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[Caellath]

Just like you said it. Forge World - Imperial Guard - Desperado is a build in itself already, you'd just have to make the appropriate choices. Link for some assistance.

[Beneviento]

Okay, here's what I've got so far.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Volc de Soult

Gender: Male

Homeworld: Forge world (+T, +Int, -Fel -- Wounds: 8 -- Fate: 3 -- Aptitude: Int)

Background and Background Aptitude: Imperial Guard, Fieldcraft

Role: Desperado

Background Skills:
Athletics, Command, Common Lore (IG), Operate(Surface), Navigate(Surface)

Background Talents: Weapon Training (Las, Low Tech)

Role Talents: Quick Draw

Divination: 41: “A mind without purpose will wander in dark places.” When gaining Mental Disorders (see page 287), the character may choose to gain new Disorder instead of increasing the severity of an existing Disorder.

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Starting Equipment
Laspistol and Sword
Combat Vest
Imperial Guard Flak Armour
Grapnel and Line
12 Lho Sticks
Magnoculars

Chosen Equipment:
Bullpup Lasgun, Good Craftsmanship Sword

Homeworld Bonus: Omnissiah’s Chosen (gain Technical Knock or Weapon-Tech talent, I chose Technical Knock)

Background Bonus: Hammer of the Emperor (can reroll damage rolls of 1 or 2 on enemies that allies have attacked since the end of my last turn)

Role Bonus: Move and Shoot (Can perform a Standard Attack with a pistol after a Move Action once per round, attack counts as Free Action)

Aptitudes:

•Intelligence (Homeworld)

•Fieldcraft (Background)

•Agility (Role)

•Ballistic Skill (Role

•Defence (Role)

•Fellowship (Role)

•Finesse (Role)

Stats

Weapon Skill (WS): 25
 
Ballistic Skill (BS): 40

Strength (S): 25
 
Toughness (T): 25 +5

Agility (Ag): 40

Intelligence (Int): 35+5
 
Perception (Per): 32
 
Willpower (WP): 30
 
Fellowship (Fel): 35 - 5

Influence (Infl): 25

Wounds 8 (Homeworld) + 4
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Fate Points (3 base, Emperor's Blessing 8+: 10) 4
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Acrobatics: Trained (300xp)
Dodge: Trained (300xp)
Trade: Scrimshawer: Known (100 xp)
Tech-Use: Known (300xp)

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Bio: Volc was born on the Forge World of Ormazd and grew up a menial laborer in the great manufactories that feed the Imperium. He never expected to leave Ormazd, but the Emperor had other plans. An Ork WAAAGH descended on the planet and Volc was conscripted along with hundreds of thousands of other young men and women to defend his home. Unlike many others, Volc was lucky enough to survive the war. When the Orks had been driven off, it was deemed "contrary to efficiency" that the masses of combat-trained young people should return to work in the industrial complexes of Ormazd. Volc officially became a Guardsman as a member of the 3rd Ormazdian Immortals Light Infantry Regiment, and was shipped beyond the stars. They fought for the Emperor across many fronts and gained recognition and honor.

After one such campaign against heretic forces had been concluded, the Immortals were redirected to another star system to fight in another developing war. The voidship they embarked on was relatively new and contained several new designs, including a layout where several lesser Gellar Field Generators shielded the different areas of the ship. This system had unfortunate, daemonic, consequences, and only a small group of Guardsmen, Volc included were able to fight their way back to a shielded area of the ship. This incident attracted the eye of the Inquisition, and shortly afterward Volc became an inquisitorial agent.

Volc is a stocky man, and while he has been through years of battle, he is still quite young and youthful. He has wavy brown hair and his skin is paled by years under the artificial light of Ormazd's forges. He is generally friendly, but growing up on a Mechanicus world has made his social sense slightly odd and inept. However, he tends to overcome this with his gregarious nature.

EDIT: Fixed

[Caellath]

I'll can get the three rolls of anyone who wants me to help them with chargen; that includes you if you want, Sirus.

@Beneviento: it's late and I'm kind of drowsy, but 2nd Edition's Divination for 41 is:
39–43. A mind without purpose wanders in dark places.
When gaining Mental Disorders (see page 287), the character may choose to gain new Disorder instead of increasing the severity of an existing Disorder.

@Sirus: yeah, chainswords are noisy. No silent takedown when their revving can be heard more than a hundred meters away. And lasweapons have the advantage of infinitely-rechargeable power packs unless you damage them and they're usually less noisy than SP guns, though solid projectile weaponry does have that advantage of being able to change ammo types and you could walk around with suppressed guns. Here's the rulebook's weapon volume chart: Impact of a throwing knife 10m / Silenced autopistol 50m / Warhammer smashing in a skull 100m / Revving of a chainsword 200m / Lasgun crack 500m / Autogun fire 1km / Bolter round detonation 2km / Earthshaker cannon impact 10km.

[Sirus]

Spoiler: Assassin in the Works (now with equipment and possibly finalized stats) (click to show/hide)

Name: Elodie

Gender: Female

Homeworld: Feral World
Bonus: In the hands of a Feral world character, any Low-Tech weapon loses the Primitive quality (if it had it) and gains the Proven (3) quality.

Background: Outcast
Aptitude: Fieldcraft
Bonus: An Outcast character counts her Toughness bonus as 2 higher for the purposes of determining Fatigue.

Role: Assassin
Bonus: When an Assassin successfully hits with an attack, she may spend a Fate point to inflict additional damage equal to her degrees of success on the attack roll of the first attack that hit.

Background Skills: Acrobatics, Common Lore (Underworld), Deceive, Dodge, Stealth

Background Talents: Weapon Training (Chain, SP)

Role Talent: Jaded

Divination: Trust in Your Fear (+5 Per, gain the Phobia disorder)

Aptitudes: Toughness, Fieldcraft, Agility, Weapon Skill, Ballistic Skill, Finesse, Perception

Stats:
WS: 35 (+5 from advance)
BS: 35 (+5 from advance)
S: 30 (+5 homeworld)
T: 30 (+5 homeworld)
Ag: 40 (+5 from advance)
Int: 25
Per: 30 (+5 from divination)
WP: 30
Fel: 30
Infl: 25 (-5 homeworld)

Wounds: 9 + 2 = 11
Fate: 2 +SUCCESS+ = 3

Starting Equipment:
Autopistol
Chainsword
Armored Bodyglove
Injector
2 doses of Obscura
Influence Bonuses: Sniper Rifle, Guard Flak

Experience Pool: 50
Experience Spent: 950

Purchase History:
Rank 2 Dodge (+10): 200xp
Ballistic Skill(Simple): 100xp
Agility(Simple): 100xp
Weapon Skill(Simple): 250xp
Ambidextrous: 200xp
Awareness: 100xp

Bio: Former pit fighter

Is there any chance I could start with some sort of rifle using that rather poor Influence? I wouldn't mind having something with decent range, maybe a marksman's rifle.

[Caellath]

First digit of Influence characteristic = number of items of Scarce or easier availability you can pick at game start. Since you want some for marksmanship, your character could start with either of those and still have another acquisition to blow:

Code: (Sniper Rifle, Basic Solid Projectile) [Select]

Range 200m | Rof S/–/– | Damage 1d10+4 I | Pen 3 | 20 Shots | Full Reload | Accurate, Reliable | 5kg | Scarce Avail.

Code: (Long Las, Basic Las) [Select]

Range 150m | Rof S/–/– | Damage 1d10+3 E | Pen 1 | 40 Shots | Full Reload | Accurate, Felling (4) Reliable | 4.5kg | Scarce Avail.
The sniper rifle can accept specialized ammo (Amputator, Dumdum, Expander, Man-Stopper, Scrambler, Tox) while the long-las has the Las Weapon Variable Setting going for it, as well as the Felling quality (ignores a target's Unnatural Toughness bonus by that number when calculating damage) and overcharge (+1 damage, cuts "clip" size in half) or hotshot (single-shot pack, +1 damage, Pen rises to 4, loses Reliable and gains Tearing) ammo packs.

Spoiler: Las Weapon Variable Setting (click to show/hide)

The standard las weapon has a variable setting option, allowing it to fire higher-powered bursts. It may be set to overcharge mode, dealing +1 damage, but using two shots worth of ammunition per shot fired. Further, the weapon may be set to overload mode, dealing +2 damage and gaining +2 penetration. In this case, it uses four shots of ammunition per shot fired, loses Reliable, and gains Unreliable

As for your other free acquisition, I advise some reasonable armor. Guard flak is always good to have on top of the assassin's fetish latex suit.

[Sirus]

Does Guard Flak make it more difficult to dodge attacks, or sneak around?

[Caellath]

Not unless you have over 50 Agility. In that case yes, it will apply your effective Agility as being 50 instead. Not something you have to worry at the moment, and it's certainly better to have good armor in order to survive up to that point.

[Sirus]

Alright, guess I'll go ahead and get some of that Guard Flak. Better protection all around!

Think I'll also go with the sniper rifle. The lack of Felling is a pity, but it does have longer range and higher armor penetration, plus specialty ammo.

[Caellath]

The difference in range isn't too much of a problem with how ranges work in the w40k line (max range being over four times the Range listed), but I can understand your point. Prepare to roll requisition tests to keep the rifle supplied, though.

Edit: to elaborate, trying to acquire anything Scarce or rarer drops the group's Subtlety; trying because failing or succeeding the first digit of the negative modifier is deducted from the party's subtlety. Standard ammo for your weapon is one step lighter, meaning that for your sniper rifle of Scarce availability, the ammo will have Average availability. Let's say you fail the test and go "oh, what if I try to get some special ammo?". The least rare special ammo is Scarce...

That's part of the reason my character will be good with acquisitions and probably handle the entire group's requests: the Administratum's power of dropping one level of rarity from purchases means we can get more material with less undue noise.

[Twinwolf]

Any melee weapons with Scarce availability? I think I'd like something better than the warhammer. Maybe a better pistol too.

[Caellath]

Scarce or lower, Melee:

Code: (Name | Type | Range | Damage | Penetration | Qualities | Weight | Availability) [Select]

Chainaxe | Melee | — | 1d10+4 R | 2 | Tearing | 13kg | Scarce
Chainblade | Melee | — | 1d10+1 R | 1 | Tearing | 2kg | Scarce
Chainsword | Melee | — | 1d10+2 R | 2 | Balanced, Tearing | 6kg | Average
Great Weapon | Melee | — | 2d10 R | 0 | Unbalanced | 7kg | Scarce
Knife | Melee/Thrown | 5m | 1d5 R | 0 | — | 1kg | Plentiful
Shield | Melee | — | 1d5 I | 0 | Defensive | 3kg | Common
Spear | Melee | — | 1d10 R | 0 |  Primitive (8) | 3kg | Common
Staff | Melee | — | 1d10 I | 0 | Balanced, Primitive (7) | 3kg | Plentiful
Sword | Melee | — | 1d10 R | 0 | Balanced | 3kg | Common
Truncheon | Melee | — | 1d10 I | 0 | Primitive (7) | 2kg | Plentiful
Warhammer | Melee | — | 1d10+3 I | 1 | Concussive (1), Primitive (8) | 4.5kg | Scarce
Whip Melee | 3m | 1d10 R | 0 | Flexible, Primitive (6) | 2kg | Average
Shock Maul | Melee | — | 1d10+3 I | 0 | Shocking | 2.5kg | Scarce
Take note of the following options: Good Craftsmanship Sword (Common > Scarce due to Good, +5 to WS Tests from Good quality), Best Craftsmanship Staff (Plentiful > Scarce due to Best, +10 to WS Tests, +1 damage from Best quality, two-handed).

Basically, good-craftsmanship makes the weapon two steps rarer and best makes them three steps rarer.

Pistols:

Code: [Select]

Autopistol | Pistol | 30m | S/–/6 | 1d10+2 I | 0 | 18 | Full | 1.5kg | Average
Hand Cannon | Pistol | 35m | S/–/– | 1d10+4 I | 2 | 5 | 2 Full | 3kg | Scarce
Stub Automatic | Pistol | 30m | S/3/– | 1d10+3 I | 0 | 9 | Full | 1.5kg | Average

[GiglameshDespair]

Chainswords only do one more damage than a chainblade?
Huh.

[Caellath]

Yep. That's what the stats in the book say. The chainsword has one more damage and penetration and, more importantly for when you want to Parry, it has Balanced (+10 to Parry).

[Twinwolf]

Well then, a chainsword and autopistol it is. I have one more slot, so I suppose I could take a Guard Flak like Sirus?

[Caellath]

Yep, a Imperial Guard Flak Armor set is a good choice. Poor craftsmanship enforcer light carapace is another if you don't mind being inside a badly-fitted set of armor weighing 15Kg and with your effective Ag limited to 35. You get an extra AP to all locations in exchange for your suffering.

It's worth pointing out that if you're not melee-focused, you might want to redistribute your stats and use the pistol as your melee weapon (pistols can be fired in melee without penalty, while basic weapons can't be used that way, making gunslingers reasonably flexible).

@Sirus: if you're in doubt about which drug to get, I'll say Obscura (Rare, can be used as a bargaining chip) is purely for recreative purposes while Slaught (Scarce, has situational usefulness) is a combat drug. Despite that, both fit your character concept of a pit fighter due to the descriptions:

Though often illegal, obscura is popular in many fighting units where combatants are eager for respite from constant battle, as well as among civilians seeking relief from the drudgeries of harsh life. Obscura-users enter a dream-like state for 1d5 hours (if required to engage in combat, consider them under the effects of a hallucinogen grenade). For 1d10 hours after the effects wear off, they enter a deep depression, unless another dose of obscura is taken. Obscura is Addictive.

This combat drug (also known as onslaught) is frequently taken to heighten awareness and improve reaction time. It literally speeds up the user, but causes neural and physiological damage with prolonged application.
Taking a dose increases the user’s Agility bonus and Perception bonus by 3 for 2d10 minutes. Note this does not increase the actual characteristic values. When the drug runs its course, the user must pass a Challenging (+0) Toughness test or suffer a –20 penalty to Agility tests and Perception tests for 1d5 hours. Slaught is Addictive.