Ideas for my tech priest

[Loki1986]

I've come up with a rought idea for my tech priest and want your feed back
Stats
WS    BS    S     T    I    WP    SG    NV    LD
70     40  140  55  70  65     80     60    60
Epuiptment
2 advanced Bionic Arms (Already shown in stats)
2 Electro flails(but as been adapted to have full control E.g can use like hands.)
Advanced bionic eyes-Advanced irisis(imuune to blinding affects)anf infared Detector
2 mechadendrites
Average Bionic lungs

[DapperAnarchist]

While there's nothing wrong with the stats per se, there isn't much to say about them, as we have no idea about the context. Manipulable electro-flails are impressive technology, is he a Luminen? 70 might be higher than many would expect from a tech-priest, is there a reason for that?

[Uilleam]

Seems reasonable to me, though WS 70 might be a bit high for a character whose arms end in flails. Also try not to limit stats to iterations of 5 otherwise stats might as well be on a scale of 1-20 rather than 1-100.

[Loki1986]

Well you see this is where i need the help because i mainly enjoy playing the game and not making up its life story. I dont have much knowledge on the game and history etc. I just want a resonable character in which to play games of inquisitor with. I am open to suggestions

, though WS 70 might be a bit high for a character whose arms end in flails.

But i have given it Manipulable electro-flails

[Uilleam]

Where does he get all the combat training to maintain a WS like that? Do you have any background about him so we could get a better idea of whether his stats are appropriate?

[DapperAnarchist]

Well, as you've asked for help - short answer to "why does he have electrohands and ws 70?" - he's a Luminen, aka an Electropriest. They're a warrior cult who venerate electricity as the fundamental force of the Machine God. Look up Electropriest on Lexicanicum, and try the Explorator Article (available from MarcoSkoll, as always).

[Loki1986]

I dont have a background  for him and i wouldn't know where to start as i have never read any thing to do with it.
I solo enjoy playing the game. Its just how i'd like him to be. he doesn't have any shooting capeability so all he has to attack with is is Manipulable electro-flails. But from the way i understand techpriests is they aint just your arerage humans and they live to be centries old and when they get old. And parts fail they are highly advanced and knowledgeable to replace old limbs with bionics.

[MarcoSkoll]

Well, it's not much good to you yet, but I recall Kaled mentioning an article he was writing for Dark Magenta on Tech-Priests.
I don't know when the article will be out, but based on the quality of his previous work, it should be well worth the read when it does.

I don't have a background  for him and I wouldn't know where to start as I have never read anything to do with it.

A background is important to a character. It gives you the justifications for... well, everything. Skills, stats, equipment... all of it.

You rather need to work out at least some loose details of the character to go very far with it. Particularly if you're bringing them to the Spring Conclave, as there will be elements of roleplay involved - you can't really choose which candidate you're supporting for the role of Lord Inquisitor unless you know enough about your character to know who they'd want to take the role!

In the end, you may not be as interested in writing character background as I am (I'm pretty fanatical about it at times), but in my opinion, you should look to have at least a few hundred words of background for any Inquisitor character.
It is after all, a narrative wargame - each game is meant to tell a story, and anyone in that story who's more than a faceless goon should have a story of their own.

Now, your grip on the universe background seems a little basic - but don't worry about that too much. We can help with these things, provided you're not just asking us to write the whole background for you.

Where does he get all the combat training to maintain a WS like that?

He's a techpriest. He just downloads it to his brain!

[Inquisitor Cade]

In my opinion the Ws and Sg are at the upper end (maybe top 10%) for tech preists, and the I is quite high too, though to a lesser extent. This isn't necessarily a problem, but these don't say who he is. We need some background fluff really.

[Kaled]

Loki, if you send me a picture or complete description of your model then I'm happy to draft some background and stats for you which we can then refine.

[Adlan]

Where does he get all the combat training to maintain a WS like that?

He's a techpriest. He just downloads it to his brain!

"I know Electro-fu"

Have you thought of the model/got one already, as that's an important part of making the rules and background. I admit, just from the Stat's I'm picturing a Cool conversion based off of the Tech Priest, with Arcoflallagent hands and somehow doing compound, insectoid eye's.

Anythoughts of the rest of his warband?

[MarcoSkoll]

"I know Electro-fu"

Show me.

In my opinion the Ws and Sg are at the upper end (maybe top 10%) for tech-priests

Well, as far as the Sg, I'd call 80 very reasonable for a techpriest. Take a reasonably intelligent type, add a few decades on the quest for knowledge, throw in a few cranial implants... perfectly justifiable.

As a general rule, I normally tend to stat my Inquisitors in the range of 70 to 80 Sg. Admittedly, adepts of the machine god are somewhat more plentiful than Inquisitors and therefore not necessarily as naturally exceptional, but to become a full fledged techpriest, you do still have to be the cream of the crop (the crop being adepts in general) and will doubtless have a lot of augmentation.

[Loki1986]

Thanks guys you have definatly given me food for thought. And i will post a picture soon it probably could be improved is was a rush job to enter a small campaign i played. Its basicly Gruss with his gun lopped off and arco flails attached. whats a tech priesty name?

[Inquisitor Cade]

I've had this particular disagreement with Kaled before, so I'll offer the reasoning behind my opinion but then say no more.

First, I think a helpful way to approach Sg is as roughly 1/2 IQ. This matches up perfectly both in the average, and at the extremes, though the distribution isn't an exact match. The important thing of this interpretation is that specialist knowledge is represented by Sg bonuses on a case to case basis, but not as an increase to overall Sg. Thus a tech preist's technical knowledge will give a bonus to Sg tests to an attempt to hotwire a car, but not for answering questions on botany.

That said, a tech priest will be smarter than most tech adepts who will be smarter than the average citizen. Sg 70 equates, in my mind, to 1 in about 200 people. This to me the area many tech preists might be in. However, at Sg 80 we are talking 1 in 20 000 people. This might be plausable for most tech preists if all of the smartest people were admech. Instead the admech values intelligence more than most organisations and so there is a slightly higher average.

[MarcoSkoll]

First, I think a helpful way to approach Sg is as roughly 1/2 IQ.

That's one way to approach it, and a reasonable starting point, but you need to bear in mind what IQ is. IQ is a relative measure compared to people of your age (in fact, any test of value will probably work on age to the week).

Depending on the exact test, I test around the order of IQ 160, and that's something that will have remained relatively constant throughout my life.
But I wouldn't even begin to argue that I'd qualify for the same Sg value today as I would have ten years ago. I am far more knowledgeable and mentally capable today than I was then, and in another decade, I'll probably qualify for a better Sg value again.

Sg is more than raw IQ - it has to include "general knowledge" in amongst things. Anyone who has cranial memory implants and who has spent decades on the quest for knowledge will have a lot of general knowledge and mental reasoning capacity.