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Fashionable Jorts posted:I really like the idea of that. Rolling characters is fun, and it's cool to reward people for making what's potentially a worse character. Yeah, I like not having to sweat about making THE MOST OPTIMAL CHOICE, and it gives me an interesting framework/challenge when coming up with a background.
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Lord_Hambrose posted:People not extremely down for Rogue Trader are crazy. Star Trek in 40k is such a great thing to do. Letting the PCs build their ship was fun to watch, too.
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Lord_Hambrose posted:People not extremely down for Rogue Trader are crazy. Star Trek in 40k is such a great thing to do. The RT game I played in our first arc was literally Encounter at Farpoint. I believe we ended up killing one of the alien jellyfish creatures and psychically lobotomizing the other, hauling it away to sell to the highest bidder.
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Jan 9, 2020 17:49
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head58 posted:The RT game I played in our first arc was literally Encounter at Farpoint. I believe we ended up killing one of the alien jellyfish creatures and psychically lobotomizing the other, hauling it away to sell to the highest bidder.  I played a Navigator in a fairly long running campaign and my main contribution to the party was sensible advice to moderate the excesses of any given plan, which was always ignored. Surely stealing from the Black Legion won't be too much of a problem, really. We all died so horribly. 
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I'm trying to come up with a campaign for my characters but I've got way too many ideas I need to untangle from my mind. I was thinking instead of having small mini-adventures set before the big campaign I had in mind, or even different ancestors of the PC's. I had a great idea of going "This is an Ancestor session", saying they wake up from a night of drinking, and springing a D&D campaign on them.
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My navigator is excessively paranoid (or not paranoid enough?!) and will often suggest the most horrifying solutions to problems as being the only sensible choice. These solutions are all terrible loving ideas and the rest of the party has been cautious enough to shy away from them, so far. But now that our voidmaster is touched by the warp and carrying around a hellblade while searching for skulls for a throne that is possibly not as golden as he thought, the others will turn to my now-thoroughly blind (thanks to our mind-controlled kommando) dumb rear end for measures that surely won’t get us viciously hosed by the radical inquisitor whose base we probably broke in to. Said inquisitor might not exist. But we have to act as if he did, or we may not live long enough to awaken the machine world to shoot down the admech battlecruiser in orbit before eating us. Preechr fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Jan 10, 2020 |
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I got into 40k lore a few years back. Bigtime. I've probably read over 200 books at this point, but I don't play tabletop. I've also recently gotten into Dungeons and Dragons and have developed a strong urge to play a 40k tabletop RPG, but I don't have any friends locally who are 40k fans. What's the 40k RPG scene like on Roll20? Also, how does a 40k RPG play on Roll20?, is it worth trying out? I've never used it for anything, and I understand the wider 40k community can sometimes be pretty toxic. What game should somebody in my position be playing? What other advice can you give me? TIA!
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I've been giving it some thought and I don't think the RT RPG is really good for what I have in mind. I'm thinking something more narrative driven. Any suggestions?
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D-Pad posted:I got into 40k lore a few years back. Bigtime. I've probably read over 200 books at this point, but I don't play tabletop. You're not missing out on anything. TT40K has about as much relation to fluff as Flames of War has to WW2 history. Don't play with randies, play with goons. Unfortunately for us, 40K RPGs have all been made by FFG, and all of them are some flavor of terrible: the books are beautiful, but the layout and balancing is all over the place. We are currently awaiting for Cubicle 7 to crank out their version of Wrath and Glory, which we hope to be good. Roll20 as a tool is good enough, we used it for all our goon campaigns. SardonicTyrant posted:I've been giving it some thought and I don't think the RT RPG is really good for what I have in mind. I'm thinking something more narrative driven. Any suggestions? I'm sure there are like 5 Apocalypse World 40k hacks out there.
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SardonicTyrant posted:I've been giving it some thought and I don't think the RT RPG is really good for what I have in mind. I'm thinking something more narrative driven. Any suggestions? Only War is really good for strong narrative. Just some random guys from the same world forced to fight a war they don't understand is great. I really like that Only War assumes the downtime between sessions is weeks or months so you really get a nice counterpoint to the Deathwatch only doing really important stuff and leaving.
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JcDent posted:I'm sure there are like 5 Apocalypse World 40k hacks out there. Big time, and you'd be saving yourself some time by not having to aggressively pretend that the FFG games aren't janky as hell. The books are beautiful but that's about what I can say for them.
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You can hardly find jank that's better illustrated than 40K RPGs.
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Some of the most fun playing a 40k rpg was playing Blades in the Dark about Necromunda style gangers.
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I switched my group back to Dark Heresy 2nd Edition after becoming thoroughly upset with Wrath and Glory its so drat bland.
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Uroboros posted:I switched my group back to Dark Heresy 2nd Edition after becoming thoroughly upset with Wrath and Glory its so drat bland. This is my main problem with WanG. I would rather have a focused game trying to tell a particular kind of story than a super bland generic system.
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Uroboros posted:I switched my group back to Dark Heresy 2nd Edition after becoming thoroughly upset with Wrath and Glory its so drat bland. I'm currently poaching rules from W&G to make a skirmish sized game (essentially making an updated Inquisitor that's not as complex as Dark Heresy), since I like the combat in it. The RPG aspects are terrible and I would never want to force anyone to endure that slog.
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So, the game I'm GMing... Has 10 players. It's nuts. It's my first time GMing, we're at session 7, and the whole thing is based on some crap I wrote down back when Ravenor was first published. Basically it's set on a planet in the Helican subsector that is the dumping market for all the mergent world gear they didn't need at Eustis Majoris, and they're an Inquisitorial Task Force that has been sent to figure out why they're not hitting their tithe targets. Also there is some conspiracy about trying to get a saint to manifest in some Sisters of Battle that got flagged for being Psy active. It's hella fun, hella stressful, and now that I'm doing a Wire rewatch, I'm realizing just how much poo poo I stole not just from Ravenor, but from The Wire. Really wish I could do voices. Edit: We're playing DH 1st BrotherJayne fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Jan 11, 2020 |
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We and others I know have had great success with this genesys hack: https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/266319-second-edition-release-dark-heresy-warhammer-40000-in-genesys/ We used these wip PDFs: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hRJ9KjaBz7PdhF1KhhpGraQ75YW0xPFm?usp=sharing
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kujeger posted:We and others I know have had great success with this genesys hack: Is that 1. or 2. based? Regardless I better grab 'em now, fantasy flight is shutting down I think?
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Fashionable Jorts posted:(essentially making an updated Inquisitor that's not as complex as Dark Heresy) Now that's a game untouched by sanity
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JcDent posted:Now that's a game untouched by sanity Its got a lot of great concepts in it, but yikes is it over-designed. If someone could automate all the background stuff and make a videogame out of it, it would be pretty drat good.
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BrotherJayne posted:It's hella fun, hella stressful, and now that I'm doing a Wire rewatch, I'm realizing just how much poo poo I stole not just from Ravenor, but from The Wire. The Wire, but in a hive city with Arbites, gangers, acolytes, and civvies just trying to get by. I'd play ! For Rogue Trader, RT: Apocalypse has some very good material. Since the AW forums are down, I'll link my archive: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vaunoaguy2qnlct/AACgcQgyEzGQVsR2kfZKG6VSa?dl=0
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Weird question. I love how poetic a lot of 40k quotes are, so I was wondering if anyone knows any good poets.
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mllaneza posted:The Wire, but in a hive city with Arbites, gangers, acolytes, and civvies just trying to get by. I'd play ! It's dope. They've basically been tasked with troubleshooting a planet - a former Agriworld in the Helican subsector that was hived-up about a hundred years ago in support of the ongoing Crusade in that region post-Helican Schism. Planet has missed its tithes by over a quarter of a percent two years in a row, go figure out what the hell is going on. With the underlying root cause being the planet is past the tipping point ecologically, so even the win condition for the campaign only has it lasting maybe another 100 years, with a conspiracy or heresy in any direction you can look. We've got 3 players that know 40k really well, and 6 that started the campaign knowing "of" 40k.
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I have a WFRP 4e starter: the Dart spell does 0+SL levels of damage. Ferdinand's skill is 61, so that's like 6 SL at most. A rat hast 25 toughness. So a rat is unkillable in one hit, and most humans can laugh it off. Am I missing something here?
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JcDent posted:I have a WFRP 4e starter: the Dart spell does 0+SL levels of damage. Ferdinand's skill is 61, so that's like 6 SL at most. A rat hast 25 toughness. So a rat is unkillable in one hit, and most humans can laugh it off. Am I missing something here? You're missing WP bonus and advantage.
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This of course means that Gruber has by default a +4 bonus to damage with dart. So its 4 + SL for him.
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MonsterEnvy posted:This of course means that Gruber has by default a +4 bonus to damage with dart. So its 4 + SL for him. GLAD THEY DIDN'T BOTHER TO FACTOR IT IN FOR THE CHARSHEETS. Or missed some explanation somewhere
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JcDent posted:GLAD THEY DIDN'T BOTHER TO FACTOR IT IN FOR THE CHARSHEETS. Some Explanation in this case.
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So, the crew has mind scanned a drug addict and was treated to an awesome montage of how he hosed his life up, and had to flash Throne Agent creds at the PDF providing security at the warehouse they did the interrogation in. That went well. The big Tech Priest has spent 6 sessions grinding XP to finally chop his kegs off and go spider mech. He's headed down the gravity well, can't wait for him to start chasing the ghost in the machine. Hope he makes it to the end of the maze, cuz it's an Ordo Sinister component lost some time in M36. And now they're helping the PDF commander for the Hive Formal they're in put out a hit on a high ranking Ganger. Oh, and the Monodominant butthole nemesis of their Inquisitor is hauling rear end their way after they offed his agent aboard the ship. All shaping up nicely
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I've been looking for some well roleplayed 40k podcasts but either I suck at searching or there just aren't very many out there. Does anyone have a recommendation for some? Preferably Black Crusade, but any system will do
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Geography Question: From what I can tell the sectors are sort of arranged like this: To Calixis' Spin is Scarus, To Scarus' Spin is Askellon To Calixis' Trail is the Fydae Cloud To Calixis' and Scarus' Rim is the Halo Stars (which includes the Koronus Expanse and Lucky Space) To Calixs' Core is Ixniad Malfi is the largest closest border planet between Calixis and the Halo Stars Fenksworld is the largest closest border planet between Calixis and Ixniad Does this square with the general understanding? Am I missing anything? Diabeesting posted:I've been looking for some well roleplayed 40k podcasts but either I suck at searching or there just aren't very many out there. Does anyone have a recommendation for some? Preferably Black Crusade, but any system will do The guys who did the now-concluded Roll To Seize 40k podcast have a current Wrath and Glory podcast going that also has the archives of the Dark Heresy adventures they did before W&G. They're p.deece but not Black Crusade.
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https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Calixis_Sector It has a map and explains all of that stuff.
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Ideas for stats for a chain needed to subjugate a dreadnaught in Deathwatch? The trick is that it's converted from the restraining chains used to keep dreads chill on spaceships needed to subjugate a loyal but kinda senile dread running amok attacking loyal forces. Possibly with a shock effect or something
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What, fluffwise or mechanically? Some kind of bolas or a leash?
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Just make it a WS test and have it inflict Haywire.
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Rockopolis posted:What, fluffwise or mechanically? Some kind of bolas or a leash? Mechanics, fluffwise I'm good - it's a jury-rigged, marine portable version of the system they have aboard strike cruisers to restrain dreadnoughts who have a senior moment and confuse friends for enemies - this is incidentally also the problem on the ground. wiegieman posted:Just make it a WS test and have it inflict Haywire. This is great. I might have it be an assisted roll, as it seems suitably dramatic to need several marines to restrain a 'nought.
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If one of the Marines has concentrated on Fellowship, they should absolutely get a chance to calm the Dread down via heroic speechifying.
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So I just joined a Dark Heresy 2E game on discord (which is like my fourth or fifth online game because corona) and I wanna know if the game's good/tips and tricks. I made a Mechanicus Seeker and I think it's a fun character concept (cyber-detective) but I'm not sure how mechanically good it is or what to focus on advancements.
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