Board Thread:Warhammer 40k Roleplay/@comment-7974155-20140326055119/@comment-6078851-20140327011157

it might be fairer to allow each player 1 character, maybe even 2, that are a little overpowered, within the confines of 40k: so no dragonball-naruto captains sanguinior :P. it would be important that such characters have their abilities laid out clearly from the start as well as reducing plot-armour a bit: things would be a lot more tense if you didn't know if your main character would survive a situation, for the player and reader (it doesn't matter if they die, this is all fiction and they can be up-and-at-'em for the next rp). if players are allowed to have an overpowered character it's vital that it's kept at just 1 (maybe 2) each, to avoid having a whole slew of op characters on one force: i'm lookin' at you danny :P

@talik, you can totally compete with canon characters without breaking the lore, to expand my previous example: an ork warboss with a retinue of 'eavy-nobs takes on a unit of marines comprising 4 captains and calgar, the nobs are taken out by the captains, who lose 3 in return and the warboss takes out the last 2, 1 one of whom is calgar. the warboss then gets shot in the face by a nearby vindicator.

that's a fight that's completely plausible within the 'laws of 40k', it would be epic, it would drastically alter the canon story, and no-one needs to be overpowered, because calgar and warbosses already are overpowered, but within the lore.