Our group is planning on starting Deathwatch in the near future and it will be my first attempt to GM anything. We've all (except 1) played DH and WHFRP v2 extensively and so are familiar with the basic rules but to my knowledge only two of us have a copy of the actual deathwatch rulebook so I thought I would create a handy guide/infosheet that they can use as a pointer for some of the basic differences for DW.

I've added it to google docs and would appreciate any feedback that people have about it and any thoughts about other items that should be included. I want it to be no more than 2 sides and hopefully have remembered to add in anything from the errata which was relevant.

It can be found here .

That's great! It's always good to have this kind of thing when you're new to a game.

Looks pretty darn good to me. I'll be giving my players each a copy as I'm the only one that actually owns a copy of the book in my group; and constantly passing it around during combats has become a bit of a hassle. Thanks!

This looks great. I think my game has spent about an hour on all these questions during the course of our game. I'll print this out just for some quick reference.

OK

I've squeezed a couple more miniro changes into the sheet and have updated it arbitrarily to version 1.5. It should be available here .

A little bit of flavour has been added and a few minor changes to the tables.

As before, any feedback is welcome.

This sheet is excellent! I was about to sit down and hash one out myself, but now I don't have to.

Oh yes! Excellent job Zethless.

+ 1 Awesome point, and you can get a cookie from the jar!

While the sheet is exceptionally good, I just made an excel file (4 tabs in one file), and would like to point a couple of ideas that can be used as an improvement in yours (can't share mine: all descriptions are in spanish ^^):

First, I made a little resume which is quite similar to the first page of your file. However, I didn't put the Fate Point part (I might correct that in the future, but right now my players are Dark Heresy veterans), but included a little Fear table, mostly some notes from the book about how Fear affects Space Marines, and specially the Cohesion.

In the second tab, I put all the Solo Modes in the Core and RoB. The column distribution was:

Rank / Type (codex or what chapter) / Name / Use (1/session, 1/day...) / Effects / Improvement R3 / Improvement R5 / Improvement R7

In the third tab, I put all the Squad Modes in the Core and RoB. The column distribution was:

Action (Free, half, full, reaction) / Cost (in cohesion) / Sustained (yes or no) / Type (Codex Attack Pattern, Codex Defense Pattern, [chapter] Attack Pattern...) / Name / Effects / Improvement R3 / Improvement R4 / Improvement R5

In the fourth and last (for now ^^) tab I put the Oaths. The column distribution was:

Requirements (type of Marine required as leader. Each marine has its own column, so it's 3 columns under the title) / Name / Squad mode avaiables (again, 3 columns behind this) / Effects / Alternative effects (for the Oath of Knowledge, mainly)

Now, it is in an excel file, which allows me (or whoever looks at it) to go quickly to the relevant section. My idea was, mainly, to allow for the quickest starting setup of the game (yeah, future tabs will include the Armoury and the extra Requisition spend options in RoB), and being an Excel spreadsheet, I can use the filter options to select what I want and all that, allowing for a quick selection of the relevant Oath, for example, to get the Squad Modes I think will be better (or the Squad Modes avaiable to the Oath, or the Oaths avaiable to my leader).

The point is that it is supposed to be a single piece of paper that you can hand to the players to point them in the right direction. We've not yet starting bringing laptops to the table, most of us spend too much time on them at work, and refering to a spreadsheet for things I hope that they've included on their Squad/Solo mode sheet should be redundant.

That said, I've updated the sheet again incorporating the fear information that you mentioned, clearing a couple of spelling/grammatical errors and (hopefully) ensured that no words are hyphenated at the end of a line.

Thanks for all the positive feedback guys.