So, Since new players have shown interest in joining this group on a regular basis (and may not be interested in jumping into a campaign, or sticking around for long term)... I want to add a new thing into the campaign, not a direct part of our campaign, but something somewhat linked to it that may be kinda fun for all of us..

Without Further Ado I present: The Off Week "Exoploits" gamemode!

Each week we do not have the campaign session I will be hosting a open to anyone with an interest or who wants to try Dark Heresy, without neccesarily jumping straight into a running campaign.

The Exploits will be a game session that takes place in a periferal event in the game world, either a set-piece that I used in the campaign or, more excitingly, an event that the players set into motion in the campaign that is going to play out 'behind the scenes'!

Sometimes these games will impact my plot, but most of the time they will simply be fun 'one-off' feeling games, each built around a central premise and encouraging player experimentation and creativity.

These games will begin with each character at level 0, and they will level up as the game progresses.

Some of you may be thinking...
"Hey he stole this idea directly form the TTS Deathwatch group!"


I did in fact see something unique in the approach that the Deathwatch group took to the one-off. However.. I don't see this as much stealing as it is reappropriating into a new format. I will defnitely aknowledge the spiritual root. But I want to try experimenting with what can be done with these sorts of things.

Exploits will have general guidelines about what characters/skill sets will be more rewarding for a specific one-off, but characters are not going to be restricted in terms of what sort of character they play.

I intend to have exploits cover a huge range of enviorments and game types.. Among the ones that I can tell everyone about without ruining suprises from the campaign are: A daring raid of a noble's vaults on the planet Thireen, tense battles against hordes of mutants in the underhives of Dubrin, a massive civil war among a feral tribe on Stonefeld, an Administrantium investigation into the ruins of Dubrin and a zero-gravity exploration of a destroyed vessel near Stovidorn.

I also want to maybe try and integrate actions taken by both the players and contact networks. But a lot of these One-offs are going to be totally based on my feelings in the matter... but if anyone wants to run an exploit mission please let me know.

Congratulations to the Cell, you successfully completed another mission...

After traveling to the Lone Moutian, the party confronted a deamon and banished it from reality. After finding the dead astropath among a field of corpses, the party found a strange book in the possession of the Inquisitorial agent: 'The Eternus Omniscious'.

Now that this mission is over everyone gains 750 xp to spend on personal advances and 400 to spend on contacts. Remember that all contacts can be issued directives and missions ect.. so pay attention to all that..

Everyone is additionally getting 1 months pay from Inquisitor Belarus for banishing a deamon. In addition 1 month will pass until the next mission (which will take place on Thireen investigating a possible source of the book), so you will recieve 1 additional months pay from this time.

I was thinking that an example of how contacts could be used might be helpful for everyone. With that in mind, I am going to use the EXAMPLE CHARACTER that I created in the discussion pages (Karl Emex, a corrupt adeptus arbite) and spend 300 xp on contacts, then give each of them direction over the 2 month period of time before the next mission.

First, Karl Emex didn't go on an Inquisitiorial mission, so he hasn't met any specific NPC's that he wants to add to his contact network. So no xp will be spent on there.

Second, Karl Emex has a few ideas of what he needs to add to his contact network. Ideally, Karl wants to add a few members of the Adeptus Arbites to help cover up his illicit activity. However, looking at the table of xp costs, Karl sees that in order to buy a contact from any Adeptus group he needs to have a peer within that organization, without that talent Karl cannot acquire the contacts he wants. But Karl sees a way around this, and a beneficial way to keep himself distant from his own cover-ups.

Karl wants to add a networker to his contact network, he purchases a single individual contact (10 xp), with 2 talents (50xp each, the talents are peer (Adeptus Arbites & Adeptus administrantium)) and because this character needs to be reliable, Karl makes them trustworthy (100 xp). Karl decides to look for this character on his homeworld, since he needs them to be connected to the Adeptus on his main world of operations.

Karl still has 90 xp remaining, and he wants to take advantage of the time he has now to start expanding his buisness of selling weapons, as well as keeping an ear to the ground. To do this, he acquires the services of a few gunsmiths (10 xp as individuals, 10 xp for skill (trade (armorer)), since each gunsmith he purchases will cost him 20 xp, he buys 2, for a totla of 40 xp. Again he wants these contacts to be on his homeworld, so he can track guns on the street and sell his contraband.

With 50 xp remaining, Karl will add another character to his contact network, a fixer to deal with paticularly annoying problems he may run into while on missions. This individual (10 xp), will have 2 skills (10 xp each, skill: Security, Tech-use), and an expert in 1 skill (20 xp, Security). Again thsi contact will be based on his homeworld, but Karl may decide to move them around later in the course of mission.

So Karl has 4 contacts in his network, all based on his home planet, a networker, a fixer and 2 gunsmiths. And now he can direct his contacts to undertake tasks for him. These tasks are not without danger so Karl should only undertake tasks that are important.

The most obvious task that Karl wants undertaken is his networker needs to establish a contact with a member of the Adeptus Arbites.

Missions involve a single skill test (in this case a Fellowship test), and if the test is successful gives a single reward (in this case a minor contact for Karl's networker), as well as another random reward for each degree of success. However, each time a mission is undertaken the contact encounters 1d3 random penalties.

So, Karl's networker, mission accepted, sets out to find a member of the adeptus arbites to gain the trust of. The GM determines that Karl's networker has the statline and skills/talents of an Imperial citizen (plus the two added talents Karl purchased). The Fellowship for this character is 30, and the test made by the networker came up a 43, so the networker failed to complete their mission, and gets another random penalty from complications in the mission (1 degree of failure=+1 complication), the d3 roll for complications came up with a 2, so things are not looking great for the networker.. seems the arbites were not as friendly as originally expected. The results from the penalties were a disgrace, damage and throne loss. After some further dice rolling, it turns out that the networker has lost 9 standing among other citizens of the imperium and the law. the citizen is 120 throne gelt in debt and with the remnanets of an explosive injury, that blew the contact backwards.

The other contacts are more important to be used in later missions, so he doesn't want to put them into any danger.

Good Afternoon everyone!

So we have finally completed the first mission:

The Morgues have been defeated, and the object that fell from the sky in the inquisition's hands!

Everyone recieves 500 xp to spend on advancements for their character (using the advancement tables).

You should note that after spending 100 xp points, the character becomes rank 1 and gets access to the second advancement table for the carreer (see the Dark Heresy rulebook for more info).

Additionally, everyone recieves a preformance bonus of 1 months wages (see the table in the armory of the Dark heresy rulebook for your wages). AND 2 months will pass between the end of this mission and the start of the next one (earning 2 moths wages+rank bonus).

As a final note, I am giving everyone access to a seperate pool of xp that is to be used for contacts (NPC's that can do stuff for you). everyone recieves 300 xp points to spend on contacts, and they can be directed to undertake jobs in the 2 months between your missions. Please contact me with your thoughts on your contact pool (prices for contacts can be found in the Inquisitors Handbook).

Please post what you spend your xp on in the discussion thread covering your character.

** Don't forget that the party has to settle the interest charge to your Vox caster (30 tg) for each month (total 90 tg).. Any additional thrones over the 30 will go towards buying the vox caster.

I have placed a new comment on everyone's character page, a contact section. As characters add in new contacts and improve existing ones this section will be updated.