Hey, if any of you have yet had the guts to try the "Little Fears" rpg, or if you've been following it and know the second edition revamp "Little Fears: Nightmare Edition" came out last year, you might be interested to know that they just released a new book "Among the Missing" which expands on the new rules, adds a few more of its own, and is quite the decent addition to the collection.

I know when I was looking to play a dark game a few years back, considering CoC or WoD (without the monster pcs) Little Fears surprised me and really filled that need for a dark game. The new edition, (more of a Re-imagining) that is "Nightmare Edition" toned down some of the more disturbing material presented in the book, (there were a lot of people who couldn't handle mention of child abuse and felt the concepts made the game too dark to play - me, I loved the fact that it didn't pull many punches, but to each their own) and made it a little more in the line with movies like "Monster Squad" or some of the darker, preteen horror books. Still a lot of room for a good game of childhood horror. (as apposed to "terror" which the first advertised and delivered at)

I have toyed with the idea of trying an LF game in 40k ... playing kids in some hive world in the Grimdark Future, not only dealing with all the dangers kids would have to survive in that kind of world, but also things from the warp, coming for them from the closet and under their beds; feeding on their innocence. Whatya think? (if you didn't get the original book, but like the idea of a darker presentation, it is being reprinted - with some added material - in a 10th edition release called "Happy Birthday Little Fears" later this month ... good news for all those people who liked the idea of the game, but missed the first print and didn't want to pay the 100 bucks it tends to go for online now)

Note: If you're curious, you can find more info here: http://www.littlefears.com/

Almost 90 views and not a single person to say, "Hmmm, playing children in 40k ... that would be an interesting, disturbing kind of idea." Sure, they're not going to be Imperial Acolytes, but not every character has to be a lapdog of the Imperium.

Hmmm, playing children in 40k ... that would be an interesting, disturbing kind of idea.

Sorry, I was busy!

Sorry, I just get this mental image of a bunch of pre-teens arguing back and forth with a bunch of pre-teen angst over Girl A likes Boy B, but Boy B really likes Girl C, and Girl C is a **** because she slept with Boys A and D (even though this never happened) meanwhile Boy D is really secretly gay and is glad the rumor is covering it up for him... and right at the peak of the argument between Girl A and Girl C over who really deserves Boy B, both of them disappear into a fine-yet-chunky mist of emo-screaming as a Slaneshi-aligned daemon bursts into existence amongst them from the immaterium in a hurricane of blades... and then guts Boy B in a violent burst of blood and viscera while Boy D runs screaming off into the distance. Later, Boy D returns leading the trusty Ordos Malleus inquisitor and a Grey Knights purgation team to the spot where they finally finish the daemon off. Boy D, who has never seen the surface much less the sun, is asked by the Inquisitor to accompany him to fight daemons elsewhere, but the heavily polluted atmosphere parts for the first time in a dozen decades and the child is bathed in brilliant light... only to reveal his vile mutant ways by sparkling in it and subsequently be put to death for being a mutant. Oh, and the entire planetary population, to include the families of A, B, C, and D, is either put to death, mind-wiped, or sent to Siberia-style gulags where they will toil until dead in the harshest conditions imaginable, all to keep the secret of the Grey Knights safe. The end.

This makes me think of Grimm. I think that maybe once or twice it would be fun to have a group of children characters.

It would certainly be possible to play, and should be done with the rules of Little Fears to stress how weak the children are against the horrors of the world. It could even become a great game with some excellent stories.

But I must admit that to me one of the absolutely selling points of Little Fear was that is taking place in "our world" - Everything is recognizable, but there is always the twist that threatens the life and souls of the child protagonists. To me W40K and Dark Heresy is a lot more about screaming manly oaths of fury and shooting the horrors of the world in the face with handguns the size of Volkswagens. (When the Obligatory Fear Test lets me, that is)

I am not sure would like to put Little Fear stories into the W40K universe, because it would lose a lot of the horror to me.

intresting consept however childeren against warp deamons even lesser ones could 9 time out of 10 mean death of the childeren. becaus realy if a deamon can kill 10 lvl 1 guardsman without too much hardschips how easy too you think it would be too kill the kiddies?

i`m not saying it couldn`t be done. but i think most mundane horrers would come first befor deamons (death. crullty, starfasion, live and death combat. polusions. mutans canibals ad infanitum

If these children successfully murder other people, aliens or daemons, they should, of course, be recruited by the Astartes, since that's how it works. You don't transform grown-ups into superhuman killing machines, after all.

Now that's disturbing.

Well, if the protagonists are little kids, maybe they will fights little enemies!

How funny would have:

A kibi Melefic Scolar

A kibi Sister of Battle

A kibi Xeno arcanist

And a kibi cult assassin!

thats a realy disturbing mental pic i just got from those

Well, there is a Black Library novel focusing on some children on a planet trapped in a warp storm. There are some vaguely imperial factions left, but mainly chaos raiders. The children's town gets attacked and they go on the run before getting embroiled with the chaos guys. See it turns out that one of the children is part of a prophecy to be a host for... i've said too much already!

Check out Pawns of Chaos by Brian Sableford for more information.