D&D 5E Warhammer 40k D&D 5E Hack - Heresy for the God-Emperor

Ancalagon said:

I'm away from my books at the moment so I'm only working from memory but...

First I have to a knowledge that it is very challenging to design for space marines, since they are so freaking powerful. But that isn't really what I meant.

Rather the design of the auto fire rules meant that one blast from a bolter (on auto) had a more than 50% chance of killing a chaos marine outright (who should be as powerful as a space marine). However the chaos space marine had almost a good chance of doing the same!

Basically auto fire meant that whoever won initiative was going to kill the other... And that isn't good game design :/

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BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

Mike Myler said:

Ahhh. That can happen here for regular humans (with horrible luck) but is not likely for a space marine (the player race has a specific "really hard to perma-kill" feature).

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BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

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Ancalagon said:

Korn sitting on his throne, the Kob

Seriously though... what *is* the full auto mechanism/rule? That could alleviate some of my concerns

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Any ranged weapon below that does not have the loading property is assumed to have the autofire property.

Autofire. A character wielding an autofire weapon may spend a bonus action to gain an additional attack at disadvantage. If the wielder is able to make an additional attack as a bonus action for some other reason, they may make both attacks but with disadvantage.

Bullet Spray. Bullet spraying weapons can expend five times as much ammunition as normal to spray a 5-foot-cube area within its first range increment as an action. Creatures in the area of effect that fail a Dexterity saving throw (DC equal to the wielder’s attack roll) take the weapon’s normal damage. By expending 10 times as much ammunition as normal, the wielder can increase the area to a 10-foot-cube.

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Mike Myler said:

Ah! That's in Post #2 - Equipment. There's also a "spray an area" attack and weapons that do area attacks.

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Stalker0 said:

Some good stuff in here!

I like your auto fire rule, so much simpler than the 40k rules....which were so clunky it turned my players off of it.

My only thought for the various armors. To make it more 5eish, i would just go with resistance to damage and then adjust the ac value for higher armors. That’s more in line with the core rules

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The heresy continues with statblocks for Slaanesh in today's Warhammer 40k D&D 5E Hack!

Ancalagon said:

When you fight Nurgle, even if you win, you lose.

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This is the last entry in the hack and DEFINITELY the best one yet!