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Trials of Initiation: A Warhammer 40k Salamanders campaign (currently full, apologies!)

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Trials of Initiation: A Warhammer 40k Salamanders campaign (currently full, apologies!)

The one thing that you may not be ready to hear is that im aware of all of those restrictions, yes every single one of them. Ive been playing 40kRPs since 2011. So lets deal with them one by one.

@Steel Legion

It's not like i'm exactly new to this setting myself.

The title is Beastmaster of the Blackened Anvil. Do i really need to prove that there are many anvils and some of them are blackened? The name is meant to be almost a location similar to how Leonardo Di Vinci basically translates to Leonard of Venice. If you arnt allowing titles why did you include them in a name generator?

@Steel Legion

I did not in fact create that name generator myself. I merely found it while browsing online and realized it made pretty good lore-accurate names in the Salamander style. I didn't think it needed to be said that mere scouts would not have earned themselves titles.

A fact that i fully accommodated in the picture. See how his face is blackened by ash? There aren't alot of pictures of salamanders. I chose this picture because it represented a marine in a transitional state between flesh colour to charcoal black.

@Steel Legion

I acknowledge that the variety of artwork for unhelmeted Salamanders, specifically scouts is... slim to say the least. So I suppose I can accept that some imagination is required by the observer to darken the skin themselves. But you could always just do a written description?

Im sorry but all salamanders are craftsmen and artisans. They are known to craft all of their own equipment and thus a scout crafting 3 inferno grenades in a chapter defined by flame weaponry is not out of the ordinary. Especially as all marines not only are genetically related to Vulkan but also evolve to become more like him over time.

@Steel Legion

Yes they are, but you have not lived long enough to be a master crasftman. It's one thing to say that you've forged your own combat knife (perfectly logical) But your character has somehow mastered beast-taming & grenade manufacture all while undergoing training, trials and constant surgeries? i'm sorry but no. It's just not that logical. Everyone's characters will have learned something of forge-craft and of the promethean cult. No doubts at all about that. But you'll likely learn how to repair your bolter & armour before you learn how to master explosive munitions.

The White Scars are on record as having trained falcons. Yes the space wolves train fenrisian wolves. Im pretty sure that Raven Guard get ravens, being that inquisitors are also known to have ravens and eagles as pets.
This is my attempt to incorporate the known trait of compassion that salamanders have into a real world example such as someone who would tame and master animals rather than just kill them straight away like a psychopath.

@Steel Legion

Quite true, Some white scars captains & heroes use Cyber eagles. Notably hunt masters like Kor'sarro Khan, A thought that slipped my mind. They are still not common within the white scars. Only heroes like Kor'sarro, maybe a chaplain or a stormseer would be permitted to have one, certainly not a rank and file brother.

But Regardless, at the risk of being seen as glib you are not a captain or a company hero nor a brother of the white scars nor an inquisitor. You're a Salamander neophyte and again, the Salamanders themselves have no history of allowing this.

Fair enough, i was only really looking for a feline-type animal. What about a Phyrr cat?

@Steel Legion

No personal pets of any kind. Sorry. Besides it's also not something native to Nocturne and thus no real reason why you would ever have come into contact with one.

Incorrect. Failed space marine aspirants are issued with stub weaponry and are used as indentured servants. They are often used to repel borders when an Astartes ship is attacked, being that they are not true space marines. So this proves atleast that such weapons exist. I was mainly trying to avoid making the claim that i have both a boltgun and a bolt pistol, however im ready to admit im wrong in this case. My character is not a chapter serf.

@Steel Legion

Sure, chapter serfs may use autoguns & stub weapons. I do not, nor will I ever deny that. I never implied they didn't exist either, but you are neither of those things. You passed your initial trials so you get to use the important guns.

And that is basically what im saying my character has chosen to do. Not all space marines are tactical, some are exclusively assault marines for example. This means that the tactical marines are a bit of a jack of all trades master of none, whereas someone making a character for this RP for example could choose to be an assault marine with knife/pistol and this would be a perfectly valid choice.

@Steel Legion

alright, perhaps I didn't do a great job explaining this in the OP. but no one is a 'tactical' specialist. Or an assault specialist or a devestator specialist. You are scouts. You will use a variety of equipment and play a variety of rolls, and do whatever is required of you. If you're trying to say that your character prefers the straightforwardness and broad utility of a bolter, that's awesome and understandable. But he isn't a 'tactical scout' he may be required to pick up a shotgun, or a sniper rifle or a heavy bolter or a chainsword if the need calls. Your character has not been chosen to fufill any roll as of yet. That is the point of serving in the scout company. This is your battlefield experience that your instructors will then pass on to future captains. This is were you learn to use the weapons and tactics and get the first inklings of what you may be proficient with. You haven't that chance as of yet to be marked for any specific role or future function.

In conclusion, i hope you didnt read this in too impertinent a tone. Im sure that once we're over this stumbling block we can get onto some really interesting RP.

@Steel Legion

I don't think you're being Impertinent, At least not any more than I am likely coming off as glib despite my best intentions. But understand where i'm coming from there is some rather generous interpretation of lore going on here.

Trials of Initiation: A Warhammer 40k Salamanders campaign (currently full, apologies!)

@Steel Legion

Alright, A few things. Your character will not have earned themselves any sort of title this early in their career. As for the picture you used, Salamanders are known for their coal black skin and red eyes. A genetic quirk unique to them specifically.

You are not going to start the game with master-crafted anything even if they are consumable grenades. Stick to frag and krak for now. Specialty equipment may be made available based on your assignments.

Nor would your character have a personal menagerie of pets. barring the Space wolves no chapter, least of all the Salamanders have a history of going to war alongside animals. They hunt them for sport and for trophies certainly, and if you want to give yourself some kind of hunting trophy earned from a trial where you fought a drake than sure, within reason i'll happily allow that.

And i'm sorry but there's no way i'm giving anyone a Grynix. They are not native to nocturne and your not an inquisitor or a librarian so there would be no reason your character would have ever seen or heard of these much less tamed one somehow.

And marines don't use personal stub weapons of any kind. Feel free to take a bolt pistol as a backup weapon.

As as far as his profile. Marines don't choose a specialty. They train to be devasators-> close assault-> tactical in turn. They have to learn to fill whatever roll may be required of them, and are assigned to a role in a battle company based on what they're good at and where the openings are.

Trials of Initiation: A Warhammer 40k Salamanders campaign (currently full, apologies!)

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Hey everyone. Here is a digitized version of a name chart I found for Salamanders. i've been clicking through it for a couple minutes. The names it generates are actually pretty damn good

Trials of Initiation: A Warhammer 40k Salamanders campaign (currently full, apologies!)

This also makes 5 people, And I am officially locking in Salamanders as the chapter we are playing as everyone is either voting for them, or are cool with the idea of them. So feel free to start those character sheets.

@Dusty@Steel Legion@Jamesyco@VolcanicLaval@BangoSkank

Trials of Initiation: A Warhammer 40k Salamanders campaign (currently full, apologies!)

Astartes are forced to recruit kids between 12-14 years. Basically the onset of puberty, any older and the odds of their bodies rejecting the implants and extra organs increases exponentially so it's not seen as worth the effort. After some years of further training & numerous surgeries they are made into scouts at roughly the age of 19-24. I included an age outline in the CS.

Applicants are not vat grown but picked from the youth of a planet, usually a pretty shitty planet either a deathworld or the bowels of a hive world. In the case of the Salamanders they exclusively recruit from the surface of Nocturne. A pretty shitty world wracked by earthquakes, tectonic shifts, volanic eruptions and covered in ash wastes. Barely livable but still livable.

Trials of Initiation: A Warhammer 40k Salamanders campaign (currently full, apologies!)

i'm not against dark angels but no one else seems interested. I floated them some time ago and no one bit. Same with the new chapter and Imperial fists. Salamanders have 1 firm vote behind them and 2 other people say they are cool with them.

And as for a new chapter, Well to be honest the first time I pitched this game like a year ago I picked a unknown chapter and it only seemed to turn people off so I expect what people really want something is cannon that is also well fleshed out so that they can research ideas. Even if they don't necessarily articulate that.

Trials of Initiation: A Warhammer 40k Salamanders campaign (currently full, apologies!)

Iron hands are definitely cool, but they also can get pretty.... intense. An individual iron hand can be a fun addition to a deathwatch team to keep the tone grounded, but having everyone be brooding & embittered self-loathing hatemongers might get a little samey.

if people are up for it though....

Raven guard are dope however. But so far it's three people who are at least ok with the idea of Salamanders

Trials of Initiation: A Warhammer 40k Salamanders campaign (currently full, apologies!)

BTW if anyone does want to place a vote for a preferred chapter than please do so soon. This is open to the three who have already posted interest and anyone else currently browsing this thread.

As I stated in the OP I don't personally care which chapter it is we play, and I'll pick and random if I have to. But would prefer it be agreed upon.

@VolcanicLaval@BangoSkank@Jamesyco

Trials of Initiation: A Warhammer 40k Salamanders campaign (currently full, apologies!)

Well no one else is chiming in for other chapter preferences. So I'm willing to run with salamanders for now.