Statting a Bloodletter for my Rogue Trader game

Those of you who have read the write-up of my last Rogue Trader session (available here for anyone who hasn't read it and is interested) will be aware that the spaceship Venerus was being "haunted" by a warp phenomenon that was feeding off the fear and mistrust of those on board and using it to create illusions and phantasms that created more fear (thus beginning a vicious feeding cycle); during an aborted mutiny lead by Confessor Cornelius (Emperor rest his soul) the fear and distrust onboard rose to such levels that the phenomenon was able to pierce the barrier between the real world and the warp, summoning forth a Bloodletter of Khorne onboard the ship.

The Rogue Trader game (in my opinion) isn't big on random combats and we try to make sure that any combats that do occur are part of the narrative or that relate to the stories/plots unfolding rather than being just random dice-fests; I had decided how the Bloodletter fit into the story before the last session but hadn't anticipated the mutiny (and the resultant fear it caused) allowing a daemon to be summoned so quickly. With the session approaching I turned my thoughts to statting the creature.

Since the daemon is unlikely to be a recurring villain and they are portrayed very much as demonic footsoldiers in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, I decided to use the generation guidelines for Nameless NPCs from the FATE core rulebook and make the NPC of Good quality (since I want it to be a challenge. The guidelines in the book advise the following for such an NPC:

• Aspects: One or two.
• Skills: One Good (+3), one Fair (+2) and one or two Average (+1)
• Stress: Two stress boxes.

Deciding on the Aspects was fairly easy, the first being the stock phrase of every Khornate cultists and creature the universe-over "Blood for the Blood God"; for the second I decided to create an Aspect that I thought could cover the resilience given to them by their God and the protection from sorcery, "Blessed by Khorne."

The skills were pretty easy to decide on, given it Fighting +3, Physique +2, Intimidation +1 and Notice +1; however I also needed to consider what equipment I was going to give the daemon, reading through the details about them great mention is made of the creatures Hellblade which slices through armour and flesh alike. Consulting my Rogue Trader FATE hack I decided that the nearest equivalent for the Hellblade was to give a melee weapon the Power Weapon stunt (final stats Harm 1 Penetration 1); I also wanted to give some thought to armour for the creature, since one of the images that has always stuck with me when thinking about khornate entities is the image of iron and brass, and the ornate armour turning enemies blows aside.

I eventually decided to give the creature a standard armour +2 to defence but without any of the associated penalties and named it "Skin of Blood and Brass."

The final stat block for the creature looks like this:

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Bloodletter

Aspects: "Blood for the Blood God", "Blessed by Khorne"

Skills: Fighting (Good +3), Physique (Fair +2), Intimidation & Notice (Average +1)

Stress: [] [] [] 

Weapon - Hellblade: Harm 1 Penetration 1 (functions similar to a power weapon)

Armour - Skin of blood and brass: Defence 2 Physique mod 0 Athletics/fighting mod 0 

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