So...I'm coming up on the end of running the demo adventure in the rulebook: These are the things I've Learned:

1. AIM MOTHERFUCKER! Really, starting charcters (and probably ALL characters) NEED to spend that first half action to aim!

2. Get someone with Medicae FAST! It's a trained only skill, and the only way to stop from bleeding to death (unless you're a Feral Worlder).

3. 1% can mean all the difference between passing and failing.

4. Armor works, get some!




The heroes place in the Inquisition is as the TRUE cloak and dagger
part of the operation. They have much of the jurisdiction WITHOUT all of the recognition. This is their (and the GM's) greatest assett when they are serving the Emporer.

So...other players...what have you learned?

1: Full Auto bursts are my friend.

2: "Do we have to radio our ship and ask the Inquisitor to come over himself?" works wonders, even if the Inquisitor isn't actually on your ship.

3: Terrorising supposedly-innocent civilians can help an investigation a lot.

4: If someone knows you're Inquisition and still isn't co-operating, they're hiding something. Nobody has the right to hide from the Inquisition. Therefore, bullets are an appropriate response to being stonewalled.

Quote from: KrakaJak2. Get someone with Medicae FAST! It's a trained only skill, and the only way to stop from bleeding to death (unless you're a Feral Worlder).

The medical kits allow you to use it untrained, so if your trained medic goes down you might be able to save them. But still I agree the Skill is a really important thing.

P.S. Oh, and apparently charging with a melee weapon is good for hitting crap. I'm not sure what the downsides are though. I didn't bother to ask and it hasn't come up. :keke:

Wow.

You guys are learning.

I'm proud of you.

Now maybe we can teach Erik...oh wait.

No.

I've been fighting it hard for a while now, but shit, DH does sound like an interesting game.

However, I don't have the time or money to get into this, so I suggest y'all stop posting about it, kthx.

Quote from: blakkieThe medical kits allow you to use it untrained, so if your trained medic goes down you might be able to save them. But still I agree the Skill is a really important thing.

P.S. Oh, and apparently charging with a melee weapon is good for hitting crap. I'm not sure what the downsides are though. I didn't bother to ask and it hasn't come up. :keke:

Charging gives you +20 for your attack, you can only make one melee attack. Charging is almost strictly an advantage (at least for Melee combat).

Pierce: Get a friend to run it.
 Than you don't have to buy it.
And playing takes less time than running

I thought you´d play Inquisitors? Why do you have to call them?

No you play acolytes to the inquisition.  You are basically the equivalent to alter boys with guns when it comes to where your place in the grand scheme of things is.  Eventually you may come to be an inquisitor but that's about 15,000 exp away from where you start.  Or to put it into D&D terms.  You start out as 1st level characters and by the time you hit 20th level you may be a full blown Inquisitor.

DH is a very low level game, it's dealing with the shit of society and ferreting them out.  You are an Inquisitors peons and do the grunt work he doesn't want to dirty himself with or is to busy to deal with.

Erik Boielle was right, it seems.
:rolleyes:

Making PC's Inquisitors is basically handing them Lordship of the Realm at 1st level.

There's a reason Birthright didn't go anywhere.

Anyone who agrees with Erik deserves to go play games where he's the GM.

Quote from: SettembriniErik Boielle was right, it seems.
:rolleyes:

In Dark Heresy the relation of Inquisitor to Acolyte is much the same as "head of the secret police" to "secret police death squad". No, scratch that: it's exactly the same. Playing an Inquisitor would entail spending a lot of time sitting behind a desk co-ordinating numerous different teams of acolytes, reading reports, and occasionally rubber-stamping the extermination of a planet.

Quote from: SettembriniErik Boielle was right, it seems.
:rolleyes:

SRSLY. All D&D games should also start out at 20t level so that Epic is only one level away.

Things I've learned thus far:
1. Even the Minor Psychic Powers are awesome.
2. While the game is 'realistically powered', it definitely isn't 'low powered'. It's akin to 'Aliens' and 'Bladerunner' rather than 'Dragonball Z'. The starting PCs my homies made are much more impressive than starting level characters in D&D or Alternity, IMHO.
3. Overwatch is awesome.
4. Overwatch... is... awesome.

-=Grim=-

Quote from: WarthurPlaying an Inquisitor would entail spending a lot of time sitting behind a desk co-ordinating numerous different teams of acolytes, reading reports, and occasionally rubber-stamping the extermination of a planet.

Yes, because thats just what Eisenhorn and Ravenour and Draco spend their trilogies doing.

No wait. They don't.

:rolleyes:

Quote from: Erik BoielleYes, because thats just what Eisenhorn and Ravenour and Draco spend their trilogies doing.

No wait. They don't.

:rolleyes:

You should base every single game you try to play on the books that have already been written.

No reason to get creative or anything.

Quote from: Erik BoielleYes, because thats just what Eisenhorn and Ravenour and Draco spend their trilogies doing.

No wait. They don't.

:rolleyes:

Eisenhorn, Ravenor, and Draco are atypical Inquisitors. That's why people write novels about them. The writeup of the way the Inquisition works in the default sector in Dark Heresy - which, incidentally, was contributed to by Dan Abnett himsef - suggests that most of the Conclave's Inquisitors spend more time playing politics than personally tracking down heretics; for that purpose, they have Acolytes.