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Is it possible to have a KotOR setting, where an imperial agent solve problems in a calm way with primarily intellect and wisdom, instead of the usual ..you look funny therefore you must die!!

HexHammer wrote:
Is it possible to have a KotOR setting, where an imperial agent solve problems in a calm way with primarily intellect and wisdom, instead of the usual ..you look funny therefore you must die!!

it's called an Inqusitor.

BrianDavion wrote:
it's called an Inqusitor.

But doesn't inquisitors have a very pragmatic way of solving problems? ...either you are with the empire or against the empire ...KABLAM!!!!!!!!!!!!! No talking about it and hug like the jedi do!

40k is not a reasonable setting. Expecting there to be reasonable people doing reasonable things is just silly. It's not what 40k is for.

HexHammer wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:
it's called an Inqusitor.

But doesn't inquisitors have a very pragmatic way of solving problems? ...either you are with the empire or against the empire ...KABLAM!!!!!!!!!!!!! No talking about it and hug like the jedi do!

that's not pragmatic. pragmatic would be using intellect and smarts to detirmine someone is a small fish and not worth worrying about because they're more useful being used as ways to trace down the real problem. Now are some people absolutely bad whom need to be Blammed? sure, but with that in mind Jedi aren't exactly using stun batons.

But yeah if you wanted to make a KOTOR type RPG in 40k, you'd almost need to base it around an inqusitor (ohh instead of light side and dark side points you could have puritian and radical points!)

Didn't dark heresy have something along the line of corruption points?

HexHammer wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:
it's called an Inqusitor.

But doesn't inquisitors have a very pragmatic way of solving problems? ...either you are with the empire or against the empire ...KABLAM!!!!!!!!!!!!! No talking about it and hug like the jedi do!

That's the opposite of pragmatic. That's dogmatic. That's what Commissars do. Inquisitors are the ones that operate most like Jedi. Or Sith.....

There are loads of books/novels in the 40K universe which are far more "normal" than the casual perception of 40k.

 Lance845 wrote:
40k is not a reasonable setting. Expecting there to be reasonable people doing reasonable things is just silly. It's not what 40k is for.

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BrianDavion wrote:
that's not pragmatic. pragmatic would be using intellect and smarts to detirmine someone is a small fish and not worth worrying about because they're more useful being used as ways to trace down the real problem. Now are some people absolutely bad whom need to be Blammed? sure, but with that in mind Jedi aren't exactly using stun batons.

But yeah if you wanted to make a KOTOR type RPG in 40k, you'd almost need to base it around an inqusitor (ohh instead of light side and dark side points you could have puritian and radical points!)

Jedi have to have "cutting edge" weaponry, since they will mingle with the worst scum of the universe and you can't always be nice to such types, where only brute force will help the situation.

I don't really like the idea of such opposite point system, it doesn't work in situations where you have to have multiple roles, both diplomatic and military on a large scale, where you are forced to solve multiple problems in order to progress.
Somehow 2 independants systems like reputation, are you a un/reasonable person.
Then the other system with standing towards a faction, bad, good, liked, exalted etc.

Inquisitors have a diverse range of philosophies and moralities, such that there is often conflict between Inquisitors with diametrically opposed views. I suggest reading the old Inquisitor RPG rulebook.

To answer your question, yes, you can have a Jedi-like Inquisitor.

ryuken87 wrote:
I suggest reading the old Inquisitor RPG rulebook.

To answer your question, yes, you can have a Jedi-like Inquisitor.

Problem is that I only play the PC games of 40k, don't really read much of the lore other than what scarese stuff there is on Lexicanum and wiki, but thanks for direction.

 Lance845 wrote:
40k is not a reasonable setting. Expecting there to be reasonable people doing reasonable things is just silly. It's not what 40k is for.

Even in a world full of reasonable people, there will be a group of unreasonable people. Conversely, there will be reasonable people in the 40K universe. The problem is they are either naive and get killed easily, or become very pragmatic over time.

From there, one has to review what is actually reasonable:
It is reasonable to kill every Ork as soon as possible, unless you are one, then you fight until you're the biggest.
It is reasonable to assume every Eldar is out their to screw you, either politically or spiritually.
It is reasonable to assume to assume that every offer from Chaos will carry benefits, but for whom...
It is reasonable to assume that Tyranids will eat you and Necrons will either kill you or enslave you.
It is reasonable to assume that the Tau will try to convert you, and then enslave you.
It is reasonable to assume that the Dark Angels are hiding something important.
It is reasonable to assume that the Black Templars are fanatics, even more than most Marines.
It is reasonable to assume that you will not remember... who where they again?
It is reasonable to assume that someone in the Inquisition will be out to get you, sooner or later.
It is reasonable to assume that the Mechanicus will either try to convert you to the service of the Machine God or in to a Servitor.

So, "reasonable" can be very open to interpretation depending on your perspective and level of expectations. What is reasonable for the 40K universe is not so reasonable in another galaxy a long time ago that is far far away.

ryuken87 wrote:
Inquisitors have a diverse range of philosophies and moralities, such that there is often conflict between Inquisitors with diametrically opposed views. I suggest reading the old Inquisitor RPG rulebook.

To answer your question, yes, you can have a Jedi-like Inquisitor.

Yes, and his name is Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau.