Well, if I am allowed to make a quick guess on how the adventure will play out, it'll go like this

1. Break out of the cell and kill anyone nearby.

2. Find your weapons and armour and kill anyone in the way.

3. Kill anyone still alive.

At least that is how the Khorne CSM will want to play it.

The +10 to standard attacks sounds intresting, maybe you will no longer be able to aim for a melee attack, instead it is already in there? Making it easier to hit in melee then at range, with the same stats. Discounting that you can parry in melee... Anywho, seems we are lacking in information, no wonder since the book is not out yet, but this was a welcome sight :)

Since this looks to be a rules light intro and Barbatos is making a standard attack (dual wielding) as a full action I'd guess that he's aiming.

Half Action Aim

Half Action Standard Attack

Are you even allowed to aim in Melee?

I wouldn't be so sure of what I'm saying, I'm at work and don't have the books with me, but I thought Aiming was only for Ranged weapons...

 You can aim in melee, but you can't aim (half action) and use two weapons (full action) in a single turn.

@Nightsorrow

That depends - after all, the Khornite might be a little more far-thinking, in which case step 3 would become "Find someone to point the starship in a direction where there are more people to kill" and step 4 is "kill anyone still alive on board". No point in living the rest of your days in a dead piece of wreckage when there's still a galaxy full of people waiting to be killed left.

Anyway, I really like the comment how the Inquisition considered the loss of a company of guardsmen a fair trade for Babaroth's capture.

I does read like that Standard Attacks do now get +10 for some reason. Also, what is an "Evasion Action"?

Babaroth does seem to have been a little shafted wounds wise, but I guess that is for balance purposes.

My bad, you can Aim before Melee-ing. Which is silly, but hey.

Ahhh, those Khornites, playing the tough mofos, but one hit and they go cry to their mommas...Weessa Nurgle followers never has dis prablem

Just as some wishful thinking: perhaps they switched the attack bonuses to +10 on standard (melee or ranged), +20 on semi auto, and +0 on full auto, dont think it would happen though

tkis said:

That would be quite interesting, and without having testing it, meaning my opinion doesnt count for much, it does sound more balanced then the +0/+10/+20 that it is now.

And it does indeed seem like Babaroth has very little wounds for a CSM, but hey, maybe they are weaker then the 18+1d5 that is the Deathwatch marines.

Having just read the adventure, since I am running it Saturday, I will say that although there is combat, it is a pretty well thought out and developed story line IMO. It has a good hook to get a variety of "evil" characters together.  Actually, the PCs don't have to kill or fight everything, and there is some negotiation and diplomacy that can take place should they choose to do so.

I won't spoil anything, but to me at least, everything in the story makes sense regarding the how and whys.

I am worried that 2.5 hours won't be enough time to run it, though. Depending, I could see groups taking 4 hours, or even 2 sessions playing it, depending on the level of detail and effort everyone puts into it.  Yeah, that's actually a GOOD THING in my opinion, though.

Based on the simplified rules presented in the adventure booklet, anyone who has played one of the other 40k RPGs will feel right at home, and there are only a few minor rule differences that I noticed.

It is available already ? hm, i must have missed something

Given my LGS seems to have decided not to go with Free RPG day this year... I do hope it makes PDF soon.  As this was the main thing I wanted to get there. 

tkis said:

Your LGS should have received their Free RPG day containers, which includes the Broken Chains booklet (several copies per container, in fact), if they are participating.  So, if you are running the demo, I would suggest heading over to your LGS and ask if you can read the adventure to prep for this weekend.

dammit you almost got me too skip work tomorow and go too the store too see if i can do that (stupid store a hour away from me )

Stormast said:

How so? It just means you take stock of where your target is and where you need to swing, rather than randomly hacking in his general direction. Just like aiming ranged weapons is stopping to aim properly, rather than blasting away from the hip.

Dulahan said:

FFG usually release it a week or two after Free RPG Day, so it'll be out soon, if they do the same again this time.