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>>55344888
>http://www.ulisses-us.com/in-development-wrath-glory-for-warhammer-40000-roleplay/

>Do you have a go-to plot for introducing newbies to the game?

I ran them through a couple missions of the space hulk board game to show them the setting, then made new characters. Worked well with the gsc bbeg

>>55344888
I would use Only War

>>55344888
only war, everything sucks, and they don't need to know a lick of the lore.

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What was your favorite character, /40krpg/? Tell me about their lives.

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I'd do Black Crusade and open with Broken Chains. BC is more or less D&D in space. You worship gods, adventure in dungeons for magic items, and murderhobo everything that doesn't help you. It's an easy transition.

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>>55347139

My favorites are tossed up between Explicator Claus Raimer, Ordo Xenos (Isstvaanian Radical Adept. Just hit Ascension) and Lord Doomfist the Destroyer, Eater of Worlds & Scion of the Red Angel (World Eater Chaos Lord - Khorne Berzeker)

Claus was a former medicae officer in the IG who disappeared when the =][= got too close while experimenting on wounded Guardsmen on Tranch. Practically wrote the book on mutants. Stereotypical mad scientist he is completely devoted to the God-Emperor. Got picked up by =][= by accident while hiding on Kalf, ended up serving faithfully in His Holy Ordos and became an Explicator. Had to get 3 party members killed because radical =/= xenophile or warp fuckery. One of those included detonating an atomic on a heretek xenophile techpriest then blaming him & his followers as a false flag attack. Is the only OG character left in this campaign.

Doomfist, like most Sons of Angron, was wandering battlefield to battlefield in search of slaughter and glory to the mighty Blood God until he came across a herald possessing an ogryn. This possessed ogryn, who he viewed as the Voice of Khorne, sigled him out for greatness and set him about on his red path. Since then he had slain a foul sorcerer, lost his hand to said sorcs daemon weapon, which prompted khorne to bless him with a new arm (Hence tbe moniker Doomfist), has survived a virus bombing from a rival nurgle lord, destroyed a world and razed the factorum-hive of another in spite of said rival and had slaughtered his lieutenant and detactment guarding said factorum, which was if not equal to was greater in size and power to his own. Has seized a vessel for himself as well as numerous daemon engines, as well as gained allies in the face of said rival.

>>55347139
>>55347579

Forgot to mention Doomfist razed the library of that sorcerer and is currently sitting at 90-something infamy. Now is his time to raise an army & fleet of his own and take the fight directly to his rival as opposed to skirmishing

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>>55344888
WHAT ARE SOME FUN WAYS YOU'VE USED CYBERNETICS?

Dark Heresy Newb here, playing the part of the tech-priest.

since I get cybernetics more easily I want to play on the Replace The Weak Flesh ability(cybernetics are 2 degrees less rare) I have a utility and an optical drite and a set of subskin armor.

now I'm looking for fun and/or useful upgrades.
for now I'm looking at just the contents of the DH2e core book.

I'm looking at the following

>Mind Impulse Unit
(plug into systems to use them better)
(how is it different from an Interface Port? )

>Ferric Lure
(magnetic object attractor)
(traits/talents grant more neat shenanigans)

>>55347814
Good quality augur array. +20 (or +30 depending if good cybernetic = good auspex) and free rerolls on all perception based tests.

>>55347930
does that stack on the +10 I get for my optic 'Drite?

or does it grant additional value that is more than worth the investment?

>>55347940
It should as it is a bonus from a different source.

>>55347954
>>55347930
I have no commerce skills though and only 35 influence

so getting a GOOD quality one might be hard to do...

>>55347976
Commerce is intelligence and knowledge, you can pick that shit up easy.

>>55347976
Just use your Inquisitor's rep.
Subtlety is a resource to be used.

>>55348026
too late for that, undercover is where we are

>>55348005
I might have to look into that

>>55347139
my only character to ever survive long enough to become an inquisitor, as well as living long enough to make it out of the hellhole of ascension

Lord Inquisitor Zygand Weltrious Vexos, slayer of deamons, Son of Cadia, Lord Admiral, Lord General, Keeper of Lore, Student of Time, Chaos Scarred, Collector of the accused, Pardoner of wolves, And sector lord amongst his many titles, and other things gained over the years of play.

Originially a guardsman lieutenant from Cadia, picked up by an inquisitor he had mistakenly held at gunpoint. He would eventually serve as his group of acolytes leader, his experience with the guard proving invaluable. A leader, getting his team out of tense firefights, and encounters with careful planning, and judicious use of explosives (mainly melta bombs, and psyk out grenades) eventually was forced into an encounter with a daemon, and thanks to the strings of fate he survived, a blast which took him and the daemon.

after being promoted to inquisitor after unraveling a plot to have his own inquisitor assassinated by a rival inquisitor, it seemed fit he take the rosette himself.

tl;dr a guardsman officer type character, played smart, win got most of the titles during ascension.

>>55348783

What Ordo?

DH 2nd edition:
>50 ST
>Two-Weapon Wielder(Mele)
>Ambidexterous
>2 x Power Fist with appropriate Weapon Training
>GM too retarded to throw anything attacking at long range at me
Is it a good setup? Or should I go for Lightning Attack?

>>55349882
I'd put you on the situation where you have to tie your shoelaces or die you smug cheesmonger

>>55350408
Jokes on u, I have two bionic legs and maglev coils. Shoes are for faggots.

>>55349882
Twin powerswords more efficient.
Allows parrying, counterattack, swift/ lightning attack.
Powerfists are UNWIELDY.

>>55350455

so I'll just send hordes of daemon princes at you until you learn to stop powergaming

>>55350408
>>55353654
Autism.

>>55349413
malleus

Does your starting xp count on the ranking list? Like every game line starts you out with like 500, and it takes x amount to get to the next rank. DH1 for instance requires 500 to reach rank 2, while Rogue Trader is 2000. If you count the starting xp, doesn't everyone start at rank 2 in DH and only need 1500/whatever amount in other games?

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>new players
>party tracking down heresy on hiveworld
>shut down illegal xeno artifact trader while making a little bit of a mess in the process
>planetary police arrive and arrest us
>during questioning told that we're in hot water because our psyker (my character) didn't fill necessary paperwork when arriving on planet
>DM didn't give any chance to roll awareness otherwise know about said paperwork
>feels like it was hastily added in to get us into trouble
>inquisitor had to bail psyker out

Am I sperging out, or is it justifiable to be a little salty about this?

>>55356001
it's mostly justified, but depends on the level of "realism" your game is running

I'd probably ask my players to make Common Lore (your sector) to see if the paperwork is required and what planetary customs are.

>>55352819

Throw in a forearm powerblade.

>>55356001
That's a bit of a ham-fisted move on the GM's part, but it just sounds like some minor railroading and not something to get too worked up about. See where it goes.

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Hey, does anyone have the 40k quote where they explain why the imperiums technology is so bad, by comparing it to a burned down library?

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>>55355888

Yes.

Note that DH1 starts you with *400* not *500* but yes it does count.

>>55357623
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Adeptus_Mechanicus#Why_Everything_is_so_Grimdark

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>>55347139
I suppose in my case it has to be Holvarn.

Holvarn had a penchant for surviving stupid shit which (largely caused by more puritanical colleagues of his own heretical inquisitor) and being one of the very few people who managed to retire from the Inquisition and start his own thing.

He also indirectly terminated two Lord Inquisitors and started a hunt for the third, but that's a different story.

>>55347139

Werner 'Gunnar' Sigurdsen. Was on a Rogue Trader vessel run on nordic lines, was a Watch Karl. Ended up getting caught by a local planet's custodes while investigating a suspicious sideline business from some people inside the ship, found out at trial they were transporting psy-active shit. Get broken out of prison when weird shit goes down and an Inquisitor shows up (rest of party was also in prison), psyker abilities also manifest. Get quickly sanctioned by Inquisitor, work in his service for a while, Inquisitor tends to be of the 'fingers in many pies' type. End up making lasting friendship with a blank (because of course), end up getting groomed for Inquisition, and then become Inquisitor in own right.

I now use him as an NPC in my games.

>>55347139
Lucius Praxis
Abominable warp-spawned child of an Emperor's Child.
Stole 3 Dark Age plasma weapons from his progenitor, then ran off.

I made him as a flying deperado-pistol character.
Man was that fun, flying bullshit distances and evaporating people at the same time.

Does Only Insane Shall Prosper work out of combat? In the text bluprp it only menitions "creatures fear level".

>>55358855
Fear can be caused by other things.

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>>55344888
Anyone know when the next AGP thread will be out from Shoggy?

>>55359332

Am slows and keep getting too wordy, probably not gonna make the end of the month, but can at least guarantee halloween at the latest.

>>55359332
>>55359908
Now he's gotten an answer do you think he'll shut the fuck up?

>>55349882
4 gangers, 2x autoguns, 2xflamers one dead acolyte

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>>55359908
If this is the real Shoggy, then thanks a bunch for answering and thanks even more for your write-ups.
I love all your stuff and it's inspired me to get a group together for our own campaigns.
Much love.

>>55344888
I'm about to introduce my group to the setting; just running DH 2E's Dark Pursuits (tweaked to match the party they make during chargen this Thursday), and letting them stay somewhat in the dark about the specifics of 40k.

That said, I'm also a bit lacking in setting knowledge, so I've started reading Eisenhorn to get a feel for how a member of the Inquisition might go about his/her business, as well as scouring through the fluff of the core + enemy X books for lore and setting details.

Will of Iron, which is about an Inquisitor investigating the Fallen Angels, is on Readcomicsonline.

And the truest any Warhammer fiction gets to the reality of playing Dark Heresy is, and always will be, the Ciaphas Cain series. The Inquisitor points, you leap into action while thinking "Wow this is stupid and I am going to die"

>>55349882
Seems incredibly unnecessary, honestly.
A waste of resources better spent elsewhere.
Also, what are your other talents? What is your agility?

I'm playing the Astropath in a Rogue Trader game and I'm curious. Should I have a psychic power that does damage? And if so, what's the best option to invest in. Psychic Scream, Telepathy or Voidfrost.

>>55362702

you're a space cellphone not a primaris psyker

>>55362702
Not really.
If you want, you can happily leave that job to big fucking guns.

>>55362852
>>55362973
Sweet, I'll just grab up some nice support powers then.

>>55362993
Remember that you can also use a gun.

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>>55347814
an interface port lets you access systems and control them normally. (jack into a car and act as though you were at the wheel) An MIU lets you take full personal control of a system at the speed of thought.( jack into a car and BECOME the car) Good investment if your GM lets you do cool stuff.
Ferric Lure is flashy, but I haven't ever found it overly useful.
Don't discount the basics like limbs. that extra TB isn't fancy, but it WILL save your fate points. get yourself some Best-Craftsmanship legs. Sprint for days. also limbs can hold all sorts of other goodies like inbuilt weapons.

>>55347139
There was a Guardsman (Weapon Specialist) I had, in days gone by (Only War), with the shell-shocked demeanor, Fearless, a power knife, Counter Attack, and a WS of 78 (40+8 from regiment+20 from advances+5 from Career+5 from staying in that career at rank 2) and +20 Parry. Good times. Soloed a bloodthirster.

>>55364354
You mean a bloodletter right?

>>55364507
I hope he is, otherwise all suspension of disbelief is gone.

>>55361592
I agreed until ciaphas cain books. Eisenhorn and Ravenor are better on these terms

>>55362702
>>55362993
On the other hand, you really suck at guns. You are going to regret the day in which psychic shriek might have saved your life but you decided to buy more psy-internet connection with your exp instead.

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>>55365637

He could *call* for help, since he's a phone and all

So, I'm thinking of doing Only War, and I can't seem to find any stats for Valkyries and Vultures, were they ever statted in the game?

Also, knowing my players I think we're most likely to play as Praetorians. I know the main game never officially statted that regiment up, but is there a fanmade regiment ruleset for those anywhere?

>>55366261
>Valkyries
IIRC, some RT adventures have them.
>Praetorians
You can always try to make them with OW's regiment creation system.

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>>55347139
My favorite? Got to be Mikali "Traski" Dzhugdzhur,a battle scarred Arch-Militant from the Valhallan Ice Warriors regiments. With a fixation for naming his weapons after dead squad members and obsessively maintaining them. His favorite was Maria, the Hellgun.

He was an absolute fucking madman.

He and his gang consisting of a mutant ninja-accountant named Khal and a techpriest went to interrogate a former midget butler belonging to our NPC Rogue Trader for information regarding his rivals, and through a series of far too successful intimidation tests and the brandishing of a chainsword gave him a heart attack and an erection

Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

We had gotten enough information, though, and were able to search his hotel room for further plot-points. Mikali was given the vital job of hiding the body...in an alleyway. He first considered throwing the corpse in a dumpster, but upon prompting by his peers to preserve some parts, shrugged and began to cut the midget's corpse into pieces using the chainsword, and stuff him into a box for easy delivery.

His other exploits included: Burning a slanneshi bar down with nuclear fire(while still being inside the bar), passing a passive willpower test to subdue the demon inside a daemonic weapon he found and passing with a 1, cowing the daemon into silence while never even realizing there was a demon in there, setting a daemonic library on nuclear fire(while still being inside the library) having his limbs cut off by their rogue trader when the party realized they were a 10000 year old chaos lord of Tzeentch, surviving an explosive trap that filled the entire room despite having the lowest agility, and saving the magic necron mcguffin at the cost of his life, leading to a very teary goodbye with Khal.

Such a fun character to play. Space russians forever.

>>55366261
>pretorians
I would basically go with mordians or Scintilla fusiliers with fancy pith helmets.

I want a Krieg waifu! Send help!

>>55366657
Krieg doesn't have women, only artificial wombs and inflatable sororita sex dolls to boost morals.

I have some interesting questions for you /tg/. Soon enough my players in dh2 will be facing mutant outbreak from underhive AND a dark eldar mandrake hunting for one of the players (the mandrake has contract with craftworld cousins, long story short that player killed an important person to the craftworld in the previous campaign).

Questions are:

What will psyker see if he will mindprobe mandrake?

What do you propose the leader of the rebelling mutants should be, or maybe interesting mutant subtypes they should fight with?

How do I make terminator armour in Deathwatch useful? There is no incentive for using it at all, anyone has any house rules they'd like to share?

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GM here requesting some helpful ideas. I'm running House of Dust and Ash with my group and after a long introduction we're on the Cygnan Martyr. The players have been on the ship for the whole day and got into a storm at night. I've ended the first session with two of the four players down because of sea sickness and an ominous scream from the outside. What would be a good continuation for the next night/day? I'm having some trouble getting the intrigues between the npc-groups right.
My best guess right now would be a slow working poison for the bidder in the group by the logicians - but that should be done at breakfast/lunch/dinner. What would should I do for the night? Sudden attacks by the abbot because of fever dreams perhaps?

>>55366850
Crab people. The leader has a giant oversized claw much like a fiddler crab in proportion. He crushes/snaps in half those that displease him. Underlings call him "King Claw". He rules through fear and strength, and plans on bringing war to the citizens above and claim his true place as ruler.

>>55366966

tartaros and cataphractii in good bad and alpha legion

Hey guys my GM assigned us sheets to do for xp to even out the parties xp divide, I got stuck making a medical team comprised of guardsmen, but they xp he gave us is not enough for any of them to take Medicae as a skill. due to real life n shit we wont be able to talk with the sheets in front of me, any advice?

>>55368252
Thanks ill use that

>>55356001
It's justified.

>>55368840
Do two sets.
One within the limits set, one with the minimum required for them to have Medicae...
Bit of extra work, but you've covered yourself for his/her/its error/failure to communicate/brainfreeze.

>>55370215
Thanks. I'm gonna do that.

How much does the Emperor/Holy powers that be show up in your game? Do you ever get prayers answered or miracles?

Regarding Psykers in 2E. Whats the general consensus on whether or not fettering should be brought back?

>>55374001
Unless there's a Priest working actual miracles, then it's always entirely possiblity that any prayer that was answered, or miracle that occurs was just as likely pure chance.

And such things are never clearly the result of such prayers. Though PCs and NPC may respond to them as such.

From a GM's perspective, it's Chaos who get the flashy, Chaos-intercedes type events.
Imperium gets more sublime stuff, like the tarot and reinforcements arriving just in time.

Any interest here in Deathwatch games?

>>55374647
That depends if you're also going to rework how bonuses and penalties for various level of psy rating for psychic powers work.

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>>55374001
>>55375606

Unless you have pure faith then you have a direct line to Big E

>>55375962

30k or 40k?

I want to make an Only War campaign with one understand: That every one of your characters will die. It will be cruel, it will be unfair, you will not get to spend a fate point to survive. I want you to roll up characters quickly, and dispose of them just as quickly.

>>55377952
And I mean that literally, you won't even get to roll. When you're time comes, you die. Up until then you can do whatever you want.

>>55377952
>>55377962
Interesting, that's precisely the type of campaign I'd rather have dentistry than play.

>>55377998
But your death will serve a purpose. It will further the story.

>>55378010
If it's a story where every single player character made in the course of the entire campaign is guarunteed to die cruelly and unfairly, I don't want to play it.

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>>55377952

>>55378062
but then why do you feel compelled to volunteer that information? If you don't want to play the game don't play it.

>>55378083
If you don't want people to comment on your idea then don't post it.

>>55378110
I didn't invite you to comment.

>>55377952
Your game idea sucks.
Please reconsider your life and perspective on RPGs.
Or run it as a one-shot to minimise any cancerous effects.

>>55378517
Thats fine, because think you are stupid person and will discount your criticisms anyway.

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>>55377952
>>55377962
>>55378010
Sounds pretty boring desu. Meat grinder games are just "Oh no, John McJohn died, my new character is Jack McJohn, John's identical twin brother because i'm not supposed to be invested lmao and I ran out of character sheets."

Most people don't have the skill to make every character death "advance the story." Kinda like how GRRM wrote himself into a corner and now all of the characters we aren't supposed to get attached to because they all die have gained asspull plot armor because there's no way to continue the plot without them. You also sound like a weenie that can't take any criticism.

alright /40krpg/ I will be making the next mission in dark heresy on a shrine world. the inquisitor an Ordo malleus one, really hates the ecclisiarchy and SoB, whats some cools shit i can do here.

>>55380364
Kill Inquisitor, get sweet SoB pucci.

Or some sort of coming of age shit where the Inquisitor comes to terms that the SoB are a thing, and that they're all on the same side. No SoB pucci needed.

Unless you want to.

>>55377952
I tried to get in on a game close to this level of lethality, once. We were even registered as numbers, so names could change as PCs died. Everyone was excited and on board with the concept. Then combat started. Charging a barricade, our tanks pushed ahead faster than we could stay in cover behind them, and I figured we were fucked. Then the attacks came, like summer rain.

"Don't worry, Anon, their damage will go up as you get better gear and armour!"

I looked in on the game awhile back; the guy running it was still claiming the game was lethal, as more than half of the original cast had been replaced by new players. Not that they were killed IC. The wall of PC fallen was still empty, and when a player left their characters just stopped existing. Apparently getting people to leave was that GM's idea of a lethal game.

>>55377952
>>55377962
wow this is so different....

>>55378217
This is a discussion board, dingus. You post something, we comment. As is self-evident by now.

So is melee actually a viable and practical approach? It seems like melee weapons themselves are either shit that isn't worth using or shit that is good but extremely rare without much inbetween, and you need a whole bunch of stats to properly get in, stay in and do damage, compared to just staying in cover and shooting.

>>55381818
It depends on the circumstances. Melee will be a backup for most characters.

>>55381818
Bruh just simple chainswords and axes are great weapons. Nevermind that just getting into melee can tie up a ranged-only enemy. Getting an enemy heavygunner into melee neutralizes him as a threat to the rest of your squad as effectively as a sniper shooting him does - at least until you or he kill one another.

>>55344888
The worst part about Rogue Trader is trying to balance sense with id. The desire to say "fuck it all" and dive forth and go where ambition takes me is a strong one, one that I find harder and harder to resist as time goes on.

>>55382003

I find that to be the best part of Rogue Trader.

If a weapon that has an exterminator, auxiliary grenade launcher, or auxiliary shotgun is attached to an MIU weapon interface, is using the upgrade weapons still a free action or do they have to be manually triggered?

>>55356001
If you expect Imperium bureaucracy to be fair and consistent, you're very, very mistaken.
Kind of a dick move by your GM, but really, you should have got the fuck out of there the moment you busted the xenotech trader before the police got there.

>>55382645
Talk to your GM. I'd say allow it.
The weapon's already been rigged for MIU interfacing.

I'm prepping for a DH2E campaign im gonna be running soon and by the looks of things i'm gonna have 7 players, do y'all reckon that might cause issues? It's our first time playing a 40 rpg so i dont know if it might be a little unwieldy for a group of that size?

>>55385307
>It's our first time playing a 40 rpg so i dont know if it might be a little unwieldy for a group of that size?
3-4 max, 5 if everyone knows the rules good, 6 is pushing it if both players and the GM are competent

7 results in an unsatisfying and sloggish experience for everyone, including you.

>>55385429
aaa heck, okay. Should be able to trim it down based on who actually cares about 40k out of that lot. Thanks for the advice dude

>>55381818
It's better than a gun if you're a space marine.

Just thought of something.

You're making a character for DH, OW, something where you're just a human, any class you want.

BUT, your character is from Holy Terra itself.

What would you say/debate/argue with the DM that a character from Terra would get for a Homeworld Bonus rather than the standard stuff in the books?

>>55385517
Not much good at coming up with custom shit but right off the bat for one thing i'd be saying give them more fate points than everyone else

>>55385517
A bonus to interacting with loyal members of the imperium due to prestige?

Regiment Classification
Navy Armsmen

Regiment Demographic
Priesthood

Nature of Recruitment
Standard Conscription

Homeworld Designation
Imperial World

Homeworld Terrain
Urban World

Regiment Core Units
Shock Troopers

Specialization
Lightning Fast

Loyalty Rating
Adherent (standard)

Special Equipment
Augmented Troops

Regiment Creed
Best of the Best

Regiment Friends
Adeptus Mechanicus

Regiment Enemies
Chaos Space Marines

What the fuck do I do with Navy Armsmen, I thought imps and the Navy where supposed to be separate.

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>>55361592
>>55365280
Eisenhorn and Ravenor are what you aim for.
Ciaphas Cain is what you get.

>>55377952
>>55377962
>>55378010
>>55378083
>>55378217
>>55378876

>comes up with shit idea
>gets told its shit idea
>"No, you're all shit, my idea is brilliant"

I hope you get players who are even shittier human beings than you are.

>>55389236
Someone already did that kind of thing anyway, dude ain't new at less than ideal ideas.

https://1d4chan.org/wiki/All_Guardsmen_Party#Prologue:_Natural_Selection_Based_Character_Creation

>>55389306

Yeah, but Shoggy's group did it intelligently, and for a good cause. This guy's just being grimderp.

>>55389306
>>55389468

Like, it's not even 'let the dice fall where they may', it's "YOU'RE GOING TO DIE WHEN I SAY YOU DIE, AND YOU WILL LIKE IT."

>>55388531

So should I just change my regiment into standard boys?

Like them being augmented priests that act as lightning fast shock troopers who have some creepy mix of imperial creed and mars lore who think they're fucking hot shit. I can handle that, but making them naval marines seems kinda fucking limited.

How popular is Deathwatch? It seems like there isn't a lot of interest in playing Space Marines since everyone thinks they're autists.

>>55389933
I played one session a few years ago, then started running a campaign a few weeks ago.

It's... Less fun than I expected.
Though I'd attribute a lot of that to my players, and the lessened capacity to flex creative muscles in comparison to stuff like Rogue Trader.

>>55389933
There's interest in space marines, just gotta figure in that the campaigns available are a little more limited since... Well, Space Marines aren't exactly going to have a lot of options for social interactions. Especially when you're playing a group that pretty much just supposed to kill aliens.

What's your favorite 40k RPG to play and why?

>>55390374
Rogue Trader.

Fucking merchant conquistadors.

>>55390374
Rogue Trader

Fucking freedom beyond measure. Plus xeno babes.

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A few days ago, my players were introduced warmly to phosphex. Joy and happy feelings were experienced by all.

>>55389933
There's about as much potential there as in any other 40k RPG, it's just a bit trickier to properly utilize.

>>55391009
Horus Heresy?

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>>55391096

No, modern day. It's my Only War game, where the players are the first Solar Auxilia regiment established in almost ten thousand years because things are just THAT bad.

They were given a phosphex bomb each because their heavy weapons guy was out of power from the hurricane. They used one, and now they're scared shitless for some reason.

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>>55391009

Feed 1/2 pack of Carnine Phosphantix(TM) every 4-6 hours. Packed with nutrients every Dino needs, like Chlorine Trifluoride and fresh lavender. Please use responsibly.

>>55391481

Also, I still am an advocate for Phosphex Auto-Mortars. The Only Way To Be Sure.

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>>55391481
>each

how do you feel about your GM giving your pre generated characters?

>>55391757

If it's a one-shot, sure. Especially for something meant to help people understand the game.

>>55391757
We tried that once, except we still had to do character generation so it was a lot less interesting

>>55392712
How did you still have to do char gen

>>55391571
>Phosphex Auto-Mortars

By the Emperor you're a monster

How often does the Inquisitor/recurring NPCs show up in your Dark Heresy games? Does your team go around the galaxy or focus on one particular planet?

>>55390374
deathwatch actually

>>55392866
Yeah but WHY dinkhead

So, how do you guys go about reducing the power curve in Rogue Trader? Thinking about running a campaign sometime in the future, but the last time I did it, half the cast was basically unstoppable in their specialty by level 2. The Seneschal in particular.

I was thinking about making it so that players had to buy individual weapon specializations like in the other games in order to spread the XP around more.

>>55392890
Sure. Gothic knights in space, high power level, being a literal god of war and living, fighting and dying on a MASSIVE scale for Mankind.

It's just glorious. Besides, marine characters and personalities are as varied as any other.

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>>55392818

I Know.

still just a pipe(hah) dream, but someday I will rain death upon my enemies. Good thing I work for an AdMech, since the war crimes will be intense.

>>55392844

Inquisitor is the boss and his presence is felt at all times even if he isn't in play/there/conversing

In my Radicals game, Claus has left Kalf a total of 3 times. One of those was a webway portal ON Kalf

The others were to mining ice world to reinforce guard, and to Scintilla to detonate an atomic on his fellow techpriest because he was a necron loving xenophile heretek and we shouldnt truck with that.

Otherwise he primarily operated on Kalf and has just hit ascension. There are other games where there's alot of planet hopping but it depends on the game

How do I replicate as much of Eclipse Phase as possible in 40k? I want to have a transhuman archeotech system in my homebrew sector.

Does 40k have transhuman tech like transferring your mind to another body or computer? Does it have anything like cortical stacks? Besides what the Emperor did with Thunder Warriors, Custodes, Space Marines and Primarchs, are there any other examples of genetic engineering in the RPG or wider setting?

>>55394376
Yes, but tech heresy. No. Gland warriors and assassins to an extent.

>>55394427
Can you name any examples of it appearing in the setting? What they were called? Rules for it?

>>55394376
There's lots of genetic engineering. Gland warriors come to mind, Macharius project, Fabius Bile and his loyalist counterparts, lots of stuff.

Regarding transfer of consciousness - Iron Hands chapter master got a favour from the mechanicus who did just that, effectively rendering him immortal.

>>55394767
>Regarding transfer of consciousness - Iron Hands chapter master got a favour from the mechanicus who did just that, effectively rendering him immortal.

Into a human body or a robot?

>>55394931
Given they're Iron fucking Hands, 100% robot.

>>55377952
Would be a better idea if you saved the certain death for the end of the campaign rather than just FUCK YOU YOU'RE DEAD NOW

>>55390374
Conceptually, Rogue Trader. I love the vast amount of things you can do.

However, the player power curve is absurdly bad. I don't mean the freedom or the weapons you can get, I mean advancement and how they're virtually unstoppable half-way through level 2.

Music to play in a Dark Heresy game?

>>55396130
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE10E72DDE64EC615

Some spooky-ish music, some battle music.

>>55364572
>>55364507

I don't remember. It was big and scary and I was rank 2.

Question regarding Deathwatch. I've run Rogue Trader and Dark Heresy a few times now and I'm keen to get my Space Marine on with my player.

But I'm pretty in the dark on what I could do to get some personal drama into the game. Basically what are some tips you can give for avoiding just a massive battle sim for 4 hours and prompt some character development.

>>55398389
Players*

>>55398389
Play up the fact that space marines are akin to greek heroes with larger than life personalities and conflicts, rather than battle sim robots with unique power ups.

>>55398389
Interchapter conflict is just about the only way to make it personal.

>>55398480
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I'm wanting to play some Dark Heresy with friends, but two of them are in a different country. I've heard plenty of good things about using roll20 to play RPGs. But I've also heard about Maptool being used for Dark Heresy. Which one would be better to use?

>>55398480
Give some examples how else to do it then faggot.

>>55399175
Post was aimed at this guy>>55398882

>>55394376
Transfer of consciousness into a machine is super heresy. However, if you've got a few bits and bobs of the original brain left in all the circuits, sky's the limit....

Well I guess I might put this out here if this is against posting rules on /tg/ im sorry, I didn't see anything posted about it.

I am currently GMing a game of Black Crusade in the North/South Austin we have 3 other players but it would be nice if got one more.
If you are interested send me an email
[email protected]

So, is Inquisitor Martyr a 'faithful' vidya adaptation of Dark Heresy? It seems to draw most of its setting and mechanics from the DH rules, especially Ascension, since the classes are Crusader, Death Cult Assassin, and Primaris Psyker.

>>55400710

We can only put our faith in the Emperor.

>>55396595
>Only War
>Ranks
Yeah. Totally.

So I'm thinking of doing a Tyranny-inspired campaign of DH where the party have been tasked by a Grand Inquisitor to determine why a certain cabal of Inquisitors is taking so long to restore order on a recently re-conquered hive world, the implication being one or more of the inquisitors is either grossly incompetent or secretly a heretic/radical with less-than-noble intentions. I might need some help coming up with Inquisitors for them to investigate. Anybody have any ideas?

>>55347139
Definitely Lord Bernard Montgomery, the Rogue Trader who was obsessed with the history of mankind, far back in the past. 20k years ago, actually.

The man completely misunderstands human culture from this time and wears a nightmarish mismatch of 20th century styles. Bellbottoms and a British Safari outfit, or a powdered wig and some military gear. I think when the DEldar attacked his vessel, he was in a kimono and some steel toed boots.

Great guy, absolutely terrible captain with a hilariously able seneschal who get him out of trouble. He went on funny adventures like "I want to find something valuable to hunt that I can sell, who's children will miss it." and letting my seneschal decide things like "where we're going" and 'What that means". When this leads us into Tau space, and we slip into the system undetected, he wakes up just enough to demand we charge towards the planet and play the Imperial Anthem across all channels.

He also had a love for antique weapons, which was a great chance to use some of the shitty guns from medieval and other worlds that are in BC and RT. I got the DM to go along with a beltfed harpoon launcher, which was fun. He had a belt fed and laser sighted flintlock pistol as well. Great times. Terrible damage in combat of course. He also had some power armor, because good rolls.

He had a brush with DEldar not long after the Tau chased him out of their system, and when they breached his ship, he sort of fell to the Ruinous Powers, and became a pirate of the helix for a Black Crusade campaign, where he was the only human with three Chaos Space Marines. He was the face of the party and moving them around in his amazing ship. The Khornate Berserker managed to tame a demon we summoned accidentally. Great news, but its not going on his ship, which naturally led him to confine it into a drop pod. Very useful to be able to drop a drop pod from orbit with a terrifying ass demon in it.

>>55401317
Sounds like the prefect place to use some recongregators or isstvanians

>>55401372
The ideas I've got right now are a Seculos Attendous Inq. who was a Sororitas with the Witch-Sight, who has a grudge against the Ecclesiarchy for, y'know, torturing her, a paranoid Ocularian who's secretly manipulating a cult of sorcerers and rogue psykers to ensure their predictions come true, and an Istvaanian former-Commissar a la Senator Armstrong. I feel like two or three more tops would help round it out in terms of a 'Choose Your Own Villain' situation where whoever the players decide to investigate takes the spotlight.

>>55393194
>war crimes
>40k

top kek

>>55401572
hmm it depends on what kind of thing you're going for but you could mix in some that would be directly opposed to eachother if only they had an excuse, like an Amalathian that's just itching for a good reason to get the Isstvanian trialed for heresy. Or maybe it's more a matter of radicals keeping their beliefs hidden and if the PCs can reveal them it could kick off some infighting.

>>55401969
the latter was sort of what I was going for, every one of the Inquisitors being guilty of something, some more serious than others, letting the players decide who gets in trouble for what.

are Tau characters from rogue trader overpowered/ broken?

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What happens when a sister of battle lose her virginity(willingly or not)?

>>55402751
>virginity
you need to understand sexuality matters very little in 40k. Faith in the emperor does. They're not medieval nuns, they're here to venerate the emperor and kick ass. They remain single mostly because they're fucking intimidating and are busy protecting ecchlesiarch or killing stuff

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>>55390374
Deathwatch; I love the way different Chapters' conflicting values interact, and squad-based action at an absurd power level is fun. The 40kRPGs are rocket tag anyway, and Deathwatch is the logical extreme, where everything is metal as fuck. Space Marines do everything more intensely than mortals - fight, paint, hate, befriend - and that larger-than-life grandeur can be a lot of fun. It needs a few houserules so you don't Fury everything to death - I like to use the errata since semiauto fire seems pretty representative of what bolters are supposed to be, and ignore Deathwatch's fucktarded "roll another hit and add to the Furying hit's damage" in favor of the old exploding dice a la Grendel, but I also love my current GM's method of using core's damage profiles but only triggering Fury off the first damage die in any given attack, so no matter how many hits you're scoring or dice you're rolling there's only a 10% chance of Fury, as opposed to the 27% chance of any given hit from a pre-errata Storm Bolter's 2d10+5 Tearing scoring Fury, for a 92% chance of at least one Fury if you land an 8-hit salvo.
A lot of people think Deathwatch is boring, either because Marines are so powerful that they're hard to challenge in combat or because they don't understand the appeal to their psychology, or really that it even exists beyond "kill the alien, purge the heretic, for the Emprah" into very real emotions, bonds, and divided loyalties. They overlook that there are infinite things in the galaxy that can make even the Angels of Death struggle to survive, let alone win, and that playing a warrior monk doesn't mean playing a mindless automaton. Each Chapter has its own proud traditions and deviations from orthodoxy, and each individual has his own quirks. Throw them all together into the Ordo Xenos' Chamber Militant under orders to get along and go purge threats to Mankind, and you've got a recipe for fun. It can be like the ultimate buddy cop movie gone grimdark.

>>55402491

The official one is bad. The homebrew ones are mediocre. Nothing flat broken like navigators.

>>55401853

Phosphex is the only thing the Imperium considers a war crime

What are servoskulls good for? Does giving one to an inquisitor which can take pictures, recording and play audios make sense?

>>55400710
Maybe upon full release. For now, the game is about 98% combat. Fun combat, in my opinion, but combat isn't supposed to be Dark Heresy's focus.

I'm looking forward to investigations and acolyte management being finished.

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>>55347139
Hm... decisions, decisions. I made them all because I liked them.
There was Ophilia, a stunted hive-gang sniper who lucked into a job that saw her and the fireteam she worked with become the ruling council of a resurrected Knight House.
There was Ultfernaus, a Mortifactors Assault Sergeant who lost his entire squad to the Tyranids and was sent to the Deathwatch a broken man nursing boundless hatred.
There was Cyril, an Ice Wraiths Scout Sergeant who was sent to the Deathwatch for being a cold-hearted killjoy single-mindedly devoted to killing who no one wanted to talk to. He ended up learning friendship among his cousins of other Chapters as they became his Battle-Brothers, and he grew into a leader of warriors, even now waging battle in Guilliman's Indomitus Crusade.
There was Boone Ruskmund, known as Rusk to most, the hiveborn bounty hunter who finds himself most comfortable alone in the forests of primitive worlds with his pet carnodon kitten. (Basically a sabertoothed snow leopard that'll eventually grow to the size of a truck.) Poor bastard ended up as the only puritan in a radical Inquisitor's warband.
There was Brismus... I don't recall his surname, but he was princeling of a Feudal World kingdom. When the Imperium rediscovered the planet, they found men eager to take their steel to the stars in a holy crusade for the Emperor, but with a healthy distrust for technosorcery like the "magic wands" issued to them by the Munitorum, preferring good solid steel over lasguns. In recognition of his rank, Brismus was afforded a modest Command Squad (my justification for our squad having more Support Specialities than Guardsmen) which he zealously led into melee with anything that moved in the warzone.
There was Renzo Ardens, a disgraced Scout Marine who was cut off from his Chapter and gradually fell to Khorne as the whispers of the Warp reached his ears and he cast aside his bolter and other Imperial trappings out of bitterness at his perceived abandonment.

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>>55404501
There was Magdalene Orson Oswald Devón MacSilflheimvich, a noble-born psyker who turned her family in to the Inquisition for sorcery and found a home among the stars as the librarian (loremaster, not combat psyker) of a Rogue Trader's advisors.
Now I play Nathaniel Robespierre, a Techmarine of the Death Eagles and Forgemaster of the Deathwatch who dreams of propagating Imperial sonics to the rank-and-file of the Imperium, so that no heretic may preserve their tainted body behind walls.

>>55347139
There was a time when I'd have said Ophilia was my favorite, because as an underhiver scrub she didn't know jack about the wider galaxy, and got to learn about it all in the course of the campaign just as I did, getting my first taste of 40K outside of suptg and 1d4 memery in a wild game of Dark Heresy. Now I am less certain, as I've immensely enjoyed the time I've spent playing each of them, and have dozens more characters fluffed, crunched, and waiting for a chance to be played.

I fucking love this setting.

>>55404130
Another player in my game rolled up a tau character ( I guess using official rules) and said he thought it was broken. Any idea why ?

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>>55404156
What about xenotech and Warp sorcery?
>>55404309
Not only does it make sense, it's explicitly stuff that servoskulls are capable of and for which everyone from Administratum clerks to Lord Inquisitors make use of them.

>>55404688

The official tau tries to be arch militant, exploratory, and seneschal all at once, while tying their best talents to fate points, which they only get one of. Their weapons are strong, yes, which means someone will see the character with the pulse rifle, the best basic weapon in the game, as OP. Looking beyond this, they suffer hard.

>>55404719
>What about xenotech and Warp sorcery?

Religious crimes, not war crimes. The stc for phosphex was destroyed by a magos because it was too horrifying to use.

>>55404766
...and that magos was then executed by Mechanicus.

>>55404782
...with a phosphex pistol.

So I'm finally condensing the lore of six years of 40k roleplay into one document for my future players. Through multiple sessions and groups, I've maintained a cohesive story. Lots of fun, especially when I can introduce old players to new, and have them exchange tales from the same sub sector.

But now I'm writing, I've realized I never made a map of the sub sector. Is there any good way to make a sector map? Something simple, somewhat like the Calixis Sector map we saw a lot of in 1e books?

>>55405396
I know there's one that some people have used, but I don't recall the details. See if you can't summon R'Myr, I think he's been keeping one of Tiji

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>>55389933
One of my more successful campaigns was Deathwatch. It was one of the only ones that people consistently showed up for every time I proposed a game.
I think something you've got to sell your players on is the "Everyone is Wolverine" idea. You really are supposed to be playing a group of tough guys who don't get along but slowly come around to respecting each other. There's enough mechanical encouragement for roleplaying that it's easy to make the clash of personalities as central as whatever mission they're going for.
But, honestly I prefer Rogue Trader and Dark Heresy. There's simply more options for the sort of story you can tell as well as the sort of character you can be. Deathwatch is always fundamentally going to be an epic war story, that's what it's best at. Whereas an Inquisitor and her retinue might wind up fighting in the trenches at some point, but they'll also do a lot of detective work, political intrigue, etc.


>>55398389
See above, but also talk to the players a bit about what the SM's personalities are. How do they feel about humans? What's their main ambition? What's their most shameful secret? How do they relate to the Chapter? How do they feel about being assigned to Deathwatch?
Also, in my personal canon I give the Ordo Xenos a lot more authority over the Deathwatch. Even the most noble inquisitors are a shifty bunch, so there can be some fun had in the clash between a morally upright astartes and the "requests" he's getting from the more shades of grey Inquisitor.
And when it's on, go HARD. Space Marines can take a lot of punishment, but Deathwatch characters also average around 4 or 5 fate points. If the enemy figures out that SM are around, start having them throw melta guns, missile launchers, tanks etc at them. Nothing ups the drama like dragging your rival's legless body back to the lz while he gives you covering fire.

>>55390374
I think Rogue Trader is conceptually fantastic, but my heart belongs to Dark Heresy.

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>>55404766
>>55404782
>>55404846

Tell me more of this mystical mary-sue chemical

>>55392742
We basically just got names, classes and a blurb about their life, which meant we had stats that didn't line up to how the characters were described and we all received the same kinds of characters we always played

>>55402751

There is no vow of Chasity for the SoB. Especially since they used to be Goge Vandire's personal harem.

>>55405844
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Phosphex_Weapon

How to deal with your players expecting game to be a vidya experience, as in you collect some clues and then keep killing small mooks until you reach the big boss who just kind of spends the entire time sitting in his stupid room?

>>55406786
Let them do that until they get to the boss, but the boss isn't there and the room is a bomb.

>>55406822
i mean if you look at the intro of borderlands 2 that kinda still is a vidya experience.

>>55406870
It is also the iron cage experience.

How many orks do you send after a starting level Guardsmen unit?

>>55406961
8

>>55406961
>55406961
all of them

>>55406961
How much DR did the average Boy have again?

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>>55407345
Depends on the system. I think around 9-12 soak, though; Toughness 40 or so, Unnatural Toughness x2 (old editions) or +3/4 (OW), and some shitty subflak armor, probably AP2 or 3.
I'd assume effective TB7, 4 of which isn't vulnerable to Felling, and AP of 3 for bog-standard Boyz, but I remember that when I threw them at some friends I was running through Only War for shits & giggles they were panicking over the ineffectiveness of their lasguns

>>55407545
Lasguns only do 1d10+3 damage, so they would need a 7 on their damage roll or more to punch through 9 DR even slightly, and that's after hit to begin with, which is usually a bit better than a 1/2 chance under favorable conditions for new characters. It's going to take forever.

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Hey anons, anyone have recommendations for a soundtrack for a Black Crusade game?
I prefer weird ambient that won't be too distracting, but I'm up for anything. I'd like to strike a surreal, creepy mood that can also burst into intense action scenes.

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>>55407596
Sure, but Only War does have Lasgun Variable Settings for adding damage & penetration. They're still going to need decent damage rolls to deal with Orks, but my session adequately captured the dawning horror as a bunch of rookie Guardsmen freshly levied from some bumfuck agri-world and drunk on victory after getting into melee with knifewielding Gretchin and only losing around 30% of their force encounter real Orks and realize the Primer was a load of bullshit as they frantically try to withdraw to cover and scream for the marksman to keep firing the long-las.
>>55407625
I'd look into OSTs. Supreme Commander, Mutant Chronicles, and Mirai Nikki might have some adequate stuff, maybe grab some Ratchet & Clank for action moments or F.E.A.R. for spoopy sections.
Dance with the Dead are also fantastic. I like to use them for investigative sections of loyalist games, but the eerie vibe would work just as well for Kayoss.

>>55407545
>>55407596
They have toughness 44, unnatural toughness (2), and 2 flak armor all. A lasgun would have an issue, but that is just a lasgun alone without any bonuses like a sergeant using Get Them! adding a +4 to damage or using overcharge/overload mode.

>>55407743
How many wounds do they have? That's another layer to get through.

>>55407806
12

>>55407732
>Sure, but Only War does have Lasgun Variable Settings for adding damage & penetration. They're still going to need decent damage rolls to deal with Orks, but my session adequately captured the dawning horror as a bunch of rookie Guardsmen freshly levied from some bumfuck agri-world and drunk on victory after getting into melee with knifewielding Gretchin and only losing around 30% of their force encounter real Orks and realize the Primer was a load of bullshit as they frantically try to withdraw to cover and scream for the marksman to keep firing the long-las.

That's why you take a heavy. Orks may outsmart you, maybe, but I've yet to see one outsmart a bullet... that is rocket propelled, at 1.0 caliber and explodes after penetration.

Krak grenades work also. Meltagun work better.

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>>55407743
So a total of 8 soak, 2 of which is vulnerable to Penetration, 2 of which is vulnerable to Felling, and 4 of which is immune to most normal means.
Guardsmen shouldn't have a problem with that at all. 8 is baseline soak for any kind of professional warrior - a Guardsman with 40 Toughness and line trooper flak has 8 soak, and so does a 30 Toughness civilian in light carapace. I assume the Orkz have more Wounds to compensate, but between special weapons, Lasgun Variable Settings, and Sergeant/Comrade boosts, humanity is well equipped to deal with them directly.

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>>55407836
>>55407812
Only 12 wounds? Pathetic xenos. There are starting characters in OW tougher than Ork Boyz... that's depressing.

>>55407815
A heavy gunner with a heavy stubber is more than sufficient with Get Them! and Stabilize or using tracer rounds (common).

>>55407905
>tracer rounds
Where are those in the book?

>>55407872
A nob is a much bigger threat with toughness 47, unnatural toughness (5), flak armor (body) 2, 25 wounds, and Fear (1). They do have size (5) which makes it easier to hit them though.

Also forgot that boyz only have that flak armor on their body location, so you don't even need to bother with that when shooting them in the leg or arm.

One thing to note is that no ork ever gets Dodge.
>>55407929
Hammer of the Emperor.

>>55407905

Sufficient is okay. Overkill is always better. Alternatively, remind me, are Orks one of those enemies who don't care that you've set them on fire? Or do they get a bit perturbed at this?

>>55407929
One of the splatbooks, Hammer of the Emperor I think?. Gives you to hit bonus, and might set them on fire if you fire it close enough.

>>55407951
Oh wait, gretchen and weird boyz get dodge, but that is it.

>>55407964
An ork is more disturbed at NOT being on fire.

>>55407964
Mob Rule only applies to Fear and Pinning. They are less vulnerable to fire due to unnatural toughness though.

>>55407989
>gretchen
>weirdboyz
Neither of then is proper orky and you know it, ya grot!

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>>55347139
Oswald "the Iron" Brichenfield.

Due to high starting xp, lucky rolls, and judicious use of the origin patch, I came out of character creation with 70+ Toughness.

Ossie was all kinds of cool. Built like a brick wall, he was basically this 80s action movie throwback character with his guns all named after his ex girlfriends.

He also had devotional imperial tattoos, and a huge bolter.

He was a lot of fun to play.

>>55407951
Don't forget that nobz get crit layer and True Grit. Every single time we fight nobz or warbosses, there's around 2-3 rounds of the Ork suffering increasingly horrific Critical Damage 1-3 points at a time while the ork flails about swearing and trying to murder everyone, before it finally, finally suffers an instantly fatal wound or passes out from Fatigue. Which I gleefully admit to playing up; last game had a Warboss literally losing his entire lower body and still crawling around and shooting at the players before he finally realized he was dead. Then the players blew up the corpse with a grenade just to be sure.

>>55408030

I'd imagine it's more the +1 Fatigue per round adding up that would get them in the end.

>>55408068
That's rad

Hey lads, I have a question.

Is it normal to be nearly catatonic with fear and paranoia at the thought of tomorrow's session? I'm not sure if it's just because my GM is rather lethal, or if it's a common thing.

>>55408491
No, you have issues.

>>55408496
I'm starting to think I've only been with the group as long as I've been because of stockholm syndrome. Please send help.

>>55389933
The only person who I've played with was a fucking lore autist, and felt the need to interrupt his own game to explain lore to the other people there that didn't know the intricate goddamned details of something that was only marginally important to what was happening at the time.

Sessions that should only have taken three hours took the better part of seven, what with that happening and a few people not paying enough attention.

>>55408068
Digging the fighter tattoos, but egads, did no one teach him trigger discipline?

>>55344888
So I want to play 40k but my group and I prefer rules-lite systems. Are there any you guys would suggest that can serve our needs with minimal amount of fucking about?

>>55408701
>Not always being ready to gun down flying heretics

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>>55408515

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>>55408068
>"VITA" and "MORT" tattoo'd onto knuckles

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>>55408720

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>>55408438
>>55408701
>>55408724

Fuck it. I'm linking the whole group.

As for Trigger Discipline, I didn't draw it. The GM commissioned an artist.

>>55409197
Oh hey, I've seen this before.

Mind explaining the fuck was going on? The techpriest and kroot especially.

>>55400939
>not knowing OW has ranks

>>55409197
What's the deal with the red guy and the Tyranid-looking thing in the background?

>>55409388

The tech priest was a biologist from Gryphonne IV that figured the best way to combat the Tyranids was kinda become one? I guess?

The kroot was a bibliovore. Instead of reading books, he ate them.

>>55409843

Dyed skin.

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Fuck it.

Here's Ossie's ride, too.

>>55410418
Damn, nice.

>>55410418
Is that a rooster? I always liked the idea of using them in heraldry but was always afraid of the cock jokes

>>55410460

Yes and no.

It's supposed to be a cockatrice. You'll notice that Oswald has one of his belt.

The planet he comes from was called Kalven's Roost and it took the Kalvenian Cockatrice (a 6 foot tall chicken like avian) as it's mascot for most of their ImpGuard regiments.

>>55410418

It is worth noting that the missionary crew member was also an SoB (she's the one holding the chainsaw pike) and didn't like Oswald's choice of nose art for a tank.

>>55407625
Dark Ambient for Warp fuckery always works

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>Grimdark Podcast Ross Watson interview on WanG
http://www.grimdarkpodcast.com/podcast/episode085.mp3

>The game will use the metric system and "Queen's English."
>It will follow GW's Rulebook and Codex model, though Codex = Campaign books
>Campaigns will include:
>>Background book
>>Linked adventures book
>>Character options book
>GW gives the Ulisses team access to their notes and background material, but also gives them some freedom to explore
>Characters from one campaign can easily be used in other campaigns; the rules won't change

NUCANON CODEX-FIRST FAGS HAVE WON

>>55410515
THAT's what she took issue with?

>>55410893
Sounds neat to me.

>>55410911
It's a naked SoB caricature.

It's the only thing objectionable about the tank.

>>55410962
I meant the 2.5 aliens there seem to be

>>55410893
>the metric system
I'm pretty sure the 1e FFG games didn't use shitric right?

>>55411035
Oh.

I don't actually recall.

And where do you get 2.5?

There's only 1 alien there. The kroot.

>>55401572
Go for a Libricar too. Super Hardline Puritan to counterbalance the inevitable Radical presences

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So I've been running a Black Crusade game for a few months and I've recently discovered something:

So apparently Necrons are insanely tough bastards...

So here's the party: 1 Renegade (with 2 minions of chaos), 1 Apostate, 1 Chem-Hunter of Messia, 1 Berserker, and a mob of 40 NPC cultists.

Just yesterday our GM had us fight, all at once mind you, 6 warriors, and a scarab swarm. and he was using the reanimation protocols rule.

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>>55411204
Just wait until he pulls out things from Tomb of Fate.

>>55411059
They did.

Inquisitor used yards though IIRC, but a yard is almost a meter anyway.

>>55411204
How many surviving PCs?

>>55411663
PC's are alive (more or less) but they've lost a lot of NPCs, 1 minion and very close to 3/4 of the mob is dead. I would like to point out that this has less to do with the GM going easy on us and more to do with a combination of very good luck and carefully throwing NPC's in front of incoming fire.

But I will say that both the renegade and apostate are not in good shapes.

And I think next week might involve an encounter with the Necron Lord himself.

>>55410418
This is the ballingest thing.

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there is a rpg of warhammer where i can be a nasty slaneesh whore?

>>55411944
Black Crusade

>>55411796

The Berzerker must be pissed he didn't spill a single ounce of blood after all that.

>>55412013
probably; didn't help that for a good six rounds the warrior he was fighting kept dodging all his attacks and another pair of warriors kept dying and getting back up over and over.

>tfw cant play eldar qt in black crusade

>>55413941
>a BLACK CRUSADE human is the rough equivalent of a 7,000 experience character from Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, or Deathwatch. A BLACK CRUSADE Chaos Space Marine is the rough equivalent of an 8,000 experience character.
Balance goes out the window, but you fucking can.

Is there any possible way to make ammunition a concern without boring the shit out of your players with infinite fights?

>>55414416
No rule of three, no ammo included with weapons, enforce weapon ammo difference, limit the number of acquisition attempts per character?

Do primaris astartes enter frenzy when the belisarian furnace activates or do they just get the stimm effects?

this the best setting to be that guy
>hay guize i will play slaneshi cultist ;^)

>>55415225
I mean, if you want to be boring and redundant, sure.

Personally, I've always wanted to play a noise marine on the hunt for the perfect song with which to herald the end times.

>>55415225
I remember someone made a sniper devotee of slaanesh, their entire life focused on one perfect shot.

>>55415336
I read a short story in some thread once about a musician who wanted to create THE masterpiece. So spent decades grooming successors, and then when the moment was right he'd eat their brains to gain their talent. I thought it was a neat idea

>>55410418

Does whoever drew this have a website that you know of?

>>55374001
What do you think fate points are anon?

>>55413164

Pretty sure he has an ability or talent where he can spend an infamy point to make an attack unavoidable

>>55381358
Guardsmen take like half a dozen autogun shots to take down. Only war is not very lethal. When I run OW I actually reduce toughnwas soak/damage so infantry can actually hurt each other

>>55415755
Sure, but we weren't facing autoguns, and the initial concept was lethality on a scale that would make the extra armour we took necessary, and fast/regular PC replacements.

>>55415755
>Autogun shots
Well there's you're problem.
You've got Guardsmen wearing Flak Armour (which is actually pretty damn good), against some schmucks firing a weapon that without special ammunition, is pretty much only good for crit fishing, and even that's not that great in the later RPGs.

It's not like the Imperium wants to send their frontline troops out without whatever protection it can afford.

Best ways to use servoskulls?

would it be too op to play a fallen-from-grace adepta sororitas?

>>55390374
Dark Heresy obvi
Nothing says grimdark like playing a grad student or a gangster and being send to fight cosmic horrors

>>55410893

"tru"canon fags btfo, soon they'll wither and die off, and we can finally enjoy the game

>>55416300
see >>55404719
Also giving them a small nuclear bomb, so you can heroically say "Servo-Skull, execute order CREPITUS"

>>55416311
In what game and what kind of fall?

>>55416859
black crusade
a adepta sororitas fallen to the desires of flesh(slaneesh)

is it possible to make a campaign(black crusade) where i actually get to make the black crusade
would be neat to see the character i built along the sessions at their apogeu

>>55390374

Pretty torn between DH, BC, and RT.

>>55418194

Yes rules for playing a daemon prince and rules for leading a full on Black Crusade are in the Tome of Decay

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>>55416933
Highly improbable. It's a thing in the lore that Sororitas don't fall; their selection & training process is so rigorous that anyone who could possibly fall doesn't make it, and ends up becoming a Stormtrooper or something instead. If they live.
>>55416300
I'm fond of giving them a useful tool and basic proficiency in a couple related skills their owner has, so they can Assist skill rolls for +10 as well as whatever bonus the tool provides. Their low Characteristic Scores mean that they still don't have much autonomy, but they can pass scalpels to a medic or inject syringes, shine a stablight on tasks of any sort, provide a multitool or auspex and additional set of eyes for a Techpriest to ASSUME DIRECT CONTROL of during Tech Use tests, transcribe communications for diplomats & paperpushers...

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>Deathwatch
>fighting through heretical rogue trader's ship, trying to reach the bridge to disable the ship
>we keep running into robot enemies using Tau weapons and housed inside Astartes power armour, rigged with meltabombs to explode when we defeat them, along with swarms of Tau gun drones

>we need to hit a medicae facility on the way to patch up a critical human NPC we're protecting
>the door is shielded by xenotech
>techmarine with breaching augur tries to get through the wall, hits power cabling and disables the xeno shields on the door
>it opens

>inside is a bloodbath
>whole room and all equipment covered in blood, some old and caked, some fresh
>over a dozen dismembered corpses of Astartes, many with their limbs removed and all with their progenoids neatly removed by an expert hand, their armour piled unceremoniously in the corner
>our collective face when

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>>55418617

Hey, /40krpg/, I come with a request of aid.
I may have managed to convince one of my friends (who was the GM for other tabletop rpgs) to start a 40k themed one, and I may have started to convince him to use the Dark Heresy V2.

Thing is, his interest my be fleeting, for he may be waiting for the new rpg to come out (blood and wrath, was it?). Im looking for cool pictures or interesting locations to futher his hype and start a campaign now.

So, where can I find cool pics of 40k stuff? Im already going throu wh40kart.im, and im looking for cool scenarios and places, interesting looking characters and weird devices like digital weapons and the such.

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>>55418617
SOME OF THE BODIES WERE STILL WARM
HE WILL PAY
also would it kill us to be a little more delicate with those robots? some of that power armour was ancient

we were just supposed to oversee negotiations between our loyal RT and the suspected heretic... where did it all go wrong?

>>55418591
>its lore that sororitas dont fall
anons pls post

>>55416933
Nah mate, if they go bad they turn themselves into a sister repentia, or the inquisitor next door will arrange a cute penitent engine or a flagellator hat for her.

>>55418707
Go through the books. They have some pretty decent art.

>>55416933
>>55418591
>>55418873
Yes, it's theoretically possible. In practice however, it's damn near impossible. Possession is about the only thing I can come up with off the top of my head that could make it happen, and even that would be difficult at best.

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>>55418707
Sorry bro, the answer you need to hear is that if your GM isn't hype all by himself, it's a no go.

>>55344888
Hey, I'm stupid and never learned Excel. How do I used the Combined Armory?

>>55419053

click the plus signs nigger

>>55418975
the dick man
even the emperor can with the dick
>sororita is raped by tyranid
>omg its so god i am slaneesh cultist NOW!

>>55418735
>Where did it all go wrong?

I've been asking myself that same question every damn mission.

>>55416933
Not sure about DH2e, but in 1e "Pure Faith" made it impossible, which means no source to create from, unless your GM is prepared to handwave like a symphony conductor!

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>>55419766
They can't gain Corruption in 2e either; it's automatically converted to Insanity instead, and if a Sororitas shells out for the Sister of Battle elite package then she gets access to exclusive talents that actually benefit from having high Insanity.
Bitches be crazy.

>>55418980
Your words sadden me but they house a great truth

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>>55418617
>>55418735
Holy shit that's some next level heretic'ing.

Hey /40krpg/ need some tips. We just finished our first mission in Deathwatch and my character, a Rune Priest ending up getting schwacked by an Alpha Legion seeker just before mission end, our apothecary managed to get my progenoid though. I'm rolling up an Iron Hands techmarine this time and I'm looking for some advice and what talents and such to pick where I get how much XP I have to spend. Stats:
>42 WS
>50 BS
>52 STR
>45 T
>47 INT
>48 PER
>46 WP
>35 FEL

HOT AND NEW

>>55421989
>>55421989
>>55421989

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>>55421739
Take Forgemaster from Rites of Battle at Rank4. It costs 2Kxp to buy into, but you get a free servoharness, as well as artificer armour. It also comes with a power axe, but since you have a servoarm you'll really only use that when you need a power weapon for dueling or melee with hordes. It also gives you some other goodies - notably Energy Cache three ranks earlier than you could otherwise access it, and at a better cost to boot, so you can use Luminen Charge freely without worrying about Fatigue. Since you've got T45 and Techmarines have cheap access to Toughness, grab three advances in it whenever you've got the XP free for T60 and effective TB12 - 14 on your torso with +2 for your servoarm. Grab a head cybernetic too for TB14 on your head to preserve your BEAUTIFUL BRAIN; it's your least replaceable hit location. I recommend an Augur Array; 15 req to always have an auspex handy with +20 on all Awareness tests, stacking with your Heightened Senses and helmet autosenses, and for 8 more requisition it can be of Exceptional craftsmanship and grant free rerolls on Awareness tests. Some small investment in WS/BS might not be a bad idea; you do get Weapon Tech for boosting delightful things like Power/Plasma/Melta/Exotic weapons, and as a Black Templar you're pretty choppy, while your Ballistic Skill is fantastic and Techmarines have exclusive access to some excellent guns, as well as the ability to mount a very cheesy weapon, the Breaching Augur, on a mechadendrite, when anyone else needs a two-handed rig to tote the fuckhuge drill around.
You should probably take some Intelligence advances to be a good techie, but if combat is your focus then going all-in on Toughness with three advances will serve you well, and coupled with Artificer Armour from Forgemaster and the Armour Monger talent you'll become the team's impenetrable wall. You didn't state your Agility, but it's expensive for Techmarines to advance, so expect to be slow and plan accordingly.