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@Jbcool
Then what difference is there between Specialty and Rank? Also I sent you a CS. Finally as you will read my guy is more than "hurr hurr kill stuff" in his personality.

@Andreyich

Speciality = Tactical Marine, Apothecary, Chaplain, Devastator Marine etc

Rank = Where they are in the hierarchy of their parent Chapter I.E. Brother-Sergeant, Captain, Honour Guard, Sanguinary Priest, and so on and so forth.

This page (reddit.com/r/40krpg/comments/210lfr/de..) pretty much explains what I'd expect in better terms than I can...especially these gems:

"It has a the heaviest 40k-lore requirement to play from both the players and the GM."

"It's hard for the players to conceptualise what it's like to be a superhuman killing machine. Most attempts to roleplay this mindset result in them being one-dimensional and assume that their personalities are completely robbed from them by the SM creation process. This creates a situation where you have a bunch of super powerful arthurian knights that are all about duty killing stuff. This is not necessarily true. Space Marines are duty-bound, sure, but if this were 100% the case, you'd never have renegades or traitor marines. Furthermore, every chapter is different and has their own different ways of doing things. These difference may be small, but the players need to dial up their reaction towards those differences to at least 10 (if not 11) due to their chapter's own sacrosanct beliefs."

So, yea.

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@FinDragon@Dead Cruiser

Yea, just carry on with your Sangy Priest, it's cool.

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@FinDragon@Hank@DepressedSoviet@Dead Cruiser@Andreyich@MonkeyBusiness@Switch@DracoLunaris

Right, feel like I need to say a few things 'afore we get this RP on the road.

First, I'd like everyone to get their character sheets to me by the New Year AKA 1st of January - if I get them all before that, then so be it.

Second, I'd like good RPing of Astartes - not just hurr durr kill things. That IS sort of the point of Deathwatch, but interesting characterisation and interaction can also be had among decent/considerate players. I'm well aware that we are bio-engineered killing machines, but - as anyone who has ever read Dan Abnett's Brothers of the Snake can attest to - there is more to them than that...but only if players use their own imagination and initiative; I can give you the tools, as GM, but it is up to the players to use your own minds.

What would a member of a certain Chapter do in certain situations? How would he react to something? Solve a situation? Would he be fine with killing civilians etc?

Just use your heads before posting that you're stuck, and without asking me for suggestions, that's all I ask.

Thirdly, this is the main page for the Deathwatch: warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Deathwatch

And this is the one for Astartes: warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Space_Mari..

This may also help, especially the lower sections: 1d4chan.org/wiki/Deathwatch_(RPG)

Please read them both, I'm not asking for everyone to be experts in 40k lore, or even Marine lore, but if you know nothing about Marines and simply like them for the coolness factor (which is fine in itself) then you're going to have a hard time with this RP.

The Deathwatch are a specific group of specific marines with specific stuff to do. If you've no idea about them, then there's no point you joining.

That is my rant now over, if you've got any questions then feel free to ask.

EDIT:

Forgot to mention, 'speciality' on the Character Sheet means 'role' really I.E. Tactical Marine, Assault etc...rather than demolition expert, specialises in reading books, etc.

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@Kratesis You're very welcome!

Gonna wait another day to see if anyone else is interested, if not I'll get started on an IC thread tonight.

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I might join if you'll have me. Can I be Master Chief?

@TheAncientCenturion

Yes to the former, no to the latter.

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@Switch Just as planned...

@FinDragon Sounds good! We do need a good old apothecary, so feel free to go ahead and send me a sheet.

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@DracoLunaris Sons of Medusa is fine, as is a Sergeant - Chapter rank counting for little in the DW itself - so if you're up for it, feel free to fill out the character sheet and send it to me.

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@DepressedSoviet Agreed!

@Hank Also agreed.

@Andreyich You do you, buddy, and I look forward to seeing the results.

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But your original statement is faulty though, especially saying that they are one of the least developed. If that were true they would not get both a vidya and a movie.

I won't disagree that he's a poor writer especially in comparison to the better ones GW has written but recently all the Ultramarine fluff has been relatively good, and even then the old stuff has been re-purposed to not only more or less make sense but to actually be interesting i.e. Orar's Sepulchre.

@Andreyich

They get a movie etc because they were/are the poster-boys of 40k, which is exactly the reason why Ward went mental and made them into OP Marines in the first place. I've no real problem with the Ultras as a faction within 40k, and must say that the books by McNeil are excellent, but Ward is inexcusable.

Here's hoping that they can retcon and fix the damage he has done, I like Greco-Roman Astartes. :)

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@Hank@DepressedSoviet Tis indeed a conundrum, but almost every Chapter has/has had someone in the DW at one time or another, what with most of them being bound by oath to provide in times of desperate need. I'd say that this was a time of such need.

Also very interested to see what our resident mod comes up with, as well as everyone else.