Many congratulations!
Congratulation! Glad to hear things went well.
Congratulations! To many moments of joy!
Congrats on your successful spawning!
Thank you all for your patience and support. The baby is great, strong as can be (born 9# 7oz), vibrant and inquisitive, and with a set of lungs that can call the dinosaurs back from extinction. My wife had a C-section after over 30+ hours of labor, so she is on bed rest and recovering well (first couple days home we had to relearn everything we figured out in the hospital). I have some family in town now to assist, and we have gotten into something of a routine.
Great to hear! As before, happy to hear things are going well. Take the time you need with all this.
Great news!
Any response to Ptah or Julien's input?
I'm honestly not sure if either received a reply or the group are fine with Ptah's suggestion.
Vrog/Caius thanks for the update, if you want to just create an alt profile and post from that until things get sorted out, we'd be happy to still have you. You could literally just create a new alias, then put a link in its profile to your characters stats. Just a thought.
Ack, I had planned to put my rolls behind a spoiler. Though it's going to be pretty obvious what's going on, what with all the gunfire kicking off.
Hello, everyone, I'm here to apologise for my second disappearance. With the year being what it is, I'd had to relocate on a short notice, and my schedule is looking increasingly busier for the foreseeable future, so unfortunately I'd have to bow out. Thank you for your interactions, and GM - thank you for your patience.
I'd like to thank Oblivion's Scion for running an excellent game, that had so far featured intrigue, action and mystery in equal measure, and I only wish I could've been a better player. I wish you all the best, and give those heretics a beating!
@Yelisaveta: That's unfortunate but understandable. Take care and hopefully we shall game again some time!
Just a note. My rate of posting has gotten more erratic lately. It may remain that way for some weeks yet.
Yelisaveta, sorry to see you go, but thank you for both your contribution and informing us of your departure.
Julien, thank you for your update regarding your current posting trends.
I myself have been offline for the past two weeks following a complication with my wife's recovery from her Cesarean. I want to apologize for not posting to inform people as two what was going on with me, and thank you all for your patience. I would very much like to get this game back moving again, but understand the current lull is entirely of my own making. I am going to take the next ten days to get back to posting and evaluate my realistic feasibility in progressing this game. I hope I have many of you still on board, and look forward to what may come.
While I myself am keen to continue, having lost many players, we may have to re-recruit?
Indeed, that was a concern I had already been considering before my hiatus. Currently, I believe we have Havelock, Naltos, Julien, and Ptah still active. Yelisaveta, Caius, and Balthasar have all formally departed, with Zimm left with their status as MIA. If everyone that remains could sound off to confirm they are still interested, it would be appreciated. From there, we can look to recruit. Perhaps reaching out to other 40k games might be best, to get players used to the system.
Still here.
Still here as well
I'm also here and happy to continue.
Hey folks. I've been wiped with a cold... then felt rough today. Now I'm awaiting a covid-19 test. I hope to catch up again soon. I'm still game for this, just not up for it right now.
I have reached out to the players in Julien's DH 2e game, and will allow new applications as well, to try and rebuild the retinue. I will also poat shortly to get those of you remaining moving out of your current predicament.
"Lost to the perils of the warp" eh?
"I used to be an adventurer, then I did or saw something horrible, got mindcleansed and turned into an acolyte of the inquisition."
It's not quite as...pithy, is it?
We have a couple new recruits who will be joining shortly, and as soon as you remove yourselves from the currently active engagement, there will be a nice treat for everyone ((did someone say experience?))...
I don't think anybody did...
But I am pretty damn sure nobody is going to complain about it.
Hey all, I lost power and internet last night. It's still not back up but wanted to quickly let you all know from my phone. It is supposed to be back up in the next few hours, I will get back to you all after.
Dotted in. Backstory half done, probably finish by tomorrow.
Not completely happy with backstory, still working out some kinks.
Hey all newcomers, I apologize for the delay, it's been a crazy few days at work for me. I will have your equipment posted in the next 24 hours. We will then likely start your gameplay thread here in the discussion section on a trajectory to get you to merge in the main gameplay shortly.
Newcomers, below you will find two things in your spoiler.
The first is your starting gear load out. This is in place of anything listed in the core rulebook. Included is also a small sum of thrones to acquire anything else you might want. Please use the Macharian Handbooks (links on the campaign page) to reference stats for these items.
The second is based on the concept that, though I prefer rolled ability scores to point buy systems, I also understand the challenge of rolling significantly lower than your fellow party members. On the rolled portion of the party's ability scores (simply the 2d10 x 9 stats, totaled up) we range from 88 pts to 128 pts, before any modifiers have been applied. That's a 40 point swing, or rather 8 advances (which would cost a lot of experience). To that end, you will each be receiving some points to add to your base stats. It comes with a few rules :
- no rolled stat can be raised above 18
- you cannot increase your lowest rolled stat
- no more than 5 can be added to any single stat
- you cannot add only 1 point to a stat (unless it is a rolled 17, which you can increase to 18)
These increases are on a diminishing curve, and will still present a range of totals, but will shorten the gap significantly. Please post to say how you are spending these points, and feel free to ask any questions.
Agent A receives 10 points to add to his stats.
Weapon Skill - 34 (20 + rolls of 8, 6); 'rolled stat' of 14. He can add between 2 and 4 points
Weapons mark IV laspistol (red dot sight, variant power setting), reaper-12 compact riot shotgun (red dot sight)
Armor hardened bodyglove (3 body, arms, legs; 5 kg), OR meshweave cloak (4, all; 2 kg)
Equipment microbead, filtration plugs, stab-light, photo lense, data slate, magnoculars
Ammo laspistol - charge pack x3; shotgun - flechette shells x20, slugs x20, snare shells x10
Thrones 200
For armor selections, the hardened body glove can be worn by itself or under normal clothing. The meshweave cloak would be a specific outfit of your choice/design.
Ability Points to Add 19
Weapons voss pattern lascarbine (variable power setting), absolution sniper rifle (10 rd mag; red dot sight, telescopic sight, silencer), armsman-10 stub pistol (silencer), combat knife (mono)
Armor flak jacket and helm (3 all; 7 kg)
Equipment microbead, injector w/ stimm (3 dose)*, gas mask, tac-light, stummer, backpack
Ammo lascarbine - charge pack x3; absolution - magazine (manstopper) x3; armsman-10 magazine x2, magazine (manstopper) x2
Thrones 100
Note that only one sight can be attached to your sniper rifle at a time.
Your armor generally matches the image you posted of your character, if a little rougher in design. It is equivalent to light guardsman flak, lacking the reinforced plates you might see on the “traditional cadian” IG.
Ability Points to Add 6
Weapons palatine compact laspistol, deathlight lasgun, combat knife (mono)
Armor flakweave cloak (3, all; 8 kg) OR flak jacket and helm (3 all; 7 kg)
Equipment microbead, filtration plugs, stab-light, psy-focus, magnoculars, grapnel
Ammo lasgun - charge packs x3, overcharge pack x1; laspistol - charge packs x2
Thrones 100
For armor selections, the difference is mainly cosmetic, with the former being robes and the latter being a fatigue-style military uniform.
Ability Points to Add 9
Weapons armsman-10 stub automatic (silencer), ironclaw shotgun (fire selector), combat knife (mono)
Armor flak greatcoat and helm (4 body, arms, legs, 3 head; 9 kg)
Equipment microbead, filtration plugs, stab-light, medikit, multikey
Ammo pistol - magazine (manstopper) x2, magazine x2; shotgun - 30 flechette shells, 30 slugs
Thrones 100
Ability Points to Add 5
All players, both established and new, gain 500 xp (increasing from 1200 to 1700 total, still Rank 3). In game characters, I will notify you when the upgrades from this experience are available (it will be shortly, so I figured I would get you looking).
All Fate Points are restored.
Game On.
interesting. Will update.
Fell- +4
Int- +2
advancements:
T3- Rapid Reload (100)
BS advance (250)
T3- Athletics +10 (100)
Question, regarding operate before I take it (how does this work, do I pick one drive and one operate category?)
After operate, I have 50xp left.
Alexander Operate functions as listed in the Only War Core Rulebook, so you can choose one of three specialties: surface (all land vehicles), aeronautica (planes, choppers, and small voidcraft), and voidship (interstellar vessels). It is definitely streamlined from the Drive skill in Dark Heresy.
Bachu I noticed you took Operate (spacecraft). Were you looking to pilot large, voidgoing vessels, or smaller things like shuttles, landers, fighters, and bombers? The former would be "voidcraft", the latter would be "aeronautica" - just wanted to clarify.
Maxim please get the rest of your details populated into your avatar.
8 to BS 8 to WP 3 to Per. Body glove.
Air of Authority 200
Master Orator 200
Deceive +10 100
Looking forward to this, good to be on board folks.
Added +3 to WS, BS and Int.
Sound Constitution 200
Awareness +10 100
Unshakeable Faith 100
Minor Psychic Power 100
I was thinking shuttle-craft/landers so aeronautica
question, would I be able to spend thrones to make my Absolution rifle good quality? And if so, how much?
Alexander A good craftsmanship item normally costs 3 times the base cost. The Absolution has a price tag of 220 thrones (it comes stock with both the telescopic sight and silencer, so you could argue the gun itself is 170), so that would be an additional 440 thrones for it to be Good craftsmanship. That said, Good craftsmanship only adds the "reliable" trait to guns, something the Absolution already has. So, for functional purposes, it already is.
I missed that. In that case, I think I will purchase some Photo-visors. Its all my additional thrones, but dark sight seems incredibly useful..
My apologies, this week has been insane at work because of the election. Hopefully results will come down in the next couple days, and my world will get back to normal. I should have my character all updated shortly.
Alexander photo visors are always a good choice.
Maxim totally understandable, it's definitely been a weird year for all of us between the election, covid, and all the protests. Oh, and don't forget murder hornets...
+5 Agility 250xp ...because an agility bonus of two is painful.
Dodge 100xp
Navigation (Surface) 100xp
Unspent 50xp
Naltos running around in these mines has stretched out his overly tight and twisted muscles, he is now more flexible!!!
Forbidden Lore: Cults 100xp
Forbidden Lore: Heresy 100xp
Search 100xp
Heightened Senses: Hearing 100xp
Heightened senses: Sight 100xp
I think the Engram implants might be loosening a little, allowing some old knowledge back.
Havelock I love it! Search now falls under Awareness in the consolidated skills, which you already have, so you still have 100 xp to spend.
Zimm and Ptah, any thoughts on your XP?
Hmm, forgot about that.
Well, let's double down on the lore then, we can go Scholastic lore: Occult instead.
Are we expecting to get new equipment soon? I was thinking of picking up Medicae Mechadendrite use.
Otherwise, I'm thinking of picking up some driving advances and maybe security.
Havelock I love it! Search now falls under Awareness in the consolidated skills, which you already have, so you still have 100 xp to spend.
Zimm and Ptah, any thoughts on your XP?
Sent you a pm...
Okay, +3 Agility, +2 Fellowship. For the extra experience, I will grab the intermediate advance in Toughness (250xp) and simple advance in Perception (250 xp).
Thanks for the post OS...thought I'd done so already.
Also a reminder to me to sort out my xp purchaces....coming!
Ptah / Simeon apologies, somehow my previous post regarding your question didn't make it up on the board. It might be a little while before you have access to acquire a medicae mechadendrite. As such, I would say pursue other avenues right now.