[DL] WH40K Reckoners - (Potential for Spoilers)

[A Methylated Spirit <hercubadger@yahoo.com>]

I’ve been getting into some Warhammer 40K recently for
a change and considered mixing some of the WH40K
mythos into Deadlands. The Reckoners don’t really have
much of a personality in Deadlands and in Hell on
Earth the four horseman thing is a little too easy.
Has anyone tried using the Games Workshop Chaos Gods
to represent these beings?

We have another quartet of Gods. Khorne (death,
violence, pain, killing). Nurgle (suffering, disease,
stasis, putting up with things). Tzeentch (knowledge,
change, evolution). Slaanesh (pleasure, decadence,
sensation). 

Tzeentch works quite well for Mad Scientists and
Hucksters, and Slaanesh could be used to combat the
Blessed and Enlightened (earthly pleasures and all
that).  Khorne is good for the gunfighters who have
seen just too much death or even for the formerly
innocent farm hand who desired revenge just a bit too
much.

The Chaos Gods offer their servants abilities and
powers in support of their goals along the same lines
of earning damnation points. Starts off small with
minor acts but can soon go completely down hill to
full blooded acts of less than nice stuff. 

Even better, the Chaos Gods don’t play well with each
other. So you could have plot within plot where the
Posse are caught between two opposing fractions of
evil-doers. The American Civil war could be so drawn
out as one nefarious being is guiding one side while
another equally nefarious being has been guiding the
other. 

Harrowed can be daemon possessed beings and the
Hunting Grounds can be the Warp without any changes in
mechanics or mythos. I am certainly not suggesting
bring Marines into the game or anything along those
lines, Just giving the Reckoners more a personality.

Just a thought.

Cheers.


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