Dark Heresy

[Adeptekon]

I'm planning on collecting all of the RP systems for 40k to see which one I like best and grabbed this off ebay first.

 

Does anyone play Dark Heresy? Any tips?

 

[Lathe Biosas]

All the Fantasy Flight 40k games eventually have a slight flaw in party construction. Most of your party is made of damp tissue paper standing in a hail storm and will tear open with a couple hits.

 

Mechanicus folks on the other hand xan turn themselves into a block of adamantium that is incredibly difficult to kill.

 

You will have to balance the two when running campaigns. Whether it be Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, Deathwatch, etc.

[Adeptekon]

1 minute ago, Lathe Biosas said:

All the Fantasy Flight 40k games eventually have a slight flaw in party construction. Most of your party is made of damp tissue paper standing in a hail storm and will tear open with a couple hits.

 

Mechanicus folks on the other hand xan turn themselves into a block of adamantium that is incredibly difficult to kill.

 

You will have to balance the two when running campaigns. Whether it be Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, Deathwatch, etc.

Ah... well, right now I just want to see how character creation is. Since I'm the only GM I know I tend to take the rules as a suggestion anyway.

[Mazer Rackham]

=][= Good Frater, harken thee well to this missive from thy Acolytes common to Inquisitorial exceptional =][=

 

Go thee hence from this place, to the foreboding halls within another, deeper sanctum - although be warned! Abandon thy sanity, for all is madness in the deep realms of shadow in which the true battle for Humanity's soul doth lie. Begirdeth well thy tender loins, for all advice is wrought with corruption, and many are the perils of the warp and the indolent wastrel, ready to prey upon the unsuspecting and untested...

 

 

I've dropped a link to this thread in the Nook, our RPG hub within the BnC. Feel free to have a browse of some of our games, and maybe get a feel for what goes on. Several of our Players also GM Dark Heresy as a framework for their own projects, so perhaps they can provide some help.

 

You've got a good handle on FFG games already though - the rulebooks are essentially a GM Kit - everything else is dice and screaming. 

 

Edited 21 hours ago by Mazer Rackham

[Adeptekon]

1 hour ago, Mazer Rackham said:

=][= Good Frater, harken thee well to this missive from thy Acolytes common to Inquisitorial exceptional =][=

 

Go thee hence from this place, to the foreboding halls within another, deeper sanctum - although be warned! Abandon thy sanity, for all is madness in the deep realms of shadow in which the true battle for Humanity's soul doth lie. Begirdeth well thy tender loins, for all advice is wrought with corruption, and many are the perils of the warp and the indolent wastrel, ready to prey upon the unsuspecting and untested...

 

 

I've dropped a link to this thread in the Nook, our RPG hub within the BnC. Feel free to have a browse of some of our games, and maybe get a feel for what goes on. Several of our Players also GM Dark Heresy as a framework for their own projects, so perhaps they can provide some help.

 

You've got a good handle on FFG games already though - the rulebooks are essentially a GM Kit - everything else is dice and screaming. 

 

Thank you kind sir... Holding to what sanity I have left and with your waypoint I shall carouse of these deep backwaters undaunted! 

[Trokair]

17 hours ago, Adeptekon said:

Ah... well, right now I just want to see how character creation is. Since I'm the only GM I know I tend to take the rules as a suggestion anyway.

 

Sensible, the FFG games in my experience are fairly robust, but exact wording (or lack thereof) can be an issue so a common sense approach just helps the process along.  

 

6 hours ago, Mazer Rackham said:

I've dropped a link to this thread in the Nook, our RPG hub within the BnC. Feel free to have a browse of some of our games, and maybe get a feel for what goes on. Several of our Players also GM Dark Heresy as a framework for their own projects, so perhaps they can provide some help.

 

 

To expand on what Mazer said, I have used a Dark Heresy as the framework for a treasure hunt game, a Eldar player character game and most recently started a game with the players as a Titan Crew on their way to go for a Walk.