History TabletopGame / BlackCrusade

* NonActionGuy: The ready availability of combat-capable Minions makes this a more viable build option in ''Black Crusade'' than in the other 40k roleplaying games. A player can easily build his Heretic to be the EvilGenius or DarkChick, whose only viable option in combat is to hide under the nearest rock until the shooting stops, and so long as the Heretic has a Minion or two around to serve as a bodyguard, that player will still have something to do in combat and need not worry about being left out. The inverse of this is also true, and a Traitor Space Marine may have a non-action minion to represent him in situations where being an obviously super-human hulking mutant SuperSoldier in PowerArmor would be more of a liability than a help, like during an infiltration scenario.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[TheHeretic Defy the laws of the Imperium]]. [[CompleteMonster Scorn the laws of morality]]. [[AlienGeometries Shatter the laws of physics]].]]

* SuperOCD: Characters can develop this. Followers of Tzeentch manifest it as a paralyzing fear of contamination, while followers of Slaanesh can't focus unless something is "just right".
** Plaguebarers tend to get like this, hence the nickname "Tallymen". Enough of the person whose death [[WasOnceAMan created them]] remains to desire some sense of order in the Warp, so they count, well, everything. It doesn't get anywhere fast, but Plaguebarers try anyway.

* NonActionGuy: The ready availability of combat-capable Minions makes this a more viable build option in ''Black Crusade'' than in the other 40k roleplaying games. A player can easily build his Heretic to be TheSmartGuy or TheChick (or the EvilGenius or DarkChick, as the case may be), whose only viable option in combat is to hide under the nearest rock until the shooting stops, and so long as the Heretic has a Minion or two around to serve as a bodyguard, that player will still have something to do in combat and need not worry about being left out. The inverse of this is also true, and a Traitor Space Marine may have a non-action minion to represent him in situations where being an obviously super-human hulking mutant SuperSoldier in PowerArmor would be more of a liability than a help, like during an infiltration scenario.

* LethalLavaLand: The Burning Tomb, a planet where the landmass is ever shifting as ground is constantly subsumed into and solidified out of the lava flows that pour across the surface. Tribes of humans eek out a meager nomadic existence here, subsisting on what few grubs they can find in the volcanic soil. All of them wear tattered cloths from a variety of places, but none can remember who they were or how they got there. Tall, [[MagmaMan semi-humanoid shapes formed of molten rock]] rise out of the lava to pour their flaming fury on anyone nearby, and they are the bane of the wretches trapped there. Sorcerers claim that the the lava flows seen from orbit resemble Chaos sigils, and are sure deciphering them would lead to great understanding of the Ruinous Powers, but a comprehensible pattern never ''quite'' seems to occur.
* LighterAndSofter: Compare Black Crusade to the "Tome of Corruption" for ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'', and it makes being a Chaos follower much more viable. There are fewer mutations overall, but the main ones cut were the pointless or "gotcha!" mutations, such as instantly becoming a [[AndIMustScream Chaos Spawn]], or being reduced to a mindless drone, or having one's facial features rearrange themselves.

* TheBaroness: The example Daemon Prince in the book was a corrupt Imperium aristocrat who was obsessed with self-mastery and mastery over others. Eventually, she grew so confident that she summoned a [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Keeper of Secrets]] into her own body in the belief [[SuicidalOverconfidence she could absorb it into her soul to extend her life]]... [[SubvertedTrope and she]] [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu was right]]. And then when she got old and decrepit again, she did the whole thing over again. ''[[UpToEleven Twice]]''. She was about to do it a fourth time when Slaanesh himself showed up and [[SuperEmpowering turned her into a daemon prince]] out of genuine respect (and as a StealthInsult to his own Greater Daemons for their inability to stand up to her).

* CrapsackWorld: The Screaming Vortex. [[UpToEleven The]] ''[[UpToEleven entire]]'' [[UpToEleven Screaming Vortex.]] Virtually every planet in the Screaming Vortex is this in some form or another.

** The current ruler of the daemon world Contrition is a Daemon Princess known as the Mistress of Spite. On top of being [[LargeAndInCharge appropriately sized]] for her status, she's an... ''[[UpToEleven impressive]]'' example of this trope.

** Mire is a fetid, clammy planet of swamps and endless plains of sucking mud, where grim, ghoulish packs of starving cannibals grub through the stinking mudflats for sustenance, feverishly slaughtering each other over the smallest grub or root, greedily ripping open the bellies of their foes to devour their still-warm organs. It was virus-bombed in a failed attempted at Extermanatus millennia ago, but the attempt was interrupted before it could be finished. The remains of the Life-Eater virus mutated and remain embedded in the soil of the planet, which is why decomposition is much faster there, with life rarely able to thrive faster than it can decay.

** Mire became a CrapsackWorld after Nurgle saved it from an [[EarthShatteringKaboom Exterminatus]]. It used to be a lot more lush.

** Melancholia is a windswept planet beset by eternal hailstorms and driving rains, where some daemonic perversion of natural law means that no stone may be set upon another, forcing the inhabitants to never find any respite from the cold misery and drudgery. At the same time, each and every mortal soul has a heart to make a Slaanesh worshipper blush, burning with lust and the desire for blood, dampened by the eternal cold misery. Champions from Melancholia make the cruelest, most bloodthirsty and most imaginatively blasphemous champions of the Ruinous Powers in all existence.