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Another update on the game - this time from Episode 93 of the Grim Dark podcast.

Pertinent information:
- W&G will have a Free RPG Day offering (June 16th)
Ulisses will demo the game at Origins 2018 (June 13-17)
- The dice pool system scales better than the old percentile system
- Corruption & Insanity has been integrated into the mechanics and will be subtle
- Basic guideline for new players - 4+ is good; 6 is best
- Characters are well balanced against each other - you can play almost anything in the 40K background
- 4 species and 32 character archetypes in the core book, and many more on the way
- Corsair, Warlock, and Ranger art has been released - and one would guess these are archetypes
- You can play any of the old FFG themes with the new system from Gritty to Deathwatch
- PCs can move through Tiers as they progress - new Keyword, more Influence, special gear, and life event that put him there
- The Tier System
- - - Balances characters
- - - Provides appropriate threats
- - - Limits dice pools - higher Tiers throw more dice
- There will be "quickstart packages" that allow you to play quickly if you prefer to start right away, or you can do everything yourself
- Investigation system is in book
- Influence system for asserting authority and acquiring gear is in the book
- Wargear detail in core book is at "Boltgun" level as opposed to "XX Pattern Boltgun"
- No tracking each bullet, just generalized reloads
- Imperial psykers, Rogue psykers, Eldar Warlocks are in game
- "Perils of the Warp" make psychic powers potentially dangerous
- NPCs operate on somewhat different, but very similar, rules
- There are Mobs as NPCs - a group of mooks - that makes mass opponents easier to run
- Imperium Nihilus (Dark Imperium) and Imperium Sanctis are the two sides of the Great Rift
- Operating in the new background means the universe is much more threatening
- W&G will have its own area of space, the Gilead System, which will have its own campaign
- Further campaigns will have their own areas of space, but may start/link to Gilead
- The meta-plot will not overshadow PC actions - connected, but PCs choice will be most important aspect
- Ulisses is coordinating closely with GW on background and events as GW advances the meta
- Ulisses will introduce new things particular to their sandbox as well as those established by GW
- Ross will be at Origins & GenCon, as well as a few local cons
- Imperium Nihilus sourcebook will be in 2018

Many thanks for the transcription, some good stuff in there!

 BrookM wrote:

 An Actual Englishman wrote:
That ranger's face is fethed up... The eyes are all over the place.

Maybe the artist is paying homage to Nihei Tsutomu?

Spoiler:

Hehehe. I see some similarities. 2 to be precise.

Thanks Schoon, that's interesting.

Sounds like there will be a good bit of background provided with the game which is exciting.

- No tracking each bullet, just generalized reloads

YES!

- Imperial psykers, Rogue psykers, Eldar Warlocks are in game

DOUBLE YES!!

 schoon wrote:

- Wargear detail in core book is at "Boltgun" level as opposed to "XX Pattern Boltgun"

Really? So far the comic has the lasgun described as a Kantrael Pattern Lasgun. Perhaps its to help differentiate it further from the hotshot/longlas weapons, but I doubt it. Or perhaps its just in the name.

 Bobthehero wrote:

 schoon wrote:

- Wargear detail in core book is at "Boltgun" level as opposed to "XX Pattern Boltgun"

Really? So far the comic has the lasgun described as a Kantrael Pattern Lasgun. Perhaps its to help differentiate it further from the hotshot/longlas weapons, but I doubt it. Or perhaps its just in the name.

Might just be flavour text with no actual in game effect. So if you want your character to have a particular pattern of boltgun/lasgun/whatever as part of their characterisation (maybe they use an antique pattern of lasgun which is no longer produced as the forge world which made it was lost), you can do.

Ross Watson is on a PR tear...

This interview with the d6 Generation podcast.

Pertinent new or reinforced info:
- Tier 3 is the default power level (Space Marines, Eldar Warlock, Ork Nob or Wierdboy)
- You can - of course - play any Tier you want
- Character Archetypes help with character creation, but are loose guides as opposed to strict "classes"
- Orks, Eldar, and Humans will be 3 of the 4 species
- Archetypes include Scavvy for mutant characters
- Imperium Nihilus book (in 2018) will have more races and archetypes, including Dark Mechanicus
- The Wrath Die allows for Crits (6) and Complications (1)
- Wrath is aplayer resource; Glory is a group resource
- Wrath & Glory (the resources, not the game title) can be used for extra dice, re-rolls, narrative declarations, and more
- Campaign Cards are like 40K-driven special events that change the feel of the scene and give all PCs a Wrath point
- Dark Tides will be an initial adventure anthology based on an ocean world
- The Beginners Box will have special dice, an adventure, and the CRB
- Doom of the Eldar, the 2nd campaign book will have Eldar archetypes, Craftworld Eldar, Exodites, the Black Library, etc.[/list]

That all sounds good to me. I'm particularly liking the way they seem to be breaking out a bit from beyond the areas developed by the earlier roleplaying and wargames.

Of course the 40K setting has water worlds, but I don't think we've seen much action on any of them in published stuff. Similarly, Exodites are established but have not been developed more.

... in fact, if we're going to see Exodites for the rpg, might that imply that they're on the table for the wargame once the established factions all have their codices?

I'm just glad that everything appears to be unified/in the same setting/using the same rules right from the start.

This looks to be a lot of fun, and should make for some great games.

Now if I only had an RPG group that also cared about playing in a 40K setting too!

From Facebook:



Artist: Bryan Syme

Oh thats cool

"ma'am please watch out around all the candles, the paper and you are easily flammable"

Everything's better with cherubs.

Is that a female priest? Wheren't priest all male? (I'm asking here, not because I'm opposed to the idea of female priest, quite the contrary, I love it)

 Galas wrote:
Is that a female priest? Wheren't priest all male? (I'm asking here, not because I'm opposed to the idea of female priest, quite the contrary, I love it)

AFAIK only Marines (and stuff like it i.e. Custodes) and Sisters of Battle/Silence are one-gender only. Everything else in the Imperium gets people from any gender

 Vector Strike wrote:
AFAIK only Marines (and stuff like it i.e. Custodes) and Sisters of Battle/Silence are one-gender only. Everything else in the Imperium gets people from any gender

Yes, that...from the beginning. It's why GW publicly stated last year they were going to try to rebalance the gender inequality going forward with minis. Hence Van Saar gang.

 Galas wrote:
Is that a female priest? Wheren't priest all male? (I'm asking here, not because I'm opposed to the idea of female priest, quite the contrary, I love it)

In the Commissar Cain novels, there is a female tech priest who ultimately becomes a Magos in one of the later books. As for decidedly feminine features in art or on a model, we're talking about a cult where they lop off almost everything organic so there isn't really anything stopping the generic non-humaniod priests/magos' from being female. There's even a term for high ranking female tech priests, Magos Domina.

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Magos_Dominus

Sorry warboss I was talking about a normal priest of the Imperial Cult, not a adeptus mechanicus priest, I know those can be female!

 Galas wrote:
Sorry warboss I was talking about a normal priest of the Imperial Cult, not a adeptus mechanicus priest, I know those can be female!

My mistake. I looked at the pic on my phone and saw a red robed priest and incorrectly assumed the pic (and your subsequent question) was referring to a mechanicus priest.

What’s interesting to me is that doesn’t look anything like any official GW model that I am aware of. The past few years, all GW art and most third party licensed stuff I’ve seen has had to very closely follow official products. Hint of something new?

No. All the previous RPG books had plenty of art not based on miniatures. Dark Heresy is full of unique aliens, chaos entities and Imperial agents such as Adeptus Arbites. Even Deathwatch made up things like Deathwatch chaplains, techmarines, etc.

It’s kinda weird; she’s in red like a cogboy but has no obvious cybernetics, she has a staff like a sanctioned witch but no obvious Warp-halo, and she’s covered in sacred text like some kinda daemonhost but is clearly wandering free… I really want to know what she’s supposed to be.

 Mr_Rose wrote:
It’s kinda weird; she’s in red like a cogboy but has no obvious cybernetics, she has a staff like a sanctioned witch but no obvious Warp-halo, and she’s covered in sacred text like some kinda daemonhost but is clearly wandering free… I really want to know what she’s supposed to be.

She looks like a priest to me. I mean, she doesn't even have a staff, it's the assistant that's carrying it like a banner and the whole thing covered in sacred text... uh, even space marines are covered with that, I think that should be pretty standard in 40k.

Chairman Aeon wrote:
It's why GW publicly stated last year they were going to try to rebalance the gender inequality going forward with minis. Hence Van Saar gang.

A single model?

Balance achieved!

*snicker*

And this isn't GW. The 40K RPG's have always shown off women in every single Imperial role (except the Space Marines, for obvious reasons).

 AndrewGPaul wrote:
No. All the previous RPG books had plenty of art not based on miniatures. Dark Heresy is full of unique aliens, chaos entities and Imperial agents such as Adeptus Arbites. Even Deathwatch made up things like Deathwatch chaplains, techmarines, etc.

Yes, but that’s before the recent embargo. All of the codices used to have cool artwork of non-model stuff too, but no longer.

Again, that's GW. FFG (and now Ulisses) will use their own people/freelancers for art.

From Facebook:

John Stephenson at Imagine Better Worlds has posted a sneak peek at maps that he has been working on for Wrath & Glory. These are part of the Starter Set.

What do you suppose is going on here?

And here's what the creator has to say on this all:

Ork Workshop for Ulisses US -
Warhammer 40k Wrath & Glory starter set

I recently completed several maps for Ulisses. They were for Warhammer 40k, which was a very cool thing to work on, as I used to draw wh40k stuff back when I was a teenager. I always wanted a subscription to White Dwarf.

Now, these are not for Games Workshop, but they did have to be approved by them, which was cool in its own right, as I never thought, back when i was that teenager, that I’d be doing anything for Warhammer. Big long circles - that’s what life is. What a wonderful journey.

I’ll have some more crops from the other maps over the next few weeks. The full maps will have to wait till after it is published, and I’m not yet sure what the date is. You can follow the progress of Wrath & Glory over at their website and maybe sign up for the newsletter.
http://www.ulisses-us.com/games/warhammer-40000-roleplay/

For those unfamiliar, that grid is 2 meters x 2 meters, not the standard DnD 5 foot square.

 Mr_Rose wrote:
It’s kinda weird; she’s in red like a cogboy but has no obvious cybernetics, she has a staff like a sanctioned witch but no obvious Warp-halo, and she’s covered in sacred text like some kinda daemonhost but is clearly wandering free… I really want to know what she’s supposed to be.

If you look at some of the non-Battle Sisters ministorum models, you can see she follows that line of design. In fact, go and look up the 3rd edition Codex: Witch Hunters - you'll see something very similar on the cover there. Lots of models are red - because it's a colour that the eye is drawn to - not just Mechanicus (as it happens, originally the colour for Mechanicus adepts was [I]white], which FW's Horus Heresy books hint at).

Wow! A map set for the starter box.

That's a very different style than I would have expected. Nice, but different.

...and 2m squares. I suppose that's more or less equivalent to 5 ft squares.

I hope they keep the same design aesthetic for future maps.