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If I ran a 40K campaign...

Started by jrients, October 03, 2006, 11:56:40 AM

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jrients

October 03, 2006, 11:56:40 AM
All the PCs would be conscripted into the Imperial army and sent to a jungle hellworld to fight a pointless war against an invisible, alien foe.  Also, each PC would have a secret mutant or psionic power and/or illegal affiliation.  The focus of the game would be on merely surviving the soulcrushing machine that is life in the year forty thousand while doing your damnedest to avoid being outed as one of the enemy.  Meanwhile, the asshole leftenant is poised to shoot you in cold blood should you show the least hesitation in carrying out your latest pointless and near-suicidal mission.

In other words, Paranoia 40K on Planet Vietnam.
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Sojourner Judas

#1
October 03, 2006, 02:38:25 PM
Sounds like the Imperial Guard Last Chancers, one of my favorite bits of IG fluff.
 

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#2
October 03, 2006, 02:49:59 PM
Well um... why not just play paranoia, then?

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jrients

#3
October 03, 2006, 02:58:35 PM
Quote from: RPGPunditWell um... why not just play paranoia, then?

Mechanics-wise, I might run such a game using Paranoia XP.  But I want the 40K setting.  I want the players running in terror from genestealers and tyranids.  I want them to tremble in fear at the prospect that their next assignment involves working closely with marines.  Those guys are unstoppable killing machines!
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Sojourner Judas

#4
October 03, 2006, 03:20:06 PM
Setting-wise, Lictors are sheer terror in a jungle setting, especially the Death Leaper variant species.
 

fonkaygarry

#5
October 03, 2006, 04:21:45 PM
I'd run an Assassin game.  The PCs would be crazy-tough assassins and I'd throw everything I had at them just to see if they could still pull off the mission.

Later, though, I'd want to run a Space Wolves game so I could work out all those preteen power fantasies I had back when I first got into 40K.  Chaos demons, impossible planetary assaults, Traitor Legions and Tyranid Hive Fleets, all the good stuff.

If there was a corner of the Imperium in which they hadn't killed SOMETHING by campaign's end, I'd be shattered.
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Lawbag

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October 03, 2006, 04:39:57 PM
mixed in with Rogue Trooper
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#7
October 03, 2006, 04:40:44 PM
Quote from: Lawbagmixed in with Rogue Trooper

You mean Rogue Trader, or is that a sourcebook?
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Sojourner Judas

#8
October 03, 2006, 04:56:41 PM
Quote from: fonkaygarryI'd run an Assassin game.  The PCs would be crazy-tough assassins and I'd throw everything I had at them just to see if they could still pull off the mission.
Ecclesiarchy assassins, or the more unorthodox/crazy death cult assassins?

The various Officio Assassinorum temples are really interesting, especially if you had a team with one of each.
 

Roger

#9
October 03, 2006, 05:01:04 PM
Quote from: jrients...a pointless war against an invisible, alien foe.

That's one way to keep your miniatures costs down.



Cheers,
Roger
 

fonkaygarry

#10
October 03, 2006, 05:14:56 PM
Quote from: Sojourner JudasEcclesiarchy assassins, or the more unorthodox/crazy death cult assassins?

The various Officio Assassinorum temples are really interesting, especially if you had a team with one of each.


I was thinking of using the Ecclesiarchy's boys and girls.  I always liked the RT-era generic assassins more than the Temple assassins that came later (even though the temple archetypes are more interesting.)  I fell in love with them when I read the organizational chart of the Assassinorum (Emperor -> Chief Assassin -> Assassins.)
teamchimp: I'm doing problem sets concerning inbreeding and effective population size.....I absolutely know this will get me the hot bitches.

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mattormeg

#11
October 03, 2006, 08:04:59 PM
JRIENTS -
Read "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman, if you haven't already.

David R

#12
October 03, 2006, 11:49:00 PM
I'm thinking of running a 40K campaign set in a backwater (and difficult to  access) planetary system of Imperial space - where the pcs are space marines using outdated armour - perhaps some of the mark 3 or 4 type (or older(planet bound combat only) - read about them in a WD article - with an Inquisitor whose sanity is slowing fading and Eldar Aspect warriors on the rampage...or perhaps a travelling troupe of Harlequins foretelling a doom worse than the destruction of the Imperium.

Much bloodshed should ensure. Think of it as a cross between Apocalypse Now and Zulu :D

Regards,
David R

cnath.rm

#13
October 04, 2006, 01:15:46 AM
Quote from: RogerThat's one way to keep your miniatures costs down.
QFT

Quote from: David RMuch bloodshed should ensure. Think of it as a cross between Apocalypse Now and Zulu :D
Sounds like an interesting concept to say the least.
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#14
October 04, 2006, 04:07:26 AM
Quote from: fonkaygarryYou mean Rogue Trader, or is that a sourcebook?

no, I meant 2000AD's Rogue Trooper GI

future war

although I am aware of the Rogue Trader original WH40K tag
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