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One thing always confused me about skills, and I am not sure if this is the place to ask, but here goes.

Say I am a Scum, and picked Dodge up for starting skill, and say I am from Volg Hive and chose to be a Reclaimator. Now, I am offered Dodge and Dodge +10 as advancements. If I take both Dodge and Dodge +10 again, do I essentially receive +20 to Dodge due to mastery rules described in the core rulebook?

Thanks in advance.

Has there been an official answer as to whether or not someone can put a Mono upgradet on a Chain Sword?

They should really just adress whether Mono can be applied to weapons without the Primitive Quality. Which, personnaly I do not allow.

Cypher wrote:They should really just adress whether Mono can be applied to weapons without the Primitive Quality. Which, personnaly I do not allow.

That makes a lot of sense.

But I need a REALLY good reason to deny it for my players. Our assassin REALLY wants his mono chainsword...

Well point him to the direction of the TT 'fluff' where its stated that all chain weaponry is already mono possessing 'mono-molecular teeth' I can trawl through and try to find you all the discriptions if you like...

Or make him pay for each tooth individually. that 40 Thrones * say I don't know a copuple hundred little teeth...

Cypher wrote:Well point him to the direction of the TT 'fluff' where its stated that all chain weaponry is already mono possessing 'mono-molecular teeth' I can trawl through and try to find you all the discriptions if you like...

Or make him pay for each tooth individually. that 40 Thrones * say I don't know a couple hundred little teeth...

Awesome!

Sorry, but what is this 'TT' fluff that you speak of? I NEED IT.

Necrozius wrote:

Cypher wrote:Well point him to the direction of the TT 'fluff' where its stated that all chain weaponry is already mono possessing 'mono-molecular teeth' I can trawl through and try to find you all the discriptions if you like...

Or make him pay for each tooth individually. that 40 Thrones * say I don't know a couple hundred little teeth...

Awesome!

Sorry, but what is this 'TT' fluff that you speak of? I NEED IT.

TT stands for TableTop, essentially the warhammer 40k miniature wargame. The fluff is...extensive, to put it bluntly

Extensive doesnt really cover it. Think Small library. And I'm really hoping to see the errata on the IHB soon.

Hope this is the right place to seek clarification...
In the Dark Heresy core rule book, p261, Beginning of 4th paragraph it states:

"It is unusual for a warship to have astropaths on board, for proper communication is essential if the Imperium is to be defended."

Should this read

"It is not unusual for a warship to have astropaths on board..." ?

This seems like an important distinction.... Otherwise I've gotten things terribly confused with Astropaths.
~N

Howdy,

Syzygy wrote:Say I am a Scum, and picked Dodge up for starting skill, and say I am from Volg Hive and chose to be a Reclaimator. Now, I am offered Dodge and Dodge +10 as advancements. If I take both Dodge and Dodge +10 again, do I essentially receive +20 to Dodge due to mastery rules described in the core rulebook?

No, you won't have an effective Dodge +20 skill. You will, however, have the Dodge skill and, if you have enough XP at character creation, the +10 bonus that goes with it.

Remember, there's a note concerning Alternate Ranks like the Reclaimator, Metallican Gunslinger, and the Warden of the Divisio Immoralis that can be chosen at Character Creation. The note specifically states: "You may take this Alternate Rank during character creation. This does not affect your starting Skills and Talents. It only changes where you can invest your starting XP."

Basically, you loose access to the Dreg Advance Scheme from Dark Heresy so you can take the Reclaimator Advance Scheme instead.

Thanks,
Bluegrass

NicodemusII wrote:Hope this is the right place to seek clarification...
In the Dark Heresy core rule book, p261, Beginning of 4th paragraph it states:

"It is unusual for a warship to have astropaths on board, for proper communication is essential if the Imperium is to be defended."

Should this read

"It is not unusual for a warship to have astropaths on board..." ?

This seems like an important distinction.... Otherwise I've gotten things terribly confused with Astropaths.
~N

i think you are right. the navy would definetely have astropaths onboard. at least those that patrol large volumes of space

Hi, all. Here's what might be a silly question - the Moritat background (and apologies if it's been asked before) lists off your starting skills, and not one of them is Speak Language (Low Gothic). Now, I'm cool with that - they're a crazy Death Cult and seem like the sort of raise their kids speaking their own language. And if it comes up, I'd let my players buy Dodge and Awareness, along with Speak Language, during the Sellblade stage.

I just wanna make sure they don't get that stuff in addition to all the Moritat goodness.

dawgstar wrote:Hi, all. Here's what might be a silly question - the Moritat background (and apologies if it's been asked before) lists off your starting skills, and not one of them is Speak Language (Low Gothic). Now, I'm cool with that - they're a crazy Death Cult and seem like the sort of raise their kids speaking their own language. And if it comes up, I'd let my players buy Dodge and Awareness, along with Speak Language, during the Sellblade stage.

I just wanna make sure they don't get that stuff in addition to all the Moritat goodness.

The skills listed in the Background package are in addition to those they get from their HomeWorld & thier normal Assassin Starting Skills. So they do get Speak Language (Low Gothic) as well as whatever (if any) special Dialects or Canst they got from thier Home World.

Cypher wrote:The skills listed in the Background package are in addition to those they get from their HomeWorld & thier normal Assassin Starting Skills. So they do get Speak Language (Low Gothic) as well as whatever (if any) special Dialects or Canst they got from thier Home World.

Cool! I'm glad my players don't have to spend points to be able to communicate to the others in ways that don't involve charades, pantomime or possibly interpretive dance.

I have a question. Under Two Weapons, it notes that you get a free Parry. At the end it says something along the lines of:

"As this Parry is not an attack, it does suffer the normal penalties of attacks using your off hand."

It seems to me that it should read:

""As this Parry is not an attack, it does not suffer the normal penalties of attacks using your off hand."

The second one is correct. Parries made with your 'off hand' do not suffer the -20 penalty. ALso if your using weapon with the Balanced WUality (like a sword) you get +10.

Next question. What is Shock? Insanely Faithful gives you a reroll against it but I can't find it in the Index or book.

See pages 232-33 Dark Heresy Core Section on Fear the Shock Table is Table 8-4 p. 233

Cypher wrote:See pages 232-33 Dark Heresy Core Section on Fear the Shock Table is Table 8-4 p. 233

Thank you.

I have a quick question just what the heck does mono make your weapon then... is it a chain weapon... that is what I have done to my guys that want mono weapons.. they are now Monomolecular Chain Swords or axes... The rules say that it is now not primitive... but not what they become after??? There is Not a melee weapon training (advanced) or (hightech) or (Mono).. plz help... Am new to this game.

calaran wrote:I have a quick question just what the heck does mono make your weapon then... is it a chain weapon... that is what I have done to my guys that want mono weapons.. they are now Monomolecular Chain Swords or axes... The rules say that it is now not primitive... but not what they become after??? There is Not a melee weapon training (advanced) or (hightech) or (Mono).. plz help... Am new to this game.

You're getting two different rules mixed up here. The first is the weapon class "Primitive", which defines which weapon training you need to use it. The second is the quality "Primitive", which doubles AP against attacks made with the weapon. The former isn't altered by making the weapon mono-edged, but the latter is.

So, mono-edged weapons come under whichever weapon training group they would come under if they weren't mono-edged.

Hi, I have a few questions if someone may be able to help me out. First, I ordered Dark Heresy, The Inquisitor's Handbook, and Purge the Unclean online from a merchant. I got them and my IH is softcover. My friend kept telling me it should be hardcover. Now, I see that my IH and Purge the Unclean is made by Black Industries( I am kinda pissed about this)... I know this is the old company that once sold the game.

#1 Is my Black Industries IH and PtU junk or pretty much the same?
#2 If pretty much the same, is there going to be errata for it at sometime? (I see that nocturne promised in a much earlier post to try and post errata for IH when he got it.)
#3 I know errata is posted for the 1st of the core book. Will there be errata for the 2nd FFG core? Or has all errata been addressed to the best of your knowledge?

edge1973 wrote:Hi, I have a few questions if someone may be able to help me out. First, I ordered Dark Heresy, The Inquisitor's Handbook, and Purge the Unclean online from a merchant. I got them and my IH is softcover. My friend kept telling me it should be hardcover. Now, I see that my IH and Purge the Unclean is made by Black Industries( I am kinda pissed about this)... I know this is the old company that once sold the game.

#1 Is my Black Industries IH and PtU junk or pretty much the same?
#2 If pretty much the same, is there going to be errata for it at sometime? (I see that nocturne promised in a much earlier post to try and post errata for IH when he got it.)
#3 I know errata is posted for the 1st of the core book. Will there be errata for the 2nd FFG core? Or has all errata been addressed to the best of your knowledge?

1# Essentially the same, other than the change to hardcover.
2# Probably.
3# Nothing has been mentioned on that.

#3 The FFG edition apparently includes the errata for BIs rulebook.

I've not seen it but that's what I understand it to be.

Hi-
This seems to be an errata issue, but maybe I have missed something somewhere:

The Imperial Psyker can take a Psychic Power as a Savant-Warrant for 200XP, which allows you to buy a psychic power in a Discipline you know.

According to everything I have read in the rules, you don't get a Psychic Discipline until Psy Rating 3. But, the psyker doesn't seem to get a Psy-Rating 3 until the next rank (Savant militant).

How could you ever buy a Psychic Power at the S-W level?

Please not I have a Black Library edition rulebook, so maybe that's it. But the errata doesn't mention the inconsistency. ????