Fate of

Heretics
WORKING FOR THE INQUISITION IN THE GRIM FUTURE OF WARHAMMER 40,000
FOR FATE CORE - WRITTEN BY NØDSKOU © 2015
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INTRODUCTION 4 Adeptus Astra Telepathica 15 The Corruption Test 38

CHAPTER I: THE SETTING 5 Adeptus Mechanicus 15 Losing Purity 38

The Askellon Sector 5 Adeptus Ministorum 16 Crossing Purity Thresholds 39

Juno 5 Imperial Guard 17 Purity Thresholds & Effects 39

Desoleum 6 Outcast 18 Recovering Purity Loss 40

Enkidu 6 CHAPTER IV: THE SKILLS 19 CHAPTER IX: GEARING UP 41

The Tributary Worlds 6 Academia ▹ Command 19 Equipping Yourself For War 41

Aventine 6 Contacts ▹ Influence 20 Starting Gear 42

Cel 7 Insight ▹ Toughness 21 Weaponry 42

Cerix Magnus 7 Warpweaving ▹ Willpower 22 Protective Gear 43

Laran 9K 7 CHAPTER V: THE STUNTS 23 Personal Items 44

Port Aquila 7 Academia ▹ Alertness 23 Drugs & Chemicals Wonders 44

Port Lokhart 7 Assault 24 Cybernetics 45

Terminus Prime 7 Athletics ▹ Command 25 Vehicles 45

Thaur 7 Contacts ▹ Drive 26 Improvements 45

Vanth 7 Engineering ▹ Guns 27 Improving Things 46

The Low Worlds 8 Influence ▹ Insight 28 Equipments Tables 47

Angel KZ-8 8 Intimidate ▹ Medicae 29 CHAPTER X: WARFARE 52

Far Draconis 8 Presence ▹ Survival 30 Ammunition 52

Gamma Euclid 13 8 Toughness ▹ Willpower 31 Weapon Jam 52

Kul 8 CHAPTER VI: DOING STUFF 33 Explosions 52

Nurn Delta 8 Skill Drain 33 Size Matters 53

The Rosenkreuz Cluster 8 Supplemental Action 33 Last Mook Standing 53

Tuchulcha 8 Combining Skills 33 Battlemaps & Miniatures 53

CHAPTER II: THE BASICS 9 CHAPTER VII: PSYCHICS 35 Combat Moves 53

Construction Process 9 Biomancer 35 Vehicles In Battle 54

Building Blocks 9 Divinator 35 CHAPTER XI: RECOVERY 57

Aspects 9 Pyromancer 36 Battlefield First Aid 57

The Inquisitor 9 Telekinetic 36 Treating Long-Term Wounds 57

Background Aspects 10 Telepath 36 CHAPTER XII: NPC’S 58

Current Situation 11 CHAPTER VIII: CORRUPTION 37 Mooks & Mobs 58

CHAPTER III: PAST CAREER 12 The Purity Tracks 37 Allies & Adversaries 62

Adeptus Administratum 13 Corruption Triggers 37 Creatures, Daemons & Xenos 68

Adeptus Arbites 14 Chaos Ratings 37 Powers 75

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 INTRODUCTION
THANK YOU VERY MUCH! NEED MORE LORE?
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source of lore and material. Check it out.
(sune.nodskou@me.com)

WHAT THIS IS
This book is meant to give you a quick and easy way to play
your Warhammer 40,000 game with Fate rules.
My focus on this conversion has been:
LOYALTY TO THE SETTING
EASE OF USE
FLEXIBLE TO PLAY

WHAT IT’S NOT

The document is not meant to include a lot of descriptive
texts, as the internet is already booming with this. Don’t
expect to find a lot of difficult rules, bugging things down and
grinding the action to a halt. Everything is kept simple, fast
and easy.

WHAT YOU NEED TO PLAY

Nothing much really. Some players, pencils, paper, some
index cards, Fate Core and an an internet connection is also a
good thing, but not vital. Need more?

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 CHAPTER I
THE SETTING
A FATE OF HERETICS campaign is—obviously—set in the
Warhammer 40,000 universe in the 41st millenium, and the
players takes the roles as acolytes in the Inquisition.
Your campaign should contain some related campaign
aspects, that will make your campaign your own. Some
general aspects should always be present though. These are:
GRIM, DARK FUTURE
Life in the 41st millenium is a harsh and unforgiving place,
cruel fates come to the unwary and the paranoid alike.
Comrades and friends may be killed by stray fire and
corruption and mutation visit as if of capricious will.
FEAR THE WITCH, THE MUTANT, AND THE XENOS
All good imperial citizens are taught to fear those who wield
psyker powers, those that sport grotesque mutations, and
any number of foul alien beings. And for good reason.
THE ASKELLON SECTOR
The Askellon Sector is a mass of systems located in the
benighted depths of space of the Segmentum Obscurus,
between the infernal Eye of Terror and the cold, xenos-
haunted Halo Stars. Situated towards the end of a ragged
stellar cluster that includes the Calixis, Ixaniad, and Scarus
Sectors, it is long past its glorious apex, and few but the mad,
the desperate, or the outcast dare travel there. The reasons
for this isolation are many, and made all the worse by a curse
that has its origins in a time before even the Emperor of
Mankind rose to power and reunited the scattered remnants
of humanity. As the 41st Millennium draws to a close, Askellon
exists as a guttering flame burning alone in the darkness of
the void. Once, it was mighty. Its worlds were prosperous and
its armies strong, its fleets were far-ranging and ever
victorious. From the ranks of its ruling classes rose all
manner of heroes, from saints to scholars, mighty lords all.
Yet, these great men invariably fell too early, or at the
moment of their triumph veered away from the path of the
righteous. Some fell to madness, others to hubris, sometimes
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damning entire worlds to share their sins in the process.
Others were lost to ignominy and failure, their names struck
from the annals of the Imperium’s great histories for all time.
A map of the sector can be found here. The Askellon Sector
has one aspect.
CRISSCROSSING WARP ROUTES
The many Warp routes make travel easy and fast.
Unfortunately not all the routes are safe and stable, and
sometimes other things enter the sector through these
routes.
JUNO
The world of Juno has stood as the capital of the Askellon
Sector since time immemorial. It is commonly held as the first
of the Founding Worlds to have been settled. The planet’s
ruling classes regard themselves as the elite of the sector,
claiming the colony vessel that seeded their civilisation was
the one carrying the finest of the fleet. Whether this is truth
or fantasy, the rulers of Juno have always comported
themselves as aristocratic masters, and place enormous
stock in preserving what they regard as the purity of their
labyrinthine bloodlines.
While the aristocracy live artificially-extended lives of
unimaginable luxury, their world cracks apart and their
claimed control over the sector becomes more precarious.
Each year, more shards of the cyclopean edifice sheer away,
eroding the aristocracy’s power, though they have yet to
realize how badly. Their retainers dare not speak such truths
to them, as the majority care little for such things and are
concerned only that their existence should continue
uninterrupted. An increasingly small number amongst them
are still loyal to the greater Imperium and struggle to
maintain Askellon, though most fear it is in vain.
ABANDONED CITIES
Numerous sprawling cities exists, but only some of them are
populated. What hides in the empty cities? What moved in,
when everybody moved on?
BLEEDING EXOSYSTEM
The original environment it destroyed and festered with toxic
sludge. The heavens rain acid and the planet is pock-marked
and decaying.
DECADENT AND OUTRÉ ARISTOCRACY
The rulers have been in power for innumerable generations.
Unfortunately they lost touch of reality and are getting more
and more decadent, causing a simmering uprising to form.
THE SECRETS OF VESUNA REGIS
Secrets run deep in the capital city of Vesuna Regis. There
are a lot of secrets to be uncovered, a lot of things to get
corrupted by and a lot of trouble to uncover.
DESOLEUM
Desoleum is a Hive World in the Askellon Sector that is
dominated by three enormous Hive Cities, into each of which
a population of dozens of billions is crammed, though
accurate counts are impossible to undertake and the true
figure is likely to be several times greater.
The planet’s pre-eminent hive city is the eponymous
Desoleum, sometimes called Desoleum Primus or colloquially
elsewhere as Prime. The triad of Hives Desoleum, Jarvin, and
Suzzum, the latter two named for the nigh-legendary figures
said to have founded them, account for the bulk of the
industry on the planet, while countless lesser hives and
manufactorums are to be found throughout the wastes.
A MILLION GANGS
A lot of gangs exist in Desoleum. Fleshcutters, death masks,
cloudboys, tech-gangs and painted throngs are all types of
gangs only waiting to cause trouble and breaking bones.
IN THE SHADOW OF DESOLEUM PRIME
Desoleum is dominated by three enormous hives, with billions
of citizens. The biggest is Desoleum Prime. It’s impossible to
guess what the shadows of this manmade beast hides, and
what heresies are brewing deep within the hive.
POLLUTION RUNS DEEP
Outside the three hives, the planet is mostly desert and large,
acidic seas. A very harsh place to end up.
STRANGE ALIEN STRUCTURES
They are all over the planets surface. Strange, abandoned
xeno structures. Who built them? Why did they leave? Will
they return? No one knows. Or tells.
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ENKIDU
Enkidu is a Feral World of the Askellon Sector.The world is
impossibly dense, possess dark forests and endless swamps.
An incredible array of fearsome beasts, most of them defying
all categorization and no two ever seeming to conform to
even the broadest genus, roam its surface. So mindlessly
hostile are the things of tooth, claw, and tentacle that
dominate the benighted lands that the feral human populace
must live high in the enormous, twisting, and distorted trees.
Warriors daubed in bright paints defend villages made of
wood and the metal debris from earlier efforts to subdue the
world. Huts of crudely joined armor plating cling precariously
to the sides of oversized trees, linked together with rope
bridges upon which warrior-sentinels maintain ceaseless vigil
against the ravening abominations below.
ACCESS DENIED
The entire feral world is forbidden to enter, enforced by a
sizable military presence in her orbit. What is hidden from
view, and why everybody is forbidden to land on the planet, is
a mystery.
DARK FORESTS AND DEADLY SWAMPS
Impossible dense and dark forests dominate the planet. And
deep within them, the deadly, eternally deep swamps await
your demise. The human population call the giant treetops
their homes. High above the ground, a long way from the
predators.
ETERNAL STRIFE
The clans of Enkidu are constantly waging war against their
rivals, slaughtering, pillaging and burning villages to the
ground. Only the strongest survive for long.
OF TOOTH, CLAW AND TENTACLE
The beasts of Enkidu defies all categorization. They all share
one thing in common though: Deadliness. They are huge,
savage and bloodthirsty. Hunt and bag one, and you can
probably earn a big bounty from someone.
THE TRIBUTARY WORLDS
Other worlds beyond those linked through the Grand
Processional wield great power in Askellon’s fate. Systems
such as these can have unparalleled influence across the
sector, and some even outside of it.
AVENTINE
The surface of Aventine is dominated by countless thousands
of high-sided, flat-topped island-mesas, between which flows a
shallow sea teeming with oceanic life.
THE FORGOTTEN PRISON
Lord Sarawak has turned a blind eye to the prison island
made to incarcerate rouge psykers. It might only be a matter
of time before the forgotten inhabitants—seething with hate
and harnessing great psychic powers—will open a Warp gate.
CEL
The surface of Cel is one endless, bone-strewn plain across
which wander beasts the size of Warlord Titans known as
Mhoxen.
THE PANTRY OF THE SECTOR
Nothing compares to the food production of the Cel, and the
highly prized Mhoxen meat is plenty in supply. Let’s hope no
one disrupts the supplies, as billions of souls in the sector
would starve or be reduced to cannibals.
CERIX MAGNUS
The atmosphere is thin, providing scant protection from the
baleful radiation cast upon it by the system’s bloated star,
Cerix Tyrannus. So massive and bright is this star that Cerix
Magnus is thought to have had its orbit altered at some point
in the distant past in order to survive the periodic storms
emanating from its photosphere. The planet’s surface is cast
in ghostly blue light by its star, which despite its great
distance looms threateningly in the polluted sky. No oceans
exist, and the world’s mountain ranges have long since been
hollowed out to form the core of its factory-hives.
HOSTILITY TOWARD NORMALS
The forge world is not very welcoming toward non-augmented
life. It is actually quite hostile. This can be a good thing, if
you’re looking for augmented allies, but a hell if you upset
them.
LARAN 9K
Those areas of the surface not host to the sprawling
mustering facilities are set aside for weapons training of
every possible variation. An entire continent is dedicated to
armored maneuvers, and it is not just the tank commanders
who are able to train there using live ammunition.
PRIMARY SECTOR DEFENCE
Unfathomable amounts of war gear, war machines and
soldiers are mustering on Laran 9k. A true paradise for war
hungry acolytes. And for heretics planning a great assault on
… well on everything.
PORT AQUILA
Port Aquila is not a single world, but a belt of asteroids
orbiting the star Diomedea Stella. The largest of the rocks
are almost planets in their own right, and many host a wide
range of shipyards, docks, and storage facilities. Many
smaller asteroids are also inhabited, forming the private
fiefdoms of numerous trading concerns, Chartist Captains,
shipwrights, and others.
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SHADY DEALS
The Combine is always working to gain a good profit, and the
merchants employ anything to get the contract. Mercenaries,
assassins and what-know-you. A great place to come to
beneficial arrangements with not too many questions asked.
PORT LOKHART
The port takes the form of an artificial ring, apparently
wrought from some unknown material by the hands of
unidentified, but undoubtedly alien, masons. The ring encircles
a small, jewel-like planetoid in the Pallisada system, itself the
source of much debate amongst the Adeptus Mechanicus.
UNKNOWN ORIGINS
The port is placed on an undoubtedly alien construction. Who
built it? What was the purpose of the jewel-like planetoid? Is it
safe? Some doubt it.
TERMINUS PRIME
Terminus Prime is a world of gleaming oceans and low, rolling
grasslands, many of the latter turned over to the production
of an amasec varietal popular amongst the sector’s
aristocracy.
ANYTHING IS FOR SALE
As the centre of trade, goods from all over the sector is sold
here. Here you’ll find anything you’ll ever need. Legal, illegal,
banned or forbidden. You name it.
THAUR
Much of the world’s surface is dominated by endless leagues
of low, rolling hills swathed in dense woodlands. It is within the
dark shadows beneath the endless canopy that the elite of
the aristocracy of Askellon rests its dead.
PLANETARY GRAVEYARD
Imagine a planet functioning as the mausoleum for the fallen
for the whole sector. That is exactly what Thaur is. Here you’ll
find a lot of dusty and forgotten (or hidden) informations of old
families, saints or nobles. A treasure chamber of
informations and death.
VANTH
Almost the entire surface is one enormous, fetid mire from
which rise the roots of mangrove-like trees several hundred
metres tall.
DEADLY DANDELLIONS
The primary danger on Vanth is the plantlife, just waiting to
put your sorry ass to an early grave, becoming fertilizer for
the vegetation. Not a place to visit, if you aren’t exactly looking
for the rare and valuable gasses.
THE LOW WORLDS planet quite insignificant. But dumb, tough humans always
makes good soldiers.

Beyond the Grand Worlds and the Tributaries are those

planets categorized as the Low Worlds, those with only THE ROSENKREUZ CLUSTER
fragmented or hazardous Warp routes connecting them to
other systems. THE PSYCHIC FIELD
HAZARDOUS WARP ROUTES The entire cluster is engulfed in a strange, powerful psychic
field, maddening psykers and freaking out normal people. The
The Warp routes leading to these planets are either
place is avoided by most ships.
fragmented or hazardous, making travel to and between
them a risky affair.
TUCHULCHA
ANGEL KZ-8
DAEMON WARP WORLD
THE BLACK FORTRESS Trapped entirely within the Warp, this blasphemous world is
home to countless, powerful daemons of the Ruinous Powers.
Near its star, a black, heavily armored and very mysterious
Pray to the God Emperor that your Inquisitor doesn’t send you
fortress circles. What it aims its guns at and why the
there on a suicide mission.
machine spirits are ever vigilant is a great mystery. And the
silent vacuum gates await the arrival, or perhaps return, of its
masters.
ANYTHING ELSE?
FAR DRACONIS The above list of aspects are only scratching the surface of
possibilities.

SUNKEN RUINS
When the satellite’s tidal pull, the ocean reveal many
kilometers of sunken, ancient ruins. Human or xeno in origin
is not certain. The true function of the sought oddly shaped
metallic object found within the ruins remains to be
discovered.
GAMMA EUCLID 13
A good way to start your own campaign would be to design
extra, flavor-specific aspects for the planets (or cities, or hives
or sectors) you’re gonna use in your campaign.
But don’t overdo it. 2-3 aspects per important place should
be more than sufficient. Too many will only seem messy and
they probably won’t all be used.
If you’re out if ideas or inspiration, it’s better to make them up
on the go than to create tons of aspects, that’s not gonna be
used anyhow.

THE EIGHT CLONES

The eight planets appear to be clones of one another. The
freaky nature of the planets and the fact that only few
survivor return after visiting one of them, makes these
planets a dreaded place to explore.

KUL
INTO THE WARP AND BACK AGAIN
The planet has been engulfed by the Warp in the mid-38th
millenium, and then spat out again. All of the surface is
covered in bones and destroyed vehicles of the Imperial
Guard. The place is quarantined but still visited by agents of
the Faceless Trade.

NURN DELTA
SAVAGE POPULATION
The population is truly savage and are barely able to speak.
That and the lack of any significant resources makes this

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 CHAPTER II
THE BASICS
In this paragraph you’ll learn what you get to create your
inquisitorial character, the step by step creation process and
the special rules the Inquisition has prepared for you to ease
your job.
May the God Emperor be with you.
CONSTRUCTION PROCESS
Before you can embark on the daring, deadly and neck
breaking missions that are the cornerstone of Dark Heresy,
you must create a character—or acolyte as is entitled in the
original game.
The process follows these two steps.
Choose a past career
Create the acolyte team
PAST CAREER
Take a look at the next chapter (▹13). There you’ll find the
background careers converted from the original rulebook.
Pick one and note the refresh cost on a piece of paper. (Don’t
worry about the cost just yet. You have plenty of stunt points
to pay for it.)
ACOLYTE TEAM CREATION
In this step the group designs the Inquisitor you all serve, and
you create the acolyte, that is about to embark on exciting
and probably very dangerous missions for the Inquisition.
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BUILDING BLOCKS
To built your character, you will get:
13 aspects
8 points of refresh
35 skill points
A skill cap at Superb (+5)
The Inquisitorial Seal stunt for free (▹28)
An Assets rank at Fair (+2) (▹41)
ASPECTS
In FATE OF HERETICS the process of creating aspects are a
matter of looking into the past and the present of the
character. You have to make up 12 aspects.
To make it easy for you, the aspects are divided into three
categories:
THE INQUISITOR
BACKGROUND
CURRENT SITUATION
THE INQUISITOR
The Inquisitor will be the foundation of your missions, and will
probably form the basis of the campaign.
Who is he anyway? Even if you don’t answer directly to him,
it’s still important to think about this. A paranoid, brutal
authoritarian runs a very different organization than does an
xenofriendly radical. What kind of relationship do you have
with him? Are you a trusted ally, or simply another acolyte
ready for the funeral pyres? Does your Inquisitor inspire
respect? Are you the Inquisitor?
You must create four aspects from this category. The
aspects are shared by all the acolytes.
CONCEPT
Who is the Inquisitor? When deciding this, think about these
questions. What kind of person ends up as an Inquisitor in the
Inquisition?? What sort of past did this person have that got
him or her here? How did the Inquisitor’s past actions lead to
this? This first aspect should give a glimpse of the person
behind the office and describe the Inquisitor in a short
phrase.
ORDO
What Ordo does he or she belong to? Is he a dedicated witch
hunter from Ordo Hereticus? Or maybe an experienced
bughunter from Ordo Xenos? Or is he a hateful daemonslayer
from Ordo Malleus? He could also be from one of the minor
Ordos. And what fraction does he belong to? Is he a
unforgiving puritan or a liberal radical? The aspect you create
will have a great influence on the type of missions, you are
send to.
TROUBLE
All Inquisitors cause problems for the acolytes. Intentionally or
not. How does the Inquisitor make life difficult for the
acolytes? Does the Inquisitor have personal habits or quirks
that cause trouble? Does the Inquisitor’s past come to haunt
the acolytes? This should be a very compellable aspect.
LEADERSHIP
Finally, an Inquisitor is in charge. The question is, how does
the Inquisitor lead? Is the Inquisitor a strict disciplinarian? A
punisher? Does the Inquisitor play favorites? This aspect
describes the main relationship the Inquisitor has with the
crew.
BACKGROUND ASPECTS
This category represent your characters life from birth right
up till he entered the Inquisition. A total of six background
aspects must be created.
HOMEWORLD
The planet at which you were raised has a huge impact on
your characters personality and view on society. You must
invent or pick one homeworld aspect.
Here’s some sample homeworld aspects.
BREEDING COUNTS
Born and raised on one of the Imperial elite worlds as a
highborn, you have a knack for etiquette and quality but tend
to be a bit lofty and arrogant.
CHILD OF THE DARK
Born and raised on a ship in the dead of space, constantly
surrounded by the Warp, you have a knack of understanding
the strange and wondrous, but people are a bit scared of you.
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FAITH IN THE CREED
Born and raised on one of the holiest shrine worlds in the
Empire of Man, you feel a strong connection to the God
Emperor. This often makes you seem a bit overconfident.
“ME FOLLOW ‘DA OLD WAYS”
Born and raised on one of the feral worlds, you have a knack
for survival but are quite primitive and not so civilized.
OMNISSIAH’S CHOSEN
Born and raised on one of the forge worlds, you have a knack
for engineering, but you’re also quite bad at understanding
people.
TEEMING MASSES IN METAL MOUNTAINS
Born and raised on one of the countless hive worlds, you have
a knack of blending in but tend to be a bit paranoid.
YOUR EDGE
What is your character really good at? Is he tough as nails?
Does he have a nose for rooting out traitors? Is he good with
flamers? Good with people? An ace pilot? Does he know the
Imperial Creed inside out? Choose one aspect based on your
personal strength.
ALWAYS VIGILANT
You’re an unstoppable power, never giving up and never tiring
in your pursuit for the Inquisition. Some might find you a bit
conceited.
EXTREMELY BRAVE
You are fucking brave and always looks danger in the eyes
and smile. Your uncompromising treatment of those around
you, can really piss them off though.
HARSH AND INTIMIDATING
You are a badass intimidator, using all kinds of harsh
methods to make people succumb to your way and will. No
wonder people sometimes wants you dead.
I HATE THOSE FUCKING HERETICS
Heretics are everywhere around us, and even inside us, and
you never stop looking for them. Sometimes you accuse and
judge the wrong people.
PURGE THE UNCLEAN!
You like setting your enemies on fire, and flamers are
probably your weapon of choice. Sometimes you set other
things ablaze as well.
YOUR HINDRANCE
Everyone has flaws; what are your characters? Does he a self
mutilator? Is he easily angered? Is he sickly, or gullible? Does
he have trouble resisting temptation? Does he have a sworn
enemy? Choose one aspect based on your personal
weakness.
KILL ADDICT
You like killing in His Name, and you do it a lot. Sometimes
overdoing it. A lot.
NARROW-MINDED RELIGIOUS FANATIC
You are a religious fanatic, following the Imperial Creed to the
letter, not giving any room for interpretation or the human
factor.
SIMPLETON
You’re very structured and organized, always planning ahead.
When things breaks your tidy patterns, you get stressed and
tend to freak out.
TOTAL IGNORANT OF OTHERS
You never stand down, never seeking compromise in a
conflict. It’s your way, or the highway. Always.
VENGEFUL ASSHOLE
You’re a true avenger, always seeking to right wrongs. In your
own, oftentimes bloody, ways.
FORMER ENDEAVOUR
Here you think about what you did before you entered the
Inquisition. What branch did you belong to, that made the
Inquisition interested in you? You must choose two from the
list presented with your chosen past career or make up two
past aspects yourself (▹13).
BLAST FROM THE PAST
Looking back at your past, it’s time to think about the people
that who made a difference in your life. Who were they? A
former associate can be anyone—a family member, a good
friend, an illicit contact, someone to whom you owe a great
deal of money, or that guy who wants you dead. Choose one
aspect based on your former associates.
CONTACTS IN THE ADEPTUS MINISTROTUM
Your network has branches reaching into the Ecclesiarchy,
taking you a step closer to Him. Religious folk impose
strictures and demand discipline from their flok.
HERMINE SALVUS WANTS ME DEAD
It’s always healthy to have enemies, keeping you on your toes.
But whatever you did to him, he’s very pissed off and wants
your head on a platter.
MY CADIAN 8TH BROTHERS
You battled side by side with the shock troops in the Cadian
8th regiment in one of their countless battles, and you earned
their respect and friendship. When you do meet them, it
usually ends in binges, brawls and terrible hangovers.
THE DENIZENS OF SCINTILLA LOVES ME
You managed to attain an almost heroic status on the hive
world of Scintilla. Chaos loves to hunt down and kill heroes.
XAVIER GEVORKIAN KILLED MY SISTER
You never stop tracking him down, always looking for way to
get closer to the killer of your sister. Only He knows, where
your hunt will take you.
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CURRENT SITUATION
Now it’s time to look at how the character entered the
Inquisition, what role he is having and who he is teaming up
with.
You must create a total of three aspects related to your
current situation.
THE ENLISTMENT
Somehow you ended up in the Inquisition. What led to this? Is
your character running or hiding from his past? Didn’t he
have a choice? Is it written in your prophecy? What happened
that was so terrible you chose a life of extreme peril?
I GOTTA GET AWAY FROM KIERA FERRALL
You are hiding from someone you wronged, and what better
place to hide your ass than in the mighty Inquisition? Hopefully
he and his killteam wont track you down.
KHORNE’S MINIONS WIPED OUT MY PLANET
You hate Chaos intimately, and you will do whatever you can
to stop it. With your title as an acolyte in the Inquisition,
Chaos also wants to stop you. Permanently and in a very
bloody way.
NOT WHOM THEY THINK YOU ARE
You switched places with an acolyte, taking his name and
identity. Now you’re here and he is out there somewhere.
Looking for revenge.
VOLUNTARY DUTY MY ASS!
They dragged you away and hauled your ass into the Imperial
Navy. You miss your old life and hate them for their actions
and anything they stand for.
“WHERE CAN I SIGN UP FOR SUICIDE?”
You knew it from the start. You were meant for hunting
xenos, heretics or whatever for the Inquisition. Your
overconfidence might get you far within the Inquisition, or get
you killed shortly.
YOUR ROLE
What do you do as an acolyte in the Inquisition? Are you the
killing type? The wiseman? The hunter? Which role you fill is
important, for you, the team, the Inquisitor and the Emperor.
Choose this one aspect wisely, as it forms your duty probably
until death.
I DO THE TRACKING
You are the seeker, the tracker. Before the witch can be put
to trial for her heresies, she must be found, and that’s your
specialty. You are also almost always the first to face the
enemy. Usually alone.
I KILL FROM THE SHADOWS
As an assassin, you do a lot of killings hidden from plain view,
either cloaked in shadows or disguised as someone else.
You’re best at doing the killing on your own, making you a lone
wolf.
I STARE INTO THE WARP MORDAX MUST PAY!
You are the mystic, the one with the knowledge of everything Mordax is an asshole, and you will never forget what he did!
esoteric. The one who read tarot cards, bones or whatever. Byt was it him, or was he framed?
Also the one that most people fear and wishes to burn to
death.
Aspect Type Number
I STOP THE BLEEDINGS
You are the chirurgeon, the healer. There’s not a bone you The Inquisitor 4
can’t set, a wound you can’t mend and a bleeding you can’t
(Concept, Ordo, Trouble, Leadership)
stop. With all the wars going on, you can never rest.
I SWAY THE MASSES Background 6

As the hierophant, you’re the smooth-talker, the charmer and (Homeworld, Edge, Hindrance, Former Endeavor, Blast From Past)
the one swaying the masses, and you’re fucking good at it.
Unfortunately you cannot escape all situations by talk alone. Current Situation 3
I’M BRINGING THE VIOLENCE TO THE PARTY (Enlistment, Role, Brothers-In-Arms)
Whether it’s punching, hacking, kicking, shooting or flaming
an enemy, it’s your job to do it. And you do it very, very well.
But all the carnage and violence often leaves you battered
and bruised.
I’M THE BADASS FROM THE UNDERHIVE
You’re a ruffian, a thug, a criminal. You know a lot about the
world outside the magnificent Halls of Terra. You know how to
mingle with the down and out. But other people in the
Inquisition tend to look down at you.
I’M THE ONE DOING THE REAL THINKING
As the sage, you know that knowledge is power, and more
knowledge equals even more power. You’re the one knowing
a lot of a huge area of topics. But knowledge can be
dangerous in the 41st millennium, as Tzeentch probably can
tell you more about.

BROTHERS-IN-ARMS
Who do you spend your days with? What kind of people are
they? Who are the people above you, and who do you have
authority over? Do you work with lunatics and fanatics or pure
and honest folk? Do you like them? Think about the people you
interact with on a regular basis. Who are your teammates,
your friends and acquaintances, the people you avoid, and the
people who tell you what to do?
ALL UNDERHIVERS ARE SCUM
Underhivers makes your skin crawl. God knows what goes on
in the murky depths of the underhives. But are they all scum?I
I TRUST BROTHER CHARON WITH MY LIFE
You and brother Charon has been working together for many
years now, and the trust is ironclad. Maybe you are too
trustful in the old priest?
IS LIONUS A HERETIC?
What is Lionus the Sage doing alone in the forgotten library?
What was he reading? Maybe it was blasphemous, or maybe
not.
MERRI INSPIRES ME
When you look at the way Merri works, you get very inspired
and confident. But is she really that good?

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 CHAPTER III
PAST CAREER
ADEPTUS ADMINISTRATUM
"To know one’s place is the greatest comfort, to excel within it
is the greatest solace, and a master’s contentment is the
greatest reward."
— Codex Administratum Edition XXIIVC
The vast bureaucracy of the Imperium that administers its
domains. You are the scholar. The caretaker and the keeper
of lore and data.
TYPICAL ADEPTUS ADMINISTRATUM ASPECTS
BOOKWORM
You’ve read a lot of huge tomes with extremely different
topics, obtaining a very diverse knowledge. Some very useful,
some quirky and some unhealthy.
KEEPER OF SECRETS
You have access to tons of information - both ordinary, exotic
and clandestine. Information handy and dangerous to know.
MASTER BROWSER
Browsing the halls of massive libraries, huge databases and
vast tomes for useful information is your game. Sometimes
you return in a blink of an eye, other times you get … lost.
RED TAPE RIPPER
The Imperium is controlled by a deep and massive
bureaucracy, and you know how it works intimately. Cutting
red tape and bureaucratic corners are your game.
WE ARE THE IMPERIUM
You were part of the largest department in the Imperium of
Man, working with administration and governing. You know
the building blocks of this massive empire. Knowledge that
the enemy craves.
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ADEPTUS ADMINISTRATUM ABILITIES [-3+]
MASTER OF PAPERWORK [-2]
You are well prepared and always have the right bureaucratic
form in hand. Whenever you’re overcoming obstacles, that
could reasonably be associated with bureaucracy or red tape,
the time used is reduced by two steps.
EXPERTIA EXTREMIS [-1]
You know a lot of stuff, but even more about your field of
expertise. Choose a field of specialization, such as
bureaucracy, chemistry, cryptology, heraldry, imperial
warrants, judgements, legend, numerology, occult, philosophy
or Tactica Imperialis. Whenever you are dealing with topics
from this specialty (like knowing stuff with Academia or using
Investigation to unravel a mystery involving heraldry), you get
+2 to the roll.
MIND-BLOWING INTELLECT [-1] [OPTIONAL]
Your area of knowledge is so advanced, there’s usually no one
around who can tell if you’re making things up. You may use
Academia in place of Deceit to tell lies related to your field of
specialization.
UNCANNY INSIGHT [-1] [OPTIONAL]
Once per scene you can spend a fate point (and a few
minutes of observation) to make a special Academia roll
representing a flash of insight. For each shift you make on
this roll you discover or create an aspect related to your field
of specialization, on either the scene or the target of your
observations, though you may only invoke one of them for
free.
ADEPTUS ARBITES
"We determine the guilty. We decide the punishment."
— Lex Imperialis
The keepers of Imperial law and enforcers of loyalty to the
Golden Throne. You are the law.
TYPICAL ADEPTUS ARBITES ASPECTS
BACK TO BACK
You learned to trust your teammates, often putting your life in
their hands. It’s always nice to be able to count on someone -
but it usually runs both ways.
CYNICAL ASSHOLE
Past experiences taught you that no one is to be trusted, and
that humanity is damned. You’re good at protecting your
sanity but tend to be somewhat callous.
INNOCENCE PROVES NOTHING
You do not forgive or forget any crime, and pursue the quarry
relentlessly until the Emperor’s Justice has been served.
You’re very focused but tend to be rather narrow minded.
JUDGE, JURY AND EXECUTIONER
Citizens of the Imperium of Man knows what you are capable
of. Most whimper and surrender, but some hate the
authorities and thereby you.
LEX IMPERIALIS
You know the Imperial Law by heart, a quite useful tool. The
law is crystal clear - except when it’s not.
ADEPTUS ARBITES ABILITIES [-1+]
THE FORCE OF THE LAW [-2]
You are the law, and everybody knows it! Once per session,
you can either re-roll an Intimidation or Investigating roll or
add +2 to the rolled result without invoking an aspect.
CYBER-MASTIFF [-2] [OPTIONAL]
You’ve been honored by receiving one of the dreaded
razorfangs. The half hound, half robot is your companion and
works as an Extra NPC that you control.
DEEP UNDERCOVER [-1] [OPTIONAL]
Sometimes looking like someone else is just part of a
detective's job. You may use Investigate in place of Deceit to
create and maintain disguises or cover identities.
FINDING THE CULPRIT [-1] [OPTIONAL]
Part of being a good detective is knowing "whodunit" long
before anything can be proved. You may use Investigate in
place of Empathy when you have at least one piece of
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CYBER-MASTIFF
ASPECTS
Cyberenhanced kill-dog, Very limited brain capacity
SKILLS
Alertness (+2), Fists (+3), Investigate (+1)
STRESS
❶❷
CONSEQUENCES
❷❹
STUNTS
Beast Senses: Whenever it seems reasonable that the rending
rover would have some sort of beast-born advantage of the
senses (for example, a keen sense of smell while making an
Alertness or Investigation roll), it gets a +1 on the roll.
Cyberarmor: The razorfang is protected by plates of armor,
offering Armor: 2.
Razorfangs: If the beast scores a successful attack with Fists, it
deals 2 extra points of damage do to its razorsharp teeth.
evidence indicating that your target is a suspect in your
current case.
PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY [-1] [OPTIONAL]
Your visual memory is so strong that with a little
concentration, you can revisit any place you've been to in your
memory in exacting detail. Sometimes, you can even pick up
on details that you hadn’t consciously realized before. To use
this ability, spend a fate point and make a single perception-
based roll (usually Investigate, but not necessarily limited to
that) to find things out as if you were still in the location, no
matter how long ago you left it.
“THEY HATE MY GUTS” [+1]
Not everybody appreciates your past as a judge, jury and
executioner. Once per session, the GM can compel this ability
as if it was an aspect. If you accept, he will create an obstacle
for you (usually with some violence included) relating to your
background. You can reject the compel by paying two fate
points.

ADEPTUS ASTRA TELEPATHICA
"Our voices sing out as one to the cosmos."
— Mistress Oghanna, Mind-Speaker of the Bansidhe
The organization that trains and sanctions Imperial psykers.
Psykers like you.
TYPICAL ADEPTUS ASTRA TELEPATHICA ASPECTS
BOLT-MAGNET
People fear you and your weird powers, and you are certainly
never part of the team. On the bright side, you learned to
trust no one but yourself.
CAST IRON WILL
You are the proud owner of a will of tremendous strength and
toughness. It makes you unshakable and very stubborn.
TESTED ON TERRA
You are among the few who survived the fearsome testing
and trails of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica on Terra, proving
you an able and competent psyker. One to respect and fear -
and the first one to take down in a fight.
TICKING TIMEBOMB
Your gift as a psyker makes you very dangerous and lethal, as
you draw your powers directly from the unstable and ever
treacherous Warp.
WARPCHILD
Your mutated existence is a product of the Warp, thus
making you very alert and knowledgable of this dreaded
realm. Unfortunately your mere presence works as a beacon
for its profane denizens.
ADEPTUS ASTRA TELEPATHICA ABILITIES [+1+]
THE CONSTANT THREAT [+1]
Psykers are beings with the ability to manipulate the power of
the Immaterium, bending the chaotic energy to their will to
manifest potent psychic powers.
Psychic Phenomena [0]: When you reach into the Warp,
there is always the chance of the Empyrean bleeding into
reality. Minor manifestations include a drop in temperature,
ghostly voices, feelings of unease, or nearby vegetation
shriveling and dying. In rare instances - like when you succeed
with a serious cost - even full-scale Warp breaches can
occur.
Perils of the Warp [+1]: Your constant dealing with the
Empyrean leaves you less protected against the dangerous
powers of corruption. Every chaos ratings from experiences
that has a corruption trigger are increased by +1 against
you.
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SANCTIONED [-2] [OPTIONAL]
Only the true resilient and strong minds survive the Trials of
Terra. You will never be able to avoid being corrupted, but you
are much better at regenerating your tainted soul again. The
time needed to recover purity boxes and purity thresholds
are lowered by two levels. (I.e. in general, a box recovers in a
day and a threshold in a few weeks.)
EX-IMPERIAL PSYKER GRUNT [-1] [OPTIONAL]
You’ve served time at the front with the Imperial Guard, and
have seen your share of horrors. In order to survive to
learned to attack recklessly and without remorse. When you
successfully make an attack with the Warpweaving skill, you
deal an additional +2 hits of damage.
ADEPTUS MECHANICUS
"There is no truth in flesh, only betrayal."
"There is no strength in flesh, only weakness."
"There is no constancy in flesh, only decay."
"There is no certainty in flesh but death."
— Credo Omnissiah
The disciples of the Omnissiah, who are the preservers and
fabricators of technology. You are one of the holy tech-priests.
TYPICAL ADEPTUS MECHANICUS ASPECTS
BINARY MIND
Your mind is pragmatic and analytical making you a master
with machines - but very strange and cold around humans.
“I’M A BADASS SKITARII RANGER”
You are or were a trained tech-guard in the cybernetic
military force and take pride in your duty as a holy warrior.
Others might see you as a fanatical psycho.
I COMMUNE WITH THE MACHINE SPIRITS
You’re especially attuned to the machine spirits, making you a
master of soothing and commanding them. Others see your
constant communing with invisible forces a bit weird.
MACHINE GOD BIGOT
You’re a devoted and fanatical follower of the Omnissiah,
dedicating your entire life to the Holy Doctrines. No matter
how much they impair your own wishes and needs.
ADEPTUS MECHANICUS ABILITIES [-1+]
FOLLOWER OF THE FALSE GOD [+1]
You don’t believe the Emperor to be divine, but instead
regards the Omnissiah to be the True God. Therefore
everyone else in the Empire regards you as dark, mysterious
and a bit scary. You suffer a –1 penalty whenever making
social interaction rolls with characters who aren’t tech-
priests. ADEPTUS MINISTORUM
MECHADENDRITE [-1] "There can be but one Emperor, one god, one saviour, one
deliverer. Without Him, a billion billion souls are nought but
You start the game with an already installed mechadendrite
fodder for the ever-thirsting evils of the warp.”
with an unadjusted Cost of +4.
— Ecclesiarch Theodacus V, Indroit to the Verses of Dusk
MECHANICUS IMPLANTS [0]
The keepers of faith in the Emperor’s divinity. You are the
A big part of worshipping the Omnissiah is to realize that preacher of the God Emperor, His word and the Imperial
cybernetics are far superior to flesh. You have a cranial Creed.
circuitry, cyber-mantle, electro-graft, electoo inductors and
potentia coil installed.
TYPICAL ADEPTUS MINISTORUM ASPECTS
NOT REALLY HUMAN [0]
A lot of your vital parts are replaced by cybernetics, making PIOUS PILGRIM
normal surgery a difficult task. Both the Academia and the
You are fucking good at spreading the God Emperors word
Engineering skills can be used to heal your physical wounds,
and doctrine wherever you go. Sometimes it gets a bit too
but both are penalized by a +1 to the difficulty of the test.
much for those around you.
REPLACE THE WEAK FLESH [-1] RELIGIOUS FANATIC
Your priesthood makes, maintains and controls cybernetic
You know every chapter of the Imperial Creed by heart, and
implants. At character creation and once per session you
strike hard on disbelievers. This strong devotion also makes
may add +2 to Asset rolls made to acquire cybernetics and
you easy to anger in the face of citizens not so devoted as
implants.
you.
SERVITOR STASH [0] REPENT OR DIE!
You have access servitors (see box above) and can buy them
Everybody is guilty of something, and you are destined to find
as any other piece of equipment.
out what that something is, making you a very good
PILE OF CORPSES [-1] [OPTIONAL] interrogator and an obnoxious companion.

Your access to servitors is above the norm. At character
creation and once per session thereafter, you may add +2 to
Asset rolls made to acquire servitors.
“THE RUINOUS POWERS LOVES TO HATE ME!”
Your faith is a great weapon against the impure, but also a
great way to feel their wrath in conflict.

THUG OF GOD
COMBAT SERVITOR
Knowing that you are backed up by God is a good thing for
IMPROVEMENTS: Aspect: Remorseless killer-cyborg, Armed*,
your confidence - which sometimes lead to overconfidence.
Armored, Conscious, Rugged
SKILLS: Choose either three skills at +1, two at +2 or one at +3
ADEPTUS MINISTORUM ABILITIES [-2+]
STRESS: 4 boxes
COST: Fantastic (+6). FAITH IS ALL [-1]
SERVO SKULL The God Emperor is with you always, and he never leaves you
stranded. Once per session you can put your trust in the
IMPROVEMENTS: Aspect: Singleminded, Conscious Emperor. Put a fate point on the table and make a Fair (+2)
SKILLS: Choose either three skills at +1, two at +2 or one at +3. Conviction roll. If you are successful, you take the two fate
points back again and clears a mild consequence. If you fail,
STRESS: 2 boxes the fate point is also lost and nothing is healed.
COST: Good (+3)
PURE FAITH [-1]
NOTE Your devotion to the Emperor girds your mind against the
Read more on the improvements in GEARING UP (▹45). daemonic powers. You may re-roll your defense against any
! mental attacks from daemonic forces, or any corruption
tests.

ARMOR OF CONTEMPT [-2] [OPTIONAL]

Your hatred toward Chaos and the defilers are soul deep,
giving you extra defenses against the Ruinous Powers. You

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can use the Conviction skill instead of Willpower skill when
making corruption tests, and you also gain 2 extra boxes in
each of your purity threshold tracks.
DESTROYER OF ABOMINATIONS [-1] [OPTIONAL]
When you are fighting the Ruinous Powers, you always go for
the quick and dirty kill. You gain +2 to attacks with Weapons
against minions of Chaos.
SELF-MUTILATOR [-1] [OPTIONAL]
You’re a self-mutilating flagellant punishing yourself for
religious penance and discipline. When inflicting pain on
yourself, you can add +2 to Conviction tests made to
overcome obstacles. This bonus is doubled if you inflict a
minor consequence on yourself.
SMALL DONATIONS [-1] [OPTIONAL]
A part of your job is to collect donations for the church. Once
per session you can add a +2 to a Resource roll made to buy
equipment, as long as you could reasonably have had time to
collect some thrones.
THE EMPEROR’S MERCY [-2] [OPTIONAL]
You can channel the Emperor’s light to mend wounds and
heal minds. This allows you to use Conviction to treat both
physical and mental wounds. If you pay a fate point you can
completely remove a consequence instantly without rolling
the dice!
THE EMPEROR’S SIGN [-2] [OPTIONAL]
The Emperor’s Sign is a physical manifestation of the faithful’s
devotion to the Emperor, and a sign of His protection. The
Sign is especially potent against creatures of the warp, but its
mere appearance is often enough to steel loyal servants of
the Imperium against the horrors of war. You can now use
Conviction to make mental attacks against His enemies. If you
place a consequence on the target, you can pay a fate point
to increase its severity one notch.
THE EMPEROR’S WRATH [-2] [OPTIONAL]
You can call upon the Emperor’s vengeance to smite His
enemies. You can now use Conviction to make physical
attacks against His enemies. Your attack has Damage 6,
Accuracy 0 and Range 3. This attack is not psychic in nature,
and cannot be defended against with the Warpweaving skill.
IMPERIAL GUARD
"Men, we are the first, last and often only line of defense the
Imperium has against what is out there. You and that fine
piece of Imperial weaponry you hold in your hands is all that is
keeping humanity alive. Most of you will probably not live to
see your second year in the Guard and most of you will
probably never see your homeworlds again, but I can
guarantee you that when you do fall, with a prayer to the most
high and mighty God-Emperor on your lips, you will have
earned the right to call yourself a man!"
— Staff Sergeant Vermak, 12th Cadian Shock Regiment
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The Imperium’s immeasurable armies, fighting endless
battles across the galaxy. You are a soldier. You have seen
death, horror and planetary destruction.
TYPICAL ADEPTUS IMPERIAL GUARD ASPECTS
DOWNED, BAGGED AND LABELED
You’ve been fighting a lot of different enemies. Xenos, the
minions of Chaos and even human traitors and heretics. You
know their weaknesses and habitats, but are also haunted by
them in your dreams.
MY BILLION BRETHREN
You are part of the biggest war-machine ever seen, and you
can count billions of soldiers as your brothers in arms. Men
who will help you in any way possible. Unfortunately they also
get into trouble and need help. Your help.
UNFAZEABLE
You’ve seen so much carnage, that it is almost impossible to
scare you. All this death and destruction turned you bitter and
a bit reserved.
WAR VETERAN
You’ve survived wars so violent few people can even try to
fathom, making you a pure survivor and harddriven bringer of
death. Your soul and mind is a fucking mess though.
ADEPTUS IMPERIAL GUARD ABILITIES [-2+]
CANNON FODDER [-1]
You are used to being shot at, beaten and even bombarded.
You’re fortunately a hard fuck to lay to rest. When you take
physical stress, you may check off two stress boxes with a
total value equal to or greater than the shift value of the hit.
CHAIN OF COMMAND [-1]
When you give an order, people hop to it. If you spend a fate
point and command another character to perform a certain
action, he gains a +3 on his roll if he complies. The command
must be a specific use of one of the character’s skills, such as
“Fly behind the asteroid to lose them.” You may do this once
per scene.
“GET THEM OUT ALIVE SOLDIER!”[-1] [OPTIONAL]
Your training in the use of vehicles is diverse and thorough,
making you an able driver and pilot in almost every thinkable
variety. +2 to Drive when overcoming obstacles.
HAMMER OF THE EMPEROR [-1] [OPTIONAL]
You can enter a violent state of frenzy, striking your opponent
over and over again, wearing down his defense with each
blow. +2 to Assault whenever you fight an opponent who is
using full defense.
OUTCAST
“According to Imperial Law, you are not allowed to carry a
gun into these premises!”
— Ardias Kimbal, deceased guard
Living in the shadow of the might of the Imperium, gangers,
criminals, and dregs prosper and thrive; cunning survivors
and experienced outlaws, they exist only for themselves and
those who have bought their loyalties.

TYPICAL OUTCAST ASPECTS

EXPENDABLE ASSET
You are part of a criminal organization, getting protection
when needed. Or whacked when you fuck up.

WELL CONNECTED
You have gathered a big network of associates from all walks
of life. This makes you a very valuable contact, but also a
someone everybody knows.

SLIPPED BETWEEN THE CRACKS

You have forsaken the role you were given, and is now living
on the edge of society. This is very handy, when you’re a
criminal but can be a pain in the ass, if you need any kind of
help from the world around you.

TRUE SURVIVOR
You’ve learned to survive the hard way. This makes you very
resilient but also suspicious, territorial and paranoid.

OUTCAST ABILITIES [-2+]

NEVER QUIT [-1]
When most people give up and either run away or die, you
just keep standing. You are able to lessen the effects of
physical injury thanks to your incredible stamina. Once per
scene, you may spend a fate point, and uncheck any one of
your physical stress boxes.

UNDERHIVE PARLOUR [-1]

You know how to talk the talk. You can use Burglary in place
of Contacts whenever you’re dealing specifically with other
outcasts and criminals.

SHADY SIGNATURE [-1] [OPTIONAL]

Some element of your character makes you an expert
criminal. Pick one of your aspects. Once per scene, you may
invoke that aspect on a Burglary roll for free.

WHISPERS OF THE MASSES [-1] [OPTIONAL]

Your ability to gather information is legendary. Once you begin
a contacting effort, it becomes self-sustaining, as people you
talk to talk to other people, who talk to others in turn. In
effect, you will always get an answer; it is only a matter of
time.
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 CHAPTER IV
THE SKILLS
ACADEMIA
Academia measures a character’s education, recall, and
knowledge. Any knowledge that isn’t specific to another skill
falls under Academia, with some overlap to be expected.
ALERTNESS
Alertness is a measure of your character’s regular, passive
level of awareness. Specifically, it’s the perception skill to
notice things the character isn’t looking for.
Initiative: This is the skill you use to determine exchange
order in a physical conflict.
ASSAULT
This is the ability to hold your own in a close quarters fight,
either with a melee weapon in hand of nothing at all.
You can use the skill to defend against physical attacks made
in close quarters.
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ATHLETICS
This is a measure of the character’s general physical
capability; the exception is raw power, which is a function of
Strength. Athletics covers running, jumping, climbing, and
other broadly physical activities you might find in a track and
field event.
You can use the skill to defend against physical attacks made
in close quarters or at range. It can also defend against
physical-based psychic attacks.
BURGLARY
The ability to overcome security systems, from alarms to
locks, falls under the auspices of this skill. This also includes
knowledge of those systems and the ability to assess them.
COMMAND
Command is a multi-faceted skill. A good leader knows how to
direct and inspire people, but he also understands how to run
an organization. As such, the Command skill covers acts of
both types.
CONTACTS
Contacts is the ability to find things out from people or to find
the people you’re looking for. Your character may know a guy
who knows a guy, or maybe he just knows the right questions
to ask. Whatever his methods, he knows how to find things
out by asking around.
CONVICTION
Conviction measures the force of your character’s
personality, self confidence and zeal. Inquisitors and members
of the Ecclesiarchy will typically have high Conviction to
represent the strength of their faith.
Skill drain: If you fail a Conviction test, you suffer drain in
addition to the normal effects. A few hours of atonement and
prayer restores the lost ranks completely. Full recoveries are
best handled between missions.
DECEIT
Deceit is the ability to lie, simple as that. Whether through
word or deed, it’s the ability to convey falsehoods convincingly.
DRIVE
This skill measures a character’s ability to control and drive
any sort of vehicle, from a ground bike to an interstellar
freighter. Pilots are familiar with the controls of most
standard vehicles and can guide the vehicle in stressful
situations and straight courses alike.
ENGINEERING
Engineering is the understanding of how machinery and
complex technology works, both for purposes of building it
and taking it apart. While it’s complemented by an
understanding of Academia, Engineering can just as easily be
the result of getting your hands dirty and having a natural feel
for how things work.
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FORBIDDEN LORE
Special limitation: This skill is not allowed at character
creation. Ask the GM for his approval. The rank is also limited
(▹39).
The Forbidden Lore skill represent information proscribed or
hidden from the average Imperial citizen. In many cases, it is a
heinous crime to even possess such data and can quickly
draw Inquisitorial attention (even if the possessor himself is
working for an Inquisitor).
The skill works differently than the other skills that characters
have, as it can only be used for knowledge.
Knowledge: Actions relating to learning about the Ruinous
Powers can be made with the Forbidden Lore skill. These are,
by and large, actions to overcome and create an advantage.
Furthermore, ranks in the Forbidden Lore skill effectively add
to other skills for the purposes of such direct discovery. This
notably includes Academia and Investigate. For example, if a
character has Academia at Fair (+2) and Forbidden Lore at
Average (+1), rolls to piece together something lore-related
about Chaos are at Good (+3).
Corruption: Having any ranks in this skill also makes you
more vulnerable to the effects of corruption. So beware.
GUNS
Often, characters just need to shoot things. Thankfully, there’s
a skill for that. Guns users are well-versed in a variety of
firearms and ammunitions. Guns can also be used to cover
non-gun weapons that shoot at a distance, such as bows and
bolas guns, and also covers the use of heavy artillery.
INFLUENCE
This skill represents your involvement with the Inquisition.
Who you know, how to influence them and their decisions. It is
also a way to get access to more cool stuff than your not-so
influential brothers-in-arms.
Special rule: Influence has a special relationship with a
character’s Asset score—Influence can change a character’s
starting Assets.
Influence Rank Starting Assets
Fair or Good +3
Great or better +4
Superb +5
INSIGHT
This skill is Empathy re-skinned.
This is the ability to understand what other people are
thinking and feeling. This can be handy if your character is
trying to spot a liar or you want to tell someone what he
wants to hear.
Initiative: This is the skill you use to determine exchange
order in a mental conflict.
INTIMIDATE
There are more graceful social skills for convincing people to
do what you want, but those skills tend not to have the pure
efficiency of communicating the idea that failing to comply
may well result in some manner of harm. Nothing personal.
INVESTIGATE
Investigation is the ability to look for things and, hopefully, find
them. You use this skill when you’re actively looking for
something, such as searching a crime scene or trying to spot
a hidden enemy.
MEDICAE
Medicae indicates training in the use of medical technology;
knowledge of injury, disease, and anatomy; and general health
training. Characters with Medicae can apply high-tech
treatments, stop bleeding and fight poisons.
PRESENCE
This skill is Rapport re-skinned.
The flip-side of Intimidate, this is the ability for impressing
people and swaying their reactions in a friendly fashion, make
a good impression, and perhaps convince them to see your
side of things. Any time you want to communicate without an
implicit threat this is the skill to use.
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STEALTH
This is the ability to remain unseen and unheard. Directly
opposed by Alertness or Investigation, this ability covers
everything from skulking in the shadows to hiding under the
bed.
STRENGTH
This skill is Might re-skinned.
This is a measure of pure physical power—either raw
strength or simply the knowledge of how to use the strength
you have. For lifting, moving, and breaking things, Strength is
the skill of choice. Strength may be used indirectly as well, to
modify, complement, or limit some skill uses.
SURVIVAL
This is the skill of outdoorsmen. It covers hunting, trapping,
tracking, building fires, and lots of other wilderness skills that
spacefarers rarely have a use for, unless they happen to
crash-land on a hostile planet.
TOUGHNESS
This skill is Physique re-skinned.
Toughness is the ability to keep performing physical activity
despite fatigue or injury. It’s a measure of the body’s
resistance to shock and effort. Toughness also measures
how well a character shrugs off poisons and disease.
Toughness also determines a character’s stress capacity
(the length of a character’s stress track), since stress in part
represents physical wounds and fatigue. By default, players
have 3 boxes for their stress track. Better-than-Mediocre
(+0) Toughness increases the number of boxes as shown
here. Willpower also increases stress capacity. Any additional
stress boxes from Willpower and Toughness are added
together to determine a character’s stress capacity.
Toughness is Average or Fair: 1 additional stress box.
Toughness is Good or Great: 2 additional stress boxes.
Toughness is Superb or better: 3 additional stress boxes.
WARPWEAVING

Academia ✓ ✓

Special requirement: You must have the Adeptus Astra Alertness ✓ ✓ ✓

Telepathica past career to take this skill (▹15).
Assault ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
The Warpweaving skill is the ability to create wonders with
your mind. You can cauterize, crush, curse, enfeeble or terrify ✓ ✓ ✓
Athletics
your enemies with a nod. You can also attack them outright.
You may use the skill in place of either Willpower or Athletics Burglary ✓ ✓
to defend against psychic attacks made against you.
Command ✓ ✓
Special rule: To use the energies of the Immaterium is to
invite chaos to your doorstep. If you succeed at a cost ✓ ✓ ✓
Conviction
(through a failed or tied result), the cost should always be
rooted in some kind of psychic backlash either through a ✓ ✓ ✓
Deceit
consequence or a narrative complication.
Psychic resistance: When you choose to direct your powers Drive ✓ ✓ ✓
against against the environment, or it is impossible to
determine who’s the target, you use the purity of the Engineering ✓ ✓
environment as a passive defense. This defense ranges from
+0 for a non-tainted area to +8 for an ancient, Chaos-filled Forbidden Lore ✓ ✓
Space Hulk drifting in the Warp.
Guns ✓ ✓ ✓
Skill drain: If you fail a Warpweaving test, you suffer drain. A
few hours of clearing your mind of the twisted thoughts and ✓ ✓
Influence
demonic voices restores the lost ranks completely. An hour of
quiet clears a single rank. Full recoveries are best handled ✓ ✓ ✓
Insight
between missions.
Intimidate ✓ ✓ ✓
WILLPOWER
Investigate ✓ ✓

Medicae ✓ ✓

This skill is Will re-skinned. Presence ✓ ✓ ✓

Willpower is a measure of a character’s self-mastery, as
Stealth ✓ ✓ ✓
expressed through things like courage and willpower. It’s an
indicator of coolness under fire and also represents the drive
Strength ✓ ✓ ✓
not to quit.
Willpower also determines a character’s stress capacity (the Survival ✓ ✓
length of a character’s stress track), since stress in part
represents the character’s resilience in the face of mental, Toughness ✓ ✓ ✓
emotional, and social stress. By default, players have 3 boxes
for their stress track. Better-than-Mediocre (+0) Willpower Warpweaving ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
increases the number of boxes as shown here. Toughness
also increases stress capacity and combines with Willpower Willpower ✓ ✓ ✓
to increase a character’s stress track.
Willpower is Average or Fair: 1 additional stress box.
Willpower is Good or Great: 2 additional stress boxes.
Willpower is Superb or better: 3 additional stress boxes.
You can use the skill to defend against psychic attacks,
torture or the corrupting powers of Chaos.
Skill drain: If you fail a corruption test, you suffer Willpower
drain. A peaceful nights sleep restores the lost ranks
completely. A non-stressful hour of rest restores a single
rank. Full recoveries are best handled between missions.

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 CHAPTER V
THE STUNTS
In this chapter, you’ll find all the cool rule breakers, the stunts,
that makes your character look badass and shine.
If you need more stunts than the ones converted and included
above, you’ll find this webpage very, very useful.
ACADEMIA STUNTS
GIVE ME A MINUTE
Once per scene you can spend a fate point to use Academia
in place of any other skill for one roll.
GUIDED BY HIS LIGHT
You may not know everything, but you always know how to find
out. When looking for a fairly specific piece of information, you
may give the GM a fate point to be told the closest place you
can go to find out, no matter how obscure or lost the
information is. In short, you can never hit a wall when trying to
find something out. There are no guarantees of how easy it
will be to get the knowledge, but that’s what adventure is for.
INFUSED KNOWLEDGE
You don’t ever have to spend a fate point to declare that you
have the proper tools for research using Lore, even in
extreme situations (like being imprisoned and unable to
access a library).
MASTERY
Once per session you can choose to spend a fate point to
automatically make a successful Academia skill test, no
matter how hard the difficulty was.
QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE
Your mind is has brilliant talent for numbers, logic and
cyphers. If you fail an Academia roll when attempting to recall
knowledge, you can spend a fate point to convert the failure to
a success with style!
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ALERTNESS STUNTS
EVER ALERT, EVER VIGILANT
You have an almost preternatural capacity for detecting
danger. Your Alertness skill works unimpeded by conditions
like total concealment, darkness, or other sensory
impairments in situations where someone or something
intends to harm you.
HE COMMANDS, WE ACT!
You have been trained to follow orders instantly in combat.
When determining turn order for a physical conflict, you may
use an ally's Alertness skill instead of your own.
KEEN INSTINCTS
You’re always laying a keen eye on your environment. You
gain a +2 on Alertness checks to notice important clues or
situations that others have overlooked.
ON YOUR TOES
You have a quick and easy awareness of ambushes and other
nasty surprises. When you’re ambushed , you’re able to take
a full defensive action, gaining a +2 on your defense roll,
regardless of whether or not you’re surprised.
VIGILANCE IS YOUR SHIELD
You may spend a fate point to go first in an exchange,
regardless of your Alertness. If multiple people with this stunt
exercise this ability, they go in turn based on their skills,
before those who don’t exercise the stunt get a chance to
act. If the exchange has already started, and you have not yet
acted, you may instead spend a fate point to act next, out of
the usual turn order.
ASSAULT STUNTS
BLIND FIGHTING
Your ability to attack with Assault works unimpeded by
conditions like darkness or other visual impairments.
BRING IT ON!
Whenever you are physically attacked by a mob, opponents in
that mob do not get a teamwork bonus to their attacks.
DEATHDEALER
Once per conflict, when you invoke a physical consequence on
a successful Assault attack, you can spend a fate point to
increase that consequence's severity before your opponent
takes stress from your successful attack. If you invoked a
severe consequence, your opponent must either take a
consequence from your attack or be taken out.
DEVASTATING ASSAULT
After successfully attacking an opponent and dealing damage,
you may launch a second attack with Assault as a
supplemental action with the usual -1 penalty to the roll. Until
your next exchange, you are prohibited from making any
defense rolls though.
SWIFT ATTACK
You use Assault in place of Alertness to determine your
initiative in physical conflicts.
ATHLETICS STUNTS
HARD TARGET
When making a full defense, take no penalty for moving one
zone and gain an additional +1 to the roll (for a total of +3)
when making such a move.
LIGHTNING REFLEXES
+2 to defend with Athletics for the first exchange after you
become aware of a threat.
PRETERNATURAL SPEED
You may move two zones for free in a conflict without rolling,
instead of one, provided there are no situation aspects
restricting movement and that you are charging toward your
opponents.
QUICKDRAW
You do not suffer the -1 penalty for a supplemental action
when you draw and fire your gun in the same action.
STEP ASIDE
Once per session you may re-roll a failed Athletics defense roll
for free with an additional +1 bonus to the roll.
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BURGLARY STUNTS
ALWAYS A WAY OUT
+2 on Burglary rolls made to create an advantage whenever
you’re trying to escape from a location.
HIDDEN WEAKNESS
You have a talent for spotting flaws in a location’s security
protocols. Gain a +2 when using Burglary to pass a security
checkpoint without arousing suspicion.
MENTAL BLUEPRINTS
You’re highly skilled at visualizing the whole of a target based
on just a part of it. When casing a location, you gain a +2 on
your Burglary roll.
PILFER
No one can ever feel safe from your theft. After a physical
conflict has ended make a retrospective Burglary roll
contested by your opponents Alertness. If you are successful,
you stole some small valuables from him. This is treated as
an Asset aspect representing the trinkets.
SPOILS OF WAR
Requires the Pilfer stunt.
Instead of stealing some small valuables from your
opponents, you steal one of his weapons. This can never be a
be his main weapon or a heavy weapon. It is usually a
sidearm.
COMMAND STUNTS
AIR OF AUTHORITY
You are good at being in charge. +2 to Command as long as
you are in a position of direct authority over those you intend
to lead.
ALL FOR ONE
You are part of a small (less than a dozen) group of f brothers
in arms. When inspiring named characters which share this
group membership aspect, you may spend effort from your
Command roll to allow members of the group to ignore
consequences for the duration of a scene. Ignoring a mild
consequence costs 2 effort points; a moderate consequence
takes 4 effort points and a severe consequence 6 effort
points.
DUTY PREVAILS
Stories of your duties within the Inquisition is well known.
Whenever dealing with members of the Inquisition, you put
out all the right signals, say all the right things. In such
circumstances, you may roll your Command at +2, or,
alternatively, use your Command instead of Influence, in order
to get a favorable reaction.
HALO OF COMMAND
For a fate point, you may use your Command skill instead of
Presence and Intimidate, provided those you are dealing with
are aware of your reputation and rank (a second fate point
will nearly always assure that they do).
IMPOSING RANK
Your military rank is evident to all those around you. When
rolling for first impressions, you may use your Command skill
instead of Presence.
CONTACTS STUNTS
COVER-UP
Whenever you seek information and an opponent rolls
Contacts to be alerted to this activity, you may roll active
opposition against them.
INSIDER
You’re able to navigate the intricacies of corporate and
government bureaucracies easily—not because you
understand them, but because you know people within the
bureaucracy who can provide you shortcuts. You may roll
Contacts instead of Command to deal with any sort of
bureaucratic entanglement.
NASTY REPUTATION
You can use Contacts instead of Intimidate to create
advantages based on the fear generated by the sinister
reputation you’ve cultivated for yourself and all the shady
associates you have. You should have an appropriate aspect
to pair with this stunt.
PALMGREASING
You know just when to apply a bit of a bribe to the situation. A
successful Assets roll (▹41) against a difficulty set by the GM
reduces the difficulty of your Contacts roll by three.
PEERS
The Acolyte knows how to deal with a particular social group
or organisation, or even xenos race. +2 to Contacts when
dealing with your peers.
CONVICTION STUNTS
DENY THE WITCH
You may use Conviction instead of Willpower to defend
against psychic attacks.
LITANY OF HATE
Hate enriches. Armed with nothing but your faith and the
Imperial Creed, you are able to force enemies of His Empire
to flee in terror. You may substitute Conviction for Intimidate.
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REDEMPTION OF BATTLE
Death is the servant of the righteous. If you spend a few
minutes after a conflict in deep prayer, where you praise the
Fallen who died in His Name, you may instantly remove a mild
consequence.
RIGHTEOUS CRUSADE
The Light of the God Emperor never leaves you, guiding you to
victory in every battle against the tainted. When fighting
enemies of the Imperium, you may substitute Conviction for
Assault in physical conflicts.
UNSHAKABLE FAITH
Blind faith is a just cause. You know, that He never leaves you
side. You may substitute Conviction for Willpower.
DECEIT STUNTS
COVERSTORY
You can whip up a cover story like no one’s business, even if
you haven’t made an effort to establish it beforehand. Any
time you overcome an obstacle in public using Deceit,
automatically add a situation aspect representing your cover
story, and stick a free invocation on it.
FACE IN THE CROWD
Once per scene, when you succeed on a Deceit roll, you may
choose to succeed with style instead.
INFILTRATOR
Once per scene, when you succeed on a Deceit roll to create
a disguise, you succeed with style instead.
MASTER OF IMITATION
You may create advantages with Deceit related to imitating
the mannerisms and voice of anyone you’ve had a chance to
study. Studying someone usually requires only an investment
of time, and not a roll of the dice—at least half an hour of
constant exposure. This timeframe can be reduced, but will
require an Insight, Investigate, or Deceit Mediocre (+0) roll—
any shifts you get on the roll reduce the time required.
MIND GAMES
You can use Deceit in place of Intimidate to make mental
attacks, as long as you can make up a clever lie as part of the
attack.
DRIVE STUNTS
BATTLEFLEET CALIXIS FIGHTER PILOT
You are a skilled combat pilot, and as such may roll Drive
instead of Guns to attack in a dogfight.
DROP POD SURVIVOR
You have a great instinct for crash-landing vehicles and can
walk away from even the most catastrophic-seeming landings.
When you pilot a vehicle into its crash landing, you and your
passengers survive. The crash is described, without any
reference to harm to you or your passengers, and you all
stagger out after the landing with all of your physical stress
cleared and a single mild consequence to reflect the dangers
survived. Every survivor must spend half of their remaining
fate points, rounded up. They must have at least one to do
this. If a character has no fate points, she’s taken out.
LOCKED ON TARGET
Once you’re tailing someone, you’re practically impossible to
shake. When chasing another vehicle, gain a +1 against any
maneuvers your target attempts.
RAM IT DOWN
When you hit an object other than a character or vehicle,
increase the stress you cause by 2. Any time an object is
taken out by the damage, the result should be spectacular—
an explosion or collapse.
SAFETY FIRST
You’re good at keeping your vehicle in one piece. When
attempting a Drive maneuver in a chase, you may treat the
difficulty as if it were one lower. The difficulty of the maneuver
itself isn’t affected, however, for any vehicles that might be
chasing you.
ENGINEERING STUNTS
ARMOR-MONGER
When improving physical armors, you get an extra -1 difficulty
modifier and the improvement is done one time increment
faster.
APPRAISE THE MACHINE SPIRITS
By appraising the machine spirits in a broken device, you
make them pleased and the equipment works again. You
must spend a fate point to activate this ability and roll
Engineering against a target of Mediocre (+0). Then you
appraise the spirits, and it starts working immediately,
regardless of the difficulty rating to repair it under time
pressure. It’ll continue to work for a number of exchanges
equal to the shifts gained on the Engineering roll. Once the
time is up, the device stops working again, and any efforts to
repair it are at a one step higher difficulty (since the spirits
are exhausted). If you wish to do another appraisal, you may
do so at the cost of another fate point, but the difficulty for
the Engineering roll increases by one for each subsequent
appraisal.
FROM THE DARK AGE OF TECHNOLOGY
You have managed to obtain a great deal of knowledge of the
forgotten principles and understanding of the technology that
was lost during the Age of Strife. Add two to your Engineering
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skill when working with objects or materials from that time
period.
TECHNICAL KNOCK
You can remove JAMMED aspects from weapons with a
Mediocre (+0) Engineering skill roll as long as you can
somehow touch the weapon.
WEAPON-TECH
Once per conflict, at the cost of a fate point, you may increase
the damage of a weapon by +3. It has to be a melta, a plasma
or a power weapon for this to work.
GUNS STUNTS
DOUBLE TAP
If you make a successful attack with Guns, the damage is
increased by 2 shifts.
EYE OF VENGEANCE
Once per scene, when you force an opponent to take a
consequence using Guns, you can spend a fate point to
increase the consequence’s severity. If your opponent was
already going to take a severe consequence, he must either
take a severe consequence and a second consequence or be
taken out.
HIP SHOOTING
Once per scene, you may move one zone, attack with Guns,
and then move one additional zone, provided there are no
situation aspects restricting movement.
PRECISION KILLER
During a Guns attack, spend a fate point and declare a
specific condition you want to inflict on a target, like SHOT IN
THE HAND. If you succeed, you place that as a situation aspect
on them in addition to hitting them for stress.
TARGET SELECTION
When attacking with Guns, you are immune to the effects of
aspects such as CROWDED and INNOCENT BYSTANDERS. These
cannot be compelled against you.
INFLUENCE STUNTS
PLANETARY BOMBARDMENT
Requires Great (+4) Influence.
Sometimes you will face so much Chaos on a planet, that you
have no way of saving it. By paying a fate point and draining
your Influence of two points (▹33); recovery is a mission per
point), you will secure a planetary bombardment from the
nearest, available Imperial Navy Battalion. It usually takes a
week for the warships to arrive in orbit. This time is best
spend finding a way to get the hell off the planet. This use
functions like a concede to the rest of the mission, ending it
immediately. Use this power with extreme caution!
REINFORCEMENT
Requires Good (+3) Influence.
Once per mission when you need it the most, you can call for
a reinforcement by spending a fate point and draining your
Influence of two points (▹33); recovery is one session per
point. The reinforcement will arrive by drop pod close to your
destination in a day. Give your temporary teammate a name
and write a brief sentence describing his personality and his
role in the team. The four reinforcement characters are:
DEATHWATCH SPACE MARINE (▹64)
EVERSOR ASSASSIN (▹65)
GREY KNIGHT SPACE MARINE (▹65)
SISTER OF BATTLE CANONESS (▹66)
SUPREME FIREPOWER
When you buy weapons—either at character creation or later
on—you may distribute two points between Damage,
Accuracy and Range for free. Just add your choice after the
acquisition.
THE EMPEROR KNOWS
When you start asking questions in the name of the
Inquisition, people usually spill their beans without much
resistance. You may use Influence instead of Investigate when
you are interrogating people.
THE IMPERIAL SEAL
This stunt is worth 2 refresh, you get it for free.
Flashing the Imperial Seal is like bringing a naval cannon to a
fistfight. Everybody around you will think thrice before
assaulting you. (If you spend a fate point, you will have them
running in fear.) If they should decide to attack you anyway,
you will receive an immediate +2 bonus to both Assault and
Guns.
Remember, that showing the seal will reveal the presence of
the Inquisition. Immediately place the THEY ARE HERE!
situational aspect.
Note that this stunt only works against citizens of the Empire
of Man. Xenos, Chaos and some heretics are immune to this.
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“THE INQUISITION NEEDS YOUR RHINO!”
Requires Average (+1) Influence.
Once per session you can confiscate a piece of equipment or
a vehicle from the local government—as long as it is Imperial
in nature. The maximum value of the confiscated stuff is equal
to your Assets rank +3. Additionally the equipment also has
the PROPERTY OF THE INQUISITION aspect. Someone might want
it back after use.
WE ARE WATCHING YOU
People of all walks of life fear the Inquisition, and with good
right. You may use Influence instead of Intimidation, when
using it to scare others.
“YOU WILL COOPERATE, SERGEANT!”
Local law enforcements will obey your orders, if you let them
know, that you’re part of the Inquisition. Add +2 to Influence
when dealing with Imperial law enforcements. You can only
use this stunt on planets with an Imperial Planetary Governor.
INSIGHT STUNTS
A PEEK INSIDE
Requires at least two other Insight stunts.
You achieve such a strong understanding of your subject that
you can start to make some fairly accurate guesses about his
behavior. After you have successfully read a person's
emotional state, you may immediately ask the GM a
hypothetical question about that person’s motives, which the
GM must be able to answer with "yes", "no", or "maybe", to
the best of her ability. The question must speak to the kind of
person the target is, not things they’ve done, though it may
ask if they are capable of doing such things. If the GM
answers with a "maybe", you may ask a second question to
get clarification. This second question may seek details,
rather than another one-word answer.
COLD READ
You can size people up in a glance. Normally, using Insight to
get a read on someone requires at least a few minutes of
conversation, if not more. You only need a few moments.
HIT THEM WHERE IT HURTS
Your skill at reading people makes you adept at provoking a
strong emotional response if you’re trying to get them angry,
depressed, or something similar. Normally, the Intimidate skill
is used for such efforts; however, if you’ve succeeded at any
Insight roll against the target previously, you may use Insight
to wage such psychological warfare instead.
SOULTRACKER
Your understanding of people you’ve met is sufficiently strong
that it gives you an easy sense of how to find them. You can
anticipate their moves based on your knowledge of their
personality. In any situation where you’re tracking down or
otherwise trying to find someone you’ve met before, you may
roll Insight instead of Investigate.
TRUTH BEGETS HATRED
Without rolling, you can tell if another character is lying so
long as the target’s Deceit is equal to or lower than your
Insight. In the case of high Deceit, you will know that you
cannot tell, but will never receive a “false positive.”
INTIMIDATE STUNTS
BRINGER OF DEATH
You are the terror of all those who oppose you. Others are
often at a loss to describe what exactly about you is so
unsettling; regardless, it has the effect of rooting them to the
spot and believing the threats you make. Once per scene per
target, you may spend a fate point to intimidate your target
as a free action, no matter what the circumstances; this
happens immediately if you’re between actions, or
immediately after the current action underway. This free
action is in addition to any other action you might take during
the exchange.
EYE TO EYE, BLADE TO BLADE
You are a master provocateur, able to compel your enemies
to drop their guns and dance with you in melee combat. By
spending a fate point, you may call on any enemy no more
than one zone away. That enemy, no matter how tough, will
stop shooting and spend his next turn entering your zone for
some one-on-one bloodshed. A high rank in Assault is a good
supplemental to this stunt.
INFURIATE
You have a real talent for making people very angry. When
deliberately trying to get someone angry at you, you receive a
+2 bonus. If this results in an attack or other action against
you by your target, you may use Intimidate to complement the
skill you use on the first exchange, no matter the
circumstance—after all, you made it happen, so you were
ready for it.
JUST BENEATH THE SURFACE
You exude menace far in excess of your capability to act. Even
bound and behind prison bars, you’re so ripe with the promise
of the awful things you could do that you’re still scary. You
may use Intimidate no matter what the power imbalance in
the situation is, and your target’s bonuses for acting from a
superior position are reduced by 2 (to a minimum of +0).
PROMISES OF PAIN
You make a promise—really, a threat—to a target, and make
an attack using Intimidation. If you successfully hit for one or
more mental stress, you may spend a fate point to
immediately force a mild psychological consequence instead.
The consequence must represent an appropriate response
to the threat— such as FOLDING UP IN FEAR or A BROKEN SPIRIT.
The target may choose to concede rather than take the
consequence.
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INVESTIGATE STUNTS
CLUES FROM THE CROWDS
When gathering clues from a group of people, you may re-roll
a failed Investigate roll for free. This can be one once per
session.
COORDINATED INTERROGATION
When providing assistance to other characters in
interrogations, you supply an additional +1 bonus for a total of
+2.
DELICATE INTERROGATION
You can use Deceit in place of Investigate when performing
interrogations.
KEEN INTUITION
When using Investigate to notice objects that seem out of
place or hidden you you may re-roll a failed Investigate test for
free.
NOTHING ESCAPES MY SIGHT
You’re a skilled hunter and investigator obsessed with the
pursuit of your prey. If you fail an Investigate roll when tracking
and hunting your target, you can spend a fate point to convert
the failure to a success with style!
MEDICAE STUNTS
FIELD MEDIC
You have a talent for delivering medical care in the field.
Normally, someone providing first aid can remove a stress
mark for every two shifts gained on the roll (▹57). With this
stunt, every shift past the first one improves the level of
stress that may be removed—so three shifts removes a
checkmark up to the three-stress mark, rather than the two-
stress mark. If you roll well enough to remove a stress mark
that’s higher than the subject’s physical stress capacity (e.g.,
six or more shifts for a character who has Mediocre (+0)
Toughness), you can remove a mild physical consequence.
ONLY A FLESH WOUND
+2 to treat your own physical consequences with Medicae.
PATCHED UP AND READY TO FIGHT
You can get the injured back on their feet in no time. If you
spend a fate point, you can erase a mild consequence from a
character’s sheet in the middle of the action with a quick
Medicae (+2) roll.
SUPERIOR CHIRURGEON
You aren’t just a chirurgeon; you’re a miracle worker. You can
bring back those that others think are beyond hope. If you
treat someone who’s been taken out, you can revive him if you
spend a fate point. All his injuries remain, but he’s no longer
taken out. This ability can even be used to revive people who
are apparently dead, so long as most of their vital parts are
relatively intact.
YOU’RE NOT WORTHY OF DEATH … YET!
You’re an expert at getting the injured back in action. If you
spend a fate point, you can move a physical consequence one
step down on a character’s sheet. A Medicae check is
required with a difficulty equal to the severity of the original
consequence level, but you can change a moderate
consequence to a mild one, or even make a severe
consequence only moderate. You can only do this once per
character per session.
CHILD OF DARKNESS
+2 to create advantage or overcome with Stealth whenever
you are in near-darkness or total darkness.
ONLY THE WIND SAW ME GO
At the cost of a fate point, you may exit a scene, passing from
sight.
SHADOWY EXIT
A momentary distraction is all you need to vanish from the
scene. Provided you aren’t in the midst of a conflict, you may
roll a quick contest between your Stealth and the highest

PRESENCE STUNTS Alertness in the room. If you succeed, the next time someone
turns to look at or talk to you, you’re not there.

CENTER OF ATTENTION TWILIGHT STALKER

You’re used to focusing people’s attention on you and keeping You like to watch people who don't know they're being
it. Any time you use your Presence to attract attention and watched. You may use Stealth in place of Investigate to
distract someone you gain a +2 bonus to your roll. conduct surveillance.

DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?

Once per scene, you may identify yourself in order to get your
STRENGTH STUNTS
way and add +2 to a Contacts, Deceit, Intimidate, or
Command roll.
BUILD LIKE A JUGGERNAUT
Your frame is massive, bulging with muscles everywhere.
RENOWNED HERO Hard muscles offering protection. You may use Strength
Your reputation has reached great proportions, and people instead of Athletics for defense.
are willing to believe all sorts of things about you. For a fate
point, you may use your Presence skill instead of Deceit,
BULGING BICEPS
Intimidate or Willpower, provided those you are dealing with You can use heavy weapons as though they are merely
are aware of your reputation (a second fate point will nearly sidearms.
always assure that they are).
HAMMER BLOWS
REVEAL THE HERETIC
You can use Strength in place of Assault when attacking.
You’re good at drawing people out, getting them to talk about
themselves. If you’re engaged in a long conversation with UNBOUND
someone, you can use your Presence instead of Insight to get
If you’re physically restrained in some fashion—such as by
a read on her as you get her to hint at or flat out reveal
chains or a mob of people—you gain +2 to your Strength in
secrets about herself and her past.
your efforts to break out of those bonds.
TRUE INSPIRATION VICIOUS BASTARD
You can use your strong presence as a source of inspiration
If you’re attacking very viciously and recklessly, you may use
getting someone going in combat. Until the encounter is over,
Strength as a supplemental action with Assault as a melee
the character can spend fate points to avoid being taken out,
attack. But instead of brining the usual -1 penalty to Assault, it
as described in the LAST LEG stunt (▹31). Once the encounter
adds +1 instead.
ends, however, the character takes the mild consequence
Exhausted in addition to any other consequences taken
during the conflict.
SURVIVAL STUNTS
STEALTH STUNTS CALL OF THE WILD
You move silently and almost imperceptibly through wild
ASSASSIN STRIKE areas. You can conceal your movements and hide easily in a
natural environment. When attempting to hide or sneak in
When you can surprise an enemy or attack from a place of
the wild, you may substitute your Survival skill for Stealth.
hiding, you can attack with Stealth. If you succeed, you create
a boost. If you succeed with style, you get to invoke that boost
for free twice. This is in addition to the actual outcome of the
attack roll.

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DEATH WORLD SURVIVOR
You’ve lived rough on a wide variety of inhospitable worlds.
Any penalties assessed for being unfamiliar with the local
environment are reduced by two.
TRACKER
You’re skilled at tracking and can infer a great deal of
information from a trail. When studying tracks, you may roll
Survival. For each shift from this roll, you can get one piece of
information about the person or creature being tracked—
weight, how they were moving, and so on. Normally, Survival
can’t be used to track something, leaving such attempts at a
Mediocre (+0) default.
WHATEVER COMES IN HANDY
Making stuff out of the things around you is an integral part of
wilderness survival. You may use Survival in place of
Engineering to build things out of scavenged materials.
TOUGHNESS STUNTS
HARDY
Once per session, at the cost of a fate point, you can reduce
the severity of a moderate consequence that’s physical in
nature to a mild consequence (if your mild consequence slot
is free), or erase a mild consequence altogether.
IRON JAW
When someone tries to place aspects on you—like STUNNED—
using Assault, you resist the attempts with +2.
LAST LEG
No matter what comes at you, you keep standing. Use this
stunt when you’d be taken out by or otherwise suffer a
consequence from a physical hit. If you spend a fate point to
remain standing or otherwise defer a consequence or
concession for one more exchange or until you’re hit again,
whatever comes first. You may keep spending fate points this
way until you run out. Once the extra time you’ve bought is up,
all your deferred effects come to bear at once.
NEVER DIE
You gain an additional mild consequence slot. This slot can
only be used for physical harm.
TRUE GRIT
When you take physical stress, and the stress box with a
value equal to the shift value of the hit is already checked, you
may instead mark the next lowest value box that is
unchecked. Very simply, this means that you don’t start
picking up consequences unless someone hits you for more
than your highest value box or all of your boxes are filled up.
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WARPWEAVING STUNTS
FAVORED BY THE WARP
Once per session, you may re-roll a failed Warpweaving test
for free.
FORCE WEAPON WIELDER
You can use Warpweaving instead of Assault when using
force weapons.
WARP CONDUIT
You can power your Warpweaving with your stress. Spend a
fate point and check a stress box of your choice. The amount
of stress you invest functions as a +1 to the roll. This
investment must be done before the roll is made.
WARP LOCK
Requires the Favored by the Warp stunt.
When re-rolling a failed Warpweaving test, the second roll is
made at +2 to the roll.
WARP SENSE
You may use Warpweaving as if it were an arcane Investigate
skill as well as an arcane Alertness skill. You also gain +1 to
Warpweaving when using it in this fashion.
WILLPOWER STUNTS
ADAMANTIUM FAITH
You have become so inured to horrors that would cripple
lesser men. Add +2 to Willpower when defending against
fear and terror.
BATTLE RAGE
You can channel you inner beast to deal devastating attacks.
Use Willpower in place of Assault when attacking frenzied
and recklessly.
DISCIPLINED FOCUS
You willpower helps you maintain a very strict discipline,
keeping your mind clear and focused. You may use Willpower
instead of Alertness.
FRENZY
Once per scene, after taking physical stress, you may spend a
fate point to add the shift value of the attack (after any
reduction by consequences) as a bonus to an action in the
next exchange taken against the person who inflicted the
stress.
IRON DISCIPLINE
+2 to defend with Willpower against someone trying to get
inside your head—be it through psychic means or through
extensive torture.
STRONG MINDED
Once per scene, when using Willpower to defend against a
psychic attack, you may make a free re-roll.
 CHAPTER VI
DOING STUFF
In addition to the normal rules in FATE CORE, the following
three optional rules is also available in FATE OF HERETICS.
SKILL DRAIN
When you suffer a skille drain, you temporarily lose ranks in a
skill. The skill can never go lower than Mediocre (+0). This
only affects actions, and not other benefits of a skill such as
additional stress boxes.
Regaining lost ranks varies with each skill and sometimes the
situation.
In this conversion, only three skills is automatically suffering
from the effects of drain:
Conviction: A few hours of atonement and prayer
restores the lost ranks completely. Full recoveries are
best handled between missions.
Warpweaving: A few hours of clearing your mind of the
twisted thoughts and demonic voices restores the lost
ranks completely. An hour of quiet clears a single rank.
Full recoveries are best handled between missions.
Willpower: A peaceful nights sleep restores the lost
ranks completely. A non-stressful hour of rest restores a
single rank. Full recoveries are best handled between
missions.
Other skills might also suffer, but it is your job as a GM to
make the judgement.
SUPPLEMENTAL ACTIONS
Sometimes you need to do something more complicated than
just taking a single, basic action. Sometimes the complication
is simple, like drawing a weapon and attacking; sometimes it’s
more complex, like making a feint while hacking with your
chainsword.
When your character performs a simple action while doing
something else—like drawing a weapon and attacking, or firing
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off a signal flare while intimidating the snapping fang voles at
the edge of the firelight— it’s a supplemental action and
imposes a –1 on your primary action roll (effectively spending
one shift of effect in advance).
When in doubt about which is the primary action and which is
the supplemental one, the supplemental action is the one that
normally wouldn’t require a die roll.
Sometimes the GM may decide a supplemental action is
particularly complicated or difficult, and may increase the
penalty appropriately.
COMBINING SKILLS
Sometimes the character needs to perform a task that really
requires using two or more skills at once. You never know
when a character is going to need to throw a knife (Assault)
while spinning in zero gravity (Athletics) or when he’s going to
need to explain Warp shielding theory (Academia) to an Ogryn
Kanak Skull Taker (Presence).
In those situations, the GM calls for a roll based on the main
skill being used, but modified by the second skill.
If the second skill is of greater value than the first, it’s a +1
bonus to the roll; if the second skill is of a lesser value, it’s a -1
penalty to the roll.
COMPLIMENTING SKILLS
When the second skill can only help the first—essentially,
failing with the second skill won’t detract from the success of
the first—it complements the skill.
A complementing skill never applies a –1, even if it’s lower
than the primary skill. This usually happens when the
character has the option of using the secondary skill, but
doesn’t have to bring it to bear.
RESTRICTING SKILLS
If the secondary skill comes into play only to hold the primary
skill back, it restricts the skill—it can only provide a penalty or
nothing at all.
A restricting skill never applies a +1, even if it’s higher than
the primary skill. Often skills like Toughness or Willpower are
restrictive skills—as you get more tired, you won’t get better;
but if you’re resolute, you may not get worse.
Note that combining skills can never be done to perform two
full actions at once—if that’s the goal, it should take two
exchanges. When skills are used in combination, one skill
almost always serves a passive role; it’s the thing the
character needs to do in order to be able to perform the
other skill.
The difference between a supplemental action and an action
that combines skills isn’t always obvious. In general, if both
components of the action are something you’d expect to roll
for if they were done separately, then it’s time to combine
skills. If the lesser part of the action is something that
normally doesn’t require a roll, handle it as a supplemental
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 CHAPTER VII
PSYCHICS
This short chapter is used to break down the psychic power
of the Warhammer 40,000 into Fate elements.
You’ll also find five unique stunt packages representing the
different styles of psykers.
PERMISSIONS
You must choose a past career aspect associated with the
ADEPTUS ASTRA TELEPATHICA background.
COSTS
Take THE CONSTANT THREAT stunt and assign a skill slot for the
WARPWEAVING skill.
WARPWEAVING SKILL
OVERCOME
Create and perform psychic powers with your mind
successfully.
CREATE ADVANTAGE
Place mental and physical changes on a target such as
CAUTERIZED, CRUSHED, CURSED, ENFEEBLED or TERRIFIED. Targets
can defend against this with Willpower (or Warpweaving).
ATTACK
Create aggressive mental energies to attack the mind or
body of the target. Targets can defend against this with
Athletics or Willpower depending on the nature of the attack.
If the target is psychic, he can choose to defend with
Warpweaving instead. The attacks of psychic powers have
Range 1.
DEFEND
Use Warpweaving to defend against hostile psychic powers.
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STUNTS
BIOMANCER [-2]
You’re an artist of living flesh, able to adjust your own or
targets bodies in beneficial or malevolent ways with the
strength of your mind.
Warp Speed [-1]: Tapping into the power of the Empyrean,
you suffuses your body with energy, pushing it beyond physical
limits, increasing Alertness to +4 for the purpose of
determining initiative, adding +1 to all Athletic rolls (including
dodging). The power lasts a scene and costs a fate point to
activate.
Iron Skin [-1]: Your flesh transforms, hardening into a slick,
living metal, weighing you down but also rendering you
incredibly resistant. In combat, once per scene, you may clear
away a mild physical consequence. Additionally you have a
natural Armor: 2 rating, adding to any other armor worn. The
power lasts a scene and costs a fate point to activate.
DIVINATOR [0]
You can tune your perception to the Warp, getting insight
into the many possible futures, and always be one step ahead.
Foreboding [0]: You gain an unnatural sixth sense. With this
inexplicable insight, you know how and where his enemies will
attack, dodging blows and blasts with contemptuous and
frightening ease, adding +1 to all Athletic rolls (including
dodging). The power lasts a scene and costs a fate point to
activate.
Precognition [0]: You witness solid and perfectly lifelike visions
of the future. Peering into moments yet to come, you can use
this information to ensure or avoid future fates. This places
an aspect on the “world” related to the prediction that
remains until it comes true or is otherwise resolved.
PYROMANCER [-2]
Destruction by flame is your game. You can create and
control flames with your mind. When attacking or creating
advantages with Warpweaving that has an infernal nature,
you get +2 to the roll. The attack does 4 shifts of damage.
TELEKINETIC [-3]
By tapping into the vast powers of the Warp, you are able to
defy gravity, blast opponents with bolts of force and even tear
holes in the very fabric of reality.
Telekine Shield [-1]: Using the energy of the Warp, you
erects a wall of tangible force that moves with you, giving you
an on-top Armor: 2 rating, layering perfectly with other
armors.
Vortex of Doom [-2]: In perhaps the ultimate display of your
mastery of both the physical world and the Warp, you tear
open a hole twixt the two, creating a violent and unpredictable
zone of death. Choose a zone, no more than two zones away
from you. Everything in this zone is attacked by your
Warpweaving skill adding +4 hits if the attack is successful!
THE CONSTANT THREAT [+1]
“You think you know of terror? You fear mortality, while I know of
things far worse than mere death.”
– Astropath Galatia Hox
Psykers are beings with the ability to manipulate the power of
the Immaterium, bending the chaotic energy to their will to
manifest potent psychic powers.
PSYCHIC PHENOMENA: When you reach into the Warp, there is
always the chance of the Empyrean bleeding into reality. Minor
manifestations include a drop in temperature, ghostly voices,
feelings of unease, or nearby vegetation shriveling and dying. In
rare instances–like when you succeed with a serious cost–even
full-scale Warp breaches can occur.
PERILS OF THE WARP: Your constant dealing with the Empyrean
leaves you less protected against the dangerous powers of
corruption. Every chaos ratings from experiences that has a
corruption trigger are increased by +1 against you.

TELEPATH [-5]
You have the talent to enter the minds of others, adjusting
their memories and minds for better or worse.
Dominate [-2]: Demonstrating the superiority of your mutant
mind, you subvert your foe’s will and forces him to act against
his every inclination. Few psychic abilities are so rightly feared.
Your mental psychic attacks does 4 extra shifts of damage
on successful hits.
Puppet Master [-3]: In the ultimate expression of telepathic
power, you utterly crushes your target’s will, locking him away
in a dark corner of his own mind and taking complete control
of his body. When a victim is taken out from attacks by
Dominate, you may fully possess him. Once you’ve taken
possession, you may control your victim completely and gain
access to all his physical abilities and many of his mental
ones. Once someone has a reason to be suspicious, you must
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 CHAPTER VIII

CORRUPTION
The Ruinous Powers is by no comparison the biggest enemy
of the Empire of Mankind. It is all around you, hidden in the
mind and hearts of heretics and shrouded by the thin veil
between you and the Warp.
And Chaos corrupts you. Lures you into submission, slavery
and eternal damnation.
purity boxes (each has a value of one — you cross off as many
as required), starting from the first box on Tainted and not
starting on the second track until the first is completely
crossed out.
When an entire threshold is crossed off, the character has a
soul rending break and is now at the next threshold of purity.
But as long as there’s even one box remaining on the third

GETTING STARTED purity threshold (Profane) a character is still playable.

The moment a character has all of his purity boxes crossed
A few new terms that are the backbone of the system are off, though, he is Eternally Damned.
introduced to the game: THRESHOLDS AS AN ASPECT
The purity tracks
The Soiled and Profane thresholds act as aspects just like
Corruption triggers consequences do, relating to the current afflictions area
underneath the purity thresholds. See Crossing Purity
Chaos ratings
Thresholds (▹39) for more information.
The corruption test

THE PURITY TRACKS
Characters have three tracks of purity boxes — known as
purity thresholds — that show how pure or tainted they are.
Normal characters start with the following on their character
sheets. (The Armor of Contempt stunt reserved for the
preachers of the God Emperor can change that.)
CORRUPTION TRIGGERS
In the course of investigating and fighting against agents of
Chaos, characters will invariably uncover inhuman knowledge,
as well as witness blasphemous and unnatural acts and
beings. These are known as corruption triggers, and the
nature of the trigger affects the difficulty (or chaos rating) in
resisting its effect and the severity of potential purity loss.

TAINTED ▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢ CHAOS RATINGS

SOILED ▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢ Situations involve a character either experiencing Chaos by
happenstance or by accident, or by deliberately inviting it in
PROFANE ▢ ▢ ▢ ▢ ▢ ▢ through research and experimentation.

ETERNALLY DAMNED Situations involve a general sense of the narrative that will
trigger them (hence the name “situation”) as well as the
CURRENT MALIGNANCIES chaos rating the purity defense has to overcome (▹38).

Characters start with none of these boxes checked, which

means that their souls are perfectly pure of any Chaos taint.
But as they suffer assaults to their souls, they will check off

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 Type of Situation Chaos Rating THE CORRUPTION TEST
Discovering profane or blasphemous When you confront Chaos, you are forced to make a
+1 to +2
lore or experiencing warp shock corruption test. It follows these four simple steps.
Participating in dark deeds or seeing Roll the dice
+2 to +3
vile rituals
Add your Willpower skill rank
Witnessing a breach in the Veil or
+3 to +4 Subtract your Forbidden Lore rank
handling profane relics
Did you beat the chaos rating or not?
Making pacts or communication with
+4 or more Failure: You suffer purity loss equal to the number of shifts
Daemons or worshipping Chaos
you failed by.

DISCOVERING BLASPHEMOUS LORE
Knowledge itself can corrupt. The study of certain foul tomes,
malignant texts, or ancient pict-logs can cause an Acolyte to
lose purity even if he does not comprehend the unholy words
or images. This also covers consequences suffered from
attacks made by Warp entities.
PARTICIPATING IN DARK DEEDS
Evil acts done in the furtherance of a malignancy, in pursuit of
forbidden lore, or to appease a Daemon always cause the
perpetrator to lose purity of soul. Furthermore practicing
sorcery, witnessing dread rituals, or invoking even the least of
Daemons are all causes of loss of purity.
WITNESSING A BREACH IN THE VEIL
Characters caught in a full-blown intrusion of the Warp into
corporeal reality lose purity from the experience. The severity
of the Warp breach affects how strong the chaos rating is.
Chaos devices and amulets are steeped with terrible
energies. Merely handling a rune-encrusted weapon or
wearing gore-soaked armor that a servant of the Ruinous
Powers once used can corrupt.
Tie: You suffer Willpower drain (once per given situation or
scene) and the GM has a boost against you, such as Freezing
Up, Panicking, Confused, Transfixed, or similar.
Success: You suffer Willpower drain (once per given situation
or scene).
Success with style: You suffer no loss or drain, but doesn’t
any advantage either.
There are some special circumstances with the test. These
are:
This test is not a normal defense action. Stunts that
work with defense actions are useless here.
You cannot invoke aspects or boosts to modify the roll
while you are Tainted or Soiled. The dice stay as they
land (▹39).
A new corruption test should only be made if the situation
somehow escalates.
Here’s some examples to how a situation could escalate.
A significant pause between occurrences
Increasing or changing the threat

MAKING PACTS WITH DAEMONS A new threat

Many Daemons and cult leaders are masters of insidious The player decides to stay and fight the enemy
temptation and of sowing the seeds of doubt in a faithful
heart. Their words and arguments can corrupt where force
alone would fail.
LOSING PURITY
When you fail a corruption test, you suffer purity loss. That
means checking off one or more purity boxes. Each time you
lose a purity box, cross one off on your highest available purity
threshold track in the following order:
Tainted ➙ Soiled ➙ Profane ➙ Eternally Damned
When you reach Eternally Damned, your character is no
longer a player character.
Crossing a threshold is serious business. See crossing purity
threshold (▹39).
Some special situations is worth noting:
Threshold loss
Mitigating purity loss
Conceding

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THRESHOLD LOSS PURITY THRESHOLDS & EFFECTS
Purity thresholds represent the soul’s ability to confront the
The greatest agents of Chaos — such as greater daemons
horrors of the Warp.
and extremely powerful sorcerers — can cause threshold
loss. Each threshold has it’s own special rules which changes the
characters ability to cope with Chaos.
Losing enough purity boxes to cause you to fall to the next
threshold, regardless of how many boxes remain on that Finally, your current threshold affects how high a rank your
threshold. Forbidden Lore skill (▹20) may be.
Even on a success or success with style, you still lose 1 purity When you lose enough purity boxes to cross into another
box. threshold, the change in rules takes effect once you have a
moment to breathe and the adrenaline wears off.
MITIGATING PURITY LOSS
EFFECTS OF BEING TAINTED
If you loose purity, you have the option to take a consequence
to mitigate the purity loss. The character cannot invoke an aspect or boost to alter
a corruption test result.
Mild consequence: Cannot be taken; purity loss is longterm.
When in a scene with a corruption trigger, while
Medium consequence: Reduces loss by 4 points.
attacking or otherwise confronting the source of the
Severe consequence: Mitigates the loss entirely. trigger, invocations cost an additional fate point (two for
normal, one for free) and boosts cost a fate point to use.
Extreme consequence: As severe consequence above.
This does not affect invocations on defenses or actions
The consequence must reflect the character’s impure state. to purely escape the situation.
Dark thoughts, uncanny cravings, strange addictions, small
The character may possess the Forbidden Lore skill, but
mutations and the like are all interesting.
at no higher than Average (+1).
If you take a consequence worth more than the amount of
purity you would lose, you also regain one purity box on the
same purity threshold track (regardless of the difference
EFFECTS OF BEING SOILED
between the consequence value and the current purity loss).
The character cannot invoke an aspect or boost to alter
a corruption test result.
CONCEDING
When in a scene with a corruption trigger, while
attacking or otherwise confronting the source of the
Once you have conceded a conflict, you cannot suffer any
trigger, invocations and boosts to re-roll the dice cost
more purity loss.
normal, but costs for taking a +2 bonus are still
increased as per Tainted. Again, this does not affect
CROSSING PURITY THRESHOLDS invocations on defenses or actions to purely escape the
situation.
Crossing a purity threshold is a significant deal, because it The character may possess the Forbidden Lore skill, but
means that the character’s soul is wounded by Chaos in a at no higher than Fair (+2).
deep and fundamental way. What happens over the current
and next session is important to the character.
EFFECTS OF BEING PROFANE
You and the GM should discuss how crossing the threshold
affects your character and a agree on a malignancy that your
The character can now invoke aspects and boosts to
character now suffers. Place the malignancy in the “Current
alter a corruption test result, as his soul has suffered
Malignancies” section on your character sheet.
enough under Chaos and can better defend itself, with
These malignancies are freeform, and could take the form of effort.
some strange quirk, dark habit, forbidden addiction or
The character can now freely confront that which
blasphemous obsession — whatever feels right for the story.
triggers him. There are no restrictions or additional
This defines how the malignancy can be compelled against
costs for invocations and boosts that relate to attacking
you.
or otherwise confronting the source of the corruption
If you become Eternally Damned, your character is trigger.
permanently taken out. You can either perform one last
The character may possess the Forbidden Lore skill, but
heroic last stand or you can give him to the GM as a new
at no higher than Good (+3).
villainous NPC.
If crossing into Soiled or Profane, then you are still an active
character, but one changed by exposure to Chaos.

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EFFECTS OF BEING ETERNALLY DAMNED
The character is completely lost and damned, and no
longer playable. Additionally, there is no cap on the
Forbidden Lore skill for damned NPCs.

RECOVERING PURITY LOSS

Somewhere along the way you will probably need to recover
some of the lost purity.
Important note: You cannot recover any Tainted boxes if you
have the Forbidden Lore skill at Average, nor any Soiled boxes
if you have the Forbidden Lore skill at Fair.

RECOVERING PURITY BOXES ON CURRENT THRESHOLD

The time required to restore one purity box depends on your
activity when recovering.
If you are isolated from Chaos and the stressful
situations, you recover one box per week.
If you are isolated from Chaos but still contending with
stressful situations (such as the normal Inquisition
missions), you need two weeks to recover a box.
If you seek help and atonement in the Ecclesiarchy, you
recover two boxes a week(or one in a few days). You can
count your sweet acolyte ass that the Inquisition is will
stop by for questioning.

RECOVERING A PURITY THRESHOLD

If you have restored all of the boxes on a threshold, you can
start to regain a box on the previous one, though that is a
much more significant hurdle.
Profane ➙ Soiled ➙ Tainted
Going from Profane to Soiled takes a half year of
atonement, prayers and offerings to the God Emperor.
Going from Soiled to Tainted takes a a few months of
serious atonement..
The above only regains one box on the threshold; from there,
you regain the rest in that threshold as normal. (Because you
have to be purified by the Ecclesiarchy, you might as well be
with them for the entire duration of your recovery and not just
to regain the threshold.)

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 CHAPTER IX
GEARING UP
Fighting the Ruinous Powers demands cool—often deadly—
gear. Weapons, armor, personal gadgets, drugs, cybernetics
and cool vehicles all brings you closer to success.
EQUIPPING YOURSELF FOR WAR
I’ve decided to keep wealth and acquisitions an abstract
concept, ignoring the price tags and personal stash of
Thrones.
Therefore acquisition power is measured using your
character’s Assets score. Assets works a lot like a skill in
play, but there are some significant differences.
ASSETS
Assets represents the a characters ability to acquire gear for
the war. This is a measure of his disposable resources,
including local currencies, his fearsome reputation, trade
talent or direct extortion. All characters begin with Fair (+2)
Assets.
A high Influence skill can increase starting Assets (▹20).
MAKING A REQUISITION
All items have a cost rating—you’ll find tables with costs later
on, where gear is listed. When you want to acquire an item,
its cost sets the difficulty for an Assets roll.
An Assets roll is slightly different than a skill roll. You can’t
invoke any regular aspects.
There’s a special kind of aspect called an Assets aspect; if you
have any of these, you may invoke them. Assets aspects are
always fragile—they disappear once they’re used. Assets
aspects are the only modifier you can use on an Assets roll.
Success: You acquire the item, either through spending
Thrones, cashing in on old debts, pulling some strings or any
combination.
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Failure: You’re faced with a choice. You may still get the item
by reducing your Assets by one step for every shift the roll
failed by. This means you drained your assets, or ran out of
favors. If you don’t want to reduce Assets based on the failed
roll, the GM can offer you the following options:
You can’t find the item at a price you can pay. You may
not try to acquire it again until you’ve gone to a
completely new region or planet.
You can’t gather your Thrones quickly enough or your
influence isn’t strong enough to get it; by the time you do,
it’s no longer for available.
The item is of inferior quality. It has negative aspects that
the GM can tag for free once per session. The item has
one of these aspects for each shift by which your roll
failed.
You can get a less valuable item of comparable purpose.
This item is valued at your actual Assets roll result. If you
rolled Average (+1), you can get an Average (+1) value
item, etc.
If you settle for one of these conditions, your Assets isn’t
reduced by the acquisition.
Multiple characters can’t pool their Assets. Even one step of
Assets represents a big difference in available cash and
favors.
ASSET ASPECTS
When you successfully complete an unusually tough mission,
or come across some loot, you can gain an Assets aspect.
Assets aspects are things like Tons of Thrones, Favors in the
Ministorum, I Saved the Gangboss’ Life or Salvaged Parts.
The GM awards these based on the situation. Assets aspects
are always fragile—they disappear when you use them. These
are the only aspects that can be used to help an Assets roll.

GETTING IN DEBT
When you’re attempting to purchase items that cost
significantly more than your current Assets, things get a bit
more interesting. To buy an item that costs more than your
current Assets score, favors must be bargained for or loans
must be made.
The value of the loan is equal to the value of the item being
purchased less one—you need a Good (+3) loan to buy a
Great (+4) item. This assumes you’re covering part of the
cost yourself from your own Assets. If your Assets is
Mediocre (+0) or less, no one will give you a loan.
The value of the loan—Great (+4), Superb (+5), Legendary
(+6), etc.—is noted on your sheet below Assets. The GM can
compel a loan just like an aspect, so the person or
organization that gave you the loan must be noted. Until the
loan is paid off, it acts just like a regular aspect.
Make an Assets check using the loan instead of your regular
Assets. You gain a free shift (+1) on this roll.
Success: The loan or favor covers the cost of the item.
Failure: Refer to the failed Assets check rules above, but you
still owe the favor or the money on the loan. Yes, it’s possible
to fail the purchase roll after securing the favor!
To pay back your favor or loan make an Asset roll against the
value.
Success: The value of the loan is reduced by 1. (At Mediocre
value the loan is considered paid off.) You can only attempt
one such repayment per session.
Failure: Either your Asset score drops by one or the value of
the loan increases by one. You choice.
NEED A HIGHER ASSET SCORE?
To increase Assets, you need an available Assets aspect that
you can turn into a permanent Asset increase.
To raise your Assets, make a test against the new Assets
score and invoke your chosen Assets aspect for a +2 bonus.
Success: Adjust your Asset score up one notch.
Failure: Adjust your Asset score down one level. You can
invoke other Assets aspects if you’re failing the roll. Like
always, Assets aspects are lost once you invoke them.
STARTING GEAR
The Inquisition equips every acolyte with some starting gear,
all with a value of Fair (+2).
One melee weapons if you have the Assault skill
One firearm if you have the Guns skill
A suit of armor or a force field
A set of combi-tools if you have the Engineering skill
A medi-kit if you have the Medicae skill
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If you would like to have something more fancy or cool, you
may make an Assets roll for an item of higher value, with all of
the attendant downsides.
Each player gets only one roll per item and must accept the
results. Failing the roll doesn’t reduce Assets, but it can’t be
re-rolled.
WEAPONRY
In this conversion, weapons have the following attributes:
Damage: This measures how deadly a weapon is; the higher
the damage, the more you want to avoid being hit by it. A
weapon’s damage is the minimum amount of stress it causes
with a successful hit. If you hit someone with a weapon with a
Damage: 2 and generate no shifts on your attack roll, it still
deals 2 stress. In order to deal more stress, you have to
generate shifts above and beyond the weapon’s damage
attribute. Note that a weapon’s damage can be reduced to
the point that it’s a negative number. In this case, the
weapon’s damage applies as a penalty to any shifts
generated by the attack roll. For example, a sword that is
Damage: –1 against armor would require you to generate at
least 2 shifts to deal 1 stress; the first shift is effectively
wasted.
Accuracy: This is a representation of how easy it is to
successfully land a hit with a weapon. Laspistols, for example,
are more precise than stub revolver; a small knife is likely
much easier to hit someone with than a large, cumbersome
chainaxe. A weapon’s accuracy is a flat bonus to your attack
roll with that weapon. For example, if you’re attacking with a
gun that has Accuracy: 1, you roll your Guns skill and add 1 to
the result. If a weapon’s accuracy is negative, then it applies
as a penalty to your roll.
Range: This indicates the number of zones you can attack
someone with the weapon. A weapon with Range: 0 can be
used only in melee range, while Range: 1 indicates that you
can use the weapon against anyone in the same zone that
you’re in. Range: 2 means that you can attack someone in a
zone adjacent to the one you’re in, Range: 3 extends your
attack one zone beyond that, and so on and so forth.
Type: This indicates the nature of the weapon and often
carries with it certain modifiers to damage against certain
kinds of defenses, as well as limitations on which
improvements can be applied to your weapon; it also usually
determines base damage and utility of a weapon.
Area: Not all weapons have the area attribute. Explosives
most certainly do. The larger an explosive’s area is, the more
zones the explosion will affect.
RANGED WEAPONS
Want to deal death from afar, then this is the choice for you.
Guns come in the following types:
Bolters: The bolt guns fires bolts that explode on impact,
following the rules for explosive devices.
Flamers: Flamers attack all individuals in a zone. You must
divide the shifts of the attack evenly between the targets in
the zone.
Heavy weapons: A heavy weapon is too large to simply to
carry around.
Las: Damage of a las weapon is reduced by -2 against force
fields.
Launchers: The launchers follow the rules for explosive
devices in next column.
Meltas: A plasma gun is equally effective against all types of
armor. If the attack is made with style you permanently
reduce the targets armor by 1 point.
Plasmas: A plasma gun is equally effective against all types of
armor.
Solid projectiles: The Damage of a gun firing solid projectiles
is reduced by -2 against armored targets.
MELEE WEAPONS
This category is reserved for weapons dealing death up close
and personal.
Melee weapons come in the following types:
Chain: All chain weapons can be used as physical weapons,
too, simply by turning them off. In this case, they have the
same statistics as their low-tech counterparts.
Force: The statistics on the table is when the weapons is
wielded by a psyker (one with the Adeptus Astra Telepathica
career). In the hands of normal people, the statistics are
Damage: 1 and -2 penalty against armored targets.
Low-tech: These weapons have a starting Damage: 1. They
suffer a Damage: –2 penalty against armor.
Power: If you preform a defense with style with this weapon
against a non-power weapon, in addition to the normal effects
you also place a lasting Broken! aspect on the other weapon.
All power weapons can be used as physical weapons, too,
simply by turning them off. In this case, they have the same
statistics as their low-tech counterparts.
Shock: These weapons a typically designed to harm rather
than kill. They are often used to place aspects on targets.
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EXPLOSIVES
The explosives category covers two different kinds of things
that go boom: grenades that you throw and bombs that you
plant.
Grenades: All grenades have Accuracy: 0, Area: 1, Range: 1
and explodes on impact.
Bombs: All bombs have Complexity: 4, Area: 1 and timer.
They follow different rules from other weapons, so they don’t
have either Range or Accuracy.
To read more on explosions, see the WARFARE chapter (▹52).
ADD-ON IMPROVEMENT
Got a Throne or two extra to spend? Then add this special
improvement to your weapons for the extra twist.
Extended Magazine: This ranged weapon improvement adds
two free invokes to the AMMO aspect (▹52), but also raises
reload difficulty to +2. Add +1 to Cost.
Reliable: This improvement for ranged weapons makes the
weapon immune to jamming (▹52). Add +1 to Cost.
Remote Detonator: Once you’ve thrown a grenade or set the
charge, you can use a small device to detonate it remotely,
reducing the risk to yourself and others (▹52). Add +1 to
Cost.
PROTECTIVE GEAR
Armors come in two categories:
Physical armor: These armors have a numerical rating:
Armor. This rating is directly subtracted from any stress
inflicted on the character by an attack. When struck, only the
highest level of protection is applied. If you have Armor: 4 and
Armor: 2 and you’re struck for 6 stress, apply the armor
value and take 2 stress.
Force fields: Like physical armors, force fields also have a
numerical rating: Defense. This rating is directly added to the
wearers defense roll to reduce the effect of the attack. Only
one force field can be worn at a time.
LAYERING PHYSICAL ARMORS WITH FORCE FIELDS
So you have invested in both types of protection? Good idea
and no problem. Just follow these two simple steps:
Roll your normal defense, adding the rating of the force
field. If the attack still struck, continue to next step.
Subtract the rating of the physical armor from the
remaining stress. Done.
 FRENZON
PERSONAL ITEMS Effect: A violent frenzy takes control, giving the user +2
I haven’t converted every piece of equipment, as much of it Damage with all melee weapons, and +2 when creating
doesn't make sense in Fate. Instead I’ve focused on the violent, uncontrolled aspects with Assault. Furthermore he
equipment that makes a difference. becomes Violently Aggressive until the drug wears off. (The
GM can compel this aspect once for free.)
So you need to know what time it is? Assume that you have a
chrono and so forth. Duration: 15 minutes or a scene
And just for the record: Most items have 2 points of stress Addiction value: 2
and no consequences. Cost: Good (+3)
ADD-ON IMPROVEMENT LHO-STICKS
Got a Throne or two extra to spend? Then add this special Effect: The user becomes Nicely Relaxed for the duration of
improvement to your personal gear for the extra twist. the drug with a free invoke.
Craftsmanship: This item is particularly well made; you get a Duration: A few minutes or a scene
+1 bonus to your skill roll when you use it. If the item can be
Addiction value: 0 (non-addictive)
used with multiple skills, this improvement only applies to one
skill, chosen when you create the item. You can only take this Cost: Average (+1)
improvement once for each affected skill. Add +1 to Cost.
OBSCURA

DRUGS & CHEMICALS WONDERS
Besides their fancy name, all drugs have some mutual
statistics:
Effect: This is why the user bought the drug in the first place.
Duration: How long the effect of the drugs lasts. This is
measured according to the time ladder or in a number of
scenes (usually one). The effect wears off when either the
time runs out or the scene ends, whatever ends first.
Addiction value: This value is a measure of the drugs addition
level. It ranges from 0 (non-addictive) all the way to 3 (very
addictive). (For more on getting addicted, see below.)
Just like all other stuff, drugs also have a Cost of course.
DRUGS
DESOLUM FUNGUS
Effect: Once during the duration you can re-roll a skill test and
add +1 as an extra bonus to the roll. The user also becomes
Really Dizzy until the effect wears off. (The GM can compel
this aspect once for free.)
Duration: 15 minutes or a scene
Addiction value: 0 (non-addictive)
Cost: Fair (+2)
DE-TOX
Effect: This drug immediately cancels all effects from other
drugs—both good and bad. It also leaves the user Seriously
Sick until the drug wears off. (The GM can compel this aspect
once for free.)
Duration: 15 minutes or a scene
Addiction value: 0 (non-addictive)
Cost: Fair (+2)
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Effect: The user becomes Totally Stoned for the duration of
the drug with a free invoke. When the blissful effect wears off,
he enters a state of Deep Depression for an afternoon (or
two scenes). (The GM can compel this aspect once for free.)
Duration: A few hours or a scene
Addiction value: 3
Cost: Fair (+2)
RECAF
Effect: This beverage immediately clears all mental stress
and removes a mild mental consequence.
Duration: Instantaneous
Addiction value: 0 (non-addictive)
Cost: Fair (+2)
SLAUGHT
Effect: The user immediately gains +2 to Alertness for
determining initiative and when creating advantages based on
combat awareness. When the drug wears off, he suffers the
mild Neural Burnout consequence.
Duration: 15 minutes or a scene
Addiction value: 3
Cost: Fair (+2)
SPOOK
Effect: If the user isn’t a psychic, he immediately gains the
Warpweaving skill at Fair (+2) and the Constant Threat stunt
(▹34) for the duration of the drug. He also receives the
Blasted Mind moderate consequence. If the user is in fact a
psyker, he gains +2 when using the Warpweaving skill to
create advantages. The psyker doesn’t suffer any
consequences, but chaos ratings are increased by yet
another +1 until the effects wears off.
Duration: A few hours or two scenes
Addiction value: 2 (3 for psykers)
Cost: Fair (+2)
STIMM
Effect: Immediately clears all stress and also—temporarily—
removes all physical consequences. When the effects ends,
the paused consequence returns to its original slot or a more
severe one, if the original slot is no longer available. The user
also suffers from Extreme Exhaustion for an hour afterwards.
(The GM can compel this aspect once for free.)
Duration: A few minutes or a conflict
Addiction value: 1
Cost: Fair (+2)
GETTING HOOKED
Nothing lasts forever, and when the effect wears off, it’s time
to pay the bill. If the drug has an addiction value of 1 or more,
proceed to the addiction test.
THE ADDICTION TEST
Roll the lower of your Toughness or Willpower against the
addiction difficulty.
Success: You are in the clear and nothing happens.
Failure: You get a temporary deprivation aspect and must
increase the addiction value of that particular drug
permanently by 1. The margin of failure is recorded as the
addiction strength somewhere on you sheet.
DEPRIVATION ASPECTS
A deprivation aspect is a nasty one with some very debilitating
side effects.
Dark compels: Once per session the GM can compel your
deprivation aspect for free. You don’t get anything for the
compel but must pay two fate points to reject the compel.
Permanent change: If the strength of the aspect ever
becomes equal to the addiction value of the drug, the
deprivation aspect becomes permanent, and you are now a
real addict. Permanently replace one of your aspects with the
deprivation aspect.
CYBERNETICS
Cybernetics have the same attributes as personal equipment,
and only differs in, that it must actually be installed in your
body.
A good way to represent the possible stigmatization of being
filled with tech is through your Personal Weakness aspect.
But only if it makes sense. Not everyone is stigmatized for
being fitted for battle after all.
INSTALLING THE GOODIES
It takes a few weeks to have an installment made. This time
can be reduced by excess shifts from a Mediocre (+0)
Toughness test.
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VEHICLES
The final part of gearing up is about vehicles. It isn’t usually
necessary for your young acolyte to buy his own vehicle, as
the Inquisition usually supplies the vehicles needed for the
missions.
All vehicles have the following attributes:
Speed: A vehicles speed is expressed as a value, usually
ranging from Mediocre (+0)—which is fairly slow—to Great
(+4)—which is very fast—though speeds above or below these
levels are certainly possible. Speed affects the difficulty of the
roll when the driver or pilot is trying to do something beyond
moving the ship at a standard speed.
Maneuverability: Whenever you make a Drive roll that
requires quick reactions or agile movement, your ship’s
maneuverability value applies to your Drive roll as either a
bonus—such as for an agile land speeder—or a penalty— such
as for a slow, ponderous Deimos Vindicator. This includes
most defensive rolls; it’s considerably harder to dodge enemy
fire in a large Dreadnought or Sabre Tank Hunter than in a
small jetbike.
Stress: In game terms, armor and hull plating are
represented by the vehicles own stress boxes—those with
heavy plating simply have more stress boxes.
IMPROVEMENTS
Armed: This item has a weapon of some sort attached to it.
Acquire the attached weapon separately, using the normal
rules for whatever weapon choosing.
Armored: This item has built in Armor: 1.
Aspect: You can add an aspect to a weapon. This aspect can
be invoked and compelled just like any aspect. This
improvement may be taken more than once.
Autofire: With a weapon capable of autofire, you can focus
fire on a single enemy or attack multiple enemies in the same
zone. You can either add Damage: +1 or attack one additional
target within a single zone; however, it’s a supplemental
action and you suffer Accuracy: –1. Taking this improvement
again increases the damage bonus and the number of
targets you can attack by one, but it also causes an additional
Accuracy: –1 penalty; it doesn’t add to the number of
supplemental actions you need to take.
Blinding flare: If the force field effectively deflects an attack
(i.e. the attack failed), it immediately places the fragile Blinded!
aspect on all living beings (excluding the wearer of the force
field) in the same zone as the wearer. The aspect comes with
a free invoke but must be used in the following exchange.
Concealable: Some items are designed to be hidden, such as
force fields hidden in a pendant. You gain a +2 bonus to any
Deceit rolls made to hide this items.
Conscious: This servitor has a limited conscious; it’s capable
of thinking, as well as performing complex tasks within a
limited scope. Choose one of the following benefits:
Three skills at Average (+1)
Two skills at Fair (+2)
One skill at Good (+3)
High explosive: This gun fires an explosive projectile with a
large blast area. The gun gains an area of 1; each time you
choose this improvement, the area increases by 1. Any gun
with this improvement is considered to fire hair-trigger
explosives detonating on impact.
Independent: This item incorporates basic automation
technology that grants it a limited form of independence.
Choose one skill that the item can perform on its own; that
skill is rated at Fair (+2).
Indirect fire: This weapon is capable of firing shots over walls,
around corners, or otherwise past obstacles that pose
difficulties for direct-fire weapons. You can ignore 1 point of
borders.
MSP: This Machine Spirit Pulse explosion only targets and
damages machine spirits, thus disabling mechanical and
electrical devices. However, MSPs deal no damage against
organic targets.
or against specific targets. This improvement may be taken
more than once, but not for the same circumstance.
Stealth field: You gain a +2 bonus to Stealth checks—if the
GM even rules that you need to make them.
Tamper-Proof: Usually used on bombs, this improvement
makes it very difficult to disarm the explosive. Complexity: +3.
This improvement may be taken more than once.
Tech-Priests Only: Only followers of the Omnissiah (and with
the Adeptus Mechanicus career) has access to this
installment.
Warp displacing: If the force field effectively deflects an
attack (i.e. the attack failed), it immediately moves the wearer
up to two zones away. The GM chooses the zone.
IMPROVING THINGS
To determine the cost of the improvements you’re adding to
your item, start with the base item’s cost and add any
improvements to that base item. Once the final cost with the
new improvements is determined, you need an Asset roll with
a difficulty equal to this cost –1 to make the improvements.
Each improvement takes between an afternoon and a week
to add—determined by the GM—and this time is cumulative.

Non-lethal: This gun, though it deals stress normally, can’t be

used to kill someone. Whenever someone gets a
consequence or is taken out as a result of an attack from this
gun, its non-lethality must be taken into account.
Persistent effect: Whether it’s a flamethrower that lights
things on fire, a laser gun that stuns enemies in addition to
causing stress, or some other effect that persists, this
improvement lets you apply an aspect to the target each time
you attack successfully. The aspect is chosen when you
choose this improvement. Once you’ve applied the aspect to a
target, it lasts until the end of your next turn; you or one of
your allies can tag the aspect once for free.
Powered: Powered armor is relatively rare, mostly because
it’s big, bulky, and obvious. It does, however, have advantages.
The armor enhances the strength of its wearer, allowing him
to perform feats of might that would otherwise likely be
impossible. Powered armor grants you a +2 bonus to Might
rolls.
Recharge & Reuse: Some explosives can be fitted with a new
charge and used again.
Rugged: An item with this improvement is a bit tougher than
the norm, netting it two additional stress boxes over what it
normally has.
Scattershot: This gun fires a spread of projectiles, a wide
cone of laser light, a scattering blast shot, or something
similar. This grants the weapon Accuracy: +1, but if your fire
at a target outside your zone, you get Damage: –1 for each
zone it crosses.
Specialized: Some weapons are really good against armor
while others are extremely effective against force fields or
combat servitors or vehicles or orks. (You get the drift.)
When you choose this improvement, the weapon gains either
Damage: +2 or Accuracy: +2 under specific circumstances
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RANGED WEAPONS D A R IMPROVEMENTS COST

Bolt pistol 4 0 2 Aspect: Fearsome!, High Explosive +4

Boltgun 4 1 32 Aspect: Fearsome!, High Explosive +5

Heavy bolter 5 0 32 Aspect: Fearsome!, Autofire, High Explosive, Specialized: Dam. +2 vs. armor +7

Storm bolter 4 1 32 Aspect: Fearsome, Autofire, High Explosive +6

Hand flamer 4 -1 2 Persistent Effect: Flaming Doom!, +3

Flamer 4 0 32 Persistent Effect: Flaming Doom! +4

Heavy flamer 5 -1 32 Persistent Effect: Flaming Doom! +5

Laspistol 31 1 2 Specialized: Damage +2 once per conflict from overload +2

Lasgun 31 1 32 Specialized: Damage +2 once per conflict from overload +3

Laslock 31 1 32 None +2

Long las 31 1 42 None +3

Hot-shot laspistol 41 1 2 None +2

Hot-shot lasgun 41 1 32 None +3

Grenade launcher 5 0 32 Indirect Fire, High Explosive +5

Missile launcher 5 0 32 Specialized: Damage +2 against vehicles +4

Inferno pistol 2 0 2 Aspect: Status symbol +2

Meltagun 3 1 32 Specialized Effect: Damage +2 vs. armor +3

Plasma pistol 3 0 2 Specialized: Dam. +2 once per conflict from overheating +2

Plasma gun 3 1 32 Specialized: Dam. +2 once per conflict from overheating +3

Autopistol 33 0 2 Autofire +1

Autogun 33 0 22 Autofire +2

Autocannon 4 0 32 Specialized (x2): Damage +2 against armor and vehicles +3

Hand cannon 43 0 2 None +1

Heavy stubber 43 0 32 Aspect: Infamous recoil, Autofire, Specialized: Damage +2 against vehicles +4

Shotgun 33 2 32 Scattershot +2

Sniper rilfe 3 1 42 Specialized: Damage +2 against armor +3

Stub automatic 33 0 2 Aspect: Quickload, Autofire +2

Stub revolver 33 0 2 Aspect: Quickload +1

Grav pistol 4 0 2 Persistent Effect: High Gravity +3

Gravitation gun 4 1 32 Persistent Effect: High Gravity +4

Needle pistol 33 1 2 Aspect: Silent Death, Persistent Effect: Toxic Punishment +3

Needle rifle 33 2 32 Aspect: Silent Death, Persistent Effect: Toxic Punishment +4

Web pistol 0 0 2 Non-Lethal, Persistent Effect: Webbed! +1

Webber 0 1 32 Non-Lethal, Persistent Effect: Webbed! +2

1: The Damage is reduced by -2 against force fields. 2: The rifle cannot be used in close combat (Range 0). 3: The Damage is reduced by -2 against armor.

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MELEE WEAPONS D A IMPROVEMENTS COST

Chainaxe 5 -1 Aspect: Fucking Scary, Powerful (x2) +3

Chainblade 3 -1 None +0

Chainsword 4 0 Accurate, Powerful +2

Eviscerator 5 0 Accurate, Aspect: Razor Sharp, Powerful (x2) +4

Force Sword 2 2 Accurate (x2) +2

Force Staff 2 1 Accurate, Aspect: Long Reach +2

Omnissian Axe 4 1 Accurate Aspect: Sacred Blade, Powerul (x2) +4

Power Fist 4 0 Aspect: Devastating Death, Powerful (x2) +3

Power Sword 3 2 Accurate (x2) Aspect: Prestigious Weapon, Powerful +4

Power Axe 4 0 Powerful (x2) +2

Power Maul 3 0 Powerful, Specialized: Damage +2 but Accuracy -1 while in high-power mode +2

Shock Maul 1 0 Non-Lethal, Persistent Effect: Shocked! +2

Shock Whip 1 0 Aspect: Flexible, Non-Lethal, Persistent Effect: Shocked! +3

Great Weapon 31 0 Aspect: Serious Business, Powerful (x2) +3

Hunting Lance 3 0 Powerful (x2), Specialized: Damage +2 against armored targets +3

Knife 11 0 None +0

Spear 11 0 Long Range (1), Specialized: Damage +2 when thrown +2

Staff 21 0 Powerful +1

Sword 11 1 Accurate +1

Truncheon 11 0 Non-Lethal +0

Warhammer 21 0 Powerful, Specialized: Damage +2 against armored targets +2

Whip 11 0 Aspect: Flexible, Non-Lethal +1

1: The Damage is reduced by -2 against armor.

DRUGS AV UPSIUDE DOWNSIDE COST

Desolum Fungus 0 Allows the user re-roll of a skill roll with a +1 bonus User becomes very dizzy +2

De-Tox 0 Blocks all effects of other drugs User becomes seriously sick +2

Frenzon 2 User becomes frenzied None besides being frenzied +3

Lho-Sticks 0 User becomes relaxed when smoking these cigs None +1

Obscura 3 User becomes stoned User becomes deeply depressed +2

Recaf 0 Clears mental stress and a mild mental consequence None +2

Slaught 3 Users reflexes and alertness are increased User suffers neural burnout +2

Spook 2* User gains psychic powers (or stronger powers) User has his mind blasted (or not) +2

Stimm 1 Clears all stress and ignores consequences User becomes extremely exhausted +2

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ARMORS A IMPROVEMENTS COST

Heavy Leather 1 None +1

Imperial Robes 1 None +1

Armored Bodyglove 2 None +2

Chainmail Suit 3 None +3

Feudal World Plate 5 None +5

Xenos Hide Vest 6 None +6

Light Flak Cloak 2 None +2

Flak Cloak 3 None +3

Imperial Guard Flak Armor 4 None +4

Mesh Cloak 4 None +4

Enforcer Light Carapace 5 None +5

Militarum Tempestus Carapace 6 None +6

Light Power Armor 7 Powered +8

Synskin 2 Stealth Field +3

FORCE FIELDS D IMPROVEMENTS COST

Refractor Field +2 Aspect: Glows in the Dark, Concealable +4

Conversion Field +3 Concealable, Flare +6

Displacer Field +4 Aspect: Warp Energies, Concealable, Warp Displacing +7

Power Field +5 Aspect: Cumbersome & Noisy +6

GRENADES D A IMPROVEMENTS COST

Blind 4 0 Non-Lethal, Persistent Effect: Electronic Detection Blackout +3

Choke 4 0 Non-Lethal, Persistent Effect: Foul Gas +3

Fire Bomb 4 0 Persistent Effect: Flaming Inferno +3

Frag 5 0 None +2

Hallucinogen 4 0 Non-Lethal, Persistent Effect: Mind-Fucked +3

Haywire 4 0 Area: 2, MSP, Recharge & Reuse +4

Krak 5 0 Specialized: Damage +2 against vehicles +3

Photon Flash 4 0 Non-Lethal, Persistent Effect: Blinded! +3

Smoke 4 0 Non-Lethal, Persistent Effect: Smoke +2

Stun 4 0 Non-Lethal +1

Web 4 0 Non-Lethal, Persistent Effect: Webbed!, Recharge & Reuse +4

BOMBS D IMPROVEMENTS COST

Melta 6 Specialized: Damage +2 against vehicles, Tamper-Proof +5

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PERSONAL GEAR IMPROVEMENTS COST

Auspex/Scanner Upgrade: +2 to Investigate when scanning for life-signs and motion +1

Chameleon Cloak Camouflage +1

Combi-Tool Upgrade: +2 to Engineering when repairing devices +1

Comm Leech Upgrade: +2 to eavesdrop on vox signals, usually done with Investigate +1

Concealed Holster Upgrade: +2 to Deceit to hide weapons from detection +1

Deadspace Earpiece Special Effect: Immune deafening by sudden, loud noises +1

Diagnostor Upgrade: +2 to Medicae to diagnose ailment +1

Disguise Kit None +0

Excruciator Kit Upgrade: +2 to Intimidate to extract informations from people using torture +1

Field Suture Upgrade: +2 to Medicae to stop tend the wounded in the field +1

Filtration Plugs Special Effect: Immune to pollutants and hazardous gases +1

Grav Chute Special Effect: Allows safe, guided fall from any height +1

Lascutter Aspect: Extremely Heavy, Upgrade: +2 to roll when overcoming barriers made of steel +2

Magboots Special Effect: Immune to the effects of low- or zero-gravity +1

Medi-Kit None +0

Multikey Upgrade: +2 to Burglary to bypass locks +1

Null Rod Special Effect: All uses of the Warpweaving skill is increased by +3 in the same zone as the null rod +2

Photo-Visors/Contacts Special Effect: Immune to effects of low-level light +1

Preysense Goggles Upgrade: +2 to Investigate to track using thermal imagery +1

Psy Fokus Concealable, Craftsmanship: Add +1 to rolls made with the Warpweaving skill +2

Rebreather Special Effect: Immune to toxic atmosphere and lack of oxygen +1

Sacred Unguents Special Effect: Adds the Reliable improvement to a ranged weapon for one conflict +1

Screamer Independent: Notice at +2, Upgrade: +2 to Notice to detect sound, motion and odor +2

Stummer Aspect: Little Electrical Capacity, Upgrade: +2 to Stealth when silence is important +2

Survival Suit Upgrade: +2 to Survival when working in harsh and extreme conditions +1

Void Suit Special Effect: Immune to effects of operating in the vacuum of space +1

CYBERNETICS IMPROVEMENTS COST

Augur Array Upgrade: +2 to Investigate when scanning for life-signs and motion +1

Autosanguine Special Effect: Rolls to start a healing process against you are made at +2 and consequences heal one time +2
increment faster, Tech-Priests Only

Baleful Eye Alternate Usage: Alertness in place of Guns, Armed (las pistol), Special Effect: Installed weapon is miniaturized +4

Bionic Arms Armored, Rugged +2

Bionic Legs Armored, Rugged +2

Bionic Respiratory System Upgrade: +2 to Toughness to defend against airborne toxins and gasses +1

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CYBERNETICS IMPROVEMENTS COST

Bionic Heart Aspect: Armored Superheart, Special Effect: Grants a +1 Armor rating to the owner +2

Bionic Eyes None +0

Bionic Ears Special Effect: Ignores aspects limiting sound, Upgrade: +2 to tests based on sound +2

Bionic Nose Special Effect: Ignores aspects limiting smell, Upgrade: +2 to tests based on smell +2

Calculus Logi Upgrade Special Effect: Browsing and sifting through tons of data and lore are done two time-increments faster than normal +1

Cranial Armor Aspect: Armored Skull +1

Ferric Lure Implants Special Effect: You can use Engineering to attract small metal objects up to a zone away to your hand as a +1
supplemental action, Tech-Priests Only

Interface Port Upgrade: +2 to Investigate when looking for informations while connected to relevant mechanism or data spool +1

Internal Resevoir Aspect: Engergized to the Max +1

Locator Matrix Aspect: Multi Geographical Toolbox +1

Luminen Capacitator Alternate Usage: Engineering in place of Guns and Assault, Armed (hot-shot laspistol and shock maul), Aspect: +7
Built-In Battery Charger, Tech-Priests Only

Maglev Coils Aspect: Feather Fall, Special Effect: Can levitate and thereby ignore up to 3 points worth of borders and ignores +3
gravitational aspects, Tech-Priests Only

Ballistic Mechadendrite Alternate Usage: Engineering in place of Guns, Armed (las pistol), Armored, Rugged, Tech-Priests Only +4

Manipulator Mechadendrite Armed (warhammer), Armored, Rugged, Tech-Priests Only, Upgrade: +2 to Strength when lifting and shoving +4

Medicae Mechadendrite Armed (knife), Armored, Independent: Medicae at +2, Tech-Priests Only, Rugged, Upgrade: +2 to Intimidation when +5
torturing

Optical Mechadendrite Armored, Rugged, Special Effect: Ignore vision-limiting aspects,Tech-Priests Only, Upgrade: +2 to Investigate for +4
perception-based tests

Utility Mechadendrite Armed (knife), Armored, Aspect: Smokes a Lot, Tech-Priests Only, Upgrade: +2 to Engineering when modifying or +4
repairing machines

Memorance Implant Aspect: Living Videocamera, Upgrade: +2 to Connecting when using your recorded memory to show off +2

Mind Impulse Unit Aspect: Machine Whisperer, Upgrade: +2 to Engineering when communicating with machines +2

MIU Weapon Interface Upgrade: +2 to Guns when using implanted weaponry such as the ballistic mechadendrite +1

Respiratory Filter Implant Upgrade: +2 to Toughness to defend against inhaled poisons, gas weapons, or atmospheric toxins +1

Scribe-Tines Aspect: Disquieting Scribe Tool Hands +1

Subskin Armor Aspect: Subdermal Rhino Skin +1

Synthmuscle Aspect: Unnaturally Strong, Upgrade: +2 to Strength when smashing through barriers, bending bars and lifting +2
stuff

Vocal Implant Aspect: Megaphone Voice +1

Volitor Implant Aspect: Memory Safe +1

VEHICLES SP M ST IMPROVEMENTS COST

Glassteed -1 +5 2 Armed1, Conscious: Assault, Athletics and Survival at +1 +4

Hectin Autocarriage +1 +3 4 Upgrade: All tests made to repair this vehicle is made at +2 +4

Veloxic Bike +2 +3 2 Armed2 +3

Chimera Armored Transport +1 +2 6 Armed3, Aspect: Amphibious, Special Effect: Tracks cannot be flattened, +7
Upgrade: All tests made to repair this vehicle is made at +2

1: Armed with Dagger Teeth (Damage: 5, Cost +3). 2: The armament (autogun) is optional (Cost’s increased to +4). 3: Choose a heavy weapon.

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 CHAPTER X
WARFARE
In the future, there is only war. With such a catchphrase for a
roleplaying game, it seems essential to include some kind of
extra take on conflicts.
In this section I’ll do just that.
Note that all the different approaches in this section is
completely optional. If you don’t like ‘em, skip ‘em.
AMMUNITION
All ranged weapons in FATE OF HERETICS uses ammo. Ammo
that can be depleted and must be reloaded.
The weapons has a special AMMO aspect on it. As long as this
aspect is present, the weapon can shoot.
You can invoke your guns AMMO aspect for free with the
normal benefits, but it can only be used once. Then it’s gone.
Furthermore, if your gun can autofire, you can empty the clip
and attack everyone in a zone by invoking the AMMO aspect
This benefit replaces the +2 or re-roll option.
RELOADING
When your gun runs dry, you can try to reload it. When you
reload your gun, you’re creating a special advantage on it,
trying to put the AMMO aspect back on the gun.
Roll Guns—usually against a passive +0 difficulty.
Failure: Something prevented you from reloading.
Tie: You reload your gun but you’ve left yourself exposed
or vulnerable; someone else gets a boost they can use
against you.
Success: You’ve reloaded. You now have AMMO.
Style: You’ve reloaded and get a boost.
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WEAPON JAM
Ranged weapons have a chance of jamming when used. If you
succeed at a cost with a Guns attack, you hit your target but
places a JAMMED aspect on the weapon.
In order to fire the weapon again, you must use an action
overcoming the aspect by making an Engineering (+1) test.
If you fail, the aspect stays. If you succeed, the aspect is
removed and you can fire again in your next exchange.
EXPLOSIONS
Explosives have three ratings—complexity, area, and damage.
Complexity is the difficulty to disarm the bomb once the fuse
has been lit or the pin has been pulled.
Area determines how many zones the explosion will cover. An
area of 1 means the explosion affects only one zone. An area
of 2 means it affects one zone and every zone adjacent to it.
An area of 3 expands it out to all zones adjacent to that. An
area of 10 can pretty effectively cover a small town, and a 20
can cover a large city.
Damage measures the amount of punishment the explosions
does when it goes off.
ATTACKING WITH GRENADES
Throwing a grenade is done with Athletics. Explosives fired
from a gun or mortar use the Guns skill.
When a character throws an explosive, it’s an Athletics +0
attack.
Success: The explosive lands in an appropriate zone—
remember that grenades have Range: 1.
Failure: It lands in the thrower’s zone. He may dive for
cover as below with an increase in difficulty by one step
for each step the attack roll was missed. (The thrower
doesn’t have the option to reduce it, though in such a
circumstance everyone else merely faces a +0 difficulty
to dive clear.)
SETTING TIMERS ON BOMBS
Setting the timer on a bomb is done with Engineering. The
SIZE MATTERS
timer can be set to either SHORT, MEDIUM or LONG. The size of elements in a struggle matters a lot, when you are
either hurt by it or trying to deal damage to it.
After the initial defense roll (see below), the GM makes a
quick check before each individual action to see if the bomb For ease of use, there are only three sizes in FATE OF HERETICS.
explodes, by rolling 2 dice:
Person size: Human-sized creatures
Vehicle size: Normal, usually non-orbital, vehicles and
Roll Short Medium Long
some very large creatures.
+2 Explode Explode Explode Spaceship size: Huge spacefaring vehicles.
+1 Explode Explode No explosion It breaks down into this:

+0 Explode No explosion No explosion
-1 No explosion No explosion No explosion
-2 Fizzle Fizzle Fizzle
Fizzle: On a fizzle result, make a mark on a piece of paper. The
second time a fizzle result comes up, the bomb is a dud or
otherwise unable to explode.
Each time the turn comes back to the person who set the
timer, a full exchange has passed and the timer’s length
drops by one step. If it’s a short timer explosive, then it goes
off right then and there.
DIVING FOR COVER
When the grenade or bombs lands, everyone in a zone
covered by its explosion radius (the area) can roll Athletics
against the attack result to get clear.
The attacker may choose to reduce everyone’s difficulty to
dive clear—after all, his allies also need to dive away—as long
as that difficulty isn’t reduced below +0.
Success: The defender is in "the clear", and may move
one zone as a free action.
Failure: It lands in the thrower’s zone.
Note: If you’re unaware that an explosion is impending, your
defense rating against the damage of the explosive is
automatically +0.
DAMAGE FROM EXPLOSIONS
Damage of an explosion drops by one for each zone it
crosses, so characters in an adjacent zone have to deal with
a damage level that’s 1 lower. If there’s a border between the
zones that would provide some cover—like a wall—it also
reduces damage by the value of the border. The damage of
an explosion drops to zero once it reaches its maximum
radius indicated by the area.
Bigger than you: Easier to hit, harder to damage.
Smaller than you: Harder to hit, easier to damage.
Hitting something of different size than you is modified by +1
(bigger than you) or -1 (smaller than you) per size difference.
When damaging something of a different size than you, the
Damage is modified by -4 (bigger than you) or +2 (smaller
than you) per size difference.
LAST MOOK STANDING
When fighting mobs, it might be appropriate to make the last
mook a little harder to kill— after all, he’s not the last mook for
nothing! To do this, give the last mook standing the following
benefits to up the ante a little:
+3 stress boxes
+1 to attack and defense rolls
Armor: 1
BATTLEMAPS & MINIATURES
In my past 30 years experience as a GM I’ve learned that
huge maps ans millions of miniatures to set the scene
completely removes the heat of battle and kills the mood.
In my FATE OF HERETICS game, I use a rather simple system
found in the Fate Codex (volume 1, issue 2) called Infiltration:
Cracking the House. It’s simple and it’s brilliant.
Finally I use Meeples as miniatures. They come in a huge
range of prices and qualities. My personal favorite supplier is
Meeple Source. The price is quite high, but the quality and
service is really worth it.
COMBAT MOVES
In my humble experience, some players find it hard to invent
aspects in the heat of combat and often choose the easy—
and bit dull—way by simply attacking.
To prevent this from happening in a roleplaying game where
combat is so crucial, I’ve decided to make a list of the most
normal combat moves, that can easily be made with the
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This list is not a list of rules or made in stone. It’s only meant Make an Assault roll against either the targets Assault or
to make the ball roll and the inspirations to flow. Athletics skill to place the fragile HAIL OF BLOWS aspect on
him.
Note that as long as the skill tests are not opposed by
anyone, the difficulty is usually Mediocre (+0). Again this is a MAKING A GUARDED ATTACK
guideline.
Make an Assault or Athletics roll to create the temporary
AIMING WATCHING MY STEP aspect.
Make a Guns roll to create the fragile IN MY SIGHT aspect. OVERWATCHING
ALL OUT ATTACKING Make an Alertness roll against your opponents Stealth skill to
place the temporary ESTABLISHED KILL ZONE aspect.
Make an Assault roll to create the temporary ONLY FOCUSED
ON DEALING DEATH aspect. STUNNING
BRACING Make an Assault roll against either the targets Assault or
Athletics skill to create the temporary STUNNED aspect on the
Make a Guns skill roll create the temporary LIMITED RECOIL
target.
aspect.
TACTICAL ADVANCING
CALLING A SHOT
Make an Alertness roll to create the temporary FROM COVER
Make a Guns roll against the targets Athletics rank to place a
TO COVER aspect.
temporary aspect like SHOT IN THE HAND, RIGHT BETWEEN THE
EYES or DAMAGED KNEECAP on him. TAKING A DEFENSIVE STANCE
CHARGING This is already covered as Full Defense in FATE CORE (▹159).
Make a Strength roll to create the fragile RAGING BULL aspect.
DELAYING ACTION VEHICLES IN BATTLE
Make an Alertness roll to create the temporary WAITING FOR
When you enter a conflict while in a vehicle, the driver (or
THE SIGNAL aspect.
pilot) take centerstage. If others intend you harm, you have
DISENGAGING two basic options—fight or flight.
Make an Athletics roll to create the fragile TACTICAL The type and quality of your vehicle makes a huge difference.
WITHDRAWAL aspect. In any of the conflict types detailed below, if a character
makes a Drive roll, the vehicle’s speed or maneuverability—not
FEINTING both—is applied to the roll as a modifier. If a character uses
Make a Deceit roll against either the targets Assault or the ship’s weapons, the Guns roll is modified by the accuracy
Athletics skill to place the fragile YOU DIDN’T SEE THAT ONE of the weapon being used.
COMING! aspect on him.
FIRING FULL AUTO BURSTS GET THE FUCK AWAY
Make a Guns roll to create the temporary SPRAYING WITH HOT
LEAD aspect. Sometimes it better to bail out to live another day. When this
happens, a chase scene begins.
FOCUSING PSYCHIC POWER
Chase scenes works like other conflicts and are broken down
Make a Warpweaving roll to create the temporary TOTAL into a number of exchanges. There are two basic roles in a
PSYCHIC FOCUS aspect. chase scene—the fleeing vehicle and the pursuer.
GETTING BACK UP Here’s a breakdown of an exchange in a chase.
Make an Athletics roll either against Mediocre (+0) difficulty THE FLEEING VEHICLE
or against an active opponents Strength to remove an aspect
symbolizing your horizontal position. Describe what the vehicle is doing
GRAPPLING Set a difficulty
Make an Assault roll against either the targets Assault or Roll Drive against that difficulty
Athletics skill to place the temporary BEAR HUGGED aspect on
Failure: Determine damage taken
him.
KNOCKING DOWN THE PURSUER
Make a Strength roll against either the targets Assault, Roll Drive against the difficulty set by the fleeing vehicle
Strength or Athletics skill to place the temporary SLAMMED TO Failure: Determine damage taken
THE GROUND aspect on him.
Success: Determine damage dealt to fleeing vehicle
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During each exchange, the players controlling the fleeing
vehicle describe what they’re doing and how they’re
attempting to lose their pursuers. This can range from simply
pouring on as much speed as possible to trying to maneuver
through a jungle on a death world.
Once the action’s described, the fleeing vehicle sets a
difficulty for the action and makes a Drive roll.
If the fleeing vehicle succeeds on the roll, everything goes as
planned. If the roll fails, however, things go awry somehow.
Maybe too much strain is put on the engines or the vehicle
gets a little too close to a rockformation and sustains some
damage. While the descriptions vary, the result is the same—
the lead ship takes stress equal to the number of shifts by
which the roll failed.
The more neck breaking and daring you try to maneuver away
from your pursuer, the more difficult it will be for him to keep
up.
Your pursuers have to make a roll against the exact same
difficulty as you chose. If the pursuer fails the roll, the same
effect is inflicted—stress equal to the number of shifts on the
failure.
However, if the pursuer manages to succeed, not only does
his vehicle not take stress, he inflicts stress equal to his shifts
on fleeing vehicle, representing ground gained, shots fired, or
other such things.
Eventually, one of the vehicles gets taken out, meaning that
either the fleeing vehicle escapes or the pursuer catches up
to the fleeing vehicle, perhaps disabling it or boarding it.
TURN AND FACE THE HEAT
Don’t feel like fleeing? Load your torpedotubes and prepare
for battle!
The normal actions as a non-vehicular combat are available.
The main difference when it comes to vehicle combat is that,
in most cases, multiple people control different parts of a
single combatant.
The driver controls the vehicle, the gunners attack other
vehicles, and the engineer deals with the shields, damage
control, and so forth.
In a vehicle combat, the various participants on a vehicle are
divided into a number of roles aboard that vehicle, and these
roles determine how they interact with their allies and their
enemies.
THE ROLES
THE DRIVER/PILOT
The driver controls the vehicle, doing the maneuvering. It’s
possible for two people to assume this role on a single ship,
though one of them is technically the co-pilot.
THE GUNNER
Any number of people can assume the gunner role, assuming
there are sufficient guns or gunports. Gunners either fire the
vehicular weapons or their own. In general, gunners do the
attacking.
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THE TECHNICIAN
The technician makes sure that the vehicle continues to
function. Engineers typically creates advantages using the
vehicles systems as well as make on-the-fly temporary repair
rolls during combat.
VEHICLE ACTIONS
Each participant in the combat gets his or her own actions as
normal—this means that a single ship with many people in
various roles on it is capable of doing a lot of different things
at once.
The vehicles initiative is determined by the drivers Drive skill
modified by the lower of the maneuverability or speed rating.
Characters on a single vehicle can discuss their actions and
coordinate; a single turn includes everyone’s actions on the
ship.
Besides gunners attacking with weapons, the driver can also
make ram attacks with his Drive skill. This causes both
vehicles to take stress as if they had both been hit by the
attack.
The pilot can also go on full defense, granting the ship a +2
bonus on defenses during that exchange. Note that, if the
pilot takes the full defense action, gunners can’t use the
attack action—the ship’s erratic and unpredictable movement
makes it impossible for weapons to be used effectively.
In addition, just as with standard combat, the driver can move
as a supplemental action; a move action can move the ship
only a single zone. It’s also possible to move at full speed—
equivalent to a sprint action in standard combat—by making a
Drive (+1) test modified by the vehicle’s speed.
The vehicle moves a number of zones equal to the shifts
generated. Just as with the full defense action, this has
consequences for the gunners—they take a penalty equal to
the number of zones the ship moves in the exchange when
they roll attacks to fire their weapons.
REPAIRING VEHICLEDAMAGE
Vehicles can be repaired with an Engineering roll, but repairs
require spare parts, which cost Thrones.
TEMPORARY REPAIRS
During a fight, the technician can make temporary repairs to
the vehicle to keep it running until a more permanent solution
can be found. This defers the monetary payment for the
damage, but after the fight is over, the vehicle gets a
TEMPORARY REPAIRS aspect that the GM can tag for free once
during each subsequent fight until the repairs are made
permanent.
Using Engineering to repair your ship in the middle of a fight
requires a full action. Make an Engineering (+0) test. If you
are successful, you can choose to either:
REPAIR
Remove a checkmark from the vehicle’s one-stress box. Every
two shifts improve the effect by one; for example, with four
shifts, you can remove a checkmark in the vehicle’s three-
stress box.
STABILIZE
You can stabilize a vessel that’s taken a severe or lesser
consequence that would appear to be catastrophic—like
BURNING FUEL TANK—in game terms, this means the aspect
can’t be compelled during the course of the current conflict.
A single vehicle can only be the target of one emergency
Engineering action in an exchange.

THE PERMANENT SOLUTION

To use Engineering to address a vehicle’s long-term damage,
spend a scene assessing and attempting to repair the
damage.
This Engineering roll directly addresses the ship’s long-term
consequences, and the difficulty is based on the severity of
the consequence suffered.
If you succeed, the damage is fixed. The time it takes to repair
the vehicle’s consequence may be reduced by one step on the
time table for every two shifts by which the difficulty is
exceeded. You can’t make multiple Engineering checks—the
first roll stands. The vehicle must be parked (or docked) in
order to make permanent repairs.
A separate Assets roll must be made to obtain the proper
parts; if the roll fails, you may either reduce your Assets
accordingly, or allow the GM to impose one of the following
outcomes for each shift by which you fail your roll:
Gather More Thrones: If you wait a week you can make
another Assets roll.
Inferior Parts: The vehicle now has a negative aspect
that the GM can tag for free once per session. The ship
has one of these aspects per shift by which your roll
failed.
Retooling Parts: You must modify the parts to fit. Add
an additional time increment to the repairs.
Use the following table to determine the time and cost for
repairs.

Damage Diff. Time Cost

Stress +0 A few days +1

Mild +1 A week +2

Moderate +2 A few weeks +3

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RECOVERY
With all the strife, war and carnage going on around you as
an acolyte, you will eventually get badly beaten and seriously
damaged.
Here’s how you’re getting better again.
and secure environment; a clinic or hospital is optimal, but
sometimes just an empty room has to suffice.
MILD CONSEQUENCES

BATTLEFIELD FIRST AID Difficulty: Fair (+2)

Base Time: One week
When a character has suffered physical stress, another
character may use Medicae to attempt a quick healing in the
middle of a fight.
MODERATE CONSEQUENCES
Both characters must take a full action to do this. Make a roll Difficulty: Great (+4)
against a target of Average (+1).
Base Time: A couple of weeks
If successful, you may remove the checkmark from the
injured character’s first physical stress box.
SEVERE CONSEQUENCES
Every two shifts thereafter lets you remove the next stress
box and so forth.
Difficulty: Fantastic (+6)
Example: You make a successful Medicae roll with 5 extra
shifts. This will let you remove the checkmark of the patients Base Time: One month
third physical stressbox.
Only one stress box can be cleared per roll. MODIFIERS
Success can also be used to stabilize a character who has
Situational circumstances can adjust the difficulty up or down,
taken a severe or lesser consequence that would appear to
and Toughness functions as a complementing skill. If it’s of
be catastrophic—like BLEEDING TO DEATH.
higher value than the Medicae skill, it adds +1 to the roll
In game terms, this has the effect of limiting the extent to (▹33).
which the aspect can be compelled.
If the roll is successful, you can accelerate the normal healing
A single character can’t be the target of more than one process. The time it takes for the patient to remove the
emergency Medicae action in an exchange. consequence may be reduced by one step on the time table
for every two shifts by which the difficulty is exceeded.

TREATING LONG-TERM WOUNDS
You can also use Medicae to treat a patient’s long-term
damage (i.e. his physical consequences).
Spend a complete scene assessing and attempting to fix the
injuries. Such a scene needs to take place in a relatively safe
Multiple Medicae checks may not be made; the first roll
stands.
EXTREME CONSEQUENCES
Cannot be treated with Medicae. You must stay hospitalized
for a couple of months before it is gone. This is best done
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NPC’S
In this chapter, you’ll find the converted non-player characters CITIZEN
from the original game.
The characters are converted with the flavor of the Nameless NPC of mediocre quality
Warhammer 40,000 universe as the primary goal and the
coolness factor as the second goal. I’ve not used a lot of time ASPECTS
converting every single bits and pieces. LIKE MY BILLIONS OF BROTHERS

SKILLS
MOOKS & MOBS Presence (+1)

STRESS
BURDENER OF THE TRUE OATH
0
Nameless NPC of fair quality fighting in mobs of 3 men

ASPECTS GEAR
CLEANSE THE UNRIGHTEOUS Knife
RELIGOUS AND HOMICIDAL FANATIC
COMBAT SERVITOR
SKILLS
Assault (+1), Intimidate (+2), Willpower (+1) Nameless NPC of good quality

STRESS ASPECTS
DEADLY IMPLANTS
1
REMORSELESS KILL-CYBORG

GEAR SKILLS
Leather scrap armor (Armor: 1), eviscerator, fire bombs Assault (+2), Athletics (+3), Strength (+2), Toughness (+2)

STRESS
1 1

GEAR
Implanted heavy stubber, implanted chainaxe, implanted
hardened armor plates (Armor: 3)

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DESOLEUM BONDLESS DEALER DREG
Nameless NPC of average quality Nameless NPC of average quality

ASPECTS ASPECTS
FENCER OF STOLEN GOODS DESPERATE AND A BIT MAD
WHATEVER YOU MAY NEED REFUSE OF THE HIVE SOCIETY

SKILLS SKILLS
Academia (+1), Deceit (+1) Alertness (+1), Survival (+1)

STRESS STRESS
0 0

GEAR GEAR
Light flak armor, laspistol Knife

DESOLEUM INVOLUTE CADRE TROOPER GILDED PERFORMANCER

Nameless NPC of fair quality fighting in mobs of 4 men Nameless NPC of average quality

ASPECTS ASPECTS
GOOD WITH GUNS FREE SPIRIT
WELL-EQUIPPED I SING, DANCE AND JUGGLE

SKILLS SKILLS
Alertness (+2), Guns (+1), Toughness (+1) Athletics (+1), Presence (+1)

STRESS STRESS
1 0

GEAR GEAR
Flak armor, lasgun, frag grenades, krak grenades Obscura

DEVOUT HEAVY
Nameless NPC of average quality Nameless NPC of fair quality assisting other mobs

ASPECTS ASPECTS
DEVOTED SELF-MUTILATOR HYPER-MUSCLED HEAVY
FULFILLING THE EMPEROR’S WILL A FEARSOME SIGHT

SKILLS SKILLS
Conviction (+1), Willpower (+1) Athletics (+1), Intimidate (+2), Strength (+1)

STRESS STRESS
0 1

GEAR GEAR
Flail Flak vest, chainaxe

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Nameless NPC of fair quality Nameless NPC of good quality usually assisting other mobs

ASPECTS ASPECTS
LIKE A FLY ON THE WALL BLOATED AND DEFORM BODY
SMOOTH TALKER COMPLETELY INSANE AND CORRUPTED

SKILLS SKILLS
Deceit (+2), Investigate (+1), Presence (+1) Assault (+1), Intimidate (+3), Strength (+2), Willpower (+1)

STRESS STRESS
1 1 1

GEAR GEAR
Laspistol Sword

MANUFACTORUM WORKER PILGRIM

Nameless NPC of average quality Nameless NPC of average quality

ASPECTS ASPECTS
HEAT RESISTANCE I’M HERE TO SEE THE AVENUE OF THE HERO
I WORK EXTREMELY HARD SKILLS
SKILLS Conviction (+1), Willpower (+1)
Athletics (+1), Toughness (+1) STRESS
STRESS 0

0
GEAR
GEAR Staff
Welder torch (Damage: 1, Accuracy: 0), heavy wrench
(Damage: 1, Accuracy: 0) RATING
MERCHANT Nameless NPC of average quality

ASPECTS
Nameless NPC of average quality HUGE, ANCIENT, LABYRINTHINE SHIP
ASPECTS LIVING IN THE VOID
MASTER HAGGLER
SKILLS
THERE'S WEALTH HIDDEN IN RUBBLE
Engineering (+1), Guns (+1)
SKILLS
STRESS
Academia (+1), Presence (+1)

STRESS 0

0 GEAR
Autopistol
GEAR
Mesh cloak, laspistol

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REPAIR SERVITOR STRAIN INFECTOR
Nameless NPC of average quality Nameless NPC of fair quality fighting in mobs of 3 men

ASPECTS ASPECTS
MAINTENANCE WORKER MARKED WITH INFECTIONS AND DISEASES
REPROGRAMMABLE DUTY REFUSES TO SURRENDER, FIGHTS TO THE DEATH

SKILLS SKILLS
Engineering (+1), Strength (+2) Athletics (+1), Deceit (+2), Guns (+1)

STRESS STRESS
0 1

GEAR GEAR
Implanted lascutter, implanted servo-fist (Damage: 1, Autogun
Accuracy: 0), implanted armor plates (Armor: 2)
STRAIN INITIATE
SANCTIONED BONDSMAN OF THE OATHS INVOLUTE
Nameless NPC of average quality fighting in mobs of 5 men
Nameless NPC of fair quality fighting in mobs of 4 men
ASPECTS
ASPECTS FILTHY, FESTERING SCARS
CALLOUS AND COLD-HEARTED LOWRANKING CHAOS INITIATE
PROTECTOR OF THE CONSORTIUMS INTERESTS
SKILLS
SKILLS Athletics (+1), Guns (+1)
Alertness (+2), Insight (+1), Guns (+1)
STRESS
STRESS
0

1
GEAR
GEAR Stub revolver
Sanctionary armored uniform (Armor: 4), autopistol
THUG
SERVITOR DRONE
Nameless NPC of fair quality fighting in mobs of 6 men
Nameless NPC of average quality
ASPECTS
ASPECTS CRUEL, VIOLENT AND SIMPLE
HARD TO KILL FOLLOW ORDERS AND BREAKING BONES
LOBOTOMISED CYBORG
SKILLS
SKILLS Athletics (+1), Guns (+1)
Engineering (+1), Strength (+1)
STRESS
STRESS
1

0
GEAR
GEAR Hive leathers (Armor: 2), stub revolver
Implanted servo fist (Damage: 1, Accuracy: 0), implanted
armor plates (Armor: 2)

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WARP-CALLER APEX NOBLE
ASPECTS ASPECTS
RENEGADE PSYKER OF THE CALLER OF SORROW POWER AND INTRIGUE

SKILLS WEALTHY ELITE JOCKEY

Warpweaving (+1), Willpower (+2) SKILLS

STRESS Alertness (+3), Deceit (+3), Guns (+2), Presence (+5),
Willpower (+4)
0
STUNT
GEAR DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?: Once per scene, when he
identifies himself in order to get his way adds +2 to a
Staff (Damage: 2, Accuracy: 1) Contacts, Deceit, Intimidate, or Command roll.
NOTE STRESS
Nameless NPC of average quality fighting in mobs of 3 men
1 2 3 4 5

ALLIES & ADVERSARIES GEAR

Mesh armor, bolt pistol
ADEPTUS ARBITES ARBITRATOR
APEX PRINCE
ASPECTS
JUDGE, JURY AND EXECUTIONER ASPECTS
PREPARED FOR ANYTHING I WIELD IMMENSE POWER

ZEALOUS ENFORCER UTTERLY RUTHLESS

SKILLS SKILLS
Alertness (+4), Athletics (+2), Assault (+4), Intimidate (+3), Academia (+5), Alertness (+4), Athletics (+4), Command
Presence (+3), Toughness (+5) (+5), Deceit (+6), Influence (+4), Presence (+7), Willpower
(+4)
STUNT
STUNT
PURSUIT OF JUSTICE: +2 to Athletics when chasing criminals
CHARMING DICTATOR: May use Presence instead of Influence
STRESS when using his power

1 2 3 4 5 6
STRESS
1 2 3 4 5
GEAR
Enforcer light carapace armor, shotgun, shock maul, stun GEAR
grenades
Mesh armor, plasma pistol, power sword

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ASTROPATH CONTAGION DEMAGOGUE
ASPECTS ASPECTS
EXTREMELY VALUABLE PROPERTY CORRUPTED APOSTATE
SOUL BOUND FOUL SPREADER OF UNTRUTH
VOIDSPEAKER SKILLS
SKILLS Alertness (+1), Assault (+1), Command (+5), Deceit (+4),
Intimidate (+2), Willpower (+2)
Alertness (+4), Investigate (+3) Warpweaving (+5), Willpower
(+4) STUNT
STUNTS UNHOLY ORATION: When spreading his blasphemous lies, the
demagogue may make mental attacks with Command,
TELEPATH: You have the talent to enter the minds of others,
damaging everybody listening and standing in his zone. The
adjusting their memories and minds for better or worse
shifts must be divided between the victims.
THE CONSTANT THREAT: Psykers are beings with the ability to
manipulate the power of the Immaterium, bending the chaotic STRESS
energy to their will to manifest potent psychic powers
1 2 3 4
STRESS
GEAR
1 2 3 4 5
Laspistol, chainsword
GEAR
Psy fokus
CRIME LORD

CONSORTIUM MERCHANT MAGNATE ASPECTS

HATES THE SANTIONARIES

ASPECTS MY HANDS ARE (USUALLY) CLEAN

RICH AND POWERFUL BACKSTABBER RUTHLESS MOBSTER
MUST REMAIN PROFITABLE SKILLS
SKILLS Command (+5), Deceit (+6), Guns (+4), Intimidate (+3),
Presence (+5)
Academia (+3), Alertness (+3), Deceit (+5), Presence (+4),
Willpower (+4) STUNT
STUNT BATTLEFIELD COORDINATION: +2 to Command when instructing
his goons in the heat of battle
SOCIALLY RESILIENT: One per social conflict, when defending
against an attack, he may re-roll for free STRESS
STRESS 1 2 3

1 2 3 4 5
GEAR
GEAR Mesh armor, bolt pistol, power sword
Mesh armor, bolt pistol

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DEATHWATCH SPACE MARINE DESOLEUM INVOLUTE CADRE OFFICER
ASPECTS ASPECTS
VETERAN WARRIOR AND LEGENDARY HERO COUNTER ATTACK SPECIALIST

SKILLS I'M NOBLE BORN

Assault (+4), Guns (+3), Toughness (+3) INSUBORDINATION IS HARSHLY PUNISHED

STUNT SKILLS
DEATHWATCH TRAINING: +2 to attacks with Assault against Academia (+4), Assault (+3), Athletics (+3), Command (+5),
xenos Guns (+2), Presence (+4), Strength (+3), Willpower (+2)

STRESS STUNT
DIG IN: +2 to Command when creating defensive advantages
1 2 3 4 5 6
STRESS
GEAR
1 2 3 4
Power armor, bolt pistol, chainsword, frag grenades, krak
grenades GEAR
NOTE Flak armor, laspistol, chainsword
As reinforcement: In a physical conflict, he only works as a
bonus of +4 to combat rolls made by his attached leader. He DISSOLUTE NOBLE
also grants him an extra mild consequence as long as he’s
present. Finally he can also act independently, being send on
smaller tasks suited to his skills. ASPECTS
INDULGES IN EVERY IMAGINABLE VICE
DESOLEUM BOUNTY HUNTER UNFATHOMABLE WEALTH

SKILLS
ASPECTS
Assault (+3), Athletics (+1), Deceit (+4), Guns (+2)
DEAD (OR ALIVE)
I'LL HUNT YOU TO THE EDGE OF THE SECTOR STUNT
OATH HUNTER DO YOU KNOW WHO I WAS?: Can use Deceit to make mental
attacks when he makes a statement of his sordid presence
SKILLS
STRESS
Alertness (+4), Assault (+3), Athletics (+5), Deceit (+2),
Guns (+4), Intimidate (+3), Survival (+3) 1 2 3

STUNT
GEAR
RUTHLESS: Once per scene, when attacking an enemy who is
PRONE, KNOCKED TO THE GROUND, or similar, the attack gain +2 Hand cannon, sword, obscura
to attack with Assault.

STRESS
1 2 3

GEAR
Combat armor, hand cannon, chainsword

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EVERSOR ASSASSIN POX MAGISTER
ASPECTS ASPECTS
HIGHLY TRAINED, MIND-WIPED, DEATH MACHINE DESTROYER OF REALITY

SKILLS HORRIFIC ACTIONS, HONEYED WORDS

Assault (+2), Athletics (+3), Guns (+2), Stealth (+3) PRACTITIONER OF THE DARK ARTS

STUNT SKILLS
TEMPLE ASSASSIN: Once per conflict, he may re-roll a defense Alertness (+3), Assault (+2), Command (+3), Forbidden Lore
roll of his choice for free (+4), Toughness (+4), Warpweaving (+4), Willpower (+5)

STRESS
1 2 3 attacks
GEAR
Synskin, bolt pistol, needle pistol, power sword, melt bombs
NOTE
As reinforcement: In a physical conflict, he only works as a
bonus of +3 to combat rolls made by his attached leader. He
also grants him an extra mild consequence as long as he’s
present. Finally he can also act independently, being send on
smaller tasks suited to his skills.
GREY KNIGHT SPACE MARINE
STUNTS
CLOUD OF FLIES: +2 to Assault while defending against physical
NURGLE’S ROT: When a successful attack is made with
Warpweaving, in addition to the mental damage dealt, the
attack also places the ROTTING DEATH aspect on the target. In
each subsequent exchange, the target must roll Toughness
to defend against an attack from the disease equal to the
Warpweaving score. If the Toughness test is made with style,
the aspect is removed. The decaying ends if the target either
wins a contest, concedes (falling unconscious and waking up
HIDEOUSLY DISFIGURED) or is taken out (death by rotting away
and later rising as a plaguebearer)
STRESS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

ASPECTS GEAR
SHINING PALADIN DAEMONSLAYER
Falk armor, force sword
SKILLS
Guns (+2), Influence (+2), Intimidate (+2), Warpweaving (+3), PREACHER
Willpower (+2)

STUNT ASPECTS
OATH-BOUND
HAMMERHAND: The Grey Knight may use Warpweaving in
place of Assault TALKING FIRE AND BRIMSTONE

STRESS TOTALLY DEVOTED TO THE GOD EMPEROR

1 2 3 4
SKILLS
Academia (+5), Command (+4), Conviction (+4), Willpower
GEAR (+3)

Power armor, storm bolter, force halberd (Damage: 2, STUNT

Accuracy: 2)
HOLY ORATION: In a conflict preacher can use his Conviction
NOTE skill to assist his allies, no matter what skill they use

As reinforcement: In a physical conflict, he only works as a STRESS

bonus of +3 to combat rolls made by his attached leader. He
also grants him an extra mild consequence as long as he’s 1 2 3 4 5
present. Finally he can also act independently, being send on
smaller tasks suited to his skills. GEAR
Decorated flak robes (Armor: 2), chainsword

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PRECEPTORS OF THE CALLERS OF SORROW SISTER OF BATTLE CANONESS
ASPECTS ASPECTS
AURA OF MOROSE AMUSEMENT HOLY AND DIVINELY ORDAINED WARRIOR
STRONG PERSONALITY SKILLS
USES THE OATH SYSTEM AS A WEAPON Assault (+2), Conviction (+2), Guns (+2), Influence (+2),
SKILLS Willpower (+3)

Alertness (+2), Conviction (+4), Deceit (+4), Forbidden Lore STUNT

(+5), Guns (+1), Presence (+2), Strength (+3), Toughness HOLY LIGHT: +2 to Conviction when creating the temporary
(+4), Willpower (+3) BLINDING LIGHT OF FAITH aspect.
STUNT STRESS
LOOK OUT SIR!: After a successful attack against the
preceptor is made, he can spend a fate point and have the 1 2 3 4 5

attack hit one of his allies instead

GEAR
STRESS
Power armor, boltgun, power sword, frag grenades
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
NOTE
GEAR As reinforcement: In a physical conflict, she only works as a
bonus of +3 to combat rolls made by her attached leader.
Falk armor, boltgun She also grants him an extra mild consequence as long as
she’s present. Finally she can also act independently, being
ROGUE TRADER send on smaller tasks suited to her skills.

ASPECTS SKULKER
EXPLORE, WAGE WAR, PLUNDER AND EXPAND
I OWN A HULKING SHIP ASPECTS
FUCKING SNEAKY
WARRANT OF TRADE WIELDER
I ALWAYS LAND ON MY FEET
SKILLS
SHADOW KILLER
Academia (+6), Alertness (+4), Assault (+5), Athletics (+6),
Command (+6), Deceit (+6), Guns (+4), Influence (+6), SKILLS
Presence (+7), Willpower (+5) Alertness (+3), Assault (+4), Athletics (+4), Stealth (+5),
STUNT Guns (+3)

LEVERAGE: One per social conflict, when defending against an STUNT

attack, he may re-roll for free SINGLE OUT: When attacking targets, and the fight is only
STRESS between these two, the skulker receives +2 to Assault. If
anyone interferes, the bonus is lost.
1 2 3 4 5 6
STRESS
GEAR 1 2 3

Carapace armor, refractor field (Defense: +3 from

craftsmanship add-on) GEAR
Hive leathers (Armor: 1), autopistol, chainblade

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TECH-PRIEST WARP-PRIEST
ASPECTS ASPECTS
MAINTAINER OF THE LIFESUPPORT SYSTEM DEVOTEE OF CHAOS
MASTER CRAFTSMAN HIGH-PRIEST OF THE CALLERS OF SORROW
THE OMNISSIAH’S SERVANT SKILLS
SKILLS Alertness (+3), Assault (+1), Athletics (+3), Forbidden Lore
(+2), Strength (+1), Toughness (+2), Warpweaving (+4),
Assault (+4), Engineering (+5), Toughness (+4)
Willpower (+5)
STUNT STUNT
BINARIC SCREECH: +2 to Engineering when creating the
PAY DRAIN: Once per scene, as a supplemental action, the
BLOWN OUT aspect on nearby technology
warp-priest may force a psyker in the same zone as himself
STRESS to suffer the targets Willpower to drain one point. The point
will return after a night spend in meditation and prayer.
1 2 3 4 5
STRESS
GEAR 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Luminen capacitors implant, utility mechdendrite, sacred

unguents, inferno pistol, omnissian axe, combi-tool GEAR
Force staff
TEMPLE REVELATIONST
ASPECTS
DEALER OF HIS JUDGEMENT
RELIGIOUS BADASS
SPREADER OF HIS WORD

SKILLS
Academia (+5), Guns (+3), Presence (+4), Toughness (+4)

STUNT
DIVINE PROTECTION: When attacking with Guns using flamers,
the attack only strikes his foes inside the zone

STRESS
1 2 3 4 5

GEAR
Flak armor, flamer

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CREATURES, DAEMONS & XENOS CORPSE CRAWLER
All the creatures, daemons and xenos uses a special
selection of stunts re-skinned as powers. ASPECT
BLIND, WORM-LIKE PARASITE
A complete description of the powers are found on page
(▹149). SKILLS
Alertness (+2) Assault (+1), Athletics (+2)
CHAOS FURY
STUNT
ASPECT ANIMATOR: The corpse crawler can animate a corpse by
BESTIAL, RAVENOUS DAEMON crawling into it and paying a fate point. The animated corpse
adds two points of stress and a mild consequence
INSATIABLE RAGE
POWERS
SKILLS
Burrower, Crawler, Deadly Natural Weapons (fangs),
Alertness (+5), Assault (+3), Athletics (+4), Forbidden Lore Diminutive Size, Inhuman Speed, Unnatural Sense (can locate
(+2), Toughness (+2), Willpower (+2) corpses with Awareness)
STUNT STRESS
DIVE ATTACK: If the fury makes a successful attack while
1 2
airborne, the damage is increased by +2 shifts

POWERS COMBAT STATISTICS

Baneful Presence, Daemonic, Deadly Natural Weapons, Fear, INITIATIVE (+6)
Flyer, From Beyond (cancelled by holy attacks), Inhuman
Speed, Inhuman Strength, Warp Instability ATTACK (+1)

STRESS WEAPONS (Fangs, Damage: 2; Acid Spray, Damage: 1,

Range: 1, Persistent Effect: Burning Corrosion)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 DEFENSE (+4)

COMBAT STATISTICS
INITIATIVE (+9)
ATTACK (+3; smashing inanimat objects, +3)
WEAPON (Claws and fangs, Damage: 4)
DEFENSE (+5; Armor: 3 against all physical damage)

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DIRE AVENGER DUSK ELDAR CORSAIR
ASPECT ASPECT
KILLING MADE PERFECT EAGER FOR SPOILS AND GLORY
LEAVES NOTHING BUT DEATH BEHIND VICIOUS ELDAR RAIDERS
WALKER OF THE PATH OF WARRIOR SKILLS
SKILLS Alertness (+4), Assault (+1), Athletics (+4), Drive (+3),
Presence (+2), Stealth (+3), Strength (+1)
Alertness (+4), Assault (+2), Athletics (+4), Guns (+3),
Strength (+1), Willpower (+2) STUNT
STUNT ELUSIVE: If successfully avoiding an attack using Athletics, the
next attack made against the dusk eldar corsair is penalized
BLADESTORM: Once per conflict, the avenger may attack
by -1
everyone in a single zone with his shuriken catapult. Only one
attack is made. All chosen targets must defend individually. POWERS
POWERS Supernatural Speed
Supernatural Speed STRESS
STRESS 1 2 3

1 2 3 4
GEAR
GEAR Eldar mesh armor (Armor: 4), shuriken catapult (Damage: 3,
Accuracy: 2, Range: 2, HAIL OF SHURIKENS), eldar sword
Aspect armor (Armor: 5), shuriken catapult (Damage: 3,
(Damage: 2, Accuracy: 3)
Accuracy: 2, Range: 2, HAIL OF SHURIKENS), eldar sword
(Damage: 2, Accuracy: 3) COMBAT STATISTICS
COMBAT STATISTICS INITIATIVE (Always goes first in a physical exchange)
INITIATIVE (Always goes first in a physical exchange) ATTACK (+1)
ATTACK (+3; in melee, +2) WEAPONS (Eldar sword or shuriken catapult)
WEAPONS (Shuriken catapult or eldar sword) DEFENSE (+6; protected by mesh armor)
DEFENSE (+6; protected by aspect armor)

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ELDAR GUARDIAN ELDAR RANGER
ASPECT ASPECT
BATTLE FOCUS MASTER OF STEALTH
QUICK AND GRACEFUL UNDERTAKER OF THE PATH OF THE OUTCAST

SKILLS VENGEFUL GHOST

Alertness (+1), Athletics (+6), Guns (+1), Stealth (+2) SKILLS

STRESS Alertness (+3), Assault (+1), Athletics (+3), Guns (+2),
Presence (+1), Stealth (+4), Survival (+2), Willpower (+1)
1 1
STUNT
GEAR LIVING GHOST: Whenever a ranger scores a success with
Stealth, it is automatically done with style
Eldar mesh armor (Armor: 4), shuriken catapult (Damage: 3,
Accuracy: 2, Range: 2, HAIL OF SHURIKENS) POWERS
NOTE Supernatural Speed

Nameless NPC of good quality fighting in mobs of 3 eldars STRESS

ELDAR PATHFINDER 1 2 3 4

GEAR
ASPECT
MASTER OF STEALTH Eldar mesh armor (Armor: 4), chameleon cloak, eldar long
rifle (Damage: 3, Accuracy: 2, Range: 4, Specialized: +2
UNDERTAKER OF THE PATH OF THE OUTCAST against armored targets)
UNPARALLELED MARKSMAN COMBAT STATISTICS
SKILLS INITIATIVE (Always goes first in a physical exchange)
Alertness (+6), Assault (+1), Athletics (+3), Guns (+2), ATTACK (+2; in melee, +1)
Investigate (+1), Stealth (+4), Strength (+1), Survival (+2),
Willpower (+2) WEAPONS (Eldar long rifle or fists)
DEFENSE (+5; protected by mesh armor)
STUNT
UNCANNY AIM: The pathfinder can create the IN MY SIGHT
aspect as a supplemental action to an attack without the
usual -1 to the test

POWERS
Supernatural Speed

STRESS
1 2 3 4

GEAR
Eldar mesh armor (Armor: 4), chameleon cloak, eldar long
rifle (Damage: 3, Accuracy: 2, Range: 4, Specialized: +2
against armored targets)

COMBAT STATISTICS
INITIATIVE (Always goes first in a physical exchange)
ATTACK (+2; in melee, +1)
WEAPONS (Eldar long rifle or fists)
DEFENSE (+5; protected by mesh armor)

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ELDAR WARLOCK FLESHBENT
ASPECT ASPECT
DEADLY SWORDSMAN AFFLICTED BY MADNESS AND DECAY
ELDAR PSYCHIC BATTLE WARRIOR EXTREMELY MUTATED WRETCH

SKILLS SKILLS
Alertness (+3), Assault (+3), Athletics (+4), Forbidden Lore Alertness (+1), Guns (+1), Survival (+2), Willpower (+1)
(+4), Guns (+2), Presence (+2), Strength (+1), Warpweaving
(+5), Willpower (+5) STUNT
STUNT FLESHBENT: The effects of the wide array of mutations that the
fleshbent suffers (or is blessed with), is expressed by two free
DESTRUCTOR: If the warlock succeeds on an attack with invokes of the EXTREMELY MUTATED WRETCH aspect per scene
Warpweaving, the damage is increased by +4 (!) shifts
POWERS
POWERS
Inhuman Strength, Inhuman Toughness
Supernatural Speed, Touched by the Fates (2 fate points)
STRESS
STRESS
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 2 3 4 5 6

COMBAT STATISTICS
GEAR
INITIATIVE (+1)
Rune armor (Armor: 5), shuriken pistol (Damage: 3,
ATTACK (+1)
Accuracy: 1, Range: 2), witchblade (Damage: 3, Accuracy: 3)
WEAPONS (Weapon, usually a shotgun; fists and
COMBAT STATISTICS bodyslams, +2; smashing inanimate objets, +3)
INITIATIVE (Always goes first in a physical exchange) DEFENSE (+0; Armor: 1 against all physical damage)
ATTACK (+3; psychic attacks, +5, ranged attacks, +2)
WEAPONS (Witchblade or shuriken pistol) GROX
DEFENSE (+6; protected by rune armor)
ASPECT
BIG, DUMB HERBIVORE

SKILLS
Alertness (+2), Assault (+1), Athletics (+1), Strength (+2),
Toughness (+2)

POWERS
Deadly Natural Weapons (horns), Hulking Size, Inhuman
Strength, Quadruped, Supernatural Toughness

STRESS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

COMBAT STATISTICS
INITIATIVE (+2)
ATTACK (+1; smashing inanimate objets, +7)
WEAPON (Horns, Damage: 4)
DEFENSE (+1; Armor: 2 against all physical attacks)

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MALATANT NECROPHAGE
ASPECT ASPECT
MASS OF MUSCLE AND DENSE FLESH CANNIBAL MUTANT
PROFANITY IN THE FLESH NECROTIC APPEARANCE

SKILLS SKILLS
Alertness (+1), Assault (+1), Athletics (+3) Strength (+2), Alertness (+2), Assault (+4), Athletics (+3), Intimidation (+2),
Survival (+2), Toughness (+4) Strength (+1), Survival (+3), Willpower (+2)

STUNT
SMASH TO THE GROUND: Whenever a malatant makes a
succesful attack on a target and inflicts at least one point of
stress, the target also becomes SMASHED TO THE GROUND. The
malatant receives a free invoke on this aspect
STUNT
LEACHING: Whenever the necrophage inflicts physical damage
(either stress or consequences) on a target, he immediately
heals the same amount of damage, either unchecking a
stress box or removing a consequence

POWER POWERS
Hulking Size Fear, Supernatural Recovery (cancelled by holy attacks)

STRESS STRESS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4

COMBAT STATISTICS COMBAT STATISTICS

INITIATIVE (+1) INITIATIVE (+2)
ATTACK (+1) ATTACK (+4; causing fear, +2)
WEAPON (Huge fists, Damage: 0) WEAPON (Cleaver, Damage: 2)
DEFENSE (+3; protected by flak armor) DEFENSE (+4; +3 against ranged attacks; protected by
heavy leather armor)

NURGLING
Nameless NPC of average quality fighting in mobs of 6
nurglings

ASPECT
JAGGED CLAWS, POINTED TEETH
MANIFESTATION OF DISEASE AND FILTH
VULGAR AND MISCHIEVOUS

SKILLS
Assault (+1), Toughness (+1)

STRESS
0

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PLAGUEBEARER PUTRICIFEX
ASPECT ASPECT
CAUSER OF MADNESS AND ILLNESS ARCH-CORRUPTOR
WARP-SPAWNED EMBODIMENT OF DISEASE AND DECAY HERALD OF NURGLE

SKILLS WHISPERS SECRETS OF DISEASE AND UNHOLY POWER

Alertness (+2), Assault (+3), Athletics (+4), Guns (+1), SKILLS

Intimidation (+1), Strength (+2), Toughness (+3), Willpower
Alertness (+2), Assault (+3), Athletics (+5), Forbidden Lore
(+4)
(+2), Guns (+1), Strength (+2), Toughness (+3),
POWERS Warpweaving (+5), Willpower (+2)

Baneful Presence, Daemonic, Deadly Natural Weapons, Fear, STUNT

From Beyond (the catch is holy attacks), Inhuman Strength,
EMBODIMENT OF DECAY: At the start of every exchange, all
Nauseating, Warp Instability
equipment (personal, weapons, armor but not force fields)
STRESS suffers one point of stress. If the equipment is taken out, it is
considered ruined and beyond repair. (Normal equipment has
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 only two one-point stress boxes.)

POWERS
COMBAT STATISTICS
Baneful Presence, Daemonic, Fear, From Beyond,
INITIATIVE (+2) Nauseating, Supernatural Strength
ATTACK (+3; smashing inanimate objects, +5; vomit, +1) STRESS
WEAPONS (Plague sword, +5; claws, +4; vomit, +0)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
DEFENSE (+4; Armor: 3 against all physical damage)

COMBAT STATISTICS
INITIATIVE (+2)
ATTACK (+3; psychic attack, +5; smashing inanimate
objets, )
WEAPON (Rotgifter sword, Damage: 5)
DEFENSE (+5; Armor: 3 against all physical damage)

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SKARGAUL SMELT-RAT KING
ASPECT ASPECT
BLIND, NIGHTMARISH PREDATOR A FUSIONED SMELT-RAT BODY

SKILLS SKILLS
Alertness (+2), Assault (+1), Athletics (+2), Strength (+1), Alertness (+3), Assault (+2), Athletics (+1), Strength (+1),
Toughness (+2) Toughness (+2), Willpower (+1)

STUNT STUNT
VOID PREDATOR: Skargauls are immune to the effects of DEADLY DEMISE: When the smelt-rat king is taken out, it
vacuum and can survive indefinitely without oxygen immediately falls apart, transforming into three smelt-rat
swarms
POWERS
POWERS
Deadly Natural Weapons (claws, fangs and tail), Flyer,
Inhuman Speed, Unnatural Sense (can hear heartbeats with Dark-Sight, Deadly Natural Weapons (amalgam weapons),
Awareness) Multiple Arms, Inhuman Strength, Unnatural Sense (can
smell cybernetic implants with Awareness)
STRESS
STRESS
1 2 3
1 2 3

COMBAT STATISTICS
COMBAT STATISTICS
INITIATIVE (+6)
INITIATIVE (+3)
ATTACK (+1)
ATTACK (+1; smashing inanimate objets, +4)
WEAPON (Claws, fangs and tail, Damage: 2)
WEAPON (Amalgam weapons, Damage: 4)
DEFENSE (+2)
DEFENSE (+2; +1 against ranged attacks)

SMELT-RAT SWARM
ASPECT
SKELETAL, CYBERNETICS-EATING VERMIN
SWARMING MASS OF MECHANIZED DEATH

SKILLS
Assault (+1), Athletics (+3), Awareness (+2), Toughness (+1)

POWERS
Dark-Sight, Deadly Natural Weapons (mechanized claws),
Diminutive Size, Unnatural Sense (can smell cybernetic
implants with Awareness)

STRESS
1 2

COMBAT STATISTICS
INITIATIVE (+2)
ATTACK (+1)
WEAPON (Mechanized claws, Damage: 2)
DEFENSE (+4)

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SPAWN OF CHAOS TOXER
ASPECT ASPECT
GIBBERING MASS OF TISSUE EXUDE DEADLY BLIGHTED CHEMICALS
ONE BIG MUTATION NO ORGANS

SKILLS SKILLS
Alertness (+3), Assault (+3), Athletics (+1), Intimidation (+4), Alertness (+2), Assault (+3), Strength (+2), Survival (+4),
Toughness (+2), Willpower (+2) Toughness (+1)

STUNT
CONSTANT MUTATION: The effects of the wide array of
mutations that the spawn of Chaos suffers (or is blessed
with), is expressed by two free invokes of the ONE BIG
MUTATION aspect per scene
STUNT
TOXER CLOUD: Whenever the tower takes physical damage
(either as stress or consequences), it creates a DEBILITATING
MIASMA in it’s zone with a free invoke. If the aspect is already
present, damaging the tower will give it a free invoke.

POWERS POWERS
Deadly Natural Weapons, Fear, From Beyond (cancelled by Amphibious, Deadly Natural Weapons
holy attacks), Mythic Recovery (cancelled by holy attacks)
STRESS
STRESS
1 2 3 4
1 2 3 4 5

COMBAT STATISTICS
COMBAT STATISTICS
INITIATIVE (+2)
INITIATIVE (+3)
ATTACK (+3)
ATTACK (+3; causing fear, +4)
WEAPON (Claws and teeth, Damage: 2)
WEAPON (Clawed tentacles, Damage: 2)
DEFENSE (+3; +0 against ranged attacks; protected by
DEFENSE (+3; +1 against ranged attacks) heavy leather armor)

POWERS
Below you will find all the unnatural abilities making the
creatures, daemons and xenos very dangerous and deadly
adversaries.

AMPHIBIOUS
The creature is a an underwater creature, with the benefits
that come from that.
CAN’T DROWN: It never take stress or consequences from
drowning (this is not the same as an immunity to choking or
other means of suffocation).
GOOD SWIMMER: It may ignore all water-based borders while
swimming, making its underwater “sprints” all the more
effective.

BANEFUL PRESENCE
Once per scene, as a supplemental action, the creature
forces his nearby (in his or the adjacent zone) opponents
Willpower to drain two points. A night spend in prayer and
flagellation restores one point.

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BURROWER
While burrowing, you may treat any surface, no matter the
angle, as no more difficult than climbing down a vertical
surface with plenty of handholds.
CRAWLER
While climbing, you may treat any surface, no matter the
angle, as no more difficult than climbing up a vertical surface
with plenty of handholds. Ceilings? No problem.
DAEMONIC
The creature is mythically tough, gaining the following
advantages:
NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO HURT: It naturally has Armor: 3 against
all physical stress.
NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO KILL: It has six additional boxes of
physical stress capacity.
DARK-SIGHT
The creatures Awareness skill rolls are not penalized by
darkness.
DEADLY NATURAL WEAPONS
The creature have claws (or something similar) that do +2
physical stress on a successful hit. This bonus stacks with︎ any
advantages due to Strength abilities or other powers or
stunts that boost the damage of an Assault attack.
DIMINUTIVE SIZE
The creature is smaller than a human, gaining the following
advantages and disadvantages:
HARD TO DETECT: It has +4 to Stealth attempts to hide and
remain hidden.
SMALL IS BIG: Being small, it’s much better at picking up on
very small details, gaining a +2 to any perception (Awareness,
Investigation) rolls needed to spot them.
NO HERCULES: While small, the creatures Toughness skill
cannot be bigger than Mediocre (+0) for the purpose of
determining it’s health stress capacity. Its ability to
manipulate objects and other uses of the Strength skill are
considered relative to creatures of its small size, rather than
human sized. (Since most difficulties are determined for
humans, this will usually add a penalty between –2 and –4, or
in some cases, forbid the use of Strength at all.)
TINY SOLDIER: When its size is a factor in combat, it can only
inflict 1 physical stress per attack (but this could be improved
by damage bonuses from weapons and the like). Its ability to
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cross distances (using Athletics) is unaffected, but it gains a
+1 to Athletics for dodging.
FEAR
The creature either has a frightening appearance or an
unsettling aura. As a supplemental action, the creature can
make an Intimidation attack everybody in an adjacent or the
same zone as itself. The attack causes mental damage, is
resisted by Willpower and the shifts are not divided between
the individuals, but are applied to everyone it chooses.
FLYER
The creature can fly, eliminating or reducing certain kinds of
borders and enabling travel upwards into zones that can’t
normally be reached. Winged flight is governed by the
Athletics skill, just as running is.
FROM BEYOND
The creature is simply immune to physical damage from
anything normal.
PHYSICAL IMMUNITY: It takes no stress and no︎ consequences
from physical attacks and other harms, unless someone
satisfies the catch. If a character spends more than one fate
point on a succesful attack, only to discover you are
completely immune to it, that character should be refunded
all but one point.
THE CATCH: The creature is vulnerable to something that
bypasses the ability.
HULKING SIZE
The creature is larger than a human, gaining the following
advantages and disadvantages:
EASY TO HIT, HARD TO HURT: It’s a pretty big target, giving any
attacker a +1 to hit it when target size is a factor. But that
increase in body mass means it can soak up more
punishment, adding two boxes to the length of its stress
track.
EVERYTHING IS SMALL: It cannot meaningfully interact with any
man-sized objects using skills like Burglary and Engineering
(but knowledge-related rolls are unaffected), and it’ll have
trouble fitting through normal doorways and into rooms (this
will confer an automatic border value of 1 when changing
zones as appropriate). But it also means it get a +2 to its
Strength rolls to lift or break things—on top of any Inhuman
Strength bonuses it might have—and a +1 on Athletics rolls
to cover distance with its gigantic stride.
BIG IS SCARY: It gets +2 on any Intimidate attempts against a
target likely to consider its size an advantage.
EASY TO DETECT: Its Stealth is automatically considered to be
Mediocre (+0), and it may never gain more than one shift on
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INHUMAN STRENGTH
The creature is inhumanely strong, gaining the following
advantages:
IMPROVED LIFTING: Whenever lifting or breaking inanimate
things, it gains a +3 to its Strength score.
BRUISING STRENGTH: Roll Strength at +1 whenever using that
skill in conjunction with grappling. This also allows it to inflict a
2-stress hit on an opponent as a supplemental action during
a grapple.
SUPERIOR STRENGTH: Whenever using its Strength to modify
another skill, it always provides a +1 regardless of the actual
comparison of its Strength score to the skill in question.
HAMMER BLOWS: With attacks that depend on muscular force
(Assault), it’s at +2 to damage, increasing the stress dealt by
two on a successful hit.
INHUMAN SPEED
The creature is inhumanely fast and nimble, gaining the
following advantages:
IMPROVED INITIATIVE: Its Awareness is at +4 for the purpose of
determining initiative.
ATHLETIC ABILITY: All its Athletics checks are made at +1,
including dodging. When sprinting, this bonus is increased to
+2.
CASUAL MOVEMENT: Whenever moving as part of another
physical activity, it may move one zone without taking the –1
penalty for a supplemental action.
ALMOST TOO FAST TO SEE: Difficulty factors due to moving are
reduced by two when rolling Stealth.
INHUMAN TOUGHNESS
The creature is inhumanely tough, gaining the following
advantages:
HARD TO HURT: It naturally has Armor: 1 against all physical
stress.
HARD TO KILL: It has two additional boxes of physical stress
capacity.
MULTIPLE ARMS
The creature has extra arms, gaining the following
advantages:
MASTER CLIMBER: It gains +2 to Athletics when climbing and
overcoming borders.
HAIL OF BLOWS: The creature gains an extra attack per
exchange. The second attack is done as the last thing in the
exchange.
MYTHIC RECOVERY
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The creature is fast regenerating, gaining the following
advantages:
TOTAL RECOVERY: It’s able to recover from physical harm that
would leave a normal person permanently damaged. It can
recover totally from any consequence (excluding extreme
ones) with no other excuse besides time; simply waiting long
enough will eventually heal it completely.
REALLY AMAZINGLY FASTER RECOVERY: Out of combat, it may
recover from all physical consequences before the beginning
of the next scene after it received them! The exception is
extreme consequences, which may last the duration of the
next scene before vanishing.
HA! YOU CALL THAT A HIT?: Three times per scene, it may
clear away a mild physical consequence as a supplemental
action.
THE CATCH: The creature is vulnerable to something that
bypasses the ability.
NAUSEATING
The creature can make mental attacks with its Toughness, as
long as it is based on the target getting sick. The attack is
defended with Toughness. If the attack is succesful, the
damage is increased by +2 shifts.
QUADRUPED
The creature runs on four legs gaining +4 to Athletics when
moving while sprinting.
SUPERNATURAL RECOVERY
The creature is fast regenerating, gaining the following
advantages:
TOTAL RECOVERY: It’s able to recover from physical harm that
would leave a normal person permanently damaged. It can
recover totally from any consequence (excluding extreme
ones) with no other excuse besides time; simply waiting long
enough will eventually heal it completely.
FASTER RECOVERY: Out of combat, it may recover from
physical consequences as if they were two levels lower in
severity. So, it recover from severe consequences as though
they were mild, etc. Consequences reduced below mild are
always removed by the beginning of a subsequent scene.
NOTHING REALLY BITES: Twice per scene, it may clear away a
mild physical consequence as a supplemental action.
THE CATCH: The creature is vulnerable to something that
bypasses the ability.
SUPERNATURAL SPEED
The creature is insanely fast and nimble, gaining the following
benefits:
SUPREME INITIATIVE: It always go first in initiative order in a
conflict, regardless of its Awareness rating. If there are other
entities present who share this ability, it must then use
Awareness to resolve initiative order among itself.
SUPERIOR ATHLETIC ABILITY: All its Athletics checks are made
at +2, including dodging. When sprinting, this bonus is
increased to +4.
EFFORTLESS MOVEMENT: Whenever moving as part of another
physical activity, it may move two zones without taking the –1
penalty for a supplemental action.
FASTER THAN THE EYE: Difficulty factors due to moving are
reduced by four when rolling Stealth.

SUPERNATURAL TOUGHNESS
The creature is supernaturally tough, gaining the following
advantages:
HARDER TO HURT: It naturally has Armor: 2 against all physical
stress.
HARDER TO KILL: It has four additional boxes of physical stress
capacity.

TOUCHED BY THE FATES

The creature has its own reserve of fate points to be used in
addition to the normal pool controlled by the GM.

UNNATURAL SENSE
In situations where the creature might be penalized or
otherwise told that it’s impossible to sense something, it can
nevertheless attempt to sense the thing it’s defined, without
penalty.

WARP INSTABILITY
The creatures presence is blasphemous and simply wrong in
the material world. Once per scene the power can be
compelled as an aspect by its opponents. Refusing the
compel costs two fate points.

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