Anti-daemon character idea

[Shannow]

Well personally I like that as a starting point for a backstory and certainly sounds like a good justification for his hugeness! Also a great starting point for his making him proper crazy if you wanted too.

One idea that I have is that as well as hunting daemons because he ran away, perhaps it is redemption for being such a bloodthirsty person in a bloodsport arena, he had not realised the horror of his profession until he saw the daemons tearing people apart and realised that what he was watching and was horrified by was in fact his job?

Just a though anyway but the basis sounds good and a great character! Have to see what others think of the 7' 2" idea though.

Rob

[Holiad]

While that may well prove an obstacle to being an official priest, this isn't such a problem, since the ecclesiarchy tolerates a lot of unofficial religions, including religious pilgrims, penitent or otherwise, local cults, and even militant religious crusades such as the redemptionists. Therefore, he doesn't have to have been inducted into the ecclesiarchy to a man of the emperor. I also expect the recruitment practices of the ecclesiarchy itself is subject to quite a lot of local variation. The wards are trickier, since most imperial citizens are forbidden from even knowing about the existence of daemons, let alone how to fight them, but the impression I get is that faith in the emperor is in itself effective to some degree, so they could have started as almost any local symbol he genuinely believed to be either sacred or effective at driving away dark forces in general, and been supplemented later once he gained the favour of an inquisitor. After all, 40k has genuinely effective holy relics, which are considered holy purely through past contact with a saint, so it seems reasonable that a genuinely devout character could gain some benefit from any ward he believed in, whether it was 'official' or not.

[dumdeedum]

I like the idea of him not having 'official' wards.

Which gives me an idea, whenever he encounters someone he considers blessed, or holy, or similar, he (tries to) get them to add to his wards carved into his skin by carving some more on. I hope that would work, the combination of them being holy and him utterly believing in them working.

Do you think this would work? And rules wise it would be a bit of a combination between the pentagrammic and hexagrammic wards I posted in my earlier charcater trial in this thread.

I feel he is getting alot closer to being realised now

Any opinions on the ridiculously big model? Or alternatives out there that I could use instead?

James

[Shannow]

I really like the idea of him carving different wards into his skin with a knife, very crude and ritualistic. I certainly imagine him as a physically imposing man with great presence and as being bloody scary! Can't wait to see him modelled.

Rob

[Myriad]

7'2" can certainly be justified, and from many perspectives is an opportunity for background writing about warrior tribes etc - I quite like the one you've come up with.  The main issue is whether you're happy with how he'l look next to other models - he will obviously be freakishly tall, but this isn't necessarily a problem.  

If you do decide to look for something a bit smaller, there's a lot out there - the modelling resources thread in 'painting and modelling' is a good place to start. 

<edit> - Taban miniatures do a model that might serve, though it's a bit different to the other one.

http://shop.taban-miniatures.com/product_info.php?cPath=50&products_id=279

[dumdeedum]

Well my other modelling project I'm planning uses a model which is 50mm high though he has background detailing why he is too small.

Glad people like the idea, think I might buy the LOTR model and see how it works out.

One other point I've just been wondering about regards how much damage he can do. My knowledge of the game isn't great but I've just realised (unless I've missed something out) that he can only do D3 + 6 damage in an attack which is quite consistent, but I can't imagine it hurting a daemon overly much. He can do a little more damage with a critical hit, 14-18 damage plus up to the next injury level, but thats going to be pretty rare.

Any solutions to this? Or is this in fact an OK amount of damage (because it seems quite small)?

James

[Shannow]

I think that depends on how strong the character your fighting is, but given that your never going to come up against a full daemon I think it sounds ok especially as its very consistent, though that is only against daemons who have no armour really and you will negate a lot of abilities yes?

Is that his damage capacity against all characters? Base injury levels are all probably around 6-8 for most characters (I guess) so a minimum attack of 7 is great but then that depends on how much armour they use... What strength are you going to make him btw?

Rob

[dumdeedum]

I originally had him pegged with strength in the 60s so +1 damage above an armoured gauntlets standard D3 + 5, but if hes coming in at 7'2" I can up it alot more, in the 80s or possibly even 90s? which means he becomes D3 + 8 or 9 which is about sword level of damage.

Things are definitly fitting into place for him now.

James

[Shannow]

I'd say given the size and build of the LoTR character, 80 might not be a bad shout certainly if you can work some predispostion for people on his planet to have that extra bit of muscle too