Thread 96402434

Growing up 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)
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/i3akv9qx9q05z
>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
Imperium Maledictum: Voll Adventures
>https://cubicle7games.com/en_EU/blog/imperium-maledictum-voll-adventures-curious-to-find-out-more

Previous: >>96306589
How did your PC change throughout the game?

This thread was made by a betrayer of cats.

>>96402449
Stop that.

>>96402434 (OP)
I want to have sex with both of them

Is the conversion beamer actually worth shit in Deathwatch?

>>96402729
If you're firing it past 50 meters, you get a better lascannon with Felling and Blast 2. If you're firing it between 50 and 15 meters, it's a Melta with Felling. If you're firing it within 15 meters, you've fucked up.
It's a Lascannon sidegrade that's harder to get and finnickier to use. If it's even an option, you've been playing long enough to know what kind of GM you have - are you usually fighting in open maps, or close quarters? Will your GM let you show off your cool new gun, or will they take some form of twisted joy in never letting you use it?
Make your decision based on that information.

>>96401968
It is possible and they'll also be there to keep a very close eye on the person they're supposed to serve during that time with orders to kill them if they do heretical/traitorous/dumb shit.

Apparently the new Voll Adventures thing is out.

Like 1 year has passed since the Kroot and Vespid refresh did they end up selling well?

>>96403084
>Don't breathe acid! Don't touch acid! Hive world has muties! Nobles and police are le corrupt! Bad terrain is bad, use something adapted to it!

My fucking sides. I wonder how much will be recycled from the starter kit?

>>96402449
The funnier question to me is, what the fuck are they putting in the water if you grow a foot and a half after sixteen?

>>96403157
>police are le corrupt!
Side note, I thought it was amusing that the local enforcers in the capital of Askellon weirded everybody out specifically because they were not corrupt and still acted like assholes.

>>96402434 (OP)
Has Callida been knocked up yet.

>>96403310
A Feudal Worlder did his best.

>>96403226
Power armor heels helf with the height. And she got some of whatever the inquisition put in Galen's canteen that made him strong like an Ogryn.
>>96403310
not yet. does raising novitiates count?
>>96403394
bet you'd loved that, would you, mr magical realm

>>96402434 (OP)
My players really liked Imperium Maledictum, and enjoyed the campaign I ran in it, but now I want to run a deathwatch game. Is the switch going to be a hard adjustment period? From what I'm seeing it's very similar from a base mechanics setting just much more robust.

>>96403739
>IT'S ALL FOR NOTHI--Wait what the fuck? 11 Mcnuggets!? What the fuck!?

>>96403310
>>96403739

Why would SoB use AutoGuns and sluggers at all? They have access to some of the best weapons and gear.

>>96403980
Because she's not funded by the Ecclesiarchy, instead she's a part of an underfunded Inquisitorial Acolyte cell
Also, Bolter shells are super expensive to casually use, there's few things in existance that warrant a casual use of a Bolter, it's genuinely more economical to use Lasweapons instead

>>96403980
Looking at gear from a purely mechanical perspective is the soul of 40k. You must appreciate that each weapon has a history and tells a story not just about its maker, but also about its owner.

>>96404039
>Underfunded
>Inquistorial

They're not the Guard. Plus, like you said, why isn't she using Las-pistols?

>>96403980
Hospitallers start with a stub revolver. Which I depicted >>96403739. They also start with a Carapace but gm made me pull a miracle to get one after the first acclimation mission.
>They have access to some of the best weapons and gear.
Not us in this game. Not yet at least, altough she got a bolt pistol.
>Why use AutoGuns
By stats alone, the autoguns she uses, Orthlak MKIV from inquisitor's handbook, is 1 dmg and 1 pen less than a bolt pistol. And it can autofire for 6.
For the price of the bolt pistol and shells, I got 144 manstoppers that I can autofire a heretic for 10 minutes.

And sometimes you can't just walk into a sneaky mission carrying huge expensive weapons. Silenced stubbers carry a lot of work, would have killed an arch heretic with them if they didnt burn a fate point to survive.

>>96404080
>>96404089
Adding to this.
>>96404080
We're still proving to our Lord Inquisitor that we're worthy of funds and resources.
>why isn't she using Las-pistols?
She is.
Current loadout is
2x Fury Triplex auto Laspistol with duo-clips
2x Orthlak MkIV with silencer, laser sight and fire selector (3 clips of dum-dums)
1 bolt pistol with laser sight.
And a chainsword for the culture.

>>96404080
It's not an oxymoron
Inquisitor and their retinue will be geared up in the darndest things of artificer quality
The Agents he sends on a shithole-world to "Gather information" are not going to be given the unlimited funds that Inquisition possesses

I don't need none of that autoshit or that las pistol crap. Two galactic crusades, sonny.

>>96404080
They’re Acolytes, not Throne Agents. They’re disposable.

>>96404123
wow thats nearly identical to what i use on my goon
well, the furys and orthlaks at least

>>96404149
What does The Emporer know?

>>96404223
>laser sight
shiggy diggy

>>96404260
nah i didnt bother with sights on them, although i could put a laser on my orthlaks for when i don't need 6 bullets
the furys are purely for extra rounds downrange so a sight is unnecessary

>>96403310
Isnt she captured by Tau

>>96405967
The character you see on twitter is 160+ years old. The character currently being played is 16 years old.

>>96406507
Being on twitter really drains you, huh.

>>96406894
The game itself is set in 850.M41, whilst the drawings have to be compliant with 013.M42 - current canon, because that's what everyone's going after these days.

>>96404256
That they don't make a .46

>>96408928
>Art of your characters must be dated to the current time
Here's some art I had commissioned of my Rogue Trader from my M37 game.

reee when I had weird rules questions I just used to google it and it'd usually spit it out now I get nothing but DARK HERESY GAME PREVIEW and ROGUE TRADER GAME BUY NOW reeee

>>96408965
I have never been more aroused.

>>96402729
No. It's a weapon for tank hunting and has some okay synergy with tank buster. Your GM will not let you use it because he probably isn't a fucking retard. If the bbeg sees a marine with a big shiny gun sprinting in the opposite direction it'll give chase.

>>96409324
Custom date range > Before Dec. 2023
it's sadge but it's what we got

A question to fellow Wang players: is there a drawback to the light power armor hidden in the optional rules or something, like a limited operating time like in the FFG rpgs? I'm asking because once again I'm looking at the Rogue Trader tier 2 archetype and wonder if there's any reason not to take it aside from style points.

>rogue trader gets three armor options at creation:
>a flak coat, aka the commisar coat - less armor when compared to the carapace but it doesn't slow you down
>carapace armor, better defense the coat but slows you down making them balanced between the two
>and the light power armor that gets you carapace level defense without slowing you down as well as extra gadgets like a vox bead, preysight, magboots etc

I feel like the choice comes down to how stealthy or low profile you want to be, unless I missed something in some FAQ or errata?

>>96402434 (OP)
I have a question: why do the blood ravens color scheme is way better than the blood angels when both of them are red? Are they in different shades?

Where do i go to find a black crusade online nowadays? Do the new systems have support for that sort of play?

>>96409918
They're the same ostensibly, obviously people do paint in different reds, but I think it's just the pauldrons do a better job of breaking it up

>>96410185
Huh I could have sworn that the blood ravens shade is darker, like Khorne red. Hmm, what if we give the blood angels black paudrons then?

>>96409918
Yes, the blood ravens use a darker shade of red. In DoW 1 it's almost a rust color, whereas in DoW2 it's just dark red.

>>96410369
I knew it. Blood angels red look so childish man

>>96403364
>that ugly psyker
Is wokeness more common in cubicle7 art? There's almost nothing during ffg era.

>>96410465
Given that the FFG stuff came out before identity politics really took off, this should not be surprising
Also, fuck you for cursing my eyes with a closer look at that hideous ham

>>96409363
I believe there's basically no drawback, no. WANG doesn't get into enough granularity to give things like a stealth penalty on all power armor, just one or two specific sets in some of the splats I think.

Do Sisters of Battle have power armor plugs? I thought they didn't because they didn't use the black carapace?

>>96409324
>he uses google in the year of our lord 2025
you're asking for ads, fellow anon
google is so far gone ignorance is no longer an excuse

>>96410600
They flipflop back and forth on whether SoB have them, but essentially the black carapace is a vastly superior version of "normal" power armor plugs. Think of it like the difference between the MIU that a titan princeps has and the MIU that your shuttle pilot who can't even read unless he's plugged in has. The black carapace's bioengineering, extensive implantation (almost the entire body beneath the skin) and the relatively young age it's integrated at means that it's vastly superior to the typical implantation of a bunch of nerve jacks all over the body. Personally, I also think that high level Mechanicus MIUs provide the same or superior performance, but they have to reuse the jacks between users because they can't make them anymore.

>>96410600
Specifically power armour integration - no. But many people have some kind of interface ports for things connected to the armour anyway. Like aformentioned MIU that lets you control integrated weapons, defense and sensor systems, as well as biomonitors in the armour itself.

>>96410369
>>96410355
Ya I just checked the game. In the book that had them together they're basically the same but they are definitely a darker red in the games.

>>96406894
Twitter and Inquisition politics, I'd say. The Proctor-Laureate we been talking with is surprised someone as young as her already is on alcohol and lho-sticks.
>>96408965
damn, their ass is fat. what are their pronouns?
>>96410465
all psykers are ugly as the foul witches they are.
but this one is secretly summoning food out of the warp to be that fat
>>96410600
personally i like the plugs, even if its not black carapace or as good as black carapace for obvious reasons.
I know my gm doesn't like it. But I think it's cool and fits the idea of getting the gruesome looking augmentation to fight harder for Big-E Money.
Also helps the idea of them being better than a regular trooper in plugless power armor.

>>96405967
Okay so what is the Gue'vesa going to do in this situation to not get her tongue ripped out?

>>96404196
>Implying anyone in the Imperium isn't disposable.

>>96404039
Good answer. Can't be Bolterspoiled if your enemies are just t-shirt wearing cultists.

>>96410465
Psykers being ugly fits the setting.

What are some reward ideas to put in the Righteous Path in the Rogue Trader starter adventure? The main reward I was planning on doing was a bunch of the people of Krystallian in test tubes, since giving my players their own army is a nice way to set up the Frozen Reaches and having the first adventure’s reward be human beings as a commodity is a nice way to emphasize the horror of the setting, but I’m kinda stumped on what else to put there.

I’m worried about putting some crazy archaeotech in there because it could complicate the rest of the game (although once my players build their ship I might be able to pick out a cool archaeotech component for it), but I also feel like it can’t just be gold or other generic valuables because it has to increase the player’s wealth and not just their money.

>>96410728
Most engines use it or bing as their base. But I get what you're saying. Yandex for general use, google for weird specific phrases, bing for images (or pinterest).

>>96413789
It doesn't have to be the hold - they could loot parts of the shipwreck. Components they missed during creation. Astropathic choir chambers, armour, or an arboretum. Check the ship stats and dial up the quality so they can fit it in if they won't have room. Things that'll make life easier but not really complicate things - and, of course, you can never go wrong with the archeotech life sustainer. If you choose the tubes, make it a stasis chamber component. Those things are fucking awful.

>>96413789
>>96414046
Trinkets:
The Talisman of Silence is in some starter adventure I forget - it makes the wearer immune to Perils/Phenomena rolls they didn't cause and all their effects. Refluff as dark age psytech and it's a nice little gegaw that doesn't really affect much. Stars of Inequity's treasure generator has some non-monstrous archeotech. I like an Unaging Laspistol Chargepack, giving infinite ammo to a laspistol - or rapidly regenerating ammunition to a lasgun. Blur field equipped armour cuirass, maybe. Also pick a xenotech weapon and some ammo and put it in there, something looted from the ruins of the system. An ancient astartes banner they could swap for favours.

Pick Great Crusade vehicles, like a Sokar Pattern Stormbird, to be present. They get a big blingy shuttle to fly around in and impress people with. Ruin some of the weapons if you're concerned. Things that look like a big haul but really aren't. You could have the crystal observatory double as a really ghetto shadowfield if you have a xenotech inclined explorator. Something for him to dick with over the course of the game until he comes out with a really poor quality version of it since as far as I can tell it just records light over a long period of time and has a psychic component to let you dial it around.

Don't skip out on the gold and gems, though, just have an NPC seneschal/seneschal's assistant look disappointed at how 'little' there is to drive home how rich they are as rogue traders. It's kind of dumb, but I like flooring and walls - an NPC asking the players if they're to take these 'fine examples of Sesquidapolianistianostrian craftsmanship back to the vessel' might help with that as well without triggering something like a mod for ostentatious display of wealth, and you can discount that mod later for the ship if they do strip the remaining floors and walls bare.

Also I'd suggest letting Ash have two familiars, that way the players won't kill both in the market, just one.

Any in-universe examples of rejected Sororitas novitates? Those who weren't killed out of hand for being double heretics, but for whatever reason found wanting (politics, maybe) and weren't permitted to take their final vows?

>>96404149
>they are still using 1911 in the 41st millenium

Sounds about right

>>96414818
Most of the heavy stubbers are also based on the M2 or one of Browning's machine guns

>>96414818
Imagine you're a marine from the modern era frozen for whatever reason and you wake up in the 41st millenium in a battlefield. Over there are what looks like a bunch of cosplaying college liberals who seem to be glowing gold and incinerating a group of green painted chicago gangbangers with the power of prayer, over there is what looks like the 1970's german olympic team in some sort of giant mechanical costumes fighting escapees from BDSM rivendell.

Then, the people who woke you up (They might be from the future, but they're just slightly cleaner versions of the people you used to work with) tell you to get ready in what you're pretty sure was Latin. They hand you a pack of guard issue ration crayon wrappings ('daily prayers' rations from the inquisitor's handbook), a 1911 and tell you to get fighting what you're pretty sure are bird russians. As you get ready to get to fighting and figure it out later, you hear it - BRRRRRT - and a fucking warthog screams over head. Nothing has changed.

>>96404149
>>96404123
she has one with an extended mag here wtf

>>96403364
Kind of based that they make the psyker a hideous looking mutant.

What do we know about the rules the average astartes chapter has and the punishments for breaking them? I'm assuming they have the usual ones like be on time for training, don't miss shots, get along with your fellow soldiers, etc. I'm assuming they don't turn people into servitors or anything drastic.

I'm doing a session where I need to know punishments for:

Dirty armor
Being late to training
Reciting The Codex wrong
Getting questions wrong during classes.
Others you think would be interesting

>>96415424
I think full space marines are too indoctrinated to guess something wrong. The biggest stigma for them is not preforming well during daily trainings. Neophytes on the other hand get punished for existing and doing anything is wrong and you get extra laps around fortress-monastery defences.

>>96415424
Pick something that makes the chapter unique and then make it stupid. Otherwise, often, pointless and stupid tasks. I think it's in Brothers of the Snake where one has a penance where he makes a stone tool at one spot, sprints 10km, hacks an ice cube, sprints back with it, and unless the cube is precisely 30kg he has to do it again, and again, and again. I forget what he did.

But a lot of this is answered by one thing: Early in your novitate, you'll always move in a group. If one is late, all are late. Armour dirt wouldn't matter - you'd be expected to clean it during standard maintenance hours. That sort of thing. If you didn't correct yourself, you'd probably never progress beyond Scout and if you continued to be a fuck up, they'd kill you to stop wasting resources. Got a good reason? Great, they'll treat you like the super being you are.

Most actual learning comes from hypnodoctrination.

>>96414803
I think usually it's that they fail to make it into one of the more rigorous orders, like the battle sisters or the famulous, and wind up farmed into either assistant roles, never to rise or they wind up shipped to a minor order like a pronatus or sabine.

>>96413351
That's the wrong kind of ugly.

>>96410465
It is, but it might just be the artist. I have noticed that their wizards tend to be that particular kind of mutant, as well as leaders. That might just be GW though - leaders and psykers tend to be of that strain across most products. Part of their transition to media company.

>>96415674
Good.

>>96415424
Pain glove

>>96409363
>>96410563
Loud actions hinder your stealth, the rulebook provides a list of examples. You can probably work out which armor makes more or less noise based on that, although I agree they should include it from the get go.

How human are Skitarii exactly?

>>96417708
Unironically as human as their magos wants them to be. Some are basically remote controlled RTS troopers, others have a semblance of free will.

What relationship do Gork and Mork have with the Gods of the Warp? Have they ever crossed in the lore?

>>96420279
Nothing really spelled out. The Chaos Gods are usually referred to as the supreme masters of the warp, but the Orks don't seem to give a shit and Gork and Mork certainly don't care. I'd guess they're weaker than the four but I'm basing that on nothing at all. Some think they're stronger, mirroring the facts that united orks could probably ruin everything but because they're just fighting each other nobody cares.

Gork and Mork are busy canonically killing daemons whenever they're not fighting each other. That's what they do. They occasionally lend a hand - or foot - to their worshippers but mostly they're just killing everything they can find in the warp.

>not a single model posted yet
Fix that

>>96422237
>anon was in the wrong thread this whole time

>>96422237
Anon this is the thread full of secondaries, lorefags, and stubborn bitter fucks who won't accept anything past 4th edition.

>>96422326
>>96422342
my fault pimp.
Is this like dnd-type rules with a dungeon master or solo bolo play?

>>96422365
The first though you technically can do the latter

>>96422342
>anything past 4th edition.
>he drank the GW koolaid

I'll just bet Kevin Rountree comes to your house every night got a cuddle.

>>96422365
>he does not know that there are actual real 40k RPGs
My brother in christ, you cause pain to my soul. I bet you think Battlefleet Gothic was always a video game.

>>96422413
I knew there was an RPG, I just never engaged with it whatsoever.
Had a falling out with a friend over DnD a few years ago and in effort to patch things up I stay away from roleplaying games

>>96422449
Now that just won't do. I sentence you to three months of playing literally any RPG that isn't D&D or D&D-adjacent.
Oh, look. Rogue Trader's right there.

Tell me there's a faster way to do Rogue Trader colonies. An automated tool or something. Generation is bad enough.

>>96422509
Don't. Stars of Iniquity is a shit book and shouldn't be used.

>>96422509
There are a few homebrews kicking around. Use those or do it narratively, but absolutely the fuck do not use the official rules.
>>96423244
It has cool archaeotech/xenotech/cursed item rules, but you really have to custom build stuff for them to be of any use. Star system and planet generation are also good to have.

>>96420279
Gork and Mork are independent entities more than strong enough to protect Orks from warpfaggotry.
Because the Orks are almost impervious to Chaos, besides uncommon cases, so their gods are equally strong.

Chaos Gods simply leave them alone because there's nothing to be gained from that, and I'm certain Gork and Mork are more than strong enough to kill some of them if it comes to that. They both don't because they like fighting. That is all.

>>96423264
Tbh, the artifact rules are kind of shit and for ship components especially.

Also where can we see those homebrews?

Also, curiously, there are no mentions of Orks being sacrificed in the dark rituals to Chaos. Or at least so rare I don't remember any.
That's just how unpalatable are the Orks, even compared to tau.

>>96423568
I'd upload Colonies V4 by Shas, but pdfs are still illegal and banned, and I'm too lazy to upload it to mega or something. I'll get to it later. Can't remember where I saw the rest.
Potent and Compact are huge for ship components, but the rest are either mid or downright shit, yeah.

I've been in a coma for a long time and for the life of me I can't remember if this adventure exists or not. Does anyone know if there's an official or homebrew Dark Heresy adventure where the players have to stowaway aboard a Rogue Trader's ship en route for some chaos cultist lair?

>>96415424
Interesting question, in most chapters they always refer to punishment as "doing penance" although they never quite go into details.

Fun to note that actually even the mildest chapter can be quite harsh when it comes to what are considered severe fallings- the crimson fists had a promising neophyte undergo servitor conversion for ignoring an order during a fight.

>>96423568
rentry.org/9e5hwip6
Now is later. Colonies v4 by Shas.

>>96423876
Thank you kindly. Also is every second homebrew now made by Shasormyr now? Seriously.

>>96423959
Nah, he's just one of the most widely distributed for the older stuff. If you were asking about IM I'd have pointed you toward Maledictum Expanded, if you wanted all the FFG d100 glued together there's Liber Imperium, et cetera. There's also a niche of brewers in Ordo Discordia. Shas sticks out here because he makes his stuff all nice and shiny in a PDF and posts pretty regularly.

Are the C'tan Shard rules from The Outer Reach any good? Are they particularly unbalanced or unfun?

>>96424004
>The Outer Reach
It'll mulch most groups if only because it's going to have an effective TB between 16 and 32 and strange physiology + it's surprisingly okay dodge makes it a bitch to actually kill. The shard powers aren't that bad to deal with, but that massive damage resistance is *painful*.

>>96424044
>that massive damage resistance is *painful*
FFGoids had it coming, after managing to minmax and destroy almost everything in their path from marines to bloody thirsters.
And that's designed for marine characters.

>>96424064
>bloody thirsters
DO NOT REDEEM THE VORTEX GRENADE

>>96423264
Unironically, if you can't do better than that worthless waste of paper, you too are a worthless waste.

>>96422509
You don't generate colonies. They always start at size 1 IIRC. They were buffed in the errata so just copy paste those 4 stats and you're done. It only gets complicated if the colony levels up. Ignore all the retards that screech at the unfair death spiral for rolling four 1s in a roll. Just stick around for three months after building it to steer things around and then you can fuck off into space.
or this is just samefagging and I'm falling for it
>>96423244
Stars of Inequity is great. The planetside complications and treasure generators are good for inspiration. System generation is also good for inspiration, though isn't that useable in-game honestly.

>>96424505
That's a cool opinion, anon. Show me your better rules.

Does the voll book have any new rules or equipment or is it an adventure guide I can skip?

>>96424776
Nothing for players, I got it, the adventures seem fine enough I'm probably going to borrow one to slot into my game, the main thing it gives beyond the adventures is some stat blocks for a couple things, such as Skitarii Vanguard, 40k Beastmen, Ogryn Gangers, an Eversor assassin, and oddly enough Macharian Vigilites which I thought they would just keep them to using the standard enforcer stats in the core book.

Beyond that it has some information on the planet as a whole, but not much, mostly just fills minor holes on the rest of the world mentioned in the starter set's setting book.

>>96424776
It's more a guide for setting something in Voll than it is a full adventure guide, with lots of basic 40k lore sprinkled in. I think some of the stat blocks might have stuff that isn't explicitly statted in the core book? The stat blocks are mostly what's new, and they're pretty generic. Not all of it is recycled information from other products but most of it is just setting wonk.

I'll drop a copy when the cleaner gets back to me.

>>96424913
Thanks anon. I'll probably skip it for now then since the only thing I would want are those NPC statblocks.

>>96424933
Oh! You make friends with a beastman! I'd forgotten. That was fucking stupid to read.

>>96424933
>I'll drop a copy when the cleaner gets back to me.

Saintly

>>96424001
He also tended to be particularly fast on getting stuff out. When admech and votann came out, multiple groups got together to discuss rules, but he released an entire book within a month of their release, beating them all. And you lnow what they say about first past the post.

>>96426286
>And you know what they say about first past the post.
It leads to bipartisan political landscape?

How many of you guys do your own system as a setting? I started running a DH game around the same time I moved to collecting a new army so I figured I would make a system and slap /my dudes/ in there as well.

>>96427164
>>96422237
I set my series in a custom place, built between me and the actions of my players. It's great. Making your own system is a double-edged sword though. It's an excellent way to fine-tune what you want to see and fight. You can put whatever you want in there, and nobody can say it's wrong. You can have surprises that nobody can predict because only you know the details. You can make changes as needed. On the other hand, there's a higher chance of autists going nuts because your choices can run counter to expectations, or exceed their suspension of disbelief. This can cause them to zone out, because if things work TOO differently then they may feel things are decided by random bullshit instead of being able to prepare and predict things based on expected knowledge. And it can be the most minor of things that set people off.

>>96403310
Smother me goddess

Alright, finished another one, hope you guys enjoy dealing with multiple visual and sensor spectrum, because I adapted armours, power armours, dreadnoughts, and a slew of new items and shit into a modular autosense system made up of individual 'sub-system' blocks for building your own stuff. Hope you guys enjoy
https://ferrus-manus (dot) itch (dot) io/autosenses-the-panopticon-of-war

>>96423571
Ork souls are too bonded to Gork and Mork to be used for just about anything other than WAAAGH!

Can I get a decently in depth, meme free review of IM?

Have the Lamenters ever got any homebrew advances for Deathwatch? Feels weird that the Flesh Tearers had some in Rites along with the single rule the Lamenters got, then got a full list in HtC, but the Lamenters didn't.

>>96427957
Does that not fit with them getting screwed by everything?

>>96428121
...point, i suppose.

But still. Feel like you could get something out of how they've got the Flaw more under control than most Blangels, give them some advances focusing on ranged stuff, or void combat, considering that's supposed to be a thing they're good at.

>>96427934
No, fuck you, double nigger, bawwxxxy xxd, npa, pool's closed, marblecake, milhouse, get partyvanned. Inquisitorial party vans sound hilarious.

This is a very short version instead because I'm phone posting. It is the result of playing a few games and flicking through the corebook when it wasn't my turn. And only the corebook, none of whatever is out now. Tl;dr; it's juat okay, nothing special. If you want a game that seems easy to learn go for it. It struck me as representative of GW's transformation into a media company and their dislike of their current fans, there to appeal to newer people rather than the established audience. Also keep in mind that having played their fantasy game quite extensively that it really is a bit of a reskin. Also the layout is dogshit.

Uncategorised: Patrons were a fun idea and while it does lead to some issues, making the game like WanG and somewhat unfocused, it's fine. Pure GM convienience. Here's your quest giver, no need for a second one. Here's some detail, blah blah.

Mechanically it's a standard d100 roll under. DoS are now 'Success Levels' or SL and lots of stuff works by just adding or subtracting those. It has a wildcard in advantage, which reverses results, positively or negatively. This mostly induced absolute chaos for us and removed Fate, which became a disadvantage buffer for when it fucked you over. Skill assists are nice, rather than a flat bonus it gives you advantage. Opposed tests are.. weird. Instead of a bad roll for the opposition doing nothing or failing, it can give YOU extra SL. Combat with doubles is a lot more swingy - it triggers crits or fuckups pretty regularly. It also has a mechanic for the flow of combat which is even more swingy, giving yet more SL to tests if you're winning.

I often found the fastest way to end combat was to ignore mools and kill the leader OR start throwing grenades - the flow mechanic is tied to a morale mechanic.

Continued

>>96428558
And while I'm on it, patron abilities mean they're more involved in the game. Sometimes you wonder why you're there wt all, sometimes you're happy to use it. Anyway.

It tries to do away with a lot of exact measurements, using zones. That's not uncommon in new rpgs, wether or not you like that is up to you and your group. I don't, personally. That's actually pretty common - if you want anything exact, expect your GM to do a lot of the measuring and homebrewing. Combat wise it can get pretty soaky too - you'll probably need two or three shots to kill an average shitpile enemy mook, I think they had like 14 wounds and a lasgun was 5+sl? You really need to engage with the flow mechanic and morale mechanics to get through things.

I've seen the psykerposts here, and those mostly make sense. The psyker got one turn in two because he was constantly refilling his 'mana bar' to avoid forced Perils every turn. Dunno about the rest of it.

Corruption was weird. You'll get a few a session just from seeing things. But it's not an instant ticket to mutation. Once you hit a certain level you test, on a fail you mutate, lose all your prior corruption and push on. Otherwise you repeat the test everytime you gain corruption until you mutate, at which point it resets.

There is not much equipment. It feels a little proforma - here's your SL bonus or trait, fuck off. Upgrades come from throwing on new qualities to gear, like making it lighter or fancier. Plenty of keywords. I kind of like the equipment art, but that's a personal thing and only because it's not common - green wire frames aren't great but I'll take what I can get.

There's not much going on socially. The skills seem.. compressed, I guess? But beyond what's reasonable?

cont again for a tl;dr

>>96428656
tl;dr again: Combat is really swingy and requires you to engage pretty hard with the flow and morale mechanics - TB doesn't contribute to armour, and at early levels you'll need every advantage. Enemies are too weak or too strong. You won't spend fate because you'll need it to make things less swingy on doubles. Gear beyond weapons/armour is an afterthought and while important not as important as the normal stuff you'd see in other lines. Also there's not much of either, but ymmv. Every second piece of art is of the mutant strain (not the specific mutant) mentioned in >>9641527. It's probably deadlier than FFG *only* because of how swingy it can be, and how you don't really develop all that much defensively.

The book itself is shite in terms of layout and editing and I did see some literal copy-pastes from their other game. To me, the whole thing just felt very lightweight but that's personal bullshit.

>>96428707
Er, >>96415127

I'm aiming to try to get an update to GER out some time this weekend. It's basically two new alt ranks and a couple more fixes now.

>the cogboy tries to tell you how to properly handle the body of a dead ecclesiarch
>suddenly cares about meatbags and keeps yapping that the guy deserves a proper burial instead of being thrown to the nearest pyre

Someone who has made a long study in the Inquisition of history, boyh pre and post Dark Age, and how the Imperium developed - Scholastic Lore Archaic or Forbidden Lore Archaic?

>>96429227
berry gud

>>96402434 (OP)
Anyone got a newer version of The Good, The Bad, and the Alpha Legion? The link in the homebrew section seems to be broken.

>>96431491
https://files.catbox.moe/x4qbu2.pdf

>>96431273
Both? Obviously some history is being supressed while other can be found in whatever passes for universities in 40k.

This is gonna sound dumb, but what IS the warp storm, practically?
How is it any different from "normal" warp and why is it so dangerous if you have gellar shields?
Why not have layers of gellar shields?

>>96431714
Much ablidged, anon

>>96431989
>warpstorm
It's the equivalent of a huge storm of an ocean going vessel.
>gellar layers
Dunno. Doesn't normally work that way, I guess?

>>96431989
The field gets battered harder by more and bigger demons
>layers
Its_magic_I_ain't_gotta_explain_shit.png

>>96432027
There's another update after that from last thread
>>96399377

>>96428558
>>96428656
>>96428707
T-thank you..

>>96431989
There's no good sources on it
A problem of mine is that some texts imply that warp storms can manifest in realspace but there's fuck all explanation about why and how this unfolds, I think some writers just dont give a fuck

>>96424001
>>96426286
I've been part of a few homebrew groups, and they inevitably fall apart. A lot of homebrewers get together as idea guys and start trying to make things as lore-accurate as possible. It's great at first, a lot of good ideas, but then they start arguing over lore, what takes precedence and what is canon, and how to implement it, and things fall apart. Homebrewing is hard.

>>96434018
Its the same as regular legal systems. There needs to be a fixed set of rules that everyone is bound to, even if they aren't ideal for everyone. If everyone starts making their own rules, it turns to anarchy.

>>96434779
That's actually a perfect argument against any and all forms of homebrew.

>>96432971
You're welcome. If you've specific questions I don't mind trying to answer more clearly than that. You could also go to the warhammer fantasy thread and ask for general mechanical critique on wfrp 4e. They're quite similar.

>>96434018
That's doomed to failure even without the factor of homebrew in the mix - you get this in general if you put certain creative duties on players as opposed to the GM. The other reason why you have a singular GM at the seat is because then you can have one person making judgment calls on what to include and what not to include.

A GM is not RAW input and output, a game system in itself is a toolbox for the GM to make use of and then make decisions based on. Homebrew is just another one of these things that falls apart if you can't have one individual that can say "Yes" or "No" and have that stick.

Cant really find a definitive answer, been looking into techmarine stuff because of running one in an upcoming narrative-ish DW KT league a friend is running, obviously DW pad on the left, but what do you put on the right? chapter? mars pad from the left? move chapter symbol to a kneepad?

>>96436323
As far as I know the chapter goes on the right but it gets a sort of cog outline on the edge of the pauldron to indicate what you are, sort of like how mars-sworn knight houses usually have a cog in there as an outline.

Then the kneepad can be either a chapter symbol or a martian symbol.

>>96436313
We're talking about releasing something for general use, not something that won't ever leave the GM's table. There are too many idea guys and not enough mechanics guys. However, I do agree with you - every successful homebrew project had the minimum number of people working on it, and always one person to make the final decisions.

When someone bonds with a Throne Mechanicum of a Knight, are they then bound to that Knight forever, or can, as a noble earns titles, earn a more valuable or important Knight?

>>96436930
They can go up, yes. The throne is bound to a specific knight.

Where did Gork and Mork come from? The rest of the warp is created/influenced by the emotions of living creatures which started with the first life forms. Orcs were made by the Old Ones around the time of the War in Heaven. Did the Orc Gods exist before then or were they made from the emotions of Korks?

>>96437529
from me and from (you)
Orks generate their own psychic energy by the WAAAGH! Weirdboyz don't use the warp, and instead utilize the energy from a WAAAGH!
The orks exist therefore they are.

>>96434779
>>96435955
Fuck off, nobody cares about your manifesto and nobody's going to stop brewing or using brews because of one chud on a korean basket-weaving forum.

>>96435955
No, it's an argument against expecting all homebrew to automagically be cross-compatible.

>>96437529
They were made by Orks(duh). Exactly like the rest of the pantheon.
Eldar gods were made with the help of old ones, but essentially they are living idols. Which is probably why Eldar aren't big on religion.
And Chaos Gods didn't come into being until humanity came around, who were the ones to actually give them shape(bar Slaanesh).
War in Heaven didn't create them as such, but polluted the warp and made their existance as evil entities possible, and they preceded by Enslavers. Always/never existed is just their cope.

Dark Heresy games hinted at something like psychic awakening, does Imperium Maledictum line of games still mentions that?

>>96441151
You can have a psychic awakening any time by taking the Psyker talent, if that's what you mean. I don't remember off the top of my head if you can randomly awaken though I bet there probably is a way.

>>96438230
Wasn't the original lament "Most homebrew never gets completed because too many idea guys argue about feelings and nobody knows the rules"?

>>96441501
It was more "Most huge all-encompassing homebrews never get completed for aforementioned reasons". I'm also really not sure why the hell it was posted at all, because the posts it was replying to had sweet fuckall to do with big groups of homebrewers.

>>96441848
That's cos we have a schizo who hates all homebrew.

>>96441872
Well take him out back and shoot him already, I'm sick of him shitting up threads.

>>96441892
Anon, I'm not the Inquisition. I just run a Dark Heresy game where one of the players is a drawfag.

>>96441900
I choose to instead believe that you are in fact omniscient, and that you use your powers for evil.

>>96442062
YOU GOT ME, ANON- HAHAHAHA

>>96432658
Sweet...and it looks like they fixed the flamer entry for the Deathshroud.

>>96441216
No, I mean humanity evolving as a species to become more psychically active en masse.

Speaking of new stuff, Into the Storm was released in 2010, and Soul Reaver was released 2012. It's been almost 15 years, and those races are suffering. Kroot now have the 10e Kroot Update, the Farstalker Kinband, Blackstone Fortress and more. Drukhari have gotten a bunch of updates as well. I could totally make updates to them.

I think a Farstalker Kill-Broker would be a good thing to have a go at...but not for a while yet. Still need to update other stuff.

>>96442075
>>96441900
>one of the players is a drawfag.
you have THREE drawfag players! That you treat horribly you evil danish!

>>96402434 (OP)
I wish it had a Norse theme Sisters of battle.

>>96443028
basically this, we don't need female space marines, we just need more variation on what Sororitas can be. It would be like if Space Marines were all Black Templars.

>>96443453
>It would be like if Space Marines were all Black Templars.
That is exactly how I feel about Sororitas, there is soo much room for SoB to grow beyond female Black Templars. Now picture Sisters of Ultramar or Sister of Nocturne or even Sister of Medusa. How cool is that?

>>96443513
>SISTERS OF HATE
>ALWAYS ANGRY
>ALL THE TIME

>>96443453
As stupid as I think the cicatrix maledictum is, it's actually the perfect opportunity for stuff like this. Sisters who stop getting their gear from centralised sources and being able to report to singular sources with (relative) ease. You could keep the doctrinal (near) uniformity that is their backbone while seeing a difference in gear and battle doctrine based on their local issues. At least in the dark Imperium.

>>96443533
Daughter of ANGRY MARINE sounds funny if you ask me.

Hey all, 40k noob here. I have been busy doing human things for a while so I haven’t been involved much with my old D&D or MTG circles. I hit up the D&D group recently to see if they were going to start a campaign soon, but now they’re all into 40k. Lucky for me, my IRL shit has benefited me financially so I can afford to get into it, so I’m gonna delve into it.

I know from casual exposure what it’s mostly about in terms of playstyle and lore, but still need to learn all of the tabletop mechanics. I felt like the Blood Angels would be a great starter faction to play and nobody else in my circle was playing them or even really for the Imperium of Man, so I just ordered the Combat Patrol set. I also like the speed/melee focus of the BA. I realize I’m going to have to build and paint everything and get more familiar with the necessary mechanics, but anyone have any suggestions for how I should expand my army after I get settled in? I feel like the Sanguinary Guard and Dante will be necessary, but beyond them anything?

Updates are done.

The Gold Experience Requiem (v1.6.5)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/the55y97uyeu4cg/

Changelog:
Various Typos Fixed
Added the Avenger Strike Fighter.
Added the Marauder Bomber and variants.
Added the Aethon and Hermes Sentinels.
Added the Ballistus and Brutalis Dreads as Redemptor configurations.
Added the Primaris Jetbike.
Added the new Primaris guys (Desolation, Infernus) and relevant wargear (Pyreblaster, Pyrecannon, Launchers)
Judiciars are now available at Rank 3, and reduce the cost of entering the Chaplaincy by 50%.
Disruptor Knife damage, penetration, and qualities improved.
Custodes Adrathic weapons now have the Disintegrate Quality.
Sisters of Silence Blamite Needler ammunition updated to the most recent test version, where the supercombine explosion does mortal damage. Blamite is still undergoing testing in various games, but I am getting closer to the final version.

I'm always listening if peeps find mistakes or inconsistencies.

>>96443594
I'm afraid you want the other general, this one is for the tabletop RPG rather than the tabletop wargame.

Also get Eradicators and anything from the Death Company.

>>96443453
>>96443560
How would you feel about a convent setting up on forge world and becoming more admech themed?

>>96443620
Thank you, I’ll check that one out. Also thanks for the suggestion!

>>96443608

Plans and stuff for the future are simple.
>Fear and Loathing will get an update once the new Necron Kill Team comes out, and I can add the new little canoptek construct dudes as followers/pets. An update to The Fringe is Yours will accompany it with small changes that will be useful to me in the future.
>Manual for Manlets will get an update soon with all the new stuff like the hover-pickup and artillery. Serious consideration is going into allowing playable Ironkin due to the Primaris Ironkin they released.
>I want to have a crack at making a Kroot Farstalker career in RT.
>I want to try giving the Kabalite and Wych careers a facelift, with new talents and abilities, and make them more fun to play.
>I will continue working on Anarchy in the Galaxy. When more sections are done, I will likely run a new game for peeps.

>>96443672
While I haven't gone through Manual for Manlets fully, at some point in the future (possibly for my own Xenos-Minoris Dossiers series) I was thinking about doing chaos squats, would you be willing to work with or outright sign on of me creating that using your work as the foundation? While I've got a few more expansions between now and the next XMD, it's a tossup between chaos squats, vespid and kroot

>>96427452
For context I'm this guy, did the Barghesi XMD a couple months back

Everything else aside getting a F&L and TFIY update would be great

>>96443635
Not great, that's a pretty serious doctrinal difference. Maybe as a "oh, we'll try and lure away the menials by talking about the emperor's command of technology" or something.
>>96443672
Solar auxilia psykers when

>>96443608
I'm comparing our two takes on the Aethon and Hermes and it's like studying the parallel evolution of crab species. My Hermes is less manoeuvrable than yours, but has more Integrity, but less side and rear armor. They both have the Skirmisher rule, but yours is dramatically more power while mine is weaker but also has rules for a package of scouting equipment. Do you still use an algorithm for converting vehicle stats from the wargame to the TTRPG?

>>96402434 (OP)
Ran a demo game of Dark Heresy 1st Edition this last weekend. Was a lot of fun and we did it with fully painted miniatures and terrain that I had prepared in advance. The players seemed to have a lot of fun with the more tactical gameplay compared to other systems.

The Scum got roasted to death by flamers.
The Assassin got domed by a bolt pistol then died to the psyker trying to heal them.
The Guardsman got ripped apart by a chaos spawn.
The Psyker blew up.

The only character that survived to report to the inquisition that they'd disrupted the cult ritual was the Adept who ran for the hills while being chased by a chaos spawn.

>>96443707
>would you be willing to work with or outright sign on of me creating that using your work as the foundation?
Not like I can stop peeps from nicking my stuff. If it works for you, have at it. I don't mind a shout-out.

>Getting a F&L and TFIY update would be great
These would be small updates, nothing groundbreaking. Fiddling with elf gear availability and stats, adding the Necron constructs, and adjusting T'au mass combat grand stratagems in preparation for Project ND. If I get around to Farstalkers, they'll probably go into Fringe is Yours as a major update eventually. I wonder if a Haemonculus is possible...

>>96443718
>Solar auxilia psykers when
When they show up in the codex/liber, so when GW decides to shoehorn them in to sell new model and retcon the Edict of Nikaea.

>>96443725
Yes, I still use the algorithms in The Fringe is Yours. It's a bit difficult with the Aethon because it uses T6 instead of armor, so I have to go and look at equivalent T6 vehicles, compare them to old statlines with things like FSR Armor, use those as reference values, and go from there. Values are adjusted to taste, within margin, based on similar examples and what the model looks like.

>>96443808
I've always linked the homebrew collection link in OP every time I've released something, but I'll add in whatever personal link you'd think was appropriate. This is still like, months away at the earliest anyway, I've got the Carcharodons expansion to throw out first anyway.

On the point of Squat artillery, what were you thinking? self-propelled gun with wheels like the other vehicles in their arsenal or towed units that can be moved around by those big new ironkin or some kinda small hover-bike/tractor?

for 40k Chorfs I'm not going to lie, a lot of the aesthetic is already inspired by the eddy piece.

>>96443911
If someone gives me a shout-out I'm generally "k cool have fun" but there was that one time someone tried to nick my stuff sneakily before and I was all "ha ha what a fucking faggot holy shit."

I'd be porting over the Cthonian Earthshaker first. It's still unknown if they have the Goliath and other stuff, though in my own series a certain group of Squats still make use of it. It makes me think back how years ago, my players got a Colossus with antigrav so it could fly. I just wanted to make a World Devastator, but then in the new Votann codex, they actually have those in bulk...

As for Chaos Dwarves 40k, I intend to wait to see how they're handlled by GW. We know thei Votanni Ironkin go tentacle wild when infected by Vashtorr, but any chaos infection would likely need to go through the Votann first, and trickle down. I still don't know if a Votann can ASSUME DIRECT CONTROL of its Votanni kin.

>>96443959
Nah man, you pay your respects and always source where possible. You've made far too much over the years to not have respect for your efforts man.

Keeping the goliath in honestly seems necessary, even if only out of a need to expand their artillery options. Yeah, it's basically a building-sized artillery cannon like the Mavor from supreme commander, though maybe it'd still be better keeping it as a vehicle profile.

Fucking world devastators though? Really? and in bulk too?

I imagine the 40k chorfs would be more than happy to use AI, but I think it would be a trade-off, depending on the subfaction you would have a choice between highly-intelligent, battle-capable ironkin who are at high-risk of going skynet or being possessed and going rogue with daemons, versus lower-intelligence, chaff ironkin used as bullet-sponges, but have basically no chance of an AI uprising. You could even have some rogue AI ironkin who've gained sentience as characters or even having taken over a warband they previously were enslaved too.

>>96444074
>Fucking world devastators though? Really? and in bulk too?
Holy shit THAT'S what they reminded me of. It's been bugging me for weeks. Warcom ran a whole thing about them. It also confirmed the demiurg commerce vessels as league ships.

>>96444074
Ironkin are already sentient. There's just fewer and fewer made as time goes on for some unknown reason.

>>96444139
Already got ideas in the works now, during whatever schism would have split the 40k Chorfs and Votann, 95% of the ironkin looked at the conflict and thought "Nah, Votann are better" and sided with them. This causes a deep grudge to be formed when the Chorfs get their asses kicked, and while they're licking their wounds a bunch of them take the 5% that followed them, and enslave them, forcing them into what amounts to an air-gapped dungeon cell where they forcibly copy-paste their personality, then shave off the excess bits and use the resulting construct.
The only problem with this would be the 'shaving and sculpting' part. As the millennia have passed the tricks and complexity of the entrapped AI have only gotten worse. If the chorf programmers miss even a small element of the code it could cause whole squads or armies of the copy-pasted robots to go rogue. So they take their time scraping through everything, and as the millennia have wore on the time taken to 'sculpt' this new personality takes longer and longer and longer, to the point that sometimes it'll take centuries just to make sure they're clear.
This would mean that while the earlier copies would be less precise, as the chorfs wouldn't have dialled in the programming, they were far less prone to rebellion as the enslaved ironkin would have still been preoccupied by whatever digital torture method they were using. As time has gone on however, less and less of these 'copies' have been created as the time taken between getting them ready gets longer, and the end result is guaranteed to have a wierd tick, or potentially a lethal bug hidden in the code somewhere as the ironkin have gotten infinitely better at hiding their tricks, hoping to one day free themselves.

>>96443028
>>96443453
I want some damned different ordors with their own looks and gimmicks.
>look into fanmade
>either coomer or gay and retarded idea

I'd prefer if they're not themed exactly as space marine chapters like "Salamander Sisters". Some inspiration would be cool as I'd still love an Ordos in Nocturne
>>96443560
Only issue is that if that would >cause innovation

I do want to make my own ordos minoris myself, but i gotta learn more about the main setting and lore, lest I risk becoming gay and retarded myself with my idea.
Only one I had so far was an Ordo Minoris focused in fast hit and run tactics. Urban combat in hives, or rally in the classic large fields. Basically think rally house and 2000's Acceleracers, but with Sororitas.
An issue with that is that I'd have to put a lot of time on vehicle art and then look into the tabletop in case people want to play them.
It's also fucked up that I've never found any art of civilian vehicles in 40k, which would be the base for me to go on the tuner and rally stuff.

>>96441848
>I'm also really not sure why the hell it was posted at all, because the posts it was replying to had sweet fuckall to do with big groups of homebrewers.
The point is that homebrews need to be structured around some sort of authority for them not to devolve into anarchy. Want to make a cool project on your own and release it on the internet to see if people like it? Great. If people like it, they will use it.
But whenever you take the first step into making it a community, if you don't define a very clear structure for creative direction, things will turn to shit.
>>96441872
I dont hate homebrew, I do it all the time.

>>96444452
forgot to add this sketch i made a while ago

>>96444452
>>96444722
fuck

>>96433283
Its just the weather. The sea analogy works really well, when calm its smooth sailing when not everybody gets battered around or dies.

It has nothing to do with demons or chaos itself, just the energy that manifests them is much more active. The warp is just a giant interdimensional pool of energy that is extremely pliable to sapient thought/emotion.

The primaris, custodes, SoS and solar auxilia conversions in the hombrew link of the OP is broken. Anyone got it by any chance?

>>96443635
Not a covenant, but I once had a singular sister who was isolated from her convent stuck around techpriests for years. Eventually she more or less was an ordained techpriestess in all but name, and other sororitas sometimes viewed her as worse than someone who had fallen to Chaos. This was mostly due to local dick measuring contests, but it was very funny.

Mossa's art was great. Shame he's goin' ta jail for rape.

>>96445371
wut

>>96445492
Twitter artist who's been underground in one of those protected accounts for a few months because he makes horny grimdark art. Also lolis, I think? I don't keep up with artist drama because I'm not a moron, but I remember people in my group talking about the beastman because of how abusive it was. And like, no fucking shit you stupid-

>>96429744
>not throwing him into the recycler
>wasting biomass by just burning it
both of you should be turned into servitors

Radical or Puritan?

>>96446005
Rogue Trader.

In terms of preparatory material for a sector, what's the best rulebook to scavenge from? I'm too used to elfgame OSR books with ten million tables that do everything for you. I feel somewhat intimidated.

>>96445371
>>96445601
He's still posting on his side accounts. He struggled a bit but I think he still loves to draw.

The art of an Orc capturing a human POW caused a splash too.

>>96446148
I'm not gonna pretend like I really know him (and I doubt anyone on the internet can either), but his art always felt very from the heart to me. There's a certain voyeuristic discomfort to the way he renders people that I don't generally associate with simple horny art. It reminds me a lot of outsider art in a way, so I can't help but be slightly soft on it.

>>96446148
Honestly, the Inquisitor’s Handbook from Dark Heresy 1e. It gives gear lists for each of the most common types of worlds and good flavour text to boot. It gives you an idea of what life is like (exotic produce from Feral Worlds, Hive World entertainment, et cetera)

>>96445371
>>96446148
His art always seems like tryharding, and uncanny. I suppose when you're a level 80 gook, normal human emotional states and standards are hard to full comprehend or something.

>>96443560
Genestealer Sisters
It's not at all rare for Sororitas to harbor, inside their heart of hearts, a secret desire to have children and start a family. Genestealer Sisters would be like the den mothers or power aunties of the movement. Imagine a Sororitas fervor going into the worship of the Four Armed Emperor, whipping up the acolytes and metamorphs around her into spiritual frenzy. Imagine all that "I WILL BURN EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM AND THEN MYSELF" energy but channeled into The Family. I'm thinking of being completely unoriginal and calling it the Esoteric Sisterhood of the Four Armed Emperor, or Sororitas Esoterica.

And I mean obviously you can just make Sisters of Chaos for homebrew games.

>>96446456
Regular sisters can have children

>>96446467
isn't it dependent on the order? I feel like I read a book where one sister was corrupted because "man I wish I could have a family" but her order was celibate.

>>96446456
BALD! BALD! BALD! BALD! BALD!
MY EEEEEYEEEES

>>96446479
They don't do celibacy, but most never take advantage of the fact. Chaste rather than celibate. Any kids they have would probably be given straight to the Schola, there's probably a whore's box in most convents.

>>96446319
And it's still better than 90% of art we see other fan artists do, and even some of the professional stuff C7 publishes

>>96446633
ah, maybe the idea was "I want to RAISE a family" not "I want to have babies."

>Granny Argenta, Granny Argenta! Tell us about the time you shot that mutant ogryn with your meltagun!
>Ohh, you little whippersnappers, I swear I've told you that story a thousand times!
>Again, again!
>Alright, now where did I put that old thing...
>>96446319
>his art is TRYHARDING
you have to try hard to draw good. what the fuck are you talking about?
>BRO, YOU'RE SUCH A TRYHARD CARPENTER BRO! WHY ARE YOU SUCH A SWEATY SCULPTOR BRO!?

>>96446731
>you have to try hard to draw good. what the fuck are you talking about?
Not really. There are naturals(Sanguinius) and there are try-harders(Fulgrim).
His facial expressions are weird, and the nasty side where he's taking his art means he's not all there.
The amount of effort put does not guarantee your anything to be good.

>>96446633
a what box

>>96446797
Baby boxes. Don't want that baby? Put it in the box. Churches used to have them for a while. Pakistan actually has a shitload of them. Originally they were just a chute you chucked the baby in and its head rang a bell on the way down, modern ones are sometimes climate controlled and comfortable. I think the earliest one was actually some sort of waterwheel thing outside the building, set up so women would stop drowning their whore babies in the tiber.

tl;dr whores put their babies in them because clearly only women of such loose morals would ever have a child out of wedlock (based)

>>96446633
Sororitas have some choice in the orders they can be assigned to. And Sororitas wanting families wouldn't join militant wing, or at least permanently.
Otherwise they have bigger priorities.

I am going to have my players contending against dark age of technology thinking machines. The primary threat and the source of the uprising is a cavalcade of terraforming facilities being accidently unbound from a "conscience" submind manufactured by the machines after the end of the cybernetic revolt. Which kept them from acting on their predictive algorithms and trying to seize control of the planet and enslave its populace "for their own good". Their primary motivation being that Tyranids are going to enter the galaxy in about 530 years (my campaign is earlier in the timeline). With the Machine Mind in charge of the immensely powerful terraforming station by the designation of ECHO-989 pulling strings. The machine has taken to calling itself "Threnody" and separated from its conscience submind has been flung into logic driven and grief stricken frenzy. Subverting ration distribution with mind altering agents and preparing the Legions of Automata and Thinking Machines that concealed themselves tens of millennium beneath the world's artificial crust.

What nasty machines will they and the planet's occupants have to contend with? My current ideas are rad beamer armed lieutenant machines, Terraforming Nodes that can alter matter and twist terrain in real time, great harvesting machines refitted for war piloted by cruel intelligences, and shuffling legions of corrupted servitors. Those venerable patterns turned from agriculture to violence alongside assimilated militamen with integrated autoguns.

>>96448603
GBAL should have excindio dark age men of iron to put the fear of god into players

>>96448682
The Excindios would be more akin to the Lieutenants I've mentioned. Great minded terrible things, but far less equipped than other forces in the greater Cybernetic revolt. Early peace having prevented their self development into machines of that caliber. Though even the greater of the least of that terrible age would be horrible. Likely going to give them the nasty toys. Rad Beamers, as I've mentioned, being a particularly fun option for a bossfight I'm lining up with one such friendly face.

>>96445601
Worst thing he's done was a commission that was based off a real life child rape and murder crime. He said he didn't know. Do I believe him? No, but I don't care either. And I don't care about the loli stuff since it's not real, and i will not treat it as real cp

The orks eating the steel legion girl made a lot of people mad.>>96446148

Which makes sense since orks are terrifying, when you don't flanderize them as funny green fellas who like to fight. They are evil, they will tear you apart and laugh, they will use your loved one's head as a soccer ball, they keep and raise humans as cattle.
This and other stuff Mossa draws in 40k just feels like the parts of grimdark that people refuse to acknowledge and GW would never do because of marketing.

In the end I just like the art style and his takes on 40k bits like armour and clothing. Like how he made the novitiate robes I had come up with for Callidia.
She also looks really cute.

I also don't give a fuck about faggots coming in my dms trying to warn me about mossa either.

>>96449352
I've always found the idea of an artist's art somehow being "spoiled" by the distasteful works or actions of the artist to be infantile. The distance between a manifestation of your expression and the self are manifest in the ability for it to then be interpreted otherwise.

>>96449579
>artist's art somehow being "spoiled" by the distasteful works or actions of the artist to be infantile.
your correct, but are society or at least internet culture, is very Neotenous, it should be more developed than it is

>>96449579
>>96449647
>artist's art somehow being "spoiled" by the distasteful works or actions of the artist to be infantile.
I don't disagree.
There's a lot of artists that I stopped following because they either sperg out about politics or social stuff. Just unfollow or block. There was one I really liked the art, but would not stop retweeting scat on his main account despite his work not even being nsfw.
Separating art from artist, death of the author, yadda yadda. I just want to look at the pretty pictures I like and I ignore the ones I don't like.
>society or at least internet culture, is very Neotenous
There's a lot of puritans now and the virtue signaling. "Nooooo, you can't follow this guy because he drew something I don't like! You artist too that I like! Do what I want or you'll be my enemy too!"

>>96449352
I will always have time for artists who don't entirely align with my tastes but make interesting pieces rather than ones who water down their art. Mossa at least has some creativity and weirdness in his stuff that works well in the 40k setting.
One of my most memorable writers is Yukio Mishima - supremely fucked up guy in about a dozen different ways, but his writing is incredible.

Looking back at the Kroot career in ITS, it really is suffering. They have seven talents, but three of those are tied to an alternate rank which is basically mandatory. So if you DON'T go Shaper, you have four special talents. And one of them is a starter so you actually get THREE - a reroll to fear/pinning, add KD to Charge, and the amazing Hyperactive Nymune Organ which is carrying the class on its back (+1 Reaction, Full Move Agx3, 2x Run Speed).

This is awful. I am shitting at how boring it is. I'm totally gonna fix it, and update them with the past ten years of stuff. I guess I can't really blame them, Kroot were neglected for a decade and a half. They didn't get interesting until last year.

>>96451652
But the Kroot update only added a few fun details to Kroot social life espacially their need to go to Pech otherwise they are the exact same as before

>>96449352
I don't join morality crusades, but I do drop artists when I get an ick even if their art is separate from that.

>>96449352
Same. Do you happen to have a link to a gallery of Mossa's art or something? I don't have a Xitter account.

>>96449579
I think it's infantile to pretend the work of art is separate from it's author and disingenuous, since you can often see the exactly influences in narrative or art.
Which is why I support physically killing artists who don't uphold the moral standards. Yes, that's my actual opinion btw.

>>96454616
His xitters are protected because people were flooding his comments. The only other place I know he posts is bluesky

>>96451652
The kroothawk totem item is also has its text cut off, so it does not show what it does.

>>96455412
Did that ever get clarified?

>>96449352
>guy draws cute girl
>guy draws her getting murdered because he's a weird east asian pervert
>other people act surprised people don't like this and get mad at him

I think Mossa is funny because anyone defending him or attacking him misses this fundamental point of why he's disliked and try to justify it in some other way.

>>96451652
What do you even want to add to them? Some kind of food-specific mutations or something?

>>96427385
I went for it and it worked out. It helps that I'm not a big fan of subverting norms so my chapter and system are all within the bounds of normalcy and I like leaving a lot up to the players.

>>96455495
Yes on a forum post (it gives a shaper an ekstra fate point that can only be spend, not burned). A really good item, but it was never included in the errata.

Did anyone ever tried to balance DH1 items with monetary cost to have people actually use any of the trash weapons without being fully coerced to?

One of my issues in RT and beyond is that rarity doesn't always correspond with the strengh of an item and optimization sucks.

>the thread is full of dipshits morality debating some psycho gook artist instead of talking about games
the west has fallen
>>96457158
Ammo prices, my friend. Ammo prices.

What is Terra's neighboring system?
I don't mean in realspace terms (it would be Proxima Centauri then) but in warpspace terms, the closest, or rather fastest, star navigable from Terra?

>Orders Hortus
>Non-militant orders tasked with maintaining Ecclesiastical gardens.

>>96458523
That'd still be Proxima Centauri. It'd take about 20 minutes to reach on average.

>>96458894
I correct myself - 20 minutes shiptime, about half a day realtime.

>>96458894
But not all star systems can be entered through the warp, as far as I understand it.

>>96459083
Is there a Warp Storm actively cutting off access to the system? No? Alright, it's Warp-accessible. We don't really have anything telling us otherwise, so there's not much point in assuming it.
Whether that system is worth a damn, however, now there's the kicker.

>>96402434 (OP)
>Imperium Maledictum
started reading the rules, and there's only Xenos and Herecticus for Inquisitor Patrons? What?

>>96460182
It's mostly just cause they give 2 example patrons with boon/liability charts for each faction, since the core book isn't focused on any specific organization. Since there is 3 ordos ones going to have to be shafted.

>>96455691
Another reason to play a shaper, I guess.

>>96455534
Given how that's the guy that made completely new systems for other factions and converted the entire Horus Heresy, whatever comes out at the end will probably be just as crazy. It's likely going to be a full rework, to the point asking questions would be folly.

>>96461328
DH1e had that service where you could get xenografts to get their abilities. Maybe that.

>>96460182
The Iniquisition Player Guide added Maleus and fleshed out the rest of their options.

What happened to Guilliman's mother? How did she die? Did Guilliman get to say good bye to her or was in in stasis at that point?

>>96459274
Oh. I always thought that you can only enter and exit realspace at specific points and that thise points aren't always near habitable systems.

>>96462516
Check a wiki for mandeville points.
>>96462214
Her shipboard stateroom was breached by an unknown person during the Horus Heresy. We don't know if they were hostile or friendly.

>>96444403
Now here's a mechanic for the wargame. Whenever you play Chotann with AI models in your army, you bring along an additional player who's there solely to fuck shit up and have a fun time. Even in a tournament. That player rolls for Rogue Points based on the amount and types of AIs in your army, and then secretly spends those points on various Rogue Protocols that he attaches (also secretly) to chosen AI units. These Protocols can be things like "shoot a different enemy", "frag an ally" or "just straight up take over the whole unit and do whatever you want as if you were an actual player", with RP prices depending on the severity. There'd also be Kin characters who are dedicated to reducing or countering Rogue activity.

Is it possible to steal a Warrant of Trade and become a Rogue Trader yourself? What's the youngest a human pirate captain could feasibly be without being the exception to the rule?

>>96463543
Sure, I guess. We don't have many examples of Warrant text, but most award it to X person and his line. If you had the document, the ship and some sort of proof that's totally you, like a black market genesplice or something to fool scanners I can't see why not. In theory some snotnosed 15 year old could get turned into a rogue trader if one of the high lords wanted to fuck with his rival's kids.

>>96427385
Oi
Colony v4
What's this about Base Extraction Rates and Resource Harvesters? There doesn't actually seem to be anything in v4 about them aside from "buffs or subtracts X"

>>96451652
Don't worry, the Tau got a whole book and dont seem to fare much better. Personally I went along the battlesuit pilot path so I can't really speak for being a drone pilot, however a few things that stood out to me
>negatrait for social situations, but also Tau aren't social so who cares, but also maybe pay 500xp to not have negatrait? :^)
>photon flash are just the same as core book flash, the fuck is the point
>firewarrior advances just a bit all over the place
>then become a pilot and jump from nil to +50 piloting ez
>battlesuits are effectively suits of armour
It's so slapped together, minimal effort bs.

>>96462590
Typically friendlies don't breach your secure locations

>>96463884
She was madly rambling about who to give her necklace to, the door was damaged and the room on fire. Could just be a rescue party, could be the boarders.

>>96463543
Jeremiah Blitz won a Warrant and a cruiser in a game of chance with a Sector Lord. Previously, he'd been somewhat of a cold trader.

>>96463806
>>96461328
I'm expecting another miracle ala Tau character guide > Fear and loathing.

>>96462516
You can enter and exit the Warp in places where there is nothing too, just the void

>>96464650
Ironically fear and loathing came first, then ffg released tcg a few years later, then fear and loathing got updated again to the 8e stuff.

>>96463543
Not as such. You will not become a Rogue Trader through such openly dastardly methods.

It is possible if you have the resources to steal a warrant and basically strongarm/fool/blackmail the respective authority to actually give you a pass.

Naturally, you need to be sufficiently wealthy to have an opportunity yourself.

Also, without a ship, you are not a Rogue Trader, so unless it's some kind of very convenient situation like this >>96463585
I.e. dynasty is so sloppy it barely gives a shit to stop, you it's possible.
Unless you have a good plan, I'd shoot you down.

>>96462516
Actually this is somewhat true too, since the warp does have sympathetic points where entering and exiting is easier than elsewhere.
Though most of these points have already been mapped out in regards to specific subsectors.

So in this manner, you are better off jumping around world X and then travelling to the world Y in realspace within a subsector. Voidships have big engines for a reason.

>>96463543
If you are well-connected and powerful enough to steal a Warrant of Trade by force, you are already powerful enough to simply petition the High Lords of Terra for a Warrant of your own. That said, if you happen to acquire one that isn't in your name in a ruined space hulk or something, there's nothing stopping you from changing your name and pretending to be the last living heir of a dead dynasty or something. Nobody in the Imperium would be able to prove otherwise.

>>96466739
Pretty sure Administratum bureaucrats would be, if motivated enough.
Those men are the RT's worst enemies ever.

>>96463543
I'm pretty sure the Rogue Trader chapter on the core rulebook mentions a warrant of trade that grants powers to whomever holds it to ensure only a powerful agent has it. Warrants can have any number of restrictions and boons.
>>96462516
It's only SAFE to enter and exit at specific points, otherwise gravity will rip your ship apart. This is the mandeville point, which must be far from any stellar objects.
>>96466700
>world X and then travelling to the world Y in realspace within a subsector
Anon this post is so wrong it's negligent. A subsector is a collection of star systems. Realspace is only feasable within a system, and as per Stars of Inequity it takes a ship on average 5 weeks to reach the center of a system.
>>96466739
>you are already powerful enough to simply petition the High Lords of Terra
That would take decades.

>>96463616
It's in the other pdf called advanced crafting
they're chapters from his next book

>>96468011
>Anon this post is so wrong it's negligent. A subsector is a collection of star systems.
I know what a subsector is.
Guess I was just fooled by relative closeness of the systems on the map.

>>96468011
>It's only SAFE to enter and exit at specific points, otherwise gravity will rip your ship apart.
I interpreted this to be a specific distance from any gravitational bodies rather than specific points, is that not the case? A more accurate descriptor would probably be 'Mandeville Threshold' or the like, 'point' implies a point.
>as per Stars of Inequity it takes a ship on average 5 weeks to reach the center of a system
Using constant thrust at the given values for RT ships this should really be roughly two weeks at most, perhaps three for extremely large systems. Unless 40k ships do not in fact use constant thrust, but really, have you ever once seen art or video of a functional 40k starship that didn't have engines burning?
>That would take decades.
Centuries, unless you were both close by and a relative.

>>96468305
The issue is that lightspeed is a huge bitch. That's why folks bother with the Warp at all. Take half a day of realtime and twenty minutes on your end to go visit that nearby star, or build a generation ship to get there in a century. Even if there's a warpstorm brewing, it's faster and easier to let it blow itself out than it is to slowboat it.

>>96468346
Okay, since we're talking. I wanna ask if the realspace speed has(or should have) any effect on the warp travel times?
Per RT, it doesn't, only warp drive's kinks and quirks.

>>96468381
Its like trying to run faster IRL in a dream. You don't actually get anywhere faster.

>>96468381
That's a damned good question. You have your lore of 'you go to the warp because physics isn't real there so you can break lightspeed', but if physics isn't real, why do your engines push you? Is it the idea of the engines that's pushing you? You imagine yourselves being pushed when the engines are on, so you turn on your engines and you're pushed?
How does that interact with RT's concept of different warp drive components that provide greater or lesser benefits? They seem to have a relation to how 'deep' in the warp you sink, which correlates with both speed and danger. Then you have how well the navigator rolled as a multiplier to the average length such a journey usually takes.
Getting from Calixis to Sol with the most navigatory navigator who ever navigated would probably take about as long as getting from one sector to another with a really shitty one. Conversely, if you fuck up too badly, you could be trapped in the warp for centuries if not millennia, which is how space hulks are made.
In conclusion, who fucking knows, it's an alternate dimension made of dreams and candy corn.

>>96468492
Yeah, that sounds about right. Listen to that guy.

>>96468507
The reason why warp travel works is because all spaces in the Materium cast a "shadow" (not the same as "THE Shadow of the Warp" manifested by Tyranid hive mind battlegroups) in the immaterial. These shadows act as anchors and can be used as a reference in the warp. The issue being of course, they move and shift with the warp's eddys and tides along with the basic movements of the Galaxy. So navigation would be unbearable if not for the Navigators and the Astronomicon they can use to orient themselves in relation to Terra.

>>96468011
>That would take decades.
Depends. Are you a rising threat to the existing power structures of the Imperium due to your talent? You'll be 'awarded' a Warrant of Trade before you even ask for it, and then told to fuck off to parts unknown to fulfill your new Emperor-mandated responsibilities of exploration and trade. As it happens, anyone powerful enough to steal a Warrant from a living RT dynasty would also be so powerful that their rivals in the Adeptus Terra are likely to conspire to get them issued a Warrant of Trade to essentially exile them from society altogether. It's far from uncommon.
And generally speaking, if you're powerful enough to directly oppose a living RT dynasty, you are powerful enough to be granted a Warrant soon after your request. RT dynasties are on par with Space Marine chapters in their influence, power, respect, and importance. Even the Inquisition pales in comparison to the authority an RT exerts. So if you can really tango with an RT on even footing, you're already near or at the very top of the Adeptus Terra, such as an Archmagos like Cawl or a Cardinal of the Ecclesiarchy.

>>96468637
99% of Rogue Traders do not constitute such a threat and are far beneath Terran Lords' attention.
>As it happens, anyone powerful enough to steal a Warrant from a living RT dynasty would also be so powerful that their rivals in the Adeptus Terra
Based on what? Stealing a Warrant is a matter of barging on a ship or building holding it and sneaking away. Nothing particularly unusual.
It still doesn't give you a direct right to it at all. Stealing a ship itself is more 'legal', if not quite.
>if you're powerful enough to directly oppose a living RT dynasty, you are powerful enough to be granted a Warrant soon after your request.
Generally yes, but it also means you don't have to oppose them and just ask Governor-Sector for it. And/or pay some sum of money or effort to the cause.
>RT dynasties are on par with Space Marine chapters in their influence, power, respect, and importance.
Lolno. Absolutely not.
>Even the Inquisition pales in comparison to the authority an RT exerts.
No.
>So if you can really tango with an RT on even footing, you're already near or at the very top of the Adeptus Terra, such as an Archmagos like Cawl or a Cardinal of the Ecclesiarchy.
That's so wrong it's actually funny.

>>96468855
You never played the Owlcat game did you?

>>96402434 (OP)
>no Oktoberfest themed IG regiment
no wunder they're losing the Fight against chaos

>>96468893
Oh, so that's what you get that nonsense. Next time you'll be telling me of Chaos C'tans like an idiot.

Only precious few RT dynasties are truly exceptional to rub the horns with the most elite, and 99% of them are just slight above Chartist captains.

>>96462186
neat

>>96468067
Ah. I'd thought it was tapped into the madness that is the planet generator.

I sometimes wonder what the fuck they were on. Did they see the Border Princes generator and decide "No, this is too simple"?

>>96468914
One of the patron boons for Malleus is the ability to call on favors and utilize a Grey Knights squad, which seems insanely powerful but also useful as all hel.

>>96468637
>>96468855
It just so happens that the two of you have chanced upon the two extremes of a Rogue Trader. Some of them are indeed exiled from Terra itself, but this generally happens before they can actually threaten anyone truly important. "This guy's getting a following, I'll go ahead and give him the boot before he manages to cause any problems." Likewise, some of them are relegated to a mere frigate and a handful of merchant ships. Madam Charlabelle Armelan, for instance, inherited a Dynasty in tatters after her father spent the full strength of their fleet in defense of their assets from an orkish incursion.
It must be said, however, that the first of you has been very silly. A Rogue Trader is a Peer of the Imperium, yes, a rank which includes Chapter Masters, Cardinals, and Inquisitors. This does not by any means make them all inherently equal - rather, it places them uniformly above the common man, their lessers. From there, you compare wealth, influence, and hard assets - a Chapter Master can call upon great military might, a Cardinal can leverage the faith of their domain, given time, and an Inquisitor has any number of strange and potent artifacts and weapons at their command, as well as whatever fleet assets they've managed to secure. Likewise, a first-founding Chapter Master will have exceptionally greater prestige and power than a backwater, barely-known chapter, a popular and skilled orator of a Cardinal can drum up a crusade force, while a lesser one can perhaps inspire a group of menials to form a ramshackle charge, and a Lord Inquisitor may command a fleet of Black Ships and have great influence over one or several Sectors, while a lesser Inquisitor may have no ship at all and struggle to root out a cult on a single world.
Likewise with Rogue Traders. They're released out into space to seek great wealth or die trying, and however they fare after the fact depends greatly on their assets, personal ability, and to a large extent, sheer luck.

>>96468893
You, by the way.
>citing the CRPG over the TTRPG
See attachment.

How did 40K Humanity end up like it is? How did they go from the intended Age of Enlightenment The Emperor was trying to create to the mess of the current setting? Was it a slow decline or did the Heresy really do that much damage to everyone?

>>96469740
Everything was, well, not great, but pretty okay for everyone for a while. Then the Ecclesiarchy had a huge fucking war with the entire galaxy about how everyone should be super religious, there was a period of time during which Nova Terra said "fuck the church and the High Lords, I'm gonna manage my own shit" and there was of course a huge war about that because you must respect my authoritah, and let's not forget the War of the Beast.
The Horus Heresy was far from the first time humanity punched itself in the face or was facepunched by something or someone else. It's just the one everyone points at because it's the one that stuck Big E in the chair.

Do the Primarchs have a mother in that they were born or did they come from a test tube?

>>96470082
I would strongly suggest you read the wiki article. It will answer your questions.

>>96468912
I played the Owlcat game too and I have no idea where he's getting any of this. You get pushed around by Inquisitors and Administratum and the elite easily, you only have a few colonies, after all. Any pretense of your authority saving you melts in the face of physical violence from space marines, and really most of the dialogue options you can take where you try to wave your authority around make you look like a tool.

>>96410465
Do you guys ever ruminate on what a parody you've become?

This is literally seeing one black character and going, "Oh my GOD a fucking black person! Wooooke!"

>>96470298
hello marketing intern

What is your favorite Hive City and why? You can include homebrew ones.

>>96470481
Vervunhive is a hive city that doesn't go up, rather it's just a huge metropolis with a voidshield over the top and curtain walls at the edges. I just like how different it is, this metropolis sprawl that's just nearly as dense as a normal hive city just going out instead of in.

And unlike necromunda there's no SURPRISE GENESTEALERS.
>>96470278
The intro in the tabletop adventure has you getting bailed up by an Imperial Navy dickhead that practically kidnaps you.

>>96470298
In my games there are as many niggers and jews, as there are pariahs in 40k. Slightly more gooks and latinos though.
Seems consistent with the frequency of portrayals.

>>96469184
That seems ridiculously strong

>>96469740
The Emperor was ironically a large part of it.
Him seeing his sons mostly as weapons, and his general detachment from humanity are what sowed the seeds for the Heresy to happen, Chaos merely watered those seeds. Because he was so detached very few people actually knew his plans for Humanity, and what he wanted, so the people that came after had to draw conclusions based upon what he did and not his intentions.
The slow decline is also due to the loss of strong leaders like the Primarchs to death/coma/trapped in the Warp/whatever Jaghatai was doing, and the various factions of the Imperium preferring to not shake up the status quo because it was safer and more stable
But safer and more stable eventually to stagnation and decline as necessary changes and amendments either don't get made or don't get made fast enough

>>96410465
To be fair, I would expect Psykers to be ugly and out-of-shape

>>96470502
>Vervunhive
Based and Kolea pilled

>>96469783
>Then the Ecclesiarchy had a huge fucking war with the entire galaxy about how everyone should be super religious, there was a period of time during which Nova Terra said "fuck the church and the High Lords, I'm gonna manage my own shit"
And that happened already after all of the Primarchs disappeared.
Space Marines left behind do not have legal authority to rule, unfortunately, so they were powerless to stop or change the political regimes. To the point that some Space Marines started getting religious themselves.

But essentially yeah, it's exactly the fault of Heresy. The big war devastated as much as it could reach, and already got the Big Man and most of his sons turned or killed.
And then those who left were eventually taken by the remnants of the traitors. With the exception of Khan.

Although, desu, it was always a little DUMB that the Emperor, even crippled as he is, does not exercize his right to rule. He's more or less aware of what's going on, broadly, and could issue orders if he wanted.
Instead, he's content to accept his fate as deity and let humanity sort itself or die trying.

>>96470481
Playing Darktide has made me rather partial to Tertium. There's a homebrew one called Avernus in the campaign I play in that I also like because it's gloomy but somehow manages to never be gross.

>>96472593
Nobody actually knows what is inside his head back then or nowadays, not even the writers of the novels
He may got jaded and tired of babysitting humanity after killing Horus
Or it is another “the end justifies the mean” moment and he is cooking up some grand plot shit, like staying an incomprehensible god would actually empowering him more than meddling with mortal affairs, and as long as there are enough humans around to worship him he doesn't care or interfere.

>>96473531
>Nobody actually knows what is inside his head
As it should be, and I shit on the authors and their novels.
But his basic motivations were at least vaguely defined back in the day.
Emperor is pro-humanity and anti-chaos, didn't want to be a god and wanted us to evolve into ascendancy.

The fuckery comes from his current state of being, since his plans went to shit.
But one key point intact is that he's still helping the Imperium via Astronomicon, Astropaths and Miracles. So he's at least sympathetic to human plight to this day.

The rest should be open to interpretation, but thankfully inconsequental to the gaming.

>>96473589
If you want it to be more grimdark then the humanity in favor of the emperor is humanity as a whole, not individuals, so the suffering of each human may not concern him
He may even allow the fuckery to a certain degree, as long as it not sth on extinction level, so the humans, even space marines, literally have to rely on him more and pray for his miracle in their desperate moments, thus pumping him more faith juice. If everything is daijoubu then it wouldn't be as effective isn't it.
On a meta lv it is very similar to GW keeping the status quo and adding ‘hype events’ here and there to sell new toys, but not so disastrous that it could end the whole business all together, unless when they want to reset the whole thing like Aos of course.
Now that i think about it, that may be what the dark king will do, a wrap god too tired of humanity fuckups and other bullshit in the galaxy so he resets the whole thing to start anew

Can all the rogue psykers be sanctified willingly? Some fringe cases like a Rogue Trader developing his abilities in secret and having free time/change of heart/discovery and threat?
Or a really far-flung colony that has never been visited by Black Ships, but has it's own tradition of training psykers and a very sizeable population of them active already. Are they all allowed to be legalized when it does arrive(after a few years?)

>>96474277
99% of psykers fate is to be living psychic battery unless you are exceptionally good or friend/family of someone important

>>96474322
Fake news. Also not what I asked.

>>96474277
They'd probably have to go through the Sanctioning even if they had prior training

>>96474341
> Fake news
Prove me wrong

>>96472285
Not all boons are made equal, that's for sure. An Arbites crackdown or get-into-anywhere inspection permit is a lot stronger than a few spare magazines of ammmunition or being able to kidnap random people into the Guard/Navy. Though they do have a whole thing about boons not being limitless and obviously the Knights won't do your bidding, just the Inquisitor's.

>>96474277
An Inquisitor can slap a sanction on a rogue. They often do if they're useful. Psykers coming up through the school of hard knocks without preaching THE GLORY OF CHAOS usually have a little potential. Teach them what they have to lnow to fake sanctioning and give them an electoo brand. Nobody else really has the authority to so so but might keep rogues of their own, or have a lot of pull on a Psykana member who CAN 'speed sanction' someone.

Ascension talks about how some arrange 'transfers' to the IG for psyker acolytes of certain camiber. That's probably not uncommon for the newly 'sanctioned' too - if he survives the trial by fire for a few months you punt him at the team.

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>>96411151
Meu deus, um meme sobre 40k em portugues.
Beyond cursed, this should not exist!

>>96441900
Just wanted to say I'm a big fan and quite jealous of ur game

>>96477777
pega na minha rosetta e balança kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
vai ser pior quando eu fizer referencia ao tropa de elite