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Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

I do hope there's a Scum-focused book. I'd imagine it would be something like the various Necromunda hierarchies, but fleshed out for roleplaying.

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Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Sierra Madre posted:

Why would a Sister of Battle go AGAINST the Imperium? They're incredibly fanatical to the point where only about a handful have actually rebelled and only because of Chaos.

Yeah, I think I'm more accepting of a Chaos Titmarine than a renegade Sister of Battle. A sororita would rather have a Space Marine lube their chainswords with her own blood than go against the Emperor and specifically the Adeptus Sororitas.

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Hodgepodge posted:

I like the Sisters as-is. Other than that, I kind of assume that this is what a Space Marine already is. You could put a young enough woman through the process and the result would probably just be a Space Marine, which would also be his new gender and biological sex.

I also assume that GW doesn't come out and say that because it could cause their entire midwestern fanbase to either die of internal bleeding, or worse, develop even creepier fetishes.

I'm pretty sure the Imperium is dogmatically locked in on that the Space Marines have to be male, since they're essentially based around cloning of the God-Emperor, but I can see Chaos chapters and renegades taking anyone and sticking a geneseed in them once they were proved themselves worthy to whatever God they follow. Some Slaanesh-following warband leader getting it into their head that Slaanesh wants some perfect supermodel Space Marines or Khornite warband letting some feral world amazons to be Chaos Space Marines.

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

kingcom posted:

So Im having a hard time trying to identify what kind of games to actually run with the Only War system that wouldn't be possible in another 40K system. The only thing I can picture is if your running a game based upon the players creating a Regiment and then the campaign is about this Regiment's involvement in some particular conflict (sector wide Crusade perhaps).

After having a discussion about OW with a friend, I can see why they spun this off into a separate game instead of the planned DH sourcebook. It sounds like it's based around Imperial Guard specialists and how their homeworlds govern their generation (similar to the chapter system in Deathwatch). Especially given how many notable units the, I think it became obvious that they couldn't keep it confined to a single book. It does sound like OW is strictly for Imperial Guard campaigns.

I do wonder how the Guardsman from DH stacks up to a OW character.

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Galaga Galaxian posted:

My group are gonna start playing Only War for a few weeks starting this afternoon in a couple hours. We're playing a Drop Regiment who are going to be some of the first boots on the ground on a world that has gone silent(rebel?). We no idea what we're jumping into, if Command knows anything, they aren't telling us. All we've got are some exceptionally vague rumors of terrible things discovered by the Rogue Trader who investigated the planet's blackout.

Gonna be fun. :dance:

Wait, I've seen this movie.

"Let's rock!" :black101:

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Galaga Galaxian posted:

In other news, flamers are fun. Not Pictured: Two guys doing the burny dance :supaburn:, one of them a heavy armed with a Multilaser.


I love it when someone puts down a flamer template. Nothing says "gently caress you" more than an 8" by 2" cone.

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Galaga Galaxian posted:

I believe our GM is just using Paint.net, GIMP or a similar program and uploading it to his own hosting. We play on IRC.

We've been considering a move to some kind of map tools, especially if we keep the gridded combat (unlike RT where we usually didn't bother). However, none of us really have any experience with map tools.

MapTools will probably be better in the long run. WH40KRP support is almost standard now and very well-developed. Even if you don't use the shared networking experience and just use it as a map, the framework makes things much easier. For instance, it saves the last attack roll, so you can go out and make defense rolls on any character you want and it'll calculate the MoS and damage location and whatnot.

I'm not sure if they've got Only War support coded, but the last time I checked, they had Black Crusade, so it's probably already done by now.

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

nogic posted:

I'll jump in here and say that I'm also getting into 40K RP, so hopefully you won't mind a question from me :)

I might be off-base here, but how is it that humans in 40K live for so long? Space marines I can understand since they are super-human (though in the Deathwatch book I don't remember anything that explains it specifically), but I have definitely seen references to more normal humans that have lived for a really long time, like over a century. Granted, they are usually high-ranking military officers, or something along those lines, but I still assume that they are "normal" human beings.

Benagain explained what happens with the rich and the normal citizens, but Space Marines can live a poo poo-long time if they aren't killed in action. I'm fairly certain the Sus-an Membrane, the suspended animation organ, has something to do with it.

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Asehujiko posted:

If any of you have more bear related puns, I'd love to hear them.

Pandazer Tank Corps
A Kodiak Moment

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Serpentis posted:

Clearly if you sit on your arse in a tank all day, you do not get the constitution of a proper guardsman who MARCHES WITH NO SHOES AND BROKEN BLISTERS INSTEAD OF BONES ALL DAY. Now stop asking sensible questions in the Imperium, drat it :commissar:

Also, most poo poo that will wreck a Rhino, Leman Russ, or Baneblade happen the same things that will kill their occupants as well, so it's more a benefit really. It's the Emperor's mercy that you won't survive the tank getting scragged and having to be burned alive trapped inside it, like those with higher constitutions would face.

Young Freud fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Dec 21, 2012

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Tardcore posted:

Holy poo poo, the Guardian Angels have the most out of place looking armor ever. Seriously that blue visor helmet looks straight up cyberpunk.

I'm fairly certain that chestpiece comes from Robocop.

Sormus posted:

Speaking of fan designs and female Space Marines, I came across this recently:



This is from a Challenge magazine, isn't it? They were never sticklers of anything canon outside of their own products of Traveler, 2300 A.D. and Twilight/Merc 2000.

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Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

CommissarMega posted:

I don't know what's worse, the fact that FFG put this in- or the fact that I'm still giggly over it:


I smiled at the Aliens reference but laughed when I completely read the quote. Genius, pure genius.

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