Help with mutation..

By Zebuxoruk, in Dark Heresy

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Adeptus-B said:

You mean you're not looking foward with baited breath to the upcoming Battleship movie?! gui%C3%B1o.gif

I'll probably end up seeing it, but trying to draw an audience by tying an alien invasion movie into a board game is one of those things that makes me wonder how the movie execs brains function and how can they possibly make the money they do?

Adeptus-B said:

Saw the commercial during the Superbowl- they don't even mention Mars, do they? I'm guessing that they have "improved" the classic story by making it about an Iraq War veteran "Stargated" to a planet outside the solar system, rather than a Civil War veteran who transmigrates to Mars...

It just occured to me- wasn't this thread originally about mutation...? Is there an existing "netslang" term for this? If not, I suggest "Thread-drift".

As far as I know he is still a civil war vet.

Off-Topic or derailed would be the appropriate term.

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It's all good.

As a fan of Dune, I've been enjoying the chatter x)

I think I have a pretty good idea of how I'll be handling my character. I appreciate all the good advice earlier <3

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I played a character with this mutation a while back. We decided that my character did have to eat significantly more than normal but not so much that it would become a problem in day to day play. If we were isolated from civilisation, taking long trips or in another area where I wouldn't simply be able to stealth my way into a butcher's. He also had a large and very suspicious black refrigerated box in his room filled with weapons and raw meat.

Not only did he have to eat copious amounts of raw meat though but he was part of a holy sect I came across in some old white dwarf which believed that the truest way to honour the Emperor was to become the greatest warrior and to do that you had to be at the top of the food chain .... what's at the top of the food chain? Man. It was all couched in religious language to make it a bit more ... palatable ... to the Imperium but only express orders regarding my character's value as an assassin kept him from being purged the first time by party found out.

I think the rat cage is an awesomly disgusting idea but you might also like a chain-knife for carving enemies into portable chunks. The best item my character had though was a heavy crossbow / grapnel which he used to snare enemies from across the battlefield and drag them into feasting distance (retracting the cable using the same engine the grapnel uses to lift characters up walls). Black crusade wasn't released when we played but there are rules for a snare in there if your GM isn't happy with you house-ruling this.