What kind of price would you put on human size Terminator Armour, in thrones or RT profit factor or whatever else.

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>>98717011
>price
Priceless
>rarity
Unique
>quality
Best
>hotel
Trivago

>>98717040
I mean yeah but if you could put a monetary value on it. Saying 1,000,000+ thrones feels like it's too general.
In any case this is just for the question of things like that or amigers and other things that nobody in their right mind would try to buy.

>>98717065
There is no 'buy'. There is only politic and loot.

>>98717065
Try to see it that way, you're some rich noble and you want a good power armor. That's really expensive but you should find one without too much troubles. Now a human sized terminator armor? That's some lord inquisitor gear. And they typically don't "buy" their shit.

>>98715736
They prefer the extremely harsh lives lived on death worlds and the like because it makes a stronger base for the marine to be, physically and mentally (blood angels being a notable exception to the physical part of this). I have no idea what sort of selective pressures a paradise world could have that would be describable to a SM chapter unless if they were specifically told to recruit from such a world.

>>98717300
Actually, I just thought of one. The patience to put up with the bullshit that are the most entitled tourists imaginable.

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And they are dancing, the board floor slamming under the jackboots and the fiddlers grinning hideously over their canted pieces. Towering over them all is the judge and he is naked dancing, his small feet lively and quick and now in doubletime and bowing to the ladies, huge and pale and hairless, like an enormous infant. He never sleeps, he says. He says he’ll never die. He bows to the fiddlers and sashays backwards and throws back his head and laughs deep in his throat and he is a great favorite, the judge. He wafts his hat and the lunar dome of his skull passes palely under the lamps and he swings about and takes possession of one of the fiddles and he pirouettes and makes a pass, two passes, dancing and fiddling at once. His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

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A Tithe Paid in Blood and Rot II.!

>Resuming after a very short half-downtime mechanics session where the acolytes interrogated Vail, getting a collection of information related to:
>his goals (Corrupt Dame Reila into the service of his cult, teach the doctrine of "true surrender" to the dark powers.)
>his motivations (service to the Dark Apostle/Sorcerer-Prophet The Kindled Word, follower of Chaos Undivided who preaches surrender to the gods to achieve harmony with daemons and other forces, prove himself a worthy student)
>his means (incense designed to slowly corrupt her, get her to indulge in surrendering control to first other people and then to faith, seeding his tainted scripture among other planets and hives over 10 years)
And other members of this cult network that he knows of: The "Teacher" at the top, underlings favored for managing to achieve surrender to the Gods without falling to any one in particular too far/being able to adapt and incorporate the polytheist pantheon into their worship rather than being stuck on one. The "Student of All" who is held up as a favorite champion of the cult, also the one taking longlas pot shots at them, likes playing with his "food" and people who interest him, like the acolytes - he sees it as testing them. Then individual cults held below them, dedicated to specific gods to ease people in to the worship of Chaos Undivided.
They discover that Vail is completely unable to name his teacher beyond the titles, or give specific information. Emilia the psyker tries to use her gifts to rip knowledge from his mind like a psychic interrogation, managing to find the following phrases, said in a voice not her own: "Ones like you are dozens, not hundreds. Chosen mortars, not simple brick." "A broken pawn is so troublesome." and finally "Held aloft by high and low alike" - a fragment of prophecy that Vail knew the Teacher followed.
As Emilia keeps trying her luck, Vail begins to seize, and is put down by Hastus and Durrana.

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>>98717869
During the downtime, people buy various things, chiefly among them Hastus being bought a modified longlas by Durrana in exchange for effectively hiring him as a goon to work for her. He accepts and is paid in good booze plus a nice rifle. More importantly, Venria recieves summons from her order to give them an update as well as an explanation for "zeal that threatened the faith of those who tithe" aka half a political move and half a specific way to impede the sister as discussed with the player. Venria is summoned to a monastary-convent of her order by a Preceptor-Sister and Hospitaller, who recieve the update from the sister herself and issue the judgement. In short, her zeal is not punished, nor is her sacred fury, but the fact that she was unable to capture the man as she was ordered, and the context of making the risk of people losing faith in their sisterhood because the duke was only posthumously confirmed as a heretic.
Venria is taken apart from the others, bolter and sword stripped away and her armor's left hand is wrapped in heavy chains to render it nigh unusable with a weapon, mirroring an injury from her patron saint, while a chain flail is shackled to her other arm. Finally, a metal full helm and death-mask modeled after the saint is affixed to her face, micro-needles lining the inside deliberately causing her pain so that she suffers and repents without being sent directly to repentia. The helmet is locked to her armor, meaning she can't take it or the armor off without permission.
>That armor will be your new cell.mp4

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>>98717872
The session ends as the acolytes dig into some leads related to coded ledgers they looted and uncovered a connection to a "local" shipping company that handles transport of goods between this secter and neighboring ones, and they find a number of entries that are inconsistent with what was reported in other ledgers they found. They land in the local main spaceport when Emilia ends up collapsing from a psychic assault on her mind. As it turns out, using her psychic powers to try and poke at sorcerous/psychic compulsions may have attracted the attention of something else. Emilia ends up as the first to burn a fate point to resist death which is a fun portent of things to come.

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Shit, missed the new thread.

>>98713496
>blah blah autism blah
TA. You probably don't realize it, but people don't normally get angry about accusations that aren't directed at them. They just say, "Yeah, that doesn't apply to me, I'm not that person," and they move on with their lives. If for some reason it does bother them, even though it doesn't apply to them, they'll post a low effort proof that it doesn't apply to them...something like a table, or minis, or character sheets, or even a set of dice. What people that play games don't do is lose their shit because some rando on the internet mentioned that other random people on the internet pretend to play games, because they know that this doesn't apply to them. You do you though.
>picrel is character sheets in no particular order on a gaming table for people that don't know what any of that looks like
>that's not you though, you're angry for other reasons

In Dark Heresy 2, what are some psyker powers that do things other classes cant really do? I dont want to buy any powers that can be replicated by a gun, or a nifty piece of tech.

>>98717872
Why is there a random guardsman at the high level briefing picture, lasgun in hand?

>>98717928
He has a point in that I really don't want to have to start posting logs to be qualified to discuss the game. But the bigger point I think to be made is ur a faget and need to shut up.

Is it ever explained why the default for space marine trials seems to be to get the physical and mental trials done first and then genetic compatibility testing afterwards?

>>98718165
Those who are excellent may yet serve

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>>98718165
If someone is an amazing soldier/serf, but they cannot become a space marine, they may still be useful. Why waste the talent if you know it is there.

>>98717928
Nta but you sound like a poofter and a poser

Been running a dark heresy game, we started with only two players running two pc's each but now there is a third player involved I'm dropping them down to one pc each though the cleric/psyker player already did that for me
>players are recruited by the inquisition for various reasons
>they don't meat their inquisitor instead being met by Interrogator Danicus, a stern ex arbites in his early 40's with close cropped graying hair
>party consists of Grim and Urza two Imperial World guardsmen (kriegers at the players request), Stellaris a voidborn Cleric, and Zeze a voidborn psyker
>Danicus tells the party they have been recruited and are being sent for a test run to investigate a possible chaos cult on a major agri world that supplies a good chunk of the sub sectors food
>travelling there on an old tramp ship puts the guardsmen on edge
>they arrive on world and are sent to the safe house. Danicus gives them some spending money then goes to speak with the Enforcers about what they discovered
>players go shopping, fail all checks to gather information on the few instances they do ask, buy overpriced pasties, ammunition, boards, sacks, canned meat, and Stellaris buys an expensive side by side shotgun
>on the way back they are ambushed by gangers, proceed to exterminate them then assume they were cultists
>the party returns to the safe house and the guardsmen use the boards and canned meat to fortify the house
>Danicus returns and is unamused, making them take the most overt fortifications down
>they tell him the one bit of news they discovered, a woman commented on how the voidborn looked like a group operating a warehouse in the wharf area
>investigation time
>the group splits up, Urza and Stellaris search near the wharf whilst Grim and Zeze search further in
>Danicus covers the remaining area

>>98719008
>Grim and Zeze are walking down a roadway when Zeze gets a feeling akin to insects crawling under her skin
>working together they manage to pinpoint the warehouse its coming from
>Stellaris and Urza are looking around the wharf when they spot a group of 15 individuals looking pale and sickly even under the street lumens
>Urza, a latent psyker, gets that insects under the skin feeling
>they shadow the group but are spotted
>the group turns through a narrow alley between some admin buildings and after a moment the two follow
>both see a foot sticking out from behind a crate
>before Urza can stop her, Stellaris walks forward and is shot at point blank by a shotgun thar partially amputates her arm
>Urza fights the four cultists off, killing two
>stemming the blood flow the two flee but are followed, Urza realising as she feels the insects again as they close with the safe house
>Urza takes off to amount the pursuers and is led on a chase
>she misses the other one who ambushes Stellaris, knocking her out and kidnapping her
>the others return to find Urza holed up in the safe house with Stellaris missing
>Danicus considers the house burnt and scrambles them to a backup two room plus "hygiene cubicle" downtown hab (actually the tail didn't know)
>the next day he negotiates with the enforcers for a raid
>everything goes to shit from the getgo, the enforcers ignore requests to be covert in the buildup and go all out with barricades and a heavy presence
>the acolytes watch as the storming team, two squads in all, go in and immediately run into a prepared defence taking casualties and retreating
>Danicus orders a second go then leads the Acolytes in infiltrating the warehouse from the flank

>>98717928
I agree with you, every thread realting to 40k needs to be shit up with POST MODELS

>>98719424
>He doesnt know about the new Necromunda RPG and the official models
Anon, I...

>>98717928
Your doomed timeline is in the other thread, faguette.

>>98717928
>WHY ARENT YOU DUMPING MOUNTAINS OF BORING NUMBERS AND DOCUMENTS NO ONE GIVES A SHIT ABOUT SOLELY TO HELP DISSUADE MY BIZARRE PARANOIA THAT EVERYONE HERE IS JUST PRETENDING TO PLAY!?
Go away

>>98721262
if I was pretending to play it would be a lot easier to make up a bullshit plot that I'm not concerned about my players instantly cracking open because they go from clueless to autistic savant psychic detectives at the drop of a hat.

>>98718068
Great question, no idea. I didn't AI generate this or anything. Could easily be a battlefield commander or what have you.

Can Orc spores grow on daemons? If they are physical enough to hit with an ax does that mean they have enough of a physical self to grow an orc on them?

>>98722808
Daemons don't have true biomass for a spore to grow on. Not to mention it'd take too long before the daemon decorporates. I don't think ork spores would take root on a living creature anyway?

>>98718068
Looks like a moderately high ranking member of a scout regiment who's been ordered to deliver vital intel to the deathwatch strike team.

>>98718068
That's Jimmy, he's the life of the party. Everyone has fun when Jimmy's around.

>>98718112
>>98718880
>>98719424
>>98720894
>>98721262
Have fun with your creative writing class.

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>>98719424
>POST MODELS
But some of us do use Your/Our Dudes in the RPG (Your Dudes in the real sense, not the secondary sense). Sadly, shapeways died before I could make the third Recon set.

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>>98723562
>the entire thread thinks I'm a dipshit
>surely this must mean the entire thread is wrong

What weapons could feasibly be hidden inside of a walking cane, besides a bolter?

>>98723830
Is this "I'm not sure what can fit," "I have given this literally no thought and want the thread to be my braincells," or "I want to know what's already statted?"
For the latter case, canesword (RT ITS p.122) and power canesword (DH IHB p.124, 'serpentine'). For the former case, probably any pistol weapon, subject to appropriate debuffs. For the central case, I advise you to go sit on a cactus and spin.

>>98723830
>Force Canesword
>Power Canesword
>Chain Canesword
>Sticky explosives that pop out of the bottom of the cane, the top of the cane has a disguised detonator button
>Toxin releasing needle gun
>Digi Las-Weaponry
>Shock Maul/Baton
>Volkite weapon
>Nunchucks
>Stun-chucks
>Garrotte

Honestly theres so many weapons

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>>98720672
>>98719424
Who cares about offical models

>>98723830
A Witch lance.
There was also another thing similar, it also casued some disconfort to Psykers, I might just have invented that too.

>>98723760
>entire thread
>3 pissed off tourists and a samefag
I mean, you're not wrong.

I know the FFG games have rules for Genestealers and their ilk but the modern Genestealer Cult hybrids were after then. Has anyone ever brewed rules for them?

>>98725148
So, do you want to kiss?

>>98726371
I don’t know about people homebrewing in any of the other major projects.
Would you doing something like adding mutations/features from the full genestealers to scum or other hiver type stat blocks work for what you have in mind?

>>98726582
No, I mean the modern Genestealer Cult units, like the Abberants, the Magus, the Kelermorph, et cetera.

>>98726625
I have no idea then at the moment. I’m sure people could come up with something though. Maybe something based on ogryn type stats for abominable but mixing in some kind of hive awareness/connection and traits that fit their appearances in lore?

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Just wanted to share a fun idea for a location.

>The Crystal Cathedral.
>Ecclesiarchy megaproject to carve the diamond core of a dead supernova into a giant cathedral/space fortress.
>Since laser cutters will be diffracted by the crystal they have an army of penitent slave laborers doing the carving with handheld power tools, picks and chisels.
>Obviously this is going to take a long time, so the construction effort can span a wide range of eras.

Plot hooks:

>Gangs have sprung up among the workers who smuggle leftover gems through unscrupulous supply ship workers to fund offworld criminal enterprises.
>A faction of the Redemptionist Cult has taken hold with the penitent who believe the project is a blasphemous monument to human vanity rather than the Emperor's divinity and are threatening to disrupt the construction.
>Bad shit is hidden in the core, possibly a complete unshackled C'tan. Possibly uneasy alliance with the Necrons to get rid of it.

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>>98723830
A sword is the obvious one.
Having a button to electrify the end would be fun too.
Many canes are basically gun shaped and cane guns are a thing irl, with futuristic technology they could be much more effective, a lasgun cane sounds pretty reasonable.
Also remember that a normal cane is already not a terrible weapon against human scale enemies, especially if you add weights to the inside of it.

>>98726938
>Ecclesiarchy megaproject to carve the diamond core of a dead supernova into a giant cathedral/space fortress.
I think there is a tau world something like that

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Anyone ever done anything with the Crimson Guard in only war? They seem pretty cool

>>98721262
if you thought numbers were boring you wouldn't be playing the ffg systems

>>98728614
They were an attempt to make "skitarii" before actual skitarii came out. It was an admirable attempt based on what everyone knew at the time, but now it just feels quaint.

>>98728799
If he'd been playing FFG he would have said something about the character sheets, but he didn't because he (and you, and the assblasted tourists) don't even know what they look like.

I now return you all to the creative writing class. Have fun with it.

I feel like im blind. Where is the Liber book? Im looking through the links & I just dont see it

>>98728614
I spin them as a variant culture of Skitarii since skittles are kinda one note anyhow

>>98727135
There's a discord somewhere with an updated version, but the liber discordia isn't it.

https://transfer.it/t/ngkInLpRhZgD

>>98729045
Thanks my friend.

How do people in the Imperium recognize authorities? I know the Rosette for Inquisitors has a lot of built in tech stuff, and it's easy to imagine for the cogboys and for the more intimate organizations like the Space Marines, but like how about the Militarum, mainly, is my question? Like if some charlatan shows up in fancy clothing and knows how to sell the swagger, what's to stop them from saying "hey so I'm Lord General Tim the Mighty and you've been deployed to this other front, over there"? Who would gainsay them and how?

>>98729315
People only have authority if others grant them that. If he tries to bullshit someone but it doesn't work because he doesn't have the right authorizations to the appropriate people (like whoever is controlling transport or logistics) then it falls apart. Such authority is also pretty jealous (or some other word. Brain cannot right now) of its own power and anybody flaunting authority in their name better be able to actually be of them or get put on the shit list fast.

>>98729315
Paperwork.

There is endless paperwork & bureaucracy in the Imperium & if you do t have all the right papers & seals (in triplicate!!!) well... you better figure something out.

>>98729315
>>98729351
To add on to my rambling, an inquisitor has a fuckload of authority on paper, but if they cannot back it up then they're just a well-equipped random (with psychic powers if they're a psyker). An inquisitor could take command of an entire planet but if they don't have the retinue or ship in orbit, then they can be politely told to fuck off or unpolitely shot by the planetary governor's guards. Same deal with a rogue trader. If they don't have the name, the ship, the crew, or anything else that can back up what they say they are, then are they really a rogue trader?

Authority can be granted, earned, coerced, or forced and the latter two make said authority very fragile since it can fall out of you at any moment. What authority you say you have means little, what authority others say you have makes it matter.

>>98729315
>>98729351
>>98729360
>>98729433
Remember you talk about the Imperium of Man; the mentality is alien to us in terms of submission to authority. Granted force is always required, violence solves everythying, but a single Inquisitor can use scalpel pressure to gain a planet under his command, he doe snot need ot explain his reasons to every bureaucrat present, just the one on top.

>>98726625
I give Abherrants unnatural strength and toughness x2 and natural armour 2 plus the extra arm trait as a baseline with a ws of 38 but a bs of 26. So they are bad shots but nasty in close combat.

>>98729488
>>98729433
He didnt ask for Inquisitors. He asked for Bob the General

>>98728614
They are ultragay just like the book they came out of.

>>98730127
Yeah. Like I'm thinking what's to stop a Rogue Trader or even just a clever pirate - or Gue'vesa - from showing up, claiming to be a general, and leaving with a IG regiment who happily think they are still following legit orders.

>>98730655
Paperwork, badges & symbols of office, stuff like a scepter or baton thats basically a 20lbs paperweight with a shock maul buried in it.

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Favorite mutations?

>>98730655
Astropaths can communicate about anything anyone important cares about. If you show up asking the governor for an army he's going to check you're the guy that's supposed to be taking his army.

>>98730712
Warp eyed cadians

So a little while back I finally browbeat my GM enough and worked my ass off for a warp saturated chordclaw integrated weapon. Now my trusty hot shot las pistol is looking rather mundane and im wondering what would be a nice upgrade to work towards? I have a Webber too which is nice for bagman jobs but id like to have a lethal ranged option that I can use in one hand that either does something interesting or hits a little harder/is more versatile than a hot shot las pistol.

Also, does anyone have strong opinions on mechadendrites? I just have an optical one and wanted to know if you guys recommend any of them over the other? I dont want a medical one, im not the healer.

>>98730783
>chordclaw
>hotshot lasgun, nice upgrade to work towards
Assuming this is FFG, if you're admech, maybe a phosphor or volkite weapon. phosphor will boost your allies' ballistic skill if you hit, while a volkite gets extra hits from deflagrate if you damage the enemy. If this is WanG, then I don't know, probably a plasma gun.

>mechadendrites
Ballistic mechadendrite is great because of how powerful reaction attacks are in the FFG system.

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Bros... *coughs blood*

New immersive RP style narration on the lived experience of Dreadnoughts (good for Deathwatch)

https://youtu.be/pgeYhLrQnrQ

Rate

>>98731622
Buy an ad.

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This week on Project ND,
>the team blows up a control tower they were supposed to secure
>the team joyrides a brand new stealth tank
>the engineer discovers he had gone half the session without wearing pants
>the team bids farewell to their Sslyth companion, since his work shifts changed from evenings to mornings.

>>98730888
Yeah its DH2 + a lot of the homebrew stuff from here & some homebrew we use at our table. I do have a ballistic mechadendrite, sorry I forgot to mention that its basically a must have so i didnt think about it.

>>98732436
My party has gotten into a quagmire civil war/insurgency but theres more than one faction going on we think. Were having to do favors for some nobody assholes in order to try & get them to trust us enough to use the astra telepath to call our Inquisitor. We are basically on a nothin asteroid colony that time forgot & they dont recognize our authority at all, but they do know we have a LOT of weapons & know how to use them so they are wary of just bum rushing us like starving peasants around a dumb merchant. Each of us have taken upon ourselves to talk to different people of importance. We dont want to favor any side too much but it might come to that

>>98728821
What in your eyes makes them quaint?

>>98732781
Like, you know how in the old days all we had was a vague idea of "tech guard" and so people converted guardsmen with cybernetics and used mainly IG stuff but painted red. Crimson Guard were similar, really augmented guard, with some of the best wargear in the game (at the time), even if the class itself wasn't top tier. Compared to the utterly crazy shit GW turned the admech into, crimson guard just feel like a nostalgic reminder of the old days.

>>98730888
>If this is WanG, then I don't know
I do. Gamma pistol, for the 1 or 2 WANG players here. Rad weapons tend to get overlooked because the ones in the core book are meh, but the gamma pistol is not meh. Rad 3 coupled with high base damage and good AP is extremely nasty. A Death Guard will survive the hit, but he'll be out of shock and wounded and the next hit will almost certainly kill him.

>>98732796
Maybe it's just my old good new bad talking, but I do kind of prefer those guys over James' davincian steampunk excesses of the admech line

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>>98732796
>>98733041
SOVL STRAIGHT FROM 2009

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>>98733111

>>98733041
I like the base skitarii, but I hate the direction theyve gone lately. They need more dragon iconography or at least a few units based around it. Id like to see some real elite dudes who explore different scientific approaches to war.

>>98733217
>Id like to see some real elite dudes who explore different scientific approaches to war.
That's the Magi of the Ordo Reductor.

The Fire Caste does literally all violent work in the T'au Empire besides the stuff handled by the Air Caste; correct? Like the only difference in the Empire between a beat cop/guard and a frontline soldier is posting (and one assumes loadout)?

>>98728799
Funny cause the sheets posted were for WanG

>>98717872
I'd pity the sister if excessive punishment weren't their thing.
>>98717875
Is that some specific psychic power or GM's fiat?
>>98717993
Divination discipline as a whole, telekinesis, mind reading.

>>98733041
Very much agreed. We have to go back.

I feel bad not commenting on people's posts about their games. I do find them interesting but sometimes I forget to engage and sometimes I miss a thread.

>>98735031
Stop missing threads, Lee.

>>98733041
>>98734985
I like both, because I see no need for slavish devotion to middling ideas.
Blanche's skitarri > everything else, you 3/4e faggots needs to die off already.

>>98735861
>Blanche's skitarri > everything else, you 3/4e faggots needs to die off already
Well, given how Blanche himself died and the rest of the original writers are in their 70s-80s, you'll get your wish soon.

>>98733041
>I do kind of prefer those guys over James' davincian steampunk excesses of the admech line
I, for one, think the admech faction looks like shit and was totally pointless in the first place.

>>98730888
>because of how powerful reaction attacks are in the FFG system
Why, because enemies can't dodge them? If you play with that rule, you can just Delay and Overwatch and only ever attack during the enemies' turns, you know.

>>98735950
Yes, I agree completely. That is why our GM is very stringent with Overwatch conditions, otherwise we could just say "Overwatch, condition: the enemy attacks" and then the enemy would do the same to us with "Overwatch, condition: the target's initiative triggers" and then combat collapses. It's also why classes that get reaction attacks in homebrews tend to have so many restrictions, like "only triggers when charged".

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>>98716875
>>IM finally has a Bestiary
Out now btw

>>98735994
Sounds like a lot of unnecessary work. I just let people use reactions on their own turn.

I just want cool as fuck anacrhonistic fusions with high tech bullshit.

I want pod racer engine chariots with pointless mount fusion guns, I want guys with six arms shooting laser guns, I want hoplites with shield generators, I want slingers with prometheum grenades & grav tech slingshots, I want dudes who are almost as modified as space marines with claws & guns & scaled armor that looks vaguely like a dragon with jump pack wings, i want a brain in a jar strapped to a quantum cube thats rigged into a gun & everytime the brain solves a suduko puzzle box it fires a bolt of bullshit to tear the enemy into dust, i want more styles & more weird shit, give us terminator skeletons with brain jar heads that shoot psychic bolts!

I want everything Blanche drew plus some more weird shit. The admech have the best toys in the imperium outside of maybe the 1st legion & the Custodes. Let them do weird shit, & always tie it back to a vague Greek, or mystic thing.

Question for somebody playing Wrath and Glory on Foundry: Is there any way I can get the "Premium" modules for free or am I going to have to insert every item, mob, and archetype myself?

>>98736216
You can't make standardized models out of those.
>I want guys with six arms shooting laser guns, I want hoplites with shield generators
Except those, the first one is a necron and the second are Secutarius Hoplites, which...GW banished to Horus Heresy because only Citadel gets to make real 40k.

>>98734856
The Sister player said they were a big fan of the punishment and enjoyed how it "still lets me play the frontliner role without deleting everything" since now she only has a sanctified flail for damage, not even a stub pistol.
>Is that some specific psychic power or GM's fiat?
A little bit of A a little bit of B. I've been using Disciples of the Dark Gods and Black Crusade for certain psychic powers just to give some 'pop' for higher ranking cultists and such. In this case, it was me doing my best to back-port a weaker version of Bolt of Change, deliberately weaker in that the person that used it on her was doing it via a ritual for distance and a proxy; a dominated thrall granted the power of being effectively a psychic suicide bomber, sent to cast one power through it and then almost certainly be gunned down.
I'm aware that might not be entirely within the standard rules but I'm trying to give my players a game they enjoy and they specifically commented after the half-session last week for the psychic interrogation "hopefully this doesn't backfire on us since we heard the psyker speaking in someone else's voice" which felt like it was practically setting up that something had noticed them even without me already doing a roll in the background.

>>98736470
None of my comments were accusations, I just wondered if I missed some psychic stuff when I was perusing splatbooks.

>>98736503
Oh I didn't take it as an accusation! Just acknowledging that it was homebrew and fiat in the end. Personally I'm enjoying the anticipation of seeing how they feel when they resume at the start of next session and instantly both their psyker and a random homeless bum in the spaceport are both convulsing on the ground.

>>98736179
>votann have more pages than the orks

>>98737617
>BUY VOTANN

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>>98735944
They are certainly too sanitized for my tastes. I want grotesque servitor abominations and mechanical body horror, like how the skitarii look under their robes in darktide

Do the admech have any belief/warp based miracles or champions? Seems crazy that the secondary religion of the Imperium doesnt have anything going on there, even if its through the lens of Emperor=Omnissiah. We need a tech priest saint/daemon

>>98736304
You can absolutely make models of brain in jar dudes that have psychic powers. You can make pod racer chariots with guns. You can make techno-barbarian slingers with grav slingshots. You can make techwarrior dragon larpers with jump packs. Those could all be normal models & units. What would make them impossible?

>>98737876
>What would make them impossible?
The fact that they'd be shallow counts-as rather than something real.

>>98737895
Bullshit

Question on the blood angels geneseed process. Are the organs ever actually implanted into them or are they grown in them from the blood they drink? From how I'm reading the process, it is the latter unless if those coffins also do loads of surgical work too.

>>98735886
I'm referring to the players who champion some of the worst editions of the game.

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>>98730712
Crystal Body is cool, shame I need to port it over.

>>98737641
That would be a start.

>>98739263
Where is that from?

>>98739284
>if only there was some way to use a search engine to look for an image

>>98739388
I didn't mean the picture, I want to know what the 'crystal body' mutation is from.

Is there a specific name for practitioners of the Sanctic discipline? Like Telekinesis > Telekine, Biomancy > Biomancer, Telepathy > Telepath, etc. Sanctic > ???.

>>98739683
Esoterist

>>98739284
The original rouge trader book from the 80s.

>>98739683
Sanctifier duh

>>98739891
Cool. Whenever I read the old sources, it always blows me away how much shit they'd already come up with back then.

>>98739683
>Sanctic discipline
God, that name is so fucking stupid.

>>98732436
Why'd they blow the tower?

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>>98740633
Long story short, one of their Commorragh holdings, the Bleak Harbor Docks, came under attack. They deployed to secure the area. While other teams secured warehouses, trade nodes, security checkpoints, and so on, the Operatives needed to claim the dockyards' Air Traffic Control complex that handled incoming voidships. However, they used heavy explosive weaponry and grenades to storm the place, and the building collapsed from the sheer collateral damage while they were still inside. Their support personnel were...somewhat concerned.

How long does an average Gene stealer cult in a hive city take to go from its first infection to its uprising? How many years does it take to build up an army?

>>98740842
Genestealer cults are measured in generations, not years, so hundreds of years.

Is there any reason you can't have a sector-wide genestealer cult? I want the big bads in a Dark Heresy campaign I'm running soon to be such a thing. The idea being they're planning to infiltrate a lot of the sector and then bring it all down at once so that the hive fleet has a buffet to pick from instead of a single meal. And also so that the Imperium can't reinforce or help much since so many different revolts at once.

My main question is how they would communicate. Like what's the range on a broodmind? Is there a reason the same broodmind can't function across planets? Or perhaps the cult has its own astropath-magi?

>>98741082
>Is there any reason you can't have a sector-wide genestealer cult?
There isn't. It's even happened before.

>After the formation of the Great Rift, the Cult of the Innerwyrm spread far and wide across the Affluix Sector by using the grox-meat export network of Peregrim's World.

>>98740842
>>98740863
IIRC something like 6 generations was the norm. so 90 to 120 years before things reach critical mass.

>>98737641
We must return to gigeresque admech.

>>98740842
>>98740863
>>98741082
>>98741131
>>98741249
Is there some kind of pesticide that you could put in the water supply to kill or at least expose gene stealer cults? I'm thinking of those red pills you could get at a dentist office that would show where you weren't brushing right.

>>98741365
Only if it reacts to genestealer DNA. So something could exist, but probably is too expensive or hard to make.

>>98741365
>Is there some kind of pesticide that you could put in the water supply to kill or at least expose gene stealer cults?
Not really since they adapt like the nids in most cases. I am sure some Xenos inquisitor could do that with enough time but... they could just use a psyker to sus them out.

>>98741365
Hey that good you added to the water killed a lot of our people & made another good chunk of them sick. I dont care if you think there are heretics or mutants among the population, you dont ha e proof & I have to keep the numbers up or they shoot me in the head, so if you dont stop using the goop then Im gonna shoot you in the head to keep my job

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>>98741646
>>98741365
And I'm going to kill both of you for complaining and just replace you with new colonists, because there's tons of those to spare.

>>98732436
>There's a slot open...

>>98730759
Something something Imperial hypocrisy at its finest

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>>98741777
Technically, yes. I do have a slot open for a Drukhari character. However, I'm giving things a bit to settle. I'm still debating if I want to replace our fourth peep. Plus, it seemed bizarrely hard to find peeps for what I figured would be a common time (east coast monday evenings).

>>98739891
Also Slaves to Darkness, pg. 120.
>and they're different

>>98742646
Hey shas, I saw that you added the battlefleet gothic admech ship upgrade table into mars needs women, but something in the description made me curious.
>voidships that deviate from these patterns, such as the vessels three-dimensionally printed in hardlight assembler vats within the Solaris Expanse, are more often than not incapable of mounting these additional benefits
What's an assembler vat? You can just 3d-print a starship? That's the most modern-day thing I've read in any homebrew, I don't know how else to describe it.

>>98741646
>I dont care if you think there are heretics or mutants
BLAM

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I remember years ago reading in some Halo novel that Spartans have a hard time dealing with long periods of downtime because they were trained for constant missions of extreme difficulty. Do Space Marines have that issue? Do they have hard time if they go weeks without battle?

>>98743377
I think it varies on the chapter. Some absolutely would, others have enough humanity/social lives that they would be much like modern soldiers in that respect, and others would be ascetic enough that they likely spend most time not fighting doing meditation, whatever secular rituals they have to Jimmy Space, etc.

What chapter(s) were you thinking of.

>>98743010
Solaris Expanse is Shas' homebrew sector and does not adhere to typical 40k-isms. You presumably could instantly forge whole starships from subatomic particles in the heyday of the DAOT, but much has been forgotten, never to be relearned.

>>98743377
They have to spend weeks in warp space travelling from battle to battle, so no. If anything their limited, ritualised lives and brainwashing probably make them less prone to going stir-crazy.
It's eversors that explode if they have to sit down.

So two questions, speaking of nomenclature earlier in the thread.
1. Do Skitarii legions have names? Like the Martian Dragoons or whatever? Think how IG Regiments are.
2. Do we have a list anywhere of various Imperial and Cogboy names for building types? Like how a spaceport is a voidport, factories are manufactoria, etc. In particular what would the cogboys call a nuclear power plant?

>>98743461
>what would the cogboys call a nuclear power plant?
Primitive garbage. The Imperium uses plasma generators.

>>98736179
Doesn't seem to have a physical release that I can find to purchase.

>>98743461
Rad Furnace or similar

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>>98745090
>Skitarii looking at the local Nuclear Reactor

>>98743461
>In particular what would the cogboys call a nuclear power plant?
Atomantic Reactors

>An Atomantic Arc Reactor, also called simply an Atomantic Reactor, is an arcane miniaturised plasma reactor technology based on a form of nuclear fusion originally developed during the Age of Technology.

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I know the FFG games have a lot of weird equipment, is there anything like the ecclesiarchy chain-flamer tucked away in any of the books?

>>98745289
Flamer with a chain bayonet. Hammer of the Emperor 121 for the chain attachment.

>>98745289
The FFG games occasionally portray the Sororitas with sarissa attachments. The immediate example is the Mars-Pattern Mark II Scourge Boltgun from Inquisitor's Handbook, pg.171. They count as monoaxes, so probably not exactly what you're looking for though.

>>98743864
>>98745114
>>98745200
What makes plasma engines better than nuclear reactors?
I always thought plasma stuff was just advanced fusion drives since in the mechanicus vidya one of the tech priests sends you on a mission to collect isotopes for the plasma generators

>>98745737
Basic physics. Nuclear reactions involve breaking down radioactive materials like uranium. Very complex. Plasma engines use the simplest thing in the universe - hydrogen.

Why is Imperium Maledictum dull as fucking dishwater?

Is there anything that C7 have written in it that isn't just by-the-numbers or CRL+V from a Codex or something?

>>98746122
>Is there anything that C7 have written in it that isn't just by-the-numbers or CRL+V from a Codex or something?
That's all they're allowed to write since GW is forever scarred by the Chapterhouse debacle.

>>98746126
Grim. Fine for WANG but kneecaps something like what IM is supposed to be.

>>98745737
>What makes plasma engines better than nuclear reactors?
Sci Fi handwaving

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>>98745737
It is to my understanding that plasma generators are among the more understood tech in admech's catalog since they're also used for voidship thrusters.

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long shot, but does anyone have a higher res version of this fan-made map? This one is unusually information-dense compared to the other maps I've been able to find.

>>98746144
Expect a lot more of it, since GW may finally be entering the RPG scene directly if Necromunda RPG is anything to go by.

>>98746126
qrd?

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>>98746902
GW used to be rules first, then models, and used to put all sorts of fun things in the codexes, including units like tervigons and heroes like the Doom of Malan'tai that didn't have models yet. The intent was to convert them yourself while GW made model for them in the future. Well, Chapterhouse Models started making models for them, outright called them "tervigons" and "Doom of Malan'tai." GW sued chapterhouse over IP grounds...and lost. The judge declared that since GW didn't make the model, they have no right to say what it actually looks like. GW then removed all non-model units from its codex, killed off all non-model characters in Black Library books, and repurposed in the works characters into official models (Inquisitor Valeria became Greyfax, the Doom of Malan'tai became the Neurothrope, etc). From then on, to kill the secondary market, GW made a strict policy of model first, then rules. They also mandated that any art and secondary material MUST represent a model. Chapterhouse scarred GW so deeply that they would never be the same again.

Are any of the dark heresy modules any good? Not my first time in the system but going to be my first time running hopefully soon, so I wanted something that could get the game rolling as a starting adventure

>>98746122
Because they were aiming at a catch all for the FFG style material into one codex but they didnt want to put the work in to make it as good as it should have. Honestly Liber stuff is good if you ignore all the homebrew about techpiest powers & maybe some other bits.

My group uses a mix of Core DH2 & a healthy heap of Liber & some of our own homebrew on top

>>98747029
A whole lot of things make more sense now

woopsie daisy, forgot to post
the gang in my only war game won!
they fought some more orks, fought a battlewagon, and then fought the warboss and won!
the psyker took molten beam and basically two shot both the wagon and the warboss
one of the players got direct hit by a cannon so he had to burn a fate point to survive but he got to play a stormtrooper for the rest of the session...and didn't get to do anything due to the psyker shenanigans

anyway, that's the end of the campaign until im done with some major IRL stuff but everyone had a fun time and i had a fun time running it

>>98747813
Hell yeah! Excellent success, Commander.

>>98747029
>...and lost
Kinda sorta. They couldn't prevent someone from making a mini of something that they'd never actually portrayed, but it turned out that they could prevent you from selling female guardsman heads (which is something that GW was not making at the time). I thought that was kind of a bullshit ruling. My memory of the whole thing was that everybody involved (except GW's lawyers) walked away feeling like they'd gotten fucked. So goes the legal system. Many such cases.

>>98747666
In case you were wondering, Satan, that's also why GW started changing the names of things to the faggy new ones that pissed all the grogs off. It turns out that you can't patent "space marine" or "imperial guardsman". Until that court case GW had relied on scary-looking C&D letters to scare smaller companies into line, but I don't think that anyone thought that it would hold up in court, not even GW. That trick worked for as long as it did because nobody wanted to front the money to test it.

>>98748187
>it turned out that they could prevent you from selling female guardsman heads (which is something that GW was not making at the time). I thought that was kind of a bullshit ruling.
The issue was they were advertising them as Imperial Guard heads. If they were "future soldier heads" or something it would have been fine.

Do military spaceships create their own water or do they rely on supply ships? Worlds they visit? Given how much time Space Marine battle barges spend traveling I'm curious.

>>98748446
Recycling systems. If you're a Rogue Trader you might mine comets for ice, but that takes special equipment.

>>98732781
I mean, just look at him, not even a smidgeon of cogfoppery. Is he wearing a cowboy poncho, or equipped with Da Vinci wings, or riding a perpetual motion mechachicken? These primitives didn't have the slightest idea how to create true and soul-burning cringe like the wonderous 40K(tm) Adeptus(tm, C) Mechanicus(tm) Productus Rangeium(tm, C, RR)!

>>98738734
And of course by worst you must mean the only functional ones with the greatest wealth of content which represent the final and complete vision of the game's original creators before they departed GW, as opposed to their failed earlier experiments or the parodies that were produced later by lesser minds under the corporate whip.

You can cope and seethe until you die, but early 4th 40K and 6th WHFB will always be the peak of Warhammer as settings and as games, it's just a fact.

>>98741646
>>98741701
This seems like the beginning of a good conflict for Dark Heresy or Rogue Trader.

>>98745737
>What makes plasma engines better than nuclear reactors?
They've got plasma. It's what engines crave.

Does Liber Imperium have an a ility like the Dark Heresy 2nd Ed Feudal Homeworld to ignore armor penalties?

Also, using any and all options available, how "quick" can you make boidship travel through the warp up to and including arriving before you left? What components/abilities or archeotech do you need? Im thinking of making an adventure where the party works for an Inquisitor that travels ba k in time with his voidship to fix problems

>>98748696
I think so too.
A possible genestealer cult, an admech priest/planetary governor who is resistant the udea of possibly poisoning his people, or maybe hes even in on it. A guy with some untested drug/goop that might locate/kill genestealers but also might hurt/kill the regular people too.

Add in a time crunch and some red herrings and youre set

>>98747029
>Chapterhouse Models started making models for them, outright called them "tervigons" and "Doom of Malan'tai." GW sued chapterhouse over IP grounds...and lost. The judge declared that since GW didn't make the model, they have no right to say what it actually looks like
That... was actually kinda fucked up by the judge. Never thought I'd take GW's side on anything.

>>98748518
NtA, but I see what you mean and agree.

>>98748535
>4th 40K
Was that before or after True Line of Sight(tm). I will judge you severely depending on your answer.

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How are there any World Eaters left?

I asked 40kg and they told me not to ask. I get that 40k doesn’t run on logic. But shouldn’t the only World Eaters left be those who ascended and therefore can’t die? I don’t know how there could possibly be any mortal World Eaters left.

>>98748976
>How are there any World Eaters left?
Kharn told them to live and they're too afraid to say no.

>>98748976
CSM are supposed to be good at what they do, and the legions were big enough and the Eye of Terror warped enough that their numbers aren't necessarily running low. Plus, they can always make more. WE psycho-surgeons are sought out by all who worship Khorne to be blessed with the nails.

>>98749166
>WE psycho-surgeons are sought out by all who worship Khorne to be blessed with the nails.
The thought of a WE brain surgeon is beyond hilarious to me. It's hard to imagine them not hacking away at their patients with chainaxes.

>>98748976
Let's make some napkin math
There were about 1 million marines per Legion before the Heresy, about 90% of them got killed during it so that leaves 100k.
Presuming 99% of those got killed or ascended to princehood that leaves about 1.000 fuckers around give or take half.

>>98749172
The guy has an on/off button on his nails. Better yet, they are relieved by healing people rather than hurting them so they keep kicking people in the nuts before giving them an ice pack.

If a character takes Dark Secret and gains 20 corruption, do they also roll on the mutation chart?

>>98750159
Dang, imagine being a literal veteran of the Horus Heresy. Those fuckers must be absolutely cracked.

>>98751366
Unless I’m misremembering, during character creation you only roll on the chart if told explicitly to. The corruption threshold rule only kicks in after character creation is complete.

>>98750159
>>98751619
The problem is time isn't linear in the Warp. So you have veterans of the long war for whom it was only a few hundred years, some for whom it was millions of years, some who died but their past self came back, some who erased themselves from existence. So there are infinity veterans of the Long War because the Warp is magic.

>>98751634
I can't remember any rule exempting you from mutation during character creation.

>>98752029
If there isn't, there should be.

>>98752029
Thats cool. I was wondering, if you had the Fear Trait can you "turn it off"? At least for social situations, or to walk through town? Surely as long as its not something you cant cover up or something like that you should be able to activate it or deactivate it right?

>>98752123
Hell no. Why should you be able to bypass one of the extremely limited mutation thresholds?

>>98752222
Not by RAW. Ask your GM.

>>98752309
>Why should you be able to bypass one of the extremely limited mutation thresholds?
Because you can keep "rerolling" characters until you get an optimal mutation.
>Oh, this one got tentacles, I'll roll a new character
>Oh, this one got three eyes, I'll roll a new character.
>Hey, this one got a strength boost.
"GM, my character is ready."

>>98752332
If your GM will let you do that without sodomizing you with a lamp post, you could already do that just by picking the Tainted and Tainted Environs background options. That'll be a lot faster than rolling for corruption points over and over again until you get enough to mutate.

>>98751648
There are enough details to write a decent guess in regards to how many there should be. Also given the material components... How would there be an infinite amount of veterans?

>>98753705
>How would there be an infinite amount of veterans?
Because the warp can magically generate new soldiers as needed.

>>98753945
Then they wouldn't really be Horus heresy veterans would they? No one besides 1 meme Ork gets to use time traveling duplication in 40k

>>98753983
NTA but...

Take the souls of the dead veterans & shove them into the bodies of captured slaves.

>>98754333
Lucius the Eternal and slaanesh send a C&D

>>98748976
>I don’t know how there could possibly be any mortal World Eaters left.
Why not?

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>>98743010
>What's an assembler vat? You can just 3d-print a starship?
Yeah, an assembler vat is a xenotech 3d printer that, when given a pattern, can basically print anything from weapons to starships. With an assembler vat, weapons take seconds to assemble, and a voidship takes a day or so. The only assembler vats the Imperium is able to use are located on an Old Slann megastructure, and even then, they're not quite easy to deal with. While there is a dedicated Mechanicum Demesne that has void yards and forges, and most of the weird patterns come from there, the assembler vats allow rapid prototyping of said patterns, and are some of the few things allowing the Imperium to keep parity against the Old Slann and Necrons in the Solaris Expanse, since they don't have the numbers for a stand-up fight. I won't lie, I copied a lot of forerunner stuff from halo into my stuff because I thought it was cool. I also thought that scene in Tron where they 3d printed stuff into reality was sick, even though the movie itself was only mediocre, so I adapted it as well. I think GW is also getting in on it, as I believe you can sort of make an argument over whether or not Votanni AN.vyl fabricators are 3d printers. Even if they aren't, I still think it's a fun thing to bring into 40k, tech they never could have conceptualized in the 80s changing the playing field of 'modern' 40k.

>>98748976
Chaos warbands tend to recruit. Those that don't, die.

Of course the meme answer is "all of them", but realistically, what's the average amount of bionics and cyber the average player gets? Do you guys try to become combat/physical monsters? Walking weapons platforms? Focus on survivability? Or do you go all in on brainwave or mechadendrites?

>>98754504
>I copied stuff because I thought it was cool
This is the origin of 40k after all

>>98754972
Depends on the game line and setting but if you focus on that 3 is reasonable.

Where the hell do they take Space Marine Librarians from?
I mean, a nascent psyker needs to be sent to a Black Ship and then to Terra and undertake the whole sanctioning process to be anywhere close to stable, right? So he can't be on his recruiting world to undertake the trials and whatnot and actually join the chapter. And by the time he's done with the whole trip to Terra and sanctioning he's probably too old to go back and go through the whole marinating process anyway.

So how the hell does that work?
Do chapters do their own sanctioning at home somehow?
Do Librarians only come from Astartes who got their psychic awakening after they've already became fully fledged Space Marines?
Are psychically gifted aspirants uniqually allowed to start their training at an older age, after they've already been sanctioned?
Do guys at Scholastia Psykana sometimes look at a freshly sanctioned guy and go "hey, this guy looks pretty tough and is still quite young, let's send him back to his homeworld so that his local SM chapter can give him a shot"?

>>98756205
>So how the hell does that work?
A lot of handwaving but it's more likely they have way to sanction someone in the fringes but only after they had enough augmentations to survive the process.

>>98756205
Not all psykers go to terra. You can do training elsewhere.

>>98747813
>and didn't get to do anything due to the psyker shenanigans
I love psyker shenanigans. as long as I'm the psyker.

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>>98756524
It's the wizard bullshit all over again. On the bright side it's not like you can't translate shit from fantasy.

>>98756524
>Started a new DH campaign recently
>Wanted to make a genuinely zealous, faithful and puritan character for once
>On the second session our psyker rolled mass possession on Perils of the Warp, I somehow fumbled like 6 out of 8 WP tests and immediately received a whooping 22 Corruption Points and immediate 2 malignancies (my WP wasn't even that low, just got abysmal luck)
I CAN FEEL THE WARP OVERTAKING ME
On the upside, this saved us a fight with a bunch of gangers we were preparing for, since they got hit with the possession as well and just ran away in panic. So I guess psykers get shit done

This might be a really stupid question but... Do any of the 40k RPG systems let you play as a heretic astartes?

>>98758057
Black Crusade is designed specifically for that, with plenty of content and unique mechanics for playing as a Chaos follower or otherwise a rebel. You can play either as Chaos Marines or human heretics
W&G also lets you play as one, since it's a more generic system for anything 40k

>>98747095
>playing pre-written modules

Would it be way too much of a stretch for a sororitas and a heretic to need to work together against a greater threat?

>>98758298
Yes. The sororitas will kill the heretic, then kill the greater threat or die a martyr, the latter being preferable because it brings them to the Emperor faster.

How do we feel about Blood Ravens being Dark Angels successors?

>>98758276
Used to shit on that, but I came to appreciate them. Vast majority of stuff I run is still purely my own, but some premade modules actually do have really nice concepts or ideas and there's a certain unique kind of fun in reading them first and then finding out how your group would tackle them.
Also I tend to run a few campaigns at once, so in busy periods it helps if one of them is at least partially premade and requires less prep.
That being said, basically every premade module I've read, even the very good ones, still required a significant amount of changes and extra fleshing out before I'd consider it genuinely good to run, I would never just run them straight out of the book.

Haven't read any of the DH ones though since it's the only FFG system I almost never run, so I won't answer Anon's question sadly.
>>98758298
Yeah, it's absolutely too much of a stretch, at least if the Sister is aware of the other guy's heresy. Maybe I could buy it if the stakes were really, really huge, but even then, 0 trust and only for as long as absolutely necessary

>>98758345
Thousand Sons is still my preferred headcanon (major focus on librarians and unusually big number of them, obsession with knowledge, mysterious past and origins they find extremely shameful).
But Dark Angels are probably the most fitting option out of the loyalist legions

>>98758298
Even the tiniest compromise scars the immortal soul that objectively exists. It is better to die for the Emperor, or die trying, than live for yourself.

>>98758377
No, they just confirmed it's DA in today's dawn of war 4 trailer. I always assumed it was BA.

>>98758345
>>98758385
No they didn't. Why do people keep saying this? The trailer says literally NOTHING about this. People read too much into "BROTHER" vs "COUSIN".

>>98758385
Well, better them than most other options, but I ran all of my games pre-rift anyway, so I'll just choose to ignore that

>>98758386
He literally calls the Blood Raven "Son of Caliban". There's nothing vague about it.

>>98758331
>>98758351
>>98758379
Why couldn't there be a Radical Sister who believed she was burning her own soul for the sake of the Imperium's survival?

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>>98758422
Anon, you are wrong. You have mixed up the voice lines. Cyrus is the one who speaks and says "Where next, son of Caliban?". The Terminator then replies with "Brother", because he notices his Deathwatch Pauldron, which means he is acknowledged above chapter-level organizations.

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Would a high ranking Inquisitor with a lot of archival access (let's say he's a very scholarly Inquisitor, but not an Inquisitor Lord) know about the Blood Angels' Flaw and curse? e.g, Red Thirst, Black Rage, and the quest to fix it? All the dark rumours, etc. There's bits of lore here and there that say they know about the Sanguinor and are spooked by it as a potential warp apparition and corruption. But I don't know HOW MUCH they know about the Blood Angels' culture, especially it's esoteric dimension. What's realistic/excusable?

>>98758433
Martyrdom is not the ultimate dealbreaker
Co-operation with someone they've been fanatically brainwashed to kill on sight and never even listen to a single treacherous word that leaves their mouth is. Getting over the Sister's hardcore fanatical conditioning and convincing her that actually working with a heretic is a good or just necessary idea (or hell, even an idea worth considering at all) is simply not going to be possible in any situation save for the most extreme and unusual ones

Are there human-sized versions of the grav guns that astartes use?

>>98759257
Of course there are

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This week on Project ND,
>the team crushes a covenant of the Ordo Reductor who wouldn't take bribes
>the team gets rocked by rocket launchers on bomb ketches and bombardment cannons of a Galleass of War
>the air caste sky captain gets written up for workplace sexual harrassment

What's the best 40k rpg in (You)r opinion?
>>98748854
Luckily HH has somewhat adequate models for the cogboys.

>>98759599
Its the sexual harassment that honestly is most surprising of that.

>>98759643
Conceptually, Rogue Trader. Ruleswise, I think either Black Crusade or DH2e.

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>>98759682
Sky Captain kept trying to do Put Your Backs Into It with Charm. He kept failing by 5+ Degrees of Failure. The bridge bunnies as a result kept telling him to not say such inappropriate things, and the engineer said he was going full Brannigan.

The ships, on the other hand, worked flawlessly. They got surprised by the Galleass's aft-mounted weapons. They also laughed when they saw the escort was firing rockets, which quickly turned to worry when the fusion rockets from the rocket launcher chunked their ship for like 20 hull integrity. It was as if they were divinely ordained to hit.

>>98758298
I wouldn't say its 100% verboten. The Sisters have the Repentia after all. The way I see it, shes put a bomb collar on him & keep him on a very very short leash with the idea that his death will serve the Emperor. So she could offer him a very limited way to serve the Emperor under her supervision, any deviation from orders & he gets a bullet & at the end of service he will still get a bullet, but perhaps the Emperor might take mercy on him in death.

>>98759643
DH2 character creation & a few other things, but with Liber everything else, i like the backgrounds options to help flesh out a character. I dont like Liber restricting backgrounds, & i really dislike them expanding Admech into knock off psykers with their own subsystem. Theres maybe a few other houserules tacked inbetween the two that I use to make everything balance out

>>98759643
Rogue Trader with combat rules from BC/OW
But it's a tough competition, I love running all of the FFG RPGs really

>>98759599
The idea of a Tau committing sexual harassment is way funnier than it should be.

Do admech have sex? Does anyone in the Imperium besides Caiphas Cain have sex? Im not trying to goon, but I feel like especially given how grim & dark & perilous the 40k setting is, we would get more stories of Guardsmen having Enemy at the Gates style sex in the trenches, or scummy delinquent baby daddies in the Hives, etc. All we ever really see of the Imperium is the grind. Particularly the admech are so piheonholed as a concept. Theres got to be factory serfs who go about their normal days working in the manufactorums & then they spend their 2 hour recreational time fucking like rabbits because theres not much else to do. Or a Biologis who runs human breeding programs. Or just an admech who things the flesh is weak but the dick is hard so he decides to keep it instead of replacing it with a digi-Melta. Idk, what's your guys' opinion? How much romance , sex is there in the Imperium? Or in the admech?

>>98758488
I'd assume they would basically know nothing about the red thirst and black rage save for after action reports on cases where blood angels or their decedents started munching on whatever they were killing.

>>98760671
GW have been trying to kill Slaanesh for decades specifically because sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll are not copacetic with their goal of widening the target audience as much as humanly possible. It cuts off the middle-class white moms and their kids demographic, don't'cha know.

What if a Space Marine comes across another chapter in the course of their duties and that new chapter seems a lot cooler than their own chapter?

Can they change chapters? Is there like a transfer process for Marines who want to swap chapters?

>>98761104
Im saying that there's so much repressed British duty to the throne & nothing else that I cant see stuff like Starship Troopers Rico & Diz romance let alone anything else. And that was way back when they let Slaaneshi daemons get their tits out. So many factions in the Imperium are basically celibate or castrated that I wonder how they even keep their population up. Its less that I want blatant sex, like I said im not a sooner, but its hard to see any romance in the setting for RPG material. Theres no yearning

>>98761864
>so much repressed British duty to the throne & nothing else
40k is inherently bri'ish, it's not 40k anymore if you remove these elements

How do Assassins work, exactly? Like what I mean is, are they all stationed on Terra awaiting deployment, and only ever found outside Terra when 'on the clock'? Or do they have training schools and facilities outside of Terra?

>>98748535
>greatest wealth of content
>3e cut incredible amounts of content from 2e
>4e had the least amount of content than all editions before or since
>entire armies got NO 4e codex
This is the exact faggotry I was referring to.

>>98762878
They have hidden death cult temples all over the galaxy & some really important ones on Terra if I recall correctly. Sort of like hidden ninja villages

>>98763038
Officio Assassinorum? Talking 'proper' assassins, not death cults or random 'will kill for money' people.

>>98763051
Did you try reading the wiki? It says they have training bases on Terra & they post dudes all across the galaxy. The eversor temple is unknown & keeps their guys in cryo

>>98762878
Off the top of my heads Culexus have their temple in the Eastern Fringe, Eversors are frozen and stashed throughout the galaxy.

>>98763130
Cram it, POOFTER!

In dark heresy 1, are there any books besides core that give options like homeworlds?

>>98763187
Im gonna cram it up your tailpipe retard

>>98761413
>Can they change chapters? Is there like a transfer process for Marines who want to swap chapters?
The closest you'll get is the Deathwatch.

>>98763636
There was a White Scar who was disappointed he didn't get to join the Luna Wolves in the Horus Heresy. But don't you worry! The mind control set him right.

Why do 40KRPG GMs always give out powerful weapons and stuff as loot, but seem terrified to let me have the simplest implant?

>>98763357
O I am laffin

>>98763825
This is your GM specifically. I have never experienced this.

>>98759599
Imagine sexual harrassment from a blue lanklet lmao

>>98764102
I have experienced it with like ten different GMs.

>>98764153
If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.

>>98763191
Inquisitor's Handbook has tonnes of stuff. Blood of Martyrs also has a decent amount. Book of Judgment, Radical's Handbook, Daemon Hunter and Lathe Worlds all have some alternative backgrounds and/or Career Ranks

>>98764195
I'm not saying they're assholes, I'm just saying they seem to be terrified of bionics.

Speaking of assassins; do they only do what the name implies, or do they also sometimes serve as general spies? Because, like, obviously a Callidus Assassin would be an enormous asset to have as a deep cover spy in an enemy organization, even if you don't have a specific target for her. Do they ever just tell one like 'hey, here's a fake identity for you, go hang out in the T'au Empire/Alpha Legion/Craftworld/Chaos Warband/Whatever, and let us know what's up?"

>>98764279
Name the system and elaborate on how exactly this tends to manifest.

>>98760671
>we would get more stories of Guardsmen having Enemy at the Gates style sex in the trenches
Literally in the Cain books they mention how it's an issue for his regiment of the soldiers fucking too much and getting pregnant.
For the average person there is sex and romance and sorrow all in mixed amounts, from anyone and everyone. The only truly sexless, romanceless faction is the chemically castrated Astartes. The Admech might not have sex but they have (a poor understanding of) romance based some books, and other institutions definitely have sex. It's just off screen because GW doesn't want to get their books harder to buy.

>>98763191
Inqusitor's Handbook gives Forge Worlds, Noble-Born, Schola and Mind-cleansed origins as well as a ton of background packages or alternate career ranks, though most of them need until rank 4-5 to be taken. Blood of Martyrs also adds Shrine Worlds and Famulous Protoge world origins and the Monastic Upbringing origin that takes stats from an existing world's selection but has its own traits. It also ads alternate career ranks mostly for clerics or Battle Sister but also for Guardsmen in some cases.
Lathe Worlds expands on Forge World origins and some alternate career ranks + backgrounds, and Radical's Handbook adds backgrounds and alternate career ranks.

>>98764702
A buddy of mine was looking into it the other day and couldn't actually find any source that marines were chemically castrated, just that they were so hypno-indoctrination flashbang'd that they have no effective sex drive, and even that doesn't stop the Space Wolves.
Not that this would result in part-marine offspring, on account of the implants being, well, implants.
If you want to do a fertility study on gigantism, hypertrophy, osteopetrosis, and whatever other shit gene-implants induce in order to get a scientifically accurate estimate on whether a marine can or cannot actually fuck, I don't think anyone's gonna stop you.

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>>98717405
You are all my spawn. I feel a paternal urge to protect my minions.

Didn't there used to be these "design a sub-sector" threads here? They don't seem to be around anymore, but what were they, exactly?

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A couple dark heresy questions.
#1 Am I reading the guardsman role gear list right that you get a lasgun AND bow, musket, or shotgun as starting gear?
#2 I found this character gen site and I haven't seen a couple options in it like divination and family background in the books. Is it homebrew or something? https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/dhadvanced.html?

>>98765426
I take back the divination question I'm just blind

>>98765426
Lasgun AND (bow OR musket OR shotgun).

>>98765514
Yeah that's what I meant. So you're essentially getting a lasgun and a whole other main gun?

>>98765591
Yeah.

Are there any good ways to gain the Phasic Trait?

>>98765591
>So you're essentially getting a lasgun and a whole other main gun?
They're not good weapons.

>>98765591
Or a bow

Can someone explain to me how I am supposed to formulate how hard something is to aquire in Liber Imperium? It makes no sense to me. Some times it talks about influence, sometimes Profit Factor. How would you buy an archeotech piece?

>>98765426
Yes, the comas are used to seperate the items and options.
>>98765854
Still top reliable, nigh infinite ammo, and yes compared to the fully kitted autogun, they're not that good. I'd got with that lascarabine with full auto option instead, plus it is recognised as a lasgun for pros

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Is it possible to turn someone into a Psyker a Blank through gene therapy?

>>98766444
no

>>98766444
There are forbidden technologies that can grant a fraction of psyker's abilities.

>>98766085
The weapon for chads is a long-las or hunting rifle.

>>98766444
If by gene therapy, you mean pushing someone in a vat of glowing green goo and hoping for the best, then yes, that can turn you into a psyker. Blank though? No.

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Last Creative Writing Class:

Crackolytes continue to track Blasphemy Zero after having theologically and physically dunked on a Logician.
Next area is a huge glowing lake of "don't fall in it" water, with some mutants on a boat that wave us hi.

The mutants are Jaws'd by a Pit Thing that comes from under the water and snatches them and their dingy. Could this be the Pit these Things come from?

The next challenge in our path is a very flimsy bridge made of plasteel sheets and scrap over this lake. We find out Callidia is the fattest fuck of all the crackolytes, even heavier than Galen.
170cm, 80kg, 40kg of Power Armour and another 40kg worth of guns. This bitch needs a diet.
>the bridge creaks ominously once you step on it, Callidia.

The crackolytes space themselves to spread the weight, while shrimp-like creatures circle around the water (gm used the Metro Last Light shrimps as tokens). Psyker uses his cheat skill to learn these shrimp are violent and territorial, the Pit Thing probably got them riled up.
Callidia uses Trade (Cooking) to figure these are probably good eating, and the source of food of the loacl mutants. At least as "good" as it comes so deep down in the underhive they're touching the planet's actual soil. It sure beats the 'profein' from the recyk tanks up above.

The shrimp decide they want to get fried. Callidia fries one to perfection using autofire from her laspistols. Galen grills a kebab one by stabbing with power sword, Cellanus does much of the same while Fenria slices and dices.
Yummers.

The crackolytes continue onto the bridge, until Fenria notices some of the shrimp disappear. And we all notice the Pit Thing emerge.
Callidia 100% notices and makes sure Fenria knows she noticed, when Fenria failed an acrobatics check so badly on an 100, that she just tripped and felll on her face like that pepe image.
At least she failed so bad she didn't even manage to fall in the water.

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>>98767183
Callidia notices that and makes sure Fenria knows she did. Her turn comes and she blows the Pit Thing's shit smoove off with full semi auto from her bolt pistols.

I love bolt pistols. I love them even more now that we have the budget to afford using them.
Next step is getting extended clips on them and a wire coat hanger to make them capable of autofire.

Pit Thing dies where it stands. We move along, not too far from the lake wew find a quaint settlement of MUTANTS, but these MUTANTS have many paintings of Big E all over. Even if they're a little odd, but its a miracle these wreteches even managed to make those.
The mutants are all pale, blemished and a bunch of them have a third arm. But that's a common mutation like a sixth or seventh finger.

We meet a dude named Hope, get a cool set of Superior Charm beads from him and Psyniscience checks says we should accept the gift. This Hope fella is pretty alright, he even thanks the Inquisition showing up to clean things out. We tell them there's fresh shrimp by the lake and they guide us to the Church where Blasphemy Zero is nested.

At the church we get a soulslike boss introduction when B-0 shows up, seething like an American Boomer who's lawn we stepped on. It's humongous, meaning easier to shoot, but we're experient enough to know it might oneshot any of us if it lands a hit.

Callidia says a prayer for [ The Passion ], with her Palatine Miracleworker talent that lets her use one Faith Talent with the burn effects per session. Everyone gets Unnatural Agility 3x that affects move, Fenria becomes super sonic. We even all get to roll Initiative twice and pick the highest, all going before B-0. While for Fenria, even gm just accepted she goes first, faith talent or not.

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>>98767331
Fenria stabs it for real good damage.
>zero wounds
Galen stabs it many times for his average of 20+ damage
>zero wounds
Callidia max damage rolls bolt pistols, with a fury even
>zero wounds
Cellanus gets ballsy in this weakened veil and shoots unfetttered biolightning
>zero wounds

We might have a problem since this gigamonster might have stupid bullshit high Toughness, I think i'll have to let Fenria borrow my evil ass c'tan dagger.
Galen blocks a claw attack with his shield and if not for the energy field on it, it would have gone clean through.

Next round rolls up and Fenria aces an awareness check, she notices a particular gourget embedded in the mass of B-0. A videogame weakspot, perhaps? She goes for it and once she destroys it, B-0 loses all steam and starts crumbling down.
Note: Beast House had said they killed it a few times but it somehow got better. Clearly they missed this weakspot, and they don't have the finest Emperor's retards like us.

B-0 crumbles and flops, wriggling with lots of the huge red worms crawling away, we move quickly to stomp everything. Either it or one of the worms starts the death exposition, saying something about the beads, something about Hope and the settlement.
Something about not believing them? They're not what they seem? A cult?
A super fail on Logic test keeps Callidia nice and intolerant, this monster is just spitting nonsense. Melta and flamer it into nothingness so our job is done.

Then Hope walks in, calm and nonchalant, thanking us for getting rid of B-0. At this point OOC I had figured out the twist and had to seethe quietly and not metagame.
David says to not worry, and that B-0 isn't his father (there was a brief mention of his father at the camp, who made the beads and had gone missing. B-0 also recognized the beads on Callidia)

"We never mentioned a father." Points out Fenria.
"You didn't? Shame."

The reward for tolerance is betrayal.

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>>98767383
While this was going on, the psyker was freaking out and forced to run into a corner. Given at this point we all have [ Fearless ], it was some evil psychic presence suprressing him down.

A broodlord drops from the ceiling, making us all enfatuated. It's over.

Or is it?

David's head explodes in a fantastical way, as if it was shot by an Exitus Rifle *wink wink*. That startles the broodlord who runs away instead, leaving us only lightly mindmolested, instead of fully mindraped.

Session ended.

Truly the Emperor Protects, and saved us from bad ending tpk.
AND THE TWIST! WE FOUND OUR FIRST GENESTEALER CULT AND JUST KILLED THE ONE THING THAT WAS KEEPING THEM IN CHECK AHAHAHAHHAHAH.
All the mutants here at this level are pretty much genestealers, we're walking back into that settlement and killing everything next time.