[Dark Heresy] Homebrew

Planning on using this in a campaign I'm running at the moment, thought I'd post it for the benefit of you all. Feel free to post your own stuff as well.

Martyr’s Blood (Drug)
Upon ingesting this drug, the user must take a WP Test. If successful, the user gains a Psy Rating equal to the user’s WP bonus, and a number of psychic powers (determined randomly) equal to the number of degrees of success (Minimum 1). On a failure, the user gains a Minor Mutation for each degree of failure, and must take a Toughness test. On a pass, the user gains 1d5 Insanity Points, but on a failure, the user gains 1 Major Mutation for every degree of failure and 2d10 Insanity Points.
1. Call Creatures
2. Call Item
3. Chameleon
4. Déjà vu
5. Distort Vision
6. Dull Pain
7. Fearful Aura
8. Flash Bang
9. Float
10. Forget Me
11. Healer
12. Inflict Pain
13. Inspiring Aura
14. Knack
15. Lucky
16. Precognition
17. Psychic Stench
18. Resist Possession
19. Sense Presence
20. Spasm
21. Spectral Hands
22. Staunch Bleeding
23. Torch
24. Touch of Madness
25. Trick
26. Unnatural Aim
27. Wall Walk
28. Warp Howl
29. Weaken Veil
30. Weapon Jinx
31. White Noise
32. Wither
33. Bio-lightning
34. Blood Boil
35. Cellular Control
36. Constrict
37. Enhance Senses
38. Hammerhand
39. Regenerate
40. Seal Wounds
41. Shape Flesh
42. Toxic Siphon
43. Divine Shot
44. Dowsing
45. Far Sight
46. Glimpse
47. Precognitive Dodge
48. Precognitive Strike
49. Preternatural Awareness
50. Psychometry
51. Personal Augury
52. Soul Sight
53. Blinding Flash
54. Burning Fist
55. Call Flame
56. Douse Flames
57. Fire Bolt
58. Fire Storm
59. Holocaust
60. Incinerate
61. Sculpt Flame
62. Wall of Fire
63. Catch Projectiles
64. Fling
65. Force Barrage
66. Force Bolt
67. Precision Telekinesis
68. Psychic Blade
69. Psychic Crush
70. Push
71. Telekinesis
72. Telekinetic Shield
73. Beastmaster
74. Compel
75. Dominate
76. Inspire
77. Mind Scan
78. Projection
79. Psychic Shriek
80. See Me Not
81. Telepathy
82. Terrify
83. Verminspeaking
84. Bestial Ally
85. Endure Flames
86. Open Wounds
87. Space Slip
88. Suggestion
89. Time Fade
90. Agony
91. Drain Vigor
92. Flesh Like Iron
93. Molten Man
94. Psychokinetic Storm
95. Seed Mind
96. Soul Killer
97. Zone of Compulsion
98. Mask of Flesh
99. Death’s Messenger
100. Whispers of the Warp
101. Daemon Wrack
102. Malefic Curse
103. Hellish Blast
104. Cipher Seed
105. Disintegrating Directive
106. Distortion
107. Familiar Bond
108. Haywire
109. Mutable Features
110. Sense Mechanism
111. Trusting Aura
112. Truth Seeker
113. Twitch
114. Without a Trace
115. Create Door
116. Disease
117. Exsanguine
118. Flail of Skulls
119. Flaming Word
120. Immunity
121. Leach Life
122. Living Weapon
123. Open
124. Psy Barrier
125. Summon Object
126. Transfix
127. Wall of Souls
128. Warp Corruption
129. Warp Lightning
130. Warp Tongue
131. Warp Vigor
132. Lightning Arc
133. Lightning Field
134. Lightning Storm
135. Malleus Hammerhand
136. Enrage
137. Bloodboil
138. My Will, Known
139. My Will, Obeyed
140. My Will, Manifest
141. Flameshroud
142. Conflagration
143. Inferno
144. Banishment
145. Sanctuary
146. Word of the Emperor
147. His Will Be Done
148. Hammer of Witches
149. Purgatus
150. Lift
151. Barrier
152. Tempest
153. Precognition
154. Stasis Shell
155. Warp Time

(1-82 Core, 83-84 Creatures Anathema, 85-103 Disciples of the Dark Gods [Psychic Powers & Minor/Major Arcana], 104-131 Radical's Handbook [Psychic Powers & Minor/Major Arcana], 132-155 Ascension)

Here's another one that I made a while back - I'm looking to turn it into an Elite Advance for Deathwatch, as I'm trying to rework the system slightly to make a variant of the game where one can play Chaos Marines.

Stage 1 (Lasts 1d5+2 days)
The carrier now finds themselves to be more at home with weapons, his aim increases and the gun sits more naturally in his hands. (+1d5 BS, lose all previous mutations and no longer gain mutations from corruption, gain training with all weapon groups)
Stage 2 (Lasts 1d5+3 days)
The carrier, now becoming more of a victim, finds themselves merging with their weaponry if they hold it for long enough. They also start to generate ammunition for the weapon they are holding, a most disturbing development. (+1d5 BS, weapons no longer require reloading, +1d5 Insanity Points)
Stage 3 (Lasts 1d3+1 days)
The victim is now in the very throes of Obliteratorhood, with their armor no longer being able to be removed and seems to be able to repair itself. They also find their movement to be impaired and their joints rearrange and meld with the metal of their armor and weapons. (Gain the Regeneration trait, +1d5 AC to all locations wearing armor, -2d5 Ag, +1d5 Insanity Points, Increase Fear Rating by 1)
Stage 4 (Lasts 1d5+4 days)
By now, the victim finds they can absorb small weapons such as knives and pistols and then recreate them at their own will, but only in small numbers at a time. Their sanity is also impaired by now. (+1d5 Insanity Points, may absorb or generate an absorbed primitive melee or any pistol weapon as a Half Action)
Stage 5 (Lasts 1d2+1 days)
The victims' very flesh is now made into a daemonic melding of metal and skin which adds to their armor and allows the absorption of many more complex weapons. They no longer look like humans as their body has bulged in places where weapons have been absorbed. (+2d5 AC to all locations, may absorb or generate an absorbed basic melee or ranged weapon as a Half Action, -2d5 Fel, +1d5 Corruption Points, increase size category by one step, Gain Unnatural Toughness (x2) or increase existing Unnatural Toughness by 1)
Stage 6 (Lasts 1d4+2 days)
The body increases in strength and fortitude in an attempt to counter the ever increasing weight of the body. This makes them terrifying opponents in close combat. (Gain Unnatural Strength (x2) or increase existing Unnatural Strength by 1, -1d5 Ag, +2d5 Corruption Points, Fear 2)
Stage 7 (Lasts 1d10+5 days)
The victim can now create things other than weapons, including bionic limbs and organs. Their original body flesh and daemonic metal are no longer distinguishable. (May generate any bionic as a Half-Action, +2d5 Insanity Points)
Stage 8
The final stage sees the creature as a fully fledged Obliterator and can use the heaviest of weapons in order to destroy its enemies. (May absorb or generate an absorbed weapon of any type as a Half Action, reduce Fel to 5, +2d5 Insanity Points, +2d5 Corruption Points, Fear 3, Bulging Biceps)

I like the obliterator idea. I had a question on stage three though. Have you come across any character isn't wearing armor when this process is taking place? I'm wondering what your take on the character if they had no metal to meld to.

Olierien wrote:I like the obliterator idea. I had a question on stage three though. Have you come across any character isn't wearing armor when this process is taking place? I'm wondering what your take on the character if they had no metal to meld to.

I think a decent stand-in is to give the victim that 2d5 AC at stage 6 if they weren't able to get it at stage 3. Unfortunately I haven't gotten far enough in a game to actually use it on a player.

I bet. Seems like the insanity effects would deter easy implementation. Would be nice to have a player inflicted with it and have to choose between finding out a way to get rid of it. Then the player has 3 options ahead of him. He can either find a way to cure it. This will lead to either the player being cured or being overtaken by the transformation. Also, the player could just willingly submit to the mutation. It's like a wh40k lycantrope.

The player could also not be fully cured and retain some of the stages permanently too.

Olierien wrote:I bet. Seems like the insanity effects would deter easy implementation. Would be nice to have a player inflicted with it and have to choose between finding out a way to get rid of it. Then the player has 3 options ahead of him. He can either find a way to cure it. This will lead to either the player being cured or being overtaken by the transformation. Also, the player could just willingly submit to the mutation. It's like a wh40k lycantrope.

The player could also not be fully cured and retain some of the stages permanently too.

Yes, it is the sort of thing to be careful about using - In the campaign I was going to use it in, there were several Untouchables, and Untouchables in general played a major role in the plot, so I considered offering the player a sort of side-quest he could undertake to cure himself.