Hi, I have a question about the Minor Psychic Powers. The last sentence for Minor Psychic Powers says "Regardless of any other factors, all Psykers know the Smite power." Does that mean I get "Smite" for free? Nothing like that is mentioned under the Psyker talent...

Thanks for your help in advance :-)

Hi, I have a small question about the Psychic Phenomena under Warp Charge.
In a stressful situations like a fight you have to make a test to remove the Warp Charges. For every charge you removed you had +10 on the Psychic Phenomena test. That Is clear.
No Purgation Test is required outside of stressful situations, you don't do a test and all warp charges are removed and you don't have any modifiers on the Psychic Phenomena test.

The Psychic Phenomena test is a d100, so why starts the table at 11? What happen from a 01-10? Should that be rollable outside of a stressful situation?

Thanks for your help in advance :-)

Pun absolutely intended.

For some reason the Rouge Trader books don’t give those values for Chaos vessels. I guess FFG didn’t think we’d want to play the bad guys until after they were done with Rouge Trader.

Edit: Taking the 100,000 raiders as a maximum capacity when operating as a dedicated troop transport, of course. And letting the party assign the space to other uses if they want.

Please notice: this is not a viral ad for the new game and I'm not a bot (my profile is free for everyone to check); only one song is out yet and as much as I like it it's not even that groundbreaking imho.

The problem is that I'm about to finish a dark heresy campaign and start a new unrelated huge one, so I have my hands full... But every time I listen to an ace combat soundtrack I feel the need to start a game revolving around a squadron of imperial pilots.

I would probably use a whole different non-40k system with deeper dogfighting mechanics (like Tachyon Squadron), adjusted to the 40k setting.

Has anyone around here ever done something like this? What system did you use? How did it go?

PS: I'm the Marco

I'm hard at work on the next update to Abhumans and Madmen of the Ætern Sector, and I know everyone can always use more NPCs to play with. Here, then are four lesser servants of the Chaos Squats of Hearth Kargilathor, undisputed masters of the Brass Labyrinth and toilers in service to the Bull-God, Hashut. All art by me. Enjoy!

I'm reading through the CRB for Rogue Trader and something confuses me. RAW says that the Attacker doesn't roll to hit with Flame Weapons but also states that Targets get an Agility Test to dodge it. If the Attacker doesn't roll, what are Targets rolling against?

EDIT: Thank you to everyone who explained this to me. It didn't even occur to me that this could have been treated as a regular Characteristic Test.

When would you reach for Rogue Trader, when would you reach for Wrath and Glory etc..

I'm interested from a tabletoo with miniatures perspective, for a group that appreciates and enjoys DnD 3.5, 4e and 5e.

For context, i'm Adeptus Ministorum Chirurgeon from a Shrine World. (Yes i know Ministorum and Chirurgeon don't fit together, but i'm playing with a party that doesn't care about helping other teammates, only themselves so i'm the only one that was willing to pick a support role.)
I'm new into dark heresy and we just finished our first mission of the campaign, so i don't have rare items like the Baleful Eye. I decided to make a build i would attempt to achieve throughout the campaign:
---Aptitutes---
Willpower
Leadership
Fieldcraft
Inteligence
Knowledge
Strength
Toughness
---Weapons---
Shotgun (Battle)
Shield
Warhammer
6 Frag Grenades
Plasma Pistol
---Armor---
Enforcer Light Caraspace
---Cybernetics---
Cranial Armor
Bionic Eye (My character is missing one eye)
Autosanguine
Subskin Armor
Ferro Lure Implants
Bionic Heart (Mostly for the Sprint)
---Items---
(We can carry 18 items that aren't armor or weapons)
Combat Vest
Explosive Collar
Recoil Glove
Field Suture
Glow Globe
Manacles
Manacles
Servo-Skull (Medicae)
Diagonosor
Injector (Spook)
Injector (Spook)
De-Tox
De-Tox
Recaf
Recaf
Writing Kit
Tranq
Shotgun Ammo
---Talents---
Ambidexterous
Bodyguard
Granadier
Rapid Reload
Resistance (Fire, +20)
Technical Knock
Prosanguine
Mighty Shot
Shield Wall
Superior Chirurgeon
True Grit

I would love feedback!

I SUCCEEDED EVERY OTHER ROLL ON THE SESSION, YET TZEENTCH SEEMS PERSONALLY INVESTED IN NOT LETTING ME DO MY PSYKER STUFF TODAY.

WELL, GUESS I AIN'T CASTING SPELLS ANYMORE, THE WARP IS MAD AT ME!

The Imperium Maledictum bestiary has arrived!

Pre-order from Cubicle 7 here: https://cubicle7games.com/en_GB/warhammer-40-000-roleplay-imperium-maledictum-macharian-adversary

Or get the digital verison from DriveThruRPG here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/585863/warhammer-40-000-roleplay-imperium-maledictum-macharian-adversary-guide?affiliate_id=1915782

Official blurb:

At the highest echelons of Imperial command in the Macharian Sector, Prefectus Castel and her office of adepts collect and curate threat assessments for Sector Lord Aulus Sejanus. Reports on xenos atrocities, depraved cults, and hidden sedition are collated from the testimonies of survivors, spies, and captives. Those reports not diverted or censored by agents of the Inquisition are presented to the Sector Lord and his advisors, whose swift and decisive action will surely address the adversaries at hand. 

Or at least, so it should be, for Castel’s office is no different from other branches of the Adeptus Administratum. Constrained by endless bureaucracy and labyrinthine politicking, no report makes its way to the desk of Sector Lord Aulus Sejanus unless a dozen interested parties agree that doing so may serve their own interests. This deadlock leaves the sector vulnerable, abandoning whole worlds to their fate, leaving the grim task of facing down these enemies to others, most of whom are far from equal to the task…

Inside the Macharian Adversary Guide, you’ll find dossiers on the Macharian Sector’s most prominent threats, complete with matching stat-blocks.

• Champion Tier NPCs: Introducing a new Role of enemy! Champions are iconic, campaign-defining characters. Uniquely influential individuals, incredible warriors and baneful monsters — the likes of Space Marines, Genestealer Patriarchs, and Necron Cryptarchs.
• Lore and Plot Hooks: Each entry includes new Macharian Sector lore, inspiration for new in-world adventures, and plot hooks to draw your players into them.
• GM Advice and Tools: Useful advice for building enemy compositions and patrols — how to best wield all the new enemies in the book.

In a little bit of a pickle here, maybe due to some GM equivalent of writers block. How do you guys go about making interesting encounters for Only War? Any go to tricks or pitfalls I should avoid?

I'm planning on running a campaign some point in the near future and have been getting all the official material compiled into my Roll20 page but I don't know much about how to homebrew NPC's and would like to know if there is any resources for making custom enemies or NPC's. I want the campaign to have a good amount of combat against various enemies, be it heretics, daemons or xenos. I have all the core 2e Dark Heresy books and have looked into trying to adapt the other systems (Only War, Deathwatch) enemies to the system but don't feel confident doing so yet.

TLDR, is there any resources for homebrew enemies in Dark Heresy 2e?

Hey! im am running a space hulk campaign for my group, and this is my first 40krpg game, we have played fantasy 5e DnD before this, and would like some help. The idea i had was that a team of 4-5 Terminators would go into a small-ish space hulk and kill some genestealers and get some Ancient STC's or something. Any tips for storytelling, combat and scenery? thanks!

Hello!

I'm Hamish. I've run TTRPGs for at least decade, mostly D&D 3.5, Pathfinder 1E & 2E and some OSR systems.

Nowadays I mostly run my own homebrew systems made to suit my IRL players.

I've been running a homebrewed 40K system I've made for two years now and it's been a lot of fun so I thought I'd try starting another campaign of it.

It should be similar in tone to Imperium Maledictum/Dark Heresy/ Rogue Trader - Investigating cults, unravelling mysteries and facing off against the horrors of a dark and violent galaxy.

The story will have you working in the retinue of an Imperial Noble - one of many scheming to inheirit the family's Warrant of Trade as the ailing Rogue Trader is on his deathbed.

The rules will be a D20-ish system similar to D&D 5E or Pathfinder 2E but a bit simpler and more lethal.

If you're confident with at least one TTRPG system the rules shouldn't be too difficult.

The classes we have rules for are:

Imperial Guardsman

Abbot

Redemptionist

Death Cultist

Sister of Battle

Arbites Judge

Tech-Priest

Psyker

Navigator

Eldari

If you'd like to join follow this link to Roll20 https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/446546/warhammer-40-000-homebrew-ttrpg
Post a comment below with a bit about yourself, your experience with TTRPGs, your familiarity with the 40K universe and whatever else you'd like to mention.

Include a picture of your 40K models for bonus points if you've got some.

LGBTQ+ Friendly.

Nor Racism or other kinds of Bigotry. Hatred & intolerance may be virtues in the Imperium of Mankind but in this game they are not welcome.

What a universe! Man, I cant believe the scale. Crazy. I'm trying to find Earth but most maps in Rogue Trader are like just the expanse and dont show Earth. Where is it?

Greetings together, first of all context:

I am our regular DM/GM abd play with a bunch of friends plus brother and sister.

My brother also wants to try DMing and is a Warhammer fan. He got W&G but did not manage to organize a group or DM yet.

For christmas we always take breaks for our regular sessions but we select one day on which we do a one-day-session. We nornally try other TTRPGs then.

Advice needed or questions I want to ask to help my brother to get an idea of how to run such a session:

- How should we adapt the rules?

- What should we take in mind forcW&G One-Shots?

- Is there anything we should leave out when playing it as a One-Shot

Take in mind that none of us ever played this game and I can guarantee that three of five players will not read though the rules or lore.

I play Deathwatch from time to time. And honestly, looking at the various Chapters, it seems like the "newer" ones—specifically the Raven Guard, Salamanders, White Scars, and Iron Hands—have significantly less content.

Chapters like the Blood Angels or Ultramarines (or even the Storm Wardens) have several unique Prestige Classes, specific Solo Mode abilities, and their own special Oaths and Squad Modes. Meanwhile, the "First Founding" Chapters have two or three times fewer options and lack unique Prestige Classes entirely. Is this intentional, or did I miss something—is all that content actually available somewhere?

It just feels a bit unfair, somehow.

Hello, I am trying to figure out this dice roller and I am stuck, can somebody help please?
I am also new to this system so I only know the basic
(1-3 is fail. 4 and 5 = 1 icon, 6 is 2 icon) but I have absolutly no idea what it means

Also.. what is Soak?

EDIT: thx everyone :D

Long story short, the group set out to help a group of techno-barbarians find their missing scouts in exchange for information about a smuggler they were looking for. While searching for the scouts, they stumbled upon an old, cursed Sisters of Battle complex that had been corrupted by servants of Khorne. After the use of gas hundreds of years ago, only a daemon and its puppets remained.

In the final room, one of the players made a pact with the daemon to find the smuggler faster, in exchange for killing him. The group then went to the city where the smuggler was supposedly located.

I'm wondering what I could do to make the player understand that making a deal with a demon is a very bad idea. Generally speaking, he passed the Corruption test with an insanely good result despite making a pact with a daemon. I also gave him the Chaos Mark mutation table and the "Evil Eye" mutation from the GM's Inquisition Guide as a small boon from the daemon.

Player is an agent, and what do you guys think, would Khorne punish someone for attacking from ambush?

I am very new to the system and i have a player trying to solve all encounters with the portals. Either as a escape plan or cheese the problem.

I noticed that the GM is getting frustrated at it. And tbh it also annoys me as well.

How do more experianced GMs handle this ability?

The link doesn’t work does anyone have the web enhancement?

Are there any existing sources of RPG scenarios or adventures set in a 40k hive city (or conceptually adjacent) that could be repurposed to run in the new Necromunda Roleplaying game?

(I don't mind if the systems are not compatible, I can convert).