I don't want to get into too much (or any, really) detail because the book isn't officialy out yet, but as the writer of that section, I can assure you that you are concerned over a non-issue. "Warmaster" is a convenient shorthand used because typing out "whatever elaborate title the PCs decided upon calling themselves" every single time would have really eaten into my wordcount limits.

Well that's reassuring.

It's an in-game referral term, like "Acolytes", "Heretics", or "Explorers". It's presence as an in-game term just makes things easier to write, as you can put "The Warmaster..." each time rather than finding new ways to type out "The Heretic leading the Black Crusade...". Saves time, saves confusion, and saves on word count.

BYE

can you give us a hint on any increases on nurgle psyker power ?

I don't want to get into too much (or any, really) detail because the book isn't officially out yet, but as the writer of that section, I can assure you that you are concerned over a non-issue. "Warmaster" is a convenient shorthand used because typing out "whatever elaborate title the PCs decided upon calling themselves" every single time would have really eaten into my wordcount limits.

"Supreme Generalissimo Grand-Poohbah-For-Life?"

If there's not plenty of stuff on the Death Guard in Tome of Decay, I'll be seriously bummed out. I already think that the Tome of Decay sounds more like a general expansion than a book that focuses on the followers of Nurgle.

Well - that said, the Tome of blood is mostly massed combat rules and legacy weapon rules - all of which are applicable to everyone. None of the expansions focus only on the followers of a single power. Yes, the archetypes and adventure are themed that way, but that's about it.

**** my working hours, just made reservation call to my FLGS so they put aside one copy of Tome of Decay for me.

Well at least I can get it for weekend

And now we play waiting game

Edgemaster Maximus the Brainless. To a less than intelligent person who thinks he is warmaster material.

The ones I've always liked were the ones from one of the Star Wars novels where a bunch of Remnant Imperial commanders were giving themselves the best sounding ranks they could think of. "Omnipotent Battle Leader" was the best of the lot.

BYE

I picked up my copy last night. Awesome book. I cant wait until one of my players looses control of their daemon weapons and I get to use rules for an actual possession.

I picked up my copy last night. Awesome book. I cant wait until one of my players looses control of their daemon weapons and I get to use rules for an actual possession.

Tome of Decay:

Chapter 1: Nurgle

-Like every Tome first chapter goes to describe Nurgle in his Festering Glory and his chosen champions

Chapter 2: Death Bringer

-New Archtypes

-Plague Marine (CSM)

-Veteran of Long War (CSM)

-Warpsmith (CSM)

-Writhing World Sorcerer-King (Human)

-Death Priest of Mire (Human)

-Plaguemeister (Human)

-Decaying Armoury

-Melee weapons

-Grenades

-Special Ammunition

-Cybernetics

-Wargear & Equipment

-Diseases

-Expanded Rites and Rituals

-Forging Daemon Engines

-Possessed Heretics

Chapter 3: Lord of Entropy

-Apotheosis

-Advancing as a Daemon Prince

-Dark Endowment

-Launching Black Crusade

-Running the Crusade

-The Pestilential World

Chapter 4: The Heart of the Vortex

-Ready writen adventure.

Made this just quickly, I cant keep my hands off this book for long. Want to read

oooh 6 classes this time.

A bit of foreshadowing the fate of the line I fear... decay...

I still have small hopes for a Chaos Undivided book.

A bit of foreshadowing the fate of the line I fear... decay...

You're now the 80 millionth person to say that either before, after or during a release. Congratulations. There'd be confetti, but that doesn't work over the Internet.

BYE

Hm if it is okay I want fireworks.... or a nice video of them thanks...

But if there 80 million people to buy the game maybe I was wrong. That would to such a good fate for this statement....

Your kidding yourself is you think books sell 80 million unless they are mega books. Trust me as a struggling writer I know these things. Books never sell a ton unless they have a specific reason too. However just because they usually don't sell that much doesn't mean they can't be successful by a more informed metric.

Also I suspect we'll get a few more books for the Black Crusade line. Just takes time now that they have to juggle so many active systems. Also not to mention the sneaking suspicion they want to see how Dark Heresy 2 turns out before they remake Rogue Trader.

Yeah, I'm just glad we got the full suite of books for the gods. Anything else we get is just gravy at this point as far as I'm concerned.

A Malal supplement would be nice, heh.

-New Archtypes

-Writhing World Sorcerer-King (Human)

-Death Priest of Mire (Human)

If you're able, maybe a short description of these two (fluff/special abilities) as I assume the sorcerer-kings are actual psykers. The priests sounds like in the line of medics.

And how do the the rules for daemon engines seem? Useful for player characters who wants to make stuff, or not worth the time?

Death Priests of Mire are sorcerers, iirc. They're talked about a bit in the core book. I haven't read Tome of Decay, though.

So are all the Humans aligned like last time around or is there one unaligned?

Veteran of the Long War gets to select one ability and piece of gear from another archetype. He has to share the Alignment of the Archetype.

So with this you can get a more experienced version of Champion, Chosen, Forsaken, or even some variations on some of the others.

Yeah, Veterans of the Long War is a crazy one. Can be quite powerful right from the start, and picking starting alignment is great.

BYE

Veterans can select any gear that the selected arhetype has? Like armor, weapos etch or just wargear and other stuff's? Can he select things that the other one selected via infamy as a part of his starting equipment? (and has his right to select his choices too?)

Little list of special abilities of new Archtypes (take into consideration these are abridged, so no how these work specifically included)

Plague Marine

-Never suffer damage or other negative effect from Diseases, poisons or Toxic Quality.

-Can make Toughness test to reduce Damage suffered.

-Release swarm of bloat-flies, corpse-gases or other vile contagion inside you. Enemy inside certain area suffer single hit with Toxic Quality.

Starts Nurgle Aligned

Veteran of the Long War (Happy Daze already mentioned one special ability)

-Can gain Fear trait and Damage bonus against enemies he has Hatred talent

Starts Unaligned or Aligned to Chaos God of their choice.

Warpsmith

-Can curse enemies weapons with specific Negative Weapon Quality or other equipment with GM approved effect

-Minions with machine trait have higher Loyalty

-When making Daemon Engine gain Sympathy bonus to Ritual of Binding.

Starts Unaligned

Writhing World Sorcerer-King

-Counts Unbound Psyker

-Counts PR higher when manifesting Nurgle aligned Psychic Powers

-Can summon Writhing Swarm. Sorcerer-King gains damage (that ignores armour & TB) if he doesn't use action to maintain this Swarm.

Starts Aligned to Nurgle

Death Priest of Mire

-Can add specific Weapon Qualities to melee/ranged weapons.

-Gain Unnatural Toughness (or increase the value if he already has it) by cannibalising fresh corpse.

-Can cause enemys weapon to destroy when struck after the attack is resolved.

Starts Aligned to Nurgle

Plaguemeister

-Immune to Fear caused by Nurgle aligned entities

-Gain bonus to Common, Scholastic & Forbidden Lore and Diagnose and Chem-Use (Special uses of Medicae skill) tests. But only to creatures, objects, plagues and poisons you have indentified and catalogued.

-When using Medicae skill to remove damage from target, can cure additional damage equal to Intelligence Bonus and end Critical Effects, but can cause the target to gain Boons of the Plague .

Starts Aligned to Nurgle

PS. Little info from Decaying Armour

New Weapon qualities:

-Corrosive (anyone owning OW can check this)

-Decay (Can insta gib anyone suffering from Critical Damage or ZH)

-Irradiated (Suffer Toughness damage)

Exotic Weapons:

-Father of Blades (Daemon Weapon)

-Manreaper (Daemon Weapon, You want this if you are Nurgle aligned Sorcerer)

-Pandemic Staff (Daemon Weapon, melee and ranged weapon)

-Plague Knife (Legion weapon)

-Pestilent Flail

PPS.

There is option now to take Daemon Engine as a Greater Minion of Chaos (You can only have one)

Veterans can select any gear that the selected arhetype has? Like armor, weapos etch or just wargear and other stuff's? Can he select things that the other one selected via infamy as a part of his starting equipment? (and has his right to select his choices too?)

Well it says a single piece of equipment so I don't think theres anything preventing you picking new Power Armour if you want.

But by my reading you can only pick stuff from the Archtype and so if you choose to be Khorne Alignet your only picking point would be ToB' Khorne Berserker.