IC: a couple of Warhammer 40k ideas!
As it says on the tin! Particularly, between my life becoming a hgell of a lot less hectic, and the setting getting some interesting new updates lately, my mind has begun to percolate. So I have a couple of ideas and I'm curious about what may or may not interest anyone.
Idea 1: The Inquisition! This would be an Ascension-level game with an Inquisitor and his/her retinue, set during the Indomitus Crusade. In short: the Warp has gone and turned the grim dark future into the even grimmer, darker, more double-damned future, and the galaxy seems to hover on the brink of collective doom and damnation. Among the forces trying to stem the tides are the Inquisition. This would be an Ordo Malleus group tasked by Terra with reclaiming vital worlds from Chaos, or, if and only if all is well and truly lost beyond hope of redemption, ordering exterminatus.
Idea 2: Fun with Space Marines! Set after the Indomitus Crusade, Roboute Guilliman has finally regained some measure of order for the imperium ,but he is not,/I> happy. And unhappy Primarchs are a <I>very bad thing. Judging that the imperium as a whole is sorely lacking in knowledgeable leadership, Guilliman has gathered a group of celebrated, seasoned Astartes veterans and given them one simple (don't they wish...) task: find his brother Primarchs and bring them back. Their only rules of engagement? Succeed or die trying. Let nothing stand in their way until their mission is complete, as the fate of the imperium rests in the ceramite-clad hands.
The above two ideas would be run using the Dark Heresy and Deathwatch RPGs, respectively, both by Fantasy Flight Games.
Does either sound interesting to you? Feel free to speak up and offer your interest, questions, and/or concerns!