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UPDATED!

Necromunda: Compilation I

V1 online again, and available to download at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4104995/Games/Necromunda_Compilation_I_v1.pdf (40Mb). This is a compilation of all the ORB and boxed-set era Journal, Gang War and early Necromunda Magazine rules.





Necromunda: Compilation II

V1 is online, and available to download at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4104995/Games/Necromunda_Compilation_II_v2.pdf (99.2Mb). This is a compilation of all the currently available LRB and Underhive era articles into one handy PDF, with lovely formatting so that it looks like a real Necromunda book. Front cover and table of contents shown below.





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HELLO.

So, I spend a lot of time on flights, and I like to practise my InDesign skills in this downtime. I've been making a few wargaming documents for fun, including an Arbites Codex, 6ed Reference Sheets, etc, all formatted as accurately as possible.

One of the things I've been working on is a single document 'compilation' of all the old Fanatic Magazine and, later, Fanatic Online articles, all formatted like the original documents (since a lot of the later FO articles looked pretty poor). Since I'm now using an iPad to access my hobby-related documents, one big PDF 'book' is a lot more handy for me than lots and lots of individual articles. Sample screenshots are below..





I have a few questions for the community.

- Is this of interest to anyone else?
- I'm currently limiting this to all the articles I can find from the later Fanatic Magazine and Fanatic Online - so all relating to Necromunda-Underhive or the LRB, and including the PDFs from the GW site. I'm excluding earlier articles from the Necromunda Magazine (for first-edition Necromunda) - is this a sensible policy?
- I'm aware that this site features the NCE version of the rules as well, but I've never tried them, and I don't know how compatible they are with all the older PDF articles. Should I try to update the files for NCE, of keep them as is?
- Beyond the generic 'Ash Waste Nomad' gang, I'm not including all the masses of Ash Waste rules - that's enough work for a whole separate book!!
- A list of planned contents is below - let me know if there are other things to include, or better/more up-to-date versions of these rules - particularly the Vehicles rules and the Bestiary!

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NEW RULES

Dead or Alive - Rules for Outlaws (from GW/Fanatic Magazine)
Outlaw Scenarios (from GW/Fanatic Magazine)
Outlaw Trading Post (from GW/Fanatic Magazine)
New Equipment (from GW/Fanatic Magazine)
Treacherous Conditions (from GW/Fanatic Magazine)
Bind Fighting (from GW/Fanatic Magazine)
New Equipment (from GW/Fanatic Magazine)
Blind Fighting Scenarios (from GW/Fanatic Magazine)
Gang Leadership (from GW/Fanatic Magazine)
Stay! There's a good boy! - Dogs in Necromunda (from Fanatic Online, by Nick Jakos)
Subbers for Sale - Rules for Traders (from Fanatic Online, by Nick Jakos)
The Unknown Warriors - make your own House (from Fanatic Online, by Michael Dewbury)
Warmachines in the Underhive - Vehicles (from Fanatic Online, by Bill Etherington)
You Better do Something! - Special Actions (from Fanatic Online, by Nick Jakos)
Underhive Bestiary (from Fanatic Online, by Nick Jakos)

GANGS

Enforcers: Justice in the Underhive (from GW/Fanatic Magazine)
Ratskin Renegades (from GW/Fanatic Magazine)
Scavvies (from GW/Fanatic Magazine)
Death Stalks the Underhive: Spyrer Gangs (from GW/Fanatic Magazine)
The Redemption (from Fanatic Online - by John French)
Ash Waste Nomads (from Fanatic Online)
Pit Slaves (from the 'V2' PDF)

HIRED GUNS

The Wyrd and the Wonderful (from GW/Fanatic Magazine)
Pit Slave (from the Fanatic Online article 'The Forgotten Guns' by Arbitor General)
Ogryn Bodyguard (from the Fanatic Online article 'The Forgotten Guns' by Arbitor General)
Ratskin Savage (from the Fanatic Online article 'The Forgotten Guns' by Arbitor General)
Defense Force Deserter (from the Fanatic Online article 'The Forgotten Guns' by Arbitor General)
Sniper (from the Fanatic Online article 'The Forgotten Guns' by Arbitor General)
Crazy Doc (from the Fanatic Online article 'The Forgotten Guns' by Arbitor General)
Preacher (from the Fanatic Online article 'The Forgotten Guns' by Arbitor General)

SPECIAL CHARACTERS

Special Characters Rules (from the Fanatic Online article 'Special Characters' by Arbitor General)
Arch Zealot of the Redemption (from the Fanatic Online article 'Special Characters' by Arbitor General)
Brakar, the Avenger (from the Fanatic Online article 'Special Characters' by Arbitor General)
Bull Gorg (from the Fanatic Online article 'Special Characters' by Arbitor General)
Bonnie Annerson (from the Fanatic Online article 'Special Characters' by Arbitor General)
Klovis the Redeemer (from the Fanatic Online article 'Special Characters' by Arbitor General)
Deacon Malakev (from the Fanatic Online article 'Special Characters' by Arbitor General)
Mad Donna Ulanti (from the Fanatic Online article 'Special Characters' by Arbitor General)
Karloth Valois (from the Fanatic Online article 'Special Characters' by Arbitor General)
Kal Jerico (from the Fanatic Online article 'Special Characters' by Arbitor General)
Scabbs (from the Fanatic Online article 'Special Characters' by Arbitor General)
King Redwart (from the Fanatic Online article 'Special Characters' by Arbitor General)
Lothar Hex (from the Fanatic Online article 'Special Characters' by Arbitor General)
The Caller (from the Fanatic Online article 'Special Characters' by Arbitor General)
The Rat God (from the Fanatic Online article 'Special Characters' by Arbitor General)

CAMPAIGNS

The Dust Falls Campaign (from GW/Fanatic Magazine)
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Scum City (from Fanatic Online)
Sludge Harbour (from Fanatic Online)
The Chasms (from Fanatic Online)
Alevan Town (from Fanatic Online)
Paradise City (from Fanatic Online)

SCENARIOS (all from Fanatic Online)

Get Rich or Die Tryin
The Package
Purge
The Hoard
A Captive Audience - new captured fighter scenarios
The Night Before Fistmas
2007 Scenarios Competition

I'm really likin it!! I'd love to see a nice one stop shop compilation without people moding all the rules.

I would find it extremely useful

Nice idea for compilations Ian, very useful as while I have the Fanatic mags I have very little else especially now GW are removing stuff from their site.

If you fancy playing a game of Necro rather than editing it for a change send me a PM and we can sort a few games out. I could do with dusting my Delaques off!

 notprop wrote:
Nice idea for compilations Ian, very useful as while I have the Fanatic mags I have very little else especially now GW are removing stuff from their site.

If you fancy playing a game of Necro rather than editing it for a change send me a PM and we can sort a few games out. I could do with dusting my Delaques off!

I was just having this conversation with Panic. We're up for a bit of Necromunding - gonna start assembling a gang over the weekend. Maybe if we get a few people we could try a summer campaign?

Arbitorlin --

YES YES YES!!!!

I would love to see someting like this!!

I have been trying to compile the Necromunda goodies as well and if someone did this it would be SWEET!!

Any way you could post it on Dakka so I could use it on my Droid?

I'd love to have a look at an assembled book like that.

yeah,
Ian the compilation is great.

Notprop/Everyone get involved.
The campaign will get started soon!

My Cult of Dirt needs other gangs to deal with...

Panic...

Cool beans (As I believe the cool kids say).

I'll start reinvigorating my old Delaques then see if inspiration takes me to a new gang.....maybe something where I just stand and fire for a change.

I've also started looking into the Mantic Deadzone stuff. I've never liked Mantic before but that terrain is might tempting all of a sudden?

Yeah,
The mantic terrain looks interesting.

But they have been a bit wooly with exactly how many frames is each of the set ups they've shown.

It's also a lot cleaner than GW terrain and will need busying up and weathered to match in with C.O.D and Munda terrain.

Panic....

UPDATED!

Necromunda: Compilation II

V1 is online, and available to download at http://www.arbitorian.com/Necromunda_Compilation_II_v1.pdf (99.2Mb). This is a compilation of all the currently available LRB and Underhive era articles into one handy PDF, with lovely formatting so that it looks like a real Necromunda book. Front cover and table of contents shown below.

THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH !!!

This is AWESOME!!!

The Gorlocks are comin out of the ironworks....

I know this is going to get some use at my FLGS this weekend.

Looks fantastic! I'll be letting a few people know about this one as theres a bit of necro play around here.

I just wanted to say that this looks fantastic.
I've never played Necromunda before but I find it really interesting and hope to start playing soon.

One thing that has caused me confusion is the amount of extra rules available, having a lot of them compiled together helps with that.

I was planning to start playing using the NCE rules, if I do so, does anyone know how the rules in this compendium would transfer over? Is there a big difference?

You can use all these rules with the NCE, they just might not be very well balanced and might need a bit of house ruling.

The compilation is great! I have a few of the old Citadel Journals with added stuff on Necromunda, including one of my favorite (but scary) outlaw gangs... the genestealer cult. If anyone is interested I can try to get it scanned in.

Chaos Cults.

Genestealer Cults

Hunt the Genestealer

Spider Hunt.

There are a few other ones out there, but this book right now is fanatitastic.

I have a few of the old necromunda mags and the old compilation, as well. Let me dig in and see if theres other stuff to recommend.

As a side question, Does anyone know if the old shool 1st edition Necro. special edition bounty hunter sniper with the great... assetts is out there to be found? I've been looking for her for years and I'm starting to even wonder if she was just someones good idea fairy.

 Grot 6 wrote:
Chaos Cults.

Genestealer Cults

Hunt the Genestealer

Spider Hunt.

There are a few other ones out there, but this book right now is fanatitastic.

I have a few of the old necromunda mags and the old compilation, as well. Let me dig in and see if theres other stuff to recommend.

As a side question, Does anyone know if the old shool 1st edition Necro. special edition bounty hunter sniper with the great... assetts is out there to be found? I've been looking for her for years and I'm starting to even wonder if she was just someones good idea fairy.

Thanks guys - all those 1st Edition / Journal articles will be in the next one - Compilation I - which is all the rules from the 1st Edition-era

Ian I think I love you!

I have, at the last count 80 separate .pdf files related to Necromunda, and even though I've sorted them into different folders it's still a pain in the arse sometimes when trying to find a specific one...

You've made life so much easier!

UPDATED!

Necromunda: Compilation I

V1 online again, and available to download at http://www.arbitorian.com/Necromunda_Compilation_I_v1.pdf (40Mb). This is a compilation of all the ORB and boxed-set era Journal, Gang War and early Necromunda Magazine rules.

Absolutely amazing work and as someone with no Necromunda experience one of the bars to entry seems to be the sheer amount of separate rules all over the place.

I've seen you suggest the possibility of a compilation for NCE compatible rules? Are you working on anything like that? I've also seen people on yakromunda discussing something similar but I not really sure.

I'm looking try to have a Necromunda game or two over summer and I'm trying to work out which rules to start with and I was more drawn to the NCE just because I've read they are a bit more refined than the LRB, but have access to codified add-ons might tilt me towards the LRB.
What would you suggest?

 King Pyrrhus wrote:
Absolutely amazing work and as someone with no Necromunda experience one of the bars to entry seems to be the sheer amount of separate rules all over the place.

I've seen you suggest the possibility of a compilation for NCE compatible rules? Are you working on anything like that? I've also seen people on yakromunda discussing something similar but I not really sure.

I'm looking try to have a Necromunda game or two over summer and I'm trying to work out which rules to start with and I was more drawn to the NCE just because I've read they are a bit more refined than the LRB, but have access to codified add-ons might tilt me towards the LRB.
What would you suggest?

Hi there.. Yes, the NCE is definitely the most advanced and 'corrected' rules set. However, a compilation for NCE is impossible at the moment as there simply aren't enough NCE-edition rules. There are a few variant outlander lists flying around but mostly people use house rules. Most of the stuff in Compilation II is pretty much compatible with NCE and only requires a little bit of house ruling.

Anthony Case, who moderates the NCE, is currently planning an NCE-edition of Outlanders, which should include NCE-approved versions of everything that was in the original Outlanders book, but he's not going to update all the stuff in these Compilations to NCE.

Currently, if you want to play NCE, use Compilation II here and either house rule anything that comes up, or find alternative NCE fan-lists floating around the web (particularly for Scavvies and Redemption)...

Thank you for the clear answer, do you know when the NCE version of Outlands is likely to be finished?

I plan to read through both your compilations to get a feel for all the rules, thanks for putting them together.

Thanks again Ian!!
Our local group is gearing up for some more battles in the underhive!!

Looks awesome! Always wanted to run my Spyrer hunting cadre down to terrorize the local riff-raff.

This is awesome!

I do love me some necro as a break from 40K (munda not philia by the way!) and this is a great resource for the community at large. Shame GW don't support games like Necromunda and Blood Bowl any more.

Nice work guys.

I hope you don't mind the slight necro.

Firstly, I'm finding this immensely useful, thanks for putting them together!

Just wondering, the Squat Miner Gang rules has page 71 missing, it has been replaced with a duplicate of 69. Is this a mistake in the original article or can I track the page down somewhere?

Also, I just found this and I don't recognise all of these articles are they all in your compilations or are some not?

Thanks!

 Casey's Law wrote:
I hope you don't mind the slight necro.

Firstly, I'm finding this immensely useful, thanks for putting them together!

Just wondering, the Squat Miner Gang rules has page 71 missing, it has been replaced with a duplicate of 69. Is this a mistake in the original article or can I track the page down somewhere?

Also, I just found this and I don't recognise all of these articles are they all in your compilations or are some not?

Thanks!

Ah - well spotted - I'll correct that in the next version.

Most, but not all, of those Yakromunda articles are in the two compilations. There are a few of the Christmas missions missing, and I haven't included the 'Battles in the Ash Wastes' stuff for Second Edition (the Ash Wastes rules for first edition are in Compilation I).


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Oh, and please keep necroing! - there's nothing wrong with adding more mistakes as they're noticed, so I can keep updating the files...

Thanks for the reply!

That's awesome, I'll keep an eye out for an update. I'd love to see you do a compilation of the ash waste stuff you mentioned in this thread btw and any other material come to think of it. These two compilations are astounding, I'd genuinely pay money for them as hard copies if it weren't for copyright issues.

The great thing about necroing this thread is that it means more people see it too!