>your waifu is a fucking kroot
What went wrong?

wrong?

>>714291918 (OP)
My waifu is imperium free from xenos, heretics and mutants

It will flop

>>714292283
>RT sold a million faster than WotR
>Void Shadows had a peak of 16k players
>Lex Imperialis had a peak of 17k players
>WotR's most successful DLC, The Last Sarkorians, had a peak of 8500 players
You wish PFsister

>>714291918 (OP)
predictions on the other companions?
an admech cutie seems guaranteed
some other abhuman girl would be nice

>>714292470
Callidus gf

>>714292518
too overpowered, especially when THE KIBELLAH already exists

>>714292283
RT was significantly better than both PF games so i have hope

>>714292470
if it's not a datasmith with a kastelan or a magos biologis reluctantly using her knowledge to heal the party i'm not buying it

>>714292470
Hopefully exclusive characters for both Dogmatic and Heretical paths. Rogue Trader was lopsided because part of your retinue just bails out if you go Heretical, and you gain nothing for it. And no, the shitty extra characters you get for Act 5 don't count, all paths get those.

>>714291918 (OP)
Waifu?
I'm an Inquisitor. I won't be consorting with my retinue. I'm here to do a job, as are you, soldier.

>>714291918 (OP)
to the loreGODS in here, its been said there will be a nightlord in this game perhaps a warband causing aids in the area youre operating in?
what would have to happen for a nightlord to join an inquisitors ragtag band of niggers?

have this gimi as thanks

>>714292903
Healer unlikely since the black girl is already that.

>>714293094
You won't be an Inquisitor for the majority of the game.

>>714293162
>do I get to skin people alive?
>yes?
>k, I'll tag along

Drukhari gf PLEASE!

>>714293162
some loyalist night lord who enjoys putting his skills to work doing interrogations for the inquisition could probably work

>>714292470
A fucking dreadnought. He becomes the MC.

>>714293162
Nightlord was shown in the trailer. Whether its one autist causing shit or a whole warbond remains to be seen.
>what would have to happen for a nightlord to join an inquisitors ragtag band of niggers?
Entirely depends if goals align and how radical the inquisitor is. Alliances of convenience happen quite frequently in 40k. It would be very unlikely for a Nightlord and Inquisitor to work together long term, but to work together for a short period could happen fairly easily.

>>714293258
If it were based on actual DH, no. But based on what we know so far, Owlcat will have you an Inquisitor within the first half. Not the "Majority"

>>714291918 (OP)
when are they releasing the devtools like they promised for Rogue trader?
the workshop is still down...

>>714292518
If only

>>714293616
When they release their last DLC, most likely.

>>714291918 (OP)
Is this the same setting as Rogue Trader?
If so why aren't all those xenos killed on sight?

>>714293796
Because sometimes the Imperium allies itself with xenos

>>714293796
Same reason the RT xenos weren't killed on sight.
Imperium works with them fairly regularly. Especially when it comes to the big named characters.
Obviously regular citizens consorting with xenos is a bad thing and will get them and the xenos blammed but when you're an Inquisitor you're above the law.

>>714293796
In Dark Heresy, you work for the Inquisition, and the Inquisition can do pretty much whatever it wants.

>>714293796
Sanctioned Xenos
If you got a nice position or enough leverage with the administratum you are allowed to keep them around to work for you
Mind you the pencil pushers expect to process them once you're done playing games so its probable that Kroot will eventually have a bomb collar to ensure she cooperates in the near future

>>714293796
Inquisitioniggers glow in the dark

>>714293616
The what?

>>714293094
they all say that until a HERO OF THE IMPERIUM comes around

>>714292891
>RT was significantly better than both PF games
And it wasn't even Rogue Trader!

>>714293162
As a general rule, the Inquisition has to be: one of the more radical ones in order to contemplate working with one of Mega-Satan's little helpers; be supported by a coterie strong enough to potentially take on a Rogue Space Marine who at best is just a transhuman living weapon who really wants to skin people like them alive and at worst is that but also all hepped up on Chaos Juice; and be facing a crisis so dire that endangering themselves, their soul, and their mission by working closely with a Chaos Marine is the only option, even if it leads to a more puritanical Inquisitor blamming them afterwards. On the Chaos Marine side, the Night Lord has to be: so incredibly desparate that they have no other option than to side with servants of the Corpse Emperor - no other chaos warbands, no cultists in need of muscle / leadership, no targets to enslave or terrify; one of the "Chaos has no hold on me, I'm a free agent who just really likes bats"; potentially trying to tempt the Inquisitor to the Dark Side, although that's not really the Night Lord's schtick.

TLDR: on one side you need an idiot, and on the other a loser.

>>714293796
The rules of the Imperium are only for the plebs.

>>714296836
>TLDR: on one side you need an idiot, and on the other a loser.
sounds like my kind of playthrough. heres to hoping itll happen

>>714291918 (OP)
>all of the female characters are xenos or abhumans
what did owlcat mean by this

>>714293162
Night Lords generally don't give a shit about Chaos, they're just raiders and pillagers.
A radical Inquisitor could, in theory, find a means to reach out and hire one or even more for a particular wetwork mission.
Said Inquisitor would then either have to pay a (likely exorbitant) bill and would likely be immediately labelled as a heretic if it was found out, or would have to dispose of the hired Night Lords quickly and quietly (which will be difficult because they're fucking Night Lords) before anyone can find out about the deal.
It's one of those 'As soon as it's discovered you're immediately a traitor' things.

>>714293796
The whole 'Kill all xenos' shtick is just a means of keeping the peasants in line. Higher up Imperials will make deals and work with xenos pretty damn often. Hell, most Inquisitors who aren't hyper-dogmatic will have a Kroot or Eldar in their retinue at some point or another.

>tfw stumbled into Yurr-LEET's romance path without even trying
What the fuck? Did Owlkeks try to push her or am I just fucking stupid?

>>714299068
You can start her "romance" just by being friendly

>>714299068
You're not stupid, Yrliet is.

>>714291918 (OP)
So long as I have a good husbando I’m feeling pretty good

>>714299208
>>714299621
I better go find the autism hat for her.

>>714300008
Honestly it's better to just let her do her thing and occasionally say 'Yes dear'. She's dumb as a rock but at least she can shoot decent.

>>714300008
She protests about sexualization alright

>>714293162
How many books must a person read to be considered knowledgeable about the lore?

>>714291918 (OP)
No sister of battle romance, no money. Fuck you, owlcat, and fuck you games workshop.

>>714301307
Thank god this one won't have a SoB companion

>>714301253
Just the Codices. Everything else is fan fiction.

How hard is it to join the inquisition
It sounds like a cushy job

>>714302096
You're basically dealing with the absolute worst the universe has to throw at you every day
Maybe whoever's part of the Ordo Xenos' Tau department is having a good time but otherwise it all sucks

>>714302470
>but otherwise it all sucks
Ok but like
Doesn't the rest of the imperium suck more

>>714302096
For the average dude? Basically impossible.
Two factors determine if you get recruited:
You are highly competent in some way. That could be a really good Guard sergeant or captain, you could be an efficient bureaucrat or an expert on some obscure system lore that the inquisitor has an interest in, or something else.
Right place, right time. You have to be noticed by the big guy to get recruited.

And just joining the Inquisition means you're a fuckass acolyte who is more likely to die investigating something thats 25th on the Inquisitor's priority list than do anything actually important.

>>714302096
Hope that an inquisitor noticed and recruited you into his private army, then work your way up.

>>714302557
No. If you're not doing Inquisitor business the chances you lead a boring, but otherwise violence free life is like 60/40. You could be born on some out of the way agri world where you just farm for your whole life, or be born on an imperial ship where you service a particular lightbulb for you whole life.
A million worlds and only like a few 100,000 are at war at any given time.

How's the reactivity of the arbitrator origin? I know that overseer actually has some, which is automatically better than every other class

>>714302942
You get some mentions but not as much as the other backgrounds.

>>714291918 (OP)
>Thousands of people are going to buy another owlcat game within the first year of it's launch
Some people never fucking learn

Memes aside I'm not gonna be getting this one off the riff because with how shitty RT was for the last 2(arguably 3) acts Ill wait.

>>714291918 (OP)
Wych waifu or I'm not buying it.

>>714303153
Fuck that. I'll jump straight into the dolphin porn alpha.

>playing video games to replace dating irl
Grim grim grim

>>714303418
>playing video games to pretend you're some kind of gigachad hero everyone respects
Absolutely grim

>>714303418
In the Grim Dankness of the not so far future, there is no sex. Only LORE.

>>714303418
It's the cultural norm now

>>714302096
Completely random.
Inquisitors have essentially full rights to conscript whoever they want barring Space Marines, sort of. A particularly lucky Guardsman might find himself pulled into an Inquisitor's retinue just for surviving a rough battle (assuming a Commissar doesn't kill the man first), solely because the Inquisitor had a spot to fill.
Hell you could be a street vendor whipping out a gun to shoot a heretic and an Inquisitor might see you and decide to conscript you.
All that said working for an Inquisitor is liable to suck, unless you're Ordo Xenos and your boss is on diplomat duty.

>>714292050
Shepard fucks cute alien girls like Liara and Tali, not ugly bird freaks uglier than turians

>>714291918 (OP)
>Not plowing the Pirate Elf twink

>>714291918 (OP)
>Xenos companions
>in a Dark Heresy game
Burn it with fire

>>714292470
>predictions on the other companions?
Look at the DH handbook and exclude everything you see there because clearly Owlcat doesn't give a fuck about the source material

>>714292409
The pathfinder games are balanced even worse than rogue trader so no surprise the ones where you have to hyper meta game or fork out for dlc are fucked

>>714291918 (OP)
>ugly as fuck cannibal
will she cuck you?

>>714306330
Kroot reproduce by sweat and backrubs so I'd give it a 50/50 chance.

Redpill me on the Silent King

>>714307423
He's a cunt and a coward.

>>714306828
I can't wait to see my kroot waifu rub a musky xenobeast's back

What's the best Chaos god to join without being mindraped?
I'm fine with bodyrape but I don't want to suffer ego death

>>714291918 (OP)
The catachan looks way too scrawny

>>714307586
Nurgle.
If you're favoured enough you don't feel the awful shit the diseases do to you and you can just be a happy Papa worshipper. note: if you do not get that blessing tier you will suffer a lot
Next is probably Khorne because its kind of arguable whether his followers were mindless blood crazed berserkers before or after worshipping him.

>>714293162
I'm assuming the Bat in question is either not going to be a Chaos Worshipper and therefore 'acceptable' as a temporary alliance or is going to be a Chaos Worshipper and will be part of the heretic path. I'd be interested in how they will portray the Night Lords, especially if it isn't just the one individual. To add lorewise, the non-religious Night Lords are historically leaps and bounds better then the chaoscuck ones. Malcharion best boy followed by Mercutian.

>>714307586
None?
>Khorne makes you go insane from bloodthirst
>Tzeentch makes you go insane from insanity
>Slaanesh makes you go insane from stimulation and a lack thereof
>Nurgle makes you go insane from decay
I guess Nurgleboys are the happiest if they embrace being slop but your ego is probably as dead as it can get at that point
To say nothing of what is going to happen to your soul after you die and get sent directly into the warp

>>714307998
>To say nothing of what is going to happen to your soul after you die and get sent directly into the warp
Don't you get disintegrated anyways if you die otherwise?

>>714307586
Only Nurgle because he accepts you for the person you are plus extra pustules
Everyone else will want to turn you into a puppet of their liking

>>714307586
You're not going to like the answer.

>>714308048
Depends, you could end up a Fury (maybe) if you're vaguely Chaotic, and some people believe you can get your soul protected by the Emperor if you're devout, but sometimes your soul just ends up as the background noise of the warp if it's lucky
Frankly I'd just live forever

>>714291918 (OP)
This companion cast looks really terrible. Not really feeling any of these characters.

>>714298981
well, it keeps them in line sure but it also makes it a lot harder for outside factions to sneak bullshit in.

>>714308912
The only xenos who really do any sneaking of that sort are Genestealers, but that's often handled by the civilian-led purge parades that round of and slaughter anything vaguely mutant-looking.

>>714307902
>women are now thirsting over Astartes

>>714309464
Generally speaking there's three paths for women into 40k men;
Astartes (big strong manly man with emotional problems)
Dark Eldar (brooding edgy exotic man who she can either fix or will have torture-sex with. Also potential for emotional problems)
Tyranids (You just know)

>>714309464
I'm hoping the Night Lord companion rumour is true, there will be so much art of the Eighth by mentally unwell women.

Game needs an Eversor gf companion.

>>714309839
You mean callidus

>>714309691
The Night Lords roll the first two into one Peter Steele lookalike.

>>714308475
Can humans even worship Eldar gods? Has something like this ever happened?

>>714307902
Night Lords are a fucking pathetic CSM chapter and easily the biggest joke in the setting. Figures they'd be the ones GW lets Owlcat touch, since they don't give a single flying fuck about them.

sooo how is the dlc for the nigger cop? good story wise like Void shadow or mid tier like the base game?

>>714310164

>>714296836
Yeah, and even granting all that I can't see a scenario where a Night Lord would work with the Inquisition outside of a temporary alliance to take out a hostile third party. Their ultimate goals are diametrically opposed.

>>714309895
You mean culexus

>>714310649
lol
lmao
Posting the guy who got merked VS a character designed to lose, and an ELDAR character designed to lose no less, only proves my point. The Night Lords are a joke. Which is fitting for a factions whose entire motif and aesthetic is slapping Halloween party store plastic batwings over their gear. If there is anything in 40K that indisputably proves the entire setting is a satirical joke, it's the Night Lords.

how many Chaos Marine chapters are there? I only know the Word Bearers and the Night Lords

>>714310928
Don't care + best Primarch

>>714310018
In theory? Yes, Eldar Gods are just other Gods in the Warp.
In practice? No, the only Humans who know about Khaine would be Inquisitors or Marines.
That said Khaine isn't overly picky and so long as the Human in question isn't fighting Eldar he'd probably find the situation entertaining and go with it. Like Khorne 'blessing' Kais in Fire Warrior.

>>714311064
theres a few yeah

>>714311064
None of the CSM chapters are worth remembering outside of maybe the Alpha Legion so it's pointless to list them. Just a bunch of dudes in spiky armor there to get their shit kicked in by the Imperium, genuinely the most boring and banal part of the entire setting, they have genuinely nothing cool about them compared to every other faction in the game.

>>714309156
you are thinking of infiltration.
I am talking about sneaking in chaos or other warpy bullshit, or tech that can lead to either of the two.
there are a LOT of barely named or unnamed xenos groups that are full of crap like that.

>>714311064
9 Legions. Chapters? Pretty much limitless.

>>714311262
Curze is the most pathetic bitchmade faggot of a Primarch in the setting, outside of MAYBE Perturabo and Lorgar.

>>714311064
Legions are different from Chapters and unlike the Loyalists the Traitors kept their Legion title but they are broken up though they call themselves warbands. So for example
Imperial Fists - Imperial Fists Chapter and Black Templars
Word Bearers - Lord (so-and-so) warband
There are four Chosen Legions and four undivided.

>>714311262
that guy in the middle looking like he just realized the persian whore he slept with on footfall probably had 20 stds

>>714311064
9 Legions total.
Four (World Eaters, Emperor's Children Thousand Sons, Death Guard) are dedicated to individual Chaos Gods.
Two (Night Lords, Alpha Legion) are almost completely fractured into smaller scattered warbands.
One (Iron Warriors) is slightly fracture but still keeps some cohesion.
One (Black Legion) is full of whiny babies who follow their Primarch's Mini-Me and loyally listen to his daddy issues and how he totally isn't a pawn of Chaos.
One (Word Bearers) is the actual biggest threat to the Imperium and is almost wholly unified in worshipping Chaos.

>>714311394
nah, curze is worse. got executed by a callidus assassin like he was no different than some fat corrupt noble.
He let her in and decided to confront her naked because he was too much of a bitch to try to go against his hallucinations.

>>714311394
HE WAS THE GOAT

>>714311394
>and Lorgar
Sorry Guilliman, but Lorgar won.

>>714311621
*five undivided

>>714302942
It's got the coolest armor.

>>714311691
I agree, there are so many ways to handle prophecy and fate that aren't the pathetic and cowardly way Curze did, and he didn't even try any of them, just went right to the worst possible option.

>>714311714
Nah he was just a loser with a massive inferiority complex.

>>714311760
Lorgar being utterly and completely unable to get over his obsession with having an idol to worship is not "victory" in any way shape or form. Absolute loser.

>>714311286
Isn't Khaine dead in 40k? With the Avatars being sad shards? (to go with the elves are a dying race so in 40k that means they're super dying).

Aren't the only living eldar gods Isha, Cegorach and kinda Ynnead?

>>714311691
>he was too much of a bitch to try to go against his hallucinations
This is the crux of the entire matter. He never had the strength to try and go against what he thought was "fate", had he tried he would have discovered that his foresight was busted and that the terrible outcomes he always saw could be changed.

>>714311664
He won't have to worry about it for long

>>714310018
There were human cultists of elven gods in Fantasy.

>>714312070
>Lorgar
>Loser
He won though.
>Perturabo
>Loser
Beat Dorn
>>714312097
For the record, everything Curze saw happened.

>>714309691
In my experience as someone who got an old livejournal-to-tumblr "fandom cockroach" friend into Warhammer and through them found out about a whole subculture I never knew about, its specifically Chaos astartes that hit the spot. They generally look cooler than regular Marines, they can be much more interesting/maladjusted and can be even more homoerotic than loyalists. There's also a fairly significant minority that want to Trazyn the Infinite to be their bone daddy (especially after that one cartoon came out) and/or ship him with Orikan the Diviner.

She likes Emperor's Children the most, with World Eaters coming second. Loken is boring and Euphrati Keeler is a wet blanket.

Remember that one time an entire squad of Night Lords lost against a SINGLE Mandrake and afterwards all the Night Lords were scared of the dark? Good times.

>>714312536
>everything Curze saw happened.
because he let it happen.

>>714312619
Counts lmao

>>714312536
lol
lmao
Lorgar lost everything he cared about because of his inability to control his obsession with having something to worship, if you consider that "victory", okay. Perturabo was a pathetic faggot who constantly seethed about falsely imagined slights and basically mind fucked himself into becoming Chaos' bitch for legit no reason at all. At least guys like Angron and Magnus had actual, legit reasons to fall.

>>714312595
Based

>>714312828
Emperor still on cuck chair, Dorn still humiliated. Absolute dub.

>>714312094
No. Technically speaking all of the Eldar Gods are still alive, but the only ones outside of Slaanesh are Khaine, Isha, Cegorach, and Ynnead.
Gods can only fully 'die' when nobody who knows of them is left.

>>714312828
>Lorgar lost everything he cared about
All he ever wanted was the Truth.
And after he was disillusioned with the Emperor, he found it.

>>714313128
I see you have no real arguments as to why those three aren't the absolute bitch made faggots they are and are trying to deflect now, so I will accept your concession.

>>714313660

>>714312595
I have to wonder how the new Corsair in Dark Heresy will hold up compared to Marzipan. Space Elf Pirate Wizard seems significantly more approachable than Depraved Slave Torturer, and the latter definitely got his niche of followers.

>>714313394
Nah all Lorgar ever wanted was some idol he could fall to his knees in front of, when the Emperor flat out told him he was never going to be that and to end his colossal faggotry, he sperged out and found something else to slam his head onto the ground for. Truly a pathetic wretch.

The Administratum is the worst part of the Imperium.

>>714313829
As long as he's written well and isn't another absolute abomination and garbage pile like Yrliet, he'll do fine.

>>714293796
Because having to fight the equivalent of Cthulhu in 40k does force people to work together

>>714313979
Did my actions displease you, Elantach

>>714314029
No, it really doesn't, pretty much every faction in the setting slaughters each other on the regular and alliances are EXTREMELY rare, and generally only temporary in a "we'll prioritize this other threat then get back to dealing with you" kind of deal.

>>714291918 (OP)
>make rogue trader game
>add a bunch of dark heresy classes

>tease dark heresy
>add a bunch of rogue trader and only war classes

Owlcuck games are so retarded.
Not that it matters though, since the games get 40k wrong anyways.

>>714313884
It's funny you keep making that out like a bad thing when the Word Bearers 100% won the Heresy.
>Horus the False Prophet was destroyed, his pretender son fights for Chaos even while trying and failing to vehemently deny it
>The Emperor was crippled, and ten thousand years later has been turned into the thing he despises the most as his Imperium crumbles
>Guilliman has inherited a bloated corpse of a lordship and is barely holding back his own despair
>Lorgar and his Chaos-aligned brothers have become the strongest Daemons to ever exist, while the loyalists have been broken and scattered to the wind
>The Word Bearers are the single largest and most unified Legion in the galaxy

I like Yrliet's voice

>>714314434
Yeah it does sound nice
>Elantach.

>>714314223
Genuinely one of the worst written CRPG companions of all time. And probably the worst Eldar I've ever seen in 40K, too, if you can even call her an Eldar. It feels like the author who wrote her read some cliffs notes version of CW Eldar, if that, then wrote the character. Yrliet is absolute trash as a result, and of course, even beyond the Eldar stuff, she's just bad in general.

The game feels significantly better if you just kill her on Janus when meeting her. Pretty impressive that Owlcat could create a character that actually actively makes the story worse if they're around, but they managed it. And it's absolutely not just because she's a Xenos, since Marazhai was written just fine.

>>714291918 (OP)
>What went wrong?
It's not an incel game.

>>714314682
Are you going to post this in every fucking thread?

>>714314682
>likes Marazhai
>doesn't like Yrliet
Is there something you'd like to admit, anon?

>>714314414
From what I've seen of the setting, getting turned into a servant of Chaos is the biggest loss you can possibly take, but you do you, man.

>>714314773
The alternative is to become nothing

>>714314843
You're gone either way, whether your soul gets tortured and turned into a weapon or fuel or whatever, you're still nothing, fool.

>>714314750
The only issue Marazhai suffers from is that there are way too many reasons to kill him and very few reasons to keep him alive, especially once you escape Commoragh. His actual content and writing is quite good, and he is absolutely fantastic as a Dark Eldar representative, too, which is impressive since most writers would've held back on the edge to try and make him more palatable, but instead they went all the way.

Which, again, is why any sane RT would kill him, but that's what a Dark Eldar is and should be. Meanwhile Yrliet shows off absolutely nothing cool or interesting about Craftworld Eldar whatsoever. She isn't even an actual Ranger. Absolute waste of a character slot, imagine how much better the game could've been with just about ANY other option in her place, from Ork to T'au to even another Imperium rep. Genuinely anything would've added more to the game and been a more fun companion than Yrliet was.

>>714314682
my problem with yrliet is that she doesn’t accept any pushback, for example after the shitshow of chapter 3 when you tried to punish her she goes full victim mode, and the ending if you only tried to take her as friend and don’t romance her is very retarded oh yeah we will just reset her memory for trying to become friends with monkys :=)

fucking total eldar genocide

>>714314750
He's an autistic eldarfag that thinks Yrliet isn't "good representation"
Which means that she makes the eldar look like a joke, which they are, and he doesn't like it

>>714314843
I mean I'd rather become nothing than live for eternity in torture and as a plaything of malevolence incarnate, so yeah.

>>714315136
I don't think I'll ever see Marazhai or Idira's content unless I decide to play as a batshit insane character, because there's zero logical reason to let either of them live even if you're not dogmatic at all.

>>714315290
You're not missing much

>>714314843
>become nothing
or
>spend the rest of eternity being raped by daemons with spiky glass cocks
the choice seems pretty obvious to me

>>714315215
Nah I just think she's a bad character in general, her being bad as an Eldar rep is just a good example of her terrible writing. Every other character in the game except Jae (and even she's better, they just didn't commit to one thing with her and she suffers for it) does a good job showing off the faction they're representing, since the writers working on them actually did their damn job, but the writer who did Yrliet couldn't even manage that basic bitch task.

>>714313829
Different kinds of fandom intersecting with Marzipan I think, because Depraved Slave Torturer appeals both to the "I can fix him" and "I can make him worse" crowds, as well as... well I mean, not normal exactly, but more normal elf/warhammer fans. Space Pirate Wizard is definitely an easier sell, and probably won't be recruited in the same kind of negative way as their counterpart. A deciding factor could well be the V.A. and writing.
https://atomeja.tumblr.com/post/737987803107950592/marazhai-as-a-coffee-shop-employee-big-thanks-to

Abelard's VA also did the "Drive me closer, I want to hit them with my sword", I think.

>>714313979
She abomination and garbage pile is one of the most popular characters in the game bro, sorry

Maragay's popularity is actually surprising considering he's actually optional and comes so late in the game and most normies don't even play past Act 1

>>714316672

>>714291918 (OP)
>>714292470
>>714293380
So is Owlcat going to save the drukhari waifu for DLC?

>>714316784
Considering that most people who own this game don't even get past Act 2, that's not surprising. However, Marazhai does not do that well even on other polls, but he does manage to outdo Idira and Jae.

>>714316895
If we are getting yet another Eldar in Dark Heresy it will 100% be a Clown.

>>714305340
>space babe shit
low t

>>714317238
I want it to be Nocturne

>>714291918 (OP)
Tell me, will the kroot be on the same level as the fish? Or will she be completely platonic and we don't get to see her kroot pussy at all?

>>714314750
You aren't seriously gonna say Yrliet is better.

>>714317263
>Fucking beautiful women is "low t"
Massively homosexual post.

>>714317263
>dude if you don't like my fetish you're le low t

>>714292470
>Sslyth mercenary that you save from Deldar
>Ratling sniper who loves to strategically relocate supplies for (you)
>Freeboota Ork
>Another Ogryn, exactly the same as the first personality wise
>funni monke Jokaero
Unless all the other companions are Adhumans or Xenos I ain't buying it.

>>714317436
Kroot don't even reproduce by engaging in copulation, so the people who think there will be a "romance" are delusional idiots, at most you'd get some Yrliet tier "spiritual bonding" garbage. At least the Kroot won't constantly talk about how you completely repulse her and betray your party to the enemy though. Maybe.

>>714317574
Abhumans basically don't exist outside of Mossas fanart in 40K material aside from the trinity of Navigator, Psyker, and Ogryn, so yeah. It's funny people actually think stuff like Felinids and Nightsiders are an actual, real possibility just because of one dude drawing pictures of them.

>>714316784
Ulfar and Marz not getting picked is not surprising since they join up really late, and everyone has already found the party composition that fits them by then. But Jae not getting picked is funny. Shereenshitters on suicide watch.

>>714317580
So we wont even let her taste our meat? Dropped.

>>714317698
>Mossas fanart
Its warped horny anons so much

>>714317863
To be fair mossa art is extremely lore accurate.

>>714317505
Correct. Painted humans are boring and Asari are a fucking blight.

The kroot is going to flop so fucking hard

Reminder that as long as you're clean and well mannered an Eldar civilian would probably be quite cordial with you.
Yrliet's just an autist.

>>714319252
xenos hands typed this post

>>714319252
>Yrliet's just a terribly written hack job of a character
Fixed that for you.

>>714319252
It's the other way around. The only Eldar that are willing to talk with humans are weird fetishists.

Is being a Clown the best the best thing an Eldar could do? Not only are they stylish and cool, but the chance for Cegorach to intervene and save your soul makes it more worthwhile than anything else you could do. The Infinity Circuit or whatever it's called isn't really a solution, your soul is still at the mercy of something happening to your Craftworld.

>>714320391
It's extremely difficult and you are at severe risk due to the nature of your activities pretty much 24/7, and you can still easily lose your soul doing all the insanely dangerous shit Harlequins get up to. So it's not a guaranteed win.

Why does the clown help you in RT?
And what was he doing in Cumrag?
Why does he get special visitor status there?

>>714321676
>Why does the clown help you in RT?
For the lulz
>And what was he doing in Cumrag?
fucking around
>Why does he get special visitor status there?
he's kind of a big deal

>>714291918 (OP)
>>your waifu is a fucking kroot

>>714321676
>Why does the clown help you in RT?
he wants your help
>And what was he doing in Cumrag?
looking for the farseers from cruderock
>Why does he get special visitor status there?
the dukkies aren't stupid enough to mess with a harlequin

>>714322394
>ooking for the farseers from cruderock
For what purpose?

>the dukkies aren't stupid enough to mess with a harlequin
why?

>>714322630
>why
Harlequins are to Eldar what the Inquisition is to the Imperium.
When a Troupe shows up it doesn't matter what kind of Eldar you are, you shut the fuck up and listen.

>>714316784
So it's one of those loud minority things.

>>714317437
Yeah. I like the "depressed racist alien" character

>>714291918 (OP)
why the fuck is the writing in rogue trader so bad.
the heretical dialogue choices would get you a bullet through a skull in a second, yet everyone just makes a snide remark and then pretend like it didn't happen.

>>714317437
This more your style, big boi?

>>714324032
It's by necessity. People would've been mad if there was no "evil" route, even though it doesn't make any fucking sense. So you basically just have to be retarded and assume everyone else is as well like a true heretic to play that way

>>714324270
>even though it doesn't make any fucking sense
It makes perfect sense, they released an entire fucking DLC of a cult that pretends to be on your side but are in truth evil as fuck and want to kill you
Owlcat being lazy and making heretical as unsubtle as possible doesn't mean a proper evil route makes no sense per se

>>714324409
To do heretical properly would require its whole game pretty much. For one, you'd need at least 4 different paths depending on what chaos god you're following, and then maybe some other ones for various other heretical pursuits. That's a whole lot of content that most people aren't very interested in

>>714314682
It's a bit annoying that I tried my best to be a dogmatic that wasn't retarded, and then she totally shut down when I said I worshipped the Emperor

>>714324270
or they could actually allow you to choose more subtle remarks instead of blatant statements.
it's just shit writing

>>714324887
Would you like 4-6 different heretical responses to choose between each time, with different outcomes and responses, and have the storyline derailed entirely into something else? yeah that would be cool but it's not "shit writing" that they didn't write and make another 2 games worth of content just to appeal to edgy heretics.

>>714325145
literally no one is asking for that besides you, trying to pretend that making heretical not shit isn't possible

>>714325145
Dogmatic had two paths why can't they do it for heretic?

>>714325294
dumbass. I didn't say it wasn't possible, I said it was more trouble than it's worth. Most people prefer playing as dogmatic or iconoclast or a mix of those, very few people are interested in being a heretic so it got the least amount of effort. It is what it is.

>>714325387
>merely changing the writing a bit so you do more of what you do with Vistenza instead of walking around with a sign that says "I'M A CHAOS WORSHIPPER"
>too much effort

>>714323978
She got you and your retinue raped and you like her?

becoming a fleshlight for a chaos god still seems more merciful than being servitorized and lobotomized at will because some random nobleman fancied it

>>714325834
Yeah they made the Imperium way too retarded and edgy with the Grimdark wave. It isn't ageing well. Servitors are cool but shouldn't be used in every ship on every world.

I'm making Pasqual an Overseer with the skull, and I don't care if it isn't optimal.

>>714324032
>>714325602
1st step for playing a heretical character: kick argenta out of your party. Done, you can now play a heretic without whining like a baby about how unrealistic it is to nuke orphanages or whatever it is you're doing. By the way, you don't need to choose every heretical option, though it is encouraged.. There's room for deception sometimes, if you just want to roleplay. + you're a RT

Maive is so cute bros

>>714325932
Too grimdark for you? Go join the tau

>>714326219
I like the edgy shit but why does every ship and city in the Imperium need to be a shithole that abuses the lower class? There should be worlds with different social structures, it's kind of lazy

>>714326042
Have fun
Get Strategic Adaptation if you want more attacks with him, or the Distortion Signal that makes all enemies attack each other if you want more fun considering you need the Skull around enemies to spread his Analyze & Expose Weakness anyways
And be sure to rush for the pet gear in System Speculo, just talk to the Pet Vendor at Dargonus Palace and he sends you there, it makes the Skull extra tanky and auto priority target for all enemies inside its AoE so combines quite amazingly with Distortion Signal

why do rpg fags mostly talk about romance?
I wish murdering bad guys with big sword were more funnier

should i get the new season pass if i have yet to make it particularly far in the game
i bought it when it was released, played for a bit but then got busy and never got back to it
basically i'm asking if it's one of those dlcs where it's "buy it if you want more" or one where it completes or compliments the base game

where the fuck is this thing in the captain's quarters

>>714326443
Arue was the only romance worth playing through in any of the Owlcat games. Every other romance of theirs should've been cut to make more time for bug fixing

>>714326541
Define completes and compliments

>>714326543
left of the storage vault and the table at the center room
It's pretty small at the start and you need to be an Overseer for it I believe

>>714326379
because it's heresy otherwise.

"here we do things different"
>a governor's last words

"here we are happy and welcoming"
>gets infiltrated by chaos cult and then turned into demon planet

"servitors are inhumane!"
>gets servitorized for speaking out against admech practices

>>714326726
does it add cool or cute romanceable characters who have good integration into the interactions throughout the story or is it like a separate set of missions or area or w/e
or just anything where some DLCs for some games basically "finish" a game by adding content that resolves things or fleshes it out in important ways

>>714326628
>literal prostitute
>worth romancing
lol

>>714326628
No she's not
t. Aruefag
>>714327027
Purest girl in WotR btw

>>714326403
Thanks anon, sounds good

>>714327013
The DLCs add two new companions and new stories, these stories however have mostly nothing to do with the actual main story and are their own thing, but they're still worth playing

>>714326960
As long as they pay the tithe and cock suck the ecclesiarchs they would be totally fine. It gets pretty boring, feels like every Imperial planet is a copy and paste. You don't get to explore cool Heresy planets like Baal, Maccrage or Prospero. Also how can you RP as a good guy if you have a underclass being treated like this?

>>714326541
If you like the game then yeah buy them. They're not side adventures or endgame content, they're built into the main game from the beginning in such a way that you wouldn't even know it was DLC.

>>714326782
I am an Overseer but I don't see it anywhere in any of the rooms
Did I get >owlcat'd?

>>714327218
>As long as they pay the tithe and cock suck the ecclesiarchs they would be totally fine
Owlcat clearly disagrees seeing as they literally send the Imperium to fuck you in the ass if you act too much like a goody two shoes, even if you remain loyal to the Imperium

>>714327189
>>714327252
thanks for the info, might snag the season pass then

>>714327084
>Purest girl in WotR btw
yeah, its like panty from panty and stocking
so thats pretty pure af by western romance standards
you can also pretend ascension rebirthed her in a way

>>714327218
You go to a feudal world in the new DLC, with knights and shit like that.

>Solomorne INTERRUPTS Abelard announcing you
WHAT THE FUCK I HATE HIM NOW

>>714327084
>Purest girl in WotR btw
that would be Galfrey

>Abelard stops introducing you eventually
Complete bullshit. Honestly the best dialogue in the game.

Why do people keep trying to make Cassia grand strategist? Thats such a waste lol she has crazy dmg output as master tactician, literally soloing encounters on Unfair with finest hour

I've seen it even in some "guides" from people that are supposed to be good at RT

>>714327541
This. I hated it when the option stopped showing up
So many insolent NPCs that don't know who they're talking to and no one willing to tell them

>>714327707
Because it makes perfect sense for her character

>>714327707
Because dealing a shitton of damage is something most characters can do, like, why would I want her to deal more damage when I can give her first turn to buff me so I can just clear the entire room with executioner's heroic action?

can I just explore the different systems all I want or will time actually pass and make everything go horribly wrong at each main quest planet?

>>714327775
How so? GS = int, not willpower

>>714327920
I mean in an RP sense, not in a mechanical sense

he did nothing wrong

>>714327369
>yeah, its like panty from panty and stocking
What does that mean

>>714327707
Prob because people dont understand how mechanics work

Pasqal is by a very large margin the #1 choice for GS, making Cassia one makes no sense indeed since she doesnt even have stats for it

>>714302096
I like testify "watcher in the rain" where an inquisitive in training beats his mother to death and when he gets told she was actually never suspected of heresy he just shrugs

>>714311664
>who might that be shereen?

Can you be an iconoclast and recruit the Night Lord? They're my 2nd favourite legion

>>714328807
Arbities "Public Sentencing: When an enemy fails a Willpower resistance test for the first time in a round, the Arbitrator makes an attack of opportunity" combined with all the various provocation skills people have is pretty powerful

>>714328926
what? There is no night lord in RT, unless you mean DH, but we don't even know if one is going to be a companion, and iconoclast presumably doesn't exist there

>>714310018
There are a few xenos that worship other species's gods so it can't be impossible. Technically slaanesh is an Eldar God but humans fall to her all the time

>>714328807
>Power Maul

>>714328926
everything will be fine as long as you firmly support his gods given rights and freedoms to responsibly rape and pillage

>>714292470
idk. but i hope they have some nicer looking waifus. owlcat been losing in this category since day 1.

>>714327259
It should left of that globe & clock
Your pet should be perching or hanging there

I wish there were more space battles.

>>714329414
Me too.
But we have Battlefleet Gothic for that.

>>714329054
I meant in the upcoming one

>>714328207
>>714327707
Because any party member can do high damage, meanwhile only Cassia can do Navigator buffs & debuffs
Initiative is random as FUCK especially on Unfair, but if Cassia is always acting first, she not only debuffs enemies into infinity through Castigating + Waking Nightmare (which by itself can shave off 1k+ HP from late game bosses without any resistance) & movement skills
Then she can in the very same turn highly buff all allies through Infusing + Mend Reality, Reveal the Light & others, AND still have enough AP to dump Extra Turn + Voice of Command with the Decisive Response Officer talent, so it's not only her acting first, but also another powerful ally of choice
Also Devastating Staff + Lidless Stare 2x at the start of battle trivializes a lot of stuff due to lolStun and you get a staff for that as early as
Act 2 begins
Lastly she won't have any space for MT/Overseer etc. Powers & Talents for example due to all the Navigator stuff that shares the same spot until Exemplar levels, which is fine for GS since all you need for it is gained as a passive instantly
Cassia is literally the strongest ally with Grand Strategist outside of Pasqal + Missionary Oath cheese, and ideally you want both with it anyways to ever prevent enemies from taking a single turn

>>714329529
There is no iconoclast, just radical or puritan

>>714329529
As i said we don't even know if there is a night lord companion, and iconoclast isn't in because they're using the radical-puritan morality system

What should I upgrade Heinrix into? Militant?

>>714330234
Overseer with a cyber raven so he can be a buffslut

>>714330254
damn I'm gonna be a party of 3 overseers then

>Oh wow, these Arbites look pretty damn cool. I'm sure we'll see them in action again soon.
>Would you look at that! They need my help apprehending a criminal! I'm sure this'll go smoothly for them and my crew.
>Five minutes later:
>Everyone except Solomorne and Gaito get blown up.
Oh and the pyropsyker captain just turned into a 500HP chaos spawn.
Ok Lex.
>>714330234
I turned him into an executioner for some reason.

>>714330234
pyro executioner so you can skip long battles

>>714292409
>if you dont like cuckhammer slop it means you like pozzfinder
You are mentally ill.

>>714330365
Hey I finished that quest just 5 minutes ago
I made Gaito bite the chaos spawn to death it was pretty funny

>>714328190
Panty is an angel that gets turned into a human at some point and that makes her a virgin again just like Arueshalae

>>714330429
Why are you here then?

>Solomorne bows up the thing without knowing if it'll even swap you back to your body
this fucking guy, I wanted to be inside Maive but not like this

>>714330462
Gaito got utterly raped by Sorgspawn in my run, but Reactivate came in handy.
Also the Dark Rider got finished by a traitor gunner, lel

>>714329792
Aight that makes some sense

>>714317117
>both poopskin companions at the bottom
based

>>714327707
Because going first is always beneficial in a tun based game and it doesn't require any effort to be good.
I don't want characters that can solo entire encounters on Unfair. I just want to have fun.

What will be the
>I SERVE THE RUINOUS POWERS!
of Dark Heresy?

>>714331241
An inferior "Witness your dooooom!"

Why do people say the servo skull is bad? I gave it to Jae and it's pretty solid.

>>714331317
It's not bad, it's just that mostly you can only share Voice of Command + Air of Authority
Raven meanwhile lets you share way more + it's based on your own Psy Rating rather than Skull stats & can also do some AoE

>>714329414
>i wish there were more of the literal worst part of the game
Thank fucking Christ space battles are going away in dark heresy.

>>714331317
It does fuck all

Why is there no option to burn alive all these peasants that dare to insult my wife

>think Argenta is going to shoot the warp Theodora
>she was actually aiming for Idira
woops lmao

>>714332430
It was a controlled shot.

the only truly sad part about Yrliet's home world being exterminated is that you can't bomb it again and again and again

Why is there no option to take the altar of change, load it onto a shuttle and blast it a safe distance from the flagship? If you blow it up on the planet and it kills a ton of people or destroys the infrastructure, the planet might have difficulty paying the tithe. Didn't think about that one did you mr arbeit macht frei.

>>714330737
what? how? there must be different ways for that whole thing to end

>>714331453
git gud gay guy

>>714332669
I think it's because that whole planet is full of that weird crystal it was made of

>>714332759
>I think it's because that whole planet is full of that weird crystal it was made of
why did they bring the statue made of it and put it in my fucking quarters?

Marzipan is the best romance in the game, hands down.

>>714333339
Are you forgetting not everyone is a faggot like you are?

>>714333406
It's a whole redemption arc with character development. The rest are fucking boring next to that. Plus, I'm the fucking Rogue Trader and I can do what I want. Big E said so so fuck off

>>714328772
he doesn't really shurg so much as he just heavily suppresses it since showing weakness is a no no, that is until the local rain demon decides to have a bit of fun with it

Faggot space elves get sent to the inquisition

>>714333481
>redemption arc
explain I thought it was just about you dominating him or being a pain whore

>>714333481
Big E didn't give you that writ so you could bottom for a fucking drukhari you animal

>>714333481
Big E is okay with faggots and female custodes but not skull knives. Incredible writing by Nu GWS

>>714307586
as the other guy stated, all of them will alter your mind in some way, even the delusional take that nurlge won't do shit is wrong since even his most basic blessing is making it harder for you to feel much of anything

>>714333481
>It's a whole redemption arc with character development
What the fuck are you talking about?

>>714333481
The only "redemption" a filthy xenos deserves is a bolt shell in their disgusting misshapen skull.

>>714333572
>>714333701
you learn about each other's cultures and he learns that there's more to life. And you learn that there are more important things than money.

>>714333598
>>714333579
sorry but it's my ship and ill do whatever the fuck I want. the whole imperium would be better if they stopped being so xenophobic and learned to work together with other life to fight chaos.

>>714333727
typical dogmatichud

>>714311064
as the other mentioned there are nine legions but it should be noted like their loyalist counter parts they essentially got broken up (albiet due to infighting but still) into multiple warbands that while many do give some lip service to their legion are functionally independent even when they are on campaign together, some of these warbands are just a couple of chaos space marines while others are fuck huge such as the red corsairs, and they often don't even come from the original traitor legions but are a hodge podge of fallen marines

Are their warbands that worship some chaos gods but not others? Like a Khorne/Slaanesh warband that just goes around murderfucking everything?

>>714333572
It's pretty much the same as the romance with Heinrix. I mean they are direct opposite of each other, they are just unreasonable and insane enough to do what is "necessary" for their belief. They are almost identical to me.

>>714322630
harlequins are the servants of the one eldar god that is
>alive
>in one piece
>not stuck in a cum jar thus still active
so fucking with them as an eldar regardless is a death sentence, not to mention they are the most elite of the eldar barring the phoenix lords (as much as gw wants you to forget those fuckers once wiped the floor with custodes) so trying to fuck with one even as a dark eldar is just asking for your entire cabal to get assraped hard

>>714325932
>to grimdark
>anon is surprised that the bloodiest regime imaginable is grimdark

>>714334141
there is probably some obscure warband but general rule of thumb is you either worship one or all and even worshipping all is a very risk path, take your example of Khorne and Slaanesh, that is a recipe for disaster since those two gods are very opposed to each other (even by the standards of chaos)

>>714316038
My dude, if you are interested in good faith discussion, consider the following scenario:

Elon Musk dies and so do almost all of his children, suddenly you gain custody of his only living 16yo edgelord son, who's a piece of shit, but you have the custody. Do you make use of that to take control of the vast tech empire he's leaving behind, or do you kill the kid because he annoys you? What if it turns out you also have the same enemies? What if he's willing to share his wealth and secret tech with you if things go the right way?

People who insist the kill route is the only correct one haven't engaged with the plot on a deeper level than "pew pew bolter porn".

>>714334812
who the fuck gave idira internet access

>>714334812
>Conveniently ignores minor details such as the RT also being filthy rich and Marazhai literally getting your entire party almost killed and tortured

>>714334747
I really dislike how you can't dedicate your whole ship to Tzeentch in Rogue Trader, inviting the other powers onboard is just asking for trouble.

>>714335347
The kabal stays dormant while under threat, and if you do his quests right and he demonstrates the sufficient leadership qualities, they will agree to follow him and name him their archon. Moreover, if you use him to reveal Nazrikhei as a weak old man and kill him, Vect is willing to look the other way in welcoming Marazhai back to Commorragh. One of the possible ending slides is that under Marazhai's leadership, the Reaving Tempest kabal rises to its former glory.

Oh, and another ending slide (if you romance Marazhai properly) is that he will return to you again and again despite being Archon and bully your enemies for you. Essentially you get the might of a High Commorragh kabal behind your back, possibly including their technology, which Heinrix himself describes as "so advanced it looks like magic".

I think Jae STINKS

So can I just fuck around exploring every planet while delaying visiting one of the three worlds for the main quest or will they all turn to shit if I take too long?

>>714335482
>he's now resorting to metagaming to justify his husbando
Just admit that you're thinking with your dick, you become allies with Marazhai out of convenience while you're stuck on Cumrag, after that any person with a modicum of self respect (meaning, not you) is going to give him to Heinrix

>>714335546
>Do not redeem Dogmatic saar

>>714335606
Far as I know, the game will tell you when there's an actual hurry to go do something. Otherwise it doesn't really matter. Except when you're given multiple things to take care of, it's usually the order that you do them in that changes things, not how long it takes you to do them.

>>714335546
she probably smells good, maybe sickeningly so

>>714335606
nah you're fine you can explore the whole map and nothing will happen

>>714292470
clown seems a lock in considering how Owlcat mentioned they originally wanted Nocturn to be playable and Harlequins work with the Inquisition when they want to

Is rank 3 the highest tier of colony project you can do in act 2? I completed one but the quest didn't finish. Is it a multi act quest?

>>714291918 (OP)
Is there some term for the phenomenon where the moment an indie studio makes one Warhammer game that's all they ever make from that point forward?
It's not like I hate Warhammer fans for it, understandable they'd be happy getting catered to so much, I'd love to be in the position where every franchise I like got that amount of reverence.

>>714335918
Sure hope this clown is less of a retard than Nocturne.

>>714335961
Ah yes, my favorite Warhammer game

>>714335959
>Is rank 3 the highest tier of colony project you can do in act 2
Yes, rest only opens up on Act 4

>>714335961
yeah

>>714310018
No, primarily because the eldar 'gods' are just semi-sentient superweapons from the War in Heaven.

>>714312536
Konrad saw contradicting visions at times, but since he believed only in the worst of humanity, he always actes to ensure the worse one came true. It is made abundantly clear later on that he always had the power to change the future for the better, he just never chose to do so.

>>714313394
>All he ever wanted was the Truth.
A lie he tells himself to feel better about his treason. The Emperor told him the trutg, and Lorgar didn't accept it, because he has a pathological need to worship something.

>>714335961
I think it helps that it's such a massive universe with so many things going on, you can really tell any sort of story you want or make any kind of game and still make it fit into the Warhammer setting.

>>714314843
Leaving aside the obvious fact that this isn't true, oblivion is better than eternity in hell.

>>714293796
Even if you consider that there are three major factions of the Inquisition, only one of which being dedicated to counter and destroy aliens, most of them would likely agree that not all aliens are the same. Unless you're talking about an extremely puritan Ordo Xenos inquisitor, they'd probably be happy to ally with the Eldar or Tau to deal with a Tyranid incursion. Similarly, an Ordo Malleus inquisitor would probably be content paying Ork Freebotaz to deal with a squadron of Chaos ships.

>>714336006
This is an aside, it's not their gravy train. They're an publisher now, Owlcat is known primarily for their CRPG's this is an ARPG in the same vein as old bioware games, so it has a great risk of failing or not selling good enough and then it's the inevitable Warhammer 40K CRPG #3 then Fantasy Warhammer CPRG 1, 2 and 3.

>>714336748
Alright, because every single dialogue in RT is basically WHAT YOU DARE SPEAK WITH A XENOS? HERESY! KILL IT ON SIGHT!!!!!

>>714327707
Because she can skip all GS talents and keep picking all the Navi powers, and having a character that can literally dictate enemy positioning in addition to applying buffs and debuffs along with crowd control ALWAYS go first beats any other archetype you can pick. No, MT does not have anything that can beat always going dirst on a navigator.

why can't I romance Maive this DLC sucks

>>714337209
I tried to save her but she got turned into a servitor anyway for some reason. Dammit.

>>714337209
>>714337263
You can keep her in your room as your covfefe whore though

>>714337140
I don't use her because it doesn't make any sense to bring her into combat for no real reason. What if she gets killed in some random backwater system? It's fucking over for the ship

>>714337517
I tried, but then after a warp jump I got a message saying that something went wrong and she was misbehaving or something, so they turned her into a servitor. Maybe because I didn't go talk to her before we left? Dunno.

>>714337209
She's cute, first Owlcat NPC I would romance
Cassia is still best girl though

>>714337529
Ok, then your RT is not allowed go out either, what if HE gets killed???

>>714337056
Yeah if you play a dogmatic character that's basically you playing as a brainless cuck that's high on imperial creed, Iconoclasts are far more reasonable. Hendrix is a fairly accurate representation of a puritan inquisitorial acolyte/interrogator. Calcazar on the other hand is clearly a radical, he's constantly dealing with the Dark Eldar and doesn't really bat an eye when you parade the space elves around.

In DH, you can choose your character's alignment, whether you want to assume a puritanical or radical approach to inquisitioning. The RT equivalent would probably be Dogmatic vs. Iconoclast.

>>714337925
>iconokek trying to call anyone a cuck

>>714292283
Wow look, it's every companion I either had executed or killed at the first opportunity for being xenos.
It's missing the quirky reddit psykker though.

>>714291918 (OP)
When is this shit coming out?

>Playing as Maive
>Some guys find you and they try to steal your clothes
>They don't try to rape you
This game isn't realistic at all

>>714337529
It's actually not over for the ship, you can still make short calculated jumps between systems, it's just that if you want to make actual quick progress, you do need a navigator (or a system that replaces the navigator completely, such as the Class M Klenova Warp Drive).

>>714338383
>>714337529
The game unironically lets you hire a Navigator Merc if you don't have Cassia, that also has Nav powers you can pick

>>714338350
I would have called Exterminatus on the whole planet if they did

>>714338247
No this year that's for sure

>haven't had a single "here's some free navigator's insight" event the whole game
turns out the emperor doesn't protect

kek

>>714338509
I know, I'm talking of the hypothetical scenario that you were stranded in the middle of nowhere without a navigator. You can chain together short hops and get wherever you need to go without a navigator, but shit's way slower than making it there in one go with the help of a navigator's expertise.

>>714337529
I only bring Cassia where it makes sense (formal places, "peaceful" locations, diplomatic shit)
That way I don't feel like I'm abusing her overpoweredness without benching her forever.

>>714339020
Oh forgot to mention, that's from the Rogue Trader CRB, page 311.

What's the best Cain book to start with? My buddy needs something to read while incarcerated

>>714337896
Somebody else can take command. Nobody else can navigate.

>>714338509
No shit? I had no idea.

>>714337925
>>714338014
80% Dogmatic 20% Iconoclast is the true "good guy" path. Most of the dogmatic stuff exists for a reason, but some of it is nonsense that comes for corrupt bureaucrats and various elites for their own selfish benefit so in a way, cleaning corruption up like that is actually dogmatic because it's what the Emperor would actually want

>>714301742
>he hates KINOphas cain

>>714339527
More like 90% Iconoclast, 5% dogmatic and 5% heretical.

>>714339743
No way it's that much. Most iconoclast decisions are "make things better right now but then way worse in the near future"

some of it does make sense though.

>>714311064
There are 9 Chaos Space Marine legions but there are also some post-heresy chapter that become renegade or straight up fall to Chaos like Red Corsair or Star Gorgon

>>714339831
The absolute best outcome for both yourself and the koronus expanse is to go full Iconoclast with your baby C'tan sealing off access from the Imperium at large. And, most of the major Iconoclast decisions are good. Such as for example establishing an alliance with the elves on Janus.

>dogmachuds forever mad Iconochads literally create heaven on earth while fully protected by the very same dutiful and loving son they killed out of stupidity

>>714312536
>For the record, everything Curze saw happened.
Because he let them happen. Even his assassination is him letting it happen by kicking all of his men out and disable the security system. You can say that he force that version of the event to happen that way. The problem is Kurze basically already gave up a long time ago and he never once try to fight his destiny, just letting it happen because it let him feel less guilty.

>>714339979
>Such as for example establishing an alliance with the elves on Janus
Nobody tell him

>>714307524
>t.imotekh

>>714340063
Tell me what? The ending slides were clear, the two races were chill on Janus and when Alaitoc showed up they just took the elves and disappeared, leaving the planet in human hands.

>>714340405
That you can make an alliance with the eldar when playing dogmatic retardbro

>>714340509
Fairly sure the option required a bunch of Iconoclast ranks to unlock.

Does anyone actually take these really fucked up development projects? They seem a bit too fucked up for me, unless you're playing as a straight sociopath driven by greed alone. Or maybe a desire for human suffering.

>>714340567
There is a dogmatic option too

>>714313971
Even the astartes kneel to the mighty CHADministratum

>>714340027
I can’t believe this has to be said for most people but the imperium of man are the bad guys lol , what they think is heresy is just being anti fascist

>>714340053
>>714336483
You are not wrong but it is crazy how much people focus on Curze being a fatalist especially given the setting he is in. Every conversation about him seemingly devolves to how the depressed lunatic didn't hold Sanguinius' hand and sing kumbaya throughout the heresy. He absolutely could have fought against fate (in my opinion) but for him to do so it would invalidate core tenants of his character and in-universe he starts having to believe the lie out of sheer need not to kill himself, if he accepts that he is criminal then he will kill himself which he does end up doing but he does it in a way that gives him one final spiteful act against the father who created him to be a monster.

>>714340027
Will someone please tell the iconotard that Nomos has both dogmatic and heretical endings too? They're so used to their favorite deus ex machina saving their asses from a bad ending that they always forget about that tiny little detail.

WHY CANT WE EVER HAVE A BLANK COMPANION

>>714325932
A lot of servitors are made from vat grown humans though

what counts as a "major" psychic power

>>714341396
It's literally stated below the spell description

>>714341618
>>714341618
Only if you right click which I was too retarded to think to do

>>714340027
>>714339979

Iconochad here. I don't like sealing myself off from the Imperium.
I want to show them they can be less retarded without falling to chaos, with my protectorate combining a more harmonious society with the strength to resist the enemies of the Imperium.

>>714342231
Yeah, people like to talk about how there were better human societies that got crushed by the Imperium, but if that happened, then anyone could've done it so they were doomed anyway. Being nice won't keep the tyranids from eating you or chaos eating your planet, only strength can do that. So you have to be stronger AND better than the Imperium to make a better way forward.

>>714342231
That's literally nothing more than a pipe dream, the Imperium would never allow for your little protectorate to flourish. They'd label you a dangerous heretic freethinker and you'd have the Imperial Navy on your ass the faster than you can yell 'Astronomican'.

But, it's not entirely impossible. If you're on good terms with Hendrix and Cassia, there's a small chance that you can retain at least weary relations with the Imperium at large, but it would still be a good idea to keep the separation on place for at least a couple of centuries.

>>714342471
Exactly, it comes down to politics.
If you pay a fat tithe, have friends in the Ecclesiarchy, the Inquisition and the Navis Nobilite, they might tolerate your "eccentric administration methods".
Nomos is like a cheat code, i wish there was a more subtle way.

>>714342714
Another thing to consider is that even if there's no full blown war, due to how the Warrant works, it may be simpler for the highlords to simply decide to kill you and have the Warrant pass to a more easily controlled Rogue Trader, and then you'd have to deal with Temple Assassins, and that's quite a hassle to deal with even if you could oppose them.

>>714291918 (OP)
Imagine the cloaca sex.

>>714343356
My going into games machine will get a lot of use soon

How many new interactions do the "pets" have? I've noticed the dog often goes to hidden loot to show you, and that the skulls go to doors to show you the optimal way forward to put yourself in the best position for the next battle.

>>714292470
Kroot has to report back to her Tau Auxiliary Overseer and the Overseer is made to join your team.

Goddamn I love Argenta.

>>714343557
>tau gf
if only

>>714343416
Give it back, thief

>>714343356
Kroot don't have cloacas. The males excreet a pheremone on their hands during mating and rub it onto the female's back. Several weeks later the female vomits out the newborn Kroot.

>>714344696
That's disgusting.

>>714345240
They're aliens who spontaneously mutate based on what they eat, anon. They're not exactly pretty.

Is it true that all of mankind possesses the same sort of "psychic power" as the orks do, that simply believing something makes it true? To a lesser degree obviously, but still the mass prayers and screaming into the abyss with no apparent method or goal still seem to get results simply because people think it will.

>>714345602
The Warp as a reflection of reality does that. Belief work because strong enough belief can force the warp to change. However this is strictly only work in the Warp due to the nature of the place. The Ork power is basically just another form of psychic power like a psyker shoot lightning out of their hands.

TLDR: Human don't have the same ability as Ork, human belief work in the Warp while Ork use their psychic power to force reality to change.

Lovey dovey handholding sex with Yrmeryss

>>714345602
No.
Faith is a uniform concept across all races with a conncetion to the Warp.
You believe in a God, that God exists and is fueled by your faith. The nature of that God matters a lot. In many cases your interpretation of a God will be unique, but that individual aspect will still feed into the greater whole, i.e. if Khorne is worshipped on two different planets in two different ways, each planet will have a unique Aspect that feeds their worship to Khorne. Hence why despite the cast differences in planets within the Imperium, they all still follow the Imperial Creed and thus feed worship into the Emperor.
The Ork Gestalt is not a matter of Faith. It's a subconcious interconnection between Orks that lends towards increasing their intelligence and strength the more are gathered together. Furthermore it doesn't just "make things true", it better facilitates greater success by the matter of increased gestalt brainpower being fed into specialists. I.e.; a Trukk breaks down on the way to a fight due to low fuel. As the Mekboy works on it, the Boyz inside pile out. One complains that they didn't put enough gas in tbe Trukk, to which the Nob smacks him upside the head and says he filled it with plenty enough to get to the fight. The Mekboy, influenced by the gestalt, then suddenly figures out how to rearrage thr engine bits so it preserves gas better and thus allows the Boyz to get to the fight.
Two VERY different things.

>>714291918 (OP)
I'm enjoying Rogue Trader a lot right now. I'm actually annoyed my friends wanted to skip out session tonight. Cassia is my waifu. What's the issue with Dark Heresy? The nigger woman? I'm looking forward to it, but Rogue Trader is the first 40k vidya I've ever gotten invested in.

>>714346218
Dark Heresy is Rogue Teader except instead of playing as a pompous space aristocrar you're playing as an Imperial CIA/FBI agent.

>>714346346
Yeah it's a downgrade but i'll take it

>>714346346
I do think being a gigantic ship owning space jew exploring the universe star trek style is cooler, but I still think I'll buy and play Dark Heresy. 40K is a way more interesting setting than I thought it would be, and I'm excited to learn more about it.

>>714345854
>>714346185
Well, I still think it's badass that large groups of people organize to literally scream into the chaos realm, threatening it, praying to the Emperor, bragging about the strength of humanity, and all kinds of shit, and change things by doing so.

What are the chances of the inevitable Night Lord companion being a loyalist?

Ever noticed the two frequency (?) displays in the bottom left while you're in space? One shows activity when you're near something sending signals, the other activates when those signals are human.

I'm playing rogue trader and i built my Argenta to use flamers.
She fucking sucks and i'm respeccing to heavy bolters.

The question is, Arch-Militant or Master Tactitian?

>>714346969
Arch-militant 100% IMO. Have her switch between the burst attacks on her bolter and a melta or flamer to build it up, she gets stronger every round.

>>714346969
Arch-militant since the class give Argenta a lot of self-buffs

>>714317117
Abelard and Argenta are genuinely competing for top spots on the list of best vidya game companions ever. Pasqual is pretty great too but more as a vessel for Mechanicus stuff and his quest, not on his own.
Also, Argenta not being romanceable was a great thing in retrospect - saved her from being merely another fucktoy trophy companion whose interactions revolve around romance.

>>714347260
>saved her from being merely another fucktoy trophy companion whose interactions revolve around romance
Maybe if she had a romance she could have something of a story going on for her instead of spending the entire game doing nothing but going "le kill le heretics!"

>>714347470
>doing nothing but going "le kill le heretics!"
She has more nuance to her than you suggest.

>>714346869
i mean, a traitor astartes isn't something an inquisitor would tolerate

>>714346969
With heavy bolters, you want to take anything that increases crit chance, crit damage, recoil reduction, and fire rate. She will destroy fucking everything

>>714346969
did you get the perk that uses demolition to raise aoe damage? she should hit like truck with that and the Concentrated Fire ability. just give her a shotgun if you don't like flamers

>>714347872
I did. The flamer clears weak enemies just fine but sucks against stronger ones, and against bosses i might as well skip Argenta's turn

>>714347690
Depends on an Inquisitor.

>>714348261
Only if he left his chapter for the deathguard or something

>>714348068
Works well if you have an Executor, that skip the whole "damage over time" thing and just hits them with it all at once. Burn em, poison em, make them bleed, and then finish the job.

>servo skull
>cast air of authority and voice of command on it
>affects entire fucking party on turn 1
This feels very clean

>>714348341
What are Radical Inquisitors?

>>714346969
Arch militant

Versatility is busted

>>714348553
the greatest threat to the imperium

>>714291918 (OP)
>a nigger
Pass, might pirate after mods fix it.

>>714348612
Yet they are still Inquisitors with all their privileges.

>>714348490
for me, it's mass expose weakness on a crowd before shotgunning it

I never get tired of fighting xenos or chaosfags who never stop talking about how they're better, then crushing them. It feels good every time.

>>714348490
Personally, I just don't use officers because it breaks the combat entirely. Yeah they're useful and they make sense, but anytime you fuck with the turns just breaks any sense of balance.

>>714348490
It got boring doing that everytime.
Respecced to the eagle

>>714348490
Keep in mind that when you do that, it uses the skull's fellowship instead of your own and your officer talents don't work.

>about to start the ascension ceremony and finish act 2
>still can't get into the quarantine zone
did they change this quest

>>714349521
I never saw the ascension ceremony and I'm in act 3, but I went in that place

With arch-militant's confident approach ability, does it mean critical chance is useless?

>>714346869
As much as getting a Daemonhost companion me thinks.

>>714350331
Neither confident or cautious approach prevent the normal bonuses. They just add additional bonuses elsewhere. Confident lets you hit them easier, cautious makes it harder for them to hit you.

>>714298981
Like when they give billions of humans in exchange for drukhari's help with golden throne

>>714352381
A desperate measure that would never have been accepted by the Emperor himself.

Funny thing, by keeping him alive they're making their own situation worse. If they just let him die, he'd come back stronger than ever. It's like if people did everything to keep Jesus alive on the cross, suffering eternally, instead of letting him die. It's worse for everyone, including Him.

>>714350331
Yeah, basically all hits are critical but the crit damage is gimped, so you need to pump that crit damage modifier, combine it with blessed bolter you can clean the field in 1 turn
>>714353196
Empy said he's prepping to return BUT it's up to GW how they gonna pull that shit,

I took the dual wielding perks, but either they're bugged or I'm misunderstanding them. I'm dual wielding a shotgun and a pistol, with a rifle in the second set, but most of the time I can't use the pistol after the shotgun, only the rifle. Which works great, but it doesn't feel like the intentional method.

>>714332669
>just bring a fucked up chaos relic onto your ship bro! what could go wrong?

>>714293452
At that point just play Daemonhunters

>never really played any CRPGs outside of Dragons Age Origins if that counts
>try baldur's gate 1
>really interested in it, think about playing it all the time when I'm not playing it
>~4 hours of gameplay later I lose all drive to actually play it
>try Pillars of Eternity 1
>really interested in it, think about playing it all the time when I'm not playing it
>~6 hours of gameplay later I lose all drive to actually play it
>try Rogue Trader
>really interested in it, think about playing it all the time when I'm not playing it
>~2 hours of gameplay later I lose all drive to actually play it
>try Wasteland 3
>actually really interested in it, play it for nearly 30 hours
>a bug corrupts my saves with all backups always running into that same bug, lose all drive to replay it from scratch
How do I unfuck my dumbass brain to actually start enjoying CRPGs? I don't know what makes me lose interest in the games specifically, it's like a switch suddenly gets flipped and all that I found interesting about the game(dialog/writing/build variety/quests not being straight forward "this bad option this good option") become negatives out of a sudden.

>>714315290
You can justify having Marazhai around if you play as an absolute arrogant bastard iconoclast aristocrat, that basically sees having an exotic xenos retinue member as some sort of status symbol, and also an elaborate humiliation ritual revenge to the deldar bastard that attacked your realm as well as caused you to be brought to commoragh. Essentially, just killing Marazhai would have let him off the hook too easy. Having him serve your dynasty for the rest of your life is far fitting punishment.

>>714301253
all of them

>>714321676
Harlequins get a free pass pretty much everywhere in the surviving circles of the Eldar because they are the servants of the only still living Eldar god. Double for solitaires because they represent Slaanesh in the Harlequin performances. Essentially, the clown who helps you out plays the evil rape satan that ate all the Eldar gods barring Cecoragh in the plays Harlequins perform to the rest of the Eldar. He's extremely spooky to all other Eldar, even other Halrequins.

>>714358098
Interesting perspective. Maybe I'll try to make that work when the next DLC drops.

>>714335918
Wait, is the harlequin claiming that the Silent King created the tyranigs?

>>714324137
if marzi looked like this he wouldn't be a crater somewhere out in hellspace. Ah well

>>714292283
>best girl Argenta
>perfect dogmatic waifu
>clearly designed to be love interest
>best looking babe in the game
>Is not a romance option
>fish girl with bleeding eyes & racist xeno who calls you a monkey are tho.

>>714359075
Argenta's grin...

The ambush if you don't let Yrliet join your retinue makes way more sense.

>>714293258
You'll be made one at the end of the intro like every other owlcat game, and most other rpgs. Can't have players fee like they're not the specialest boy on their on-rails adventure.

I like that the DLCs added way more cutscenes. Really helps you feel more grounded in the events.

>>714311760
BTW the emperor looks like this, but with hair

>>714304067
Good, I can pretend my failure in life is by choice.

>>714291918 (OP)
I want the kroot to shape my seed all up in its kroothole, if ya know what i mean

>>714312907
Hideous troon art
Shame because the concept of the pic's neat

>>714326628
>Arue was the only romance worth playing through in any of the Owlcat games
Speak for yourself. I enjoyed both cucking a stupid orc to death and being a saladfucker in KM.

>>714335918
God I love Eldar.

>>714326628
she has fucked and been fucked by literally every demon and most mortal things. not very romantic IMO

she's the female equivalent of Marazhai

>>714307586
Nurgle. He loves his grandchildren and they love him. Hes the only chaos god, that ive heard of, who will intervene and save one of his followers just because he made him laugh or smile one time.
Good guy Nurgle, always looking out for his little bros.

>>714336006
>have 40K license
>could make Not!Mass Effect 40k
>go with most boring sci fi setting imaginable basically mudcore in space

>>714360905
Nurgle is a "friendly grandfather" who wants to end your suffering by making you rot alive. He's maybe, maybe less evil than the others because he offers peace and acceptance, but it's peace and acceptance of death and oblivion. Better than the others, but still not good.

>>714359075
Allegedly GW didn't permit it even though Owlkek wanted to do it but they're both notorious liars so who knows.
There's also books where SoB fuck and they're never mentioned to be celibate(though it's easy to assume being nuns and all)

>>714361430
Far as I know there's not much said about the Sisters having relations with people. There's nothing against it, but the topic simply doesn't come up very often because they're usually too busy with other things.

>>714298806
Considering there is a radical but loyalist sect of the inquisiton that actually practices chaos sorcery and gets away with it despite being considered absolute heretics because nobody fucks with the ordo maleus, you could probably get away with hiring a traitor or two

>>714312595
>There's also a fairly significant minority that want to Trazyn the Infinite to be their bone daddy (especially after that one cartoon came out) and/or ship him with Orikan the Diviner.

I thought I was the only weirdo with a thing for evil terminator/metal-skellys. Very Based.

>fish this
>fish that
>"Fish is so cute!!"
>how do I romance the Fish???
>fish is so beautiful and kind omg
>whats the best gift for fish?
>how much is the fish??
>I touched Fishes hand once....
>I bought figurine of the fish, I love her so much
Why is Sister Argenta (the backbone of your party) so easily forgotten and not talked about ??

>>714362306
Uh anon, she's literally the most popular party member, even more than Abelard (but just barely)

>>714362306
>>how much is the fish

I wish they'd get rid of 50% success on skill checks or 70% or 30% or whatever, because all that means is that you're gonna savescum it. It should be a simple pass or fail check, either you have the skill to do it or not. The chance based checks make sense if you're playing on tabletop or co-op or whatever, but they don't belong in a single player game.

What are you doing inquisitor ?!?? Stop staring and help me !

>>714363170

>>714363170
He just wants that booty

>>714291918 (OP)
Nothing went wrong, that's hilarious and I will go for it.

>>714292470
Another Space Marine, this time from the Deathwatch rather than one that got lost. Probably Dark Angel to fit the theme of the game and contrast Ulfar.
A daemonhost if you're radical enough.

>>714292518
I'd LOVE to get the Assassins in this game somehow, but I doubt it. They're too overpowered for the scope of what the party seems to be.

>>714364780
>They're too overpowered for the scope of what the party seems to be.
How? They're not even marines. We already got a space wolf. Remember, space wolves are stronger than gray knights.

>>714358241
>Tau book is about an Ethereal selling weapons to rebels
>Kid MC drinks the Tau Kool Aid and instead of defering to Imperial protocol, reports it to the Tau themselves
>Instead of arresting the Ethereal, the Tau exfiltrate her to safety because they were behind it all along
>Book ends with MC saying that the Imperium is right to not trust xenos, and that xenophobia is the proper way forward
Still a bit funny.

>>714358654
It's one of several theories, and one that kinda holds some weight given how secretive and opaque Szarekh is about his history.

>>714365829
Bloodborne reference lol

>>714291918 (OP)
Nothing, everything is perfect down to the last detail

>>714366426
I thought the silent king came back because he found the tyranids when he was cruzing outside of known space?

>>714365921
I heard the Necron book has Space Marines get slaughtered down to a man by them and the kids manage to escape as the world is taken over.

>>714366634
That's kinda what he himself has said, but it's still pretty suspicious when anyone who starts asking about his time outside the galaxy quietly gets disappeared.

>>714366775
I gotchyu. Sorta seems like a crying shame he didnt come back every few million years to see if his sleepy people were getting raped by hairless monkeys and space demons and stuff. Talk about an oopsy.

>>714366556
You just know there are fromsoft fags on the owlcat team. Anime weirdos too.

>>714367469
That's pretty much the basis of Imotekh's current rebellion, which fittingly enough has exposed Szarekh as a bit of a fraud.

Damn I didn't think there would be any consequences for romancing multiple characters, but Kibellah gets totally fucking mindbroken in Act 3 if you were seeing anyone else. Feels bad, man

>>714291918 (OP)
What do you mean there's an eldar right there?

>>714291918 (OP)
I wanna kill Tau but the game is on the Callixis Sector.

>>714368184
That's a man, anon.

>>714367571
I dont suppose theirs any books about Imotekh, is there? Im looking at the 40k Lexi but it just say's codex's. I liked the infinite and the divine series. It was nice to get a story from the 'Crons perspective.
idk, imagine waking up from a nap and their was mold, bugs and mushrooms all over your place? Id be pretty pissed off too lol

>>714368446
eldar "men" are women.

>>714334141
Officially? I'm not sure, but there's so many different warbands you could make one up. As mentioned by >>714334747, Khorne and Slaanesh are diametrically opposed in the same way asTzeentch/Nurgle, so it would be very unstable. That said, in the 3.5 codex (the best edition) you could definitely make a K/S warband so long as you took a Chaos Undivided Lord and then only specific marked units. Presumably the Lord spends a lot of time babysitting

>>714348341
DeathWATCH not Death Guard. Deathwatch are the anti-xeno multi-chapter task force that let in Black Shields who may or may not have been traitors at some point, Death GUARD are Nurgle's stinkiest boys.

>>714291918 (OP)
blacks exist in WH40k?

>>714369079
even some of the imperium's ships are black, my nizzle.

>>714291918 (OP)
where's pathfinder 3?

>>714368840
I'm not familiar with any, Imoetkh's a long standing character but also pretty one-note in that he was the designated "Big bad boss" of the Crons before Szarekh returned.

>>714361949
Oh you might be surprised. Posting a tumblr link only to illustrate:
https://askrobouteguilliman40k.tumblr.com/post/750872359200817152/can-you-blame-them-when-this-is-his-official

Similar stuff out there for Mechanicus types into tubes too.

>>714368840
No books where he's a main character, but he's a background antagonist in "Severed" by Nate Crowley and he fights Black Templars in the short story “Dishonoured” by Ray Harrison

>>714370080
thank you!

>>714370252
oops wrong pic. It still works but

>>714365829
>Remember, space wolves are stronger than gray knights.
Not sure if troll or genuinely retarded lorelet

>>714364780
>I'd LOVE to get the Assassins in this game somehow, but I doubt it. They're too overpowered for the scope of what the party seems to be.
Assassins *are* playable in the actual Dark Heresy TTRPG, especially with the 1E Ascension rule book which covers "high level" play in DnD terms