of armour is struck, the highest AP value is used and all other armours are ignored for purposes of determining damage.


So how doesCorrosive attack works if someone wearing multiple layers of armor. Does armor damage peel away item by item or only the highest armor is damaged and the rest of damage is applied to character?

>>54497537
>When you make them.

How about:
- Unnatural Strength (5)
- Unnatural Agility (1)
- Unnatural Toughness (5)
- +5 Wounds
- When suffering penalties from fatigue or when Critically wounded but not outright slain, a Primaris Marine can enter a state in which he is able ignore any negative effects to his characteristics from damage, Critical damage, and Fatigue, and cannot be Stunned. He also gains the Regeneration (1) trait. The effect ends when slain or at the end of the encounter.

Should i give a harder limit to how long the Revitalizer can keep a Primaris going? I wrote at the end of the encounter because i don't feel like i want to give an arbitrary time period but i fear it may be too much.

>>54497724
Probably depends on the GM
I'd make it peel all the layers off before it does damage to you

>>54497662
F... fucking oldfag with your... old... fucking... old canon! Yeah.

>>54494224
#notmycanon

Also games that are in .999 are trash.

>>54497684
The site? It was rarely updated if not at all.

Sup dudes, quick question:

trying to get into DH 2nd ed here, and I remember hearing about 5 skills I should always take but can't for the life of me remember them. Little help?

I have mandragora apocrypha on my disc. Question is will the author sperg out and never upload the new version if i will give it to you, elegan/tg/entelmen?

>>54486284
I was
> Playing rogue trader for the first time
> Got to play as captain
> Got a job to deliver food crates to a planet
> Ork player decides to open it
> People are inside the crates
> Turns out that the planet is full of canabals
> Decide to blow the fuck out of the planet.
> Priest player leads a battle prayer
> Getting hyped for battle
> Ship comes on radar
> They win initiative
> Shoot us with battery
> Crit
> Blows up cabin
> Crew surrenders and are eaten by canabals.
Fun game

>>54497892
Dodge. Awareness. Survival. Tech Use. Athletics.

>>54497905
cheers mate

>>54497892
Probably Athletics, Dodge/Parry, Awareness, Interrogate, Commerce?

>>54497905
>>54497936
>no mention of Stealth

>>54490419
>job situation sorted out over the next three weeks.
There's always a need to take poo to the loo in India. You should go back and lend your shit holding expertise to your homeland.

>>54497966
Is Shas Pajeet?

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Anyone have experience with servo skulls in their games? A tech priest in my group wants one as a companion.

>>54498392
we used one to remotely blow up a genestealer

>>54497662

Lucky you, my live group quit when I chose not to advance the setting. Now I've been stuck with online flakes and shitty snowflakes. It's awful.

>>54498392
Adapt Minion rules from Black Crusade or use rules for familiars from Inquisitor's Handbook.

Currently one of my players have an augur servo-skull to substitute his low Perception (21) and no related aptitudes. Player installed cerebral link to said servo-skull to use its abilities. So basically half-blind PC when connected to servo-skull via cable have Perception 35, Awareness +20 and active auspex. I'm using old familiar rules from Inquisitor's Handbook.

>>54497979

Just ignore it, it's just newfags using /pol/ memes without understanding what they mean.

>>54498392
Don’t forget that every servo-skull was someone at least remotely important. Scribe servo-skull probably spent his life with papers and was successful enough to continue doing his job even after death. Same goes for every other type of servo-skull. Hell one of my PCs became one after his death. Party called it by name and even gone to the Underhive to rescue it when it was stolen by a Reclaimator gang.

How much influence should I dock my PC's for fucking up? They're doing okay for the main story line but on some side shit they're generally not making themselves look great to other members of the inquisition.

>>54499317
Depends on how much they fucked up. From 1 up to infinity.

>>54499317
You have literal tables in dh2 core for that.

>>54490615
Would Nazi Negro Space Commandos work better?

Are psyber-creatures available only to psykers?

Is there any regiment creation option more broken than upgrading your rations to Best quality?

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>>54502462

Well, that's it. The system has been solved. It's over. We can all go home now.

>>54502354
Learn english and stop having brain damage phoneposter

>>54502354

No, you do not need to be a psyker to psy-bond with a psyber familiar.

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Just how bad is the tech in Warhammer 40000?

The RPGs consistently say that shooting things past 4x the weapons Range value cannot be done. If so, then everybody's weapons (including statted archaeotech, astartes, and xenotech weapons) have inferior range to firearms we have today.

We are the archaeotech.

>>54503104
Game balance

Anyone got any traitor skitarii art handy?

>>54483026
Only War Question:

My players are driving a Leman Russ into the midst of an orkish compound.

Looking for ways to spice this up. I want a way to make them feel the heat, even though ork mooks normally wouldn't be able to even scratch the paint of the tank.

I can't find rules for being boarded or anything, even though a nob or warboss should theoretically be able to yank the hatch off a tank pretty easily.

Tl;Dr:
Looking for tips to challenge a squad with a Leman Russ storming an orkish fort. Nobz and a warboss are inside along with a shit load of infantry.

>>54504274
Running into an ammo dump that explodes, probably doing some light damage to the russ, but making everybody inside test for concussive (1 or 2).

>>54504274

Why not have a couple of wagons with supa kannons pop in to say hi

>>54504274
Mines. Orkz getting inside and pulling them out. Grenades. Rokkit launchaz. Killa kans. Dude think.

>>54504274
They drive though a squig kitchen, where a mob of tankbustas were having a cold one.

They were developing a squig breed about half the size of a Leman Russ and sic it on them

A couple orks try to pull what the ork does to the Dreadnought in the DoW opening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtAH7kGEqic

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>>54494169
>>54494400
Well, i'd imagen that's almost so retarded that they would come out of the other end of the spectrum.

>playing for the "unresolvedemotional issues" faction.

>>54504559
>A couple orks try to pull what the ork does to the Dreadnought in the DoW opening
Gonna do this.
>>54504528
They're going to be at risk of getting boarded. There just aren't rules for it, so I'm wary. I also have a mine field set up.
>>54504503
I did two battlewagons against them last session and they took 2 damage. I was using the kannon though.
>>54504358
This is going to be part of it now. Thanks.

>>54502653
You do know there are other people on the Internet besides 'muricans, don't you?

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I have a question.

What do people see in chaos so that they want to (role)play as it ?

>>54505111
Mutations and gifts are a lot of fun. Sorcery and Daemon Weapons also provide a lot of options you don't normally get in an Imperial RP.

>>54502462
>>54502593

This is why "at gm's discretion" is a thing. So players can be told no about things like this.

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>>54505111
Essentially this applied to chaos stuff.

>>54505111
The decay of the Imperium is inevitable.

>>54505262
you know

>>54505237
>>54505200
tried at least to provide answers.
You on the other hand are just not contributing and showing of "muh chaos dick", which is okay in itself, maybe a tad too much escapism for my taste. But WHY do you like your chaos dick ?

>>54505323
I am sorry for posting inappropriately

>>54505859
I am sorry too, i think i over reacted.
But this is a question which bothered me for a long time since i can't see a deeper apeal in the chaos faction, but always have 1-2 players who want to play as it.

All i can see are one-dimensional characters, maybe you can bring some new viewpoint in ?

>>54505968
My apology was not completely sincere, dont worry. Personally I dont like BC too much because the inevitable daemon prince thing is off-putting. If you listen to the quotes of chaos heroes from DoW, they have an atmosphere that appeals to me and maybe recreating that would be fun. Coming up with ways to subvert imperial worlds is also fun.

>>54505968
Essentially going as off the wall as possible and then though a few buildings for the glory of chaos, though that is only one way of playing it.

You can think of Black Crusade as the chaos version of Dark Heresy, Deathwatch, and Rogue Trader, all in one depending if you have CSM in the party or not and there are rules for porting over max insanity or corruption PCs from those lines into BC.

Someone tell me why Shas is tripfagging all over teegee and in the past on r9k when he is relevant only here?

>>54506664
The same reason anyone tripfags outside of quests or other such threads that absolutely need a way to designate the true OP. I.e. to be total attention-whoring faggots.

>>54499751
>>54490615
Why not just Black Panthers In Space?

>>54494224
Why didn't the Pandaemonium merge into the Great Rift?

>>54506196
>>54506116
>>54505237
>>54505200

So basically, people play chaos for the heck of it ? Not because they see any philosophical or moral appeal in it, at least for "trying it out" ?

seems like i expectet too much of those two players of mine ...

>>54506900
>philosophical or moral appeal in Chaos
You aren't supposed to see either of those things, that absolutely isn't the point of Black Crusade. If you can't roleplay a character who's morals don't match your own playing it will be next to impossible.

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>>54505111
I like the idea of embittered, spiteful people who hate the Imperium for what it's done to them, and have in turn become just as bad if not dramatically worse than it in an effort to tear it down.

>>54506664
>>54506684
Samefag

>>54497792
None?

>>54508225
Shas lackey. No I wont provide screenshot, the other anon may but anyways fuck you.

>>54508711
Two minutes apart on such a slow board? LMFAO faggot

Besides into melee with allies who are not almost completely fireproof and with enemies at range, when it is a legitimately bad idea to use a flamer or other spray weapon?

>>54508711
>So insecure I need to respond to someone pointing out my samefagging
Why is this faggot even posting on /tg/?

How do you make Only War fun? So far it's been nothing but terminal fucking cancer.

>>54510888
Stealing for uninhabited discord + Nitro emotes, cheers mate

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>>54510829
You need your players to be in the right mindset, whether that's being M*A*S*H or Platoon or Full Metal Jacket or Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers.

>>54486284
Yeah, but it's all just my friends and in-person.

Right now they're trying to get a cursed augmentation called the Eye of Horus for a aug-addicted noblewoman while staving off the attention of an Inquisitor.

the eye is actually bullshit, it doesn't even work as an actual artificial eye. I'm hoping one of my players tries to gouge out their own eye to use it though.

>>54510957
So it's The Skull of Vecna all over again?

Is that still a relevant meme?

>>54510941
>You need your players to be in the right mindset, whether that's being M*A*S*H or Platoon or Full Metal Jacket or Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers.
It was cute the first couple of sessions. Now it's just fucking retarded.

>>54510829
What's been wrong with it? Just saying "cancer" is hardly descriptive.

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I'm currently running a Dark Heresy campaign (1e, we had the book so we got lazy), I'm using the core book/purge the unclean scenarii and my players are doing rather well. They easily dispatched the first boss with coordination and lucky strikes, and they are not yet corrupted by chaos in an alarming manner.
I'm thinking on what they should be doing after they resolve the Scintilla scenario, and I got the idea of using the Blood in the Chocolate adventure for LotFP. I'm really loonking forward to them contracting weird diseases and candy corruptions.

Any idea on what to change, and how to place it in a 40k setting? I already have some ideas, but I want your opinions.

>>54505111

The Imperium is a soul-crushingly totalitarian and oppressive regime, and people still want to roleplay as Imperium loyalists... similar idea, just on the "deviant with no moral compass" end of things.

My players have discovered Tempestus Scions and want to make a regiment for an upcoming OW game. Has anyone done this before?

I don't think they're quite the same as just running stormtroopers, but I'm not super familiar with their lore. Any famous regiments I should know or books I should read?

>>54513596
They are the stormtroopers. They just have some extra gear.

>>54513596
>Has anyone done this before?
How much of OW do you actually know?

What makes a gaming session good?

>>54513989
The mystical and elusive concept known as 'fun'.

>>54513940
>>54513951
It just seems like they should get some squaddies. Or are the Scions strictly small squads? I don't really know anything about them. Haven't played tabletop since 4th or 5th edition.

Anyone had luck tracking down the print DH2e books? After checking out all the FLGSs in my area I managed to find a copy of the core book and Enemies Within plus tons of copies of the prewritten adventures, but I'm not interested in those. No luck tracking down the other Enemies books, though, and online prices are in the $50+ range. Mostly just want them because for once I can get all the crunch content for a game without having to buy 500 books (looking at you, FFG Star Wars).

>>54514593
Their codex is really short and pretty interesting. Just check it out and you'll see. Most of their 'Unique' equipment are in the Only War books. Except for medikit and vox. But I'd just use good quality items from core book.

>>54514680
So... I don't need to be making a new regiment type that allows the players to count as troopers and stormtroopers?

>>54514735
Actually I think you do but it all can be done with standart Regiment Creation rules from core rulebook. I havent played Only War for a long time so I cant tell you how to make Tempestus regiments. Need help from someone more competent here.

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>>54508225
>>54510232
>>54510784

Gobble on a fat one you fucking mongoloids. BTFO

Does the warrant of trade have any meaning outside imperial borders?
Does anything?..

hmm

>>54495501
that's a cute piece of cannon fodder

My copy of No Surrender arrived yesterday and my players decided on the Tallarn 11th. White Russians and Lawrence of Arabia vs all the traitors you can shake a stick at.

Anything I should know before diving in? And is there a digital copy of No Surrender anywhere?

>>54516245
did you look at the mega in the op?

>>54516272
Yeah. Ain't there for some reason unless I'm literally blind. Which is great, since it means I can hand that out to my players.

>>54516245
>>54516272
I definitely have a PDF/OEF copy, I might've grabbed it from the master Warhammer 40k archive in Warhammer 40k General though.

What does OEF even stand for? Optimized Electronic Format?

>>54514666
I'm in a similar boat, only one I'm missing is Enemies Beyond and I'm debating shelling out the $50 now or hoping I stumble across one at a Barnes & Noble in the next few years, which does happen (I found the core set for WHFRP 3E just a few months ago.)

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>>54516030
Not really, beyond it making you de jure the highest Imperial authority out there. Other Imperials are supposed to do what you say, but anybody else beyond the Imperium's borders are not going to care that much.
Xenos particularly familiar with it might think "Oh good, a human who will only betray me at the first opportunity, rather than one who will shoot me on sight!"
Astartes chapters out beyond the Imperium might give it some respect. But they tend to be weirdos.
Lost planets, by definition, probably won't know or care that much about it.

>>54510507
>>54510507
>>54510507
In buildings with lots of burny stuff. Your gonna suffocate. Near fuel or ammo dumps, you can't outrun the resulting boom. Through a doorway you intend to advance through a moment later.

>>54514680
Don't forget the Hotshot Volleygun

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>>54514986
>Don't call me a samefag when I samefag from my phone REEEE!

Have a (you)

>>54517412
That should also be available in the master Warhammer 40k archive in Warhammer 40k General. If not, I'll upload it later tonight.

Why are so many of them missing?

>>54483026
Regarding Xenos, in RT (only experiences with Orks and Dark Eldar), the only problem I've noticed is not to do with player personality but a LOT more to do with Mechanics!

Ork PC's are fucking tanks! They have such a high Toughness Bonus, and so many wounds, that they just soak up punishment and the GM needs to throw around high-damage weapons to reliably challenge them in combat, which risks killing other PC's with a one-shot. While with the Dark Eldar the problem is they're able to Dodge things so easily due to their agility, that the GM is forced to pull out weapons that are impossible to avoid for the other PC's.

>tl;dr
My conclusion is that Xenos PC's only really 'work' well when the group is relatively higher levels. When PC's are tougher and have better equipment.

>>54516030
Other (minimally loyal) Imperials will at least show you a wary respect because of it. The real power of it is that it's the document that gives your character the right to sail out into wilderness space and mess around with shit.

>>54519919
I'd consider using "Felling" weapons from time to time. And also just remember that the guys with the heavy guns are going to shoot at the Orks first, and so will only really be a threat to the other heroes if they manage to take down the Ork without being gunned down by the rest of the party first.

>>54512725
this is 4chan, when something is cancer you're just supposed to get cancer and die, not ask

>>54516030
I'm going to go with no, and probably xenos tech

WoT is for business within Imperial space, outside you're just a pirate and a heretic like everyone else

>>54492443

You sound like a shitty GM, honestly.

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>>54486284
no but i want to

>>54486284
>tfw your group fell apart when you came up with a fucking excellent idea for a RT and crew who come with a relatively unified backstory
tl;dr is that he was a navy captain who pissed someone off, but was too popular and successful to just be assassinated, or exiled to a shitty posting.

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>>54521542
Whoops, forgot people just want to shit on things and be mad. That's my bad.

>>54514986
>In an era where people have 3+ devices to post from, one brave anon desperately lies about samefagging after replying to his own post too soon

Which game line will let me go the most completely bananas with the augmentations? I want to become a spooky robot squid

>>54522326
Rogue Trader or Black Crusade, as these lines let you go completely bananas with everything.

>>54522128
isnt that one of the one of the reasons the core book mentions for becoming rt

>>54522377
I guess so. Frankly the concept started out as an excuse to start the game with a Cruiser, since everyone wanted to have a 'big ship' this campaign.

>>54522203
I see that you're retarded.

>>54522817
And yet I'm dragging you into it.

>>54522953
Poor lad, I am the propagator of this small chain of replies.

>>54519275
>>54522318
Nice tinfoil hat faggotry you do there fags

>>54518209
So much false information. It worries me no one corrected him yet. Is 40krpg becoming braindamaged too?

>>54523246
Copy-pasting the same shit from the books to debunk dumbfucks too lazy to read shit plainly spelled out in the source material gets tiresome after a while, anon.

>>54523246
whats false about it?

>>54519350
>>54516245
No Surrender:
https://mega.nz/#!4pEjTDCJ!qTH_Q2QxzWzp6XtOWh2Q2Tmj_eSZSOvI8GmQmMKUdL8

Enemies Beyond:
https://mega.nz/#!po9RhI4R!o2ctyp8EyIm73f5e5iwuyqrUv1PL3B6CE6Q7baL_CbA

I have no idea where I got these, they aren't in the master archive after all.

>making you de jure the highest Imperial authority out there.
false
>Other Imperials are supposed to do what you say, but anybody else beyond the Imperium's borders are not going to care that much.
False

>Astartes chapters out beyond the Imperium might give it some respect. But they tend to be weirdos.
False in halfway
>Lost planets, by definition, probably won't know or care that much about it.
Generalising

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DH adventure idea.
>Party called to the site of a battle
>Inquisitorial stormtroopers and arco-flagellants managed to mop up some ragtag band of no-name heretics
>Amount of casualties was acceptable, but there was one problem
>One of the arco-flagellants never returned when they tried to call it back, and they can't find any corpse to show for it
>This scares the shit out of the inquisitor for some reason
>Party is sent to find it, combing through a ruined battlefield, with nearby crags and hills hiding pockets of heretics, unfriendly xenos, etc
>Eventually find the arco-flagellant
>It's twice the size of the run-of-the-mill servitor horrors and half-babbling through its warbled vox about its old life
>The one that its chemical super-lobotomy should've erased
>Turns out it's a space marine from an excommunicated chapter that an inquisitor captured/convinced to turn themselves over to the inquisition, then summarily turned into his killiest pet psycho-servitor
>The super-heavy space marine mental conditioning somehow managed to stick around in some form, and was left at odds with the arco-flagellant mental conditioning,
leaving it with a mind full of hymns and half-ideas about what it should do
>Probably wants to purge the inquisitorial forces, in any case
>Either way, the party is faced up against a servitor-space marine on inquisitor-grade steroids
How retarded is this idea? Should I drop it, or could it work? What could be added if I actually run with it?

>>54523850
Thank you for clarifying, so the assumption in the question is correct, right? Since there is no authority to enforce anything, the warrant is not relevant?

>>54524097
You can't turn a Space Marine into an arco-flagellant. It's simply impossible. What you could do is make an Inquisitor into an arco-flagellant.

>>54523624
You're super. Thanks m8.

>>54524135
No. The warrant is relevant at all times beyond the Imperium's borders. Your actions and words are those of the Emperor, and you are free to act in whatever manner you which as long as it doesn't harm the Imperium, and there are no legal repercussions.

>>54524188
Why

>>54524188
>make an Inquisitor into an arco-flagellant.
Good shit. It adds a kinda-sorta risk in some xenos/heretics/etc getting it. Even if its babbling is mostly nonsense, it could very well have some damning information.

>>54523624
Oh, well shit. I'll get right on that.

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>>54523624
>>54524425
No Surrender is in now, Enemies Beyond is already there, anon.

>>54524234
What if the Inquisitor is literally damning people by babbling daemonic formulae?

>>54524479
I dunno why that one anon didn't have Enemies Beyond. Maybe they just didn't check it after the book was released 2 years ago.

>>54523018
Blue pilled normlet detected

>>54526532
God damn it I missed.
>>54523154

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>>54526532
>Blue pilled normlet detected
>Tabletop rpg shitter since 7
>No anime because anime is for normies
>Firearms owner because shooting stuff is fun
>Collecting plastic space men is better than crack

>inb4 eight trillion years of photoshop and 2300+ devices in which to simultaneously funpost

What is a Sentinel's purpose in the Imperial Guard?

If I have some light infantry, might you attach a single sentinel to a squad? Or would they be grouped up into a unit of their own, and squads all be homogenous infantry?

>>54528446
Scouting, some fire support, and shooting the asses of vehicles with a lascannon.

Take a look though the books at regiment types and look at which ones get a sentinel.

>>54528446
False sense of security. The Sentinel is garbage made moreso because of the need to have to perform the jink action on top of the low structural intergrity and lower armour values.

>>54528540
"made moreso because of the need to have to perform the jink action"
>made moreso because of the need to have MOVED PREVIOUSLY to perform the jink action.

I'm looking at daemon engines in Black Crusade and Only War and why don't more of them have Fear? I think only a third of the daemon engines I've seen have the Fear trait.

>>54528695
>Add Fear
?????

>>54528497
>>54528540
So conversely, what do I do if the players are playing a light infantry regiment but someone wants to play an Operator? (and the vehicular kind, not the stormtrooper kind)

>>54528841
Why light infantry in particular?

>>54528895
They picked the Tallarn 11th from the core book..

>>54529009
Given how they're described, I'd imagine having a giant stompy vehicle would be detrimental to stealth operations.

>>54528841
>So conversely, what do I do if the players are playing a light infantry regiment but someone wants to play an Operator? (and the vehicular kind, not the stormtrooper kind)
Dunno. You act like a cunt like my GM and punish Humanity as a whole.

>>54529085
Hurtful. I'm sure you deserve it.

>>54529041
I dimly recall from my fleeting tabletop infatuation with the IG that sentinels were supposed to be "scout" walkers and stuff. Just confused, I guess.

It sounds like I'm going to be stuck going "gg" when he wants a vehicle, and he'll be limited to whatever he can liberate/salvage.

>>54529174
Yeah, here, I knew it;
>Tallarn forces have also come to appreciate the utility of the Sentinel walker, in its effectiveness as a means of crossing even rough terrain swiftly, without sacrificing firepower.

So it's just kinda shoddy in the book?

>>54529218
A glass cannon given it can have a multi-laser, autocannon, or lascannon but with rather low armor values, structural integrity, and giving enemies a +20 to hit it due to size. It also makes it's operator vulnerable to outside sources of damage due to being open topped unless if it isn't.

>>54529327
Mobile, all-terrain, great if your enemy has no AT or you have plenty of cover/ruined buildings/jungles to lurk in, is what I'm getting.

Anyone actually used OW's vehicle rules and combat? How weildy/worthwhile are they?

>>54529174
>Hurtful. I'm sure you deserve it.
I've sacrificed too many men and had too many allies/men-at-arms/fellow guardsmen for this contempt.
You fuck right off with your cancerous diatribe and less than geniune diatribe of fighting the Imperium's War.

>>54529365
Thank you for your service, anon.

>>54529417
I have had many valorous men sacrifices themselves in order to meet the tithes of less heroic men. I've paid the ultimate price for my sons sacrifice and been found wanting more.
Sacrifice shall be had, sacrifice will be mourned.

Quick stupid question. Who wins an Opposed Test if both rolls fail to beat the target number? Is it whoever has the fewer Degrees of Failure, or do they both "fail" somehow?

>>54529835
If you kept reading, you'd see that you have to redo the test (in most cases)

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>>54526748
>this level of hyperbole to still defend an obvious samefag
>giving details of your real life, as if I could ever care

Glad I could trigger ye timbers

Holy shit why are legionarie bolters so powerful in Only War? They do more damage thsn the heavy bolter. (1d10+9 to 1d10+8)

I know Astartes bolters are more powerful than guard boltguns but this is kind of ridiculous.

>>54530210
They were like that in the deathwatch errata. Be thankful to your corpse god they aren't their unerrataed form of 2d10+5 pen 5 or 2d10+10 pen 6 in the case of the space marine heavy bolter.

>>54530344
I've thrown players at unerrataed DW geared heretics. They enjoyed the challenge, but ultimately called for fire support while they ran like motherfuckers. It was a good session.

>>54484351
canonically, the primaris aren't noticably bigger than normal marines - the fact that the models are bigger is more GW wanting to go more true-scale and having primaris be a good excuse.

>>54526532
>using term bluepill on tee gee
woah, spitting terms you found out on interwebz must be kewl to your classmates you summerfag?

>>54530134
>he still thinks we are all one person
Small steps corrupt.. ;^)

>>54529354
Vehicle combat pretty much the same as normal combat but movement oversimplified by my taste. Sometimes crazy shit going on like tank making crazy maneuvers on narrow streets. Maybe it's because of our GM but sometimes it look really weird.

>>54508114
I call that an Inquisition level DH game. I've run quite a few now and every single one has ended with the Inquisitor PC shouting "everyone is so fucking stupid but me!"

>>54532785
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZuktUfF0nE
Related.

Has anyone made rules for playing as Chadmarines in DW?

>>54532880
Literally someone asks about it in every thread

>>54532672
>>54532665
>two replies within two minutes of each other to my posts with exaggeratedly different styles

Oh boy, I can't wait to see you really show me with those screencaps bro!

So anons, when that time inevitably comes when I run a Rogue Trader campaign for friends, what should I be aware of/watch out for in this system?

I've run Deathwatch, Only War, and Black Crusade but not this.

>>54533665
The freedom can be debilitating to groups with not enough initiative. Always have delicious plot hooks dangling they can pursue, but if they come across something random and decide to try and wrangle profit out of it, let them.

>>54532547
Nah senpai, they're totally bigger. They're like a foot taller.

>>54528728

That would be homebrew, anon, and that's wrong.

>>54532880
+1 wound. +10 to hit cause they're bigger. +5 bs/was cause muh better training. -20 social, cause a Chad is even more manchild than a manlet.

>>54493235
A rogue trader has a ship, which probably has a larger population than some small countries. They make their own clothes on-board. Besides that, no proper Rogue Trader would accept off the shelf clothes.

>>54535463
What is wrong with that? RAW is getting really stupid sometimes so what's wrong with little adjustments?

>>54528695

Because fear is super powerful and will kill PCs

>>54534173
Ok, will do.

It'll kinda be like the Star Wars EoE then

>>54535754
> Meeeeeeeemes
If the raw materials were on the ship yes. Making said raw materials will require vast amount of space and power. Moreso than what even the largest ships can produce.
Remember. These are cargo vessiles first.
Repurposing them to make mobile factories means you will have an output way lower than what you think.You need more power, some way to scrub the atmosphere, and space for the machines, someway to shunt waste heat, crew to run the machines, crew to repair the machines, housing for said crew, space needed for raw materials, ships to shuttle said materials... Ect.

>>54536505
They're cargo ships in the same way a galleon is.

>>54532785
Kek. Makes sense. Isn't Eisenhorn teamed up with an Alpha Legionary now too?

>>54536505
If it's a massive factory, sure. Entire generations live and die in these ships without ever stepping foot out of it or being proper members of the crew. Travel can potentially take years, and ships that had warp fuckery and we're traveling for decades still came out functional in terms of ship stores and crew. They definitely have the capacity to turn materials into goods, and as far as getting the goods, they're Rogue *Traders*. Getting goods and services is literally the most basic part of their job description.

>>54533607
Paranoic.

>>54538573

They can probably make the bare minimum but exotic stuff is probably out of reach.

>>54489605
>Ciaphas Cain are good for for Only War
The first Cain book is definitely a DH experience, fighting a GSC with an Inquisitor, working with Tau to do so and executing a regular human with a Meltagun? All very common Dark Heresy themes.

>>54539132
That's an odd way to spell any English word, but a truly bizarre way to spell "correct." Samefag genocide best day of my life

The Tome of Decay in the Mega is a shitty scan. Here's an OEF version
http://www.mediafire.com/file/sk45eryhi3mck2a/%5BBC%5Dthe+Tome+of+Decay.pdf

>>54545895
Cheers, anon, I'll get it in there.

So, I've got some bad news. Some of you might remember when I first made the MEGA, it took fucking forever because of my shit internet. That problem was eliminated when I got a 100 mb/s connection.

I'm sorry to say those days are coming back and worse than ever. I'm moving tomorrow, and the area I'm moving to hasn't had proper high-speed rolled out yet, despite the new CRTC regs. It will be rolled out eventually, but for now, as of tomorrow, I'll be on Rural DSL, 1.5 mb/s, and even less if literally *anyone* else is connected. I'm not trying to blog here, just giving everyone a heads up. I think Tome of Decay is that last scan, but if anyone isn't sure, say so now.

Story time!

I was running Deathwatch
>extracting high value target off a fortress world under chaos invasion
>had to reach interplanetary comms tower because continent sized sandstorm prevented conventional communication methods
>climb up elevator shaft via mag boots and defeat Iron Warriors leader by throwing him down the shaft
>get message out to cruiser in outer orbit for extraction
>roll 2d10; 10 minutes to extract
>vid displays show Chaos Marines gathering outside the door
>meltaguns are cooking the door, it'll be slag soon
This next part makes me super proud
>squad lead looks around; 2 down, 2 wounded, 1 missing an arm and right leg (group typically only gets hit in the right leg *insert group meme here*)
>rallies his men
>empties his bolt pistol on the observation glass
>mag boots activated as the Chaos Marines breach the door and the group begins a firefight down the outside of the 10km high tower
>Fate points are being burnt, the Emperor is with their dice
>Chaos Marines being shot off the tower left and right
>suddenly Obliterator climbs over the edge and begins to walk down
>canthitforshit.rar
>devastator marine goes down, his lascannon falling
>group lead leaps after it, catches it, mag boots back to the tower
>aim, fire
>001
>headshots with nearly max damage
>Obliterated
>Thunderhawk grabs group shortly afterwards and the group extracts
>Mission fucking accomplished

>>54546016
>Living in America's cuck
You have only yourself to blame.

>>54546620
On the other hand, I don't get immediately v& for piracy here, so whatever.

Are hot-shot charge packs rechargeable?

>>54548070
The one shot kind or the 40 shot kind?

>>54548087
The one shot alternate ammo.

>>54548094
Yes. As a GM take liberties with the time it takes to charge one from a generator or by solar power but it's essentially a souped up lasgun shot on overcharge. It likely takes less time to recharge than a regular charge pack by a considerable amount. Recharging it in a fire may not be reliable though.

>>54548094
>Each hot-shot charge pack is good for only a single shot.
It would be kind of shit for an acquisition if it is single use. Then again, the Exterminator and Aux. Grenade Launcher are single use per acquisition, and in DH2e you get two hotshot packs, plus one per success.

>>54548312
The auxiliary grenade launcher is a strange thing as you could reload it in battle in all previous 40k games and it didn't cost another acquisition roll.

>>54548349
I just assumed you could reload it in battle. I'm the GM of my game. Why wouldn't you be able to?

>>54548413
Weird-ass 'balance' made between Only War and 2e. The ammo selector is another case of this.

>>54548433
Thank Emps I'm doing Only War then.

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>>54546608
Nicely done! I love some weird environmental combat. That's honestly what space marines should be best at. If you just need some badasses to sneak into a fort, send the stormtroopers. If you need badasses to sneak across an irradiated hellscape, swim through waters infested with razor-fanged death beasts, and *then* infiltrate a fort, you send the Space Marines.
Question: About how long did your combat take? Both the one against the Chaos Marines outside the tower and the one against the Lord.
I've been running 40krpg off and on since the beginning, and I've discovered that I often find the combat grindingly slow if I haven't carefully prepped a scenario and basically set up the whole session to be a big, awesome fight scene. I'm thinking about printing up little cheat sheets for my players, just so they all know exactly what they can do and what to roll.

So coming from some one who played D&D/Pathfinder exclusively for almost a decade, I've been wondering if DHv2 GMs are telling people what the difficulty of their test is?

+10, -20, +30, etc. I've been just asking them to make a test and then checking how much they exceeded by, if they passed. Should I forgot the old "don't outright tell players the DC" from D&D and tell players what the modification is?

>>54548694
If you're using roll20 or something that automatically calculates the successes/failures, then yes. Most (if not all) GMs do it in case a player's weapon, action, talent, trait, etc goes off of it. Like firing full auto, for example.

>>54548756

I'm lucky enough to have 3 guys that I've both played D&D with for years and play Warhammer 40k, so we figured we'd give DH a shot. So we're playing in person.

I think I'll just start telling them. It's faster paced and I'm not really taking anything out of the immersion.

>>54548804
Yeah it's for the best really. It'd be kinda jarring to get X number of hits on a semi or full auto shot, roll all those damages, then get told "do it again." Plus, I've found letting them know how difficult a task is can provide a good narrative. Say they're trying to summon a daemon or something equally heretical. A Forbidden Lore -50 check means they're doing something that should require vast knowledge and experience in that area, not to mention prep. It also sets expectations. They know that if they fuck up, something very bad might happen.

>>54504274
Nob with a megaclaw jumps on top of the tank and takes the fight to them

>>54548500
Combat against the Lord was faster than I thought it would be:
> Squad gathers just next to the elevator shaft
> Villain monologue engage
> Ultramarine taunts the enemy Heretic Techmarine into close combat
> internallyscreamingwithglee.ded
> Dark Angel Devastator and Storm Warden Assault Marine win initiative
> throw enemy down shaft
> group cheered and broke for pizza; I was admittedly proud
First combat lasted 5 minutes and most of it was set up and dialogue.

Second combat took about a hour. As players were quickly becoming unconscious, combat sped up. There were technically more enemies after the Obliterator but the group cheered and was celebrating at its death. It seemed like a natural place to let them win and feel good about barely surviving.

>>54548694
They should be but I find a lot of GMs don't think to. Unless they're literally being spoonfed from a splat, but if you ask for anything off script it's just a straight test. Annoying.

>>54548994
Where is that pif of a Meganob tearing into the top of a Knight carapace when you need it?

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My players just pissed of a changer of ways

Just so I'm not crazy: Would it be safe to say that most voidsmen use non-penetrating weapons and ammo? I had an argument with another player in an RT game that all our voidsmen should be outfitted with hotshot las packs and plasma weaponry. He failed to see that such weapons would more likely burn a hole through a bulkhead than an enemy.

>>54549819
Yes.

I'm gonna run the Depths of Treachery for my DW group tonight, any last-minute advice ?

>>54549819
Maybe they can pierce some floors but small arms wont cause a hull breach

>>54549819
I mean on a standard navy ship they aren't armed unless they are armsmen and overseen by the master at arms. even then it is typically autoguns or regular las.

On a rouge trader vessel you can use hot shot and shit, if you are concerned with it punching through your Hull then don't they don't pen THAT much. throught the doors? yeah it will, something important like a screen? any weapon would do that.

>>54549960
They still can damage *IMPORTANT* ship machinery.

>>54549819
In some splatbooks there was navy weapons. usually it's shotguns with really low penetration but high damage to kill boarders and not to damage ship equipment.

>>54550254
The core RT book has that.

>>54549960
Piercing one of the ship's sewage pipes or a plasma cable is just enough to ruin everyone's day.

>>54549819
>>54549960
>>54550274
Dark Heresy Forgotten Gods pg. 69
There are some examples what can go wrong in shipboard combat and what can be hit.

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>>54550304
That's actually super helpful. Thanks anon.

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>>54549004
Very cool, thanks for the info anon. Would you say generally that high damage weapons speed things up? I think one of the mistakes I've been making (for YEARS) is sending too many enemies with high soak/low damage weapons against the pcs. I find combat's more enjoyable when every hit is potentially extremely dangerous.
>>54549819
Yes. Though I would personally argue hotshot las packs are not *as* dangerous as things like Melta weaponry, anything with high penetration has the risk of knocking out some sensitive system/causing an unexpected hull breach. I could see Voidsmen using things like modified chain axes and other high penetration close quarters weapons for prying open bulkheads/heavier armored enemies, because that way you're more likely to know exactly what you're chopping open.

>>54553044
Tbh, this is Deathwatch here. Don't worry about high damage weapons; use what's right for the situation. Traitor guard are gonna carry lasguns for sure but you never know if there's a plasma gun in the squad. I had a combat where a Tyranid Prime killed the same player 3 times because of his use of fate points; he blew himself up with a meltabomb to kill them both in the end but he was happy that he overcame the challenge and saved the mission. Let your players burn some fate points. Emotional gratification off of a hard fought victory is what will keep your players going since DW isn't a loot driven game.

Player with minimal 40k knowledge wants to play a priest. Any resources I can provide for him?

>>54553422
I've got some advice.
No matter how fire and brimstone he is (and it should be a lot), the only thing that actually matters is that the guy at the top of any given religion/cult is the Emperor. A ministorum priest should be able to give equally good religious advice to a bloodthirsty death cultist who reveres emp as the bringer of death, a farmer who holds him as king of a farming pantheon, and a wild man who thinks emp is the father of storms. Of course, that advice basically boils down to "hate His enemies and kill them dead".

>>54483026
Anywhere to get a bunch of vassal 40k tokens for running Only War online?

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What's the most fun archetype for a follower of Slaanesh in Black Crusade? Torn between the Pirate Prince and the Flesh shaper.

>>54555227

Pirate Prince's whole point is to start with a ship. The Flesh shaper is more fun from a mechanics standpoint.

The archmilitant wants to be a Kraven the Hunter kinda feral worlder, what sort of jungle cocktail should I give him as his starting acquisition?

>>54555227
Flesh Shaper along Tzeentch Sorcerer are most broken things

I need some help answering a few questions. I'd be extremely grateful to any anons who can provide help. The only compensation I can offer is kind words and sincere compliments.

How do eldar war masks function? Do they just block the over expression of certain emotions? Do they block certain emotions entirely, turning the person into a robot? Or is it kinda like morphene with pain, where they feel the sensation of emotions but don't really give a fuck about them?

Also, what's the kill range on melta bombs? I have a character that was shielded by a wall of ice about half a meter thick. What I wrote is that the ice flash boiled, dissipating a substantial amount of the heat in a steam explosion, but enough energy was left pretty much burn away everything beneath the character's knees. They were wearing armor.

The wikis are too vague for me to be comfortable. I found some threads from 2011 about war masks, but they had a lot of conflict information, even in the same threads.

This isn't for an RPG, but for some fiction I'm writing, so I'm not really asking what the mechanics of it are in the game. Sorry to bother, but I just can't find anything specific anywhere else.

>>54559522
melta bombs to my understanding are like shaped charges, so they penatrate the fuck out of whatever they are attached to,

with the warmasks as there isn't really "Cannon" about them is up to you, I think it would make for a better story, and would make more sense considering how exarchs come into being with it being like morphine.

>>54557938
>>54559258
Flesh shaper sounded more interesting, I think I'll go with it. Thanks

>>54559778
Thanks! What I read is that melta weapons and explosive basically pump so much IR the area around them that the resulting heat will melt basically anything.

I concur with you on warmasks. I felt that making them robots would be uninteresting, and if they really were overly emotional like some of the lore makes them out to be, that wouldn't be good either. Those could make for interesting introspective stories, perhaps, but not for what I'm writing.

Thanks anon, you're the best!

>>54559522
>How do eldar war masks function?
Read Path of Warrior by Gav Thorpe. He seems to have established most firmly how war masks function and described it most thoroughly in that book. Also, fairly useful insight into the psychology of the Eldar even if it gets fucking stupid near the end.

GMing Rogue Trader, what can I do to stop my players just leveling the enemy from orbit with macrocannons?
Should I even try to stop them?

>>54560776

Can't profit from burnt out rubble.

>>54560856
Depends on what you're trying to profit from, right?
If it's some precious alien artifacts, then it's probably a terrible idea.
If it's just mining, well, a few bombs aren't going to hurt a planet.

>>54560776

Nah - that's the kind of thing a lot of Rogue Traders do.

Find planet, bomb into submission, add to trade routes/mining concern. Kindof an in-between-adventures thing.

But it's not super interesting stuff... until the bombardment cracks open a Necron tomb... (which is basically what happens in one of the published scenarios).

Just remind them they can make more money by looting artwork and shinies, and greed will do the rest.

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>>54560776
>GMing Rogue Trader, what can I do to stop my players just leveling the enemy from orbit with macrocannons?
You build a scenario where orbital bombardment is a bad and/or very stupid idea. But if they do end up bombarding anyway, give them appropriate consequences for it. I'm sure getting a reputation as cityburning madmen will hamper their trade efforts and make other Rogue Traders sneer at them for wasting profit.

And it should also be noted that its something off a genre trope/thematic conceit in Rogue Trader that the Explorers are expected to solve things hands on. Because Rogue trader is a swashbuckling space adventure to find treasure on strange and exotic planets. Explaining that to your players gives them a better idea of what you as a GM might expect from them.

>Should I even try to stop them?
No, just discourage them when necessary. It's not always a bad thing.

So I'm trying to psych myself up to run Only War and I'm getting intimidated by the large combats. It makes sense- it's an army, there will be larger groups on both sides, but how the fuck do I handle a 100m battlefield and 1800 soldiers per side? In an online game?

Even the stuff where it's down to something 'reasonable' like 30 militia vs 10 guardsman would be horrifically slow to run.

>>54561518
Enemies of the Imperium.

>>54561582
>>54561582
The formations system? Does that work for any size?

How should I handle a massive battle where the players are at best a squad?

fres

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>>54561756
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>>54561722
Have the battle essentially be a simplified one on one between NPCs or dice rolls while the the main focus is on the PCs and how they do with whatever splits off to attack them.