Comet
2009-04-21, 02:18 PM
Welcome to yet another thread of Space Nazis versus Cthulhu Dark Heresy, the Warhammer 40k rpg.
I made one of these threads a while back. I was just a player then but now I decided to give GM'ing a go.
The first problem I ran into when designing an adventure was the concept of "challenge rating" or rather, the lack thereof.
The antagonist entries in the rulebooks give the challenge ratings as Xenos/Hereticus/Malleus Terminatus/Majoris/Minoris/Minoria/etc. I have no idea how to translate these into actual estimations of the monsters toughness
In D&D the Challenge Rating system is really dominative. In other games I've just learnt to build enemies so that I can guess that the players can go up against them without dying. I'm not familiar enough with DH to do that yet.
Are there any guidelines to adjusting the enemies the Acolytes face in DH? The career paths and their different ranks resemble levels quite a bit so it's not impossible to have something resembling a Challenge Rating, is it?
For example: assume that the party is rank 4 (2000 xp or so). How much could they handle? Certainly not a Terminatus rank foe, but Majoris? Several Minoris? Dozens of Minoria?
Such are the things I'm pondering at the moment. I understand that there may not be any simple answers but I'm asking anyway.
I made one of these threads a while back. I was just a player then but now I decided to give GM'ing a go.
The first problem I ran into when designing an adventure was the concept of "challenge rating" or rather, the lack thereof.
The antagonist entries in the rulebooks give the challenge ratings as Xenos/Hereticus/Malleus Terminatus/Majoris/Minoris/Minoria/etc. I have no idea how to translate these into actual estimations of the monsters toughness
In D&D the Challenge Rating system is really dominative. In other games I've just learnt to build enemies so that I can guess that the players can go up against them without dying. I'm not familiar enough with DH to do that yet.
Are there any guidelines to adjusting the enemies the Acolytes face in DH? The career paths and their different ranks resemble levels quite a bit so it's not impossible to have something resembling a Challenge Rating, is it?
For example: assume that the party is rank 4 (2000 xp or so). How much could they handle? Certainly not a Terminatus rank foe, but Majoris? Several Minoris? Dozens of Minoria?
Such are the things I'm pondering at the moment. I understand that there may not be any simple answers but I'm asking anyway.