Hello there fellow GM's,
I'm currently under the never-ending project of making deathwatch a more robust and fair game. As a large part of my houseruling, I have borrowed several rule changes from Black Crusade to use into deathwatch (especially the changes to "critical hits"). However, from what I understand FFG essentially looks to create a singular ruleset with a sliding scale depending on what character you are playing, making stats homogenous between DH, RT, DW, BC and OW. It has also been noted that with every new rulebook we have found that FFG has become ever closer to hopefully achieving their vision.
So I have been considering diving into the OW rulebook and applying the rules in that book to DW, with changes where applicable to the sliding scale. Before I dive in though, is this a wise idea? Has anyone done this, and have you met with success or is to too incompatible? I have some big problems with certain DW rules, but no-one in my group wants to play anything other than the Space Marines, so we would not be switching to other systems entirely.
Thanks so much for your time.