We revealed loads of incredible stuff at Gen Con over the weekend, including a new Kill Team boxed set and a Khorne team for Blood Bowl. We also saw some upcoming Necromunda releases, and now it’s time for a closer look at The Book of the Outcast.
This new supplement includes masses of background for the forgotten of Necromunda – the disenfranchised who’ve fallen between the cracks of the rival Houses – explaining who these outcasts are and how they’ve ended up in this hopeless situation.
The best thing about the Book of the Outcast is how flexible it is – it comes with loads of different ways to represent the dregs of Necromundan society or the fallen elements of its upper crust.
You can build outlaw gangs with all sorts of cool origin stories, formed around a charismatic leader you can build in a ton of different ways. Perhaps you want to make a gang solely of no-name, no-hope outcasts. For those of you who possess a more defiant nature, rebel cadres led by rebel luminaries like the mysterious Lady Credo or the legendary Kal Jericho might be your thing.
That scope stretches to weirder set-ups, too. From gangs formed around the psychic emanations of a charismatic Wyrd leader, through ex-Guilders* and those forced into hiding by their former Clan House, to outcast scions of Noble or even Fallen Houses, you can get seriously narrative with this new book. What’s more, it opens access up to all the brilliant dramatis personae released by Forge World over the years. This means that you can take a bunch of outcasts, add a character of your choice, and you’ve got a gang ready to create its own underhive legend.
Talking of Wyrds, the Book of the Outcast includes a major update allowing you to unleash psychic powers across the underhive. There are now seven disciplines that give you plenty of options when it comes to choosing which variety of mind bullets you want to unleash on your enemies.
Psykers not your style? Why not add an Underhive Trader to your roster? This is a new kind of Hanger-on available to any gang.
As well as gang-specific tactics, scenarios, and dramatis personae, the Book of the Outcast features a new Outlanders campaign. This is a new narrative campaign that sees your Outlaw gang try to create a functioning settlement within the ruins that they find themselves in. Will you take your place among the settlements of the hive, or will you be crushed beneath the boot of Lord Helmawr?
This is just a taste of the Book of the Outcast, which includes a plethora of new options that can add even more depth to your Necromunda games and campaigns. We’ll have more information on the book soon, along with a detailed look at the new Underhive Outcasts Gang and the Underhive Market kit. In the meantime, join us over on the Necromunda Facebook page to let us know what your outcast gang backstory will be.
* You could build your gang around the Nautica Syphoning Delegation or the Sanguis Slaver Entourage, for example.