[OW] Out of the Frying Pan (Data/Characters Thread)

[Viking Slade]

++Out of the Frying Pan++

++An Only War Campaign++

 

CHARACTER/DATA THREAD

 

Dramatis Personae

Player Characters

• Decon Garrick, Sebastian Nathaniel; Ministorum Priest - Mazer Rackham
• Specialist Kordo; Sniper - Lord_Ikka
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NPC's

• Commissar Vortis
• Lt. Gallesu
• Sgt. Harver
• Enginseer Mosch
• Operator Magneg

 

Campaign/Game Rules

Spoiler

The following rules/modifications will be in effect for the entirety of the campaign. (Credit to Mazer Rackham for some of these rules.) I reserve the right to add to, remove, and modify the rules from this list as needed, in order to give everyone the best experience possible.

• For transparency, I will be using https://orokos.com/roll/c-Out+of+the+Frying+Pan for my rolls.
• This campaign will use the Only War errata. Please make sure your character complies with the updates.
• The 40k setting is dark and grimy. Blood and gore settings are permanently on (I won’t get too extreme, I promise), and the “good guys” are morally gray at best. I don’t expect anyone to play a saint (especially given this is a Penal Legion), but I do expect players to be able to deal with tough choices, moral grayness, and perhaps the rare crisis of faith. Grown-up bottoms, people, not diapers.
• If you suffer Critical Damage to the head that would result in death, you may not burn a Fate point to survive. Game over, you are dead (see above rule). GG, suck it up and roll a new Trooper, we’ll find a good spot to bring you back in shortly. For Super Ea-the EMPEROR!
• Once a post has been made, any post(s) and/or rolls made before then become set in stone, forever. Did we forget something, or make a mistake? Oh well. We learn from it, move on, and try to remember the lesson the next time the situation comes up.
• Characters do not need to purchase prerequisites for any abilities gained from the Regiment or their chosen Specialty.
• When reaching a milestone, characters that choose to move into a specialty that doesn’t grant a Comrade from one that does may keep their Comrade.
• Players may purchase Specialty and Comrade advances from other specialties, with the following caveats:
  • You must run it by me first. The advance needs to make sense for your specialty/role. Sell me on it.
  • If purchased after character creation, it will require a Narrative Time post during in-game downtime describing/roleplaying the training or effort to acquire the advance (I will work with players when necessary).
  • The experience cost for purchasing an advance from another specialty is double the normal cost.
  • Players may only purchase a single advance from any one specialty, and may only purchase up to three advances total in this way.
  • You may only purchase Comrade advances if your current specialty grants you a Comrade.
  • Advances from the Commander, Commissar, and Sergeant specialties may not be purchased at all.
• I will be imposing encumbrance, but in a slightly different manner, mostly applying to weapons.
  • For encumbrance purposes, characters are considered to have three “slots” for carrying weapons on their person: Main (Heavy and Basic weapons), Sidearm (Pistol weapons), and Melee (self-explanatory).
  • Characters may carry up to one [Main] weapon, one [Sidearm] weapon, and one two-handed or two one-handed [Melee] weapon(s) at a time. Some specialties may end up with more weapons than they can carry. You may not have your Comrade carry your extra weapons for your character, unless you have purchased the Armsman advance. Any weapons you can’t carry are left at “camp.”
  • If your Heavy weapon has the Suspensors upgrade, you may carry one additional Basic [Main], [Sidearm], or one-handed [Melee] weapon.
  • If one or more of your Basic weapons has the Compact or Sawn Off upgrades, you may carry one additional Basic [Main], [Sidearm], or one-handed [Melee] weapon.
  • You may choose to give up your [Main] weapon slot in order to carry either an additional [Sidearm] and one-handed [Melee] weapon, or an additional two-handed [Melee] weapon, instead.
  • You may choose to give up your [Sidearm] weapon slot in order to carry an additional one-handed [Melee] weapon instead.
  • You may choose to give up your [Melee] weapon slot in order to carry an additional Basic [Main] or [Sidearm] weapon instead.
  • You may choose to give up your [Sidearm] weapon slot and only carry a single one-handed [Melee] weapon, in order to carry an additional Basic [Main] weapon instead.
  • A character may never carry more than one Heavy weapon without prior approval and the appropriate abilities and weapon upgrades.
  • Miscellaneous gear will not be combed through to make sure players meet encumbrance limits, but if your rucksack starts looking like you’re hauling several dead gretchin, best bet an “accident” is in your future where some of your gear gets lost. At random. 
• Ammunition is not unlimited. Be sure to keep track of your reloads. There will be opportunities to scavenge basic ammo, but don’t count on that to save you from running dry if all you do is “spray’n’pray.”
  • I’m sure this goes without saying, but reloading with ammo still in the clip/magazine/tank does not automatically refund said ammo to your reserves (we’re not playing CoD here, afterall). You lose any shots not fired when reloading a weapon, unless you specify that you put the partially fired clip/magazine/tank in a pocket/bag, and add a separate note about it and its remaining shots on your sheet.
  • Characters may carry four reloads for their Basic [Main] weapon, and a total of two reloads for any [Sidearm] weapons (either two for a single, or one each for two different weapons). If you give up your [Main] weapon slot in order to carry an additional [Sidearm] weapon, you may split six total reloads as you wish between those weapons.
  • Characters carrying a Heavy [Main] weapon may carry two reloads for it. Characters with a Comrade may carry an additional reload (for a total of three) for that weapon.
  • Any ranged weapons requisitioned after character creation automatically come with two full reloads (one already being in the weapon). Heavy weapons, and weapons that can only use exotic/special ammunition are the automatic exceptions; these weapons come fully loaded, but with no additional reloads.
  • Ranged weapons scavenged/picked up on the battlefield will have a randomized amount of ammo remaining, using a d100 for percentage (randomized ammo percentages will be rounded to the nearest shot).

 

 

If you have any questions

 

Regimental Bonuses

Spoiler

Penal Legion Theta-Delta-Beta, Recon Regiment; “Wilson’s Irregulars”
All characters belonging to Wilson’s Irregulars gain the following bonuses:

 

Characteristic Modifiers: +3 Perception, -3 Willpower; +3 to any two of the following—Agility, Strength, Toughness
Starting Aptitudes: Weapon Skill
Starting Skills: Awareness, Intimidate, Linguistics (Low Gothic)
Starting Talents: Combat Sense, Resistance (Fear); [Combat Master or Double Team]; [Peer (Underworld) or Street Fighting]; [Berserk Charge or Cold Hearted or Frenzy or Paranoia]
Close-Quarters Battle: Members of this regiment gain an additional +10 bonus to all Ballistic Skill Tests made at Point-Blank Range.
Larcenous: Hailing from worlds where the black market is the only market, penal colonists are skilled at obtaining illicit items, whether to sell, on or for their own purposes. Penal colony characters add a +10 to all Logistics Tests made to acquire illegal or contraband items.
Beyond Redemption: Members of this regiment suffer a –10 penalty to all Fellowship-based Tests made when interacting with members of other Imperial Guard regiments, their own commanding officers, the Departmento Munitorum, and other officials both local and Imperial who would have likely heard of the regiment’s reputation. Additionally, its members suffer –10 penalty to all Logistics Tests. Further, this group is always assigned to the most dangerous missions on a given battlefront, and is rarely given respites between its missions to recuperate and reorganise.
Wounds: +1 starting Wounds
Standard Regimental Kit: [1 lascarbine with four charge packs and the Compact modification or 1 combat shotgun with the Sawn-Off modification and 4 clips or 1 Common (or more available) Low-Tech weapon and a laspistol with two charge packs per Player Character], 1 Good Craftsmanship knife with the Mono upgrade per Player Character, 1 suit of light carapace armour per Player Character, 1 frag and 1 smoke grenade per Player Character, 1 injector or inhaler, and three doses of Frenzon or five doses of Stimm per Player Character; One Sentinel Scout Walker or one Chimera Armoured Transport per Squad (dependent on mission, NPC-controlled), and one set of magnoculars per Player Character.
Favored Weapons: Hades Assault Flamer (Basic); Accatran Automatic Mortar (Heavy)
Starting Experience: Members of this regiment gain an additional 500 experience at creation, to represent any formal training of any kind prior to incarceration.  This brings the starting experience totals to 1100/800.

Edited December 15 by Viking Slade

[Mazer Rackham]

+ DRAMATIS PERSONAE +

 

+ PRIMARIS INTEROPERARE, INCIPE ACTIO: (PRINCIPAL PLAYER CHARACTER) +

 

Induction File:

 

Astra Militarum Support Specialist: Ecclesiarch Component 

Serial Number: GME/2368/0749

Name: Sebastian Nathaniel Garrick

Age: 30

 

Rank: Deacon (NB Imperial Secular Mandate and Appendix #47: 'When dealing with other military ranks, such as times of confession, a Notary Ministorum Acceptable, or Notary Ministorum In Ordinary may accept a brevet commission to the rank of his Penitent or otherwise Charge, that he may keep confidence, but may not give orders such as outwith these parameters or station. Punitive measures apply as normal per  Astra Militarum Schedule A419.').

 

Acceptable Cognomen (Ecclesiarchy Instructional): Preacher, Padre, Deacon (Prelate Rank), Luminary (Regt. Macc. Janissary) Faith Speaker (Abhuman, Feral).

Theorem: Monodominant.

 

Parent Order: Canon of St. Thor Ascendant, Inductee of Doctrine For The Faithful Congregation.

 

Height: 5'10

Build: Stocky

Eyes: China blue

Hair: Blond, cropped short, kempt and groomed as per AM Directive/Standing Order 134

VDM: Y/N (If Yes, Identify): Three scars across face, right to left

Blood Group: AB/Rhesus Neg

Handedness: ??

 

SERVICE RECORD:

Seconded to Elysian 919^th Airborne Brigade, 2^nd Regiment, 10^th Company.

Three Combat Jumps in active warzones: Operations Castellum, Merced, Angevin.

Awarded Cadian Meritorious Service Ribbon, Vostroyan Winter Cross, Elysian Wings of Fury.

 

Edited December 5 by Mazer Rackham
Cleanup

[Lord_Ikka]

 

Prisoner File - A125.253.9898

Name: Kordo

Species: Abhuman

Classification: Homo Sapiens Minimus (aka- Ratling)

Age: Undetermined

Sex: Male

Height: 1.1m

Eye color: Grey

Hair color: Black

 

Service Record

Attached to Cadian 598thLight Infantry Regiment, Abhuman auxiliary (Recon)

    Years served: 7

    Awards: Marksman Award, Silver Stave Imperialis, Honor Knot x 2

    Infractions: None

Attached to Savlar 46th Chem-Dogs Regiment, Scout specialist

    Years served: 1

    Awards: None

    Infractions: Insubordination x 4, Refusal to Follow Lawful Commands x 2

    Sentence: Administrative punishment x 5, Reassignment to Penal Legion Theta-Delta-Beta, Recon Regiment

 

Notes:

Prior to serving with the Savlar, specialist Kordo would have been considered an ideal specimen of abhuman service within the Militarum. Unfortunately, it seems that the unorthodox and criminal conduct of the so-called "Chem-dogs" infected Kordo. On six separate occasions he failed to adhere to Command directions and displayed an attitude of contempt for those he considered "not worthy of the front". He is currently inducted into Penal Legion Theta-Delta-Beta, to serve out his term.