In a Ciaphas Cain book (The Traitor's Hand) there's a scene where a Slaaneshi sorceress, Madame Sejwek (lol Soyjak), casts an illusion on every loyal PDF soldier in the room to make her appear as their lover. Even Cain was stunned for a moment, but was lucky to have Jurgen coming in to cancel the effect on him. Cain then pointed his gun at the surprised & furious sorceress and said "Impersonating an Inquisitor is a capital offence." and shot her. In the footnote Amberley confesses that it's quite gratifying 😊
@multigatawny5204 Dude, like you wouldn't believe. In "Duty Calls": "My attention was quite pleasantly distracted for a moment by the callipygian spectacle ascending past my eye level, and as I placed my foot on the lowest tread I couldn't help tilting my neck back a little to continue appreciating it for a moment longer." Basically dude was admiring Kasteen's ass, friends as they are. Which lets him spot out incoming assassin servo skulls and rally troops to defend themselves. We need Hugh Jackman as Cain. Dude has the height and the comedic chop, and maybe Bryce Dallas Howard as Col Kasteen.
@barrybend7189 True, though Cavill has already been fancasted as Loken, Valdor, Garro, Eisenhorn, etc. and yes - Cain, plenty of times. I guess we'll see.
@@ngominh259hey Cain might be the best introduction for Warhammer as he's just normal enough to be a good baseline yet just stupidly lucky to encounter most of the Warhammer 40K universe and live.
A friend of mine used Holocaust after another party member died in their DH campaign. He killed all the cultists and 2 Noise Marines in a single cast. The art he got done for it is still my favorite 40k fanart too.
I had a dark heresy campaign that lasted over a year. my character became a full inquisitor eventually and ended up accidentally summoning greater daemons and causing planetary apocalypse level events on 3 separate occasions and he wasn't even a psyker. (oops.)
@@migrivp2672 First time it was because I rolled "Rending the Veil" around a bunch of braindead/unconscious people and the DM ruled that such undefended minds and bodies in such close proximity to the Warp turned them all into minor daemonhosts. The second time I rolled Dark Summoning and because I was playing the Astropath class as a Genestealer Magos the DM let it be a Lictor that decided it was time to take me out. While the rules say it specifically wanted to kill me, I managed to hide in a box until it ran out of time and left.
My favorite memory from my foray into dark heresy 1e, was my psyker built to use minor luck powers to be a crack shot with a revolver. I was the last person standing in the party, lining up a shot to kill the last heretic, invoke unnatural aim, roll a 9, get thrown 20 feet in the air, and die from fall damage.
I know right? Actually seething right now. That and their constant mention of D&D as if it's the WHOLE of the hobby. 5e and it's consequences have been a disaster for the tabletop hobby.
@@JasoTheRed48F2 I've come to expect that of most people normie adjacent. It's become the standard. As bad as I think it is that 5e is the face rather than like. Pathfinder 2
Buddy critically failed a check playing a psycher when casting a spell while his guy was hopped up on chems and he summoned in ethereal maggots that only he could see and they ate his flesh. Such a fun game.
Learning that Bricky doesn't know what a Sorcerer in 40k is, is very surprising. They absolutely do use magic without being psykers, that's what chaos rituals are all about!
To be fair, every time you try to look up "Sorcerer" on the 40K wikia, it just redirects to Chaos Space Marine Sorcerers. And we know that Bricky does a lot of research by trawling the wikis. It's understandable he wouldn't know, since apparently the fandom at large (and possibly Games Workshop itself) doesn't consider non-Psyker Sorcery of sufficient interest to talk about. And that's more a problem with GW's methods of talking about elements of its setting than anything.
@@cinderheart2720 Yeah, there's definitely a failure on GW's side to really establish "Sorcery" as a thing distinct from Psykers. So people end up assuming that all characters who "do magic", especially with Chaos rituals or the like, are Psykers by default.
To be fair it's confusing that all we get from people who are "Sorcerers" are always Chaos Sorcerers and there magic is always tied to Tzeentch and the warp which makes them pyschers so magic is basically just psychic powers and nothing about the lore really states there's any difference @@Bluecho4
@@Bluecho4 Yeah, it's basically GW not having a tight grasp on their writing. Since psyker powers come from the warp and Chaos is effectively just The Warp, daemon rituals shake out as 'doing psyker stuff but Chaos'. Chaos is already so nebulous in terms of what it is and what it can or will do that randomly endowing psyker abilities onto people doesn't seem unreasonable. Plus, basically every Chaos psyker is also a Chaos sorcerer because sorcery gives you more psyker powers, which blurs the line into nonexistence. This is especially true when the Imperium is the dominant POV, and the default response to anything vaguely Chaos-y is to shoot it in the face immediately and pray to the Emperor later.
Especially during "Dude, where's my psyker?" 3 nutters too trigger-happy with their psychic powers looking for a ton and a half of unsanctioned psykers. It's no surprise they almost enshrined a psychic null for a while lmao 😂
one of the only times i played the warhammer RPG table top game, we were holding a helipad waiting for pickup VS oncoming tyranids. the psyker failed a check and conjured a "vortex of doom" by accident. that vortext then sailed right into the synapse creature leading the assault and killed it instantly. we still reminisce about the "vortex of doom fail win" to this day sometimes
I played a Navigator in the Rogue Trader TTRPG in a campaign that lasted about 2 years… you learn so much lore that you wouldn’t find in any other books. One example is that Navigators will duel between themselves (especially if they’re from the noble navigator houses). These duels are basically staring contests using the third eye. The loser either looks away or passes out…
I played a PR 40 Psyker in a Black Crusade game, Heretek turned Undivided Daemon Prince. The guy was basically Chaos Jesus and walked around summoning Greater daemons just by yelling their names and could drag armies of daemons out of the warp on a whim. Fun stuff, especially after the quasi-permanent arm-wrestling match with Big E.
You also have to consider with 'appeasing a daemon with rituals' that those rituals tend to include ingredients that you can't exactly purchase from your local street-vendors. And that's before we get into all the rituals which require you to make modern-art projects out of living (and probably resisting) humans. The Black Crusade ttrpg (or one of its expansions) has very extensive descriptions of example rituals of how one would summon or appease a daemon, and they're a lot more hard to set up than just 'draw a pentagram in chalk and hail Khorne 10 times'
Honourbound has some awesome uses of it. Lydia uses telekinesis to drop all the magazines out of the cultists' guns right before the squad breaches in. She also stabs a cultist in the next while IN the immatereum... she was awesome.
Played a lot of Dark Heresy back in college. The ideal setup is you are playing as agents of an Inquisitor. Either as his personal retinue, or the local agents on the ground. Boss is busy elsewhere, and trusting you with critical aspects of their investigation. Or purge, depending on their methods. Very much the Eisenhorn/Ravenor RPG.
I played a session like this, my character was a Psyker and was basically the main candidate to become an Inquisitor and was being tested by the current one. Because as much as Psykers are hated, there's quite an advantage to being able to read people's minds while being an Inquisitor...
dude shout out to the Fantasy Flight run of 40K TTRPGs. Love me dark heresy. Love me Only War. simple as. EDIT: it's so fucking funny to hear Bricky try to fumble his way through explaining the very basics of how the core systems of these TTRPGs work. it's really clear nobody here has actually played them before lmao
Someone went "look at the funny tables" and that's about it. Which is fair, the crit tables were what initially drew my attention to Dark Heresy. EXPLODING BONE MARROW is funny.
There are more types of psykers within the dark heresy game, some based on the career paths you go down. There is the scholar emperyian which is your psyker nerd/savant who may not be perfect at all knowledge based things, but knows a lot to make a little bit of meta gaming okay. They are also the ones that end up with the most amount of psy rating which makes them more OP. There is the militant psyker who is basically what you expect a psyker from the imperial guard to be like, with military training and better in battle situation. There is the imperial diviner whose sole job is trying to predict shit before it hits the fan. There is the templar calaxis of the psykana which is a militant order of psykers really good at melee, aka Warhammer 40ks own version of a Jedi. Really good if you have a force weapon. There is the sorcerers who make deals with daemons and end up with their own daemonic powers and abilities that no other psyker can have. Unfortunately these psykers don't last long, they end up causing a lot more explosions and problems than other psykers. There are the wyrds and nascent psykers, the former are a type of psyker that appears as a mutation as the players of dark heresy end up accumulating corruption, which is like magical radiation, which can in some instances turn you into a psyker that has one specific power that they can try spamming whenever they feel like it. The nascent psykers are similar they are just not sanctified and keep learning new powers that usually cause more harm than good. There is also the chance of becoming a daemon which grants you psychic powers, which is a lot of fun but again your not going to be around for a long time. At best you get the angron treatment and are locked up and released only when you are needed. You can play a grey knight in dark heresy 1st edition, but that means little to no rpging as anyone you come into contact with either dies or has their memory altered. Finally there is the Primaris psyker which is literally the most powerful end goal psyker a psyker player can become, which once the players reach ascension, in some cases you can become an alpha grade psyker if you finished the path of a scholar emperyian.
In Warhammer Fantasy Role play 4th edition if you play as a wizard you have a table similar to perils of the warp, my personal favorite side effects is where you crap your self and have disadvantage on all rolls until you can take a bath
Theres a good few of these systems and all of them have psykers but sadly they got replaced with a simpler one that encompasses them all called wrath and glory the old ones are similar to one another being d100 systems with some comptability at different levels of power in the world from lowest to strongest you've got Only war- guardsman ttrpg, it can include vehicles Rogue trader- one player is the trader and the rest are the crew which can include certain xenos like orks and dark eldar Dark heresy 1e and 2e- inquisitor and inquisitorial agents Deathwatch- space marine suicide missions Black crusade-really strong guys you can play as chaos marines and cult leaders Also warhammer fantasy has some ttrpgs called warhammer fantasy roleplay where you play as empire characters which can be the lowest of peasants to wizards and witch hunters, we're on 4e currently but theres a lot of good content for 2e like: -a similar to dark heresy magic table but with 3 different levels of severity aka 3 different d100 tables -a mutation table that has 1000 results all gone into depth with -a lot of other interesting insights like a beastiary with a lot of good quotes one of the scholars that makes quotes in it is a skaven its such a good read
another fun detail you can play as ogryn in only war, they have a passive where they wont go in the back of a vehicle unless they're convinced by a commisar called "it dark in dere" and on the sorcerer note I think its because once you become a chaos psyker you get easier access to the warp juice
The rogue trader ttrpg you can play as a weirdboy, to stop your head from exploding you can bring some orks, squigs and grots with you so when that energy starts building you cause them to explode instead
I've always wanted an episode that thoroughly covers what Psykers can do (and have done to them) like this, and listening to it was a blast. I think there's still room for an episode on Chaos sorcerers in the future though, some of the stuff I've heard about is nuts.
Oh boy! Dark Hersey was more or less my introduction to 40k (after Dawn of War) let me learn you a thing! DH (at least 1st edition) was based on a system called *Basic Roleplaying* ("BRP") and your character had stats between 1 and 100. 10s are a major break point (they give you "bonuses"), but generally speaking you succeed at a roll by rolling under whatever your statistic is. (If your Ballistics Skill is 33, you want to roll under a 33 to successfully shoot someone). The "Average" citizen of the Imperium has a score of about 30 across the board. Space Marines naturally have around 50. Now, there's modifiers. Having a reflex sight on your rifle might confer a +10 to shooting that rifle, so you effectively are shooting at a 43 instead of a 33. When you see stuff in the text that says "VERY HARD (-30)" that means it applies a -30 to your score. So that, instead of trying to roll under a 33 to shoot someone, suddenly you're trying to roll under a 3. (13 if you have that reflex sight. Praise the Great Horned Rat.) DH1 is very brutal and unforgiving. (Yes, DH players, there's a lot more variables I'm intentionally skipping over. Shush.)
I actually played Only War. Which is the guard version of this game. In the first session the extremely potent sanction payer who was blowing appart orks with bolt of lightnings rolled peril of the warp. Off all the options he could off got he got one that reflected the power back at him. He reflected his own very min mixed very powerful lightning bolt back at himself, did many many times his health in damage and exploded in a gory red mist. A week later a very similiar psyker was added to the squad to replace the fallen one, though he was a lot more cautious about perils of the ward
38:05 you are born a psyker but you have to do the work to become a sorcerer, study, learn retuals, ect ect,. You can be a sorcerer without being a psyker, Luthor for example learned retuals from books
as my TTRPG group always likes to do, ya gotta chant it while the psyker gets ready to roll it. Perils of the Warp! Perils of the Warp! Perils of the Warp!
Correction Rogue Trader game is based on the Rogue Trader Fantasy Flight Games. Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader both existed for sometime its just been out of print for years.
So the Dark Heresy RPG books used to be apart of Fantasy Flight’s 40k RPG range. This range was quite expansive with several different RPG systems - tho most of them shared quite a bit so you could actually link them quite easy if playing across multiple. Dark Heresy - you play as inquisitorial acolytes across an expanse of missions trying to seek out cults, find hidden relics of both human and alien design, search out treachery and save the imperium and improving your every growing name and ranks within the inquisition and your own inquisitors party. - there is a 2nd edition of Dark Heresy too. Rogue Trader (what the Rogue Trader game is based off) - is as it says. Your group play a Rouge Trader and their little group of companions as you just make your way across the imperium doing as you will, while not getting yourself completely murdered. Deathwatch - again as you can guess. You play as a Space Marine within the deathwatch. You can choose your class and your chapter each with their own unique additions to your character (note while the starting book gives you 6 chapters the expansion books expand these out massively alongside giving you rules to make your own). Dark Crusade - you play as Chaos this time. You can be a simple cultist or even a chaos marine. Pledge yourself to a god (or none or all) and raise yourself up the ranks and position of your warband and take to the galaxy to loot and burn and slaughter with glee. Only War - you play as the sons and daughters of the imperium serving within the Imperial Guard. You and your players (or GM) can create your own regiment from ground up, then characters and take part in very longtime but also deadly campaigns. You feel like your in the guard playing this one and there is so many options for regiment creation it can even inspire your own guard and tabletop unit. Sadly why you’ll struggle to find these outside of people who have PDF links to downloads you can get them from is due to Fantasy Flight no longer producing them. Even tho extremely popular, GW made a bit of a stupid when it went to FFG and told them that they could either continue making their RPG books using their IP… as long as they completely dropped making any of the Star Wars IP games they were doing (I.e. X-Wing, Imperial Assault, Armada, the Star Wars RPG series and Legion). You can guess which FFG stuck with. And it was also due to this that GW lost the FFG 40k RPG range and was forced to make their very poor replacement which I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen anyone talk about or play.
Bricky is not correct about the function of the black ships. The black ships have a lot of training and testing for psykers. They train and test psykers and those who are good enough become a sanctioned psyker. Most are not
The first dark heresy story i read about was someone using psychometry and getting perils, rolling warp quake and killing the entire party as the very first check in the campaign.
Since you guys are doing Psykers, and RPG stuff, I feel it important to plug my 40k ttRPG. I'm making a GorkaMorka RPG. The Public Playtest Edition will be available 1/1/2025. Play an Ork, Grot, Snot or even a Squig. Do Orky things. Die often and be rewarded for doing so in Orky ways. The first 40k Ork RPG ever. It's not about Epic Adventure. It's about screwing around, and just having a good time wrecking face. Several random tables, including specialized Hazardous tables, as MANY things in the game are Hazardous. Weirdboyz have their own Hazardous Table. Many things that only existed in previous editions are available in GorkaMorka (MadBoyz, SkarBoyz, Hop-Splat Fieldgunz, and more). The game is Player Driven, meaning the narrative is crafted by the Players and their Actions. The referee (GameBoss) is just there to interpret the acts and progress the scenes. The Story is up to those playing. The Public Playtest will be for you, the players, to aid in making the Final Release Version as great as it can be, by submitting feedback. The Final Release Version will be 100% Free, as this is an Unofficial Fan Made product.
Rogue trader is based on Rogue trader my guys. There's a couple of TTRPG systems for 40k: Rogue trader, Dark heresy 1&2, Wrath and glory. Only W&G is DnD-esque.
Be sure to check out the critical hit tables. They are just as funny. Also, on the Warhammer Fantasy side of things, their RPG had fun random tables as well, including one for your character's prophesized death done by a priest of Morr. On a roll of 100, it's so horrific that the priest has a heart attack.
A single DH game in college was my first real dip into 40K outside of /tg/ shitposting. Knowing what I know now, my 80 year old neophyte psyker was not very believable in setting (I rolled randomly; blame the tables). It was funny when the DM decided to end the one shot and sent a Bloodthirster after us. It crit our Guard, turning him into a pile of viscera instantly. Me and the other psyker then used the trip power, alongside the power that gives a penalty to tests and the Deja Vu power, to make it keep slipping in the blood pile while the soldier and tech priest lobbed grenades at it until it died. Dee's Guts were made into a sanctified relic after the fact. That was a fun game.
"Wrath and Glory" is the newer version of W40k ttrpg.(d6 system) Just make sure you get the right edition. As GW switched companies that made it, with some differences in the rules.
Hey guys just wanted to share. The first edition of 40k TTRPG was a game called Rogue Trader, that is what Owlcats game is based off of. Dark Heresy's d100 systems, tables, many talents, and so on where taken from Rogue Trader TTRPG.
You all need to hear Tex and the Black Pants Legion. They ran a Dark Heresy campaign called "Magistratum Mundanus." One of their characters is a sanctioned psyker.
If you're ever curious how it plays, there was a short actual play of Dark Heresy on ItmeJP's channel from many years ago that had TotalBiscuit as a tech priest.
ACHTUALLY Rogue Trader is its own game, TECHNICALLY. Fantasy Flight put out 4 games that I can recall: Dark Heresy (Inquisition), Rogue Trader (Rogue Traders, duh), Only War (Imperial Guard), and Deathwatch (Space Marines). Owlcat's game system is (very) loosely based on the TTRPG. They are similar to D&D/Pathfinder in only the loosest sense. Like, you're not rolling d20s to resolve anything. You can run them together, but for example Deathwatch isn't really... balanced to run along side Only War. Y'know, Astartes vs Guard. smh my head roll Perils of the Warp
I mean if we want to get TECHNICALLY - FFG only put out 3 - Dark Heresy was Black Industries originally and then republished by FFG even before 2e. There are copies out there which is the 1e core rulebook without the FFG branding. FFG did make a ton of expansions though which occupy too much of my shelf space but looking at the prices on ebay for stuff like The Lathe Worlds and Blood of Martyrs makes me weep. But thats nothing on some of the Rogue trader expansion books such as Faith & Coin or Stars of Inequity. Stars of Inequity honestly is so vital as well with the amount of content you can just straight up generate from its like 100 pages of D100 tables.
So there are five game lines in the old Fantasy Flight era 40K roleplaying games: _Dark Heresy_ (Inquisitorial Henchmen), _Rogue Trader_ (self-explanatory), _Deathwatch_ (and Space Marines in general), _Only War_ (Imperial Guard), and _Black Crusade_ (Chaos cultists & CSM). They apparently all have a similar set of base stats and mechanics, barring certain character advancement differences. So you could port characters and such from one game to another. (Albeit threats or characters built with, say, Astartes in mind will be wildly out of power scale to ones built for mortals).
I started a run a long time ago and was clueless with all my friends of 40k, but since it was a trail run with our GM he let us have pretty good stats. I got healed by the psyker throwing a pistol at me, I failed to catch it and it exploded on my armor but healed me for major wounds.
The furies roll of 63 is a bunch of chaos furies partially materializing and rampaging around. they flail w wings and try to get anyone in sight, but fail to do.
Dark heresy 2nd ed. is actually how I got in to warhammer we had a one person limit on how many psykers we could have in the party... It took one session to figure out why.
While not in Dark Heresy, you can absolutely play as a Librarian in the Deathwatch spin-off from it. Hell, in the Black Crusade spin-off you can play a Thousand Sons Sorcerer and be as absolutely broken as that sounds. In fact on the matter of 'Psyker types' playable in Dark Heresy: maybe I'm misremembering, but I thought some bonkers Dark Heresy expansion book dropped in Grey Knights as a player option.
I've played only war which is the guardsman version of dark heresy and oh boy was it interesting when our unsanctioned psyker guardsman friend rolled perils of the warp and then daemonhost possesion... on our 3rd session
I used to play a Psyker named Ravia Mae in Dark Herasy. I rolled well but she did go mad after a while... She ended up as a warp entity that protected the ship... She died rolling a 100 on WP trying to fortify the Geller field...
there is also a chaos version of dark heresy (cant remember its name) so a savvy DM can mix both if the party falls to chaos during dark heresy and wants to continue those characters
tfw u know that you can indeed play a space marine librarian in the fantasy flight 40k rpg's, not just that, in Dark Heresy, theres an entire supplement that lets you play as the Grey Knights
I had a lot of experience GMing Dark heresy, and what Bricky said at the end is half true, half the psykers players rolled slowly did just wither and turn to madness, the other half became the most mental, memorable and formidable characters in the campaigns I ran.
I ended up with one player whose response to most problems was MOLTEN BEAM. They were chasing down an APC, he got close, rolled Perils badly while trying to beam the rear door open, and ended up accidently summoning Furies which ended up inside the APC. So you now had a speeding metal box full of angry daemon harpies, unsurprisingly it lost control and careened off a cliff much to the chagrin of the more serious investigator character who wanted to interrogate the people in there..
The first time I ever played Only War, I rolled a Psyker who had really, REALLY good stats due to some fire d10 rolls. Very first firefight of the game to get rid of enemies pinning us down, I rolled to Smite them. Had to Push to get the range and AoE, so had to roll psychic phenomena. No problem, right? Oh no, doubles. That means Perils. ...Oh no, over 90. Long story short a Bloodletter cut off my leg, cut apart all heretics, killed the Commissar, and left. The next mission I had to do with one leg due to not passing the requesition check, and thankfully the Ogryn was too dumb to speak out about accidental daemon summonings so my psyker never told a soul.
In a Ciaphas Cain book (The Traitor's Hand) there's a scene where a Slaaneshi sorceress, Madame Sejwek (lol Soyjak), casts an illusion on every loyal PDF soldier in the room to make her appear as their lover. Even Cain was stunned for a moment, but was lucky to have Jurgen coming in to cancel the effect on him. Cain then pointed his gun at the surprised & furious sorceress and said "Impersonating an Inquisitor is a capital offence." and shot her. In the footnote Amberley confesses that it's quite gratifying 😊
Classic Ciaphas Cain W
@multigatawny5204 Dude, like you wouldn't believe.
In "Duty Calls":
"My attention was quite pleasantly distracted for a moment by the callipygian spectacle ascending past my eye level, and as I placed my foot on the lowest tread I couldn't help tilting my neck back a little to continue appreciating it for a moment longer."
Basically dude was admiring Kasteen's ass, friends as they are. Which lets him spot out incoming assassin servo skulls and rally troops to defend themselves. We need Hugh Jackman as Cain. Dude has the height and the comedic chop, and maybe Bryce Dallas Howard as Col Kasteen.
@@ngominh259Henry Cavil could also fit Cain as he also fits the description of the Imperial Boy scout.
@barrybend7189 True, though Cavill has already been fancasted as Loken, Valdor, Garro, Eisenhorn, etc. and yes - Cain, plenty of times. I guess we'll see.
@@ngominh259hey Cain might be the best introduction for Warhammer as he's just normal enough to be a good baseline yet just stupidly lucky to encounter most of the Warhammer 40K universe and live.
Being a psyker is like casting a wild magic. You don't know what you are going to get including just simply exploding yourself and ally around you.
Roll for effectiveness
One of the outcomes is to summon a literal greater demon. One being Scarbrand.
Potted plant! Potted plant!
Yeah, It's like that but multiplied by nightmares and suffering
A friend of mine used Holocaust after another party member died in their DH campaign. He killed all the cultists and 2 Noise Marines in a single cast. The art he got done for it is still my favorite 40k fanart too.
Do you have a link for it? I'd love to see it
@@evillaughinthebackground5732 Seconded. I must witness this dopeness
@@n.henzler50 thirded, the world must know
Fourthed, I need this art
Fifthed
Video ideas:
1. Blood Bowl explained. Do this either during football season or the Superbowl.
2. Leetu explained.
That would be a great superbowl special.
Played a Psyker in a Rogue Trader tabletop RPG a while ago and managed to summon a Daemon TWO SESSIONS IN A ROW. It was a pretty magical experience.
Same deamon or two different one?
I had a dark heresy campaign that lasted over a year. my character became a full inquisitor eventually and ended up accidentally summoning greater daemons and causing planetary apocalypse level events on 3 separate occasions and he wasn't even a psyker. (oops.)
Is your party still alive?
@@migrivp2672 First time it was because I rolled "Rending the Veil" around a bunch of braindead/unconscious people and the DM ruled that such undefended minds and bodies in such close proximity to the Warp turned them all into minor daemonhosts. The second time I rolled Dark Summoning and because I was playing the Astropath class as a Genestealer Magos the DM let it be a Lictor that decided it was time to take me out. While the rules say it specifically wanted to kill me, I managed to hide in a box until it ran out of time and left.
@@Dracobyte Surprisingly yes! We got out both times relatively unscathed thanks to there being generally more tempting targets than us.
My favorite memory from my foray into dark heresy 1e, was my psyker built to use minor luck powers to be a crack shot with a revolver. I was the last person standing in the party, lining up a shot to kill the last heretic, invoke unnatural aim, roll a 9, get thrown 20 feet in the air, and die from fall damage.
Bricky: “Rogue trader by owlcat seems to be inspired by the dark heresy TTRPG”
The rogue Trader TTRPG: :(
I know right? Actually seething right now. That and their constant mention of D&D as if it's the WHOLE of the hobby.
5e and it's consequences have been a disaster for the tabletop hobby.
I like the d100 since degrees of success and failure is more fun then auto success or failure
@@JasoTheRed48F2 I've come to expect that of most people normie adjacent. It's become the standard. As bad as I think it is that 5e is the face rather than like. Pathfinder 2
@@JasoTheRed48F2D&D has always been by far the dominant game in TTRPGs and by far the most well known by the general public.
@@101Mant Well I think it doesn't deserve that spot any more. There far better TTRPGs out there!
Bricky called the FFG d100 system like dnd sentence him to the penitent engine Immediately!
Buddy critically failed a check playing a psycher when casting a spell while his guy was hopped up on chems and he summoned in ethereal maggots that only he could see and they ate his flesh. Such a fun game.
Learning that Bricky doesn't know what a Sorcerer in 40k is, is very surprising.
They absolutely do use magic without being psykers, that's what chaos rituals are all about!
To be fair, every time you try to look up "Sorcerer" on the 40K wikia, it just redirects to Chaos Space Marine Sorcerers. And we know that Bricky does a lot of research by trawling the wikis. It's understandable he wouldn't know, since apparently the fandom at large (and possibly Games Workshop itself) doesn't consider non-Psyker Sorcery of sufficient interest to talk about.
And that's more a problem with GW's methods of talking about elements of its setting than anything.
@@Bluecho4 He knows that the Word bearers exist though! We all do, but for some reason the concept doesn't get generalized.
@@cinderheart2720 Yeah, there's definitely a failure on GW's side to really establish "Sorcery" as a thing distinct from Psykers. So people end up assuming that all characters who "do magic", especially with Chaos rituals or the like, are Psykers by default.
To be fair it's confusing that all we get from people who are "Sorcerers" are always Chaos Sorcerers and there magic is always tied to Tzeentch and the warp which makes them pyschers so magic is basically just psychic powers and nothing about the lore really states there's any difference @@Bluecho4
@@Bluecho4 Yeah, it's basically GW not having a tight grasp on their writing. Since psyker powers come from the warp and Chaos is effectively just The Warp, daemon rituals shake out as 'doing psyker stuff but Chaos'. Chaos is already so nebulous in terms of what it is and what it can or will do that randomly endowing psyker abilities onto people doesn't seem unreasonable. Plus, basically every Chaos psyker is also a Chaos sorcerer because sorcery gives you more psyker powers, which blurs the line into nonexistence.
This is especially true when the Imperium is the dominant POV, and the default response to anything vaguely Chaos-y is to shoot it in the face immediately and pray to the Emperor later.
I’d watch Bricky, DK, and the numbskulls crew do a dark heresy campaign with Kirioth as the GM
Fuck yeah
That would be awesome!
Fund that shit right now! 💸
agreed!
Add Zoren the Bear or Alphabusa; we're cooking with this one.
Bricky correcting DK on the pronunciation of "telepathy" right after butchering "psychometry" is so on-brand. 🤣
This Episode makes me appreciated the All Gaurdsmen party even more
Especially during "Dude, where's my psyker?"
3 nutters too trigger-happy with their psychic powers looking for a ton and a half of unsanctioned psykers. It's no surprise they almost enshrined a psychic null for a while lmao 😂
The AdRic crew (I include Kirioth at this point) should do a Live Play of Dark Heresy... I bet if they asked Leutin nicely, he might be down to DM...
Fuck yeah
The Warp is like a box of Chocolates. You never know what you’ll spawn.
SHADOWHEART LITERALLY WORSHIPS THE PAIN GODDESS
SHE IS 100% CASTING TESTICULAR TORSION
"Testicular Torsion casters are always acting tough, right up until a wizard casts MEND BUTTCRACK!"
To take my mind off current events I guess I'll listen about other people going insane
Imagine how bad a candidate you have to be defeated by a treasonous cheeto in an ill fitted suit
Same
Same
I’ve never felt more disappointed in my life.
Would you like some cheese with your whine? We'll be able to afford it now.
R.i.p. TB his short lived Dark Heresy campaign was my first exposure to 40k. Super fun to listen to
one of the only times i played the warhammer RPG table top game, we were holding a helipad waiting for pickup VS oncoming tyranids. the psyker failed a check and conjured a "vortex of doom" by accident. that vortext then sailed right into the synapse creature leading the assault and killed it instantly. we still reminisce about the "vortex of doom fail win" to this day sometimes
DK: “I didn’t realize there was a 40K version of DND!”
DK by brother in Thr Emperor, you read the All Guardsmen Party!
And once of the two times he even read it while sober!
I played a Navigator in the Rogue Trader TTRPG in a campaign that lasted about 2 years… you learn so much lore that you wouldn’t find in any other books.
One example is that Navigators will duel between themselves (especially if they’re from the noble navigator houses). These duels are basically staring contests using the third eye. The loser either looks away or passes out…
I played a PR 40 Psyker in a Black Crusade game, Heretek turned Undivided Daemon Prince. The guy was basically Chaos Jesus and walked around summoning Greater daemons just by yelling their names and could drag armies of daemons out of the warp on a whim.
Fun stuff, especially after the quasi-permanent arm-wrestling match with Big E.
It's all about the Perils of the Warp baby!
You also have to consider with 'appeasing a daemon with rituals' that those rituals tend to include ingredients that you can't exactly purchase from your local street-vendors. And that's before we get into all the rituals which require you to make modern-art projects out of living (and probably resisting) humans. The Black Crusade ttrpg (or one of its expansions) has very extensive descriptions of example rituals of how one would summon or appease a daemon, and they're a lot more hard to set up than just 'draw a pentagram in chalk and hail Khorne 10 times'
Honourbound has some awesome uses of it. Lydia uses telekinesis to drop all the magazines out of the cultists' guns right before the squad breaches in.
She also stabs a cultist in the next while IN the immatereum... she was awesome.
Played a lot of Dark Heresy back in college.
The ideal setup is you are playing as agents of an Inquisitor. Either as his personal retinue, or the local agents on the ground. Boss is busy elsewhere, and trusting you with critical aspects of their investigation. Or purge, depending on their methods.
Very much the Eisenhorn/Ravenor RPG.
I played a session like this, my character was a Psyker and was basically the main candidate to become an Inquisitor and was being tested by the current one. Because as much as Psykers are hated, there's quite an advantage to being able to read people's minds while being an Inquisitor...
dude shout out to the Fantasy Flight run of 40K TTRPGs. Love me dark heresy. Love me Only War. simple as.
EDIT: it's so fucking funny to hear Bricky try to fumble his way through explaining the very basics of how the core systems of these TTRPGs work. it's really clear nobody here has actually played them before lmao
Someone went "look at the funny tables" and that's about it. Which is fair, the crit tables were what initially drew my attention to Dark Heresy. EXPLODING BONE MARROW is funny.
@@VallornDeathblade It is a fantastic way to draw people into it. I love me some goofy random tables.
Cant wait for the Next Narrative Declaration campaign to feature Bricky and DK
There are more types of psykers within the dark heresy game, some based on the career paths you go down.
There is the scholar emperyian which is your psyker nerd/savant who may not be perfect at all knowledge based things, but knows a lot to make a little bit of meta gaming okay. They are also the ones that end up with the most amount of psy rating which makes them more OP.
There is the militant psyker who is basically what you expect a psyker from the imperial guard to be like, with military training and better in battle situation.
There is the imperial diviner whose sole job is trying to predict shit before it hits the fan.
There is the templar calaxis of the psykana which is a militant order of psykers really good at melee, aka Warhammer 40ks own version of a Jedi. Really good if you have a force weapon.
There is the sorcerers who make deals with daemons and end up with their own daemonic powers and abilities that no other psyker can have. Unfortunately these psykers don't last long, they end up causing a lot more explosions and problems than other psykers.
There are the wyrds and nascent psykers, the former are a type of psyker that appears as a mutation as the players of dark heresy end up accumulating corruption, which is like magical radiation, which can in some instances turn you into a psyker that has one specific power that they can try spamming whenever they feel like it. The nascent psykers are similar they are just not sanctified and keep learning new powers that usually cause more harm than good.
There is also the chance of becoming a daemon which grants you psychic powers, which is a lot of fun but again your not going to be around for a long time. At best you get the angron treatment and are locked up and released only when you are needed.
You can play a grey knight in dark heresy 1st edition, but that means little to no rpging as anyone you come into contact with either dies or has their memory altered.
Finally there is the Primaris psyker which is literally the most powerful end goal psyker a psyker player can become, which once the players reach ascension, in some cases you can become an alpha grade psyker if you finished the path of a scholar emperyian.
5:00 He was doing the "What if evil Supervillains had an assistant" cartoon voice of the Joker. I think it was from DORKLY BITS.
"Do you hear the voices too"!? "WITNESS YOUR DOOOOOOM"!!!
Am a Dark Heresy 1e enjoyer. Glad to see it still getting some love.
In Warhammer Fantasy Role play 4th edition if you play as a wizard you have a table similar to perils of the warp, my personal favorite side effects is where you crap your self and have disadvantage on all rolls until you can take a bath
If only the imperium had some kind of super asprin for all of their accepted psykers, given all of thier headaches
They do. It's called a bolter.
Theres a good few of these systems and all of them have psykers but sadly they got replaced with a simpler one that encompasses them all called wrath and glory
the old ones are similar to one another being d100 systems with some comptability at different levels of power in the world from lowest to strongest you've got
Only war- guardsman ttrpg, it can include vehicles
Rogue trader- one player is the trader and the rest are the crew which can include certain xenos like orks and dark eldar
Dark heresy 1e and 2e- inquisitor and inquisitorial agents
Deathwatch- space marine suicide missions
Black crusade-really strong guys you can play as chaos marines and cult leaders
Also warhammer fantasy has some ttrpgs called warhammer fantasy roleplay where you play as empire characters which can be the lowest of peasants to wizards and witch hunters, we're on 4e currently but theres a lot of good content for 2e like:
-a similar to dark heresy magic table but with 3 different levels of severity aka 3 different d100 tables
-a mutation table that has 1000 results all gone into depth with
-a lot of other interesting insights like a beastiary with a lot of good quotes one of the scholars that makes quotes in it is a skaven its such a good read
another fun detail you can play as ogryn in only war, they have a passive where they wont go in the back of a vehicle unless they're convinced by a commisar called "it dark in dere"
and on the sorcerer note I think its because once you become a chaos psyker you get easier access to the warp juice
The rogue trader ttrpg you can play as a weirdboy, to stop your head from exploding you can bring some orks, squigs and grots with you so when that energy starts building you cause them to explode instead
I always love tabletop talk, whether it’s 40K or D&D/Pathfinder/etc stuff. Makes me want to run a campaign again.
you are the only thing keeping me alive rn
7:11 we love zoran
Finally, delving into warhammer ttrpgs, need more of that
I've always wanted an episode that thoroughly covers what Psykers can do (and have done to them) like this, and listening to it was a blast. I think there's still room for an episode on Chaos sorcerers in the future though, some of the stuff I've heard about is nuts.
Oh boy! Dark Hersey was more or less my introduction to 40k (after Dawn of War) let me learn you a thing!
DH (at least 1st edition) was based on a system called *Basic Roleplaying* ("BRP") and your character had stats between 1 and 100. 10s are a major break point (they give you "bonuses"), but generally speaking you succeed at a roll by rolling under whatever your statistic is. (If your Ballistics Skill is 33, you want to roll under a 33 to successfully shoot someone). The "Average" citizen of the Imperium has a score of about 30 across the board. Space Marines naturally have around 50.
Now, there's modifiers. Having a reflex sight on your rifle might confer a +10 to shooting that rifle, so you effectively are shooting at a 43 instead of a 33. When you see stuff in the text that says "VERY HARD (-30)" that means it applies a -30 to your score. So that, instead of trying to roll under a 33 to shoot someone, suddenly you're trying to roll under a 3. (13 if you have that reflex sight. Praise the Great Horned Rat.)
DH1 is very brutal and unforgiving.
(Yes, DH players, there's a lot more variables I'm intentionally skipping over. Shush.)
I would be so excited to see these folks play this ttrpg together. I think it would be incredible
I actually played Only War. Which is the guard version of this game.
In the first session the extremely potent sanction payer who was blowing appart orks with bolt of lightnings rolled peril of the warp.
Off all the options he could off got he got one that reflected the power back at him. He reflected his own very min mixed very powerful lightning bolt back at himself, did many many times his health in damage and exploded in a gory red mist.
A week later a very similiar psyker was added to the squad to replace the fallen one, though he was a lot more cautious about perils of the ward
DK's ideas of GMing are literally like those evil/bad GM stories
ADEPTUS RIDICULOUS CAMPAIGN SERIES PLEAAAASE
38:05 you are born a psyker but you have to do the work to become a sorcerer, study, learn retuals, ect ect,. You can be a sorcerer without being a psyker, Luthor for example learned retuals from books
It is time for your favorite messed up magic show: The Perils of the Warp!
as my TTRPG group always likes to do, ya gotta chant it while the psyker gets ready to roll it.
Perils of the Warp!
Perils of the Warp!
Perils of the Warp!
Let's roll that wheel and hope for the worst!
You guys in a RPG session would be hilarious. Will be looking forward for the inevitable episode :))
Correction Rogue Trader game is based on the Rogue Trader Fantasy Flight Games.
Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader both existed for sometime its just been out of print for years.
6:30 I have that book!! It’s pretty cool, it’s definitely not a 5e style, it’s based on the d100 system.
So the Dark Heresy RPG books used to be apart of Fantasy Flight’s 40k RPG range.
This range was quite expansive with several different RPG systems - tho most of them shared quite a bit so you could actually link them quite easy if playing across multiple.
Dark Heresy - you play as inquisitorial acolytes across an expanse of missions trying to seek out cults, find hidden relics of both human and alien design, search out treachery and save the imperium and improving your every growing name and ranks within the inquisition and your own inquisitors party.
- there is a 2nd edition of Dark Heresy too.
Rogue Trader (what the Rogue Trader game is based off) - is as it says. Your group play a Rouge Trader and their little group of companions as you just make your way across the imperium doing as you will, while not getting yourself completely murdered.
Deathwatch - again as you can guess. You play as a Space Marine within the deathwatch. You can choose your class and your chapter each with their own unique additions to your character (note while the starting book gives you 6 chapters the expansion books expand these out massively alongside giving you rules to make your own).
Dark Crusade - you play as Chaos this time. You can be a simple cultist or even a chaos marine. Pledge yourself to a god (or none or all) and raise yourself up the ranks and position of your warband and take to the galaxy to loot and burn and slaughter with glee.
Only War - you play as the sons and daughters of the imperium serving within the Imperial Guard. You and your players (or GM) can create your own regiment from ground up, then characters and take part in very longtime but also deadly campaigns. You feel like your in the guard playing this one and there is so many options for regiment creation it can even inspire your own guard and tabletop unit.
Sadly why you’ll struggle to find these outside of people who have PDF links to downloads you can get them from is due to Fantasy Flight no longer producing them.
Even tho extremely popular, GW made a bit of a stupid when it went to FFG and told them that they could either continue making their RPG books using their IP… as long as they completely dropped making any of the Star Wars IP games they were doing (I.e. X-Wing, Imperial Assault, Armada, the Star Wars RPG series and Legion).
You can guess which FFG stuck with. And it was also due to this that GW lost the FFG 40k RPG range and was forced to make their very poor replacement which I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen anyone talk about or play.
Honestly this is a great idea guys! So fun.
Chattal (Chat-el). Commonly used as a fancy word for slaves but technically means any kind of property that isn't real estate.
I do remember this one... One of my friend played as Sanctioned Psyker, mishaps ensued....
I find it funny that a roll of 9 creates psychic phenomena, considering that 9 is Tzeentch's favorite number.
I miss Dark Heresy. Such a fun campaign.
Bricky is not correct about the function of the black ships. The black ships have a lot of training and testing for psykers. They train and test psykers and those who are good enough become a sanctioned psyker. Most are not
The first dark heresy story i read about was someone using psychometry and getting perils, rolling warp quake and killing the entire party as the very first check in the campaign.
Since you guys are doing Psykers, and RPG stuff, I feel it important to plug my 40k ttRPG. I'm making a GorkaMorka RPG. The Public Playtest Edition will be available 1/1/2025. Play an Ork, Grot, Snot or even a Squig. Do Orky things. Die often and be rewarded for doing so in Orky ways. The first 40k Ork RPG ever. It's not about Epic Adventure. It's about screwing around, and just having a good time wrecking face.
Several random tables, including specialized Hazardous tables, as MANY things in the game are Hazardous.
Weirdboyz have their own Hazardous Table.
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The Public Playtest will be for you, the players, to aid in making the Final Release Version as great as it can be, by submitting feedback.
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Zoran gonna need to talk to Bricky again after this episode.
I’d watch the hell out of an Adeptus Ridiculous Dark Heresy game
Can't wait for the AdRic RPG Arc.
Rogue trader is based on Rogue trader my guys. There's a couple of TTRPG systems for 40k: Rogue trader, Dark heresy 1&2, Wrath and glory. Only W&G is DnD-esque.
Be sure to check out the critical hit tables. They are just as funny.
Also, on the Warhammer Fantasy side of things, their RPG had fun random tables as well, including one for your character's prophesized death done by a priest of Morr. On a roll of 100, it's so horrific that the priest has a heart attack.
For a fun part 2 of this on realms of ridiculous, you should get the pdf of the Tome of Corruption and roll on the mutations table
A single DH game in college was my first real dip into 40K outside of /tg/ shitposting. Knowing what I know now, my 80 year old neophyte psyker was not very believable in setting (I rolled randomly; blame the tables). It was funny when the DM decided to end the one shot and sent a Bloodthirster after us. It crit our Guard, turning him into a pile of viscera instantly. Me and the other psyker then used the trip power, alongside the power that gives a penalty to tests and the Deja Vu power, to make it keep slipping in the blood pile while the soldier and tech priest lobbed grenades at it until it died.
Dee's Guts were made into a sanctified relic after the fact. That was a fun game.
My first introduction to WH40k was TotalBiscuit playing on itmejp's rollplay channel many years ago.
"Wrath and Glory" is the newer version of W40k ttrpg.(d6 system)
Just make sure you get the right edition. As GW switched companies that made it, with some differences in the rules.
Spoilers: It's not very good. Stick with Fantasy Flight Game's systems instead folks.
I suggest Imperium Maledictum instead, it's much closer to the FF systems.
Hey guys just wanted to share. The first edition of 40k TTRPG was a game called Rogue Trader, that is what Owlcats game is based off of. Dark Heresy's d100 systems, tables, many talents, and so on where taken from Rogue Trader TTRPG.
i'm going to legit strike a deal with chaos to see the Dark Heresy campaign with AdRic
You all need to hear Tex and the Black Pants Legion. They ran a Dark Heresy campaign called "Magistratum Mundanus."
One of their characters is a sanctioned psyker.
If you're ever curious how it plays, there was a short actual play of Dark Heresy on ItmeJP's channel from many years ago that had TotalBiscuit as a tech priest.
ACHTUALLY Rogue Trader is its own game, TECHNICALLY. Fantasy Flight put out 4 games that I can recall: Dark Heresy (Inquisition), Rogue Trader (Rogue Traders, duh), Only War (Imperial Guard), and Deathwatch (Space Marines). Owlcat's game system is (very) loosely based on the TTRPG. They are similar to D&D/Pathfinder in only the loosest sense. Like, you're not rolling d20s to resolve anything. You can run them together, but for example Deathwatch isn't really... balanced to run along side Only War. Y'know, Astartes vs Guard. smh my head roll Perils of the Warp
I mean if we want to get TECHNICALLY - FFG only put out 3 - Dark Heresy was Black Industries originally and then republished by FFG even before 2e. There are copies out there which is the 1e core rulebook without the FFG branding.
FFG did make a ton of expansions though which occupy too much of my shelf space but looking at the prices on ebay for stuff like The Lathe Worlds and Blood of Martyrs makes me weep. But thats nothing on some of the Rogue trader expansion books such as Faith & Coin or Stars of Inequity. Stars of Inequity honestly is so vital as well with the amount of content you can just straight up generate from its like 100 pages of D100 tables.
The more I listen to this podcast, the more I want to have a conversation with Shy.
The other 2 as well, but Shy intrigues me!
So there are five game lines in the old Fantasy Flight era 40K roleplaying games: _Dark Heresy_ (Inquisitorial Henchmen), _Rogue Trader_ (self-explanatory), _Deathwatch_ (and Space Marines in general), _Only War_ (Imperial Guard), and _Black Crusade_ (Chaos cultists & CSM).
They apparently all have a similar set of base stats and mechanics, barring certain character advancement differences. So you could port characters and such from one game to another. (Albeit threats or characters built with, say, Astartes in mind will be wildly out of power scale to ones built for mortals).
I for one look forward to the coming Actual Play Dark Heresy series
I now need you guys to do a play by play of dark heresy
I started a run a long time ago and was clueless with all my friends of 40k, but since it was a trail run with our GM he let us have pretty good stats. I got healed by the psyker throwing a pistol at me, I failed to catch it and it exploded on my armor but healed me for major wounds.
The furies roll of 63 is a bunch of chaos furies partially materializing and rampaging around. they flail w wings and try to get anyone in sight, but fail to do.
"Do you consider yourself someone who knows when things will happen? Any kinda foresight?"
I got anxiety, does that qualify?
yall should homestly play this for an episode or two itd be something different and fun for the gang
Dark heresy 2nd ed. is actually how I got in to warhammer we had a one person limit on how many psykers we could have in the party... It took one session to figure out why.
While not in Dark Heresy, you can absolutely play as a Librarian in the Deathwatch spin-off from it. Hell, in the Black Crusade spin-off you can play a Thousand Sons Sorcerer and be as absolutely broken as that sounds.
In fact on the matter of 'Psyker types' playable in Dark Heresy: maybe I'm misremembering, but I thought some bonkers Dark Heresy expansion book dropped in Grey Knights as a player option.
Not Dark HERESY. One of the alternatives from fantasy flight.
@@Ashtor1337 Literally the first 5 words: "While not in Dark Heresy-"
I've played only war which is the guardsman version of dark heresy and oh boy was it interesting when our unsanctioned psyker guardsman friend rolled perils of the warp and then daemonhost possesion... on our 3rd session
Actually rewatched Exorcist 3 on Halloween... nice
The guard doesn't like psykers, last time our regiment had one, it drooled on itself till it sneezed and turn the battalion medic inside out.
I liked Bricky's Ronald Reagan impression. 👏
Timestamp please?
I used to play a Psyker named Ravia Mae in Dark Herasy. I rolled well but she did go mad after a while... She ended up as a warp entity that protected the ship... She died rolling a 100 on WP trying to fortify the Geller field...
Please yes to an TTRPG series or at least a session. Wrath and Glory is a good one and pretty simple to learn
"I live and breath and keep bees in the southdowns" is the whole quote. It's from Sherlock Holmes.
there is also a chaos version of dark heresy (cant remember its name)
so a savvy DM can mix both if the party falls to chaos during dark heresy and wants to continue those characters
given your little Exorcist aside, there is actually a chapter called the Exorcists - apparently loyalist successors of the Wordbearers
Thanks for the video.
tfw u know that you can indeed play a space marine librarian in the fantasy flight 40k rpg's, not just that, in Dark Heresy, theres an entire supplement that lets you play as the Grey Knights
I had a lot of experience GMing Dark heresy, and what Bricky said at the end is half true, half the psykers players rolled slowly did just wither and turn to madness, the other half became the most mental, memorable and formidable characters in the campaigns I ran.
I ended up with one player whose response to most problems was MOLTEN BEAM. They were chasing down an APC, he got close, rolled Perils badly while trying to beam the rear door open, and ended up accidently summoning Furies which ended up inside the APC. So you now had a speeding metal box full of angry daemon harpies, unsurprisingly it lost control and careened off a cliff much to the chagrin of the more serious investigator character who wanted to interrogate the people in there..
I think it would be awesome for you guys to play at least a one-shot of Dark Heresy!
40k ttrpgs hell yes! Do the injury tables!
Hey, I know one surefire way to get Bricky to play Dark Heresy:
You can play a Sister of Battle.
You're welcome.
DK's Heath Ledger impression sounds more like the Professor from Futurama.
The first time I ever played Only War, I rolled a Psyker who had really, REALLY good stats due to some fire d10 rolls.
Very first firefight of the game to get rid of enemies pinning us down, I rolled to Smite them. Had to Push to get the range and AoE, so had to roll psychic phenomena. No problem, right? Oh no, doubles. That means Perils. ...Oh no, over 90.
Long story short a Bloodletter cut off my leg, cut apart all heretics, killed the Commissar, and left. The next mission I had to do with one leg due to not passing the requesition check, and thankfully the Ogryn was too dumb to speak out about accidental daemon summonings so my psyker never told a soul.