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#1 faulten Feb 16, 2009 22:07:51	A lot of my friends in my D&D group happen to be fans of the tabletop game Warhammer 40000, and while I've never played the game myself I do happen to find the back story and mythos behind the game to be both rich and inspiring for campaign elements. Particularly the elements of the Warp, Imperium of Man and their incapacitated God Emperor, and the concept of the Adeptus Astartes, or as the are more commonly known as Space Marines that worship him. Now with the current campaign I'm running my PCs are working their way off a sorcerer's island that they've been trapped on for a while. Once they get off however, they will be looking for an evil cult that was responsible for the destruction of their hometown. From there I want to introduce some of the flavor of the Warhammer 40K universe into the game. Now while 40K is a dark gothic sci-fi game I do think that it's basic flavor and over all feel can be translated into this campaign, though I think I can use some help in doing it. For those of you who are unfamiliar with 40K here are some helpful links: The Imperium Of Man The Emperor of Mankind The Chaos Warp
#2 stompie5 Feb 17, 2009 14:55:21	Allow the players to, "win." Make them think they are doing good by defeating the evil, but allow them to eventually realize that each victory only delays the coming doom.
#3 eshenaleros Feb 18, 2009 3:30:22	Allow the players to, "win." Make them think they are doing good by defeating the evil, but allow them to eventually realize that each victory only delays the coming doom. isn't that the overall plotline of the Terminator movies? in any case it's a good start
#4 stompie5 Feb 18, 2009 13:02:54	Warhammer 40k is pretty much about the fall of the Imperium. It is only a matter of time before mankind is destroyed. Unless, the Emperor is reborn in that starchild theory. Keep that in mind as you come up with quests.
#5 fragsie Feb 20, 2009 11:13:24	I have a chapter of marines that believe the starchild prophecy and think that the golden throne should be turned off so that the emporer can be reborn. They are considered heretics and deviants of course, but they are loyal to the emporer and hate chaos.
#6 evilkobra Feb 20, 2009 11:42:46	This might be stating the obvious, but... are you aware there are Warhammer (both Fantasy and 40K) role-playing games out there? You could simply buy/steal/borrow them to get all the material you need. It's really, really good stuff! There's some useful material here: http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~rossi/Wfrp/wfrp.html
#7 the_orius Feb 20, 2009 15:57:09	Doh! cobra beat me to it! they have there own 40k campaign setting called dark heresy. Of course that setting is about inquistor witch finders and the players play there retinue of demon/witch/hertic slaying fanatics. It isnt focused on the actual 40k stuff that has to do with the armies and the wars. Its more the seedy underbelly of the imperium.
#8 stompie5 Feb 20, 2009 16:17:25	I have a chapter of marines that believe the starchild prophecy and think that the golden throne should be turned off so that the emporer can be reborn. They are considered heretics and deviants of course, but they are loyal to the emporer and hate chaos. Do you have any pictures? I would love to see what marines like that would look like.
#9 doomsought Feb 20, 2009 22:36:07	D20 moddern has rules for scifi stuff, and has rules that better respect how easy it is to die. As for powered armor you should go to the d20 modern forums and look up powered armor as medium mecha. Though, I think my D20 brutal rules-set might also work well (where having an arm chopped off is an in game mechanic), but unfortunately I am no where near begin able to play it. I should be able to play test for old fantasy in a month. Then I could work on psions and mecha. Though I hope your campaign works out well.
#10 fragsie Feb 21, 2009 12:04:21	Do you have any pictures? I would love to see what marines like that would look like. The chapter is called Star Children, they because of their ostricisation from the imperium they don't have dreadnaughts or terminator armour. I haven't got many of them painted yet, I have Eldar as my main army. But here is a vetran sergant: Show
#11 stompie5 Feb 23, 2009 10:33:21	That purple space marine looks great and the Eldar are really good too (nice job with everything though). I really need to finish painting my Imperial Guard Army.
#12 mufflon Feb 23, 2009 14:44:55	Don't try to force a system to do something it's not mean to do, especiallt when there is another system that's meant to do it. http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/dark-heresy/
#13 need_a_life Feb 23, 2009 15:31:54	D&D3.5 wouldn't be an accurate representation, I agree. Then again, neither is Dark Heresy. By the rules of DH, the average inhabitant in the Imperium has 15% chance (by RAW) of knowing about the Emperor [45% if RAI, assuming stacking of modifiers]. Assuming average stats. This is in a setting, where the whole Imperium is based around this one man. Of course, that's not the entirety of its flaws, but merely a reflection of the in-built silliness in a percentile-based system. Personally, I use Savage Worlds for my campaign (set - I might add - in the Calixis sector, as per Dark Heresy) to great effect, although psykers are difficult to properly balance (I think I've finally found it, but this is about the fourth idea I've attempted to "catch" their unique flavour).
#14 stompie5 Feb 23, 2009 16:13:58	Perhaps that is to give an idea on how huge the Imperium actually is. I mean, it does have over a million worlds in it. I could believe more than half lost contact with the government and forgot the Emperor.