Thread 96131415

Trophies of the hunt edition

>RPG Rulebooks
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>Homebrew Collection (Feb 2025)
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>WANG/Imperium Maledictum News
https://cubicle7games.com/blog/warhammer-40k
>Bestiary, armoury, weapon quality and NPC database
http://www.40krpgtools.com/
>Dark Heresy 2e Character Creator:
https://apps.ajott.io/dh2chargen/
>General 40kRPG Encyclopedia
https://www.scholaprogenium.com/
>Offline Combined Armory (v6.48.161023)
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>Make your maps look just like FFGs
https://www.mediafire.com/?laj4tr275fl2s09
>40k Music
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm9WFeqTgvRvyRoGD8jVFVA?
>40k Art
https://40k.gallery/
>Rogue Trader Shipbuilder
https://redlar.itch.io/rogue-trader-ttrpg-ship-builder

#News
>Dark Heresy CRPG
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3710600/Warhammer_40000_Dark_Heresy/
>Imperium Maledictum Armoury
https://cubicle7games.com/blog/imperium-maledictum-macharian-requisition-guide-cover-reveal

Previous: >>95968633

Why do you allow xenos characters in your games? If you don't, why do you not?

Speaking of xenos characters, should I use wrath and glory for an all ork adventure or rogue trader?

>>96131415 (OP)
Alright so me and my friends are all lazy retards
Which system is the equivalent of like d&d5e in its simplicity?
I have the capacity to learn rules and shit but they dont lmao

>>96132111
WanG

>>96132157
Aight I’ll look into it, thanks boss
I know Dark Heresy you play as inquisitors and Rogue trader is rogue traders and shit
What is WanG? Space Marines?

>>96131692
>>96132111
I've been playing in W&G for about five sessions and I think I prefer it over the old FFG systems. It's much more conducive to high-octane action and being bad-asses; so if you're looking for grim and grittiness, you probably want to stick with FFG.

>>96132196
NTA; but unlike the old FFG lines, W&G is not geared towards a particular type of campaign. There are options for Imperium characters from hive scum to inquisitors, as well as options for Orks and Eldar.
Though technically a homebrew fan supplement, there's a PDF called Abundance of Apocrypha which was written by one of the original developers and seems to be well-regarded and often used by players. It has more options for all of the above plus Tau, Dark Eldar, and Chaos.

What's this I hear about Dark Heresy and MAID RPG using the same system?

What's a stereotypical Rogue Trader GM like?

>>96133302
One player selects a Rogue Trader and the rest select various Human archetypes (not xenos, they're icky!). Then you go to the approved Koronus Expanse, fight approved xenos and heretic forces, collect approved treasures, watch your stock market number go up, and at GM-determined stock market number you declare the game complete, patting yourselves on the back for nailing the approved 40k themes.

>>96131415 (OP)
What psyker powers would be best for an inquisitor who uses guns? We are gonna be using imperium maledictum

>>96133741
Probably something that helps his bullets hit home
Maybe some sort of minor precognition

>>96133741
Luck minor psychic power and Divination's Armor Bane seem fitting.
Tell us more about your character

>DH2
>Want to select voidborn homeworld to flavor pc as a longshanks
>I know that +30 to zero gravity maneuvers will never come up in game
Oh well

>>96127761
>leave psyker behind
You made the right choice.

My players want to run Imperium Maledictum as Inquisitors but I've got a case of adventure designer's block. Anybody got any premium seeds they would be willing to part with?

Rolled 6 + 1 (1d10 + 1)

Fuck it. Rogue Trader ship battles time. You have 150 Ship Points to assemble a task force. Archeotech is permitted only via the Reliquary of Mars ship history, which must be rolled for. You may choose not to roll for a ship history. Machine Spirit oddities will not be used, background packages are not permitted. Battle will use Mathhammer rules. For Crew Rating, roll a d6 - 1 is 40, 2-3 is 50, 4-5 is 60, 6 is 70. For simplification, shipboard actions will be resolved with the rules for NPC starships from BFK p.114, including those regarding morale and crew population (double Crew Rating's bonus to these calculations).
I'm not an attack craft guru so if you start using that you'd better damned well have the rules on lockdown, with page number references.
If you want special torps, roll for 'em, fucko. You get a single acquisition test against PF 80, each success is one volley for one ship. Remember the malus from rarity, dipshits, you're not getting six volleys of Vortex no matter how godlike your rolls.
I'll get to working on my flagship while I wait to see if there's any interest.

Rolled 4 (1d6)

>>96135937
Screwballed the second die, I think. Panicked for a sec at that 1.

>>96134600
We are gonna be taking place on necromunda and im not sure of a concept yet since we are still on the planning stages but I imagine them as some voidborn rat orphan who can do little tricks and since divination does sound good maybe folks noticed he tends to always get away with his antics. an inquisitor happened to noticed it while aboard his home station and took him to be sanctioned and after the whole training the inquisitor cameback for him then put him trials to be an interrogator and investigator then he got put in service of another patron to join another band of people to see whats going on there. Sorry im not a good backstory writer and im only half proficient in lore

>>96135264
I know, all our group's space trips had functioning gravity, my voidborn longshank didn't have any chance to shine. :-(

But it's still funny playing as one and treating other PCs as manlets.

>>96135689
Just steal Eisenhorn and file off the serial numbers if you're doing multiple inquisitors rather than a single group of acolytes. You're all investigating X chaos cults and they run into this noble house a few steps up the chain and end up bumbling into each other. They co-operate, they manage to luck out and catch the House out, the House is actually a front for a radical phaenonite inquisitor a step up. To get to the Inquisitor you need to do something vaguely radical-ish (Not something like the Pontius, that'd give the game away) but some sort of infiltration or sneaky thing to get X artefact that'll reveal what the House was up to for this inquisitor. When they get it they manage to kill the house and an army group or two, only the inquisitor to start fucking with them at a distance. To clear their names - or start unfucking their networks - they have to find this guy. In finding him it's a goddamned mess, and offer them a few shortcuts in exchange for a little bit of corruption. Maybe just ask that daemon that knows everything instead of banish it. Finally set it aside and kill the radical. At this point bring back something from the campaign to fuck with them that they gave into temptation about - the daemon has taken an interest in them, a cultist they let go is burning worlds in their name, whatever.

>>96136332
Only tangential, but I really like the EVE Jovian portraits as voidborn vs the quasi-greys. They're just a little to alien to pass in the Imperium though, sadly.

>>96138745
Wasn't there an Eldar who infiltrated human society because of how ugly and mutated it was?
That nose is weird, but looks... how to say it, passable.

I'm still mad about Church of Steel not having voidship rules.

>>96139542
My GM was annoyed that the skipped a few obscure Forge World models like the Centaur.

>>96139542
If they cover that, I imagine that it'll have its own book.

>>96140513
They cut super heavies and voidships, stated they would be in their own release, and that was four years ago.

>>96140749
>and that was four years ago
Oh, dear.
Is the line not doing well?

What is your opinion on gating more specific bits of knowledge behind having more advances in lore skills instead of/in addition to harder rolls so you can't just have a character with high int and +0 being able to know everything about (topic).

>>96138745
>They're just a little to alien to pass in the Imperium though, sadly.
Ogryn are legally humans, if they're ok. That pic looks fine. If a bit more mutated than "average". Keep the weird in 40k, it's what is being lost in current 40k.

>>96140954
My GM didn't like it either, hence our recent switch to W&G.
He did do something roundaboutly similar when it came to Lore skills pertaining to xenos. There was a penalty to anything xenos related (Linguistics to understand, Medicae to provide aid, Tech Use to understand their technology, etc.); and that penalty could only be mitigated by actual ranks in the appropriate lore skill.

>>96141293
>My GM didn't like it either, hence our recent switch to W&G.
Should clarify, that wasn't the only reason; there were several.

>>96141415
Do list them. As someone who couldn't stand Wrath and Glory, I'm interested in hearing the reasoning.

>>96140835
NTA, it seems to have an absolutely slashed writing team that also seems to be making wild balance changes. They had a space marine book a while ago with psychic powers that were straight upgrades on corebook powers. And then some of them were specifically restricted to their OC chapter. The corebook powers kinda sucked, but they didn't seem to have considered how to update them or how to add stuff in and the whole thing was riddled with errors. They probably just didn't have the time.

>>96141617
>Do list them.
To reiterate, it was my GM who proposed the change; I was doing just fine with Black Crusade. He rattled off his reasoning but I couldn't articulate them off the top of my head.
What do you not like about W&G?

>>96141661
Hmmm. That's a bummer.

>>96135384
We did it because we were walking into a huge crowd of Emperor fanatics. If he wasn't an obvious voidborn mutie, he could have passed as a pilgrim like the others. The cogboy even removed all his mechadendrites.

But then he might have been pinged as a psyker by the mind rapist woman. Either was it was the right choice because him using far sight again got him watching the past events, specifically the ones where the 15yo nodiffed Tsyiak.

>Future becomes past becomes present.
At first he saw an empty and abandoned settlement, now he sees it during the middle of the events 35 years ago. My new schizo theory is that we mind end up time traveled during the eventual fight.

Which would be really fucking cool, but the issue is reporting that later when mission is over.

>>96139150
>>96141005
Well, here's the female version. The eyes, joined nose and ears are the main physical changes from baseline humanity. The skin tone almost matches canon voidborn, and hair/veins? Eh.

Iit's so immediately pinging your "weird shit" brain hardware that I can see the Imperium reeeing. Still. Voidborn are pretty weird. Voidborn who got a genetic engineering pass, maybe.

Lore questions:

What do the Tau do for entertainment? Do they have video games and sports like we do?

Is there a "Deadpool" in 40k? Someone who breaks the 4th wall and talks to the audience?

Why don't the Craft World Eldar go to war and wipe out the Dark Eldar? Aren't they a big problem for each other?

>>96143564
>What do the Tau do for entertainment?
They die, and we are entertained by this.
>Is there a "Deadpool" in 40k? Someone who breaks the 4th wall and talks to the audience?
No, but we do have Lucius the Eternal, who has similar amounts of 'impossible to kill'. Of course, this is because he's a fucking joke, but still.
>Why don't the Craft World Eldar go to war and wipe out the Dark Eldar?
Why don't hippies go to war and wipe out New York City? Commoragh is approximately the size of a solar system, Craftworlders live in vans down by the river.

>>96143637
Craftworlds have a higher population than the DEldar

How should I stat up Ratlings, Ogryn and Kin for imperium maledictium?

>>96143688
...What part of 'Commoragh is a city the size of a solar system' did not register in your little peanut brain?

>>96143688
Craftworld Eldar make their children naturally. Dark Eldar sometimes do that, but mostly they just pump them out of the tanks in job lots.

Does Gene Seed need to be kept within a chapter or can you mix it between chapters?

Given how difficult it is to find someone worth training and how often the training leads to the person dying why don't chapters just clone the best guy they have so they can always have enough?

>>96144621
I would strongly suggest familiarizing yourself with the lore presented in books. This is answered in their codex.
>>96144718
Cloning doesn't work that way in the Imperium.

>>96144718
>select aspirants from the hardiest possible stock, born into hardship, trained in the harshest, most lethal environments known to man
>ruin all of that by raising clones of those dudes in conditions entirely different to those in which they thrived
Man live in tribe, always have work to do, always alert for danger, good lookout, strong hunter.
Man live in cubicle, no work, only numbers, no danger, only walls, shit lookout, weak and frail.
Want to emulate life that made them strong? expensive. costly. requires constant monitoring so you don't lose return on investment. at that point you may as well just go to the places that are already harsh and skim from there, which is what they already do.
And, to build on what >>96144729 said, cloning doesn't work like that. Good cloning is archaeotech, bad cloning gets you horrific mutants. Good fucking luck building up enough rep with the cogboys for them to operate a cloning lab for you, on top of supplying you wargear, maintaining your ships, and handling your geneseed. Aspirants are absolutely not the bottleneck for making new marines.

>>96144767
I believe there's an Iron Hands successor chapter that does cloning, but that's really just confirmation of your point considering just how close they are with the admech.

Over the past few months I have read every major 40k rpg rulebook from cover to cover. I have decided that I prefer Dark Heresy and Imperium Maledictum over Wrath&Glory for various reasons, but the main one would be I prefer minutia, percentile dice, and having rules for everything over the "story comes first" broad strokes approach that W&G takes. I also generally prefer low power things like guardsmen and imperial acolytes over stuff like space marines and eldar. Dark Heresy really clicks with what I personally enjoy about 40k but my impression is that Imperium Maledictum is very much the "spiritual successor" to Dark heresy, since it not only uses the same percentile system, but also has high lethality which I liked about Dark Heresy, and is generally lower power level like Dark Hersey was.

What would be the best way to actually play, now that I know the rules, and which games I'm most interested in? My local store is pretty small and doesn't have much of an rpg scene, so it would likely be online. I have roll20, tabletop simulator, fantasy grounds, and most of the popular online digital roleplaying programs, but I haven't looked into the 40k scene for any of these, I've mostly only played dnd 5e, dnd 3.x, and pathfinder on those.

>>96145630
Can I get a run down on Maledictum? I'm thinking of tackling a 40K rpg as my next solo rpg and would like to know more about it.

>>96144718
There was a regiment like that with all clones of imperial heroes. They did well in battle and then immediately ate shit due to bad luck afterwards.

>>96147277
Because the Imperium has sub-par cloning technology.

>>96143862
Not that anon, but apparently CWE being more numerous does appear in some official sources, even if it makes no sense and contradicts other sources

A lot of stuff in codices, magazines, and campaign books is poorly edited filler material written by interns, and even when the more experienced GW writers are involved, they often push their own headcanons and powerwank, which makes making even rough estimates on numbers for non-marine factions impossible

>>96147522
>>96147277
>>96144718
To make a clone in 40k you must split the soul, clones without don't really work well and blanks that survive are comparatively rare. The clone becomes a vessel for that incomplete soul or doesn't have one at all, with all that entails.

This is entirely based on reading between the lines on all the lore of Krieg though, that the reason the Vitae Wombs are so heretical is the same reason the DKoK are atoning, and the same reason for their ultimate secret and never removing the masks. That the process of creating more soldiers is destroying the very essential soul of Jurten one piece at a time and if they do not hurry it up there will be nothing left of him to stand at the Emprah's side.
Archmagos Greel is a right bastard aint he?

>>96148250
Which sources?

>>96148288
NTA, just some asshole that digs in rulebooks for lore goodies to use for my own purposes, I have also seen the allusion that there's more craftworlders than deldar, but because they're all isolated it's like comparing the entire world population of Neanderthals at their height to the earliest European homo sapiens in the same area, they lived together and traded between tribes, so if it had ever come right down to it, a war between these groups would favor the unified, however small, over the separated.

Now, I have also heard about the Harlequins having their own huge fuckass space so I can also see deldar getting their own huge fuckass space and I would ultimately assume it was like Necron tesseracts, that that universe city exists but not where it actually matters, if you get to the place where they keep it that is significantly smaller you can destroy it. Not cannon, just my internal marriage of writer bullshittery.

Who do you think The Emperor blames most for the Heresy?

>>96148565
Allegorical Eve

>>96143787
By checking the mountain of homebrew in the official discord to check if someone's already done it (likely).

Was there ever a dark heresy knockoff like how two handed sword is for WFRP?

>>96148565
The woman whose fault they made it canonically. Before that it was the very reflective and nuanced 'himself' but they did themselves dirty.

Why do you fags keep bumping old threads.

>>96149612
Listen here shitbelly
Every thread on this board is viable for discussion before it gets bumped off.
No exceptions.
Yes snotwipe, even autosage theads.
You wish you could have seen
>timebeforegenerals.mov
but that knowledge is lost to you like tears in rain and there aint no going back so long as you faggots forget lurk moar was actual advice for a reason.

>>96143564
>What do the Tau do for entertainment? Do they have video games and sports like we do?
Civilians? Probably, in some way or another. They're a fairly liberal society, although it's nebulous how good non-blue people have it in thwir actual society and colonies.

>Is there a "Deadpool" in 40k? Someone who breaks the 4th wall and talks to the audience?
Of the regulars, non-one off characters? Kaldor Draigo gets fucky here and there.

>Why don't the Craft World Eldar go to war and wipe out the Dark Eldar? Aren't they a big problem for each other?
Because they're not enemies, are somewhat dependable allies on occasion and have an exchange of people between their societies through the Corsairs.

>>96144718
Probably a lot cheaper to just get a bunch of sturdy-looking savages and throw gene organs at whichever survive whatever bullshit passes for aspirant trials inthat particular chapter.

But if we're gonna talk about resource effectiveness there probably wouldn't even be any Marines around, so it's a moot point anyways.

>>96144718
>t.

>>96149612
I have been attending the /40krpg/ thread in its various incarnations for the past seven years, pausing only when 4chan itself shit the bed, and there is no manner on this world or any other in which I will be turned from that course by a schlong-mongler like you.

>>96148254
Only because human cloning is bad. The Votann don't have this issue. They can even edit souls to purpose.

>>96150329
Yet another reason why Votann lore is bad

>>96150329
All powerful magic AI is such a cheap cop out I hope the Necrons eradicate your miserable species and destroy your fucking shard you miserable thieves.

>>96150396
WHF started to die when they stopped updating it, and then around 8th edition they went "lol let's make it like 40k" and started editing the lore. And when that didn't work and it was nothing but deathstars and people kept playing old editions instead of buying the shit sculpts, they went "okay, let's kill it with this end times campaign" and cheated so their super special oc's would win. And then there's the current shitfight that is TOW vs AOS.

And it's almost like they're starting to do it with warhammer. "Sales are falling! Why? I don't know! Let's make it more like.. uh, warhammer fantasy!". Yes I know squats were already a thing but they didn't quite have the full 'dwarf experience'.

Looking as the fan supplements for Deathwatch, Gold Experience Requiem, and they have a weapon trait called Vengeful(x). Does anyone know where it says what that does?

>going to GM a Deathwatch one shot for my usual party
>none of them played it before so I offered making characters for them, two took me up on the offer
>one wants to play a techmarine (he plays mechanicum in KT) and the other an apothecary, but they don't really know that much about the universe beyond the basic premise they left the chapter selection to me
Got some funny ideas? At first I thought I'll just make the techmarine an Iron Hand and the apothecary a Blood Angel to just keep it simple, but I'm tempted with making some funny combinations like an impatient White Scars techmarine that wishes he was driving a land speeder rather than fortifying the position.

>going to GM a Deathwatch one shot for my usual party
>none of them played it before so I offered making characters for them, two took me up on the offer
>one wants to play a techmarine (he plays mechanicum in KT) and the other an apothecary, but they don't really know that much about the universe beyond the basic premise they left the chapter selection to me
Got some funny ideas? At first I thought I'll just make the techmarine an Iron Hand and the apothecary a Blood Angel to just keep it simple, but I'm tempted with making some funny combinations like an impatient White Scars techmarine that wishes he was driving a land speeder rather than fortifying the position.

>>96151763
Triggers righteous fury on that number or above. It's in DH2e, page 150. I don't think it was ever entered into deathwatch. They used a talent based solution.

>going to GM a Deathwatch one shot for my usual party
>none of them played it before so I offered making characters for them, two took me up on the offer
>one wants to play a techmarine (he plays mechanicum in KT) and the other an apothecary, but they don't really know that much about the universe beyond the basic premise they left the chapter selection to me
Got some funny ideas? At first I thought I'll just make the techmarine an Iron Hand and the apothecary a Blood Angel to just keep it simple, but I'm tempted with making some funny combinations like an impatient White Scars techmarine that wishes he was driving a land speeder rather than fortifying the position.

>>96135937
>no one cares about discount BFG
sadge

>>96151814
Raptor's techmarine and Lamenters apothecary

>>96151834
It just seems it would be incredibly slow and clunky to do over 4chan

>>96151975
I guess.

What psychic powers would be fitting for a "tech-witch" type of character (basically a Heretek with psy abilities)?

>>96151811
Thanks

>>96152375
What system? If it's 1e, check out the radical's handbook and the heretek savant for some tech updates. There's a tech-disruptor somewhere in 1e, I believe, that's basically a blank for technology.

That said: Ideally, straight up sorcery and theme it technologically in game. If you must have psyker powers directly, telepathy and call it tapping into the universal datastream, but nothing is really tech-y for psyker powers in most editions.

>>96152463
>What system
Black Crusade

>>96152514
Ah. Sorry, never played it, no idea. Liber Imperium has some fun stuff for the noosphere as optional rules if you're interested in that, I think a link to 1.6 was posted in the last thread, or maybe the one before that. Maybe ask your GM if you can have a low end power that inflicts tech scorn on others.

This is a long shot, but does anyone have the Psychic Powers for the Emperor's Nightmare?

>>96152843
can't upload pdfs, so I'm typing:
Living Nightmares: 18 inch range, one unit, roll d6.
1- Opponent moves 2d6" in any direction and is immune to the power for the rest of the game.
2- -1I, -1" move/charge
3- Pass -1LD test or abort any actions they take next turn
4-Spend a full turn not moving, shooting or assaulting they fire one less shot than they should on all attacks, lose +1A for pistol or close combat in assault
5- -1 WS/BS/LD for the next turn.
6- Target falls back, 2d6 hits equal to the unit's average strength.

Blackest Night - 24" range, gives a friendly unit a 5+ cover save or +1 to those with a cover save

>>96153187
Oh, sorry. I should have made myself clear; I was asking for the old homebrewed RPG system.

If not, I'll just use what's on the Raven Guard psychic powers in Rites of Battle.

Thanks anyway, anon.

>>96143044
>Which would be really fucking cool, but the issue is reporting that later when mission is over.
Imagine getting stuck in the past and having to use like a servo-skull voice message to report whatever happened to your unit.
Than again, 35 years isn't THAT long in the grand scheme of things.

>>96133335
>(not xenos, they're icky!)
But I want more xenos, I'm a Rogue Trader god dammit I do what I want.

>>96154716
But then you're not playing REAL 40k! You have to stick to the THEMES!

>>96151962
I can see the Raptor being interesting, but the bleeding heart medic might be too on the nose.

>>96155021
Flesh tearer?

>>96155021
Iron hands

>>96155021
Black shield because the geneseed they gathered was lost when they got an arm chopped off or it was hit in the chaos of battle.

>>96155051
I was considering this one but the guy is too chill to play a Flesh Tearer.
>>96155060
Oh, a reversal, now that might be the key.
>>96155086
I think that might be too advanced for their 40k knowledge.

Is there a character builder for Rogue Trader?

Need some ideas for a dark heresy campaign. The players, as acolytes, would need to infiltrate the palace/bunker of a rich noble which made no public appearance in decades and known for collecting sacred religious art from across the sector. After defeating automated defense systems, they find the noble dead. He shot himself while restoring a painting. The art below, which is ancient, and most probably genuine, hints at a terrible, heretical, secret.

This is where I'm looking for inspiration: I was thinking like a proof that big E is posterior to the DAOT, or that it's horus that is sitting on the throne and keeping the emperor at bay. I'm not sure about those ideas.
I would need something that would tempt some of the players to uncover the secret and put themselves where out of curiosity they are seen as 100% heretical while more orthodox one would think of it as a danger. Something that could be true while you can't really exclude the idea that it's ruinous power at work, trying to sow confusion in men's minds.

>>96157005
Could do the old "daemon in a painting" trick and restoring it sucked his soul into it or possessed him. From there, the daemon can show whatever it wants on the painting only changing when not viewed.

>>96157005
>posterior to the DAOT
Can you clarify what you mean by that?

>>96157060
Was a genetical weapon developed to fight the robots. Emperor is a DNA edited psycker warlord gone rogue and not the god that nurtured humanity since it's inception.

I started running a Deathwatch game myself, and have in my spare time been creating homebrew for my players. Here's one of the custom Chapters I made to give them an option (they all have shit fellowship, so might as well keep them comfortable). Keep in mind I have used ChatGPT to help make this, as I have found it to be fairly competent, but I still want some good critizism as it should be as balanced as Space Marines can be. And to the point I made above, we have a Flesh Tearers Apothecary, an Iron Hands Techmarine, a Blood Ravens Librarian, and a Blackshield (Black Templars) Assault Marine.
https://mega.nz/file/OkABGZ7Q#qHpl4BQ9aMlNCWR83rxFJkFywosoVOoFM1xqmfTWbcw

>>96153310
Shame. Sorry. For anyone in the future who bumbles across an archived thread looking for the chapter's stuff, i tracked down the original post rather than my pdf copy.

https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/14491925/#q14495354
>>96155584
There isn't, but there is a ship builder.
>>96157005
You can throw a red herring at them with the Ateanists which was my first thought with your post. Basically scholars and artists eventually discover the Eris Transform which makes an artwork far closer to perfect and also does warpy stuff, ranging from soul-delivered heroin to localised warp storms to "surprise you're a daemonhost!". Even better, throw it in a wing that's labelled condemned so they think this guy discovered it, realised the threat and threw it off.

The Tower of Babel exists in 40k, and it echoes through time and reality. You could have a series of paintings that, when put together, show the entire thing before it came down. And make it so that under some circumstances it shows a fragment of the Horus Heresy and the 'true' history.

The builder, the man at the very top, the man facing the sky and shaking his fist? Not the Emperor. If the final painting has a secondary vision, have it be Horus on the throne facing off against sky emperor and the tower the battered Imperium. Have something that definitely isn't a daemonhost that manifests to give them screamed warnings and clues when enough of the paintings are together. Something that the causes Imperial statues to bleed and warp when manifest, but leaves humans completely unharmed. Could be a daemon, could be a dead human god, could be a bit of warp trickery, could be the original builder, could just be a single really well informed human soul. Maybe it's something from that time that still exists in the echoes and it's trying to warn them about Big E. Hell, Enuncia's a bit of a weird topic but you could read the Ravenor books to pick up the enemy who does things with sacred architecture and Enuncia.

I'm running Dark Heresy for the first time this friday. I'm a bit scared of having it play like CoC but with more combat.
I think I'm going to do some genestealer cult conspiracy.

>>96131415 (OP)
>Why do you allow xenos characters in your games?
Because the whole point of being a Rogue trader is flaunting all the sick shit you can get away with.

>>96157114
Do you mean prior to?

>>96158031
Not him, but: Posterior doesn't just mean arse, it means coming after something. So posterior to the dark age is after the dark age. Also the source of the post- prefix, like post-heresy or an antonym to ante, like antediluvian.

>>96154716
>>96155007
Party has no aliens: Absolutely puritanical
Party has one alien: Typical Rogue Trader party
Party has two aliens: Suspected xenophile
Party has three or more aliens: Heretical, purge in fire.
Issue being that if the GM doesn't put the kibosh on xenos, the whole damned party might decide to play one in search of muh super special OC donut steel. Mono-race nonhuman parties could work, but severely lack critical supporting infrastructure.

>>96158091
>Mono-race nonhuman parties could work, but severely lack critical supporting infrastructure.
What kind of infrastructure

>>96158259
In-depth careers, at all. Starships and components. Equipment variety.
Say you want to play as eldar corsairs. You don't have a career for that at all, they only made dark eldar. You find some homebrew for it. You don't have a hull for it either, though, nor equipment. You snag one of the NPC ships from Koronus and resign yourself to the knowledge that you'll never be able to customize it. Now it's time to equip your guy. You have one eldar powersword, one set of paired eldar power swords, one razorwire injector, one shuriken weapon per size category, one lasblaster, one fusion rifle, a psychic spear and a force weapon equivalent. You have a plasma grenade and a monofilament grenade. You have one forcefield, and you may be able to dig up some kind of armor, somewhere. Everything else is for dark eldar, good luck with that unless you want to become one.
Contrast with the legions of imperial weapon and equipment choices a Rogue Trader has available. Is it fun for your choices to be constrained to the bare minimum converted from the tabletop?
Essentially, if you want to do this and have fun with it, you're going to make your GM write up half the fucking game all over again, because it wasn't designed for anything outside of playing an actual rogue trader - and playing a rogue trader means you're either human, or you've tricked the universe into thinking you are.

>>96158499
Well, most of the /tg/ homebrew is pretty thorough for corsairs, tau, and even necrons. Ironically I think only Orks are missing player ork ships.

>>96158070
>Posterior Analytics is not Aristotle's Examination of Butts

>>96159130
The only one with xenos "infrastructure" is shas, because he's the only one weird enough to run all xenos games. Most people want normal games.

Random lore questions:

Given that the Primarchs were made in a lab do they still have navels?

If a Space Marine eats a Tyranid bio form do they gain the memories of the hive mind or do they get assimilated into it?

How cannon is the belief that the Blood Ravens go around stealing other chapters relics?

Can Orcs or Tyranids be used as fertilizer or does that just make more of them?

Do civilians or Guardsmen know how Space Marines are made?

>>96159781
They are, arguably, balls of warp stuff that Big E tricked into thinking they were human. It Depends.
The Marine gains the memories of that specific bioform, and is also horrifically poisoned, because they tend to melt into acid on death.
They have a literal suit of Custodes warplate. Figure it out.
Orks have spores. If you plant a mushroom, it grows. Nids dissolve into acid. This is bad for your soil.
Your average civvie is lucky if they live long enough to learn how humans are made. Why in the flintstone fuck would they be privy to the secrets of biologically engineering superhumans?

For playing a melee psyker in RT, is my best option porting a character over from DH? I've heard that gets pretty weird, and it looks like the DH character would be more powerful than the equivalent RT character. Do I just play Astropath and live with the fact that I don't get combat disciplines, combat talents or WS?
Captcha: NVGAY

how can they improve terminators? I love the chonky bois and im currently doing some up nice to look very iron handish but they are extremely mid for the points and dont work in my ironstorm spearhead.

>>96159796
is primarchs being actually beings from the warp canon tho?

If so it seems very plausible that they cant truly " die"

>>96160848
Wrong thread

>>96160854
On the one hand, Eldar Pantheon.
On the other hand, Ferrus is apparently slumming it with the Legion of the Damned.

>>96160891
my mistake, thought this was 40k general

>>96159781
Orks are mushrooms and like in the real world, they can absolutely be used as fertilizer if they are sufficiently dead and cleansed of spores beforehand. The spores are hardy, but we're not talking about some sort of super virus here, the orks work primarily on sheer quantity. Anyone remotely familiar with orks is likely familiar with the process, as you want to be cleansing ork spores anyway.

>>96160386
Pretty much. Track down the Templar Calixis and see if you can get a side grade out of your gm, or a weird psyker arch militant thing going.

Any tips before running Black Crusade? It’ll be the first time for my party playing evil dudes.

>>96161402
Double check the rules because there are some editing errors here and there like how the horde section forgot that flame got split into flame and spray. Ideally, do not mix humans and marines. Skipping the alignment checkbook balancing can save everybody a headache when it comes to alignment. Chaos is antagonistic and deceitful but not ALL the time.

Hey broskis. I intend on doing a sesh set sometime in M36 before the Dutch cunt got deposed. How shitty was life then? I mean, reading HH gave a pretty shitty picture of M31 Imperium. But never did I see stuff like 18 hour workdays, mandatory random brain scans of schoolchildren for faithfulness, and other nastiness. More like letting the governor do his thing if tithes are paid. At which point did working yourself to death become something that complaining about would be seen as heresy?

>>96161437
>How shitty was life then?
Yes. It actually got to the point where rebellion reached terra, so go nuts.

>>96161450
Nigga I'm asking if it's okay to turn M36 into just M42 in terms of work environment. Judge Dredd but with employed people rather than Great Crusade optimism.

>>96161436
>Ideally, do not mix humans and marines
Is this because marines are superior to humans?

>>96161502
Wildly different XP progression. By the time your marine gets to do anything other than kill shit, your buddy's mortal character is a polyglot, loremaster, and just as much of a murderblender as the space marine.

>>96161544
>By the time your marine gets to do anything other than kill shit, your buddy's mortal character is a polyglot, loremaster, and just as much of a murderblender as the space marine.

Only a fa/tg/uy will complain about something this fucking based.

>>96161502
Yes. They get power armor and unnatural toughness by default and it goes up from there so anything that can threaten a marine will pulp a human especially early on.

>>96161544
They have the same exp progression in BC.

>>96161611
I guess I'm just talking out my ass then.

>>96143564
>What do the Tau do for entertainment?
Depends on the sept. All T'au are fanatically devoted to the Greater Good (for their race), but it isn't unified at all. Then you have the castes that further divide them.
The earth caste does all the grunt work, but also builds beautiful cities and does all the research. The fire caste is the most likely to spend time doing sports and disciplined samurai hobbies. Water caste is all about people so they have the most parties, I'd assume. Air caste is literally chair force, and they're even more fucked up physically than the Imperium's voidborn.
I don't think they would allow videogames to exist, other than training simulations. It is of no use to the Greater Good. Any media is heavily policed, or it wouldn't be the T'au.
>Why don't the Craft World Eldar go to war and wipe out the Dark Eldar?
Eldar see themselves as the superior race in a galaxy infested by inferiors. They are not enemies most of the time, but the galaxy is a big place and the toy soldiers fight sometimes.
>>96144718
There's a quote somewhere from a space marine that explained it straight. Chapters need to fill in a lot of roles. Some Marines need to excel on specialized weapons or vehicles. Some need to obey orders, others need to command. Some will do thankless tasks, others will kill just for the renown. You don't get that with clone*1000.
>>96144621
I'm pretty sure that the Marines would notice they have different geneseed and that could affect cohesion.
>>96145630
I'm sorry but if you read the rules and never played them, your opinion doesn't count. You'll know what I mean when you experience a campaign.
If you want to run a game, remember that rules isn't a selling point. You either pitch a good adventure, sell the setting, or coerce your friends to play with you.
>>96154716
The problem with xenos crew is xenos players. They suck. All of them.
>>96160386
Melee Navigator is much more powerful with that one power that let's you attack with Per.

>>96144718
The only thing marines use clones for is for emergency mass production of geneseed since you can get 2 in 10 years per clone.

>>96157005
>Something that could be true while you can't really exclude the idea that it's ruinous power at work, trying to sow confusion in men's minds.
It's easier to call important local history into question than galactic/setting history due to all the meta-knowledge players have about the latter. An example from the FFG Calixis setting would be something that call the nature and loyalty of Saint Drusus into question (maybe something portraying him as a psyker or an ally of Xenos). Something critical to the world/subsector/sector history will be much easier for you to make players as well as characters seriously doubt. Such matters will also be more widely known and more important to the faith and loyalty of local people and also easier for NPCs to question. It's important that the doubts lead to a real need for further investigation by implying some lingering danger, otherwise coverup will be too obvious a solution. The truth doesn't really matter to the Inquisition, after all - just protection of the Imperium.

Any books you'd like to see in the future?

>>96163981
A Chaos supplement for Wrath & Glory.

>>96162501
>The problem with xenos crew is xenos players. They suck. All of them.
People on /tg/ used to love xenos and xenos games. But now, the children yearn for the tropes.

>>96161492
Yes. The Great Crusade actually made things worse for a lot of worlds when they realised the scale of things required to meet the tithe. Those work practices stuck and were pretty firmly in place by the time of M33, let alone m36.
>>96163981
A better psyker system and a system that isn't an attempt to create a fucking proprietary 7 die system.

>>96165935
No, sorry, 'c7dX' or whatever they're fluffing it as, not 7 die. My mistake.

>>96163981
Top three would be...
>Imperial Navy book with void combat rules
>skulduggery book with commerce shit - this and the Navy book essentially letting you play RT 2e
>heretics book that essentially allows for BC 2e

>>96165935
>A better psyker system
What's so wrong with the current one?

>>96166451
Mana bar and guaranteed phenomena combined with powers that make dh2e look well done.

>>96167288
>Mana bar and guaranteed phenomena
Are bad because?
>powers that make dh2e look well done
Examples?

DH2e has vortex of doom, the dumbest power I've ever seen in a 40krpg. Hard to top that.

>>96165944
Can you elaborate, that term is ungooglable.

>>96167699
NTA but I assume this
https://cubicle7games.com/en_US/blog/c7d20-our-design-goals
c7, cubicle 7, dx, die size whatever
was that not relatively intuitive or am I just vastly more acoustic than your average bear

>>96167699
It's just a pet peeve, I fucking hate 'proprietary dice'. And a chance to tell some marketing intern to go fuck himself is always fun.

>>96165935
>>96168428
>and a system that isn't an attempt to create a fucking proprietary 7 die system.
Why are you complaining about proprietary dice systems with regards to a game that's not using a proprietary dice system? Are you expecting it to do a core mechanic turnaround somehow?

>>96168461
It's used across their other games and they slapped their own name on it, fuck 'em and fuck their mana bars.

>>96168478
Even the link you posted doesn't say anything at all about proprietary dice systems; it's about their dee und dee edition five fork and about how awfully nondistinct it is going to be. They probably could make a compatible 40k game, but IM is already made and is already d100.

>>96168500
You know what, that's on me, the c7d100 isn't even present in marketing materials and it's clearly been nuked from the site. Fuck 'em anyway, and I didn't post a link. Tell your bosses not to fuck up the laundry files, the old edition was already a disaster for all the entertainment value.

>>96168531
>fuck 'em anyway
*for the cheap adaptation of their wfrp game

>>96168500
NTA means Not That Anon, for future reference
'twas I, not he, who posted the link

>>96167730
Gee, what a yawn-inducing "initiative".
Thanks, anon.
Looks like it's not really proprietary dice, just their (Cubicle7) way of categorising systems (d20, d6, d100).

When I hear about "prioprietary dice", what comes to my mind are Genesys system, Fudge's +/0/- dice, or Ubiquity's eight-faced dice that are actually 1d2, 2d2 and 3d2.

>>96169086
The other guy implied whatever the dx was got nuked, so I'm about as in the dark about that as you are

>>96167730
>Built on the bones of 5e

>>96169886
Just like every other shitty GM on the planet

>>96163690
The call for more investigation would be that his finance and network are still used by what would be suspected to be a ring of heretics, later to be revealed as a front for a radical inquisitor. The paintings are here to seed doubt in player's mind. It's actually a good idea to end this section in a cover up to suggest that there is something to hide.
While I agree with your point on local history rather than global, I created the systems where the campaign takes place, it's isolated by the cicatrix malédiction and I'm afraid that player won't really care if the stakes aren't higher.

The call for more investigation would be that his finance and network are still used by what would be suspected to be a ring of heretics, later to be revealed as a front for a radical inquisitor. The paintings are here to seed doubt in player's mind. It's actually a good idea to end this section in a cover up to suggest that there is something to hide.
While I agree with your point on local history rather than global, I created the systems where the campaign takes place, it's isolated by the cicatrix maledictum and I'm afraid that player won't really care if the stakes aren't higher.
I also don't expect my players to be that knowledgeable about the setting.
>>96157765
I like the idea to make the whole thing about sacred art in general and having to collect different kind of them to make the puzzle whole. It makes me think of da vinci code

>>96163690
>>96172138
Woops

>>96169117
It didn't get nuked, they rearranged the site and made their marketing gimmick less prominent. C7DX is how they call their games' systems "C7D6", "C7D20", "C7D100".

>>96154676
35 years is really not that long, not even enough for significant challenges in tech level. unlike if it happened irl.
It would be really interesting if we were stuck 35 years ago and have to figure out how to rejoin with the Inquisition and our mysterious Lord Inquisitor.

>finally a friday
>time to see whats up with all that
>still stuck with only one (1) fate point

>>96167388
I did a lot of research into W&G powers when I was in a game of it and discovered that due to the way falling damage worked, you could basically one-shot anything that doesn't fly with a long fall using the anti-gravity power. You don't even need a tall ceiling, since you can make gravity point at the wall and pancake them instantly because W&G has a pretty long round time.

But shit, Vortex of Doom is pretty fucking stupid too.

>>96163981
Something about the League of Black Ships.

do you guys have any ideal places within the universe that you would consider niche enough to be a position within the world that only you would choose?
I'd like to be a perpetual fodder that insists on standing between The Order of The Valorous Heart sisters and the bullets they want for to hit them. Even when it is completely unnecessary to do so. To the point where it even drives them mad and ruins their aspirations for atonement

I've been looking for a fillable pdf sheet for Deathwatch with the team page included, but outside of scribd I got no luck. Anybody got one?

>>96172138
>I'm afraid that player won't really care if the stakes aren't higher.
>I also don't expect my players to be that knowledgeable about the setting.
If your players don't have a lot of setting knowledge then things about the broader setting you could reveal through a painting probably aren't going to work well anyway. The "big E is an Age of Strife genetic construct" thing is a good example. It's going to take a lot of explanation and setting knowledge to justify that even mattering to anyone. I'm actually not sure it even contradicts anything about the Imperial Creed - they don't know or care where the Emperor came from, just what he did afterward. The biggest problem is that setting-level stuff is just too easy to dismiss. A painting that depicts heretical beliefs is just a painting - there's no reason for it to make people question deeply held beliefs. Shallower beliefs are easier targets (though you still need to give people a reason it matters). If you really need big setting level challenges, then have it hint at the Imperial Truth somehow (hard to do with a painting).

Suggestion: The nobleman who killed himself over the painting is a major political figure - a keystone of the whole region's power structure. Planetary governor of a major world, or even a subsector or sector lord. He killed himself because of the painting is super important to his lineage and his family's right to rule. It's a famous work from the establishment of the sector that shows the original coronation. The picture underneath shows the founder and all his subordinates were actually Chaos worshipers or something. Also, make them question the suicide - maybe the guy's relatives or heirs had him killed for fear of what he discovered. Revelation could plunge the region into a giant civil war (either causing the faithful to rebel or provoking the other corrupted nobles to do so). Planets and regions are big stakes, and keeping things local makes it easier to hold a story together.

>Want to play a Sister of Battle
Is this the AGP they talk about?

>>96177839
In which system? OW or DH?

>>96177839
Only if you mean AutoGun Projectiles.
Not really though.

>>96177444
I like the idea, ty

>>96177839
idk, I played a girl once in a ttrpg and felt weird. It was lowkey homoerotic because my bi friend kept flirting with me in character and I couldn't break character

Speaking of SoB one of my chuddiest headcannons is that SoB are basically a propaganda force in the Imperium. Sort of like how China does irl

As in, they march around and look hot and smart in parades. Yes, the Imperium does give them excellent equipment and that does count for something. But as an actual military unit that are probably quite bad and they aren't really useful. Best case they are brainless fanatics and maybe that fanaticism smmons a miracle. Worst case they are just retarded women with weapons.

https://litter.catbox.moe/igokip1z9rrpmwkg.mp4
This meme but the kentucky guy is some hardbitten hiveganger guard regiment that fights and wins with a logistic chain that is practically nonexistent.

>>96180885
That sounds uncomfortable, could you not tell them to stop?

>>96180925
Is awwright. He's a good guy ultimately. I just had my character retire from the party and brought a male one in

>>96176798
https://files.catbox.moe/rpgo3a.pdf

Do you mean the power sheet? This might be what you're after.

>>96176798
>>96181128
https://transfer.it/t/lmeHHMkFBZyY

Fucking catbox. Try that one.

>>96180915
>chuddiest
I applaud you for admitting it, at least.

>>96181409
Fuck you nigger.

>>96180915
Definitely a weirdly crabby headcanon that I can't really imagine stemming from anything other than just hating sisters as a faction. Like the other guy said, at least you admit it.

When purchasing a ship in rogue trader, is the *only* modifier the hull cost? Is there a guide somewhere for how it's equipped beyond 'you're the gm, you do it'?

>>96174659
>have only one fate point
>use my last fate point to perform a miracle
>I earn a fate point for performing a miracle
>I now have one fate point

>>96182130
You roll to see if there's a hull for sale. You roll to acquire the hull. You get the hull. Nothing is ever said anywhere about getting components, so the hull's useless.
You roll to locate each individual Essential Component. If you fail, fuck you. If you succeed, you roll to acquire each individual component. If you fail, fuck you.
Don't forget the -30 for any component involving War. Because not just fuck you, but turbo ultra mega fuck you. Yes, this means that the most basic possible macrobattery is a -30 to acquire. Yes, it means that the lousiest lance in space is a minimum of a -40 to acquire, as is the most basic munitorium. Quite essentially, my friend, if you want to build a halfway decent spaceship outside of character creation, you must either spend ludicrous amounts of wealth, or you must have a very good friend of an Admiral.
If you're a GM and you're asking for your players, be kind - fully equip its essential components, and throw in a weapon system or two as well. Even just Jovian missiles. If they manage to buy a currently-functional ship, just tally up its total SP and make it a lump sum.

>>96182985
Yeah, I'll probably just throw in what seems right for a ship of that class plus or minus something depending on the role. Used colony ship, cheap (no gellar field, warp drive activates on hair trigger), that sort of thing.

>>96182994
>no gellar field
I would like for you to elaborate on why handing them a ship that they cannot use seems like a good idea.
Do you intend for a spare gellar field to be very easily purchasable, or do you intend to give them a ship that doesn't work?
This is forgivable if you want it as a plot hook, but only barely.

>>96183033
Partially because I don't want to be a complete cunt and say no ships, so making it difficult enough that they won't try and create a fleet of 500 jerichos. And partially so there's a reason that the ship is still available in the expanse which appears to be approximately 95% rogue traders by volume. And to pad things out a bit because I am a hack. Find out what's wrong with the ship they just bought if they don't get it out in negotiations, find a fix. Similar to how finding a drifting hulk might be - a quick check to see if it can be salvaged, and if so, what's needed to get it moving to drydock.

A standard gellar field is probably not terribly uncommon, though I'm mostly using it as an example. Damaged weapons, leaking life support, the crew are tau who are absolutely convinced that they're masters of stealth, whatever.

>>96183171
Okay, so not gellar field specifically, just some reason for the ship to not have already been snapped up. Well, the Breaking Yards are full of old and drifting hulls, the vast majority of which are being pulled apart for anything salvageable, so there's your glut of hulls and a slightly scantier supply of components for them. Many individuals go there to purchase hulls, and many more hulls are actively being processed at a time. That is, I'd presume, where the initial test to locate your hull of choice would be made - depending on degrees of success, it can likely be said to have been stripped bare, have a few components (some damaged), have all essential components (quality varies) or have a great many components (likely a good bit of battle damage).
It's already a very onerous task to purchase and equip even a single Jericho, so I wouldn't worry about players assembling an enormous fleet - over the course of a two year game, I only obtained three new ships. One was a Carrack I scored in the first session by virtue of boarding action, the second was a refurbished heavy cruiser I traded an STC shard for, and the third was a Mass Conveyor I paid out the nose for. I never even got to do anything with the latter two.
If you still want a game of 'find the rust spots', I can't fault you for that, but it absolutely should not involve an essential component in a way that impedes the ship's ability to function as a ship. Give it a snotling infection, or a leftover cargo which is unidentified and extremely unpleasant, or make it a trade vessel from some other dynasty which went 'mysteriously' missing a few decades back (or which they're only claiming went missing, because you've gone and refurbished their old junker and now it's profitable to own again).

>>96180915
>"hoe" muted out
lame and cowardly

Any tips on RPing a Night Lord, and traitor Astartes in general?

>>96131415 (OP)
Looking into getting into W&G and my LGS happens to have a decent chunk of the line in-stock at the moment. Is there any specific books besides the CRB that are highly recommended to have?

>>96185528
Number one is whether you were raised as a Traitor Astartes from the start, or whether you turned Traitor from being a Loyalist originally. At your core, you have a desire and you'll do whatever it takes to fulfill it, no matter what kind of a monster it turns you into. Whether this makes you a genuine nightmarish psychopath or just an edgy renegade is up to you, but find out what drives you and build everything around that.

Are all Eldar subject to Slanesh when they die or just those who helped create him/her/it/they?

>>96185918
Technically all of them, though most have ways of trying to avoid it, whether it's Craftworlder spirit stones, Drukhari soul-siphoning mumbo jumbo with pain, Exodite world spirits or Harlequins having Cegorach himself step in.

>>96185689
Church of Steel if you like vehicular stuff.

>>96174659
>expected to walk into Stern hope and just fight a daemon and its hanful of heretics
>turns out one of the major faction leaders is there with ~1500 pilgrims
>faction leader has a woman next to him that makes you unconfortably sexually aroused if you look at her
>need proof of heresy to get the (small) possible Arbites support or be able to send the incoming imperial guard on these people
>Galen shakes one of the pilgrims standing guard into sobriety
>turns out that the woman and seth are using a magical knife to carve symbols on people and making them under mind control
>man starts spazzing and goes limp, brain hemmorraging
>look under his shirt
>carved aquila standing on symbol of slaneesh
>that's our proof
>misunderstand Galen saying he'll kill her and think he's about to jump her rn

The whole mystery keeps getting deeper and twisty. Idk wtf is slaneesh doing here ic and ooc. Only that this whole place is warp tainted so i'm assuming tzeentch doesnt have exclusive claim

tfw roleplaying RT with gemini 2.5 flash and its great, it takes hours to exhaust the context. The future is now.

Like, I had the bright idea of putting together an unsanctioned psyker choir and the model was smart enough to turn it into a gigantic shitshow during a Warp jump.

Question about Only War, something I'm not 100% certain about:
If a player succeeds in a logistics roll to obtain an item, is this item entrusted to their character permanently, or is it only for the duration of next mission and they have to roll for it again in the future?

>>96192654
I'd presume they have it until they lose it.
Lot of ways to lose something on a battlefield, though, especially if it's contraband.

>>96192654
Mission assignment gear is what they give back at the end of a mission. Stuff they get from a logistic roll is otherwise theirs.

>>96193243
>Stuff they get from a logistic roll is otherwise theirs.
Unless you have a commissar who is doing proper patrols and sticking to the themes.

Anyone know where I can get Mark of the Xeno? The one in the OP doesn't work.

>>96193825
https://transfer.it/t/GKGQ3hoTCRaa

Here you are, famalamadingdong

What kind of people/situations do daemons avoid? Khorn demons seek out powerful opponents so would they leave a pacifist alone? Do Slaanesh daemons avoid people who are deaf/blind?

Do we have lore evidence of what rules daemons follow for who they will and will not engage?

>>96194370
No.

"Khorne cares not from who the blood flows". Daemons generally leave the Tau alone, lore wise, but only because they don't really get anything from it. Tiny little acrid souls. And even then they'll grab them if they're nearby. A Slaaneshi daemon might actually enjoy a blindie. Imagine if the only thing you could see, blind from birth, was a daemonette dancing. You'd have no analogue for what sight was, no way to really relate it to your normal experience. You don't even have that eigengrau space behind the eyes most of us do when they're shut, no infinite void. You'd just this thing dancing in an out-of-context sense you have never had.

Lore question. Hypothetically, if someone in the imperium were to make -through either sheer genius or a psyker ability that interacts with tech- a power armor model thats either

>even better than what space marines chapter masters use, practically iron man level
>worse than what the marines use but its so easy to make that one could outfit decent chunks of the imperial guard without too much drama

then how high up the chain of command or nobility would that person need to be to not get deleted and looted by the mechanicus and maybe the inquisition too?

>>96195147
It's tech-heresy. They die.
Then, coincidentally, the forgeworld which carried out this punitive action independently discovers an item of 'archaeotech' which bears a striking resemblance to that pattern of armor. Truly a miracle of the Dark Age of Technology.

>>96195147
Experimentation is forbidden, as the other poster said, tech-heresy.

You mentioned power armor, it used to be common place. The votann have better power armor. The imperium is running on the degraded remnants of the technology of the old times

>>96183171
>Partially because I don't want to be a complete cunt and say no ships, so making it difficult enough that they won't try and create a fleet of 500 jerichos.
I have a suggestion for this. House rule that adding a ship to your fleet requires completing an Endeavor rather than just making a bunch of Acquisitions. Scale the Endeavor by hull size and/or details of what they're looking for. The Endeavor will general consist of locating a ship of the type they want, arranging to gain ownership, and repairing or outfitting the ship to have the parts they want. This could vary from a negotiation to purchase a ship from a Chartist Guild by helping the guild with a Xenos problem, to contacting with the Navy to hunt down a notorious pirate wjho happens to fly a ship of the type you want. Acquisitions may be involved, but aren't the main issue. This gives you a very controllable way to allow players to expand their fleets, and the time involved puts limits on just how many ships they can realistically get.

>>96197512
This runs into the issue that Endeavors are fucking trash, and it's really not that easy to acquire and equip a massive trade fleet in the first place.

>>96197616
>Endeavors are fucking trash
In what way?

>it's really not that easy to acquire and equip a massive trade fleet in the first place.
That's part of the point. You make in-game ship acquisition less of a gamble while also making it more time-consuming rather than just reducing the difficulty or number of Acquisition tests to obtain the hull and parts.

>>96197712
Endeavors are a half-baked attempted gamification of accomplishing various tasks that isn't comprehensive enough to make use of exclusively, but is just present enough to gum up the works of anything a GM tries to do. They boil down to "The GM and the players work together to figure out what they're going to do, and then the players do that", but with numbers involved to make ship components pretend they matter.
If you want to build a trade route, you look for a demand you can supply, schmooze some guys to get permits, and schmooze some chartist captains into signing on. The GM has to set that up, and the players have to do it. With Endeavors involved, all of those same steps are still there, except now you need a certain number of points to accomplish each task, which are awarded arbitrarily by the GM, so they don't fucking matter. "Oh, I did all the work but fell short by a single point" well what the fuck else is there to do, then? Bribe or blackmail an official? Perform a hostile takeover on a small shipping company? Whatever you choose, you're still going to have to invent that shit by hand.
Achievement Points don't even work as a fun bonus thing to give your players more profit factor at the end of an 'endeavor', they're too easily gamed. As evidence I submit the Polaris-class MegaYacht, a Universe-class Mass Conveyor loaded to the gills with Luxury Passenger Quarters and crewed by servitors to remove morale as a concern. That motherfucker is capable of generating between three and four thousand Achievement Points to Trade, Creed, and Crime, and every hundred AP you have spare translates directly to one additional Profit Factor. Congratulations, you complete a single voyage and you ascend halfway up the scale of 'richest man in space'. Two voyages and it doesn't matter where you started, you're richer than Winterscale.
In summation, they're not enough ruleswise to depend on, and they're just enough ruleswise to make problems.

>>96197836
You have some valid complaints about the way they work. Regarding the ship acquisition thing, the idea still makes sense if you just call it an "Adventure" instead of an "Endeavor" and run it the way you like.

Regarding Endeavors themselves, I do think the basic idea behind structuring Rogue Trader adventures around scoring Achievement Points and using that to determine bonuses at the end has value, but you're right about RAW. When running games, I reverse the way AP work at the Objective level. You don't complete an Objective by reaching an AP threshold, you gain AP by completing an Objective. There's a base amount granted for Objective completion, with chances for gaining or losing AP in various ways. Ship Components can provide extra if used to help with the Objective (I did drop the part about "themes"). Win the Endeavor and you get the default PF for winning. Exceed the Endeavor's total AP requirement and you can gain 1 extra PF per 100 AP. This does need some limits to extra PF accumulation (maybe restrict it to double base reward), but works pretty well.

>>96194361
You're a star, thank you very much.

How cool each faction is, ranked
>A Tier
Sisters of Battle, Harlequins, Adeptus Mechanicus, Demons of Nurgle, Thousand Sons, Grey Knights
>A- Tier
Necrons, World Eaters, White Scars, Imperial Guard, Black Templars, Emperor's Children
>B+ Tier
Blood Angels, Death Guard, Iron Hands, Orks, Assassins, Deathwatch
>B- Tier
Night Lords, Raven Guard, Black Legion, Demons of Tzeentch, Demons of Khorne, Drukkari
>C+ Tier
Eldar, Imperial Fists, Dark Angels, Space Wolves, Slann
>C- Tier
Tau, Word Bearers, Demons of Slaanesh, Chaos Knights, Imperial Knights, Iron Warriors
>F Tier
Gene Stealer Cults, Squats, Ultramarines, Salamanders, Alpha Legion, Tyranids

>>96198487
>poop demons
>high tier

>>96198487
>A Tier
Rogue Traders
>F Tier
Everything Else
>Not even present on the tier board
Chaos
>So fucking dogshit not even the rejects like them
Nurgle demons

See, I can just say shit too.

Hey anons, got a question.
I'm looking into playing Wrath and Glory as a solo rpg, but I was wondering if anyone knows the best way to play it with only one playable character, or should I just bite the bullet and build a team?
Playing a single character would invariably mess with battle initiative seeing as how it' would go Me > NPC > Me > NPC etc but I can resolve that problem later. The plan is to start play as a Crimson Fists Scout who's gonna work his way up to his Black Carapace at which point I'll level up to Astartes then eventually level up to Primaris (reluctantly) as the game goes on.
Input would be appreciated if anyone else has done something like this before.

Am I trying to be too much of a Jew or do Field Vivisection and Superior Chirurgeon stack?
>When using the Called Shot action with a melee or ranged attack (depending on the Specialisation) against a target for which the character has the appropriate Forbidden Lore (Xenos) skill, he makes a Medicae (WS) or Medicae (BS) test in place of the normal Weapon Skill or Ballistic Skill test.

>The Acolyte’s advanced medical training enables him to knit flesh with deft mastery, essential for treating combat casualties. His exceptional education in use of the Narthecium, Med-Slate, and supplemental drugs give his patients an enormous advantage. He gains a +20 bonus on all Medicae skill tests. When providing first aid, he ignores the penalties for Heavily Damaged patients and only suffers a –10 penalty for those suffering Critical damage.

>>96198487
Should really just fold space marines and chaos space marines into two groups.

>>96199174
Tell me, anon, are you using the Narthecium, Med-Slate, or supplemental drugs to make a called shot?
Purely RAW, it does work that way, yes, but if you try to do this in an actual game your GM is legally allowed to beat you with a hammer.

>>96199505
Worst take itt

>>96198899
Maybe I misunderstood the rules; do you actually get more than 1 turn per round just for being outnumbered like that?

>>96163981
Ship book
Multi book campaign
Book giving options for Ogryn, imperial kin & Ratlings and sanctioned xeno Eldar Mercs.

>>96199664
You don't. Normally, it goes player 1 > NPC > Player 2 > NPC > Player 3 etc
So it would be me burning through turns trading back and forth or the NPCs getting all their turns after my one turn.
Which is a problem.

>>96199547
My GM okayed it.

>>96199652
Then why not rank every subfaction? Mordians are nothing like Catachans. Evil Sunz are nothing like Snakebites.

>>96199796
Then your GM is either an idiot or running a meme game with no connection to real 40k.

>>96199963
Lol. Our party's 70 WS blank is doing more with his power shield and agoniser than my unarmed Biologis ever could synergizing those two.

>>96200013
>allowing a blank with dark eldar weapon
Yup. Called it. Meme game.

>>96200025
Sorry you're stuck playing under Puritan Inquisitors.

>>96189970
Was the aquila carved first or second? Carved first, no big deal, but carved second implies someone defaced the symbol of Slaanesh with it, which would be... odd. Not the most unfathomable thing a Slaaneshi has ever done, but odd.

>>96200025
What did he mean by this?

>>96195147
Adding to what the others said, now and then we get implications that there are absurd suits of power armor out there that the ridiculously wealthy and powerful can obtain, but they rarely appear in story. I imagine because they're really not that interesting or dynamic for protagonists to have access to.

>>96195147
Depends on your favors, pull, and ability to bullshit. On paper, it's Tech-Heresy. Realistically, Tech-Heresy means nothing and is used mostly to get rid of rivals and upstarts. High-ranking Tech-Priests have innovated plenty of times and covered up what they've actually done through fabricating claims that they were just 'rediscovering' something or using their position to protect themselves from immediate retribution. Inquisitors and Rogue Traders also tend to be gray areas since the former, on paper, only answer to the Emperor and effectively speak on his behalf while the latter have the Warrant.

Now, how high up you would need to be is more a question of how well you can keep your mouth shut and stop attention being drawn to your arsenal. The Imperium is a big, BIG place, and what we're shown is ultimately a fraction of it. Realistically, 'Iron Man level' power armor wouldn't be that impressive, offering more fluidity and mobility at the expense of protection and strength compared to more common patterns. It would be the sort of thing valued by nobility or Inquisitors who keep a healthy social network around them, the sort who attend galas and political parties frequently. Inquisitors, Rogue Traders, and even a few high-ranking nobles wouldn't have much issue holding onto something like that unless they openly flaunted something like that in front of a Tech-Priest with the age and data to recognize that what they are looking at is an unidentified pattern or potentially missing technology - at which point their interest would skyrocket and lead to invasive questioning at the very best. And if they start asking questions, you better be able to produce some very solid bullshit reports or pray word never gets back to a member of the Mechanicus who feels like trying to flex their dick on the Imperium.

If you wanted Iron Man-ish power armor, I would recommend BQ Praetor Armour, add a Grav Chute, add mag boots, and +1 Unnatural SB.

>>96200163
Mudcore autists who think that a TPK to a hobo with a diseased knife or a pyrrhic victory against a nurgling that burns the entire planet down should be the desired end goal.

>>96199796
Did you buy him a pizza, or is he just chill like that?
>>96200025
Agonizers are only Very Rare in ITS. Blanks are squintable but they do take a very hefty Fellowship penalty.

>>96200453
He prefers to just rule by raw and leniency in the more gray areas because he doesn't like to kneecap people unless it's legitimately game-breaking. Plus, like I said, even if I did buy both of those, I'm the least threatening character when it comes to combat. My Biologis has been relegated to the party's skill mule since my friends both went with cracked combat builds that suck up all their experience - a Frenzy-spamming WS god and an Inescapable-spamming sniper, respectively.

For reference and comparison, my character is a Chirurgeon, and I went with Unarmed Specialist. Probably a bit of pity involved there, too.

>>96200543
If it's a way to help set you on more even ground with other PCs, it's probably fine, yeah. If it were a minmax on top of a whole big pile of other minmaxes, you'd deserve a flaying.

>>96200594
Brother, the only impressive thing about me is my 13 soak, and I'm still fighting for my life. Getting attacked by enemies dealing over 20 damage before pen. Our last major fight lasted 3 6hr sessions.

>>96200453
To quote the man
>"Fuck. He knows I'm taking shit from Into the Storm. He's good."

>>96200648
40krpg is my autism of choice. You could give me just about anything from RT and I could tell you where to find it, and that goes double for anything Voidship-related. God I love spaceships.
Other systems I'm a bit iffier on, which is where the giant fuckoff spreadsheet comes into play.

>>96198487
>Squats, Ultramarines, Salamanders, Alpha Legion
>In F Tier

>>96200351
>High-ranking Tech-Priests have innovated plenty of times and covered up what they've actually done through fabricating claims that they were just 'rediscovering' something or using their position to protect themselves from immediate retribution.
And don't forget that muddying the waters is that sometimes they are legitimately rediscovering STCs and that lends the cover of credibility to others.

>>96201081
The best I've seen was the team techpriest going "Yes, these Old Slann upgrade components are perfectly compatible with our wargear. That means the Omnissiah's glorious human designs must go back millions of years and these frogs obviously stole them, so it's perfectly safe to fit them into the gun I just crafted. Now who wants one?"

>>96160854
>>96159796
They could be a warp being/flesh being hybrid like the mandrakes are heavily implied to be.

Are there any Black Library novels where it's effectively a heist to steal a warrant of trade?

>>96200648
>13 soak
Huh?

>>96201786
He's an unlucky {or very lucky} mormon.

>>96201786
BQ Natural Armor implant + BQ Enforcer Light Carapace + 4 TB. GM runs with the gene mods from the Homebrew Collection, and I've been trying to keep my Biologis/Xenologist as bio-augmented as possible. I'm trying to aim for a BQ Secondary Heart and BQ Venom Glands atm.

>>96198899
Most games that are adapted that way have the singular PC get extra turns to compensate. You could also have a squad of dudes that are a tier or two below the character you are playing.

>see ork guide on skin
>like the paint job
>basecoat is a 1:1 averland skarsnik
>go buy skarsnik
>mix and apply
>fuck this looks familiar
>it's just fucking orruk flesh
Cunt

>>96203311
Good job missing both /40kg/ and /wip/ to post in the RPG thread.

>>96203359
Wait what.
Im so sorry lmao, I'll take my leave.

>>96203391
It happens

Are there any rules, official or homebrew, for Drukhari's Djin Blades?

>>96205042
If you mean for the FFG systems, I have no idea. There's a fan supplement for W&G that has them.

Which TTRPG has the best psychic system?

>>96207081
>Which TTRPG has the best psychic system?
I was quite partial to the system in the beta test for 2E Dark Heresy, but it didn't make it into print.

>>96207081
DH1e's Minor Powers are great and I don't know why other games and editions omit them.

>>96207081
Beta DH2 was pretty weird and fucky but it was alright. I'm a bit of a fan of the fan one that gets posted here sometimes, but mostly because it's someone combining the best of 1e with an unfucked 2e.
>>96208833
And the ones that they did put in feel like a middle finger.
>>96205042
I can't remember where I saw it, but I've seen a fanwork. It was a dagger, power profile, 1 fatigue if you miss by 2-3 degrees of failure, extra attack for every 2-3 degrees of success.

>>96207081
I actually liked DH1e, I get why it got changed to be in line with the other mechanics but the fact that it was a d10 dice pool system while everything else was a d100 roll-under actually mechanically gave the idea of taking reality (d10s) and literally warping them in a way non-psykers just couldn't (changing from roll-under to dice pool).
I also wasn't a fan of later iterations of d100 psykers having pushing make the casting harder, the methods of PR = bonus to Focus Power Tests incentivized pushing so not-pushing was an actual direct choice you were making.

Is it worth trying out Wrath and Glory if your whole group is going to be the same powerlevel?

>>96216734
>Is it worth trying out Wrath and Glory if your whole group is going to be the same powerlevel?
My group switched over from Black Crusade to W&G about a month and a half ago. GM just asked today "does anyone have strong feelings about reverting?" Everyone either didn't care or expressed a preference for remaining with W&G. So yes, I'd say give it a try... worst case, you can always switch back if it's not your thing.

Did anyone drop the IM Inquisition Player Guide here before?

>>96217214
Say Perterabo is bae and I'll post the link. SAY IT.

>>96217258
Iron Within.

>>96217214
>>96217258
>>96217266
IRON WITHOUT

CLOSE ENOUGH

transferit/t/NkeUUQwFnBLR

>>96217269
From your Honour cometh Iron.

>Imperium Maledictum says obscurement caused by smoke grenades can be ignored by infrared vision
>does not include any infrared vision devices like preysense goggles

Am I retarded or are they? I had to have missed it and if not how should I cost these? Scarce and 500 thrones or w/e?

>>96217664
Pretty sure they have things like psyker powers that give you that, and I believe the omnispex attachment gives you the effect as well?
Either way, probably a higher price than magnoculars and base it off that.

>>96201716
There is the shira/arbite one where the inner circle of a dead Rogue Trader try to inject his DNA into a lackey to be eligible to be the new Rogue Trader (but actually just be a powerless figurehead while they continue running things), meanwhile a merchant faction tries to bully the Rogue Trader's actual son to put forth a claim and become their puppet leader to get them control of both the warrant and the fleet. Also the local religious leaders try to get control of the warrant and turn it into a relic because it is signed by the Emperor himself

>>96217664
You'd want to check out the warhammer fantasy thread for details, but someone dropped by once and laid out their editing process and it boiled down to something like "one guy with no real quality checks to stitch it all together and it runs through someone else who adds in internet-appropriate diversity", where one or two of these people may or may not actually touch the work itself pretty much at random.

>>96217729
The omnispex seems like it may do that but nope, just mechanically removes disadvantages for firing into zones with unfavorable lighting. I'm gonna go with 500 and rare.

>>96217793
I fucking believe it. I'm sure I'll find more but as far as it goes this is a pretty easy one to work around. They need to stop making new systems and work on the ones they started.

>>96217269
>Magnus did nothing wrong

Newfag here, question for any of you that played Rogue Trader TTRPG and video game, story & character-wise how much stuff in the game is actually from the TTRPG adventures. I know Owlcat's pathfinder games heavily followed the adventure paths, curious about rogue trader.
Wondering what could we be in for in Dark Hereesy if Owlcat did indeed follow premade adventures.

>>96220324
Pretty much nothing, the video game only even really uses a few things specific from the Koronus Expanse that were detailed in the TTRPG books and pretty much nothing from any of the published adventures, heck the Necrons were never even stated in RT, they first showed up in Deathwatch and later Black Crusade. Truth be told it was one of my minor complaints about the video game, I wished they used some of the unique areas or things in the Koronus Expanse a little more.

This is why Dark Heresy is going to be interesting because it is unclear how much of already written stuff for the Calixis Sector they are going to use cause one of DH's adventure sets is somewhat focused on the Tyrant Star, and a good chunk of stuff has been written about it across the books, plus the fact that the trailer narrator/inquisitor shown off is a known inquisitor from the books, Lord Inquisitor Anton Zerbe Head of the Tyrantine Cabal, means they are at least using some existing lore. I doubt they are going to base it on any of the adventure modules, though my personal hope is they pull at least some stuff from them, and I kind of hope they don't give us an explicit answer on what the Tyrant Star is cause that was one of the appeals of it as a plot point, and I know that will make people mad.

>>96220324
I found myself incredibly disappointed in the CRPG. Rogue Trader is near and dear to my heart, and it's meant to be a glorious blend of Crusader Kings, Anno 1800, Ultimate Admiral, Total War, and Tomb Raider, all wrapped up in the East Indies Company in SPACE.
What we got was not only so thoroughly on rails that I could swear I saw a classily dressed scoundrel tying someone to the tracks, but all but spat on the concept of the Expanse as a whole. Cutting out all but two rival Dynasties was unforgivable, and adding the C'tan in the first place was a bridge too far. A Rogue Trader who finds a C'tan either fucks off immediately and vortex bombs it from orbit, or fucking dies. You are not the chosen one, you do not have special protagonist privileges. You have money and you have your life, and if you want to keep either, you have got to be smart about things.

I'm not sure if I should add any more stuff or shrink what I've already got so I can add more stuff, I know these nebulas are huge as they currently are
Meant to be a Rogue Tradery expanse for colonising and plundering, with representation from every race (though I'm not sure how I'm going to justify Tau being here)
Maybe the lack of planet icons is fucking with my perspective

Gimme some thoughts

>>96222344
>how to justify Tau being there
Put it in the Eastern Fringe.
If you're worried about fitting stuff in, just downscale the size of your icons a bit - not even a lot, just by a third, maybe. I'd consider a single square 3x2 of those tiny grid blocks to be about the size of one working unit, and then putting stuff two to three of such units away from each other, maybe as many as four. It really depends on how much you want to cram in there - is this about sector-sized, or subsector?

I have added an extremely faint galaxy in the dark area for autism purposes
>>96222407
Sector
I made the proportions roughly the same as the Koronus Expanse, in terms of pixels, which when I rescaled everything to that I realised the nebulas are all the size of the fuckin warp storms
I've got a good sense of how big the icons are, at least, at 20x20

>>96222407
>Put it in the Eastern Fringe.
That's exactly what my GM did with his homebrew sector for exactly that reason.

>>96222443
I advise get a piece of paper and a handful of dice, then throw the latter onto the former. Mark those out (adjust where necessary for those in the nebula or out of bounds (or don't, and make them Chaos worlds)) and see how you like it.

Are there rules for playing a sister of battle in RT or will I need to combine it with another rulebook?

>>96220324
The background is there, if slightly warped. The NPC rogue traders all exist, as does the order of the hammer, most stations and planets. No story beats, and there's definitely no convieniently undefended c'tan waiting to be enslaved.

>>96222504
There's a career of DH1E-suitable power level in DH1E:Inquisitor's Handbook, a career insisting on getting the entire kit at DH1E rank 1 in DH1E:Blood of Martyrs, and suitable options in DH2E:Enemies Within.

>>96222621
Thanks!

>>96222504
There are no such rules, no. The DH1E SoB rules are a little overpowered, it probably fits.

>>96222344
>justify Tau being here
Tau are everywhere in the galaxy now, they're not limited to Eastern Fringe anymore.

>>96222344
>>96222443
>Map flair
looks fine enough, though the nebulae are a touch large
>Tau
Tau aren't limited to the galactic east anymore, they can be anywhere
>Planets
Depending on how many sectors you intend to fit on the map, you need enough to provide variety, but not so many that it becomes cluttered. My preference is between 10-20 planets for each sector, unified by a common design theme/constraint, and each with at least one interesting/weird fact about them. Space stations and void facilities should also be considered. The only thing I would suggest is daemon/chaos worlds should be near warp storms that sustain them if possible.

How often are minor xenos encountered by the imperial explorator fleets? Are they always culled or left alone if considered too weak/primitive/peaceful to kill immediately?
Are there planets where Imperial citizens live beside xenos?
I know there are sanctioned xenos like the jokaero but how rare are those cases?

>>96222504
Reference Legends of the Expanse by Lodge Blackman Games. Good solid homebrew for the most part.

>>96223239
Lodge blackman is terrible. He's the guy who made a genestealer player character "that broke free of the hivemind" and most of his other stuff is boring and has no innovation.

>>96223278
The stuff that's a direct conversion from DH to RT is good. The extended ranks are pretty alright.
I do have to agree with you on the latter point. All his starship stuff is just 'this works identically to the Imperial equivalent'. Was a serious letdown.

>>96223278
>>96223376
Boring is good. Boring is safe. Boring is BALANCED.

>>96223388
Fuck yo balance. Rock paper scissors is balanced, do you see me using that to play as a space warlord?

>>96223209
>How often are minor xenos encountered by the imperial explorator fleets?
Pretty commonly since the 40K universe is fairly lifeform-rich. Finding ruins is likely even more common since it is also pretty harsh.

>Are they always culled or left alone if considered too weak/primitive/peaceful to kill immediately?
This is entirely situational. It will depend on who finds them and under what circumstances. The Imperium generally wants to eliminate Xenos, but exploration is mostly done by Rogue Traders or Mechanicus Explorators, who both often have other higher-priority goals unless the Xenos cause trouble for them. Rogue Traders may see minor Xenos as a good opportunity for business, or at least resupply.

>Are there planets where Imperial citizens live beside xenos?
Peaceful and cooperative coexistence with Xenos is extremely illegal in almost all cases. Only Rogue Traders and those acting under their authority are exempt (and maybe Inquisitors, because they can do what they want). You might find cases of Rogue Trader dynasty outposts doing this, but any significant colony will inevitably be absorbed and formally incorporated into the Imperium. There might be Imperial worlds with hidden Xenos populations lurking in the wilderness, or cases in which weird Xenos are too difficult to entirely wipe out or something (like persistent Ork infestations).

>I know there are sanctioned xenos like the jokaero but how rare are those cases?
Extremely rare to the point that most people have never heard of it. Jokaero mostly get a pass because they aren't clearly sentient (no form of language), and are regarded more as animals with a weird technological affinity.

>>96223209
Sanctioned Xenos are like the archbishop’s pet jew in ye olde HRE: they’re heretical, but the average pants-shitting farmer knows better than to question the divinely appointed representative of God.

>>96223467
I don't see you playing at my table, that's for fucking sure.

>>96222277
Nomos should’ve been a Yu’vath or Egarian artifact.

>>96220324
There were no Stryxis and no Rak’gol so the Owlcat devs should have killed themselves.

Hey hey. Anyone got some 40K themed oracles?

>>96223749
The emperor's tarot is a pretty good one.

>>96223720
no tabletop models for those, pls understan

>>96223768
Thank you but I meant something that doesn't require tabletop simulator or the like.

>>96223720
>>96223731
>>96223773

I do remember owlcat put out a survey earlier this year I think where it asked what kind of things would you like to see added as dlc/patchs for Rogue Trader I assume to gauge what people were interested in. It had a variety of stuff you could vote for and I distinctly remember seeing options to select the various minor xenos like rak'gol and yu'vath, as well as locations unique to the expanse like processional of the damned and undred-undred teef. If they were limited to just models I doubt they would have put some of those options in there but who knows, maybe they weren't sure if they could or thought that people that only knew 40k basics would get confused by some of this stuff.

God do I wish for them to inflict rak'gol on people who don't know anything about the TTRPG.

>>96200147
Can't tell, seems it was carved "at the same time", or in the same "session". The description we got is:

>On his chest is carved a symbol of the Aquila. And yet... the Aquila is sitting on an orb.
>An orb with a pincer.
>You have no idea what this means, of course.

Then I reminded the GM that we got the most basic chaos intruduction and we at least know the symbols of the big 4. So we know it's Slaneesh.
What does the Aquilla sitting on Slaneesh mean? No fucking idea, we might find out this friday.

>>96223680
If your idea of balance is 'every boat in space is mechanically identical to a Sword-class frigate', why the fuck would I want to be?

>>96224105
I want to see a bunch of BG3 and WOTR brain poisoned idiots get into long arguments about whether the Stryxis are an antisemitic caricature/

>>96224105
>rak'gol
I looked over my GM's shoulder just a day or two ago and I think he was researching these guys on Lexicanum. How worried should I be?

>>96224557
Exceedingly.

>>96222772
>10-20 planets for each sector
20 planets for a sector seems low. Calixis has almost 20 per subsector.

>>96222772
>Tau aren't limited to the galactic east anymore, they can be anywhere
>>96222670
>Tau are everywhere in the galaxy now, they're not limited to Eastern Fringe anymore.
What happened? How are they getting around now?

>>96224595
They have slipstream drives that can punch through and make new wormholes, linking wherever the fuck they end up to the Empire. So far T'au have been found near Baal, on Vigilus, and more. It was a business decision by GW to allow peeps to use t'au no matter the where in the galaxy the warzone is.

>>96224592
It's a lot when you're only one person. You're usually not gonna need 100 worlds for a game, so keeping a sector's worlds to ~20 lets you focus and put a lot of detail into things.

>>96223641
>>96223678
How would a battle sister or space marine react to a rogue trader’s xenos companion?
Would it be immediate termination?

>>96224860
Depends on the Sister, depends on the Marine.

>>96224860
In the owlcat game they insult them and ask you to allow them to kill the xenos but hold back from killing your xenos pets and you because the warrant lets you do it.

>>96224595
The tau came up with a wormhole drive and activated a shitload of them to start the fourth sphere of expansion. They were all scattered through the galaxy and left a wormhole to a new point behind, though few fleet survivors ended up there.

>>96224860
The sister is going to be pissy and pushy about killing it and mistrusting the xeno. The marine will probably play stoic and quietly xenocidal.

>>96224860
The marine would kill the xenos and then kill the rogue trader, and if the rogue trader or his retinue tries to fight back the marine uses TRANSHUMAN DREAD and it's super effective and the humans die and there's nothing they can do

>>96224860
>How would a battle sister or space marine react to a rogue trader’s xenos companion?
>Would it be immediate termination?
Again, it depends on context and would vary a lot. Rogue Traders are allowed to deal with Xenos, so they probably shouldn't do much unless they're crazy zealots (possible in either case, but not universal). Not everyone is going to be happy about a Xenos being around, but if they're legalistic types they may feel they have to put up with it if it is done by the book. This mostly means if it happens outside of formally incorporated imperial territory (where Rogue Traders have huge leeway) or if the Xenos is officially sanctioned (or expected to become so in the near future). Your could probably argue that a Rogue Trader keeping an unsanctioned Xenos on board his ship within the Imperium is a gray area, and people often ignore Rogue Traders bending the rules in general because Rogue Traders are supposed to do that sort of thing (and most people aren't familiar enough with the details of those rules to call them out on it).

>>96224595
For a more complete answer, the slipstream drive is the Tau's newer iteration on their warp tech, seemingly just doubling down and really pushing the limits of their shallow dives without navigators. The problem is that in a classic propaganda move, the Tau decided to activate a bunch of them all at once in a grand ceremony against the engineer's advice, which blew open a giant wormhole and exposed the entire fleet to the Warp nearly unprotected as it transited. The wormhole itself seems to be fairly stable, but the fleet that went through was scattered and the survivors are pretty traumatized. The drives do not work by opening permanent wormholes, they just did in this one accident. No word on if they can do it on purpose.

>>96225134
Got it; thank you.

>>96223239
https://sites.google.com/view/lodge-blackman-games/homebrew-documents

Definitely a bit wonked, but.. eh. Definitely something to have a long chat with the gm about.

>>96223749
>>96223825
Not a hundred percent on what you're looking for, but here's two books on it I have.
https://transfer.it/t/bFAtNB4lUTqD

>>96219633
He didn't and you know it. If striking time-breaking pacts with the space jew is wrong I don't want to be right and Russ is a cock even if it is wrong.

Is "Mon'keigh" pronounced as "monkai" or "monkey" or "monkay?

I need some help organizing the army I own into an effective list because most of this was bought off ebay for cheap over the last year and repainted by yours truly

- Tactical Squad /w Rocket launcher, no special weapon, sgt just has a boltgun because he's actually just a marine with a flag stuck to his back
- tactical squad with rocket and flamer, sgt w/ bolt pistol and chainsword
- dark vengeance tactical squad w/ heavy plasma, plasma rifle, and sgt w/ plasma pistol
- five rhinos
- a land raider I got off ebay for 50 bucks
- Deathwing Terminator squad w/heavy flamer
- deathwing terminator w/ assault cannon
- Old boxnaught with lascannon
- ven dread with all options
- devastator squad that's oops all heavy boltguns
- devastator squad with all options
- three bikes
- the metal Azrael that's older than me
- a chaplain
- a librarian
- two scout squads
- a scout sniper squad
- for some reason 35 intercessors
- a gravis captain
- Lieutenant Titus from the hit video game Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine II™

2 of those rhinos could be converted to predators I still have the parts for that

my bad wrong thread

>>96228226
Rip to the man
Tell us what your favorite spaceship is and all will be forgiven

>>96228248
The Dauntless light cruiser. I was really wanting to run a game set on one for my friends but W&G cucked me on voidship rules.

>>96228435
Fucking WANG, man. Like one of those 'how to draw an owl' tutorials but they don't bother with the whole 'draw the rest of the owl' part.

Oi! Is there any intel on the update of the "the Good The Bad the Alpha Legion", since we have the new disruptors, saturnine armor, and other stuff going on?

>>96226972
>here's two books on it I have.
Appreciate it

>>96226972
Cheers

>>96228496
I would be less mad if it wasn't a promised feature of Church of Steel and if they were more open on what they're working on. They're so opaque and working on so many projects that without a clear statement as to what they're working on for W&G or IM it's hard not to feel like they've quit

>>96228574
send help I got so much shit to do but I keep playing mecha break

>>96227292
I pronounce it with the h extending the vowel sound like a little Canadian is in there.
Mon-Keh-ee

>>96228801
I'd love to help. Unfortunately, I can help only by participating.

>>96143862
Yeah, but is the entire city populated? Or does it have massive under-populated areas, like private palaces belonging rich Archons that are the size of Jupiter?
And also, isn't there a whole thing where time and space in parts of the city are/can become messed up? If that's the case, then there may be parts several million miles in diameter that are actually only a couple of miles... and also viceversa.

>>96227292
>Mon-Kai
Because it's close enough to monkey for the joke to land, but also it sounds like some arrogant, up themselves, posh cunt trying to pronounce monkey in a fancy way.
Like there's an English sitcom from the early 90s called 'Keeping Up Appearances' about a middle class woman, from lower class background, trying to push her way into the upper class. Her last name is 'Bucket', but she pronounces it as "Bouquet" to try and make herself sound posh.

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>>96228993
My grandmother loved watching that show.

Putting aside the amount of grotesque sexual favours one would need to perform to get a GM to agree to give your party one of these, how would you stat a Tiamat-class Destroyer in Rogue Trader?