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[OOC] Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy: Shattered Hope
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Anyways, I am still interested but will be able to commit/uncommit based on the day(s) of choosing because of school and other RP stuff I'm doing as well.
More info please?
Talkign about this, are people about ready to start? If so I'll start up an IC thread. Be warned, I will be changing some stuff from the adventure because I think it is silly
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I don't know anything about the adventure anyway so I won't notice. >>
I second this. Then again, were I an Inquisitor I would enforce a dress code among all my disciples to consist of black & dark red robes and coats with lots of skull and =I= emblems.
The 2d10+20 roll is only to determine your starting Weapon Skill (WS) stat. Aiming adds +10%, as does charging. Some talents give +5-10%, and each time you train your WS with experience it goes up by +5% permanently. You are limited to the number of times you can train this stat based on your career, with noob "fighter"-type careers granting up to +10% and uber careers granting up to +40%.
So if you are an average human (31%) soldier and raise your WS to max, it becomes 41%. Take the "Ready Weapon" action before smacking your opponent, and now you have a 51% chance to hit. This uses a relatively low level character with non-magical gear and no other favorable modifiers (like surprise or higher ground or your opponent crapping himself in terror because his master botched a casting roll and accidentally summoned a Changer of Ways and got ated).
Change this to a trollslayer, and all sorts of bad things start happening.
"Go up, thou bald head." -2 Kings 2:23
Cimbria is totally wearing that awesome black robe + flak vest outfit as described in her character entry.
Anyway, I think that I'll start putting together a First IC post. It will include your mission briefing in form of a communique from your master. I'll leave a while for people to just roleplay and realise that the game has started before getting to the action. If someone who has signed up doesn't' post in the first, say 48 hours, I'll look at replacing them with someone else who expressed interest.
All questions, mechanic discussions etc will still go here.
EDIT: Ok, Ive finished writing an opening. All I have to do now is make it look pretty and post it. Finiding the right stuff to pretty it may take a while though.
Right. Ive decided to Make the IC thread when I get up tomorrow morning (its 7 Pm in AUS right now), so in about 13-14 hours the game will start. There will be a bit of time to just get into character and Roleplay before the action starts. I suggest a 48 hour period. Anyone who has not posted during that time will be replaced by some other willing soul. Any suggestions, commentsm, threats etc. can go here. Are we ready?
I suppose that this will undergo a trial by fire to see if it actually works.
Just prepare to feel really expendeble.
WH40K RPG really do rock, even for people who know nothing of the world. To bad our roleplaying schedule is to tigth as it is.
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"Go up, thou bald head." -2 Kings 2:23
Also, I'm starting a drinking game involving any time a character says something *way* out of the range of knowledge for Guardsmen or new Inquisitorial henchmen.
Not saying anyone has, mind you; but if we start having conversations about Chaos gods and the Eldar... You know, I'll be keeping tabs, under impaired judgment.
Poke me if I get it wrong though
Your typical Imperial citizen/guardsman/servant's knowledge of aliens, mutants, psykers, and daemons could be summed up entirely by spaceport rumors and chapel murals. I'd imagine though that Inquisitor Zerbe would divulge some basic revelations on man's enemies to his acolytes in the first few weeks; enough to dispel false assumptions or mythological notions. But otherwise the vast bulk of Imperial culture in the 41st millennium is analogous to the middle ages. People are severely unenlightened, superstitious, without a serious notion of worldly happiness, and entirely at the whim of vast institutions.
I wouldn't exactly compare it to any of the last couple of centuries, unless we're talking about technology.
The henchmen do seem to be of a fairly typical Imperial nature, as nobody has any questionably special talents or radical beliefs. The Inquisitor appears to have chosen them based on their overall sense of duty and/or initiative. There isn't an overwhelming sense of zeal or fanaticism in anyone's dutifulness, on the other hand, so we're not dealing with the far end of radicalism one would find in the Ministorum or prominent witchhunters, either. Mir would likely be the most ignorant and superstitious of the group, and Ishmael may well have been exposed to a different range of hear-say on a hive world, but otherwise I'd say they wouldn't stray far from the norm of knowledge or culture.
The only specific comment I'd make for now is that I'm rather surprised to see Xanthia being played by the 'seductress' angle. I personally had a couple takes on her, but none of them were on that end of the spectrum. Might be interesting to see how this develops and expands.
Originally I didn't think so either, but after a bit of thought it seemed the obvious way she would have got herself noticed back on the medieval world (partly me misreading they way she killed the lord), plus it says she wears black leathers to enchance and show off her physique. I'll try to steer away from the traditional 'seductruss angle', but I think it does sort of work well with someone who is try to reinvent herself after being a peasant.
What's the Inquisitor religion thing got to say about sex
We're gonna have to kill you for acting an abomination sir
No?
Then you're golden.
but you're an inquisitor, not a babymachine
HERETIC
Let's drill holes in the side of her skull until she stops desiring to sin.
Also, you guys are nowhere NEAR inquisitors yet. Infact you aren't even proper Acolytes. Henchmen I believe is the correct term.
This needs to be sigged simply for comedy value, also, when Dark Heresy is released I will attempt to be a player in any campaigns.
'Comedy value'? Gabriel is attempting to deceive us with heresy on a sweetened serpent's tongue! Well, we have ways of cleansing the sin from such appendages...
Somebody bring me a big red bar of Life Buoy soap.