Lightbringer said:

Didn't know about that, did it work? I imagine that unnatural intelligence plays a part?

I'm really hoping for a game with Ranks 1-16 and various starting points.  The GM decides where the game starts and the players make up a character with the appropriate xp and Rank.  If the game's set to 5,000 xp/Rank 5 then CSMs are not yet available, but perhaps you can play a warrior that hopes to be selected (so long as you keep taking the needed advancements to qualify for CSM when you hit Rank 9).  OTOH, the Cultist that could have been started at Rank 1 can comfortably make himself a newly appointed cult leader at 5,000xp/Rank 5.  I want to see a game that allows for good growth all the way through.

I wonder if they are going to try appeal to more "oldschool" dark heresy players, who played the game more like call of cthulhu. You make character, he generally dies by getting his soul sucked out by some mind-flaying horror before his 3rd rank.

No.12 said:

I'd like to see them start to fill in the areas of space between Calixis and Terra just because I want them to eventually get to a book that tells about the imperium's heartlands.

HappyDaze said:

Sounds good to me!

Cheddah said:

I wouldn't count on it.  The Calixis sector and Jericho Reach exist as FFG's personal playground.  I doubt GW would let them go beyond that without a major change in their policy.

I would like to just play normal folks who got on the wrong side of the imperial law for (relatively) minor things and now try to make a living and survive the goons the inquisition throws at them.

• An Adept who lerned a bit Sorcery
• A Tech-Priest who found or invented something that's considered "dark mechanicus" like a servoskull with true AI
• An Arbitrator who "failed in his duty" because something he could not have anticipated happened
• A Guardsman who fought the ruinous powers and doen't see it as just treatment to be executed afterwards for the slight chance to have been corrupted.
• Someone who has his/her sister taken away by some petty planetary governor to be his sex-slave and kills the man to free the beloved sister
• Above mentioned sister
• Mutants
• A sister of Battle with the denounced and condemned backround who is now consideres a witch.

In fact I'm thinking about GMing a DH game that way.
If the Chars will be all on their own or if someone backs them like it's in DH is not yet decided.

As a further idea: The one backing the team is one of the holy inquisition with his own agenda who uses his inside knowledge to help his team and has them do missions for him.
For example he could send them to where the shattered hope adventure (free downloadable) takes place to have them play the part of the real acolytes and salvage things that could be of use before the real team destroys everything.

ok, so what about probable character classes?

there would probably be similar numbers to the other 40k rpgs.

1. Mutant
2. Cultist
3. Psyker/ Sorcerer
4. Possessed
5. CSM
6. Dark Ad. Mech

Any other thoughts?

With this game Im going to quote Captain James T. Kirk "The possibility's are endless."

Personally i want rules on playing fallen inquisitors and CSMs of the legions you actually kinda feel bad about (Word bearers and Thousand Sons, for example).

The Cultist-career needs an illustration of a scantly-clad tanned girl with splintered teeth and lots of tattoos... :P

A fa/tg/uy, eh?

 it's not impossible, Ascension featured Love Can Bloom after all.

Agmar_Strick said:

Exactly what I was going to say.