RSS feed of darkreign40k.com http://www.darkreign40k.com Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:52:28 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.darkreign40k.com/images/M_images/dr_logo.gif http://www.darkreign40k.com RSS feed of darkreign40k.com http://www.darkreign40k.com/latest/seconded-to-the-deathwatch-2.html Becoming a Space Marine and Styles of Play Greetings, Deathwatch fans! My name is Ross Watson, Lead Developer for Deathwatch. This is the first of many designer diaries that present a number of my thoughts (and those of others on the Deathwatch design team!) about the Deathwatch RPG. In these designer diaries, my intention is to make a solid connection with the fans of the game, present new and exciting information about the Deathwatch line, and have a little fun while doing so. Read more at: http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=1161 (http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=1161). News - Latest Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:00:00 +0100 http://www.darkreign40k.com/ships-of-the-void/fighting-vessels-of-the-adeptus-astartes-2.html The Hunter-class destroyer, although based on a design long available to almost all Space Marine chapters, was pioneered primarily by the Dark Angels, whose deep distrust of other factions within the Imperial hierarchy made acquisition of vessels from shipyards and forgeworlds far more problematic than for most other chapters. As such, the Dark Angels chose the Hunter-class destroyer as the most viable counterpart to the Imperial Navy’s Cobra and maintains large flotillas of the vessel in all their battlefleets. Armoury - Ships of the Void Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:03:24 +0100 http://www.darkreign40k.com/tips-for-scenarios/rejoice-revised.html This is a totally unofficial FanWork Addition to the Adventure Modul Rejoice for you are True! by FFG-Forum Member Grendel21778 (me).In order to make use of it, one needs to have a copy of the adventure pack Purge the Unclean . GM Tips - Tips for Scenarios Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:43:31 +0100 http://www.darkreign40k.com/latest/ffg-announces-deathwatch.html Fantasy Flight Games is proud to announce the upcoming release of their latest roleplaying experience, a game set in the grim darkness of the 41st millennium! This summer, Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay will charge into the front lines with Deathwatch (http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=1139) an experience that centres around elite, special-missions style action involving some of the greatest heroes and deadliest opponents the Warhammer 40,000 universe has to offer. What do you expect from this new game? (http://darkreign40k.com/forum/index.php?topic=3663.msg70823#msg70823) News - Latest Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:39:25 +0100 http://www.darkreign40k.com/latest/read-an-rpg-book-in-public-week-feb-28-march-6.html Read An RPG Book in Public Week is an event that happens three times a year, during the weeks surrounding March 4th, July 27th, and October 1st (starting on the Sunday on or before, and ending on the Saturday on or after). During these weeks, roleplaying enthusiasts are encouraged to take their favorite RPG rulebooks out with them and get caught reading them in public - on the bus, in the coffee shop, at lunch, at the park, or anywhere (as long as it isn't disruptive to work, school, church, or any other functions). The goal is to make the roleplaying hobby more visible, to get it out of the basement and into public areas where more people can see it. This will make others more aware of the hobby - some may ask you what your book is about, giving you the opportunity to explain the hobby to them. A few of those may be interested enough to try it themselves. Former gamers may see what you're reading and think about the great times they used to have with roleplaying, and possibly even try it again. News - Latest Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:37:02 +0100 http://www.darkreign40k.com/latest/wh40k-spacehulk-flashmovie.html When a huge wad of long lost starships breaks real space, the authorities aboard a passing space marine vessel order their men to board (because they've got nothing better to do.) The creator of the flashmovie decided to make this after joking around whilst playing the board game, 'Space Hulk' with friends on a rainy day last fall. After this episode, based on the board games first mission 'suicide mission,' hopefully he will get to animating some of the other 11 missions as additional episodes. Link: www.newgrounds.com (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/527363) News - Latest Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:32:26 +0100 http://www.darkreign40k.com/calixis-sector/grimdark-hardboiled-inquisitorial-noir.html Fresh From the Landing Fields The battered mirror above the cleanser is laughing at me, the scars upon its metal face a mocking reflection of the ridges upon my own. Been a long time since I looked myself in the eyes, a long time away from mirrors. Not sure I like I what I see now. Can't blame the Man for that, though Throne knows I want to. Emperor damn him. So here I am, me and my reflection. Beaten down again by years and what the Man demanded from me. Still standing. Still got the job done. Still coming back to the City. I don't punch the mirror like I want to, like some kid would. Instead I splash the water on my face, turn on the heat unit. Make an effort. Damned if I know who for. Reason has started a great new 'hardboiled' thread on rpg.net. Check it out! (http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=487597) Reason has also released the first part of the Sibbelus Noir supplement (http://www.principiainfecta.com/sibellusnoir/sibellus_noir_part_1.pdf) . Download it and be amazed! Background - Calixis Sector Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:38:25 +0100 http://www.darkreign40k.com/house-rules/rogue-trader-using-wfrp3-dice.html So I’m thinking of using the WFRP3 dice in my game of Rogue Trader. I can assign suitable narrative elements for the non-combat skill tests etc, but I need something with a bit more detail for combat. I’ve come up with the following – do people think this makes sense? New Rules - House Rules Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:54:02 +0100 http://www.darkreign40k.com/new-packages/tech-guard-background-option-for-guardsman.html So at the request of one of my players, I built this background option to expand upon Guardsmen from Forge Worlds a bit. Feedback is most definitely appreciated. New Rules - New Packages Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:05:27 +0100 http://www.darkreign40k.com/latest/new-webcomic-gaming-aidz.html In the distant galaxy of the warhammer 40k universe something odd is happening, three new heroes arrives, which are not quite whats expected. Follow Artie, Leo and Gaz on their epic adventured Mastered by Ronin... a comic created by Emil Ronin Eriksson about four guys with awfully lot of spare time and a Dark heresy book! Meet all of them in Gaming Aidz (gaming-aidz/index.php) let the heresy begin! News - Latest Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:47:13 +0100 http://www.darkreign40k.com/weapons-and-armour/siracxis-death-legion.html Siracxis is a death planet and a penal colony. The only citizens that call this wasteland home are criminals of the worst sort. Only murderers are admitted to Siracxis Penal Colony, so their Death Legion is one of the most dangerous in the Imperial Guard. Armoury - Weapons and Armour Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:48:15 +0100 http://www.darkreign40k.com/new-homeworlds/new-homeworld-frontier-world-pcs-rt.html “’Course I know about plasma generators, an’ warp-core as well. You think my family’ve always bin grox-herders? My father’s father’s father’s father’s father, he was a rating on the Belasarro: decided to join the colonists when they dropped ‘em off here. Now pass’em gloves: gotta fence needs mendin’.” The spread of ‘civilisation’ has taken an uneven course in the Calixis sector, gaining only tentative footholds on some worlds and withering on others. Simultaneously, the tech-level of many of the sector’s most prodigious planets is by no means uniform: the great hive cities of Scintilla, Malfi, Solomon and elsewhere give way to stretches of wilderness containing many tentative settlements whose inhabitants hold substantially different mentalities to those of most hivers. These partially-colonised areas represent the outer edge of Imperial rule: the periphery, where the reach of Imperial justice’s mailed fist does not always extend, and where survival often depends upon one’s ability to compromise, both with one’s environment and one’s neighbours. New Rules - New Homeworlds Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:38:55 +0100 http://www.darkreign40k.com/latest/virtual-tabletop-dark-heresy-game-available.html For quite some time there is an awesome tools available to support rpg over the internet: RPtools. The flagship of RPTools is Maptools which primary function is to create a virtual platform whereupon rpg-ers can play. This can either be accross the world or at the same table with a screen. News - Latest Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:01:52 +0100 http://www.darkreign40k.com/general-background/imperial-view-of-technology.html In our modern society, technology, innovation, and progress are intrinsically linked in our minds. This has not always been the case in our own history, and certainly is not the case in the 41st Millenium. The Imperium of Man’s attitude toward technology is one of the hardest things for new players in this setting to fully grasp. We live with the confidence of knowing that our current level of technology is the highest it has ever been in the history of the human race. Further advancement lies ahead of us through innovation and new discoveries. Humanity in the 41st millenium, however, lives in the shadow of the Dark Age of Technology, a time in their distant past where mankind’s technological prowess was far superior to the technology of their time. All the energy we put into innovation they put into reclamation. Why bother inventing a thing if the ancients did it so much better? All that need to be done is find some long-lost world, some fragment of the legendary Standard Template Construct, that will bring into the fold of human knowledge great and long-lost power. Background - General Background Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:45:46 +0100 http://www.darkreign40k.com/miscellaneous-equipment/polymorphine.html Polymorphine is the drug used by the assassins of the Callidus to alter their features. The assassins inject this drug to restructure their facial look, as well as their body shape. Armoury - Miscellaneous Equipment Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:29:47 +0100