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Shattered Hope

“Fear not death; the God-Emperor watches you”.

in a hail of bolter ire and the cleansing pyres of the unclean. For

the irst time, the worlds of the tumultuous 41st Millennium will

be made available for pen and paper roleplaying, where you can

take up your force sword, strap on your bolter, and root out heretics,

burn mutants with the liquid death of your lamer, and battle xenos

as they seek to contaminate the worlds of mankind with their foul

views and fouler natures. With so much in need of killing in this

dark and grim future, there’s no reason to wait, and with this special

preview, you have a taste of the darkness arrayed against you and a

chance to do your part to keep the sprawling Imperium safe against

its many and varied enemies. So take up your laspistol, make ready

your chainsword, and say a quick prayer to the God-Emperor, for in

the 41st Millennium, there is only war….

Writing

Rob Schwalb

Front Cover

Adrian Smith

Internal Illustration

John Blanche, David Gallagher, Mark Gibbons,

Karl Kopinskii, Stefan Kopinski and Adrian Smith

Design & Layout

Mark Raynor

Thanks to

Dave Allen, Owen Barnes, Kate Flack, Marc Gascoigne, Mal Green,

Nick Kyme, Mike Mason, Karen Miksza, Lindsey Priestley & Zoe Wedderburn

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Shattered Hope

I n February 2008, the D a r k H e r e s y roleplaying game will be born

it iS tHe 41ST MILLENNIUM…

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 sacriiced every day, so that he

may never truly die.

Y et even in his deathless state, the

Emperor continues his eternal vigilance.

Mighty battleleets 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 give battle in his name on

uncounted worlds. Greatest amongst

his soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes,

the Space Marines, bio-engineered

super-warriors. Their comrades in arms

are legion: the Imperial Guard and

countless planetary defence forces, the

ever-vigilant Inquisition and the tech-

priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus to

name only a few. But for all their

multitudes, they are barely enough to

hold off the ever-present threat from

aliens, heretics, mutants - and worse.

t o be a man in such times is to be

one amongst untold billions . It is to

live in the cruellest and most bloody

regime imaginable . These are the tales

of those times . Forget the power of

technology and science , for so much

has been forgotten , never to be re-

learned . Forget the promise of progress

and understanding , for in the grim

dark future there is only war . There

is no peace amongst the stars , only an

eternity of carnage and slaughter , and

the laughter of thirsting gods .

F or more than a hundred centuries

Getting

Started

Getting

Started

three are better. The individual dice need to

be of different colours if possible since many

times you’ll need to know which is which.

If you don’t have enough dice or don’t have

different coloured dice, when it’s important,

just roll the ten-sider one at a time.

The most common dice roll is called a test. A

test is a special roll that produces a result from

1 to 100. To get this result, pick one ten-sider

to serve as the “tens place” and another to serve

as the “ones place”. Then, roll them together.

The tens die gives you 00, 10, 20, 30, and so

on, while the ones die gives you 0, 1, 2, 3, etc.

Put the two dice together and you have your

result. If you rolled “00” then you rolled a 100,

which is not good at all. When rolling for a

test, you want to roll low.

the action and adventure takes place in the

imaginations of those who participate. To play

this game, one person should take the role of the

Game Master (GM), while the rest of the group,

preferably four people, are the players. If you’re

selected to be the GM, read on, for you have

the best job. If you’re a Player Character (PC),

you should stop reading when you get to the

Adventure Background lest you ruin your fun as

you play through the scenario. To use Shattered

Hope , you’ll need to make copies of the Character

sheets and the Skills and Talents reference sheet

(permission is given to photocopy these sheets

for the players) found at the end of this booklet;

at least two ten-sided dice, each of a different

colour; pens; and scrap paper.

EXAMPLE

The GM calls for Owen to make a

test. He has a blue die and a red die.

He decides the blue die is for the tens,

whilst the red is for the ones. He rolls

the dice, and the blue die comes up as

a 3 and the red die comes up as a 9. He

puts the dice together and sees that he

has rolled a 39.

THE BASICS

B efore we get started with the adventure

proper, it’s worth going over the core game

concepts so you have an idea how certain things

are handled in the game. Do note that the rules

provided in this preview are simpliied versions

of those that appear in the full game, streamlined

to whet your appetite for adventuring in the

many worlds of D a r k H e r e s y .

D a r k H e r e s y uses another dice convention

for such things like weapon damage or in

some specific situations where a successful

test has a variable result. When called to do

so, you roll one ten-sided die and add any

“modifiers” to the roll to arrive at the total.

Unlike tests, here, you want to roll high.

This sort of die roll is often abbreviated

as 1d10, where the first number (1 in this

case) signifies how many dice you roll, d

stands for die or dice, and the last number

(10) the type of die rolled. Variations on

this can include 1d5, where you roll a ten-

sider, halve the result (round up), or 1d100,

which operates just like a test. Finally, if

the abbreviation includes a number after it,

such as 1d10+2, it means roll a ten-sided

die and add two to the die roll. So in this

case, if the die came up as a 4, you’d add 2

for a total of 6. Easy!

THE DICE

Like most other games, D a r k H e r e s y uses dice.

You roll dice whenever you would determine if

something you want your character to accomplish

succeeds or fails. If your character climbs a sheer

wall, leaps across a chasm, ires a bolter at an Ork,

you roll dice to see if he or she is successful or

not. Most times, you don’t need to roll the dice,

especially when time is not a factor and when

failure doesn’t have disastrous consequences, but

for those dramatic moments, when success counts

the most, are when you pull out the dice and kiss

your corpse hair charm for luck.

This game exclusively uses 10-sided dice.

Each player should have at least two dice, but

D a r k H e r e s y is a roleplaying game, where

The Basics

CHARACTERISTICS

All characters have nine Characteristics. They

are: Weapon Skill (WS), Ballistic Skill (BS),

Strength (S), Toughness (T), Agility (Ag),

Intelligence (Int), Perception (Per), Will Power

(WP), and Fellowship (Fel). Characteristics

tell you something about the character, giving

you an idea about his or her capabilities,

personality, smarts, and even what they might

look like—in a broad and general sense of

course. Now we’ve mentioned that when it

comes to tests, you want to roll low, right?

The reason is pretty simple. Whenever you

need to take a test in the game, you compare

the dice roll to the Characteristic most likely

to be involved in the test. Say you’re trying

to shoot a Mutant, you’d roll against Ballistic

Skill. Likewise, if you’re trying to avoid a

falling column, you’d roll against Agility.

Make sense? Since you want to roll under the

number associated with the Characteristics,

the higher the Characteristic the better.

whenever you would use Awareness, you

make a Perception Test.

Opposed Skill Tests

Sometimes you have to test your skill against

that of an opponent which is known as an

Opposed Skill Test. This works by both parties

making Skill Tests as normal, whoever succeeds

wins. If both participants succeed, then the one

with the higher Characteristic bonus wins out.

If both parties fail, then new Tests are again

attempted to ind a clear winner.

EXAMPLE

John attempts to quietly sneak behind

a sentry. He rolls the dice to make

his Silent Move Skill Test, compares

them to his Agility Characteristic and

succeeds. The GM makes a test against

the guards Perception Characteristic and

also succeeds. Comparing Characteristic

bonuses, John has a 3, whilst the

guard has only a 2. With a higher

Characteristic bonus, John manages

to silently slip past the guard, without

attracting his attention.

EXAMPLE

Kate tries to break down a door.

Strength is the most likely Characteristic

to test in this case, so she rolls the dice

and compares them to her Strength

Characteristic. If her roll comes up equal

to or lower than her Characteristic,

she succeeds. If she rolls over her

Characteristic, she fails.

TALENTS

Talents offer slight advantages, relecting

special training and expanding on your

options in the game for using skills and so on.

Talents can also grant access to different parts

of the game, such as psychic powers, Tech-

Priest augmentations, and so on. Most talents

featured in this scenario include descriptions

about how they can be used.

Characteristic Bonuses

Except for Weapon Skill and Ballistic Skill, all

Characteristics have an associated bonus. This

bonus is represented by the “tens” digit of the

Characteristic. When looking at a Characteristic

Stat Block, the “tens” are denoted by a shaded

area for easier reference.

SKILLS

Skills are a lot like Characteristics, but

offer special things you can do during

play. Every skill is associated with a

Characteristic so when you want to use a

skill, just test the Characteristic that ’s tied

to the skill. For example, take Awareness.

This skill is keyed to Perception, so

Characteristics

Skills

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