Board Thread:Warhammer 40k Roleplay/@comment-7974155-20140326055119/@comment-6078851-20140326153155

as someone who reads some of the rp's those rules have my wholehearted support.

i can't see why other players wouldn't consent to these, especially as everyone here is a fan of 40k, and the rp's would then start to be grounded into the 'reality' of 40k.

"over powered characters should not be allowed, period (except for boss battle type characters)." i agree with the first part of that, but i think it should be more a case of 'no characters (or any persons or creatures) are allowed to be more poweful than they would be portrayed in canon material, and no characters can be so powerful that their abilities put them on a par with, or even allow them to threaten, the powerhouses of 40k, like emps or the gods.'

the thing about overpoweredness is that 40k is full of extremely capable warriors, who are already overpowered in relation to the masses, and there's no need to have them power-up: an ork warboss would die in seconds if faced with a tank shooting him, but would be completely capable of killing 2 or 3 company captains vs him. and a company captain would be capable of taking out a few squads of dark eldar kabalite's but would struggle against a single squad of wytches.

as a reader of rp's it's irritating as hell to see all the lore-breaking (which is what stops me from reading more) and i can imagine how infuriating it must be to be playing in amongst it. to everyone who plays it's clear that you're all fans of 40k, and while it's all non-canon it's still 40k, until the lore-breaking starts whereupon it stops being 40k and instead becomes a stage for stupidly overpowered characters with non-40k abilities.

if other players agree to your (completely fair) rules, and as fans of 40k they should, then you all should make an rp rules thread that gets linked to the start of every rp.