Not an Emperor

My Dark Heresy campaign is moving along in that I've come up with a name for it and a name for the first adventure. I spent most of yesterday using Photoshop to put together a wallpaper for the campaign so every time I my PC on I can focus on what I need to focus on. It reminds me of Bioshock, which is fine because I'm certain that space travel in the WH40K universe should feel like being trapped in an underwater city of the damned and the insane.

I also sketched, scanned, and coloured an illustration of the surface Tephaine, the first planet on which the Acolytes will be set an assignment. The Tephaine image was the one that took me the longest. Ideally I would want an oily, watery sky with perhaps a single beam of sunlight breaking through the turbulent skies and jagged forks of lightning striking the mountains and hives on the horizon. Since there is no background information of Tephaine, all I had was the knowledge that it is a hive world. So I worked quite a lot on its background (there is still plenty to do) and now it has become a storm-wracked hell on which the deadly lightning storms never cease.

If you want to see how the pictures came out, then the Dark Heresy campaign will be called Demise of the Diocletian, and the first assignment will be Trapped on Tephaine.

Inspired by the likes of the Ordo Malleus fansite, I was thinking of making a small website for the Dark Heresy campaign. Something a little more detailed and interesting than my Dungeons and Dragons page on my GooglePages website.

I'm still finishing the Dark Heresy core rulebook, and some of it is heavy stuff, but I've also borrowed the Eisenhorn trilogy from Nick because it's a book I've been longing to read and since I'm going to be throwing a Dark Heresy campaign I think it's probably a good idea to read some Inquisitorial adventures.

On top of that, I caved in and bought The Witcher Enchanced Edition and that comes with a short story as well! It has a manual which should be studied and even a small game guide. That's alongside the maps, soundtrack, music inspired by the game, and a making of DVD. I've played The Witcher up until about the point at which the demo siezes up and asks you to buy the full version.

Oh and last night I traipsed down to town with the guys to see the Hastings bonfire. I'm sure the bonfire gets smaller every year, but the fireworks were pretty good. Some of them shook the teeth in your head with the force of their detonations.

Nothing entertains mankind as much as fire and explosions, right?