Critiques regarding balance will be specially appreciated.

To avoid a senseless bump: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHNfvJc99YY&feature=related

Pic related

Bumping because I'm a colossal faggot. I also have some fresh happy sauce.

>>12483247
Hi Alt.

>>12483349
Hello.

Npte: Where it says Russians treat Carouse as a basic skill, it should say trained.

>>12483461
Now there's errata.

what is this? looks awesome...

>>12483467

Right-o, hopefully /tg/ won't ignore the free original (well, to an extent) content.

>>12483489

A Napoleonic Era modification using the Dark Heresy d100 system. Increased lethality, political intrigue, espionage and frenchmen, thousands of them.

>>12483522

sounds glorious Austrians going Basterds on occupying French? Russian survivors of Austerlitz trying to make their way back home through french army?So cooool

I personally wanna go Polish Winged Hussar on some Swedish dogs. Will this be possible?

God, this is awesome.

>>12483601

Anything the players want, I was thinking of making an introductory campaign (kinda like the one in the DH corebook) that puts the PCs as members of an <insert nation here> embassy in Paris during the revolution, and they have to dare the crowds to retrieve or rescue X.

>>12483618

Sure, you'd just have to take the Polish nationality, military career path and go for the cavalry side?

I think some of this definitely needs revised. A Low Class British national shouldn't really have those Common Knowledges, especially if he's not in an industrial centre. As far as stats go, +5 is a lot to hand out. I think DH generally does it in +3 or +2's.

>>12483618

If you're playing in the 17th century, sure. But the winged hussars were long gone by the Napoleonic Era.

>>12483847
I just got to the starting packs. How can you even equate Proletarian and Farmer? Ouch. A Criminal getting Poor Relations (Criminal Organisation) makes sense, I suppose, but it'd be much better if it was Good Relations.

>>12483847
No, they're in steps of 5.

>>12483879
The advances are in steps of 5, but stat increases due to background and traits and packages are more often done by smaller margins.

Okay, and knives are better than swords whereas bayonets are the best possible melee weapon. Wut.

>>12483847

The British Nationality is due a downgrade, I agree. As for the +5 and -5, the DH corebook does hand out in 5's (for instance, the Blessed Ignorance trait gives a -5 to all forbidden lore checks). But you are correct again, they could be nerfed.

>>12483876

What do you mean by equate?

>>12483959
>(for instance, the Blessed Ignorance trait gives a -5 to all forbidden lore checks)
That's not a universal modifier or stat increase, though.

>The British Nationality is due a downgrade, I agree.
I'm not sure it needs a 'downgrade'. It's hardly the strongest one there. It should just have a different or more expansive choice of skills/attributes at starting.

>What do you mean by equate?
Farmer is overall much more beneficial. Proletarian is really quite bad, which is a shame because it would be a lot of fun to play.

>>12483957

I remember reading somewhere that the two most lethal weapons of the napoleonic wars (in a hit/kill ratio) were the cannon and the bayonet.

>>12483990
Thay may well be true... but probably not because it's an incredibly damaging weapon. I'm not thinking a bayonet should be the natural choice for any possible melee character. You have it doing 2d10. The same damage as a Great Weapon in DH, and more than any axe, sabre or cavalry weapon going.

>>12483986
>That's not a universal modifier or stat increase, though.

Indeedums, I will look into making a few test characters and change the modifiers accordingly.

>I'm not sure it needs a 'downgrade'. It's hardly the strongest one there. It should just have a different or more expansive choice of skills/attributes at starting.

As you mentioned earlier, a peasant living in the fields would have no reason to have such lores. And to be frank, their con is not much of a con.

>Farmer is overall much more beneficial. Proletarian is really quite bad, which is a shame because it would be a lot of fun to play.

Correct again, just noticed that, will have to look into actually giving some benefits to the proletarians. Any ideas?

>>12484017
I'm afraid my knowledge of that kind of ideology starts about a century later. Maybe something to do with oratory or even a version of Blessed Ignorance might work.

>>12484006

I did intend to make it a real-killer, besides it can only be mounted on a musket. I suppose one could say the extended reach is a bonus enough against other weapons and decrease the damage to the d10 or d5 range accordingly.

This looks incredible. Do you have a site where you're keeping updates on progress and links?

>>12484051

A bonus to moving through urban environments or searching for things or people in said places could work, also a bonus to tech-use, like the Hive-born.

Sadly, I have to leave, as I have class early in the morning. But keep posting suggestions and I'll check them when I wake up.

(Captcha: classes matoloy)

Dammit, that's creepy.

>>12484079

No, I must confess I lack all the required knowledge to do so, I've been mainly keeping to IRC and consulting with the guys in #darkheresyooc channel, at the suptg server.

>>12484061
It should probably do the same amount of damage as a spear in Dark Heresy, which I think was 1d10.

>>12484061
I really do think it should be a d10. And I'd reduce the damage on knives too. Very cool idea though, for all my criticism. The opportunity to play in The Great Game of Napoleonic Europe is wonderful.

>>12484124

This is the picture I drew my inspiration for high damage knives from, it could be feasible to keep the spanish knife as it is (or lower the damage a bit) but still allow for such awesomeness.

>>12484154
Ah, but a knife is not generally better than a sword, eh? I'd say make normal knives 1d5, and if you really want the Spanish Knife make that the 2d5 one, making it superior to your 1d10 sword.

>>12484172

Could be 1d5 too and just have one or two penetration. Yes.

Pretty cool. Look forward to seeing more implemented.

Whoa whoa whoa WHOA

What the fuck? When did this awesome start? I haven't even read past the fourth line in OP and I already desire to throw my wallet at my monitor in a feeble attempt to give you money!

Minor note- I think your Dutch stereotype is a bit out of date as far as things go. Austrians and Spaniards might have cared a century earlier, but by the time of Napoleon... Didn't really give a shit.

But other than that, this is amazing, seriously, I have a hard on about this period.

You need pirates and the navy, probably as alternate career ranks for soldiers, scum and other sorts.

Okay, you also need to make some notes about differences between army systems and how officer mobility worked. Brits, for instance, could buy officer positions- a way into command outside of heroism or birth.

Are there mass battle rules in any Dark Heresy supplements? Don't know if that would be your focus. Also, you should throw down nation specific starter packages, example, Spanish Guerrilla, French refugee, Polish Legionnaire, etcetera etcetera.

Also also also also, any chance you could throw in Ottomans? They were off on the sidelines, but a few were around for Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, dad gummit!

Please tell me what you'd like from the community, I'd like to see this thing become a reality (my OTHER project got...Creepy).

As far as backgrounds go, as noted earlier, you may want to have a split pool of choices per nation. An Irish farmer is VERY different from your average English orphan.

And I hope you were inspired by the 'Sharpe's' series? And and and and and and i should shut up

>>12484512
I assume (from my 5 second skim of the pdf) that he's intending to go into navy, seeing the entry for "Ships" and "Able Seaman" in there.

>>12484523
Other project?

>Napoleonic Dark Heresy

Oh my god why I have never heard of these before I am usually so on top of the homebrews that are flying around here.

I'll see if I can provide any useful feedback. Just give me a minute or two to stop geeking out over this.

It strikes me that you really want to have the player choose class first, then have them select location. Abilities granted by location should differ based on class. I know this is more work, but I think it'd be a big improvement.

>>12485395
In fact, maybe what you want is Rogue Trader's background system. Scrap the 'You can only choose X career' at the end of it, but keep the lifepath-style traits.

>>12485418
I second this motion!

>>12485434
So what would they be?
Class
Nationality
Heritage? Background? Something relating to how you were brought up?
Education?

>>12485530
Maybe you should wedge ethnicity in there as well?

Probably doesn't apply so much to the Frenchies (Unless you want to cannibalize Poles, German Minors, Egyptians blah blah blah) but it makes a BIG difference in Britain.

I'd say start with Nationality- Nationality leads to a choice of Ethnicities, Ethnicities lead to Class, Class to Career, Career to Ambition?

>>12485613
Yeah, in Britain it does but frankly rather than have a seperate step for them all let's just have the initial choices be Scottish, Irish, English and Welsh.

Career is really what you pick at the end (Soldier, Assassin, etc) and I think Class should come first.

I think something about Upbringing is important. Whether you worked in the mill as a kid, whether you applied yourself as a gentleman, whether or not your parents were harsh and/or religious...

But Ambition sounds good. I like that as one of the steps.

Maybe:
Class
Nationality
Upbringing?
Ambition
????

Or ???? and Ambition as the final step.

>>12485653
Good point, though would you put rural types as a separate class unto themselves, or would you just have that be part of upbringing? A middle class farmer is very different from a middle class craftsman after all.

And as long as I'm overcomplicating character creation, obviously military careers are going to have a heavy emphasis, but would there be other careers?

All the nations will be a headache too...Gah.

>>12485682
Well, he's written a bunch of nation stuff already. There certainly seem to be non-military careers in the draft.

I'm not sure if we should differentiate between area as well. The stated British benefit, a knowledge of Natural Sciences or Industry, seems appropriate for rural Middle Class and Upper Class as well as non-rural ones. It just doesn't seem appropriate for Lower Class.

I'm leaning on saying 'don't divide' for that but OP will make the final decision. I can see where you are coming from.

>>12485750
I agree, for sanity's sake. I'm just tempted to go hog wild with character customization to reflect the variety of the era, even as the making sense part of my brain tells me that reams upon reams upon reams of choices will just bog down character creation.

>>12485778
I figure we have, you either select Nationality or Class first.

Either way, you go to what it says about your Class with your Nationality.

Then Upbringing, should probably be general. I'm not sure exactly what, but stuff like Strict Tutelage, Layabout, Workhorse... anything general that can apply across backgrounds.

We should probably have something here before Ambition, but I don't know what. Maybe just a generic Fortune, in which case it should probably go before Upbringing.

Ambition would be the most similar to the Rogue Trader stuff, being your goal or ideal for the career you choose.

What do you think?

>>12485802
Why not career? It doesn't have to be what your character becomes- a man can be a tailor for twenty years, and still pick up a musket and do some damage when le Grande Armee crosses the border and crushes his town.

Make it vague; Craftsman, Priest, Layabout (Due to inheritance or allowance from wealth), Soldier (Drummer boys were recruited sometimes as young as 12, right? Or was that an earlier era I'm thinking of), Sailor, etcetera.

I agree with what you're saying. I think I'm going about it the wrong way, making everything set in stone. Trying to keep generic for players to make up their back stories would be better.

So, if I might attempt to get an idea through example: I want to make a Polish Legionnaire, so I choose Polish nationality, follow from there to Lower Class, Repressed Upbringing, Farmer Career, and Ambition: Nationhood (Poland). No idea what those bonuses would be, but whatever.

Do I have the right gist?

>>12485835
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking of. Then you'd pick your in-game Career Path and go.

I'm just really hesitant to include career when that is the method for advancement, the career path. The pre-game career, that's found in WFRP, but not in DH. Maybe Background? Covering either what you did before the Career Path or just the environment you grew up in if you've always done what your Career Path is.

Well, this is surprisingly awesome. Do us a favor, and add it to www.1d4chan.com and sup/tg/ when you finish it, OK?

>>12485853
British, Upper Class, Private Schooling, Layabout, Ambition: Glory. Career Path: Soldier.

>>12485851
Background fits excellently, I'm disappointed in myself that I didn't think of that earlier.

It'd be hard to have a Rogue Trader style grid to follow through though. A lot of nationalities to choose from, unless you decide to lump them together, like "Coalition Nations," "France and Allies," "Fence Sitters," or whatever.

>>12485862
I don't think we can have exactly the grid, you're right. But we're not necessarily following a path towards restricted career options, so maybe that doesn't matter. I just thought of that because it seems like a lifepath thing fits well for this style of game, and that's the DH system lifepath - the Rogue Trader one.

>>12485875
Well, it's a period game. I think it's a cool thing myself, because I relish in that kind of thing. Heck, I have a pdf of Traveller just for the character creation system.

Anyway- I don't know what, if anything, to work on now. Obviously, much needs to be done, but I dunno if OP has plans or what.

You got any idea? I'm just look for excuses to constructively bump this thread here.

>>12485902
Could review the class and nationalities in the document. Most likely there's stuff that needs changed and moved around. I'm feeling too lazy to type out something long and analytical right now though, so I don't blame anyone for not doing that.

Or we could just talk about Napoleon.

>>12485913
I'd love to, but I'm staying up too late as it is. I need to get up in six freaking hours to drive an hour to a shit job that's the only thing I can get around here.

Regrettably, it doesn't appear the rest of /tg/ has much interest besides... Which is a shame. Oh well. Reality must crush my desires, night.

>>12485972
People were interested earlier, it's just sequencial. Goodnight.

Some comments, this here depends on when you start:
>The Prussian Army is as harsh as it is disciplined, commanders don’t shy away from punishing those who deserve it, even to the point of death. You start with one less wound.

Physical punishment was abolished in the course of the Prussian Army Reform.

>While your nation does not physically exist, your culture, language and customs live on in your people. You want freedom more than anything else and you will do anything to obtain

If you start during the revolution or the first Revolutionary War the Polish Partition wasn't finished yet, 1807 Poland would reemerge as the Duchy of Warsaw.

Generally I would stress the difference between Light Infantry and Cavalry and Line&Heavy Infantry and Cavalry.
Skirmishing between light troops happened every day, as fighting between Rear and Advance Guards, for reconnaissance or specialized mission.
During larger engagements your player will be able to show much more initiative as light infantry.

This is all SuperAwesome, and perfect for my purposes of running a game in revolutionary France. You, sir, are a scholar and a gentleman!

Only criticism is that so far it's a bit military-heavy, which is fine for a skirmish game but possibly not for the espionage bit.

Just a few ideas for other careers/backgrounds include the political agitator, 'camp follower' (a whore career path? Awesome!), foreign manservant, loyalist exiled American, a spy equivalent, actor, Maccaroni dandy, highwayman, etc, etc...

Pic related to the combat bit.

>>12486217
Remember it's nowhere near complete. This is one career path - the soldier - out of many. That's why it is military heavy.

How hard would it be to apply this to, say, William of Orange's war against England?

>>12486302
I can't imagine it would be too difficult, but it'd require some revision.

A little off-topic, but it'd be neat if we wrote up a Babylon 5 module for DH.

>>12485851
>>12486217
>WFRP

...Come to think of it, WFRP (Second edition suggested) might be a good thing to look at for this. It has a lot of its own wonkiness, but I've borrowed some ideas for my DH game. For example, its crit system is flat-out better than Dark Heresy, where a paper cut on your left hand makes it more likely for the next punch to chop your right foot off. The critical hit tables are still there, they're just independent from attack to attack with an extra randomization layer and some better results for black powder and different melee weapons.

>>12486352
For WFRP, I use Josef's crit charts and injury rules. A Polish doctor with too much time on his hands had a lot of fun writing them up.
http://www.windsofchaos.com/?page_id=19

>>12486384
>>12486352
Hmm.

Ignoring OP's hard work for the moment, how would you have nationalities affect characters in WFRP?

I just want my sweet sweet bayonet and powder action damn it.

>>12486401
The splatbooks actually have their own rules for this.

I prefer DH's system to WFRP but for a pre-prevalent gunpowder game WFRP might be better. I think OP has the right idea though.

>>12486493
Yeah, the monster statblocks got a whole lot better with the addition of the Unnatural Characteristics, so you don't have Ogres with 4 lightning fast attacks.

But Josef's crit charts are so fucking awesome I'm willing to steal what I want from DH to make WFRP work. That and the career system.

>>12486511
>>12486493
GENTLEMEN!

We know what we must do!

EGREGIOUSLY COMBINE TWO VERY DIFFERENT RULES SETS INTO AN UNNATURAL FRANKENSTEINIAN (Gygaxian?) ABOMINATION!

>>12486522
I'm not very keen on telling the OP to move into a ruleset that is no longer in use and with which he may not be familiar with in the slightest.

>>12486531
Why can't we do it ourselves, and not make the OP do the work?

>>12486522
They're pretty much the same ruleset, you know.

Autofiring, magic, and Unnatural characteristics are some of the only real differences. That and DH classes get more specific with age, while WFRP careers start in a small niche and generalize up.

>>12486542
Also an integral divide between having higher stats and using significant equipment bonuses. And fixed and optional means of progress.

>>12486541
Fine, once we find out if that's okay or not. Emphasis on the telling, wait for some OP feedback first.

>>12483990
Consider that of all weapons the Bayonet saw the most use due to its numbers fielded and the amount of training involved with using it. On a case-by-case basis a sabre or other dedicated melee weapon would outdo it. Statistically the weapon used overwhelming has the highest results. A fitting number would be a d10+2. It's a melee weapon, so it will get strength attached to it. It's going to do a good portion of damage.

Just throwing in my knowledge.

>beating finnish
No Finns in this, sorry.

>>12486607
That's still higher than a sabre, sword or axe.

>>12484422

Quite, but I couldn't find much about the Dutch about that time other than they fought against Napoleon.

>>12484512

I was thinking of dividing the scum career path, one for low class peeps (Crime Lord or such) and one for High Class (White Glove con of some sort).

>>12484523

Technically speaking, the officer grades from the military career path may only be taken by high class PCs and, maybe, middle class PCs, but always at the GMs discretion (as, say, France would allow low class people to rise to officers).

I had originally included the Ottomans but couldn't think of anything for them, besides, they would require a more or less separate career path and starter packs of their own.

Rest assured, if this is successful I have expansion books in mind (namely Metternich Handbook's which would expand to the 1860s and add the yanks) and the Iron Chancellor's Manifesto (which would expand to the 1890s).

I know of Sharpe, though I haven't read the books.

And any help would be appreciated, specially historical data about units, equipment, etc

.>>12485418

Oh, the starter packs in now way limit your available careers, you could roll a low class soldier and then start on the Criminal career path by having him be a deserter.

>>12485653

This is getting better by the post.

>>12485778
>>12485802

The more, the merrier, chaps.

I'm reading a lot of excellent input here, and I have to say I should have provided an editable version of the file. So I'll go ahead and upload it.

>>12486558

I have never read or played WFRP but hey, if you want to modify things based on that game (I hear it's pretty good), I'm all for it.

LINK TO WORD DOCUMENT: http://www.mediafire.com/?kd5622xbqccy2bp

>>12486217

Political agitator and, I was thinking, a "woman in disguise" starter pack of some sort were in my to-do list, yes.

>>12486010

The game starts circa 1810.

>>12486384

I had read those before, fit in quite nicely and much more so than DH crit table (with what there not being lasers and energy based weapons).

Also, Middle Class and High Class should start with Literacy as a basic skill. Errata #2.

>>12485802

You could work that on a d10 roll and make it something like:

Bad Luck - Common Life - Good Fortune - Luck's Favourite Son

That would affect starting funds, property, personality, etc.

Make a 1d4chan page for this, OP.

something this awesome needs a bumpo.

Now that I have time, brief update with the suggestions made in this thread:

http://www.mediafire.com/?cw5tr6e46motre9

Oh, awesome. You came back. I'll check out the update.

If you expand to the Ottomans, do the Raj and other prominent areas of Asia/Africa too. That would fill up an expansion nicely, I suspect.

And we could play badass chakram-throwing Sikhs.

Okay, I'll try to offer some criticism over time here:

Basically, I quite like class as you have it. I think you should make one or two changes though:

Low Class is a little worse than the other too. I suggest offering a talent as well as the Gamble skill; something related to being hardy, tough or capable of hard work. Alternatively, make the wound gap a little bigger - 8/6/4 for instance. Or 8/6/5. Another thing I think you have to consider about the Low Class is that they will lack equipment compared to the other PC's. This isn't really a bad thing, because that's pretty much how it would be. I just want to confirm you intend to have starting equipment? If you don't, then perhaps have a means of 'Indenture' whereby the Low Class players start with equipment and pay it off, or are considered to just be renting it.

Middle Class I am fine with, but I would offer a broader suite of choices instead of simply Scholastic Lore (Any Social Science). Speak Language (Any) or Perform (Any) also seem appropriate. How about a choice between them?

High Class I am fine with, although I might consider reducing the starting wounds by one. And I suppose the point about Perform (Any) fits here too.

Okay, now onto the Nationalities too.

First up, Spain. Spain is pretty solid. The disadvantage is quite significant, and doesn't allow for later story/character building, so maybe something else would be better here. You have the choice between two skills and +5 WS. The skills aren't incredibly useful ones however and a stat boost is often stronger than a skill as it is. I would maybe suggest changing the skills or offering a broader choice, but I generally approve of Spain.

Dutch. You're giving two Rival talents so I figure a reputation talent is pretty suitable. However, instead of a universal Good Reputation (Middle Class) what about the Barter or Appraise skills? Or maybe Rep and one of these skills if you want them to be very good as middle class negotiations right out the door.

Sweden are also pretty solid, but you might perhaps want to offer different attributes instead of only the +5 BS. To take it from Spain, you offer two skills and a stat boost as the choices. Maybe here offer Common Knowledge (War) or (Tactics), +5 BS or... Survival?

More later.

Just as a note to Proletarian. That's pretty good now. Would suggest making it reduce the difficulty of Survival, Tracking AND Search tests in cities by one step rather than giving the modifier to one.

I assume Starting Packages will cost some exp, as they do in DH normally. This one shouldn't cost too much because you trade -5 to an important stat for a skill and two conditional modifiers. I would say 100 or 200 probably.

>>>12489839
>I just want to confirm you intend to have starting equipment?

I do intend to provide starting equipment, yes, and I do like your rent idea, maybe from NPCs, maybe from less than sharing fellow PCs.

I also intended to give Middle Class people an extra language (most likely french, since it was still big on diplomacy and such).

>>12489884

Lack of funding is, indeed, a heavy disadvantage when compared to those of other nations.

Barter or Appraise would go in hand with the middle class rep talent for the Dutch, and make them the party traders, if anything.

Here are the would-be corrections:

Spain is a country known by many things, but mainly for its combative people, love of music and good food. Start with Trade (Cook) and Perform (Any) or Frenzy or Berserk Charge.

The United Netherlands, free from Spain after a hard struggle in the 16th century, are now a centre of commerce and capitalism. Start with Good Reputation (Middle Class) and Appraise or Barter as trained skills.

High Class Wounds lowered to 5.

Enlightenment (the middle class is the most important piece on the board, motor for social, political and economical change. Your studies have allowed you to become a very intelligent individual with an insight of how the world works. Gain Scholastic Lore (Any Science)), Taste (a good gentleman must be able to tell a master piece of the arts from the works of a common street peddler and, in turn, be able to make one himself. Start with Perform (Any)).

>>12489932

Done, and they are supposed to be paid for in XP, yes.

>>12490442
I think giving a stat boost is fine really, I was just saying some choice isn't too bad either. Thanks for listening. It'll probably be a few hours before I come out for other suggestions. I feel a bit awkward as the sole critic, like as right now. Dutch are pretty boss traders!

>>12486823
>Quite, but I couldn't find much about the Dutch about that time other than they fought against Napoleon.

For most of the time they were French allies.
Initially fought against Revolutionary France and were overrun together with the Austrian Netherlands.
The satellite Batavian Republic was then created and under Napoleon transformed into the Kingdom of Holland ruled by Napoleons brother Louis.
1810 the whole country was annexed by France because Napoleon was unsatisfied with Louis administration and wanted to better control the Continental System.

>>12490642
Fucking Napoleon.

This is pretty cool OP. Is it archived?

>>12490808

Did so an hour or so ago.

>>12490642

What about the population, what were their feelings towards Nappy?

>>12490584

No worries, I'll admit that I'm a bit biased towards spaniards due to reading one too many of Perez-Reverte's books.

Also added Hatred (French) for the Austrians, as well as Poor Relations and Rival, since Austria was at war the longest with France (some 100 months or so, I read).

>>12490907
I'd be hesitant to throw out Hatred because it is sort of a way to tell you how to play your character. I think the option for Hatred is better than it being automatically included.

>>12490907
Most likely favorable until 1810-1812, a general war-weariness set in during 1813 in France and the satellite states because of the constant demand for new recruits and and the economical problems as a result of the continental system.

http://napoleonistyka.atspace.com/index.html Is a good online resource to get a overview of the major armies btw.

>>12491081

Interestingly enough, I got most of my equipment information from that site.

>>12490918

Well, other than the extra language, the austrians aren't getting much of anything.

Also, edited so the Italians have Trade, Perform and Common Lore (instead of OR) as Trained skills to compensate for the WP loss.

Potential first game gm bumpan

This idea sucks and you suck.

<333

>>12493526
hi alt

>>12493526

Of course I do.

>>12491174
I think you should just make adjustments you see fit to the countries and we can look them over en masse. Everyone should be roughly equal, even if that equality is one person having three skills and another having +5 to a stat and a mediocre talent.

Remember that the DH backgrounds (Caves of Steel, Iron Stomach) offer bonuses and penalties not part of the normal DH system. You have a little of this, but maybe such extraneous modifiers could be looked at down the line, once more of the system is in place.

Bumpan

pic highly appropriate.. my current desktop

last bump, need sleep

keep up the good work OP

Totally using this to run a Sharpe campaign. Cheers, OP

Here's forty shillings and the drum / for those who volunteer to come / to 'list and fight the foe today / o'er the hills and far away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fy3tSim3to

Bumpage.

fuck, don't bump it, this is a good thread and now it'll get filled with scat porn, you moron.

>>12494735

I'll look over that when I come back from class and try to make a post later today then.

>>12498451
There are several threads on the front page which haven't been. But I'm sure now you've posted that, this will be. Well done.

Do you think the Childhood/Upbringing thing should provide any bonuses or just be a fluff thing?

>>12499891

Nevermind, checked the Rogue Trader PDF and I think I get the hang of it.

>>12499919
>>12499891
Eh, decide for yourself what you want to include. It doesn't have to be an exact fit.

>>12499935

I'm just worried about giving the players too many bonuses and thus making the game too easy.

>>12499944
RT is more powerful than DH, but a lot of that comes from gear. Fair point, I suppose.

>>12499960

Exactly, this is supposed to be like DH but even more lethal.

Question time:

For Dutch Cons:

A. Calvinist ethics are quite strong in your country, and as a result your people have kept away from material goods and luxuries. This is a very obvious advantage when dealing with business, but leaves you with an inability to enjoy or resist some of life’s finest pleasures. You may never take the Carouse or Chem-Use skill and if you are forced to use either, you take a -5 to the Toughness tests to resist their effects. Also, you are Dutch.

vs.

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>>12500034 Exactly, this is supposed to be like DH but even more lethal.

It's already going to be hellishly lethal, just 'cause there's no way to heal wounds other than from natural healing (although interesting fact - some of Napoleon's surgeons were treating wounds with antibiotics 130 years before they were properly discovered - they used a poultice of moldy bread, which contained antibiotic compounds).

Also, dang; this thread's been around for days. I can't believe it's only got a hundred-odd posts.

>>12502039

We have Combat Medicine (dirty bandages) and Trade (Medicine) which amounts to an amputation with rusty saw but hey, it's better than nothing.

You don't want to make it too much more lethal. DH is already more lethal than WFRP, albeit you can survive worse wounds without retiring.