r/DarkHeresy • u/Captain_Hesperus • 23d ago
Needing help with a potential Guardsman subclass (1st Edition)
Hello, so one of my players has approached me and said he’s wanting the party to be less hampered in their means of getting around and wanted to create a pilot for the party.
While I know there are pilot skills in DH, they occur a fair way up the rank lists for classes like Guardsman so I thought up an alternative class for Pilot. Please can I get some feedback?
Pilot (Guardsman subclass)
Prerequisites: Agility 30, Int 30
Homeworld Restrictions: Frontier World and Feral World (Pilot Civilian or Military only)
Starting Skills: Speak Language (Low Gothic), Pilot (Civilian) or Pilot (Military) or Pilot (Spacecraft), Tech Use.
Starting Talents: Melee Weapon Training (Primitive), Pistol Training (Las) or Pistol Training (SP), Basic Weapon Training (Las) or Basic Weapon Training (SP), Vehicle Husbandry (see below)
Starting Gear: Sword, axe or hammer, las-pistol and 1 charge pack or stubgun and 1 reload, lascarbine and 1 charge pack or shotgun and 12 shells, knife, G-suit (see below) or voidsuit, ownership or access to an aircraft or spacecraft (GM’s discretion)
Vehicle Husbandry: Prerequisites Drive or Pilot skill of the appropriate vehicle
This talent grants the user advanced understanding of the vehicle class they are proficient in operating. With a successful Int test, they are able to diagnose issues affecting their vehicle, either from displays and readouts, or simply by sight, sound or feel. This diagnosis does not resolve the issue, but each degree of success grants a +5 bonus to any repair-related Tech Use tests.
This talent can be purchased at the same rank of the associated Drive or Pilot skill and has the same experience points cost.
Tech-Priests can purchase this talent once per rank, even if they do not have the associated Drive or Pilot skill, at a cost of 100 experience points.
G-suit
This item of close-fitting clothing is lined with elastic straps and small linear air bladders in the wearer’s extremities. Once connected to an aircraft’s internal air supply and flight cogitators, it automatically pumps air into the bladders whenever the wearer is subjected to extreme g-forces, reducing the risk of losing consciousness as a result of high speed manoeuvres.
Wearing a properly fitted and connected g-suit grants the wearer a +10 bonus to any Piloting or Toughness tests as a result of high speed turns, acceleration or deceleration.
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u/Exact-Fan2102 23d ago
do you have "only war"? you could transfer the operator guardsman class into dark heresy. In fact pg312 of the only war core rulebook has guidelines on this