I haven't seen cost listed for the vehicles listed in the apothocaria. Anybody have info or ideas on this?

I pretend you are talking about the apocrypha?

Some figures might be included in the Rogue Trader book. If you don't want to buy it or simply can't wait that long, you will have to make up something reasonable. I'm afraid i can't help any further.

As the saying goes, if you have to ask, you can't afford it.

Although in DH, I don't know whats more expensive, the vehicle or army of Tech-Priests requried to maintain it.

My group gets vehicles from time to time on loan so they never have to buy them. I would suggest that nearly every vehicle in the book is going to cost more than an acolyte will have on hand and the best they can hope for is a rental.

Im suddenly envisioning a drug store truck, Dh style Apothecaria mobilius

None are officially given (it's quite rare for someone to outright own a vehicle, I would imagine most of them are rented out from Mechanicus-sanctioned outlets, or on loan from the organisations allowed to use them.

Around the time the Apocrypha came out I started working on a vehicle creation system, and using that the cost to outright own a Rhino is 10,420 thrones, provided you can find one "for sale". You also need Peer (Adeptus Astartes), Peer (Adeptus Arbites), Peer (Ecclesiarchy), Peer (Inquisition) or Peer (Adeptus Mechanicus) - those being the organisations sanctioned to use the Holy Rhino.

Needless to say, there are methods of gaining vehicles without outright buying them.

However, given that a bolter is about 300-500 thrones, and a set of power armour is between 3-5k thrones, don't you think 10k thrones is dirt cheap? I'd have said it'd cost at least a couple of million thrones, easily.

Perhaps, but then there are factors such as prerequisites, requirements and availability to consider. There's also the consideration that after certain levels of cost, actual numerical value becomes unimportant - It doesn't especially matter if something costs 1,000,000 or 6,000,000 thrones if the players are never, even jointly, likely to reach those levels of wealth - this is where the Profit system from Rogue Trader would be more appropriate.

Still, you have a point, perhaps some of the base costs and multipliers should be tweaked to bring it closer to 100,000 or 150,000 thrones

Charax said:

Never underestimate the players ability to get exorbitant sums og money for whatever reason. Sure, quite often you can get away with alot of reasons of the PCs NOT getting x equipment that can sell for alot of money, or even ability to gain alot of resources from other sources. Getting 5 million thrones is next to nothing compared to the power to exterminate all life on a large planet or even a single Hive.

There are ways to counter or lessen such a problem though:

1. The PCs may be dirt rich, but sooner or later there is a limit to what they would want to buy or are able to buy. Besides whatever their resources it will always pale in comparison to the Imperium as a whole.

2. The really outragous costs so much that even getting a millon thrones when you'd thought they might have maybe 1000 for the whole group, they still can't buy an Imperial spaceship, or their own platoon of space marines.

The best way to run it IMO is not to let these sums fall into the acolytes' hands, and rather let them borrow whatever they need from the Inquisition, be it a tank or a spaceship. The =][= will of course demand the return of any such items.

Aye, in my tabletop DH game, the Inquisitor gives them money, but usually for a set purpose (3000 for equipment, 10,000 for transport costs (this is a multi-world investigation), etc), and will give them required equipment. I'd never dream of giving them a Rhino or something though.