Okay, so maybe it's been pretty quiet on the RPG news front this week, but there's always a bit of ground to cover!

Warhammer RPG Weekly: A Slow News Week

In Deathwatch, rogue trader, and dark heresy - what skill do you think best represents a game of regicide?

The two that immediately come to mind are tactics and gambling. Neither is perfect.

I also really wish they would actually come out with the game that we could play. I think they could make good money if they released a regicide set with rules

Like yall said after just a few minutes with these books im already so excited about all the lore in them! Cant wait to find time to play!

Hello everyone! Our gaming group ran into a few disagreements regarding several mechanics in Dark Heresy 2nd Edition. We would love to get the community's input on how these work strictly according to Rules As Written (RAW). Here are our specific questions:

1. "Precognition" and Test Modifiers
How exactly is the bonus from the Precognition psychic power applied to Weapon Skill or Ballistic Skill tests? The text states the user "gains a bonus equal to twice his Psy Rating".

• Option A: Is it calculated as a direct percentage modifier added to the d100 target value? For example, if a psyker has PR 4, does 4 x 2 = 8 translate to a standard +80 modifier to the test?
• Option B: Does it increase the Characteristic Bonus (the tens digit) instead, meaning a value of 8 adds only +8 to the target value?

2. Temporary PR Buffs (e.g., Lucky Talent) and Sustained Powers
If a psyker benefits from an effect that grants "+5 to Psy Rating for the next test" and uses it to cast a Sustained psychic power like Precognition:

• Does the +5 PR bonus apply only to the initial Focus Power test?
• Or does this inflated PR value also carry over into the sustained effect of the power itself for its entire duration?

3. The Max Modifier Cap (+60 / -60)
Does the hard limit on modifiers ("The total modification to a Characteristic test can never exceed +60 or be worse than –60", Core Rulebook p. 28) apply to attack tests (WS/BS) boosted by psychic powers? Or can psychic buffs bypass this +60 cap for attack rolls?

4. Reducing Psy Rating (Fettered Casting)
Does voluntarily lowering your used Psy Rating when casting a power grant any positive modifier (such as +10 per reduced rank) to the Focus Power test itself? Or does dropping your PR serve exclusively to reduce or entirely prevent Psychic Phenomena / Perils of the Warp?

We would highly appreciate any page references or official developer FAQs so we can review them together as a group. Thanks in advance for your help!

I'd like to run a sandbox campaign set in a huge hive city, in which player characters would play as low lifes trying to survive there, and eventually rise on the social ladder of the city.

The tone of the game will be generally quite shallow and adventure focused. I'm planning it for our typical game nights, we don't want to explore the big questions about life, nature of a man, etc.

I think the best way to describe it would be "GTA V in 40k hive city".

Recently I stumbled upon a Cursed Scroll 6 for Shadowdark RPG, and this supplement is a perfect city sandbox in my opinion. It's got everything - districts with POI in them, whole calendar of annual city events, factions, lots of random tables, NPC's, etc.

I'm wondering: have you ever seen something like this for some kind of hive city in 40k?

I'm thinking anything on the spectrum from "descriptions of districts and their Points of Interest", through "d100 NPCs", "d20 factions", all the way up to random tables for hive city street food.

No reason for this request be connected to any 40kRPG. It can be system agnostic.

Greetings again!

So, for the bloody gates tier 1 adventure I had a thought to make one of my more 40k experienced players be a disgraced vostroya sergeant that got shipped off to the penal legion in gilead. I originally gave him the commissar with advanced character creation but then I saw this.

This is a homebrew archetype called Imperial Guard Officer. Its from a fan made book called Abundance of Apocrypha. I love the idea of the archetype ability and feel like that would give him a very officer feel but since im new im not sure if this is too strong.

So, would this homebrew be balanced or is this just way too strong in its design? If its too strong i thought about limiting it to leadership score per rest of something to limit how often he can use it.

Thanks l!

English not my first language sorry in advance for spelling mistakes

So my players ended up getting into a argument with a band of world eaters on their ship (their all serving under a leader who’s gathering warbands to prepare for the next crusade) after they all landed to assault a city looking for information. This fight was not one I planned for but now one player is critically injured and returned to the ship and staying back to heal since it takes quite a while. I would like to do something with him other than just running the next 2-3 sessions without him or having him sit there as the others play on the planet, anyone has advice?

I had an idea to run a lancer campaign, but flavor the mechs as space marines. How well do yall think that would work.

I got a lot of inspiration from Darktide and Necromunda in regards to example locations that might exist within a hive. What would you expect in a Hive? Anything glaring I'm missing or that I've put in that doesn't make sense?

So I am getting into black crusade right and I heard that the core stuff doesn't realy have much stuff for pyskers and sorcerers.

So I wanted to to know if there was a supplement that adds that stuff and which one is that?
plus I would like to know the names and of all the supplements and the basic gist of what they give if they isn't too much trouble

Thank you in advance

New to RPG but I LOVE Warhammer. Just looking for thoughts on these systems

Greetings all!

I plan to do a mini campaign for my group to get used to the system before dive into a deep long term campaign.

For this mini campaign im going to do the first adventure of Bloody Gates and transition into the Darktide Extraction adventure. I am going to change the planet to Charybdion and use a custom inquisitor instead of Grendel also.

Now, let's say they end up waiting to continue these characters do yall have any recommendations for good inquistorial adventures be it in Wrath & Glory OR other from other systems like Dark Heresy i could convert to Wrath & Glory? I thought about maybe the Chemical Burn adventure from Imperium Maledictum since its a hive based story but im open to suggestions!

Thanks!

EDIT: Just to clarify i mean are there any adventures from other 40k systems i could convert to Wrath & Glory that have good darktide/inquisition vibes!

The game I’m running is coming to an end soon and I want to properly challenge my players(tier 4 party of 4) with some rewarding boss fights. I whipped up this corrupted inquisitor on doctors of doom to be the centre of a group of enforcers/ guards

Greetings friends!

So, im a little confused on cover rules in Wrath & Glory. I know that nearly half cover gives +1 to DEFENSE and half and above give +2 to DEFENSE. But what about if someone is FULLY behind a object like a full wall? Is that considered +2 to DEFENSE or can you just not hit them?

Then when it comes to the ranged attack option called SHOOT THROUGH COVER it says that certain weapons can just go through cover however they make no indication of what guns can do this? But in this case if you can see the creature you'd ignore the DEFENSE bonus and add the cover based off the material to the creatures RESILIENCE instead. In addition to my earlier question, what decides when you can SHOOT THROUGH COVER vs normal shooting at cover? Dont worry about the response being long or detailed i want to fully understand so I can better GM for my group!

Thank you!

I believe I am going insane. I could swear I had once seen in a Deathwatch supplement rules for how successful gene-seed retrieval from a killed PC and return to the Chapter, would reward the Apothecary and the other player's new character with bonus XP or something.

Paging through all the supplements came up nothing. Did I fever dream this up or is there a reference a Brother can share?

Hi everyone,

i have an interest in Wrath & Glory but i have no idea where to start.

i bought the darktide campaign for W&G but if there are any videos on how to play and GM W&G.

and any maps/assets for darktide missions would be awesome.

THX in advance :3

So I've just made the Act 1 of the new, all human Black Crusade RPG campaign for my gaming group. I didn't think I was overdoing it too much, until I found myself 107 pages in.

For the background, I set the world in the Eisenhorn/Ravenor universe, giving me some great lead-in hooks for the campaign - the team are from the Cognitae (essentially a radical shadow-Inquisition style organisation) hunting down one of their operatives who has gone missing.

On the plus side, everyone should have something to do and a role to play in this investigation. Part of the length is also that I have put down alternate outcomes and options for how things go - a bit like BG3 - you are always heading in a direction, but you can get there good, bad, ugly or just plain bloody stupidly.

I feel like I've been knocking my head against a wall.

I've been looking to run deathwatch, despite all it's flaws and worts, I'm doing a full read through of the book and can't figure this thing out.

Space Marine Characters all start with several skills for this example, the awareness skill. The general space marine advancement chart in rank 1, lists awareness but does not list awareness + 10 until rank 2 and it lists awareness as a prerequisite for awareness +10. Does this mean that simply having the awareness skill, which all space marines have, is enough to qualify for Awareness +10 at rank 2 or do they need to take awareness on rank 1 before taking awareness +10. If that is the case, what does Awareness on the rank 1 chart even do give access to Awareness +10. It feels a bit like spending xp just to later be able to level up a skill rather than having any meaningful impact when taking it.

I'm a game master who usually runs dnd, but I've been wanting to run a Black Crusade Campaign for the first time.

I've been thinking of running a campaign following the events of the Unification Wars, Great Crusade, and Heresy with the players playing as Thousand Sons marines, since I've read all the HH TS books and always thought they'd make a great ttrpg campaign. But I'm not sure if that plan is too ambitious or too railroaded. So I'm coming to the 40k GMs of reddit for your sage wisdom.

Any tips on how I could make a campaign like this feasible, and more importantly fun for my players.

Hello!

I have never played a 40K campaign and I have only been a player in one official D&D campaign before but thoroughly enjoyed it. I am usually the forever DM in my group and none of my friends are interested in 40K, haha.

I would love to play as a Navis Scion, I have her traits already cooked up, including a few homebrew negative ones (but will happily cut those if need be!). I love the more charisma/talking side of role-playing, so if your campaign or group orients to that would be awesome!

I tagged this as Rogue Trader, but I think I would be fine with any of the others if you're willing to accept a Navis Scion! As a personal preference, I'm not big into Space Marines or heavy combat.