Interest Check: warhammer 40k arena game

[dakkagor]

So, I've had an idea kicking around for a game set in the arenas of Comorragh (think a cross between Unreal Tournament and Roman gladiators) where players would be humans and aliens collected from across the 40k galaxy to fight for the amusement of the Drukhari. Can you work together and escape, can you even survive? Character gen would be quite limited in terms of equipment and cybernetics, but quite broad in playable races available. The idea I have for the wyche cult who own the arena is that they have a speciality in staging 'historical' battles so they collect a broad array of different xenos beasts to 'recreate' these epic moments of barbarian history.

[Azazeal849]

To make an ork or an eldar...hmm, decisions, decisions.

Currently leaning eldar just because I never got to fully explore the concept of War Masks and split personalities back in Treasures - though this time it'd be an eldar who is staying in his War Mask for an extended period of time, because it's the only way not to instantly break in Commorragh...but does that make him a threat to his allies, and will he even be able to take the Mask off again after so long?

[PaintSerf]

Interested. Very, very interested. Waaagh.

[Jarms48]

I’d be tempted to try and make a Tau character. An Eldar, an Ork, and a Tau walk into an arena… sounds like the start of a bad joke.

[Azazeal849]

A Tau being forced to fight gladiator-style is definitely a bad joke

[Jarms48]

A Tau being forced to fight gladiator-style is definitely a bad joke

Not as crazy as you might think! Aun'Shi (short story) had him captured by the DE and forced to fight in the arenas. I didn't have an ethereal in mind for my character though.