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Of Players 3+ Session Time 10+ minutes (because you might well die in the first 10 minutes) Authors Andrew Fischer First Publication 2014 Essential Books Dark Heresy 2nd Edition. Game Master's Kit. Forgotten Gods.
Enemies Within. Enemies Without. Enemies Beyond And lo, on 0556013.M3, the gods did decree to place upon us Dark Heresy 2nd Edition. Dark Heresy 2nd Edition is a repainting of to make it palatable for hunting heretics and daemons. As such, it has ported many aspects from Only War, which makes it varying degrees of both and/or, depending on who you ask. STOP THE PRESS! A new supplement has been announced for the last quarter of 2015 - Enemies Without!
Dedicated to the Ordo Xenos, it will provide a host of new weaponry and a new role dedicated to driving things ('the Ace'). The 'Enemies' announced are Eldar of all kinds, Kroot, Orks and Tyranids. Additional hopes include Xenos vehicles, some new stuff for Radical puritains, and Xenos PCs and Henchmen.
Before the Xenos supplement has even hit the shelves, FFG has announced Enemies Beyond, the Malleus supplement, for the first quarter of 2016. It will expand on the Radical side of the Inquisition, including rules for the creation of daemonhosts and the forging of Dark Pacts. In addition, there are new home worlds (Quarantined Worlds and Penal Colonies).
It will also reintroduce Exorcised PCs. Already infamous for having a fucking horrendous binding. However, showed their -ism by sending out free copies of the books to those who bitched. Contents.
So, what's new? In Dark Heresy Second Edition, a number of game mechanics have been overhauled from the first edition. If you've played Only War, you'll be familiar with some of these changes;.
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Character Creation: Character creation has been significantly changed, with career paths and ranks being replaced with backgrounds and roles. Unlike before, where each home world limited your career choices, an acolyte has the freedom to select whichever world, background, and role they want.
Rank advancement has been removed and replaced with 'aptitudes' that affect how much skills and talents cost. This means that while it is possible to build an adept sniper, it will be much easier to have him focus on knowledge and investigation skills. Aptitudes: These things govern how much xp everything costs. You can only get them at character creation (or if your GM lets you buy the psyker elite advance in-game for some reason), so choose carefully! Note that if you manage to get a duplicate somehow, you can instead choose any Aptitude with the same name as a characteristic (like 'Weapon Skill' or 'Fellowship'). Skills and Talents: Skills are basically the same as in Only War, so there is quite a bit less bloat than in 1E. Talents are still talents.
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Moving rapidly on. Psychic Abilities: The psychic system is much like that of Black Crusade, Only War, Deathwatch, and Rogue Trader - it's based on characteristic tests (generally Willpower or Perception) or skill tests (Psyniscience for Divination) to activate powers. However, while it is possible to 'push' to increase your psy rating (and the horrible consequences of gazing into the warp), it is not possible to cast at the 'fettered' power level: every single power used now has a chance of causing deadly perils!
Furthermore, note that each point of Psy Rating no longer gives you a +5 on the Focus power test, so powers are a bit harder to cast than before. The capabilities of these powers have also been nerfed: a psyker is now less useful/overpowered than in Only War or Black Crusade.
Influence and Subtlety: Influence takes the place of Thrones as the equivalent of currency; rather than corresponding to material goods it represents the party's ability to control others and generally get what they want, whether it's getting new equipment delivered, pulling strings to speed up an investigation, or getting an advantage in social interactions by dropping the right names. Subtlety is an entirely new addition, reflecting how good the party is at keeping its presence a secret- the higher it is, the less likely it'll be that others will know who the party is and the less transparent their actions will be. The GM is the only one who knows the party's exact Subtlety score (although they can try to find out what the score is, usually by way of Awareness or Inquiry tests), but as a rule anything that conceals the party's identities will increase their Subtlety and more overt actions will increase it. High Subtlety isn't always a good thing, however- getting your allies to help you will be a problem if they don't even know what you're up to, and the same cover story that keeps local authorities from interfering with an investigation can backfire on you if those same authorities catch you trying to break into a corrupt noble's mansion. Righteous Fury: Continues the tendency of the game line to reduce how overpowered Righteous Fury is as new games are released. When a die rolls a 10 to damage, you have achieved righteous fury. Roll 1d5 on the appropriate critical hit chart, and the target suffers its effects (without actually immediately going into negative hit points).
If the target would have taken 0 damage from the hit, it instead takes 1 point of damage but no mini-crit. Heavy burst weapons with Tearing can now easily inflict 2 or 3 mini-crits with each volley to 'stunlock' enemies while dealing massive damage. Character Creation The Class system is now 3 levels deep.
This can allow for some pretty ridiculous character customization, like a Feral World Tech-Priest Psyker or a High-born Adeptus Astra Telepathica Assassin (although all of these characters - especially the second one - do have a fluff basis), but if you've got good players it can be pretty neat-o, too. Since the roles are generic, if you have an idea of what kind of character you want to play, like a Tech-Priest or a Bolter-bitch, you can pretty much make it with the new rules. Basics A quick explanation of what the choices do, first.
Aptitudes Aptitudes make things cheaper. Characteristics, Skills, and Talents have aptitudes; for every aptitude the character shares with them, the character spends less experience. Characteristics all have two aptitudes; most Skills and Talents have two, but some only have one, where the other aptitude is 'General', which everyone has, so no-one pays the aptitudeless cost; conversely, there are rare cases (notably some Inquisitor talents) which only possess one aptitude, period, so no-one pays the cost for matching twice.
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To better understand the Aptitudes, here are the Aptitudes and how they map to Characteristics and Skills.
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