Adrius

I've moved away from the kind of game that has a planned plot and requires players to know a lot of rules. Many players put in as little effort as possible, to the point of not reading rules and not giving notice of a failure to show.

If you feel you need to invest in characters I'd advise only doing it for players who consistently show up.

If I was a player in this game I would stop going. It punishes committed players to put them at the mercy of the uncommitted.

I'll send you an update once it's done. My group rotates GMs and systems but within a few months I'll have them doing Gradient Descent.

I'm prepping a one-shot with Fangelsehala and a longer campaign with Mothership.

They'd need to be able to boost our morale with the litanies of hate. I did play in the Deathwatch RPG though which has a Chaplain class.

The worst part of this is the "This is part of the story"

Sounds horrible tbh. A big part of the hobby is meeting new friends. This sounds like a good way to become socially isolated and depressed.

In my personal experience that's much more difficult

If this happens, the RPG is too complex for that player. Play a simpler system.

I ran a game of "Index Card RPG" with the setting "Blood & Snow". The setting includes an adventure seed where Cavemen have to search for ancient relic pillars every generation to stop an Ice Age. I never told my players, but in my mind we were playing a Warhammer 40k game and this was a world a space marine chapter used to recruit those who were strong enough.

Warlock is a rules-light version of warhammer fantasy roleplay. The core dice mechanic is d20+skill. Combat rolls are opposed rolls, sword vs mace skills for example. It uses the career system from wfrp so characters start as something like rat catcher and change careers to advance. If you like the warhammer old world but don't want a crunchy game, I'd recommend it.