N18 Venator Hunt Leader Wyrd Powers

[CookieMountaineer]

What's yakkers consensus on the use of psyker hunt leaders with the rules from the new apocrypha list from Broke and Bonedry?
Nowhere in the PDF is there an option to turn a hunt leader into a psyker but there wasn't in the original list either. It's in the book of the outcasts.
"Bounty Hunters and Venator Hunt Leaders (see
Necromunda: The Book of Peril) can be upgraded
when hired to have the Sanctioned Psyker or Non-
sanctioned Psyker special rule (as chosen by the
player) for +35 credits."

Would you say this still applies? Psyker Ogryn Hunt leader anyone?

 

[Aulenback]

I would suggest that the Book of the Outcast rules not being mentioned also means they are not replaced or removed. I would expect that in the next edition* of the Book of the Outcast, that line would instead read "Bounty Hunters and Venator Hunt Leaders (See Apocrypha Necromunda: Bonedry and Broke) can be upgraded"....

That one of the Venator Hunt Leader stat lines is generally below-par except that it includes a Willpower of 5+ suggests that the possibility of a Sanctioned Psyker Venator Leader was still considered when the new Venators list was being built, even. (The Squat Venator Leader would also make a good psyker for the same reason, really. And both are slow, just one with S4 and one with T4.)

I would say it still applies, because I cannot see any real reason why it would not.

 

[Thammut]

At first I missed this choice. A lot.
The more I thought about it, it made sense you do not have this anymore.

Venators are a "legal" (mostly), possible bounty hunter with a house background, well put together, group of people with good resources . It would make sense if a psyker from a background like that, would not be running around the Underhives, killing off scummers. They would be in training somewhere snapped up by the Imperium, or taken to the Golden Throne etc.

Where as a Psyker Outcast would be just that, a Psyker in hiding, possibly already a criminal or lowly out cast scum, a probably unsanctioned psyker.

The more I thought about that, the more sense it made to me. I am happy to lose that one choice, for more choices ultimately.

Like it has been said above, we may well get the choice back oneday. Maybe even ask an Arbitrator if you can just add 35 credits cost to your leader and make him a psyker if you miss it a lot? House rules can be the way to more fun after all I guess. And thats what this is about innit?

 

[TopsyKretts]

But isn't Ortruum 8-8 exactly that? A sanctioned ("legal") psyker and a bounty hunter killing off scummers in the underhive?

There is no shortage of sanctioned bounty hunter psykers in Necromunda!

Adding the psyker option to Venator in N21 Outcast was a deliberate choice, not an oversight. Forgetting to re-apply it in this pdf may very well be an oversight. Or it was deliberately omitted because adding stuff about psykers, referencing a 4 year old book would confuse players? Or it was simply forgotten in the myriad of scattered rules. Or it was omitted with the intention of removing the option. If the intention was to remove the option, it is done extremely poorly.

 

[Aulenback]

It was likely left out because it wasn't mentioned in the ORIGINAL pdf or the Book of Peril either. It was (and remains) in the Book of the Outcast, which would be an awfully recent book to decide to invalidate without mention.