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Battle Sister 'With Faith and Fire.” — First Maxim of the Sororitas. To be a sister of the Adepta Sororitas is to have a holy and divinely ordained calling to do the Emperor’s will, to lead the faithful by example and to punish and destroy the heretic wherever and whenever it is found. The Orders Militant of the Adepta Sororitas (or the Daughters of the Emperor to give them their archaic title), are a powerful and largely independent collection of religious orders that form the militant wing of the Imperial Ecclesiarchy, protecting its domains, enforcing its will, destroying its enemies and defending the faithful. Each member of this all-female sisterhood is sworn to the Imperial Creed, relentlessly trained to excel and is utterly devoted to her Order, her work and the Imperial faith. The Sororitas is formed into two divisions: the great Convent Prioris on Terra and the Convent Sanctorum of the shrine world of Ophelia IV. The Sororitas is further subdivided into several component Orders.
The principle task of the Orders Militant or Sisters of Battle is to persecute the Ecclesiarchy’s wars of faith and serve as a fighting arm of Ordo Hereticus. Members of the Orders Famulous specialise as councillors, diplomats, teachers and investigators. The Orders Dialogous serves in translating and understanding ancient, xenos or heretical texts, ciphers and history. Finally, the Orders Hospitaller provides skilled surgeons and physicians to the Imperial military. Regardless of her Order, each Sororitas sister is a highly trained and adaptable agent of the God-Emperor.
Each is willing to lay down their lives for Creed and mankind: strong of will and firm of purpose. They are also armed with one of the greatest of weapons in humanity’s arsenal—faith. The origins of the Adepta Sororitas lie in the dark days of the Age of Apostasy and perhaps even before. Their modern form took shape in the Reformation of Sebastian Thor that ended the wars of religious schism and gave birth to Ordo Hereticus. They owe their power in no small part to Thor’s great Decree Passive that prevented the Ministorum from raising permanent bodies of “men under arms”. Following the disbanding of the Ecclesiarchy’s standing armies and fleets, the Sororitas were given the task of defending the Ecclesiarchy and Imperial faith from direct threat. They also form the Chamber Militant of Ordo Hereticus of the Inquisition, a zealous and utterly fanatical force of elite soldiers, learned savants and skilled physicians who are an invaluable part of the Hereticus’s war on unbelief, witchery and, of course, heresy.
The Power of Faith The power of the purity, will and faith of an Adepta Sororitas sister is a tangible and real thing, capable of shielding her from the psyker’s power or the Daemon’s wrath and enabling her to perform deeds that are nothing short of miraculous. A Sororitas sister’s faith manifests as a series of specialised Talents that allow the character to use her Fate Points in unique ways to achieve extraordinary effects. See page 50 for more details. Sororitas Characters Adepta Sororitas are courageous, pious, self-sacrificing, chaste and faithful. They are fanatics, bound by harsh and restrictive religious oaths and ingrained zealotry. As a Sororitas, the simple fact of who and what you are dictates many of your character’s actions and responses— far more so, in fact, than almost any other character type or Career choice.
Because of these factors, Sororitas characters are recommended for experienced players and are not included as part of the usual random character generation process. In order to create an Adepta Sororitas, you must obtain the GMs permission first. All Sororitas characters are human females without exception and cannot be marked with mutation or Corruption Points at the start of the game. You must hail from a Feral World or Imperial World, or have the Schola Progenium or Noble Origin. GMs should also consider the kind of campaign and adventures they intend to run before allowing their players to use Sororitas characters.
This is not simply because the Sororitas Career is a powerful option (and it is unashamedly so) but because, if played correctly, a Sororitas character is completely and utterly unforgiving of anyone and anything that has truck with the forbidden in any form—including other Acolytes, Radically inclined Inquisitors and anybody marked by mutation or the alien. Adepta Sororitas Starting Package The Adepta Sororitas recruits promising candidates from a number of different locales, based upon promise, strength of character and, above all, piety. Years of harsh and exhaustive training follow in matters intellectual, physical and spiritual. There is much to be learned from basic weapon drill, to the lives of the saints and the many and complicated strictures, tenets and codes of the Rule of the Sororitas by which they must learn to live. Even up to the point where the aspirant dons the symbolic Ring of Suffrage and takes the Oaths of Adherence to become a novice sister, she may be failed by her tutors or leave at any time without censure. The sisterhood desires neither grudging obedience nor false piety in its ranks; they allow only those of true fanatic devotion. Starting Skills: Common Lore (Imperial Creed) (Int), Literacy (Int), Performer (Singer) (Fel), Speak Language (Low Gothic) (Int) and Trade (Copyist) (Int).
Starting Talents: Basic Weapon Training (Primitive), Melee Weapon Training (Primitive), Pistol Training (Las) and Pure Faith (see page 50) Starting Gear: Club or flail or staff, las pistol and charge pack, carapace chest plate and mesh cowl or feudal plate, aquila necklace, chaplet Ecclesiasticus (a devotional iconamulet), vestments (Good Quality Clothing), 4 candles, writing kit, copy of the Rule of the Sororitas, and Ring of Suffrage (counts as a charm). Starting Wealth: 70+2d10 Thrones. Monthly Income: Supine Class.
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(Cross)post it here! NOTE: Posts to torrents and other unsanctioned download sources will not be tolerated. They will result in an immediate ban. How much experience do you have with Warhammer 40k in general? If you are playing Dark Heresy, you will not play Space Marines (unless your GM is extremely generous and/or dumb, or you get to really high levels), Chaos (ever.) or Imperial Guards (. You can play a Guardsman, but it'll not be in a warzone.) If you want to play a Space Marine, you should look into Deathwatch. If you want to play as Chaos, you want to look into the Black Crusade.
If you want to play as a guardsman in a warzone, you want to look into Only War. I believe this is the most active subreddit. Sadly, the community for these games are tiny and not very active, though this subreddit does seem to have a few people willing to answer questions all the time. As for the complexity: It's a lot more complex than DnD5E. First and foremost, you will want to get accustumed to a completely different type of rolling. In DnD, you roll a 1d20 and add your bonuses, and then want to get a hight number.
In Dark Heresy (and all the other related games), you instead roll a 1d100, and then compare that number to your skill. Any bonuses or penalties are added to your skill, not your roll. And you want low numbers. So for example, if you are shooting a dude, and you have 50 Ballistic Skill (this is a moderatly high number, you will not be able to start that high), then you roll 1d100 and compare that to 50. If you roll below 50, you succeed.
If you roll higher than 50, you fail. A sudden fog rolls in. You now get a -10 penalty to shooting.
That means that you again roll 1d100, but this time you compare it to 50-10=40. Again, you want a lower number. Damage, however, works as normal (roll a number of dice, add bonuses, higher is better. Usually the only damage dice you'll see are 1d10 or 1d5). Honestly I've never read a single book, I've really only played Dawn of War. I've just read a lot of stories people have written on their experience with the game, which got me really hyped.
My lore knowledge is 100% just the assimilation of ALOOOOOT of wiki pages lol, but I love the setting. I defintly want to play Dark Heresy, I just wasn't sure how the character creation worked exactly and a game I'm potentially joining mentioned chaos and SM. I've looked into careers abit more, how are the tech priest and adept played? I haven't read any books either, and I haven't even played DoW:P I've just read the wiki a lot, so you're good xD Dark Heresy is all about you guys being an acolyte team. You are working for the Inquisition, and your goal is to root out heresy and such. Usually the GM will attach you to one of the three Ordos; Malleus if the campaign focuses on killing Daemons, Xenos if the GM wants you killing aliens, or Hereticus if he wants you rooting out cultists and shit. Do note that I have only ever played 1 game of this; my experience is limited.
I'll try my best to help though. The Adept is not a combat class. If you chose it, you will not be fighting. You'll be leaving that to the meat-tanks such as the Guardsmen, for example. The Adepts main role is to be the library for the group; the adept is supposed to know everything about everything.
The Tech-Priest is a bit more diverse; I personally play a techpriest, and I've built mine to be an absolute monster in combat. Seriously, I handle about 75% of the encounters alone. However, the tech-priest can also be built more similarly to an adept, where they know a ton about all sorts of things. Not to the same degree as the adept, but the Tech-Priest is more versatile.
As far as I can see, a lot of the classes can be very versatile depending on where you spend your exp. There are some that are very narrowly focused though. The Guardsman can basically only fight. One of my partymembers is one, and as far as I can see, there's nothing but fighty stuff on their advancements. I've heard the Assassin is similar; only capable of fighting stuff, but BOY do they fight stuff! Adepts, as mentioned, are mainly knowledge focused. I can't remember any others that are so narrowly knowledge focused, honestly, but many can be built that way.
Oh, also; Beware, Dark Heresy is a far more brutal system than DnD5E. If you fuck up, you WILL die. And there's no resurrection in here (well, tehre technically is, but it's really not a good idea, and it's so hideously expensive that it generally won't happen), so dead is dead. (Incidentally, this is why I greatly enjoy my TechPriest. He's really REALLY hard to kill. I mean, I'm keeping up with the Guardsman, despite also branching into several knowledge bits, while he's all combat all the time).
Am also tech-priest. Currently sporting a higher armour rating than the party's full-plate Sister of Battle thanks to my sub-skin armour and Armour Monger talent. All my devotion to the Omnissiah has finally paid off. Although at the end of the last session, said Sister of Battle killed about 10 times as many Khorne cultists as the rest of us put together. Unfortunately, we were in an arena with blood-draining grooves in the ground that channeled all that righteous slaughter into summoning a big-ass demon and we're well on course for an extensive violation by the Ruinous Powers next week. Adepts are a great resource for the party! I recommend you go into the chirurgeon (or whatever its called) tree, so that you can access Medicae and become really good at that.
That'll give you very useful stuff to do in combat that does not involve shooting things. Namely, running around and patching up those silly meat tanks!
(Trees: Each class have at least one point where their advancement trees branch out, and they ahve to chose one path. Most have only one, but a few (like the Adept) have two.
I have yet to see any with three.) Also, as for Tech Priest walking tank; if you do, convince the GM to let you use the Inquisitors Handbook book. It's a great book, he'll likely want to use it anyway. The reason is that in that book, the alternate rank 'Mechanicus Secutor' exists. It's basically a more militant version of the TechPriest.
You have to sacrifice one advancement rank and replace it with the Secutor level, but that is a small price to pay for the amazing stuff you get from Secutor. Primarily, you want the 'Machinator Array' talent; it costs a whopping 500 exp, but gives you +10 STR, +10 Toughness (removes -5 Agi and -5 Fellowship, IIRC), and lets you mount any pistol or melee weapon in your Gun Mechadendrite.
Then shove the biggest gun you can find on your mechadendrite =D I'm currently sporting an Integrated Lathe Las-Pistol (from the Lathe Worlds book, another splatbook. It connects directly into the potentia coil inside a techpriest, so it has literally infinite ammo. Though it can't be disconnected from the techpriest. But who cares! It's also got great damage =D ). Reminds me of a story i once heard heard about DH1, a psyker rolls badly trying to scry an NPCs memory and summons a plague bearer. Witnesing this transgression of realspace take place a bunch of nearby innocent bystanders gain corruption points causing some of them to develop stigmatas and sorcerous powers.
Long story short, this sets of a chain reaction over the next few sesions that eventually force the players to contact their Inquisitor so that he can have the plenet sanctioned for exterminatus. One of the biggest changes you'll experience is that there are no nicely defined challenge ratings or levels. You begin the game rather competent and on the level with the majority of things you will encounter. But the game combat and damage model is a bit more 'realistic' scale of things.
It doesn't matter if you are the Lord Inquisitor himself, a bolt to the unarmored noggin is going to have the same effect as a bolt to the head of the common thug (maybe. Just maybe one more point of damage absorption). So you want to be careful in a Dark heresy game with who you engage in combat and how you engage. Many times the outcome will be determined from your very decision to attack or evade an encounter. The more combats and the longer it drags out you are in the greater chance your head explodes in righteous service of the Emperor.
Always fight from cover when possible. Oh and something my dnd players still fall into and they've been playing 40k for years. Unlike dnd, orcs are not just simple trash monsters. They give Space Marines a tough time and should inspire fear in the common acolyte especially as your bullets and lasbolts bounce off their green hides. So if your gm mentions orcs, set your dnd mental state more on 'horde of compact hill giants'. Dark Heresy is Inquisition, Deathwatch is Space Marines, Black Crusade is Chaos and Only War is Imperial Guard. They are all slightly different variations of the same core system, each with some unique quirks of their own.
The different rulesets can be mixed, but it's generally not a good idea to do so. The power levels between the different settings are too incompatible, for one. There are also some rules that differ and conflict between rulesets (most notably, psychic powers). Which books you'll need depends entirely on the game you're getting into. It's a question better directed specifically at your GM, rather than an open discussion like this. Or if you're interested in being GM, I recommend starting with Dark Heresy.
DH is the 'baseline' to which the other 40kRPG systems are generally compared to.