Comments on: Dark Heresy Thoughts and Notes

By: Brett

Brett — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:47:07 +0000

That is a good idea Ed. Lets give it a try next game.

By: Edward

Edward — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:52:41 +0000

The cheap & easy way to upgrade some more reliable weapons for damage without going crazy would be using 2 D-AVG (2,3,3,4,4,5) instead of 1 D 10, that way you won’t get the “1″ damage result and average a 6 or 7 damage result for most hits but still have chance to get a 10.
I spend a lot of the game with my priest character acting ignorant to try avoiding the omniscient “encyclopedia of knowledge” from reading Rogue Trader on. The “battle happy” response I think is from reading too many accounts in flavor texts of executed / “re-educated” (usually Impi Guard types) who always get nailed from returning with bad news battle reports after being the sole survivor of some brush with xenos

By: Jon Mattison

Jon Mattison — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:40:39 +0000

Hey guys, I’ve subscribed to your DH discussion. I too have concern with the weapon damages but am reluctant to start messing with it as it would require some subjective going through dozens of weapons and making decisions.

I recognize the simplicity of sticking with d10s in the game and that a laspistol could get lucky and kill you and a bolt pistol could get lucky and only graze you… but since the “majority” of the damage is left to the randomness of a dice roll?

Solution 1 is to increase the base damages across the board from the +2 to +5 range to perhaps +5 to +9 (arbitrary) and then changing the 1d10 to other polyhedrals: 1d4, 1d6, 1d8 etc. to help ensure that “on average” laspistols will be a small to medium damage weapon while a bolt pistol “on average” will be a medium to large damage weapon.

However, upon further consideration I’ve realized that bolt pistols, among others, do have other stats, such as a Penetration value that will consistently make a bolt pistol “better” than a las pistol.

At the least, we’ve skimmed through the list and added the “Impact” special rule to several of the weapons borrowing from the Fantasy RPG where you roll 2d10 and choose the highest. All bolt weapons were given this trait.

We’ll test this and see how it goes.

Jon

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:01:42 +0000

Yea I agree about the Necrons. There has not been very much contact at all between the Necrons and the Imperium.

I think it would take a Forbiden Lore Xenos to know much about them.

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:13:40 +0000

I am not convinced that there is broad knowlege of Necrons around the Imperium. From reading the backstory they don’t seem to be well known at all, as such knowing that they could get back up again is likely beyond what an average acolyte might know, certainly without a know xenos type roll. As I said however, it didn’t change anything at all, just reminded me that I will have to be careful, you all are much more knowledgeable about much of the 40k universe than anyone who actually lived in it would likely be.