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Warhammer 40,000 (40k), by Games Workshop, is a line of far future tabletop games, and their associated setting.

Warhammer 40,000 is a line of games by Games Worshop, originating with the Warhammer: 40,000 Rogue Trader miniatures game. It has expanded to include a variety of board games, card games, and miniatures wargames, as well as Fantasy Flight Games' series of Roleplaying games, all set in the same setting.

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What is a Standard Template Construct?

So, Standard Template Constructs. The new trilogy of Warhammer 40K books are deliberately vague about what STCs are, exactly, which is certainly cool for purposes of piquing peoples' interests and makes sense story-wise since pretty much no one has…
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Is exiting the Warp inside a solar system as catastrophic as entering it from inside one?

In Warhammer 40k, the established canon requires that a ship attempting to enter the Warp must travel outside of a solar system before activating its warp drive. It is accepted that attempting to jump before reaching the "safe zone" would result in,…
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How long do Dark Eldar live for?

We're playing a Dark Heresy/Rogue Trader RP, and we have recently come across what remains of a Dark Eldar attack. All were dead, fairly fresh, but no way to tell how old the corpses were. However, we did come across a Mandrake at one point, it was…
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What effect does the warp have?

In our game, we have entered an area that (not confirmed) has been affected by the warp. The main discrepancy is there are 3 different things, happening in different time frames; at the same time. I'll explain: Event 1: There is an epic battle…
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Would it be worthwhile handing a Servant of the Emperor back to the Inquisition?

After some investigation and thought on the subject I hope this question is within the bounds of what I can ask... So here goes: I am wondering what the outcome would be for dealing with the return of a Gene-Seed and (if there is any) a suit of…
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Can the Dark Eldar Be be aligned with Chaos?

I saw this picture today (great piece imo), which sparked a thought; Can/would Dark Eldar align with Chaos? Dark Eldar: Mark of Nurgle by Beckjann By my understanding, they hate Chaos just as much as any other Imperial fella, right? What's the…
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Can Dark Eldar hide their signatures?

In the events of our game, we have come across several situations where blips have come up on our scanners, for a split second, and then vanished. One such occurrence was on our ship's radar, looking for signatures of other active ships in the…
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What are abjurations and how do they work?

So... I got into WH40k and I've noticed something called 'abjurations' being described a lot in the lore. Can anyone explain these daemon repelling ward-generating magical words to me? I can't find anything in giving a concrete answer as to what…
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Are all descendants of a Heretic Gene-seed corrupt?

We have come across a dead Space Marine, Gene-seed apparently still intact (no holes to say it was removed), and for the most part, the party says they want to retrieve the seed and return it to the Chapter for brownie points. However, from the…
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What's a good insult for a Tech Priest to say to a non-mechanical entity?

I have found myself with my crew in an unfortunate circumstance, and it has developed to the point of high tensions, when everything and anything could go wrong if handled... indelicately. However before you go ranting on about "Why the hell would…
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