Should FFG make equipment cards?

By Joeker, in Dark Heresy General Discussion

Should FFG make equipment cards? Shadowrun and Pathfinder both have cards that show the weapons, spells, and equipment and the items description and stats. Should FFG make a card set like this for DH?

Should FFG make equipment cards? Shadowrun and Pathfinder both have cards that show the weapons, spells, and equipment and the items description and stats. Should FFG make a card set like this for DH?

I made a similar suggestion as well as tokens in a only war post about improving the lack luster GM kit.

I strongly believe these would be useful for players and gms.

I wouldn't mind them At the same time, it would take a bit of thought; DH has a lot of talents and weapons compared to Star Wars, and whilst there are relatively few psychic powers, most of them have the psyker's psy rating as part of the stats.

I think adversaries cards might actually be better - one thing I dislike is having to flick back and forth between sections of the rulebook, and keep dropping back to NPC stats is an easy one to remove.

It's certainly useful for Edge Of The Empire.

I would agree with adversary cards.

The unfortunate fact about the system is that it's designed so that the GM can't ever close his rule book. We have to flip through pages to roll on so many different tables during play since for some reason we have an abridged weapons list on the GM screen instead of the crit or fear tables! So there really isn't time to keep the book open to the current enemy.

I personally spend about an hour or more of my prep time just copying the sessions npc list onto a separate page so I don't have to use the book for it! Adversary cards would really cut down prep time for me.

Adversary cards would be fantastic. I'll likely start making them myself now >.>

If you would like, we can work together on making them. We could potentially share it on the forums.

Edited by Oridaellin

I made copies of the crit chart, but mostly I just have the players read it out of their books, same with fear chart. Adversary cards would be great! And with that a deck on Traits. "OK, it says here 'master of weapons'" turn back to traits to see if that applies to anything. Gawd, help me if I have attackers with a whole bunch of different traits.

I made copies of the crit chart, but mostly I just have the players read it out of their books, same with fear chart. Adversary cards would be great! And with that a deck on Traits. "OK, it says here 'master of weapons'" turn back to traits to see if that applies to anything. Gawd, help me if I have attackers with a whole bunch of different traits.

Man, I wish I could do that. DH rulebooks are a bit hard to come by in my town. We run on just two between us all; my own personal copy, and my spare that all of the players share. Unfortunately the player copy is usually too busy to be used for the charts.

My book is literally leafed in sticky-notes along one edge, with what is on that page and written/marked in color. I know the fourth note in the third column is crit charts, so I can open it that quickly.

Equipment cards would be a great idea and a useful purchase for both GMs and players. Someone knocked some up for Deathwatch ( https://aarondembskibowden.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/2.jpg ), something like those would be excellent and something I would happily buy.

We're getting into the realm of day dreaming here, but I would really love it if FFG produced some Generic, 40k themed tactical mats for their 40kRPG range. Stuff like Streets of a Hive World, Imperial Warship Interior, Jungle Death World etc. I would also buy those in a shot.