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Dark Heresy 1E Fan Supplements

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Way back in 2008 Dark Heresy 1E came out. I was hanging out at DarkReign40k at the time. While there I decided to tackle putting in the Horus Heresy Sisters of Silence as a career path. I had a small team that helped me format the book to look similar to what Black Library used in the original core rulebook. All in all the entire book comes in at 13 pages.


The career path goes from rank 1 up to rank 8. Upon reaching rank 5 people could choose to become a Vigilator, Oblivion Knight, or a Raptor. Part of the rules was the creation of the Untouchable trait. I decided to model it off of the way Black Library did the Psyker trait. The untouchable trait had 6 ranks where as the Sister leveled her null ability became more powerful. I find it to be a better solution to what came in The Radicals Handbook where it was a single level trait that had blanket effects.

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The next fan supplement I did was Adeptus Astartes. This time I had a full team that helped me with the rules. The book is 82 pages long and covers the following:

Character Creation
Career Advances
Chapter Rules
Sills and Talents
Game Rules
Equipment
Vehicles
Psychology and Tips
Notable NPCs

The way we approached space marines was to look at the fluff and decide how we can use it in Dark Heresy. The hardest choice was to decide if and how we would implement their implants. Most marines have all of the implants, so we built them into the career advance system. We also created rules for how to express that implant. Some of them would increase the size of the character while Betcher's Glands would allow the marine to spit acid that did minor damage.

The career path started with the character being a neophyte that had been freshly chosen to become a space marine. They would go into the Scouts then earn the rank of Brother Scout. From there their path branched out into Marines, Chaplain-Novice, Librarium-Sanctionite, and Apprentum. Marines would then become Brother Marines then select their speciality. Their choices were Assault, Tactical, Devastator, and Medicae with each having 3 ranks total. The end of the path would make the marine a sergeant. The other paths had 5 ranks where they ended up as veterans of their speciality.

We modeled every chapter and kept to the fluff on the differences. Like Space Wolves don't have Betcher's Glands and the Sus-an Membrane, but do get the Canis Helix mutation. We also gave certain chapters their unique career paths as they deviate from the Codex Astartes.

The skills and talents section is just an addition of new skills and talents that are tailored specifically to Space Marines.

Under the Game Rules chapter we added special rules for corruption, insanity, and critical damage complete with tables.

The equipment chapter allowed us to expand upon the DH armory quite a bit. A lot of the work we did ended up in the Death Watch RPG. We put in the armor for terminators and standard marines. We added their version of the bolter etc... If it was an iconic Warhammer 40k 4E piece of gear we modeled it.

The vehicles chapter covers the Rhino, Predator base and variants, Razorbacks, Whirlwinds, Vindicator, Land Raiders, and Bikes. Basically it was every ground vehicle that the Space Marines had access to that we put into DH 1E. I believe these stats ended up in the official books. It's nice being the first to do something and having the official stuff use your work.

Psychology and Tips was a chapter dedicated to helping people play as a space marine. We covered the chapters and how they impact a marine's psychology.

The notable NPCs were just random characters that people created using the rules we wrote. A lot of them have great back stories to them.

The last 3 pages of the book is a custom blank character sheet for Space Marine characters. It has everything you would need to play the Space Marine with very little referencing of the core rulebook.

Adeptus Astartes PDF Download

Adeptus Astartes Form Fillable Character Sheet PDF Download


I hope you all enjoy the work that I and my team did in 2008.
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Post by Luckmann »

As a long-time fan of H40kRP (I think Dark Heresy was actually the first PnP I had a chance to play, although my first "real" serious long-term games were Rogue Trader) this is some good shit. I'd post some of my own stuff, but I'm afraid that other than what I kept on my now-mostly-unused Google Drive, it was all left on a computer that died two years ago and I still haven't had the opportunity to get those disks up and running on anything again.
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I'm glad you like the books @Luckmann. You should get the drives going again so you can share your work.
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