When the Beta updates ended, there were still a number of issues with OW. Can someone with book clear any of these up for me?

• The Ogryn. Poor guy had no way to boost his Unnatural characteristics, and the lack of a weapon upgrade that made something Ogryn-Proof means he was very limited in melee weapon choice.
• The Enginseer. His ability to choose cybernetics had no Availability cap on it, allowing him to grab anything he wanted. Synthmuscle and Subdermal Armour made him pretty amazing in my game.
• Scatter weapon quality. The Beta had it using Dark Heresy's version of the rules (extra hits at Short Range) instead of the more recent one (bonuses to hit and to damage at Point-Blank and Short Range.)
• Vehicles catching fire. Flame Bomb Grenades lit vehicles on fire, almost instantly causing Critical Damage due to how vehicles catching fire worked.

If anyone else from the Beta has similar questions, please ask them in here.

Plushy said:

I thought that was fixed in the last update of the beta. From what I recall you get a bonus to the test to avoid catching on fire based on the armour of the vehicle. That is not to say that flame bombs should have no chance of hurting a vehicle but it shoulnd't be quite so easy to set a tank on fire as it is to burn a humanoid target.

Plushy said:

borithan said:

Aye, I noticed that too - gonna be using the GM Screen version, it's less hassle and makes more sense for what shotguns actually do.

Only war hasn't been out for quite a week yet. I'm sure we'll soon see an errata PDF and I am almost as sure they will go with the BC version.

Radwraith said:

And once it's out, it's unlikey to be updated very often, so try and get all the errors pointed out quickly!

We still don't know what purity seals do.

There's part of me that thinks it's some kind of elaborate joke, that they actually don't do anything but they have such prestige around them they're worth 8 points during Regiment creation.

WittyDroog said:

That's brilliant.

I had a GM rule that they let you roll a d10 after you spent a Fate Point, and that on a 9 or 10 you got to keep it. But I like your idea better

I can't remember which incarnation/edition it was, but purity seals were puchsed as add-ons to plasma weapons for the IG, allowing the player to re-roll to-hit rolls of 1 to mitigate overheat casualties. You could work purity seals from that angle. Or, have them reduce Corruption Points, or have them lower the effects of Malignancies by one category. Or, as they do in the Current Black Templars codex, allow PCs to increase their movement, adding their Agility Bonus to their Charge range. Or, as in the 3rd Ed Space Marine codex, where they allowed for a re-roll of failed Leadership Tests, they could provide a bonus to WP Tests vs. Fear, say +5?

Any number of things they could do, really.

Plushy said:

There's part of me that wants to take the suggested ideas that they help resist fear, help against corruption, do fate points like you said, but recently I've been really pondering about it and I think from a setting standpoint I'm going to have them just be fancy scraps of scripture and nothing more than that. They're not supernatural, they can't actually protect you from a demonic strike, they're a gesture essentially. Mechanically speaking they wouldn't provide any out of the ordinary bonus, HOWEVER, when dealing with citizens of the Imperium or perhaps the Astartes the sight of the purity seals might help to show the value of your honor/duty, the value of your status, and that you do not mess around. As such I would consider that citizens who are indifferent to the average Guardsman might have a different level of cooperation/hostility towards the purity seal bearer that would affect interaction tests.

Basically I'm thinking of making them roleplaying aids rather than combat aids.