Toying With A New Idea – In-Character Game Write-Ups

The Wonders of 40th Millennia Medicine…

The thing that I enjoy most about playing (and indeed GM’ing) a roleplaying game is the storytelling aspect. I skill my character according to what skills fit their character rather then min-maxing or building a character for a single purpose.

Since I currently have a surfeit of time on my [...]

What Alignment Is [Insert Fictional Character]?

Alignment has been on my mind of late.
I’m not a massive fan of alignment, because I feel it’s a bit too restrictive – no character is always going to fall into one of nine categories when they make a decision. Notheless, alignment is still a part of gaming and it needs it’s paragons. So, thanks [...]

Nuclear Winter: Scotland in 2042

(For the introduction to this setting, please see here)

United Europe Intelligence Report
Highly Classified – Eyes Only
Note: Illegal possession of this document may result in summery conscription and mechanization.

Nuclear Threat In Scotland

Scotland, despite it’s much reduced population size, lack of effective government and lack of habitable environment remains the largest threat to the continuing [...]

A Moral Quandary Too Far?

At my last Dark Heresy session, I was faced with one of the most discomforting scenes I’ve ever had to roleplay.

Myself and two other Acolytes were charged with infiltrating a death cult in a one shot campaign while our regular GM was on holiday. The climax of this involved three members of the Inquisition presiding [...]

Dark Heresy RP Help Needed – Critique My Character Bio!

Due to various factors, I missed out of spending my youth enacting grand battles with Space Marines and Orks and such like. It’s a bit of shame, because while the Warhammer 40k universe is a bit straight forward, it seems to be very good fun to mess about it. You can have all sorts of [...]