Unless the guy pops a boner when he kills something rare, your players are 99% likely to think you're not portraying a Slaaneshi cultist right. I wish people would remember it's about excess in all things, not just sex.

if he does it for pleasure and takes HUGE PRIDE in his hunting skills and trophies then he's Slaaneshi all the way. that said Khornates are not mindless killers, they're efficient murdermachines

>>3410491
if they whine you can always claim he's a drug addict, that'll silence them. use a fancy name like adoraphine or smooturbine

I can see Slaanesh fitting him quite nicely. Maybe he started out as a more typical game hunter, but in a completely linear and horribly cliched fashion, he got bored and had to go bigger and bigger, and now a complete adrenaline junkie, is on a galactic quest to nail the Perfect Kill, a hunt for the most dangerous, most competent and challenging prey, an ecstatic rush of elation at success. Maybe he comes to the conclusion, after the party outwits him on occasion, that the Inquisitor behind the PCs is the perfect hunt, and naturally, since the PC's work for the inquisitor, they must be exterminated piecemeal, with the inquisitor himself the crowning trophy on the mantel.

and how about the demon-rifle does something terrifyingly slaaneshi to his target? like being hit by a demon bullet causes the victim to be overcome with intense, screaming euphoria, erupting with rapturous moaning when the hunter moves in to finish off the kill.

If he hunts for the challenge, for the thrill of combat and he will acknowledge a worthy opponent with respect, he is Khornate. If he hunts to boast of his skills and takes unnerving amounts of pleasure in hunting his enemy down and killing them, he is Slaaneshi. Basically, if he's likely to start yelling or giggling every time he shoots someone, he's Slaaneshi. If he's more likely to nod with satisfaction and start looking for the next one, he's a Khorne fan.

>>3410482
make him a follower of tzeetch, his rifle's scope allows him to scry for his target's location. his game is that he makes really complicated traps that end up driving his prey into a final area that he sets up as a maze like area that he stalks his prey in.

setting off a trap is really simple, but the traps themselves are complicated and are designed to kill weaker prey while allowing smarter, stronger prey to escape through a set route that leads even closer to the heart of the maze.

make him a follower of slaanesh that has two empowered items, a goblet that when filled with the heart blood of a sentient creature killed by the goblet's owner, converts the blood to a drug that both enhances the imbibers abilities and also creates an euphoric effect.

the second is a gun that fires bullets that have mouths at the tips of them, the mouths open up seconds before impact and impale the target with a hollow tongue that digs directly to the injured creatures heart, and at the same time the mouths bite down on the skin, leaving a love bite like mark surrounding a tiny puncture wound.

the hunter enjoys raping or torturing his victims, depending upon their gender and attractiveness, while the blood is being drained from them since sensations experienced at the last moments taint the blood adding spice to the drug.

The problem with the concept is- why would the Inquisition want to hunt your BBEG? He's just some guy killing animals/xenos, right? If he's not harming people, Inq wouldn't probably know about his existence. Maybe he is a part of some big cult of Slaaneshi hunters? Or he's weapon is very powerful artefact that the Inq wants to get their hands on? Maybe as >>3410527 suggested the weapon does some strange things to the targets? A trace of mutated creatures across the sector leads strait to him?

I think I can see where this is going.

Your BBEG, as a Slaaneshi big-game hunter, enjoys the sound of his rifle round as it pummels out of his barrel, and into the hapless flesh of some creature. He enjoys the soft, gasping squelches of the wound as the air rushes in. He savours the pitiful cries and dying moans of his prey as they slowly expire due to bloodloss and/or internal hemorrhage.
But that was only for his first few kills. Over time, with his own experience and the help of the soft, arousing whispering he hears everytime he lowers his head to his riflescope, he seeks more methods of inflicting pain and suffering on his prey. He toys with them, experimenting in new targets. He learns where they are vulnerable, and the effect of each shot on some particular organ or limb. The stomach? A long, lingering death, where the wound is guaranteed to be fatal yet seemingly minor. The knees? They fall helplessly to the ground, their knee joint shattered beyond recognition, leaving them to crawl painfully and agonisingly over the ground, trying to search for some way to survive or escape.
From the moment he spots his prey, to the last, pitiful gasps of life that they take, he takes it all in, tastes it slowly, savouring its nuances and flavours.

In some small corner of his mind, he knows he can never have enough, nor should he keep indulging in such a guilty pleasure, but the soft, comforting whispering in his ear persuades him otherwise...

some great ideas guys
keep them coming

>>3410566
animals aren't a good enough prey, and it is harder for the hunter to get inside the minds of xenos, so he only hunts humans for fun/enjoyment, seeking increasing challenges by working up the food chain in an imperial city, starting with civilians, then PDF then high ranking PDF and IG and going up even higher until you deem it would attract attention.

>>3410566
His weapon is a fucking DAEMON. That's reason enough.

Also, I like Khorme.

>>3410580
He probably started off as a big game hunter, but as per >>3410580 's little story, he relished in observing and enjoying the great variety of human reactions that he caused through grievous wounds on different people and different bodies.

If you wanted to put in the whole 'raging boner' thing so that your PCs will get the subtle Slaaneshi tinge, then you could say he found an irreplaceable lust in seeing people dying, and the fact that he has complete control over how they die and what they die from, it turns his 'hunting' into essentially a masturbation session for himself.

>>3410482
He's not a worshipper of the Chaos Gods. He's a high ranking members of the Beast House, possibly standing by Solkarn Senk's side in terms of the hierarchy. He once possessed the animalistic bloodlust common among the cult's elite, but it's become something much more now. He's now as >>3410580 details, the daemon weapon he came into contact with twisting him into a something that pleases the entity bound within. He's still in control, technically, but his passions are ruled by his weapon. He may not even realise he's being influenced, nor does he put any stock in paying homage to dark gods. Such things are a distraction from the pleasure of the hunt.

>> I want the BBEG of my next DH game to be a big game hunter using some kind of daemon possessed rifle.

I like this idea.

Khorne, long ranged sniping? No thanks

Slaanesh is more likely

Also, see this guy >>3410527

Slaaneshi.

The rifle is a an Eldar ranger rifle, corrupted by the birth of Slaanesh and the scourging of the Eldar.

>>3410664
This actually has some potential. The rifle was a ritual weapon dedicated the Kurnous - Eldar God of the hunt, but when the Slaanesh ate him, Kurnous became part of Slaanesh and the rifle was tainted.

the rifle is a fairly typical, high caliber single action rifle. (rapid fire is unsporting)
rather than firing a conventional round, it shoots a demonic flechette, which is encased in a discarding sabot. The sabot itself is a living demonic entity, and as the projectile travels, the sabot rips apart, screaming in intense pain/pleasure, and dispersing a cloud of soporific musk in its death spasm, which numbs and desensitizes any victim in the vicinity of the projectile's path where the sabot discarded.

The flechette itself is a barbed monstrosity that a dark eldar would be proud of, and is naturally coated in some kind of terrible drug that does something typically slaaneshi to the victim. When the sabot opens up, the barbs deploy, and the flechette itself only penetrates partially into the victim, as the barbs catch and tear on the flesh and halt the momentum of the projectile, the idea being that the victim will attempt to remove the flechette themselves, causing more tissue damage, or even better, allow the hunter himself to remove the barb, torturing the victim as he pleases.

the flechette itself is also a locus for warp activity, as it is a piece of hellforged demon iron manufactured in the eye of terror and quenched in the blood of sacrificial victims. any psyker wounded by a flechette must pass a psychic test (with any negative modifiers included for the sabot's soporific musk) or they will immediately and involuntarily summon a demonic entity (probably daemonette) to the battlefield, erupting into reality out of the sop musk cloud.

This thread is full of great ideas, don't let it die.

>>3410586

Or you know, he probably just gets a kick from killing anyone/anything. Who they were in life doesn't matter.
The dying motions and weak gasps of a young, innocent 12 year old girl with a round in her right lung can be as delightful to his ears as the ragged, hoarse breathing of a grizzled PDF veteran with half his neck shot through, blood pouring profusely from the wound, even as he fumbles with his old laspistol, weakly raising it in an attempt to avenge himself.

Then if you add in the whole 'demonic bullets' thing, you could even give more variety to his victim's suffering, with liberal amounts of GRIMDARKness....possible torture-inducing demonically barbed rounds, like >>3410704, or just very Dark Eldarish stuff, like nerve-paralysing poison darts - intense, wracking pain but no death (or a very slow, eventual one), rounds that may cause Slaaneshi mutations - extra limbs, organs, bits, etc; or borrowing an effect from Terry Goodkind's 'Sword of Truth' series, a dart/bullet/round that causes neverending, intense orgasmic pleasure that drains their body of stamina, sanity and willpower until they expire...that's not very subtle though....

and then you could just have fuckmassive firepower for one rifle, like rounds that are demonically augmented and can tear dinner plate-sized holes in people.

You could also go with the whole excessive sensation thing. Like how the Noise Marines indulge in their constant aural overload, the BBEG would deign to take in everything that happens during his orchestrated hunts...the sight, the sound, the tactile feel of his >>3410664 slaanesh-corrupted rifle, the imagined tastes (his victim's blood, their pale, dying flesh, or even the lingering smell of gunpowder after firing), basically he learns to enjoy it on the scale of all 5 senses (with some help of the demon, of course)

>>3410664
or like an overpowered shuriken catapult?

>>3410946
LOLI HAET SLAANESH

>>3410697
>>3410664

THIS IDEA OFFICIALLY STOLEN

>>3410958
>>3410697
>>3410704
maybe something like an eldar rifle pre-dating shuriken catapults but working using similar technology - shooting a single metal spike on great distances - a pre-fall eldar hunting rifle equivalent , that was dedicated to eldar hunter god but was corrupted by slaanesh during the fall

Rifles are phallic symbols and people connect Slaanesh to sex by default.

Play this up. Give him a bayonet because they're cool and have him fuck things with it, drawing pleasure from every stab of his weapon as though it were his own cock plunging into warm wounded flesh. He orgasms every time a shot lands.

To placate your own pandering to the misidea that Slaanesh is only sex, make him a raging alcoholic. He keeps himself sober by taking some special stimulant or other roughly equivalent to cocaine that gives the disinhibitive effects of the alcohol leeway to remain while eliminating the lack of coordination. Have him take it in such quantities that he would die not of the side effects, but of drug toxicity, if not for the blessing of Slaanesh.

Have him hunt endangered species for the purpose of completely wiping them out--excess in demonstration of dominance.

>>3411049

Wouldn't extinction be more of a 'change' priority?

>>3410566
A radical Inquisitor could want the weapon.
A puritan Inquisitor could want it destroyed.

>>3411059
In and of itself, probably. Not necessarily with him behind it. Intent > Abstract.

Drugs. Make him do cocaine. In many primitive cultures hunters imbibe psychoactive substances ranging from nicotine to cocaine to sharpen their senses and make them better hunters.

Just do it

Poofters

For christ's sake, don't have your BBEG jizzing in his pants and fucking things with his rifle. That's the sort of stuff you reserve for your pissant cultists, not an NPC (I presume) you want your players to take seriously.

Perhaps he could be a radical member of the Ordo Xenos, whose cruel hunting techniques have brought him cloder and closer to total corruption? That might allow you to introduce him as an NPC or even -shock horror - the employer of the PC's.

>>3411097
You shouldn't take Slaaneshi servants seriously. That's the appeal of Slaanesh.

>>3411141
Sorry, I would rather have my Slaaneshi cultists as something other than walking innuendo machines.

>>3411144
This. Some idiot cultist may act like that, sure, but the ones that survive and prosper are more insidious and all the more terrible in their obsessions and perversions. And if you can make your players feel genuinely disgusted by what's going on then you've made a memorable villain.

If you want a Tzeentchian emphasis, perhaps you could play on the 'Chaotic' aspect of Chaos by borrowing the concept of the "Lazy Guns" from "Against A Dark Background". The Lazy Guns are a unique group of artefacts which are notorious for being "the only weapons with a sense of humour" - if you shoot someone, they don't just get ventilated by a bullet, they die in comically inventive ways. A one-ton weight materialises out of nowhere and drops on the victim; a swarm of killer bees sweep up from the ground and sting him to death; he receives the sudden irresistible compulsion to dance the Cancana off of a cliff; and so on and so forth.

A more mundane wayto represent Tzeentch would be for the wielder of an ordinary rifle to repeat a mantra to himself every time he claims a target - it's the most fundamental Change of them all.Once he was alive... and now he is dead!

>>3411144
>>3411156

I guess you guys have shitty humour and fantasy than, aye?

Since when do silly villains mean stupid innuendo jokes? Doomrider, a joke. Lucius, a joke. They are jokes, but nicely done subtle jokes. Lrn240kjoke.

>>3411400
Dark Heresy tends to be a bit more SERIOUS BUSINESS than 40k in general. You can still run a jokey game, but the focus is less on "Everything up to 11" and more on "perilous tasks and grim consequences."

>>3411156

The ture elements of disgust aren't the abstract comparative level of injury caused, but about how personal you make it feel to the players. nobody will be impressed by mister-raped-hundreds-to-death-in-backstory, but the guy who manipulates his own daughter into becoming the willing sacrifice for a daemon through a decade of every kind of abuse described in loving detail by the girl as she bleeds out on the pulsing marble slab will enrage them.

As a curve ball to throw Acolytes off the Slaanesh angle, you could give the dude a (long-suffering) wife, but who he has rarely - if ever - consummated his marriage with. Given that they will presumably think Slaanesh = LOL KNOBBLY DILDOS this may cause them to overlook him as an agent of that particular Ruinous Power, initially... But then, later on, she will tell the PCs that only during the hunt does he find any solace, any... pleasure.

>>3411400
...
NA NA NA NA NA I DO COCAINE is hardly subtle.
Funny as fuck, but hardly subtle.

any idea how the guy would look like?
pic probably related

>>3411489
I was talking about the GW Doomrider, not the /tg/ Doomrider.

>>3411430
You can make jokes even within a serious game. Just adjust the jokes to the seriousness of the game. I do however suggest that you work the jokes out, instead of making them up on the fly...

>>3411400
If you want to go by the background, I don't think anyone actually remembers Doomrider's background.
Lucius however, isn't a joke. He is the ultimate sadist and the ultimate masochist. He doesn't kill everyone with tank-busting hip-thrusts or beat them senseless with his massive cock. He's just a sick and twisted little monkey and there's nothing funny about him.

You just seem to be treating everything in 40K as though it's a bad joke. Not taking the game seriously is a good thing, I understand that but you're going a little too far with that.

>>3411525
Easily done and explained.

Look up the Praetorian Guard. Imperial Guard based on old colonial British army.

>>3411525
I see your Van Pelt, and rise you a Kraven

The BBEG doesn't have to worship any of the Big Four, just Chaos by itself which is the most common way to go.

The Big Four are really high-level in 40k, and Chaos is a lot more abstract and weird than Codex: Demons would have you believe.

>>3411532
The pride-thing is the joke. Like some ancient medieval comedy with morale. You see my point now?

Where has plain old Chaos gone? These days, everyone's just worshipping a single god. What's happened to people worshipping the Great Beast as an entire entity?

>>3411553

>>3410513
>>3410491

Trying too hard to make non-decadent Slaanesh. True, it's about excess in all things, not just one particular obsession.

And it's as much about the style as it is about the idea of excess. If it isn't amazingly baroque and painted pastel colours, it's not Slaanesh.

>>3411553
>>3411569
I see your Kravens, and I rise you a Dundee.

I think he should be covered in scars... he uses the rifle to bring stuff down, then finishes it up close with a knife so he can feel the spray of the blood, the last breath, etc.

>>3411544
>Easily done and explained.
Not as easy as one might expect:
Praetoria -Bakka Sector ,Segmentum Tempestus

Calixis sector -Segmentum Obscurus
the other side of the galaxy

>>3411696
Say that some Praetorians were part of the Angevinian Crusade and settled on a world in the Calixis Sector. Their culture was kept alive as a point of pride over the centuries, and now you have Praetorian-brand humans in Dark Heresy.

>>3411623
>Do you want to know why I use a knife? Guns are too quick. You can’t savor all of the…little…emotions. You see, in their…last moments, people show you who they really are.

>>3411033
So basically predator spear gun made by eldar and corrupted by chaos?

Just throwing this out there - if you plan on going Slaanesh, perhaps make him employ certain traps. Bear traps and spiked snares etc all seem pretty damn painful, and it would really get the point across if he seemed to enjoy torturing the animals he catches. Dont have him kill them instantly. Have him start to carve up the creatures while they're still alive.

>>3411754
Well Orion - the WHFB avatar of Kurnous is armed with a Spear of Kurnous, so I just 40k-ed this into a Spear-gun.

>>3411763
Not sure about bear traps- I always presumed that it would tear human leg off and make you loose conciousness from the pain-no much prolonged suffering just unconsciousness and death from blood loss.

one of the best DH threads for a while...anybody knows how to archive it?

>>3412563
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3410482/

Done

>>3410946

>You could also go with the whole excessive sensation thing. Like how the Noise Marines indulge in their constant aural overload, the BBEG would deign to take in everything that happens during his orchestrated hunts...the sight, the sound, the tactile feel of his >>3410664 slaanesh-corrupted rifle, the imagined tastes (his victim's blood, their pale, dying flesh, or even the lingering smell of gunpowder after firing), basically he learns to enjoy it on the scale of all 5 senses (with some help of the demon, of course)

Thinking more about this, perhaps he has a small squadron of very stealthy servo-skulls that he uses to record every aspect of his hunt and the kill. For perusal later.

I suggest you research old timey serial killers. He shouldn't be your standard slaaneshi burned out hippy kill sex lunatic, he should be completly hollow, calm, boring, and dull to the PC's. But when he starts hunting.. Thats when the slaneeshi turns up. Here are a few of my favorite words from some old timey serial killers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish
Read his letters, thats pure slaaneshi right their.
Except for maybe forgetting to rape the little dead girl.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes

>WarHams

>>3410482
Khorne could work too, Khorne isnt all about SLAUGHTER, and someone who hunts and kills challenging things would be a welcome addition to the blood god's flock

Either one would work I think

Chaos Undivided faggot