Only In Death

A Deathwatch (Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay) Actual Play Podcast

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Get the Deathwatch RPG Line on Humble Bundle!

Get the Deathwatch RPG Line on Humble Bundle! #rpg #ttrpg #40k @Cubicle7 @humble

I’m breaking the silence (albeit briefly) on this page to let you know that the new hosts and curators of the Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay line, Cubicle 7 Games (who’re also publishing the official Doctor Who roleplaying game and upcoming Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soulbound roleplaying game ), have partnered with Humble Bundle to offer the entire Deathwatch RPG line in one of their bundles in support…

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On Patreon: Help Build The New Campaign Setting I've just uploaded some new Only In Death content for GM Radio Rob backers on Patreon…

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Mangle a Band Name for an NPC!

Mangle a Band Name for an NPC!

The annoying thing about Only In Death? I keep coming back to it every now and again.

I’ve had an idea for a campaign and/or setting since 2012, but my perfectionist streak hasn’t quite let me “go” with it. GMing Atomic Robo: The Roleplaying Gamefor the players of Kill-team Atromitos has given me a good break (and there’s still more to go of it) and I think it’s also boosted my overall GM…

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What's Going On? 5th of May, 2018

What’s Going On? 5th of May, 2018

You fine folks who follow Only in Death’s various web presences may have noticed that there haven’t been any new episodes for the last two Fridays. You may have also noticed that the Only In Death Patreon page is currently offline.

You may well be saying to yourself, in the words of 4 Non Blondes, “Hey – what’s going on?”

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Episode 12: The Lordsholm PDF Base, Part 2 of 2 The traitor is revealed, in what could well be a very explosive situation...

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Episode 11: The Lordsholm PDF Base, Part 1 of 2 After vanquishing the rebels laying siege to the PDF base, the Space Marines of Kill-team Atromitos face probably their greatest challenge thus far: Interacting with a large group of confused and conflicted normal humans. Worse still, there may be a traitor in their midst...

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Episode 10: Brother Gladius, the Spicy Handed

Episode 10: Brother Gladius, the Spicy Handed

[powerpress] After last episode’s grim darkness, the Space Marines get to cleanse their palates with some honest-to-Emperor combat! Kill-team Atromitos and their rag-tag band of troopers and survivors arrive at the Portica District’s Planetary Defence Force base, which they must defend from heavy rebel siege. What’s worse, the rebels have deployed three Medusa siege guns – and in less than a…

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Sister of Battle by @KinpatsuCosplay.

[onlyindeath]

While I’d still be happy to see more options for women in 40K than Boob Armour, this is still no less than fantastic! 

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Just completed the first editing pass...

[lontau]

Deathwatch Captain Raz’reesh

@nightshade-victorian ‘s OC - the absolutely badass Deathwatch Captain and newest commander of the Raven Guard 3rd Company. Just finished her up this weekend. Was a great model to start the 2018 hobby projects off with!

Bonus picture of her fighting alongside Branwen. :D

[quarkmaster]

Blood Angel

Warhammer 40k fan art. References and inspiration taken from the already very rich universe of art of Warhammer. I started modeling the high res in my spare time but I walked away not wanting to uv or build the low res due to real life time constraints thinking I would never finish it. Thankfully with advent of substance painter and a little help from Zbrush, I was able to pick this project back up get this guy textured without really doing low res modeling and uv’s. This turned out to be a really great way to work and it’ll make future projects, concept to render, much faster.

mike fudge

[onlyindeath]

Psst! @brother-matthias!

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40 k emperor by DESTRAUDO

Brilliant rendering of the Emperor on the Golden Throne.

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STORM WARDEN by Bobot073

Great to see the Chapter introduced in Deathwatch get some love!

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the Dark Angels by TheMaestroNoob

Nice chapter artwork!

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Warhammer 40 000 Cosplay - Inquisition by alberti I’m going to have to feature this lot in the game somehow...

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Deathwatch Killteam by Jedi-Art-Trick Might have to commission this artist to do Kill-team Atromitos...

[grimdarkdarkgrimnessofgrimdark]

I think that one of my biggest pet peeves is “well if you want female space marines, why not male sisters of battle?” 

Discounting the fact that these people tend to be the ones crying out “my loooore!” and thus wouldn’t accept even that compromise, it also fundamentally misunderstands my big reasoning for wanting female space marines. I want badass ladies who exist in a way that is both respected by the company and players, who have novels regularly come out about them, who aren’t sexualized or derided or anything. 

“Bolter bitches” are the single most ignored, abused, and derided faction out of all the Imperium, and arguably out of Chaos and Xenos too, given they still have models from pre-plastic times or forgeworld exclusives as their only options.

If GW admitted men into their ranks, that wouldn’t change the fact they’ve still been shat upon for years, to the point of becoming a running gag and some of the faction’s best known lore is known for being so hated that it had to be retconned from fan backlash. Hell, if there was some way to make badass dudes take over the faction, I wouldn’t put it past them to do it and end up reducing the eponymous Sisters of Battle to an auxiliary role in lore and on the tabletop. 

Adding women to space marines, however, does not discredit the literal hundreds of victories, stories, and characters of the Space Marines. It doesn’t reduce their competence or importance to the setting, it doesn’t affect the models outside of putting in some new head designs on the sprues, unless GW wants to give ‘em tiddy armour too. 

That’s why my focus is on lady space marines, so I can have characters who are actually powerful and meaningful outside of lip-service in the setting, and who are seen by the fandom as more than just wank-bait. 

[dyalani]

[littleclevercat]

I agree with the OP’s point, it but personally, I feel that won’t solve the problem of Sisters of Battle being the most neglected faction of the game. Adding female Space Marines will balance disastrous female/male ratio in the Imperium factions to some degree but it won’t change the fact that Sisters of Battle are neglected in the game. The result will be that there will be badass women (i.e. Space Marines) and “bolter bitches” (i.e. Sisters of Battle). While I think that female Space Marines will be awesome, I feel the replacing SoB with female SM is not a good way to fix the problem with SoB.

What I would like to see is the making Sisters of Battle badass despite the fact they are not Space Marines. Their badassness shouldn’t depend on them being transhumans. And this is not an impossible task, Imperial Guard faction is very cool while not having those enhancements Space Marines have. If Sisters of Battle will get a new model line, a new codex that takes into account the new state of the Imperium, new campaigns to win their own glory and not borrow it from Space Marines, that, I feel, can change their image in the eyes of players.

[grimdarkdarkgrimnessofgrimdark]

Yeah, I made that point in a reply. It’s less my actual desire to see female space marines, and more my lack of faith in GW to be able to fix the SoB as a faction, that drives my want for FSM over SoB.

[littleclevercat]

I feel that if GW suddenly caves in and add female Space Marine in current lore without fixing Sisters of Battle first, they will just repeat all mistakes they’ve done with SoB. Because Sisters of Battle are the indicator of GW’s treatment of women, at least in human factions. Until they fix SoB there is no guaranty they won’t fuck up women in other factions.

[sisterofsilence]

They literally already made that mistake with Sisters of Silence. I mean, let’s be real. They had an opportunity there but noooooo…

[askrobouteguilliman40k]

(The sisters of silence have to take a vow of silence that…. seems to have no effect beside them needing to learn sign language.)

(This plus the lack of lady primarchs/marines makes me think the Emps had a really bad break up and instead of getting over it, became a giant douch :P)

[onlyindeath]

Introducing a new force called “Sisters of Silence“ seemed a really, horridly tone-deaf move.

[sisterofsilence]

When fans, including very many women, are asking for a revival of the horribly outdated, underloved, underrepresented ladies-only faction… then coming out with a new faction that is exactly the same in every (shitty) way but now they can’t speak is so hilariously tone-deaf to me? And pretty gross when you sit and think about the context of what was asked for vs what was given.

[onlyindeath]

And on top of that, they’re “blanks”, and while that makes them invulnerable to psychic attack or effects of the Warp, it also means virtually everybody else can’t stand to be around them (and often call them “soulless”). It’s to the point where I don’t even want to speculate on motivation and / or cluelessness.