Would it be reasonable to allow a Storm Warden Librarian that has elected to take a Sacris Claymore to have it be his Force Weapon? The stat line would be the same as the Sacris Claymore with the exception of adding "Special" to the Special column. It would hit harder than a standard Astartes Force Sword, but it requires both hands and takes a considerable loss on Parry, so there's a give and take. It also prevents the guy from carrying two swords which just seems redundant.

Doesn't seem like too bad a trade-off to me.

Aye, I'd allow it.

MILLANDSON said:

As a related side note, one of my players is going to be a Rune Priest. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to stat his Runic Weapon?

Alex

Is a Runic weapon any different than a Force weapon?

HappyDaze said:

I wouldn't think so.

...... Just don't tell the Rune Priest that.

@Alex. Nice. These are the kind of things I miss by never having played TT.

HappyDaze said:

Yeah, additionally 50% of nullification of enemy psychic powers in a radius and wounding demons on 2+.

Alex

ak-73 said:

That sounds considerably better than the standard Force weapon. It sounds like it adds some of the features of a Psychic Hood and grants a Talent that hurts daemons (I forget the name). I'd not grant it to a beginning Librarian/Rune Priest if I were the GM.

HappyDaze said:

Not suprising really looking at SM codexes. But begs the question, why aren't Grey Knights using these.

Grey Knights are already packing huge numbers of trivial bonuses against Daemons.

I'd allow a Force Claymore if I was running the game.

Runic weapons should be Sanctified, have some Psychic Hood-type effect, and a Requisition in the 50-70 range. In my opinion.

I would allow it, makes sense that a person from that culture would have a force weapon made in the design that they were familiar with.

Baron Throatpunch said:

But you see, Rune Priests don't have the rank system that normal librarians have. I'm going to run it so that the Rune Priest will gradually add runes to his Rune Staff. Probably will have to buy for it with Signature Wargear Talent.

And for the Psyber-Raven or whatever it is called my player showed me some kind of cyber eagle from a DH sourcebook. I'll have to take a look at that. But first they got to survive Oblivion's Edge. No small feat.

Alex

back to the original thread me and my group liked this idea but we came up with the rule that the sacris claymore force weapon was brought as a signature item. as this was available at rank 1 from the general marines selection we thought it was fair for an upgrade force weapon.

ak-73 said:

I didn't know they got more slaughtermatic over time. That sounds like a good way to model something like with the rules, though.