Warhammer 40K: Only War

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Warhammer 40K: Only War

Post by Vardaen » Wed Aug 01, 2012 7:33 pm

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It is the 41st Millennium
For more than a hundred centuries, the Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the master of mankind by the will of the gods, and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day so that He may never truly die.

Yet in His deathless state, the Emperor continues His eternal vigilance. Mighty battlefleets cross the daemon-infested miasma of the Warp, the only route between distant stars, their way lit by the Astronomican, the psychic manifestation of the Emperor's will. Vast armies engage in battle in His name on uncounted worlds, but for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from aliens, heretics, mutants, and worse.

To be a man in such times is be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruellest and most bloody regime imaginable. Yet you are not just any individual— you are a Guardsman, called from the masses of humanity to fight the God-Emperor's wars on the front lines of the galaxy. Glory and honour can be yours as you wage a crusade against the ravening xenos and depraved corruption that threaten the Imperium from all sides.

What is Only War?
Only War is a roleplaying game in which you and your friends take on the “role” of soldiers in the Imperial Guard, the galaxyspanning armies of the God-Emperor. You fight against mankind's many enemies for the very survival of your species and the continuation of human dominance over space. In a roleplaying game, one of the players will take on the role of the Game Master (often abbreviated to GM) and create a story for the other players to participate in with their characters. As the GM tells the story, creating the
plot and playing the role of all the other characters in the game world, the Player Characters (a term for the characters controlled by the players, often abbreviated to PCs) react to developments in the plot and the challenges and tasks set by the GM. The GM then adjudicates their actions and determines the outcomes, usually with the aid of the rules and some [/b]dice rolling to introduce an element of randomness. In this way, over the course of a few hours, a group of players can create imaginative collaborative stories set in the grim, dark worlds of the Warhammer 40,000 universe.


This one shot game is an intro adventure into the Only War setting soon to be released by Fantsty Flight Games:

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_ ... p?eidm=201
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom." - Gandalf
J.R.R. Tolkien, Council of Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring

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