Are we meeting up on Monday to do characters and stuff?

Hi,

Thanks! Yep I'll probably visit the Orc's nest today to get a copy of Dark Heresy (always a good excuse...) and try to gain as much background info before the game.

I'll look forward to meet up on Monday, I can be at the pub by 6:30pm

Bruno

Hi, Generally its a good solid character generator. However, it doesn't allow you to spend your 400 xp, use certain elite packages and has an appalling (D&D based?) family history generator. I was particularly not impressed with getting the result "Your mother was a scum and your father was an arbitrator."

It does give you an idea of the standard profile, as well as how they tend to vary between classes. The basic mechanic is percentile, like Call of Cthulhu or WHFRP. So if you were trying for example to shoot someone and no modifiers applied and you had a ballistics skill of 39, you'd be wanting to roll 39 or less on a D100. Any situational modifiers to the action are applied to the characteristic you're using and not your roll. Again, using the shooting example, if you were firing a gun on full auto, you'd get a +20 modifier for each shot, so your effective ballistics skill (BS) would be 59 for that action.

Could you have a look at this
suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/dhroller.html
and let me know if it's something worth looking at to get an idea of what does what (since I haven't played the game but do speak RPG)?

By Adept, I mean the paper-pushing know it all variety, but as Caleb has pointed out, the Pskyer and Tech-Priest have most of the knowledge department covered.

Ex-Scum, Ex-Imperial Guard, would essentially be a Guardsman character with a hive-world background? Sounds fun and would fulfill the full fledged combat monkey requirement!

Ex-scum now ex-imperial guard?

I was considering an adept, but psykers tend to cover most of the knowledge abilities so they're a bit redundant with a psyker and a tech-priest.

Scum could be fun or a cleric

D'oh! I was thinking of playing an Arbitrator, but two would be two too many. By Adeptus do you mean Adeptus Astra Telepathica or were you thinking Adeptus Mechanicus? I could have some fun with those roles.

Have you considered playing an Adept? I just thought I'd throw that idea at you, as that class is quite well suited to a player with a great deal of 40K and Dark Heresy knowledge, as you don't have to work so hard at distinguishing between what you know as a player and what your character knows.

I have no idea what to play, I'll fill in anything we desperately need or just randomly generate a character. Lizzie is leaning towards playing an arbitrator.

There was one with the GM screen. However, if it is run as is, it's an automatic TPK! Does that include Tattered Fates? If so, its a shame, as it would be nice to continue the whole Haarlock legacy storyline. Also what about the fan-made adventures that were put up on the FF site

I have a story idea that I can easily flesh out to be suitable as an introductionary adventure, so don't sweat too much!

What sort of characters are people looking to play? I would ask that we have at least 1 psyker, a tech priest and probably an investigation/social heavy character (Adept/Scum/Arbitrator) and a dedicated combat character, as that sort of group is probably the best balanced and many clues in Dark Heresy really require the presence of either a psyker or tech-adept.

Well I'm sorry to say that I've read or run all the modules for Dark Heresy unless there were any with the game masters screen or in Creatures Anathems.

So far, counting you that would make 4 players and a GM so I don't think there would be a problem fitting you in and the system is pretty simple (less complex than D&D4 anyway) so being new to it shouldn't be a problem.

Hi Bruno, we'd be happy to have you. I assume that a table should hold five in which case, we're okay . I would recommend if you have time, trawling the web for some information on the Warhammer 40K Setting. The most important thing to realise is that the prevailing mindset is strange and medieval by our standards. The Imperium of which you are a citzen, worships the God Emperor, an eternally suffering figure with awesome psychic powers, without whom humanity is doomed. As a result of the above, debating his divinity, is a quick way to a hideous death as a heretic. It's also bearing in mind that while the Imperium possesses incredible technology, most engineers (more commonly known as tech-priests), know the practicalities, but do not understand what it is they're actually doing. Even the simplest of devices contain machine spirits, which must be kept happy by ritual maintenance in order to remain functional. Because of the nature of reality, in 40K, to a certain extent, this is actually true. The emotions of all sentient beings collesce into Gods and strange creatures called daemons which exist in a parallel dimension of emotional energy called the warp.

Could people give me a list of what pre-generated adventures they have played before or have read fully, so I know which adventures I can't run. I have my own material, but its a bit "advanced" in terms of plot-structure, so it would be good to start off with something a little simpler as a beginning assignment.

Really pleased to see so much enthusiasm for the game by the way.

See you all on Monday

Hi

I have played various role-playing games in the past but I am fairly newish to the club. I joined a D&D4 campaign this past month but unfortunately the game is now on hold.

I have read couple of reviews of Dark Heresy, and I would be interested in playing the game, that is if you still have a spare seat and willing to have a Warhammer/Dark Hereys newbie on board...

Thanks,

Bruno