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Alrighty then I'm going to be starting an RP soon but just wanted to see how many people would be willing to join first, here are some basics of the RP.

There are three major factions and each faction has its own flavor and their own offshoots. The three factions are normal guardsmen, mutated guardsmen, and Chaos forces.

The basic gist of the story is that some chaos marines overran a fortress on an agri-world, a regiment of guardsmen(with some accompanying companies) was sent to retake the fortress. They were there for over 5 months and in that time the Chaos taint began to cause small mutations in the guardsmen to the point that the commissars gave up on exectuing men, in fact the commander decided they could better serve by killing the enemy and not themselves. Another regiment with supporting companies arrived so the already present regiment had to mask their mutations. The RP would start with the entrance of the IG reinforcements.

Character choices are slightly limited; no commanders, no chaos lords, no people in charge of more than 10 men. Roles allowed are troops, specialists, CSM, commissars, stormtroopers, tank commanders, etc. Ask about other roles in this thread and I'll answer your question.

Now this means that players can be on opposing sides, I will do my best to prevent players on opposing sides from meeting up but will utilize a wound system for the times players may fight each other.

Each player will have the stats of a terminator with three wounds and a storm bolter. Only one wound can be lost at a time, with the first person wounded losing in the RP. Now the wounds are not actual RP wounds, but strikes against a player for my use only. Once a player loses all three wounds I will RP their death if the player doesn't want to. If a player character dies they can PM me if they want to create a new character.

All arguments must be brought to my attention and my attention only, I will not allow fighting in the RP. If a solution cannot be made and the argument spills over into the RP I will look for the instigator and remove one wound from their character, if the character only has one wound left at the time, the character will die. This is strict, but I'm trying to make the RP enjoyable for everybody.

As for events I will post an event usually every 3-4 weeks depending on the status of the RP. If the players are doing just fine and having fun I will postpone the event, if an event is needed urgently I will post an event. Events will be announced on Mondays and the players will PM me what they want to do in the event, on Friday I will read the PMs, on Saturday I will begin writing the RP and check for any additional PMs(if a player doesn't respond I will do my best to match the event response to what they would typically do in the RP, if the player is unsatisfied with the results, the player SHOULD PM me to see if I can fix it), and on Sunday the RP will be finalized as canon.

So note that I will post a rough draft on Saturday and then I will check to see if people object to it on Sunday, I will make any necessary changes and then affix a '*FINAL* to it.

As a closing statement you may have noticed that I said "PM me" several times, I encourage the players to criticize my events and the way I run things. This is actually a practice run for a Dark Heresy game I plan to GM in the near summer and I am trying to work on my GM/DM skills.

Not much to go on.. but I haven't done any proper 40k roleplay in quite a long time.

But every player having the stats of a Terminator? Rubbish dude, absolute rubbish. Especially if you're saying people can be 10,000 year-old Chaos Space Marines and Conscripts..

You definitely want to change what's going on there.. just write down any injuries for future reference.

me me me me me!!!!!!!!

Stormtrooper sgt. from the reinforcing companys, will post up more detail if I sense more interest

I like this idea.

I'll be a regular Guardsmen Sergeant with a powe(ered) one-handed flail and hot-shot laspistol from the regiment that was already there.

He may have...mutations that I will elaborate on if this takes off.

Hey Karon, will they be " Emotionless psycho ninja" mutations?!


I find it interesting how Halonachos has started up an rp thread..

Me me! I'm in an rp spirit again!

Darkvoidof40k wrote:Not much to go on.. but I haven't done any proper 40k roleplay in quite a long time.

But every player having the stats of a Terminator? Rubbish dude, absolute rubbish. Especially if you're saying people can be 10,000 year-old Chaos Space Marines and Conscripts..

You definitely want to change what's going on there.. just write down any injuries for future reference.

I'm not going to punish a player for choosing what they want to play as, the termi stat is just for my reference and my own results. If a conscript and a CSM go against each other and the CSM loses a wound I'll rationalize why the CSM would want to leave combat(out of ammo, conscript reinforcements are overwhelming his position, conscript was lucky and hid behind something). If you want to RP a wound on your character I'll let you RP a wound on your character, but I refuse to stifle a person's choice of character with an unfair system.

I don't want to seem rude in my response to your critique, but I found that the termi system would be the best way to have players on equal grounds, to help prevent opposing force players from interacting without actively forcing them to, and to punish players if need be(hopefully I won't have to).

I have the meat and potatos of the RP written up so I'll post a part of that as well.

I'll be keeping an eye on what you come up with Nachos...sounds interesting.

The sun burned a bright orange as it crested the horizon, concrete bunkers lost their gray color in favor of the sun's own. Shadows in the shape of pillars lengthened from the barrels of Basilisk batteries and the assortment of armored vehicles sitting in wait of orders. In the distance scheduled barrages woke the guardsmen waiting for their shift of duty. The shells fell short, they always fell short, the forces of Chaos just loved to tease the guardsmen with the very thing they were sent to retake for the Imperium.

The planet of Netat was an agri-world located in Segmentum Obscurus, it was used to Chaos raids and as such they had built a large fortress on the largest plateu the planet could offer. Solid walls rose from the now blackened rocks and bastions holding stationary cannons belched their payloads near the Imperial Guard encampment. It was a sad state of affairs for the planet and the now skeletal trophies that hung from the walls danced with the wind to mock the guardsmen who could only watch on as the bright yellow and red plumes of the explosions were swallowed by the rich dark brown of the ground it had just wounded.

The 'Tall Tower', as they had called it, was the PDF's bastion to hold off any raiders who would occasionally raid the planet for plunder and slaves. A year ago a massive Chaos force was reported in a nearby valley, the majority of the PDF forces moved out to engage them and quickly set up a position at the valley's mouth. When the force began to barrage the archenemy with their artillery they failed to realize that they had only killed slaves who had been tied to the ground. Before the PDF commander could realise who they were attacking, the Chaos Sorceror Kelthad used the freshly spilt blood to summon an act of the Chaos gods. Boiling blood and tissue poured from behind the PDF and washed them into the valley, their bodies and vehicles were smashed against the rocks and any PDF unfortunate enough not to be killed by the crushing force of the tide of blood and ichor drowned as their skin began to peel from their bodies.

Garbled reports and screams filtered to the Tall Towers as Chaos terminators and assault marines under the 'Skullscreamers' legion charged through the halls crushing the PDF and civilians who remained in the fortress. They successfully took the bastion within ten minutes and those who did not convert to their side were lined up along the edge of the walls. At the call of Kelthad they were simultaneously pushed off the edge, the nooses around their necks snapped their spines as they hung. Local birds didn't bother with the fresh corpses, it was if they could sense that something was awry with them.



This is something I made in about 15 minutes and posted in a different thread, there is more but I don't want to post it all here and have nothing new to post in the actual RP thread.

Nacho, you got a character sheet setup for this?

Will be keeping an eye on it once it is started.

I'll probably stick with a typical character sheet;

Name:
Background:
Weapons:
Appearance:
yadda, yadda, yadda, but for fun I'll ask what hobby their character has, that'll spice the old boring character sheet up!

I suggest you start an actual thread and see where it goes from there.

I don't want to start it just yet because there are some threads that need to die first. Screw it I'll post the full thing up along with full rules and character sheet outline sometime this week and I look forward to having some people from the zombie RP up here because I know what to expect from them.

Looking forward to it.

Might well be the change of pace I have been looking for.

ghosty wrote:Hey Karon, will they be " Emotionless psycho ninja" mutations?!


I find it interesting how Halonachos has started up an rp thread..

Me me! I'm in an rp spirit again!

Far from it, my friend. He'll take inspiration from my WHFB army, to give you a hint.

CHAAAAAAOOOOSSSSSSSS!!!!!!

Skullscreamer Biker?? with power weapon and icon of slaanesh

I'm interested. But you're going to have to explain exactly what it is we do here (when not utilizing the wound sytem against opposing players).

I'd also suggest that CSM shouldn't really be in charge of 10 other CSM, either acting independantly or leading one or two others. Are mutated IG auto-Evil?

Karon wrote:

ghosty wrote:Hey Karon, will they be " Emotionless psycho ninja" mutations?!


I find it interesting how Halonachos has started up an rp thread..

Me me! I'm in an rp spirit again!

Far from it, my friend. He'll take inspiration from my WHFB army, to give you a hint.

OH GOD!!

a slaneshi beastman

Nooooooo!

@Halonachos - I'm merely pointing out that allowing an IG and a CSM to have basically equal chances with whatever you cook up is pure silliness. If they choose to roleplay as a guardsmen, well then they must accept the strengths and weaknesses of that role.

FM Ninja 048 wrote:

Karon wrote:

ghosty wrote:Hey Karon, will they be " Emotionless psycho ninja" mutations?!


I find it interesting how Halonachos has started up an rp thread..

Me me! I'm in an rp spirit again!

Far from it, my friend. He'll take inspiration from my WHFB army, to give you a hint.

OH GOD!!

a slaneshi beastman

Nooooooo!

Oh I am sure there is a 40k anime somewhere that he can rip off and make a character from. Failing that he might just RP Xzibit and scream YO DAWG at people while getting high.

**Edited Pic Out**

Darkvoidof40k wrote:@Halonachos - I'm merely pointing out that allowing an IG and a CSM to have basically equal chances with whatever you cook up is pure silliness. If they choose to roleplay as a guardsmen, well then they must accept the strengths and weaknesses of that role.

You can call it silliness, I'll call it creative genius. Also do know that guardsmen can have hot-shot lasguns that are AP3 and that Dan Abnett was able to write about a group of savages and a small squad of guardsmen taking some CSm down? Yep, Dan Abnett said that a group of savages can take down CSM, the savages had crossbows by the way.

There's also some books by another guy, his last name is Zhou, that are really fantastic sources of info for a 40k RP. He has one called Emperor's Mercy IIRC and another called Flesh and iron. Both detail invasions by CSM and the IG that fight them, Emperor's Mercy reminds me of the Gulf War and the other is a lot like Vietnam, hell he calls the guys Riverines and the indigenous people are split into two factions, pro-empire and anti-empire.

As far as a guardsman that mutated to look like Xzibit, I'll actually accept that;

I for one like our new overlord's GM's Idea, lets me play a stormtrooper and not just get walked over

not 40k, but best yo dawg yet

Actually I'll make an exception in your case... just kidding. I really don't want some of the things from the zombie RP to spillover into this one, like the fighting.

Anyways the rest of the RP info should be up tonight, I'm at school right now and only Macs are available. Macs are annoying as hell to use...

I may be interested in joining halo...

It was fine for making KoTH more interesting... but let's see how well it will work out as its own thing...

Interesting. Consider me 'interested', and I'll join up.

I was being serious though, slaneshi beastmen[shudders at thought], just look at his sig

FM Ninja 048 wrote:I was being serious though, slaneshi beastmen[shudders at thought], just look at his sig

Sorry Ninja...I wasn't really directing my comment at you.
...And yes Slaneshi Beastmen would be...less than nice to have to face.

Would they be well endowed in like, all departments?

they might have uders instead of boobs, beastmen are the traditional half goat devil made WHF

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