[Cultist Update] In Nomine Populi - Talents of the Helots

Hi cultists,

your second favourite 20-something Thousand Sons obsessed content creator (after Vezimira of course), is here to give you yet another update on In Nomine Populi.

Today's update was mainly focusing on finishing up the alignments, starting equipment and corruption, but also new Talents.

After getting some great input from beloved community member Mondscheinkätzchen on the discord, I've scaled back the Talent Advancement costs I described in the previous update, to be less steep compared to vanilla Black Crusade ones.

I'm pretty happy with them as they are now, but am always open for constructive criticism and communication feedback in that regard.

Now as we come from the Talent cost, let's talk about the new Talents! In Nomine Populi 0.1 will come out with 21 new talents, of which we have 13 of the all new Tier 0 Talents.

Tier 0 Talents are mostly there to give flavour and significant low level advantages, but also almost always entail some drawback. In game design terms, we are speaking of loaned power spikes, given that the gains at the beginning are significant, but the drawbacks add compound cost as the game progresses and other options become harder.

Other talents will significantly change the way your character is even supposed to be played, and must be applied to character creation. Given XP cost increases and lower starting XP, it's hard to get to those without taking Maladies.


Now, the last part that's missing, is Item Acquisition. Given the low power level and thus severely limited power of Infamy, a total rework of the Acquisition system is in the works. Of that, I'm also almost finished, just don't have anything show-able just yet. I reckon that I might get finished with it all this weekend, and release In Nomine Populi 0.1 to my cultists on like December 22th, December 23rd. The rest will of course get the stuff on December 24th. :D


Alrighty, I'll be heading off now. See you tomorrow for the next update!


- Ryjza