Second Dark Heresy group?

[Balrog]

Blah, I'm still interested, just need to write up a character sheet.

[NecronLord]

No problem.

[Aaron]

OK, I'm in if it's not to late. I have no idea what I'm doing so how long do I have to read this thing before we start?

Edit: I'm not sure if this will be a problem but I'm gone every wensday from 1600-2400 EST. And every second Monday for the same time.

[NecronLord]

Not too late at all. You've probably got days and days before we get onto doing anything requiring actual rolls; for now, you just want to come up with the non-mechanistic aspects of a character, name, background, (possibly description) profession and so on. That's all you need to show up to the briefing in the thread, after all.

[Zablorg]

I'm avaliable around every day from 8 hours from now to 5 hours from now. Not sure what that makes.

[NecronLord]

Humm. I'm on GMT. That may be a problem, but that's one to deal with at some later point.

Anyone else coming in can assume they'll be conducted into the room in the same manner, and be allowed to talk amongst themselves for a bit. Regis will mutter something and humph if asked any questions, and pay inordinate attention to his encoded book.

[Jaevric]

Can we roll up stats on our own or would you prefer to see the rolls?

[Zablorg]

What's the deal with these stat advancement thingies? How much does trained and intermediate and such give you in those points?

[Academia Nut]

Plus 5 for every stat advance, so you can have a maximum advance of 20 if you get all four advances.

[Lancer]

In case anyone's having trouble finding the dice, here's a good virtual site. Just type in what you need to roll (for example, 2d10 + 20) and it'll throw it out.

http://hamete.org/dserver/dice

My only complaint is that the stats I recieved are more appropriate for an Assassin, not a Techpriest. I mean, Str 40 and Int 28 (before characteristic advances)? It should be the other way around!

[The Yosemite Bear]

In case anyone's having trouble finding the dice, here's a good virtual site. Just type in what you need to roll (for example, 2d10 + 20) and it'll throw it out.

http://hamete.org/dserver/dice

My only complaint is that the stats I recieved are more appropriate for an Assassin, not a Techpriest. I mean, Str 40 and Int 28 (before characteristic advances)? It should be the other way around!

as per the rule book you roll one extra dice set, and drop the lowest THEN you assign them. thus you can make it the other way around.

[Lancer]

Ah, so I messed up and need to reroll everything again, since I plugged in my rolls with the Hiver modifiers (+25 to fellowship, and +15 to toughness).

[Zablorg]

I'm confused. I just rolled my stats and applied the hive modifiers. Am I supposed to roll them all again and pick the most desirable result of each stat?

[Brother-Captain Gaius]

Technically, by the book, you pick your world first, which determines the base for each stat, then you roll your stats and assign them, in order, to each stat, then you pick your class. Because it's the grim darkness of the far future.

But that's counter-intuitive so most people ignore it.

[The Yosemite Bear]

I miss read it...

[Academia Nut]

In fact, if your GM allows it, a lot of people roll the dice 9 times and can then opt for the reroll, then assign their stats where they want them so that they can play the character they want instead of having to pick something else or work around crappy stats.

[Lancer]

I just went through the Characteristic Generation section and couldn't find anything supporting Yosemite's interpretation. It doesn't matter though, I've already erased the original charactersheet so I need to reroll the characteristics anyways.

This time around, stat distribution isn't looking to turn Mercurius into a Mechanicus melee monster quite as bad; I ended up with Str 37 (after +3 from a divination), T 26 (much more befitting a character from a hive), Int 37, Fel 43, and 13 wounds. Guess that means I have to play nice with your ganger Zal.

[Zablorg]

Matt, my provocation towards your character demands a response!

[The Yosemite Bear]

hey anyone who can read, and understands beurocratees, could you read my character's papers?

you know the basics, and just how many shares do I have give up to others...

[Zablorg]

I know about Imperial Guard stuff, if you have any dealings with them.

[Lancer]

I've got Literacy and a char-advanced Int score of 42.

Oh, and Zablorg, consider the frak passed.

[The Yosemite Bear]

basically a letter of marquee was the right to steal from the enemy, however it also ment that you had to give the majority of what you stole to the government, then it details how you should devide the remaing stuff.

typically in the golden age of piracy the crown got 2/3 which was better then the navy got with 10/90 split, and the remainder was devided between the surviving pirates in "shares" an officer got 4x shares, a high ranking crewer got 2x shares, etc.

of course this is 40k, the imperium would confiscate/destroy anything big we got, as it would be a danger to our souls. (Reason no one got a share for boarding and capturing the eldar ship, though there would have been a reward for returning the noble's nephew, if he hadn't been killed....)

oh and btw, yes Eli doesn't know one kind of eldar from another, I think it's pretty obvious which kind he ran into...
...and why he was traumatized by what he saw that they had done...

[Dark Hellion]

I believe that guardsman Gra Duk Jones (he'll explain the name) will be entering the scene. I hope no one minds if I intentionally blotch my int score.

Gra Duk talks slow. Hes simple too. He don't use big words. But Gra Duk good wit' big guns. He use dem to shoots the bad people. Gra Duk hero in Imperial Guard. Gra Duk proud of Gra Duk.

[Losonti Tokash]

So, is anyone else thinking about the potential awesome of the original group's survivors coming to lend a hand?

[The Yosemite Bear]

maybe well I seem to be adding a bit to slang....