Sebashaw said:

And as Zakalwe said, just go with what you deem best for your game!

Maybe they need to learn to use demon weapons for defend themselves against cannibal Grey Knights!

I think most sisters who spend any length of time serving the Inquisition, whether Hereticus or not, is going to quickly come to realize that it's not a simple black-and-white matter that they're dealing with all the time.

To fish out a reference from the Inquisitor's Handbook, even with all the factionalism it's a generally understood notion that handling the artifacts and lore of Chaos is pretty much a necessity of being in the Ordo Malleus, even if you're a big-time puritan. Cause daemons are just so insidious that to properly combat them, you have to have some knowledge and experience of their nature and weapons.

Of course, Daemon Hunters might contradict that, but in the context that it was presented in at the time it makes perfect sense. You're going to have to dirty your hands a little if you want to properly banish a daemon, instead of just poking its corporeal form with your sword until it disapeers from reality for only a relatively short time. Argueably, you could say that the only 'real' puritan Inquisitors of the Ordo Malleus are found among the dead ones.

Blood Pact said:

I think this is one weakness with the DH career path system. Not that I don't like it in general (I always liked classes for the added flavour), but it doesn't really address the fact that once you're inducted into the Inquisition, those career paths don't really make sense anymore. A guardsman is just a likely to be shown how to use a plasma pistol as an adept once they're both working for the Big =I=.

Essentially, a D&C Sister in the Inquisition (arguably) isn't a Sister any more, like a guardsman isn't in the Guard anymore etc. (I am somewhat generalising though, I know there are some exceptions.)

And I wish people would stop looking at the names of things and taking them absolutely literally...

The career paths are just fine, what they happened to be named really isn't something to wrack the brain over. "Guardsman" just sounds more 40K than "Soldier", so they went with Guardsman. Your character doesn't even have to be Imperial Guard to take the career remember.

What's absurd is assuming that because a Guardsman can learn how to use a Bolter at Rank 4, they're going to start handing them out to PDF all over the place, or something similarly nonsensical.

Zakalwe said:

I know that "Sororitas Acolytes" are definitively supposed to work this way, for it is mentioned in their description. A Sisterhood character will essentially keep tabs on the Inquisitor she's been assigned to and report everything back to her convent and may even take action herself, which means she may be as much a boon to an Inquisitor as she may be an unnecessary risk, depending on how much said Inquisitor deviates from what the Sisters would condone.

*: Not exactly how I'd have done it (except for the Sororitas Acolytes which are pretty much just "temps" unless they leave the Sisterhood to become Inquisitors themselves), but it does explain the career progression paths which even hint at promotions within the hierarchy of the character's original institution.

Lynata said:

Much like a Tech-Priest.

bogi_khaosa said:

Heretek Savant, Radical's Handbook, P.44.

Problem Solved.

You train them as Puritan, we transform them in Radical.

Ancient Xanthite College, perverting your acolytes, since 824 M.38

And for Sororitas, our laboratoires propose Sworn Radical, P.65.

Are you sad because your sister see auras but you don't?

Did you want be denounced and condemned, but the highest sin you had made was change your hair's color?

Take Sworn Radical, and your sisters will treat you as an outcast!

[Edited some errors ...ooops!]

@ Blood Pact

I wasn't being literal, I actually agree with what you said. What I was getting at was that most Acolytes have essentially left what they did before to become something else (with the kinds of exceptions noted by Lynata and Bogi Khaosa referenced below), and under those circumstances a bit more flexibility in the class structure would be good. Don't get me wrong, as indicated I actually like the class system in general, but like I always say at work, there are no perfect systems.

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@ Lynata and Bogi Khaosa

Agreed, and thanks for the illustration of what I lazily referred to as "somewhat generalising... there are some exceptions".

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To keep my comments about the class structure in context, they were aimed at justfying why a D&C Sister migt work with a Xanthite. I think together we've all demonstated situations in which that could be done while remaining credible to the background. Which is nice.

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Sebashaw said:

"Are you sad because your sister see auras but you don't? Want you be denounced and condemned, but the high sin you had made was change your hair's color?"

To which I say

=I=

I still haven't figured out how to put more than one quote in a single post so apologies for the fomatting.

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Finally how many smiley faces do you think one can put in a single post before the Arbiters get suspicious?

*ZAP* *ZAP* *ZAP*

Seems to be less than four