I have looked over your DH2 forum, and though it runs against the PbP DM in me, I think this format could work.

I will set up a game thread where we can get right into things.

What chapter/specialty is everyone wanting to play?

All books are open or just the core book? If only the core then I will play an Ultramarine Tactical Marine. If all are open then I will play a Salamander Devastator.

I still can't make up my mind about whether I go with the librarian or apothecary. The librarian's raw power seems like it would be a lot of fun, but my last campaign ended poorly because all the players only looked out for themselves. I wouldn't mind being the support character that encourages the group to work together, but even if I go with the librarian, I'll still probably be unusually cooperative for a member of the Unforgiven.

And if we stick to the core rule book I'll just make him a Dark Angel instead of a Consecrator.

I have the spreadsheet thingy (DW_Character_Sheet_Generator_v1r3_20131220) from another forum on this site to help create and manage my character, but I'm not sure about the way it handles characteristic rolls.

The group I was with before rolled 3d10 8 times and took the higher 2 rolls each time. Then players placed each roll in the characteristic of their choice. This may have been a house rule to lessen the danger of rolling lousy characters.

The spreadsheet seems to roll 2d10 for each characteristic without allowing for roll placement. If this is the actual rule, I would much prefer using the point system or some house variant like the one above that at least allows rolls to be placed so that your character is good at what they ought to be good at.

Shadow, if you run the apothecary, I will run the librarian as an npc.

Sounds good. Will I still be rolling/managing the librarian's character sheet or do you want to?

I'll go with whichever role DavinHeracles doesn't (tactical or devastator). Unless he wants to do double devastator for double the explosions Definitely going to be an Ultramarine just because of dat codex.

I will handle the librarian completely, though the character sheet will be public knowledge.

I will handle a bit of character creation guidelines tonight

@mike: Do you intend to use the librarian as your character when you're not GMing or are you planning on making a different character?

If nobody has objections I will use him when I am not gming also.

Creation bits- any deathwatch book is open for creation rules. I just ask that you avoid make-a-chapter or black shield.

No objection here to that. Also I am going with an Ultramarine Tactical Marine going the way of Command. How are you doing Armor bonuses? Just include them in the Stats of keep them separate. Also Dodge... my current group plays it as everyone starts out with Dodge Trained. Reading the rules for starting skills it seems the wording leans towards being trained in Dodge. How are we playing that? If I think of anything else I will post it.

P.S. Renown start at 0 or roll 1D5 or something like that?

What is the ruling on how characteristic rolling/placement? I had the character generator auto roll for me and it turned out really well. It also allowed me to reroll one stat which ended up turning a 2 into a 20. I'm assuming it follows the rules outlined in the book, but if the reroll isn't a real thing I can revert it.

Anyway, it's time to start drafting my back story, and with this many Ultramarines it seems likely that we might have some shared history or at least know about each other. Should we Ultramarines make our back stories public knowledge? this also makes sense for our rotating GM situation.

Hilarious. I was going to build an Ultra librarian.

Re Stats- rolling 2d10+30 with a single reroll is completely fine, as it is in the main rules.

Wow... an entire Ultramarine Kill-team huh. Well we won't have a problem with squad modes.

Character bits-

Creation: 2D10+30 or 100 points to point buy with. D5+18 wounds. Fate rolled on the chart.

For characters, please post the following info so that I can look over it:

Name

Personal Demeanour

Past Event

Specialty

Chapter

Stats in the following format:

Stat Name - base value - chapter bonus (if any) - other additions (from power armour history, etc; please inform me where the bonus came from) - total (if different from base value)

Example:

Strength - 46 - +5 - +10 (Thy Strength be Legend), +20 (Power Armour) - 81

OR

Fellowship - 38

Any skills you have that are in addition to the base skills, for example, Medicae on the Apothecary, or a skill you purchase with starting exp. Please include your selection of Tactics here too.

Any talents you have that are in addition to the base talents, including your specialty talent (such as Bolter Mastery)

Anything else you spent exp on (deeds, stat enhancements)

This way I can quickly make sure no mistakes were made. Typically this equates to players forgetting things that make them moar awesomer.

I will create the play thread momentarily, and the character information can go into that.

The thread for playing is started. When you are ready go ahead and pop characters in there and I will begin checking them.