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[Majestic7]

Does this game have a webpage beyond the 4chan link?  Is the first post still current with the latest download?

Link to 1d4chan wiki always has the latest download link.

[miauw62]

I love how everything is grimdark, and then there's the orks, which are just hilarious. The second-most hilarious thing are Imperator "miniatures" that stand almost a metre tall.

[Ghazkull]

You mean Imperator Titans?

Also The Emperors and Humanity's xenocidal urge is quite understandable, when the first alien you meet is an Ork Waagh and the second encounter are fucking eldar which some years later destroy your intergalactic empire, you would be pissed off too at aliens. We can presume that the Emperor, would have a different view on the Tau though.

[GentlemanRaptor]

My friend always said that the simplest way to have an Imperator in a tabletop game is to put a wreath on your head and stand on the table. Whatever you point at, dies.

[LoSboccacc]

But Tau were encountered after the emperor was enshrined didn't they?

Thus  the current relationship status comes more from the inquisition/imperium xenofoby than from the emperor himself

[miauw62]

My friend always said that the simplest way to have an Imperator in a tabletop game is to put a wreath on your head and stand on the table. Whatever you point at, dies.

Or you could hire midgets to play your imperators...
Hmm...

[ndkid]

Well, some people were stating Emperor was LG, so just pointing out his genocidal policies... Though to be honest, D&D alignments suck ass anyway. It all comes down to paladins murdering goblin children etc in the end.

That was the point I was trying to make; if you're going to go referencing D&D alignment, xenocide isn't anti-good as long as you make the assumption that the species you're trying to scourge is evil. It's one of the root reasons that the D&D alignment system makes a hilarious benchmark for trying to define anything, *especially* good and evil.

[Sergarr]

With Emperor alive, the Tau would get conquered and their tech assimilated faster than you can quack.

[stabbymcstabstab]

My friend always said that the simplest way to have an Imperator in a tabletop game is to put a wreath on your head and stand on the table. Whatever you point at, dies.

Or you could hire midgets to play your imperators...
Hmm...

Midgets are only tall enough for Emperors class I think. Unless you dress them up a leg then maybe... I'll go find a midget.

[miauw62]

My friend always said that the simplest way to have an Imperator in a tabletop game is to put a wreath on your head and stand on the table. Whatever you point at, dies.

Or you could hire midgets to play your imperators...
Hmm...

Midgets are only tall enough for Emperors class I think. Unless you dress them up a leg then maybe... I'll go find a midget.

Well, for it to be an accurate Imperator there has to be soemthing of a castle ABOVE the head, so you just give them a castle-hat.

[lijacote]

Spoiler: "Midget" (click to show/hide)

http://www.examiner.com/article/why-the-word-midget-is-so-offensive-to-little-people

[pisskop]

If that midget want to play with his dolls then let him in peace

[USEC_OFFICER]

It would be fun to read some chaos pov material for a change and see how this chaos chapter works in regards of low status cultist vs the life of low status mans on hive worlds

Actually, they did make a book series similar to that. I can't remember the name at the top of my head though, and I don't think I can find it again. But it was exactly what you were talking about, and followed one of the nicer chaos chapters in their daily lives murdering Imperial soldiers. It was pretty good, actually, and portrayed the chaos guys as sympathetically as any other space marine chapter in 40k.

[Hanzoku]

The Night Lord series. Also known as 'How to be a Chaos Marine without necessarily being a psychotic murdermachine... or at least no more then a regular Space Marine.'

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Yeah sure and then Inquisition comes calling, executing thousands for not shooting xenos on sight.

Not...really? I mean, certainly the Ordo Xenos kills plenty of people for colluding with the Enemies of Mankind, but "and the inquisition kills them all" is a lazy and boring way to look at 40k. Especially since it isn't true in many cases. Rogue Traders are, of course, explicitly allowed to deal with xenos as they see fit, but also non-Puritan Inquisitors have a tendency to ignore or work with xenos. It's not an uncommon, or even unreasonable opinion, that Chaos represents the bigger threat. That's not even getting into pro-Xeno Recongregators and the Xenos Hybris. And, of course, there's still the entire Eastern Fringe. Imperial Law just isn't very authoritative there.

That would actually be a fun campaign to play in 40k - being democratic activists who want to, you know, end all the fucked up shit. It would need careful balancing to keep things going without asshatting with Chaos or something, while avoiding extermination and so forth. Of course it would all go to shit in the end, but it might still be a good story. Best possible result would be getting alive into Tau space and turning to them, I guess. Even if they are mindfuckers, they are better than the other options.

Letting aliens live doesn't have much of anything to do with democracy. But even so, there are democracies in the Imperium. It's a decentralized system, and so long are the tithes are paid and heresy is suppressed Terra cares little what form a planetary government takes. There is every kind of government one can imagine out there.