Not a rules question per se, but I need general opinions (Psyker Powers)

By pearldrum1, in Dark Heresy Rules Questions

He can't shoot you if you Weapon Jinx his gun :D

True that :P lol

But in all seriousness I try to avoid it as inner party conflict causes real issues to enjoyment.

Fun fact, in future expansions, no character is allowed to have any stat-line above 45 in character creation. Even with background packages. Of course you can always house rule things, (as I encourage players to bring up new ideas) but what I read of your stat line and build thus far is actually really exciting. If one of my players/friends came up to me with this, I would be elated. Because those background packages are heavily built for roleplay and creating enemies and just giving tools for the DM to kill, main, or sabotage the party and in particular the player.

But if this is your first time playing DH and first character, I would highly discourage it, because if you took the combinations, you've pretty much stamped a death sentence on your character. Psyker also do not make friendly new characters. Lots of rules, lots of exceptions, and a LOT of roleplaying of how others treat you. Usually with hostility.

That being said, I've run a couple games of DH and have all the expansions. I must say, a starting psyker with willpower 50, I wouldn't allow. The biggest reason, is I find power min-max characters to be often distracting and not fun to roleplay with. The user usually builds them to abuse the rules and makes things more difficult for the GM to try and balance out situations for the party. More specifically, I never use nerf bats on characters, even if it does screw things up. But I have found when it comes to psykers, the want becomes greater as the character progresses.

I deal with these characters is a truly fair fashion and I warn them; If you build your character like this, where you ignore the background packages and all the other options you took to give you these huge boosts. I will violently introduce them into the campaign.

Just a little heads up.

Cool story.

I was not min-maxing. This is how the roll of the dice and my decisions when it came to spending XP went. Since it is PbP, my roleplaying abilities are way above par. The GM, however, decided to kill the game before it even got off the ground by just never updating and falling off the map. I put this way higher in my douchebag meter than min-maxing, which I also despise.

Also, with that soap box post you think you could have actually contributed to the main point of this thread. No? Nothing? Outstanding.

...? I am confused. Maybe I misunderstood the thread topic name.

...? I am confused. Maybe I misunderstood the thread topic name.

Maybe. The thread is asking about minor psychic powers that people have had success with or powers that people have had very little success with.

What I wanted to know, since it was my first time playing a psyker in Dark Heresy was how people had used their minor psychic powers to various effects.