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Hey there! Here is about half of the trailer I'm working on for my Dark Heresy campaign.
Made with powerpoint, music by Lorde.

I want to know if there is an actual set of the emperor’s Tarot cards or a list of the actual cards. I want to use them for a divination using psyker.

I'm pretty new to RPGs and I want an advice. My first thought is to play as a separate from others one-man-party in a game, or to play an NPC or a semi-gamemaster of a sort.

Hi, I'm really struggling to come up with an interesting premise for a game of this type. Hope you can help me

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Hey everyone,

I'm currently running Dark Heresy 1E. We've finished House of Dust and Ash, and I plan to run the full Haarlock's Legacy trilogy along with a few other adventures before that.

The group currently sits at around 6,500 XP.

My question is: How do you challenge individual Acolytes with appropriate enemies without simply killing them?

At the moment, a Chaos Space Marine is still off the table (though I plan to use some later during Book 3 on Mara).

The party

🔮 Telepath Psyker

Uses Psychic Shriek constantly.

How would you handle that?

- High Willpower opponents?

- Keep enemies outside 10m?

- Psyker duels?

- Something else?

⚔️ Ecclesiarchy combat monster

- Armour 6

- Tons of rerolls

- Very hard to put down

🤖 Lathe Worlds Skitarii

- Venator swords

- 3 attacks

- Armour 8

⚙️ Tech-Priest

- Shield generator

- Very resilient

🪖 Guardsman

- Decent in melee

- Decent at range

- Lots of armour

My first thought was simply using more armour penetration and bolters, but I can't realistically give every hive ganger a boltgun.

Any other ideas?

The two tech characters are effectively immune to most Fear and many psychic tricks because of their machine traits, which makes encounter design even trickier.

Has anyone run into a similar situation and found good solutions?

Best regards,

Currently travelling from Solomon to the Lathe Worlds,

Frosty

Hi everyone, if this breaks any rule sorry but I’m new the the 40k setting and was hoping for some direction on which system would be good to start with. I run VTT on foundry and DM DND5E but have ran and played a few other non dnd systems. My favorite species are the ORKS and also love the salamanders from the imperium if that helps at all.

So I'm about to run a 40k Rogue trader game for my friends, and I'm stuck on what to pick as a "main" enemy and plot line. I've got two I'm picking between, both are heretics! The first goes fully against lore lol.

A new god being born that the team will be helping to stop, the child of slanessh and khorne (via slanessh somehow enticing khorne and them hate f*cking) which I am simply calling them "the red giant".

The second is a group of non chaos heretics who are sick and tired of the imperium and want to replace them, haven't thought much else on it but it is enticing

I would like some help on deciding, and just if anyone wants to know, or if it will help at all, we got an rogue trader, a navigator, a explorator, a void-master NPC which I will control, and....an ork

Is it feasible to find a group at a game shop to hop in with? I'm interested in trying one, and that's probably the most realistic way I could since I don't have my own group that'd be down.

What changes would you make to the base abhuman strains stats to show influence from different home-worlds?

For example Only War, Shield of Humanity says "Adeptus Administratum classifies seven distinct types of Ogryn"

So maybe an Ogryn from a Highborn house has better Fellowship to reflect being the assigned companion/bodyguard of a noble scion?

In exchange for less Toughness from living as essentially a pampered pet.

(Now I'm imagining Ogryn being gene modified by nobles to fit social trends, like mini Ogryn breed that's about 7ft tall or 2-2.2m)

So I'm running around with no helm as every Astartes should do, and wondering if anyone has any damage/weapon stats for the acid spot from the aforementioned gland?

Cheers