Quote Originally Posted by Lord Herman View Post
I hear people saying the Ascension supplement should be avoided at all costs. Why exactly? I like the idea of the characters eventually growing beyond the position of Acolyte and becoming Inquisitors and the like, but I take it this isn't handled very well in Ascension?
Many of the powers are broken. Fairly weak Adeptus Arbites learns to be so commanding and awesome that everyone has to obey their orders, and they can pick a talent which makes heretics even more susceptible to those orders than loyal citizens already are. An assassin can dodge pretty much anything short of a nuclear blast multiple times per turn (and some would argue that yes, he can dodge anything, including nuclear blasts). Psykers can more or less think people out of existence with their powers (and this is a very small exagerration).