I was afraid this was going to happen. Sigh, well at least my group is in the Inquisitor's Handbook and Core Book (I hope, did the credits get changed for the FFG reprints?).
Hellebore
Disciples of the Dark Gods? Any new news?
Just called my retailer in Norway. The best shop there is in this cold, hard, Emperor forsaken, laughable mountain we call a country... They didn` t know...
Purge the Unclean, Scourge the Heretic, Burn the Witch is starting to make sense to me... Flames.. Burning... need to snap out of it, need to snap out... need to ....... oh crap... too late!
Pull yourselves together, Brothers, we'll see the end of it eventually !!
Woot! Leisure Games are shipping my pre-ordered copy! Should have it by the start of next week.
*dances around*
It's freakishly expensive though. Thank the Emperor that the GBP is nosediving at the moment.
Stupid credit crunch and looming Christmas... I so nearly threw caution to the wind and bought this book last night, however nagging doubt over who might have bought what on my Amazon wishlist means I had to stop myself
*waits until January*
Artaxerxes said:
Stupid credit crunch and looming Christmas... I so nearly threw caution to the wind and bought this book last night, however nagging doubt over who might have bought what on my Amazon wishlist means I had to stop myself
*waits until January*
This is why I never put things I
really
want on my wishlist.
FFG Ross Watson said:
N0-1_H3R3, if you playtested Disciples of the Dark Gods and were not given credit, I sincerely apologize. However, please allow me to explain why that may have occurred.
Simply put, Black Industries passed along zero playtesting credits and reports for the book. We received only the manuscript. I was aware of only one group that had done any playtesting at all for the book (Sean Schoonmaker and the rest of "All Records Expunged") and those are the only playtesting reports that I have ever seen for Disciples of the Dark Gods.
It's tough not to get credit for your work..it's happened to me before as well.
I figured it would have been something to do with the turmoil at the time - we only got the playtest manuscript on the morning that Black Industries made the announcement that they were closing, and the playtest period coincided with the gap between that announcement and FFG officially gaining the licence... I'm not entirely surprised that it happened, but that doesn't make it any less frustrating...
The three most pertinent parts of my original feedback (others have been picked up on, or are relatively inconsequential) are copied below for people to peruse (and possibly add to the errata):
Edit: Stupid forum ate half my post again...
- Ashen Tear Assassin : has the listed talent Unshakeable Faith (Logician). Unshakeable Faith isn’t a talent group, so the latter part is irrelevant. Further, the assassin’s unarmed damage is listed incorrectly. With the Natural Weapons trait, the unarmed damage should be 1d10+4, not 1d5+5.
- Daemon Weapon Attributes : “Soul Thirster – wounding hits can kill outright as per a Force Weapon (...) using the bound daemon’s WP” Force Weapons don’t kill outright in the rules presented in The Inquisitor’s Handbook – they have an intrinsic psychic power-like effect which deals extra damage. This rule needs to provide a Psy Rating for the bound daemon in order for that ability to be used.
- Amalathians : “Among the oldest of the factions” is incorrect. Woefully so. The Amalathian philosophy was founded in the early part of the 41st Millennium, and is thus the youngest of the major factions, as explained in the quote below:
“The start of the 41st millennium was a time of spiritual and physical rebuilding for the Imperium. A great conclave was held on Gathalamor, at Mount Amalath, where military, religious and political leaders and dignitaries gathered in their thousands to swear once more their oaths of loyalty to the Emperor and Mankind. It was this gathering that spurred Macharius to his conquest of nearly a thousand worlds, and during this time there was a swell of optimism within the Inquisition that everything was once more proceeding as the Emperor had planned, in contrast to the widespread pessimism that pervaded before and after the Reign of Blood and Plague of Unbelief. A large number of Inquisitors joined the Amalathian movement, believing that it was their sacred duty to let nothing threaten the strength which the Imperium was regaining.” - Inquisitor Living Rulebook, page 7
My book arrived today! Huzzah! Quite impressed ordered it from FFG despite living in the UK (I have far more disposable income than sense, which is very bad cos I have hardly any disposable income [**** you credit crunch]) and it arrived 5 working days later. Unfortunately I had it sent to work and I am on annual leave! Luckily, a colleague texted me of it's arrival and i promptly drove to work to collect it where I was greeted with the response "What the hell are you doing here you on annual leave? Oh you wanted your package? Wait, is this one of those gaming things"
Oh well, it's awesome!!!
Plus that Amalathian thing confused the heck outta me! I thought maybe there was a second (older) group previously never mentioned....
......anywhere.
Leisure games have shipped mine today. Whoop whoop! Can't wait!
Should allow me enough time to peruse it before my all-day session in the new year!
Got mine today as well and it looks fantastic! Excellent job Fantasy Flight taking up the reigns.
I live in Brisbane, Australia, and I was just informed that I will be receiving my copy on Monday.
I picked up my copy from Eclectic Games in Reading yesterday. I must say it's a very nice looking book and brimming with info. There's enough material in here to run loads of adventures. Very impressed so far. Shame it cost £35. But worth it.
wazza said:
I picked up my copy from Eclectic Games in Reading yesterday. I must say it's a very nice looking book and brimming with info. There's enough material in here to run loads of adventures. Very impressed so far. Shame it cost £35. But worth it.
That's expensive. I was in London recently and Dark Heresy was selling for £30.
WTF? UK and the AUSSIES are getting their share, but not the Pearl of the Northern Europe, The Richest (and only) oil nation in Scandinavia which houses an impressive population of 4,8 million people - Norway!!!
I actually hurt my knee on monday, blew out the meniscus, and is just lying around all day... believe me, I can
feel
every passing moment going by.
When will this heresy end? If there are other Scandinavians on this forum who has gotten their copies, I don`t want to hear about it.
By the way: Ashen Tear assassin you say? Pray tell more....
Hoping my copy gets here today or monday at the latest. Im ready to read this **** thing now.
Id advise all you who have it lock your doors and bar your windows. Our Zombie horde of the restless dead without DOTDG may become enraged.
Peacekeeper_b said:
Our Zombie horde of the restless dead without DOTDG may become enraged.
Would that be the zombie horde as per pg 149 of DotDG?
Here's hoping your copy arrives soon.
Nerd King said:
Peacekeeper_b said:
Our Zombie horde of the restless dead without DOTDG may become enraged.
Would that be the zombie horde as per pg 149 of DotDG?
Here's hoping your copy arrives soon.
Well we have our first victim volunteer.
Peacekeeper_b said:
Well we have our first victim volunteer.
I willingly sacrifice myself for the sake of a slightly humourous aside.
See you at the feet of the Emperor...
I've been reading this since Wednesday when I picked it up from Orc's Nest here in London (£32.99)
Wow, i'm impressed
The books is stuffed with info and plot ideas. The actual rules in the book look pretty good to me as well. We have some extra psyker powers and talents; sorcery talents and sorcery powers; a template for creating your own Chaos Rituals with a Daemon Summoning Ritual provided as an example; the Daemon Weapon rules (particularly fond of these); the Untouchable Elite Advance. There are probably more but I was trying to take in so much of the book, my mind can't quite absorb it all yet.
I like me some monsters in my source books, DotDG doesn't disappoint. Ogryns, various nasty beasties, Plague Zombies
, Arcoflagellants, some really nasty daemons and more. Didn't see any Genestealer stats, I guess they've been moved to Creatures Anathema.
Finally, there are official Eldar Shuriken Weapons stats! And I think i'll borrow the new Disintegrate weapon quality for Necron Gauss Flayers.
I'm just trying to see how much of the book i've absorbed so far, there's loads more in there. Ooh, forgot the rules for creating Pentagrammatic Wards.
I must stop now before the drool runs down the side of my mouth.
I have it, and I love it. I have a big arc dealing with Iolanthe Rathbone, the PC's Inquisitor, and a mysterious individual called The Acolyte. I'm going to work this book into this arc...somehow.
I do not think that I could use everything in this book if I played another 20 years. (I'll be 62, and no doubt still playing DH)
Despite the loss of some very good playtest comments, I think the book soars .
Daemon Weapons... Oh... Daemon Weapons ! LOVE EM!
I'm gutted. I'm definitely gutted. I'm definitely definitely gutted. And jealous as well.
kennetten said:
WTF? UK and the AUSSIES are getting their share, but not the Pearl of the Northern Europe, The Richest (and only) oil nation in Scandinavia which houses an impressive population of 4,8 million people - Norway!!!
Neither does the cesspit of Nothern Europe; the Netherlands (my apologies to any born Dutchies I might have offended). The book was expected this week by two of my I-net shops but due to the holiday season and all it'll be early January *grumbles*
It was time to make decisions and to take actions:
- I cancelled my pre-order on Amazon UK
- I placed an order to Noble Knight Games (in the US): I'll received it (with the Art of Warhammer 40,000 + The Face of Battle at the fairest price ever).
- It's already shipping and will receive my Emperor's mana between 6 and 10 days.
wazza said:
I picked up my copy from Eclectic Games in Reading yesterday. I must say it's a very nice looking book and brimming with info. There's enough material in here to run loads of adventures. Very impressed so far. Shame it cost £35. But worth it.
Ooh... someone else who frequents Eclectic... I'm a regular there (I'm there twice a week in the evenings - alternating mondays and tuesdays, and every wednesday) for the three RPs I'm involved in (Mutants & Masterminds on Mondays, the Dark Heresy campaign I'm running on Tuesdays, and my friend's 4-years-and-counting Advanced Fighting Fantasy game), and Dave Cole, who works there was part of my playtest group for both Dark Heresy and WFRP.
I had a full loyalty card (every £10 of purchase adds a stamp, 10 stamps turns the card into a £10 voucher), and because I've got a club membership there and I bought it on the Wednesday evening, I got the 5% club night discount as well, so I only actually paid £23.25 for my copy overall...
Whoever is the navigator on the Mail Flight bring my copy to me is obviously lost in the warp. If the demons have overwhelmed him and his ship and its cargo, I hope he suffers the 1000 pains of whatever chaos ruinous power that inflicts the most painful 1000 pains.
Maybe Monday?