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Title: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Luke_Prowler on October 23, 2009, 11:15:36 pm: Ok, so I've seen that there is a few D&D games on the front page, so I figured that I would break up the monopoly with a game about everyone's favorite crap-sack universe. Before I can start, however, I need some slight help working Gametable, and to make a story (as I doubt my improv skills). Give about a week. You can spend that time making character sheets, discussion, whatever.

Note, I only have the basic DH rule book, so I you wish to use anything from the other books someone else will have to come in a confirm that for me.

Player list:
Akigagak
Cthulhu
CJ1145
Pillow_Killer
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Akigagak on October 23, 2009, 11:17:16 pm: I'm in for this.
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Cthulhu on October 24, 2009, 07:03:46 pm: I'll do it.

Spoiler: Krak, Hive World Gangbanger (click to show/hide)
Name:      Krak
Homeworld:   Hive World
Gender:      Male
Career:      Scum
Rank:      Dreg
Start Package:   None

WS:      31
BS:      33
S:      28
T:      18
Ag:      34
Int:      24
Per:      33
WP:      33
Fellowship:   48
Wounds: 13

Thrones:   15

Fate Points:   3
Insanity Pts:   0
Corruption Pts:   0

Current XP: 0
XP Spent: 400
Advances(Cost): +5 BS, Barter (Fel), Dodge, +5 Fel

Build:      Wiry
Skin Color:   Fair
Hair Color:   Dyed
Eye Color:   Brown
Age:      24

Quirk:         You have outrageous multi-colored hair.
Hive Class:      Ganger Scum
Divination:      Trust in your fear(+1 fate point)

Traits: Accustomed to Crowds, Caves of Steel, Hivebound, Wary

Basic Skills: Tech-Use (Int) (Caves of Steel), Deceive (Fel), Awareness (Per), Charm (Fel), Dodge (Agi), Barter (Fel)

Advanced Skills: Speak Language (Hive Dialect) (Int), Speak Language (Low Gothic) (Int), Blather (Fel), Common Lore (Imperium) (Int)

Talents: Melee Weapons Training (Primitive), Pistol Training (SP), Basic Weapons Training (SP), Ambidextrous, Sound Constitution

Gear: autopistol and 1 clip, knife, autogun and 1 clip, brass knuckles, quilted vest, street ware (Poor Quality Clothing), jacket in ganghive colors (memento), loaded dice (2) (memento)

Special Qualities: None

Family: Your mother's name was Borgia. She walked the path of the Scum. She is deceased. Your father's name is Silvanus. He walks the path of the Imperial Psyker. You are an only child.

How Get Inquisition: Arrested after a brief shootout with arbitrators, killing one. Was approached by -insert patron inquisitor here- and was given the offer of working for him or being executed. Chose working. Sentence fragment.
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: CJ1145 on October 24, 2009, 07:20:02 pm: I may have to drop out if school becomes some nightmarish hassle, but I'm willing to give this a shot. The way I figure it I'll be a burning corpse before long anyhow.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Name:      Lionus
Homeworld:   Noble Born
Gender:      Male
Career:      Guardsman
Rank:      Conscript
Start Package:   None

WS:      28      BS:      29
S:      33      T:      28
Ag:      27      Int:      24
Per:      32      WP:      24
Fellowship:   43      Wounds:      13

Fate Points:   2      Thrones:   75
Insanity Pts:   0      Starting XP:   400
Corruption Pts:   0

Build:      Fit      Skin Color:   Tan
Hair Color:   Blond      Eye Color:   Grey
Age:      22

Quirk:         You have pierced ears.
Lineage of Renown:   The Blood of Greatness
Divination:      Be a boon to your brothers and bane to your enemies.

Traits: Etiquette, Supremely Connected, Vendetta, Wealth

Basic Skills:

Advanced Skills: Literacy (Int), Speak Language (High Gothic) (Int), Speak Language (Low Gothic) (Int), Speak Language (Low Gothic) (Int), Drive (Ground Vehicle) (Ag)

Talents: Peer (Nobility), Peer (Adeptus Mechanicus), Melee Weapons Training (Primitive), Basic Weapons Training (Las), Pistol Training (Las), Basic Weapons Training (Primitive)

Gear: lasgun and 1 charge pack, knife, guard flak armour, 1 week corpse starch rations, sword, las pistol and 1 charge pack, shotgun and 12 shells, uniform (Common Quality Clothing), mercenary license, all-weather cape (memento), chunk of fused sand (memento)

Special Qualities: None

Family: Your mother's name was Judicca. She walked the path of the Scum. She is deceased. Your father's name is Ignace. He walks the path of the Imperial Psyker. Your sister's name is Zetkin. She walks the path of the Guardsman. Your sister's name is Veyda. She walks the path of the Cleric.
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Cthulhu on October 24, 2009, 07:21:56 pm: Here's to hoping we don't have a million guardsmen like last time.
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Luke_Prowler on October 24, 2009, 08:12:20 pm: Agreed.

Oh, one question Cthulhu: how do I make/upload new pogs?
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Cthulhu on October 24, 2009, 08:21:56 pm: Save this image somewhere accessible.
(http://i38.tinypic.com/262kxeo.png)

Open GIMP

Open the above image and the image from which you want to make a pog.

Select a square (Has to be perfectly square, use the size-indicator at the bottom of the image window) section of the image you want to use for the pog.

Right-click, go to Image, click crop to selection.

Same as before but click Scale Image instead of crop to selection.

Resize the image to 64x64

Create a new layer

Copy and paste the gray ring onto this new layer.

Use the Magic Wand tool to select the four triangular areas outside the ring.

Hit Page-down to go to the layer with the bulk of your image

Hit Ctrl-X to remove everything outside the pog.

If the area outside the pog is white now, use the Transparency tool (I can't remember off-hand where it is, it might be in the Colors section) to make it transparent.

Save as a .png in the pogs folder of your gametable folder.

???

Profit!
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Luke_Prowler on October 24, 2009, 09:08:04 pm: ...I guess I'm going to have to download GIMP as well...
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Cthulhu on October 24, 2009, 09:21:50 pm: Any quality image manipulation program (By quality I meant not MSPaint) will do, if you already have one. I don't know how to work any other than paint, though.
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Luke_Prowler on October 24, 2009, 09:35:03 pm: Ah, that's good. PS Elements came with the computer.

CJ, where did you make make your character sheet? I've never heard of "Noble Born".
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Neruz on October 24, 2009, 09:35:20 pm: Far better way to do Pogs:

Download Tokentool (http://www.rptools.net/index.php?page=downloads#TokenTool)

Open Tokentool

Pick Icon Border

Drag image into Tokentool

Use mouse wheel to rescale and mouse click to center Border on where you want to make the Token\Pog\Thing

Save Token\Pog\Thing
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: CJ1145 on October 24, 2009, 09:36:50 pm: Quote from: Luke_Prowler on October 24, 2009, 09:35:03 pm
Ah, that's good. PS Elements came with the computer.

CJ, where did you make make your character sheet? I've never heard of "Noble Born".

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/dhadvanced.html (http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/dhadvanced.html)

Here. I think I see the problem though... It says "Advanced" in the url. Perhaps it's in a supplement, or a different version?
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Luke_Prowler on October 24, 2009, 09:49:56 pm: That was the same site I used to make my CS. I guess it uses all the supplements.

Still, I salute you, not many people would be a guardsman with only a 15 base WP
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Cthulhu on October 24, 2009, 10:07:51 pm: Noble Born is from the Inquisitor's Handbook.
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Luke_Prowler on October 24, 2009, 10:19:04 pm: Oh, then it's a good thing I'm...uh..."getting" a copy.
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Pillow_Killer on October 25, 2009, 08:14:22 am: Im so in
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Your Character
WS:   26
BS:   32
S:   24
T:   36
Ag:   26
Int:   39
Per:   34
WP:   53
Fel:   27
Wounds:   7
Fate Points:   3
Insanity Points:   4
Corruption Points:   0
Thrones:   50
Name:   Nihilius
Homeworld:   Sinophia
Career:   Imperial Psyker
Rank:   Sanctionite
Gender:   Male
Build:   Wiry
Skin Color:   Fair
Hair Color:   Grey
Eye Color:   Grey
Age:   33
Quirk:   You have a bullet wound scar.
Hive Class:   Specialist
Divination:   Die if you must, but not with your spirit broken.
Starting XP:   400
Spent XP: 400
Starting Package:   Living Nightmare

Traits: Accustomed to Crowds, Caves of Steel, Hivebound, Volg Hiver Skills, Born Survivor, Grim, Sanctioned Psyker, Unreadable Mind

Basic Skills: Tech-Use (Int) (Caves of Steel)

Advanced Skills: Speak Language (Hive Dialect) (Int), Intimidate (S) (Volg Hiv. Sk.), Speak Language (Volg Hiver Dialect) (Int) (Volg Hiv. Sk.), Speak Language (Low Gothic) (Int), Psyniscience (Per), Invocation (WP), Literacy (Int), Trade (Soothsayer) (Fel)

Talents: Jaded, Light Sleepe, Melee Weapons Training (Primitive), Melee Weapons Training (Primitive), Pistol Weapons Training (SP), Resistance (Psychic Powers)

Gear: staff, knife (psykana mercy blade), quilted vest, tatty robe (Poor Quality Clothing), Psy-Focus, sanctioning brand, axe, book of Imperial saints, combat stub revolver and 3 bullets, crystal ring (memento)

Special Qualities: You have a Psy Rating of 1.
Psychic Powers
Minor Psychic Power 1: Unnatural Aim

Family: Your mother's name was Zee. She walked the path of the Imperial Psyker. Your father's name is Lug. He walks the path of the Tech-Priest. Your sister's name is Luck. She walks the path of the Tech-Priest. Your sister's name is Ragaana. She walks the path of the Tech-Priest.
((Oh god, what's up wiuth the tech-priests))
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Luke_Prowler on October 25, 2009, 06:03:15 pm: That's good, now we have 4 players, although I'd prefer we had at least 5. However, my attempts to procure a copy of the Inquisitor's handbook have failed, so I'm still going to have to rely on others to point out any flaws regarding that handbook.
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Pillow_Killer on October 26, 2009, 11:19:06 am: I got an actual copy of Inquisitor's Handbook, as well Core Rulebook
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Luke_Prowler on October 26, 2009, 04:34:25 pm: Sweet.

Uh, Akigaga, I need you to post a CS before we start.

If you guys want, you can post a picture of what you want your character to look like, so I can make a pog.
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: CJ1145 on October 26, 2009, 04:38:13 pm: My knowledge of 40k fluff is restricted mostly to Space Marines, Orks and some basic Necron knowledge, so unless this breaks some canon rule I'd like this guy:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p98/l33t-h4x0r/riotofficercopy-1.jpg)

If not, then I'll go for the commonly-overused somewhat Cadian style:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
(http://www.freewebs.com/theaquila/art-guardsman.jpg)
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Neruz on October 26, 2009, 07:25:14 pm: First Pic would be about right for a Kasrkin.
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Luke_Prowler on October 26, 2009, 08:02:03 pm: So, neruz, are you going to join?
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Neruz on October 26, 2009, 08:16:00 pm: I'll be honost, i've never been too hot on Dark Heresy.
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Luke_Prowler on October 26, 2009, 08:22:04 pm: That's alright, if you don't want to join you don't have too.
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Neruz on October 26, 2009, 10:02:47 pm: Stop trying to make me join! :P
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Luke_Prowler on October 26, 2009, 10:06:40 pm: It's OK. Not everyone wants to play with others.

And I have no idea what you're talking about :P
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Neruz on October 26, 2009, 10:07:46 pm: Oh i'm sure you don't.
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Cthulhu on October 26, 2009, 10:17:58 pm: I have to agree Dark Heresy is a pretty clunky system, but it's about all we've got to work with when it comes to 40k roleplaying.
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: CJ1145 on October 27, 2009, 06:03:39 am: Cthulu, that's creepy. I saw that exact picture on a a different site the other day, and thought that it was perfect for you.
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Luke_Prowler on October 27, 2009, 04:49:22 pm: OK, To help find the right time to do this, it would help if I knew when you guys have free time/time zones. I'm eastern time, so that's, what, -4 GMT? I'm awake between noon and 2-3 AM.
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Cthulhu on October 27, 2009, 04:52:20 pm: US Eastern is GMT-5, which is what I am also.

I have all day on Friday and weekends, barring an excursion with friends.

Also, Monday before 5 PM and Wednesday before 7 PM. Tuesday and Thursday are a bit too hectic for me to do, though.
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: CJ1145 on October 27, 2009, 05:34:49 pm: I'm Eastern time as well. So -5 GMT. I've got school back on my hands now, and am unavailable before 3 PM all weekdays. My schedule is a bit insane beyond that, so I would need to know a day before I could check if I have anything going on.
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Pillow_Killer on October 28, 2009, 12:55:55 am: I'm available at 18pm-23pm GTM +3, and at /any/ time at weekends. Yeah.
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Luke_Prowler on October 28, 2009, 06:23:13 pm: Ok, testing to see if Gametable works.

Ip: 70.105.111.59
Port: 6812
Password: DH12

I'm on right now
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: CJ1145 on October 28, 2009, 06:43:39 pm: Failed to connect. Unless you're not on now.
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Luke_Prowler on October 28, 2009, 06:51:23 pm: No, I'm still on. Let me just work my firewall a bit...

Try now
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: CJ1145 on October 28, 2009, 07:08:47 pm: Still nothing.
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Luke_Prowler on October 28, 2009, 07:27:42 pm: Goddamn it. I need some help...

My does my computer have to be such a piece of crap...
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Pillow_Killer on October 29, 2009, 03:03:11 am: We can always use hamachi.
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: CJ1145 on October 29, 2009, 05:53:48 am: No, we can't. Most unwieldy program I've ever seen.
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Pillow_Killer on October 29, 2009, 05:54:46 am: Wait, what? It works, You don't need to configure it, it's a great tunnelling VPN, it's not buggy. Why is it unwieldy?
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Akigagak on October 29, 2009, 06:58:59 am: Spoiler (click to show/hide)
WS:35
BS:35
S:34
T:32
Ag:30
Int:34
Per:30
WP:26
Fel:20

Wounds:10
Fate Points:1
Insanity Points:6
Corruption Points:0

Thrones:20

Name:Praetus
Homeworld:Sinophia
Career:Assassin
Rank:Sell-steel
Gender:Male
Build:Wiry
Skin Color:Tan
Hair Color:Black
Eye Color:Lenses
Age:39
Quirk:You have a bullet wound scar.
Hive Class:Hive Noble
Divination:Do not ask why you serve. Only ask how.
XP:200 (Spent 200)
Starting Package:The Sons of Dispater

Traits: Accustomed to Crowds, Caves of Steel, Hivebound, Volg Hiver Skills, Born Survivor, Grim

Basic Skills: Tech-Use (Int) (Caves of Steel), Awareness (Per), Dodge (Ag), Intimidate (S)
Advanced Skills: Speak Language (Hive Dialect) (Int), Intimidate (S) (Volg Hiv. Sk.), Speak Language (Volg Hiver Dialect) (Int) (Volg Hiv. Sk.), Speak Language (Low Gothic) (Int), Common Lore (Underworld) (Int), Security (Ag),

Talents: Jaded, Light Sleeper, Melee Weapons Training (Primitive), Basic Weapons Training (SP), Pistol Training (SP), Ambidextrous, Thrown Weapons Training, Catfall, Heightened Senses (Sight)

Gear:
Stub automatic with silencer and two clips of ammunition
Knife,
3 doses of stimm
Charge (corpse hair)
Black bodyglove (Common Quality Clothing)
Hunting rifle and 16 rounds
10 throwing knives
Engraved knife (memento), broken gunsight (memento)
Photo-Visors

Thrones: 20

Special Qualities: None

Family: All died in a extermenatus, except for my brother, Eisen, who is a Techpreist.

Yes, I used a chargen I found online.

EDIT:Formatted
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Cthulhu on October 29, 2009, 08:38:48 am: Wow, you really need to format that. It's hard to read.
Title: Re: Dark Heresy on the horison
Post by: Luke_Prowler on October 29, 2009, 04:16:03 pm: Ok, I figured out the problem. I have no idea how to open the ports in my firewall (because god forbid you wouldn't need a master's degree to navigate a computer). So if anyone can help me with that, I would be thankful.