I am trying to come up with a background for a noble character, but there really isn't anyway that fit at all in my opinion. Highborn should actually be a background type while the homeworld should be something else.
Has anyone made up any sort of house rule for a noble/elite/highborn background? Trying to do so myself but haven't settled on anything yet.
~ alemander
Homeworld is where you're from, background is what you did. Nobles are from the lap of luxury - it's not something they do. Highborn as a background doesn't make sense in the way character creation options are defined.
I am trying to make a noble who has always been a noble, never part of the Administratum, Arbites, Astra Telepathica, Ministorum, Mechanicus, Imperial Guard or Outcast. They would have some skills, mostly Fellowship/Social based and Talents I would guess.
The really only thing that would be difficult would be the Background Bonus, which I might be able to take from the Inquisitor's Handbook.
~ alemander
Most noble families have some connection to the Imperium's power structures to shore up their family's own power. You can see that in DH1's Peer (pick one) option. So maybe they're not so much a member/employee of Admech or IG or whatever but they're tied in close enough to be pretty familiar with the inner workings of the organization.
Outcast can very easily represent a highborn layabout more interested in puffing spaceopium than getting anything done.
Most noble families have some connection to the Imperium's power structures to shore up their family's own power. You can see that in DH1's Peer (pick one) option. So maybe they're not so much a member/employee of Admech or IG or whatever but they're tied in close enough to be pretty familiar with the inner workings of the organization.
Outcast can very easily represent a highborn layabout more interested in puffing spaceopium than getting anything done.
Agree, just pick Administratum to show his family ruled the world, but did so as part of the imperium. Or make him imperial guard, that doesn't mean he'd ever seen combat or the inside of a barraks, it could easily be a token commission on the PDF command echelon and all he ever did was have formal dinners with the generals of staff.
Adeptus administratum seems perfectly servicable for a full time noble dilletante. Master of paperwork especially! it would meen the character is used to getting and can get his hand on the best stuff on the planet.
That helps. I didn't think or see it that way with some of those backgrounds, especially Administratum. That will certainly be doable for certain. Thanks.
~ alemander
Numerous roles within the structure of the Adeptus Terra are hereditary - huge swathes of the Adeptus Administratum function this way, with roles and responsibilities handed down from parent to child across millennia.
Similarly, officers within the Imperial Navy and Imperial Guard, as well as local defence forces tend to be drawn from noble families in many cases. Younger scions of nobility entering the priesthood or some governmental role are time-honoured traditions, allowing a powerful family to expand their grasp further.
The alternative would be to create your own background or homeworld.
I made this just within 5 minutes and put not a lot of thought in it, it should be only exemplary:
Starting Skills: Charm, Command, Common Lore (Nobility), Deceive, Linguistics (High Gothic)...maybe parry or operate (chose one)
Starting Talents: Weapon Training (Las, Primitive)
Background Bonus: Know your superiors : A noble character can spend a fate point to re-roll influence tests or to add his infl. bonus to a social roll...
Background Aptitude: Leadership or Social
Recommended Rolls: Chirurgeon, Hierophant, Sage, Warrior
In addition to Highborn not making much sense as a background...
Starting Skills: Common Lore (Nobility),
This skill does not exist, RAW.
Starting Talents: Weapon Training (Las, Primitive )
Primitive is a weapon quality, not a weapon group. Low-tech is the weapon group you're thinking of, and given that you can start with Chain weapons it isn't a very useful talent.
Background Bonus: Know your superiors : A noble character can spend a fate point to re-roll influence tests or to add his infl. bonus to a social roll...
You can already spend a fate point to reroll a roll so this doesn't actually do anything. It also sort of steps on the toes of the Administratum background.
Background Aptitude: Leadership or Social
Go read the Leadership thread in the Rules forum to understand why this is a terrible, terrible non-choice.
Well thank you, everything you write is correct. I didn't give it much thought, like i wrote. I just wanted to post an example, from where the OP might work out his own solution. I for my part, do not think you need a noble "homeworld" or background, did not like it in the inq. handbook from DH1, but I tried to help
