Editing Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay

'''Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay''' is a series of products published by [[Fantasy Flight Games]].  As the name suggests, it comprises a system (actually several systems) of [[role-playing games]] in the [[Warhammer 40,000]] universe.

The roots of the system go quite a ways back, all the way back to the [[Inquisitor (Role-Playing Game)|Inquisitor]] role-playing game published by [[Games Workshop]]'s [[Specialist Games]] division.  The idea of role-playing in the [[grimdark|grim, dark]] future was itself seeded by [[Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay]], which allowed role-playing in the grim, dark past.

All of the games published have a similar core system, with the [[stats]] of Weapon Skill, Ballistic Skill, Strength, Toughness, Agility, Intelligence, Perception, Willpower, and Fellowship (which are themselves based on the stats of the [[Warhammer 40,000]] [[wargame]]), and a [[roll under]] [[d100]] system for dice rolls, but otherwise have grown slightly apart, especially as later systems include fixes for weaknesses of the others.  An exact mapping between the RPG and the wargame is impossible, as you can't translate a d6 to a d100 using integers, but approximately speaking, you can translate by multiplying a tabletop stat by 16.67 (or 17, to be even more approximate) or dividing an RPG stat by the same number; this will work for any stat following the standard mechanic of both games.  Leadership needs a different approach because the tabletop uses a separate mechanic for it.  The RPG uses a fundamentally separate, untranslatable mechanic for damage, so Strength and Toughness only translate for non-damage purposes.

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{|class="wikitable" border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 style="margin: 1em; border: 2px solid black;"
|+ Translating between Tabletop and RPG Stats: Choosing Stats
|-
!Tabletop Stat !! RPG Stat
|-
| Weapon Skill || Weapon Skill.
|-
| Ballistic Skill || Ballistic Skill, Perception.
|-
| Strength, Movement Speed || Strength (No translation for dealing damage).
|-
| Toughness || Toughness (No translation for dealing damage).
|-
| Leadership || Intelligence, Willpower, Fellowship.
|-
| Initiative, Movement Speed || Agility.
|-
| Attacks || You can purchase talents to (poorly) simulate this, but there is no direct translation.
|- 
| Cover Save || Cover (which acts as additional armor).
|-
| Armor Save || Not translatable; in the RPG, armor acts additively with toughness.
|-
| Invulnerable Save || Force Field.
|-
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|+ Translating between Tabletop and RPG Stats: Math
|-
! Tabletop || colspan="3" | RPG
|-
! Value !! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Intelligence, Willpower, and Fellowship || scope="col" class="unsortable" | Weapon Skill, Ballistic Skill, Perception, Agility, and Strength and Toughness (when not damaging) || Force Field
|- style="text-align: center;"
| 1 || style="color: red;" | 0 - 1 || 8 - 24 || style="color: red;" | 92 - 107
|- style="text-align: center;"
| 2 || 2 - 5 || 25 - 41 || 75 - 91
|- style="text-align: center;"
| 3 || 6 - 13 || 42 - 57 || 58 - 74
|- style="text-align: center;"
| 4 || 14 - 20 || 58 - 74 || 42 - 57
|- style="text-align: center;"
| 5 || 21 - 34 || 75 - 91 || 25 - 41
|- style="text-align: center;"
| 6 || 35 - 48 || 92 - 107 || 8 - 24
|- style="text-align: center;"
| 7 || 49 - 68 || 108 - 124 || style="color: red;" | 0 - 7
|- style="text-align: center;"
| 8 || 69 - 76 || 125 - 141 || style="color: red;" | 0 - 0
|- style="text-align: center;"
| 9 || 77 - 87 || 142 - 157 || style="color: red;" | 0 - 0
|- style="text-align: center;"
| 10 || 88 - 95 || 158 - 174 || style="color: red;" | 0 - 0
|- style="text-align: center;"
| 11 || style="color: red;" | 96 - 98 || 175 - 191 || style="color: red;" | 0 - 0
|- style="text-align: center;"
| 12 || style="color: red;" | 99 - 100 || style="color: red;" | 192 - 207 || style="color: red;" | 0 - 0
|}
; Notes
:* <span style="color: red;">Red values are theoretical, as the relevant Tabletop stat is impossible.</span>
:* Treat an invulnerable save of "-" as a save of 7.
:* Treat AV9-14 as Toughness 6-11.
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Fantasy Flight Games announced the end of their business relationship with Games Workshop on September 9, 2016, thereby [[Exterminatus|ending this family of RPGs]]. Ulisses (which is also developing Wrath and Glory as mentioned below) has allowed the old FFG games to be sold on DrivethroughRPG, but will not be producing further updates for them.

== Systems ==
Though the game-lines seem to be spreading faster than [[Orks]], here are the systems so far:

* [[Dark Heresy]], in which you serve an [[Inquisitor]] and investigate possibly-[[heresy|heretical]] goings-on.  Prepare to die a lot.

* [[Rogue Trader (RPG)|Rogue Trader]], in which you are a [[Rogue Trader]] (or a member of the retinue of one).  You sail around the [[Imperium]] and try to make lots of money.

* [[Deathwatch (RPG)|Deathwatch]], in which you are a [[Space Marine]] serving in the [[Deathwatch]].  You kill [[xenos]] for the Emperor.

* [[Black Crusade (RPG)|Black Crusade]], in which you get to be the [[heretic]], either a Cultist or a full-blown [[Chaos Space Marine]].  You fight the servants of the Corpse God, and each other, trying to become a [[Daemon Prince]].

* [[Only War]], in which you are a member of the [[Imperial Guard]].  Prepare to die even more.

== Fa/tg/uys at Work ==
Although we don't know who, it's quite clear that someone working on the books is a regular reader of /tg/. This has been made evident with printed mentions of [[Love Can Bloom|LIIVI]], [[The Guy Who Cried Grendel|Castus Grendel]], [[Boone|Alice Boone]] and [[Commissar Dan]] in rulebooks and supplements, which have effectively made these [[/tg/ 40,000|/tg/ creations]] actual 40K [[canon]]. Godspeed, you flippin dudes.

===Evidence===
<gallery>
File:LCB canon.jpg|Exhibit A: ''Dark Heresy: Ascension''
File:FFG Grendel.png|Exhibit B: ''The Radical’s Handbook''
File:Canonization.jpg|Exhibit C: ''Navis Primer''
Image:Dancanon.png|Exhibit D: ''Enemies of the Imperium''
File:Ffg-grendel-again.png|Exhibit E: ''Shield of Humanity''
</Gallery>

== See Also ==
* [[Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay]], the fantasy counterpart (now also published by [[Fantasy Flight Games]])
* [[Wrath & Glory]], the successor to the FFG 40k roleplaying series by Ulisses North America

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