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7/3/2025, 10:36:03 PM
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Full-dogmatic is the most fun imo.; you're going to be doing a lot of frankly evil, retarded shit, but if you can keep from SELF-INSERTING too much and just enjoying how deranged these characters in the setting are it's a pretty good path.
The heretic path is not very good, with tons of immersion-breaking moments that'll have you e.g., standing next to a sister of battle and an inquisitor's henchman shouting about how you love the chaos gods and will bring about their domain, and your companions will just not react to it at all (at least until a specific point in the story, where a character will offer to purge your soul of all the heresy, resetting you to 0, or these dogmatic characters will finally leave).
The iconoclast path is alright. It's basically the self-insert path, where you play as a fairly normal, reasonable guy from our world today. I find it pretty immersion breaking at times, although a lot of the iconoclast choices are just better than the dogmatic ones even in-universe. E.g., when you're dealing with the riots on your ship, it's standard practice to constantly beat up all the serfs, even if they haven't done anything and are fully cooperating, just to keep them permanently softened-up. Doesn't take a genius to realize that this is the perfect breeding ground FOR constant mutinies. But the dogmatic choice is to just keep pounding those children into paste in front of their parents. But if you can see the humor in the sincerity with which this brutality is being handed out, again dogmatic is a pretty funny path.
I think the worst part of the alignment system is that, if you're trying to play someone who loves the emprah and fears the warp and hates the xenos but ISN'T a total psychopath, you're going to end up with a mix of both dogmatic and iconoclast alignment so you won't get the sometimes very powerful boons associated with going full- into one alignment.
Full-dogmatic is the most fun imo.; you're going to be doing a lot of frankly evil, retarded shit, but if you can keep from SELF-INSERTING too much and just enjoying how deranged these characters in the setting are it's a pretty good path.
The heretic path is not very good, with tons of immersion-breaking moments that'll have you e.g., standing next to a sister of battle and an inquisitor's henchman shouting about how you love the chaos gods and will bring about their domain, and your companions will just not react to it at all (at least until a specific point in the story, where a character will offer to purge your soul of all the heresy, resetting you to 0, or these dogmatic characters will finally leave).
The iconoclast path is alright. It's basically the self-insert path, where you play as a fairly normal, reasonable guy from our world today. I find it pretty immersion breaking at times, although a lot of the iconoclast choices are just better than the dogmatic ones even in-universe. E.g., when you're dealing with the riots on your ship, it's standard practice to constantly beat up all the serfs, even if they haven't done anything and are fully cooperating, just to keep them permanently softened-up. Doesn't take a genius to realize that this is the perfect breeding ground FOR constant mutinies. But the dogmatic choice is to just keep pounding those children into paste in front of their parents. But if you can see the humor in the sincerity with which this brutality is being handed out, again dogmatic is a pretty funny path.
I think the worst part of the alignment system is that, if you're trying to play someone who loves the emprah and fears the warp and hates the xenos but ISN'T a total psychopath, you're going to end up with a mix of both dogmatic and iconoclast alignment so you won't get the sometimes very powerful boons associated with going full- into one alignment.
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