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Anyone want to look over a concept document/OP I'm throwing together for a new OW PBP game here? I want to make sure I'm not going too crazy writing this thing up. Let me know and I can PM a link to a google doc sheet.
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Sep 15, 2016 19:36
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sure, but if it's not "regiment of uppity nobleborn with Baldrick-like comrades get thrown into viscerally horrific survival situations" you're missing a trick
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Sep 15, 2016 19:56
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Sure, sounds fun, hit me.
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Sep 15, 2016 20:01
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Him me as well!
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Sep 15, 2016 20:23
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DeathSandwich posted:Anyone want to look over a concept document/OP I'm throwing together for a new OW PBP game here? I want to make sure I'm not going too crazy writing this thing up. Let me know and I can PM a link to a google doc sheet. JUST PM
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Sep 16, 2016 08:37
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so yeah i'm a bit surprised that you want to use elements of the FATAL ruleset with this only war campaign but i guess it sort of makes sense? starting off as dark eldar captives and all otherwise yeah the custom Slaaneshi rules all seem mechanically sound, if incredibly disturbing
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Sep 16, 2016 13:33
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DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:so yeah i'm a bit surprised that you want to use elements of the FATAL ruleset with this only war campaign but i guess it sort of makes sense? starting off as dark eldar captives and all It's not ready for the world to see yet, stop spoiling it!  Edit: Only DJF's character will have to roll for anal circumference and nipple length. DeathSandwich fucked around with this message at 14:18 on Sep 16, 2016 |
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Sep 16, 2016 14:14
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Well that was some end to a session in Dark Heresy - Psyker accidentally summoned a Daemon Prince, it kidnapped a party member and teleported away, and the party's Sororita left the party because the rest of the party didn't want to let her hit the daemon possessed Psyker (because they realized that hitting the Daemon possessed Psyker would let the Daemon Prince enter the world in its real form), and basically every party member except one was going completely insane near the end of the session. There's a giant "what now" question in the air that has to be answered as a Daemon of tremendous power is loose on the world (and has access to means to keep itself in the real world for quite some time), and the fact that the party lost two members. At least it was a spectacular intro the campaign for the new player that started this session! At the start of the session his character was IC mocking the rest of the party as failures as Inquisitorial Acolytes (because they weren't exactly subtle, they were bickering constantly, and seemed to be completely incompetent). At the end of the session his character was IC a gibbering wreck that grew scales thanks to some bad luck with mutation rolls, and he had seen first hand just how horrifying enemies the party had faced so far (the session also had a bossfight against a monstrous Lovecraftian Xeno monster). Not that the rest of the party was in much better shape at the end of the session.
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Sep 20, 2016 00:17
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SpiritOfLenin posted:There's a giant "what now" question in the air that has to be answered as a Daemon of tremendous power is loose on the world (and has access to means to keep itself in the real world for quite some time), and the fact that the party lost two members. 
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Sep 20, 2016 02:19
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Unfortunately the Acolytes are stuck on the planet as the planet's primary villain faction had used Warp magic to cut off the world from the rest of Askellon, making the situation one of those times when you just have to deal with it with no Exterminatus (if they can manage to stop the Daemon from turning the world into a Daemon world, they probably should call in an Exterminatus afterwards tbh).
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Sep 20, 2016 09:06
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SpiritOfLenin posted:Unfortunately the Acolytes are stuck on the planet as the planet's primary villain faction had used Warp magic to cut off the world from the rest of Askellon, making the situation one of those times when you just have to deal with it with no Exterminatus (if they can manage to stop the Daemon from turning the world into a Daemon world, they probably should call in an Exterminatus afterwards tbh). So exterminatus then
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Sep 20, 2016 10:29
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There are degrees of Exterminatus. There's Blow-Up-A-Planet, but there's also Crack-A-Planet-In-Two, Glass-A-Planet, Destroy-All-Life-On-A-Planet, and Volcanoes-Forever.
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Sep 20, 2016 10:44
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Do you suppose the Exterminatus techs aim for anything in particular? "Hey, see that dude there? I'm gonna try to hit him."
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Sep 20, 2016 12:06
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VanSandman posted:There are degrees of Exterminatus. There's Blow-Up-A-Planet, but there's also Crack-A-Planet-In-Two, Glass-A-Planet, Destroy-All-Life-On-A-Planet, and Volcanoes-Forever. There is also "strip the atmosphere from the planet" and "throw the planet into the warp"
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Sep 20, 2016 15:43
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My favorite is "virus bomb the planet so it kills so much stuff the bodies give off obscene amounts of methane from their decay, and then ignite that methane to literally burn away the atmosphere. "
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Sep 20, 2016 17:15
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That's the kind of Exterminatus I was familiar with, I thought the other kinds were improvised when those specific virus bombs aren't available.
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Sep 20, 2016 17:41
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Remove The Planet Entirely, There Was Never A Planet Here, Citizen
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Sep 20, 2016 17:59
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I can't count the number of times my group's solution to a huge problem has been to call an exterminatus on a world we're currently on. Things get a lot simpler when your only objective becomes "find a way off before the bombs get here" and besides if it's bad enough to destroy a world over, it's definitely worth more than your stupid lives.
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Sep 20, 2016 18:14
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DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:Remove The Planet Entirely, There Was Never A Planet Here, Citizen  That might even be a decent premise for a DH game: an inquisitorial squad hunting down the last copy of some crappy little "20 Worlds in Segmentum Solar You Need to Make a Pilgrimage to Before You Die"-style pamphlet because it erroneously mentions a planet that does not and never did exist. There's nothing heretical about the pamphlet; it just mentions an unplanet, which
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Sep 20, 2016 18:26
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I once had the idea for a planet that the governor had exterminatus paperwork forged on to avoid paying tithe. Then have the players stumble upon it.
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Sep 20, 2016 18:46
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That would be an amazing base of operations / retirement world for a reclusive, radical inquisitior.
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Sep 20, 2016 19:06
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Werix posted:I once had the idea for a planet that the governor had exterminatus paperwork forged on to avoid paying tithe. Then have the players stumble upon it. I can imagine nothing that would an inquisitor more turgid a planet whose exterminatus paperwork has already been done
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Sep 20, 2016 19:34
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hard counter posted:I can imagine nothing that would an inquisitor more turgid Bonus points if the planet is actually doing great without administratum rule, and the players debate actually turning them in or not. Or decide to fix the paperwork error Office Space style.
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Sep 20, 2016 19:43
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Werix posted:Bonus points if the planet is actually doing great without administratum rule, and the players debate actually turning them in or not. "Oh hey, this paperwork just had the wrong date on it. The Exterminatus contractors thought it had already been done. Lets just set the date for a week out put it back in the queue.... I love easy solutions, they make me feel like my job really has me doing something for the Imperium."
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Sep 20, 2016 20:03
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There's nothing more Imperial than facing down teams of assassins in running gun battles while desperately trying to reach the inquisition to tell them about heretical paperwork.
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Sep 20, 2016 20:30
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heretical paperwork
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Sep 20, 2016 22:05
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so, paperwork i mean if you gently caress it up it's heresy, and it's so byzantine that you're gonna gently caress it up
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Sep 20, 2016 22:10
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For the purpose of any event of dispute between the administratum and requisitioning persons, the adeptus administratum may treat the particular event that actually happened as not having happened and/or treat any particular event that did not actually happen as having happened.
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Sep 21, 2016 00:35
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DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:so, paperwork On the plus side you have like 4 assasinorum temples dedicated solely to kill people who notice you hosed it up. Checks and balances, people!
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Sep 21, 2016 12:46
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Tias posted:On the plus side you have like 4 assasinorum temples dedicated solely to kill people who notice you hosed it up. Checks and balances, people! Yeah, but what happens if you screw up the paperwork for designating an assassination target?
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Sep 22, 2016 03:15
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MadDogMike posted:Yeah, but what happens if you screw up the paperwork for designating an assassination target?
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Sep 22, 2016 04:00
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MadDogMike posted:Yeah, but what happens if you screw up the paperwork for designating an assassination target? Well, I assume it's assasinations all the way down, really. You get killed, they get killed, everyone( sort of) wins.
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Sep 22, 2016 06:59
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I know there is an ordos of the inquisition specifically tasked with monitoring the assassin temples ever since the age of strife or whatever when that church leader used them to seize control. That could be a fun dark heresy game playing those folks. Hunting down rogue assassins, trying to protect targets who are being wrongfully targeted, trying to track down an errant eversor deployment pod in an old war zone before someone opens it and the eversor pulps the hive population.
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Sep 22, 2016 14:30
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I feel like there would be a high character turnover rate in that game.
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Sep 23, 2016 05:40
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MaliciousOnion posted:I feel like there would be a high character turnover rate in that game. Especially since they're the ones who'll be handed the 'Eversor has a halo device' case to sort out.
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Sep 23, 2016 06:12
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MaliciousOnion posted:I feel like there would be a high character turnover rate in that game. what ordo or sub-ordo doesn't have a high turnover rate anyway?
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Sep 23, 2016 07:06
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I guess that one ordo with just one guy in it.
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Sep 23, 2016 07:54
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JcDent posted:I guess that one ordo with just one guy in it. Is it always the same guy? 
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Sep 23, 2016 07:57
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Tias posted:Is it always the same guy? Just Bruce
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Azhais posted:Just Bruce Ordo Bruciatus
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