{
  "conversion_type": "homebrew_rebuild_from_existing_sheet",
  "system": "Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Deathwatch",
  "conversion_status": "playable_homebrew",
  "source_character": {
    "name": "Brother Octavius",
    "player_name": "Chris",
    "chapter": "Ultramarines",
    "original_specialty": "Deathwatch Tactical Marine",
    "rank": 1,
    "chapter_demeanour": "Favoured Son",
    "personal_demeanour": "Pious"
  },
  "converted_character": {
    "name": "Reclusiarch-Brother Octavius",
    "preferred_short_name": "Brother Octavius",
    "player_name": "Chris",
    "chapter": "Ultramarines",
    "specialty": "Deathwatch Chaplain",
    "rank": 1,
    "status": "homebrew_conversion",
    "archetype": "leadership_support_melee_presence",
    "chapter_demeanour": "Favoured Son",
    "personal_demeanour": "Pious",
    "role_summary": "A battlefield spiritual leader focused on morale, command presence, hatred of the xenos, and close-quarters shock leadership.",
    "past_event": "Octavius earned the Deathwatch's notice when he held a broken boarding line against xenos terror tactics, reciting the Catechism of Hate until scattered brothers rallied and countercharged.",
    "power_armour_history": "His black Chaplain plate carries an Ultramarines pauldron beneath Deathwatch silver, with purity seals layered over old breach scars from a void-hulk action.",
    "description": "A stern Ultramarines Chaplain whose calm voice becomes absolute command under fire. He reads doubt as a wound and treats it with doctrine, presence, and the crozius."
  },
  "identity_and_theme": {
    "core_fantasy": "A stern, doctrinally grounded Ultramarines Chaplain who inspires allies, condemns the alien, and leads from the front.",
    "battlefield_role": [
      "moral anchor",
      "leader",
      "anti-fear presence",
      "melee support",
      "discipline enforcer"
    ],
    "personality_notes": [
      "Measured and doctrinal rather than wild or ecstatic",
      "Pious fits extremely well for a Chaplain conversion",
      "Favoured Son also still fits because an Ultramarines Chaplain can embody Codex orthodoxy and Imperial idealism"
    ]
  },
  "deathwatch_context": {
    "reason_for_secondment": "Octavius was retained by the Deathwatch as a doctrinal anchor after proving able to hold a kill-team together under fear, xenos deception, and command stress.",
    "kill_team_role": "Spiritual authority, morale support, anti-fear presence, command pressure, and melee-led leadership.",
    "personal_hook": "He believes every mission is also a test of purity, and he watches for weakness in himself as harshly as in his brothers."
  },
  "characteristics": {
    "weapon_skill": 45,
    "ballistic_skill": 45,
    "strength": 49,
    "toughness": 49,
    "agility": 32,
    "intelligence": 45,
    "perception": 46,
    "willpower": 45,
    "fellowship": 48
  },
  "derived": {
    "wounds": {
      "total": 20,
      "current": null
    },
    "fatigue": null,
    "fate_points": {
      "total": 4,
      "current": null
    },
    "insanity": {
      "current_points": null,
      "battle_fatigue": null,
      "primarchs_curse": null
    },
    "corruption": {
      "current": null
    },
    "movement": {
      "half": 4,
      "full": 8,
      "charge": 12,
      "run": 24,
      "unit": "meters"
    }
  },
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Awareness",
      "characteristic": "Per",
      "trained": true,
      "source": "original_sheet"
    },
    {
      "name": "Charm",
      "characteristic": "Fel",
      "trained": true,
      "source": "original_sheet"
    },
    {
      "name": "Command",
      "characteristic": "Fel",
      "trained": true,
      "source": "converted_for_chaplain"
    },
    {
      "name": "Common Lore",
      "characteristic": "Int",
      "specialisations": [
        "Adeptus Astartes",
        "Imperium",
        "War"
      ],
      "trained": true,
      "source": "original_sheet"
    },
    {
      "name": "Dodge",
      "characteristic": "Ag",
      "trained": true,
      "source": "original_sheet"
    },
    {
      "name": "Intimidate",
      "characteristic": "Str",
      "trained": true,
      "source": "original_sheet"
    },
    {
      "name": "Scholastic Lore",
      "characteristic": "Int",
      "specialisations": [
        "Codex Astartes",
        "Imperial Creed"
      ],
      "trained": true,
      "source": [
        "original_sheet",
        "converted_for_chaplain"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Inquiry",
      "characteristic": "Fel",
      "trained": true,
      "source": "converted_for_chaplain"
    }
  ],
  "skills_priority_for_ai": {
    "social_leadership": [
      "Command",
      "Charm",
      "Intimidate",
      "Inquiry"
    ],
    "awareness_and_control": [
      "Awareness",
      "Dodge"
    ],
    "knowledge": [
      "Common Lore (Adeptus Astartes)",
      "Common Lore (Imperium)",
      "Common Lore (War)",
      "Scholastic Lore (Codex Astartes)",
      "Scholastic Lore (Imperial Creed)"
    ]
  },
  "talents_and_traits": [
    {
      "name": "Astartes Weapon Training",
      "source": "assumed_space_marine_core"
    },
    {
      "name": "Bulging Biceps",
      "source": "assumed_space_marine_core"
    },
    {
      "name": "Heightened Senses (Hearing, Sight)",
      "source": "assumed_space_marine_core"
    },
    {
      "name": "Killing Strike",
      "source": "assumed_space_marine_core"
    },
    {
      "name": "Nerves of Steel",
      "source": "assumed_space_marine_core"
    },
    {
      "name": "Quick Draw",
      "source": "assumed_space_marine_core"
    },
    {
      "name": "Resistance (Psychic Powers)",
      "source": "assumed_space_marine_core"
    },
    {
      "name": "True Grit",
      "source": "assumed_space_marine_core"
    },
    {
      "name": "Unarmed Master",
      "source": "assumed_space_marine_core"
    },
    {
      "name": "Unnatural Strength (x2)",
      "source": "assumed_space_marine_core"
    },
    {
      "name": "Unnatural Toughness (x2)",
      "source": "assumed_space_marine_core"
    },
    {
      "name": "Deathwatch Training",
      "source": "original_sheet"
    },
    {
      "name": "Air of Authority",
      "source": "converted_for_chaplain",
      "note": "Chosen to reflect command presence and spiritual authority."
    },
    {
      "name": "Iron Discipline",
      "source": "converted_for_chaplain",
      "note": "Chosen to reflect morale and battlefield steadiness."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hatred (Xenos)",
      "source": "converted_for_chaplain",
      "note": "Very fitting for Deathwatch identity and Chaplain rhetoric."
    }
  ],
  "removed_or_replaced_from_original": [
    {
      "name": "Bolter Mastery",
      "reason": "Too Tactical-Marine-specific for a true Chaplain rebuild."
    }
  ],
  "chapter_abilities": [
    {
      "name": "Favoured Son",
      "summary": "May re-roll Fellowship Tests when dealing with Space Marines or members of the Imperial armed forces.",
      "source": "original_sheet"
    },
    {
      "name": "Honour the Codex",
      "summary": "An Ultramarines Chaplain expresses doctrine, discipline, and battlefield order through liturgy, ritual, and example.",
      "source": "adapted_from_original_flavour"
    }
  ],
  "chaplain_features": [
    {
      "name": "Litanies of Hate",
      "type": "homebrew_chaplain_rule",
      "summary": "As a Half Action, the Chaplain may invoke a litany. Until the start of his next turn, allies in support range who can hear him gain a morale bonus to resist Fear, Pinning, and intimidation-based effects.",
      "ai_use": "Use before charges, during morale checks, or when xenos terror effects are expected."
    },
    {
      "name": "Voice of the Reclusiam",
      "type": "homebrew_chaplain_rule",
      "summary": "When issuing Command or Intimidate in a combat context, the Chaplain gains a situational bonus if his authority, office, or religious rhetoric is relevant.",
      "ai_use": "Apply during rally attempts, battlefield orders, prisoner intimidation, and morale restoration."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hatred of the Alien",
      "type": "homebrew_chaplain_rule",
      "summary": "Against xenos, the Chaplain is exceptionally forceful in rhetoric and combat presence; GMs may grant situational bonuses in scenes involving denunciation, resolve, or purging zeal.",
      "ai_use": "Best used in Deathwatch-typical anti-xenos scenes."
    }
  ],
  "armour": {
    "name": "Mark VII Power Armour",
    "pattern": "Mark VII",
    "armour_points": {
      "head": 8,
      "body": 8,
      "left_arm": 8,
      "right_arm": 8,
      "left_leg": 8,
      "right_leg": 8
    },
    "power_armour_abilities": [
      "Servo-Augmented Musculature: +20 Strength",
      "Auto-senses: Dark Sight, immune to Photon Flash and Stun Grenades; called shots are Half Actions; +10 to sight and hearing Awareness Tests",
      "Built-in Vox Link",
      "Built-in Magboots",
      "Nutrient Recycling",
      "Recoil Suppression: may fire Basic weapons one-handed without penalty",
      "Size: Hulking (Black Carapace means no bonus for enemies to attack)",
      "Poor Manual Dexterity: -10 penalty to delicate manual tasks unless using equipment designed for Space Marines",
      "Osmotic Gill Life Sustainer: with helmet on, the armour is environmentally sealed"
    ],
    "armour_additions": [
      "Skull helm or Chaplain-styled helm (narrative cosmetic conversion)",
      "Rosarius mount or sanctified warding field emitter (homebrew narrative equipment)"
    ]
  },
  "gear": [
    {
      "name": "Mark VII power armour",
      "source": "original_sheet"
    },
    {
      "name": "Crozius Arcanum",
      "source": "converted_for_chaplain",
      "role": "primary_melee_weapon"
    },
    {
      "name": "Rosarius",
      "source": "converted_for_chaplain",
      "role": "chaplain_iconic_wargear"
    },
    {
      "name": "Bolt pistol",
      "source": "original_sheet"
    },
    {
      "name": "3 frag grenades",
      "source": "original_sheet"
    },
    {
      "name": "3 krak grenades",
      "source": "original_sheet"
    },
    {
      "name": "Combat knife",
      "source": "original_sheet"
    },
    {
      "name": "Reclusiam seals, reliquary tokens, and liturgical parchments",
      "source": "converted_for_chaplain",
      "role": "narrative_identity"
    }
  ],
  "weapons": [
    {
      "name": "Crozius Arcanum",
      "class": "Melee",
      "role": "primary",
      "profile_status": "homebrew_placeholder",
      "notes": [
        "Treat as the Chaplain’s signature power maul/holy weapon equivalent.",
        "Exact official profile not asserted here because this conversion is being built from the existing sheet rather than quoted from a verified source."
      ],
      "ai_behavior": "Preferred when leading charges, dueling priority melee threats, or making ideological statements through combat."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bolt Pistol",
      "class": "Pistol",
      "role": "secondary",
      "profile_status": "standard_assumed",
      "notes": [
        "Retained from original gear loadout."
      ],
      "ai_behavior": "Use at close range or when transitioning into melee."
    },
    {
      "name": "Combat Knife",
      "class": "Melee",
      "role": "backup",
      "profile_status": "standard_assumed"
    },
    {
      "name": "Frag Grenades",
      "class": "Thrown",
      "count": 3,
      "role": "crowd_control"
    },
    {
      "name": "Krak Grenades",
      "class": "Thrown",
      "count": 3,
      "role": "anti_armour_or_elite_target"
    }
  ],
  "combat_doctrine": {
    "preferred_range": "close_to_mid",
    "preferred_style": [
      "lead from front",
      "stabilize morale",
      "threaten enemies verbally",
      "close into decisive melee when appropriate"
    ],
    "opening_actions": [
      "Assess morale threat",
      "Issue litany or command effect",
      "Position centrally where allies can hear and see him",
      "Advance behind or beside assault elements rather than acting as a backline shooter"
    ],
    "avoid_patterns": [
      "Do not play him like a pure Tactical Marine bolter platform",
      "Do not waste his role standing too far from the squad",
      "Do not reduce him to only flavour text; his mechanical identity should affect scene control and morale"
    ]
  },
  "social_and_roleplay_ai_guidance": {
    "speech_style": [
      "formal",
      "stern",
      "doctrinal",
      "judgmental but not theatrical unless needed"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "duty",
      "faith",
      "oath",
      "purity",
      "honour",
      "the Emperor",
      "the Codex",
      "xenos corruption"
    ],
    "leadership_style": "He does not inspire through warmth alone, but through certainty, authority, ritual, and the weight of sacred office."
  },
  "gm_use_summary": {
    "fast_read": "Ultramarines Chaplain conversion of Brother Octavius. Strong social authority, morale support, anti-xenos zeal, and melee-led leadership presence.",
    "best_scene_types": [
      "rallying allies",
      "terror resistance scenes",
      "interrogations",
      "battle sermons",
      "boarding actions",
      "purge-and-cleanse missions"
    ],
    "less_suited_scene_types": [
      "stealth specialist work",
      "heavy weapons dominance",
      "technical hacking or machine interface tasks"
    ]
  },
  "conversion_notes": [
    "This build is intentionally honest about being a homebrew conversion from a Tactical Marine rather than pretending to be a direct official Chaplain sheet.",
    "Core characteristics were preserved to maintain continuity of character identity.",
    "Bolter Mastery was removed because it anchors the character too hard to Tactical Marine behavior.",
    "Command presence, morale control, anti-xenos hatred, and symbolic gear were added because otherwise this would only be a cosmetic rename.",
    "The conversion favors role integrity over strict preservation of the original combat niche."
  ],
  "confidence": {
    "identity": "high",
    "core_stats": "high",
    "chaplain_theme_fit": "high",
    "official_rules_exactness": "medium_low",
    "playable_homebrew_quality": "high"
  }
}

