>Storm Bolter
Basic 90m S/2/4 1d10+5 Pen 4 Clip 60 Storm Tearing
-Storm: Doubles the amount of hits inflicted on the target.

>Harlequins Kiss
1d10 +8 Pen 10 Tearing
-No strength bonus to damage.

>Psychic Power System<
In brief psychic powers now sometimes require a willpower test to activate. Before you test willpower (usually with a healthy bonus due to your Psy Rating) yoyou decide on Fettered (half psy rating) Unfettered (full psy rating) and Push (where you can add 1-3/4 Psy rating).

Fettered is safe to use but the other two come at increased chance of Perils of the Warp. It is further divided into Astopaths and Sanctioned Psykers being bettter off than Renegade psykers and Sorcerers.

>>5500685

>Harlequin's Kiss

holy shit

The Origin paths are a chart that starts at Homeworld, and ends at Motivation, although a casual read makes it appear that Careers are part of it. DON'T BE FOOLED.

Here's how it looks:

-Homeworlds A B C D, etc
-Birthrights A B C D, etc
-Lure of the Void A B C D, etc
-Trials and Travails A B C D etc
-Motivation A B C D etc

Here's how it works:

Choose a homeworld, then choose a birthright that is directly below the homeworld on the chart, or adjacent to the option directly below it. Rinse and repeat. For example, a player picks Homeworld A. He may take Birthright A or B, and selects B. He may Select Lures A B or C, and selects C. He may now take Trials B C or D. He selects Trial B, and may finish off with motivation A B or C.

>>5500685

>> It is further divided into Astopaths and Sanctioned Psykers being bettter off than Renegade psykers and Sorcerers.

In control, right? Not in power, I expect.

Profit Factor is a measure of your wealth, resources and so on. The scale runs up to 150. I can't remember all the examples the fa/tg/uy who went to GenCon posted, but Profit 5 is a Hive Gang and Profit 150 is one of The Powers That Be of the Imperium.

Playable Xenos races have all been confirmed as being on the way. Kroot appear in the core book, along with ork freebootas and eldar corsairs. And their ships.

How you have outfitted your ship affects what sort of Endeavours are most profitable for you. For example, if you've got a load of cargo space then Endeavours which set up new trade routes will earn you bonus profit. You can also outfit your ship to confer other benefits, such as turning the interior into a holo-maze to confuse and disorientate boarders.

There seems to be a much greater emphasis on PCs supporting each other. In DH your talents were very much only of benefit to you. In RT there are several talents and special abilities which bolster your allies.

A mass combat system exists, the primary use presumably being boarding actions.

Murder Servitors: skull faced killing machines which you teleport onto the enemy ship.

>>5500703
In control, I expect.

A few other final tidbits.

Rogue Trader characters are THE most important people on that ship. As a Missionary you are the spiritual leader of thousands. As the Explorator you are the most senior Tech-Priest onboard. The Arch-Militant is a veteran of a hundred battles. The Void Master is the premier expert on all matters relating to void ships and the most skilled in the use of them.

Rogue Trader is not due out in the shops until 4 weeks after GenCon.

More information that I might have missed can be found here: http://rapidshare.com/files/264185654/D6GEpisode37_DH-RT_relevant.mp3

>>5500737

The profit by mission seem to be more or lose 10. In the scale the fa/tg/uy at gen con stated that the poorest Rogue Trader has 50.

So, in ten Endeavours you can become one of the most powerful people in the Imperium?

>>5500771
this is of course taking into account how long it can take to complete a endevor and the fact that you COULD lose money.

>>5500832

Well, shit happens. FUCK, it is 40k. Shit WILL happen.

>>5500843
yup

>>5500832
Indeed. Any GM worth his salt isn't going to let you roll up and make millions of gelt without something considerably horrible happening to you, your crew and your ship.

I'm goin' ta be the happiest Freeboota among da stars!

>>5501891

The dynamics of a Rogue Trader crew incorporating a Freeboota would be wonderful. I can't help but smile when I imagine it.

Trader: "Okay, we finally managed to sell that priceless artifact to a shady organization for an obscene sum of money! It just took a few hiccups-"

Ork: "Fights! Dem wuz roight gud fights. Dem spiky boyz iz dead 'ard."

Trader: "...ah, yes, thank you. As I was saying, I did promise that each of you would receive a generous bonus if we managed to pull this off. Under each of your seats is a sack brimming with Throne Gelt, which you may-"

Ork: "Wut's dis shiny scrap? Is deez sum kinda weedy bulletz or sumfink?"

Trader: "Oh, blast it, I got your bag mixed up with Orlakh's. Orlakh, would you switch with him? Thank you."

Ork: "Waaaagh! Lookit all deez teef! I's da richest Freeboota eva! I's gonna buy a big yellow hat an' some lukky blue pants an' some red bootz wot letz me run fasta den a trukk. Dis iz da happiest day of my life."

>>5503445
I imagine it would be a bad idea to let the ork to preform, err...."maintinece" on the ship. He'd probably end up replacing the life support system with extreme ammounts of dakka.

>>5503782
Given the difference in durability between orks and humans it seems possible that orks would find half of the systems on a human ship utterly superfluous.

>>5503874

WOTZ DIS 'ERE OXYGEN GUBBINZ???

>>5503920
They're to allow flamers to work. Don't worry your pretty little head about it.

>>5503874
Considering this is a race who's primary means of interplanetary transportation is to hijack a passing asteroid, hollow it our, slap on some dakka, rockets and red paint, and then some air if theirs room, it's not surprising.

Oh man, don't let him bring the ship in for a landing.

>Harlequin's Kiss
>holy shit
I'll second that..

holy shit

>>5500737
>eldar corsairs. And their ships.
>Eldar pirate captain

FUCK YES

>Playable Xenos races have all been confirmed as being on the way. Kroot appear in the core book, along with ork freebootas and eldar corsairs. And their ships.


Fucking Sweet!

Maybe we even get some s

>>5503967

FUCK NO!

God this sounds so much more awesome than Dark Heresy.

>>5504009
FUCK YOU

ELDAR ARE AWESOME

>>5500737

>Kroot

BREAD FOR BATTLE

>>5504000

if only we could get those stout little sq

>>5503782

Though it'd be interesting to see what interesting things one could do with the weapon systems.

>>5504032
It does, it really fucking does. And I think Dark Heresy is fucking awesome.

>>5504050

BAKED IN THE OVEN OF WAR.

>God this sounds so much more awesome than Dark Heresy.

this is why I wanted it to be the first game in the line. but now I think most might have overlooked DH if it where the second game so they did good. still.. Fucking Finaly!

Wait... How would you pay a Kroot?

>>5504107

Eat your enemies hearts and have no armor save?

>this thread

>>5504107

In carcasses, silly.

>>5504068
You have no guided missiles.... but you fire 120 times the number of missiles you once did.

Your tractor beam for loading cargo has been weaponized, and you have asteroids strapped to your ship for it to fling towards enemies.

>>5504107
>Wait... How would you pay a Kroot?

Sniff, sniff, mm, nice gens.. Chew, chew.. -evolve-

CASH!

>>5504080

BREAD FOR THE BREAD GOD.

>>5504032

I know, it almost makes me regret that I'm in a DH game and we can't just up and play RT instead.

>ork freebooterz, and their ships.

>and their ships.

>ork ships crewed by all ork team of pc's

DIS ERE'S GONNA BE A RITE PROPPA WAAAAAAAAAGGGHHH

>>5504068
Every system is the weapon system!

>>5504107

Captain: Excellent work everyone, those xenos scum didn't know what... what...

Kroot: *munch munch* WAT?

Captain: What the hell are you... oh my god, that's disgusting!

Kroot: WAT!? WAT!? CAW CAW CAW

>>5504170
That's it... First thing I'm doing when this comes out is rolling a kroot.

The Kroot will be the grimdark version of Chew-Chew-Chewbacca.

>>5504140
For no good reason that made me think or Rorshach.

*ronch* *ronch*

>>5504161

Diz iz a krew I'd liek ta join!


WAAAAAAAAAAGH!

CAW! CAW!

>>5504170
>Captain: What the hell are you... oh my god, that's disgusting!

>Kroot: WAT!? WAT!? CAW CAW CAW

Captain: I can't believe you'd actually EAT that

Kroot: It's just a xeno kidney

Captain: No not that! Your dunking it in mayo!

I'm totally gonna roll a ship's mechanic. A Mekboy, not a techpriest.

"Oy, boss, the engin' was actin' up a bit so I iz paintin' it red. Should be right fast now, wot?"

The Kroot will OBVIOUSLY be the ship cook!

>>5503946
Not to be pedantic but human flamers use promethium, and it doesn't need oxygen to burn.

>>5504167

Well except for the go fasta button.

I want to roll a Farsight Tau gun nut. He would be small, puny in close quarters combat, spouting random tough guy talk all the time and possessing the killiest personal weapons of all the crew.

Your average /k/ommando, basically. Except for the weapons bit.

>>5504224

Since Ork ships are made for ramming, it kind of qualifies as a weapons system as well.

>>5504219
This will be my first RT character, Cookie the Kroot.

>>5504224

Dat button'z so we kan ram ovver shipz. YOU'Z FINK DAT'Z NOT A WEAPON? YOU'Z GOT SQUIGZ FER BRAINZ OR SUMFING?

>my next character

CAW! C-C-CAW CAW CAW!

>>5504221
Welp, you just got the ork to turn the whole air system into a shipwide burna system. Our horrible deaths are on your hands now!

>>5504232
What woudl his name be? "Ja'yne"?

>>5504216

"Captn' the Mekboy painted the Black Pearl Red again.."

>>5504241

Caw?

>Tau. It's what's for dinner.

>>5504270

fogot mah piture

>>5504259
...now I have to give him that damn orange cap.

>>5504251

Okay yeah I could totally see playing an Ork Mekboy now, and the fights he'd have with the Explorator.

So what's the /tg/ Rogue Trader crew? As far as I can tell, we already have the Ork weapons specialist, and the Kroot cook.

>>5504285
Redneck gun nut Tau

>>5504107

"Man, t'ain't right, that xeno merc o'tha cap'ns. Shure shure 'e was a big help in dat boardin action last month, but... Dem eyes... dem beady eyes..."

"Throne agree to that. Remember old boatswain Mirlanous? Kacked it last week cause his heart? Now... you didn't hear this from me, but I swears to the Him Himself that I saw one of the servitors dragging his corpse into that Xeno's quarters naught a day later... Me thinks them earlier rumors are true..."

>>5504285

Ork mekboy. Still like weapons, but what Ork doesn't?

Now we need a queer captain and some token elf, err, eldar. Maybe some sort of druged up eldar seer constantly smokeing that black xeno tar.. The navigator?

>Redneck gun nut Tau

Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes. Gun nut Tau.

Ork MekBoy
Kroot Cook
Tau -Security- [Guns & Ammo]
Eldar Decadent Junky Navigator

>>5504312
>queer captain

No, we need someone much more dapper.

>>5504294

I imagined this with the voices of pic related.

>>5504290
But with pulse carbines.

>>5504160
Actually, just before Rogue Trader comes out Dark Heresy is getting an 'Ascension' book which allows Acolytes to advance past tenth level and join in Rogue Trader games / become full-fledged Inquisitors.

Oh Emperor....theres dakka EVERYWHERE!

>>5504241

And remember if your navigator dies: You're a Kroot. You'll always find the next inhabitable planet.

The Tau has to be shorter than everyone else and have a *huge* Napoleon complex about it. And he totally has every Tau weapon capable of being carried by a person (Pulse Pistol, Pulse Rifle, Carbine, Rail Rifle), probably carries them all at once, and likes to respond to taunting and social hostility with return fire.

>>5504353
Well actually starting level RT chars are roughly equal to DH characters with 5500XP, so ascension aren't needed.

I can't wait to read tales of the Orkscapades of Freeboota crews.

>>5504345
OH GOD! Those guys WERE MADE for 40k.

>>5504353
Is that so? Fucking brilliant of them.

>>5504357
"Fuck our psychic eldar navigator is dead [o.d.] and we are in the middle of fucking no where. How in hell are we.."

"CAW" ..every one eyes the kroot entering with the dinner.

Eldar navigator, and a sexy human astropath, and some sexual tension between the two.

Wouldn't the Kroot develop the Eldar's psychic powers then?

Fuck yes, play an Ork and insist on getting this ship painted red.

The only way this could be better was if H'rud were playable.

>>5504405

Unfortunately, Kroot only adopt certain traits after generations of eating those creatures. It's very gradual, gradual changes.

That said, you can justify them having basically any genetic trait you want.

>>5504107
OM NOM NOM NOM

Anyway, this is awesome stuff to know. Just one question, Where do you get these pics >>5500667 >>5500685 >>5500697 ?

>>5504399

Don't astropaths have their eyes burned out? How can that be sexy? Or is she just a butterface?

>>5504405
>Wouldn't the Kroot develop the Eldar's psychic powers then?

Eeexactly, and of they go [I'd say atleast temporary for the scene and then randomly when ever the GM finds if fun and furthers the story].

>>5504393

And the best thing about being a lonley Kroot: Random mutation!

I HAS EATEN THAT PLANT THAT SHOOTS THORNS!

>>5504412

Shh, don't ruin the funny scen. But yeah I wouldent just hand it to the Kroot, still, just to get out of the predicament.

>>5504423

What about the dapper captain of this motley crew?

I think we can dismiss a Jack Sparrow look-alike out of hand.

>>5504420
They're from the Rogue Trader quickstart PDF. Should be somewhere in Fantasy Flight's website.

>>5504428

I like the idea of keeping the Eldar navigator around, though. He'd be like the doctor in the Authority; always walking on the bridge in his nightgown or bathrobe, always on heroin, listening to bad loud music and keeping everyone else awake. But he's necessary, and the captain (Who I assume is a take-charge kind of human) has to walk a fine line between keeping him on task and stopping him from realizing that he's the only one who can do his job and therefore can do whatever the fuck he wants and everyone else has to suck it up.

>>5504423
The Soul Binding rituel tends (but not always) to destroy the optic nerves utterly. Over time the eyeballs wither away. Many world surgicaly remove the useless eyeballs as a matter of policy. Augmetic replacements are not needed as they can use the warp to see, thus great saving on lightbulbs

>Don't astropaths have their eyes burned out? How can that be sexy? Or is she just a butterface?

Dude, two additional holes to thrust! Go where no penis gone befor!

>>5504452

I think we all know who would make a great captain.

>>5504353
More like brings up up to the same power level, let's them be Interrogators, Inquisitors and so on. That said, starting RT characters are about as potent as mid-rank 5 acolytes.

Which reminds me of something about Ascension. There's a Vindicare Assassin in it. Ross did not confirm if this was as an NPC or a PC option.

>>5504456

Yes, exactly, well put.

RELEASE DATE RELEASE DATE RELEASE DATE

>>5504452

I don't know who the captain is, but this is going to my main villain.

so where's the /tg/ drawfags when we need them?

>>5504463
I see your Doctor Steel and raise you a Warden.

>>5504452

The captain should be relatively smart, charming, and brave, a human, but unlike must humans in 40k he tends to assume most xenos are decent people, much to the chagrin of the rest of his crew as they have to deal with the other motley aliens we've been discussing on this thread.

"Captain, if that ork steals the shuttle repair parts again I fucking swear I'll..."

"Crewman, calm down. I understand that you may find his methods of ship repair inconvenient at best and heretical at worst, but out here, there's no place for racial prejudice. Just try and accept the mechanic for who he is, and I'm sure he'll do the same. If you both respect each other, what else is there to say?"

"Arise and shine, my minions. Your brave Captain Steel has need of you. Put aside your toys and games my friends, the Mechanicus wish to board us to search for Silica Animus. Show time!"

>>5504485

Forget that, just make him the ships resident unsanctioned psyker. Always slipping toward chaos...

>>5504509
Reasonable person in 40k? Boring, been done many, many times before.

>>5504509

Mutiny by the end of the week unless enough of the upper-echelon crew share his views.

Ratings don't matter as most of them probably will never see the outside of their section of the ship.

One big dysfunctional family, infighting is an everyday occurrence but when an outside threat appears they bound together.. LOOT!

OyCap'n I came across dis little guy ere. He says he'd be willin ta work on da ship if you paid em in beer, and dakka. Oh and he's gots one of dam pointy eared weirdboys wit em! Says he's a stuntie!

>>5504525

He's not actually reasonable. He would have candyland ideas of racial tolerance that would only be found in the real world being taught to elementary school kids. The aliens, themselves, don't buy it at all, and are with the rest of the human crew when it comes to blowing the shit out of any random other species they come across.

>>5504460
That took long

>>5504536

Logically, the humans should want to kill the nonhumans on the ship anyway, but the game rules allow for them.

My dear sirs this is clearly the greatest choice of captain.

And he will have an all female crew. Except for Orkz, he has them because he likes their style and tactics.

>>5504509
Not likely, a captain would probably be far more excentric and less lenient on his crew.

>>5504525

Actually yes. Show me a commissar who actually SHOOTS some men and we might have something.

>>5504572
Kiff looks a bit like a scrawn grot to me.

The Eldar is an outcats for his doomed susbtance abuse and psychic powers combo.

The Tau for his capitalistic views.

The Kroot for his.. Quicker then usual evolutionary addaptions that has shown to be temporary and as such is seen as a deviant by the other Kroots and no one wants to breed with him.

The Ork ..well, 'em boyz ar' DAKKA.

Clearly only one man is bad enough to be Captain.

>The Ork ..well, 'em boyz ar' DAKKA.

He stuck around after they counter raided an ork Hull, and they needed repairs to their shut down in the process ship engines, as the lone survivor, also DAKKA.

Oi, I Fix Da'

GENTLEMEN, I SUBMIT MY NOMINATION FOR CAPTAIN

Some Orks and Kroot are just mercenaries. And while its very dangerous to use Orks as mercs, its not unheard of.

>>5504600
Already exists.

>>5504572
Read this in his voice. Lold IRL

>>5504638

I could deal with this guy.

>>5504660

That's some pretender named HAARlock.

>>5504649
For enough teef, they'll work for an git.

Foah da Emprah!

>>5504638
Captain? Naw, he's clearly the Arch-Militant.

I like this crew.

>>5504693

Damn I thought this was the Arch-Militant

This is God Tier captain. He even looks like a Rogue Trader. We will be pillaging the stars and drinking ourselves into a stupor.

BITCHES, THRONES, AND BOOZE! TO THE STARS, GENTLEMEN! TO THE STARS!

>>5504712
Perhaps he's another one, but Aldo ain't no merchant prince. He's an expert in warfare, plain and simple. Smart and with a quick tongue, but a warrior all the same.

>>5504456
Alternatively I see 'im having this personality...

>>5504714
You know the Captain wasn't all about the booze when he was actually, you know, captaining? He only become a rum-soaked layabout when he retired and set up his plantation.

>>5504742
No, House is the ship's doctor. He's only interested in treating crew members with crazy rare xeno diseases.

Runaway Deamonhost.

using a reanimated human corpse as a hiding place from the bastard gods of Chaos, who want to eat his soul. using a Space ship as a way of hiding from the Inquisition who want him dead or disected.

job is boarding party, killing boarding partys.

generly the first one of the shuttle during a boarding action.

not racist because to him there is little difference between mortals. they are all in his eyes just talking lumps of dirty water.

>>5504704
Fuck yes, we need a Gir combat servitor.

>>5504744
Wait; so whoever the captain is, his end game is to be The Captain (Morgan, of course)?

I think we could work with that.

>>5504761
Aren't most xenos diseases instantly fatal?

THIS is who the Captain should be.

>>5504789
Yes! for the love of God Yes!

Captain Blackadder! Personal Assistant Baldrick!

>>5504232
>Your average /k/ommando, basically. Except for the weapons bit.
I Resent That Implication.

>>5504782
Well, that's one end. The other is that one of your kids murders you, your wife and all of your other children and takes the charter for himself.

oh god, firefly, except wash is an eldar going "I am a leaf upon the swordwind, I am a leaf upon the swordwind"

kaylee is either a radical techpriest

jane is the biggest ork you ever seen with more guns than an IG regiment.

shepherd is actually a radical inquisitor in disguise.

and river is actually the lost primarch or the starchild.


FUND IT

Fools! Only one person is sexy enough to be the captain.

It must be the one that is also the Emprah.

>>5504509
>>5504525
>>5504536
I kinda have the idea of a former sister of battle as captain. At some point she lost her faith most of her hatred, but the latter boils up every once in a while. The tricked out melta she carries around offers her more chances then most to be reasonable, and she's more then battle hardened enough keep those under her in line.

>>5504766
See I was really hoping you were going to say that the Daemonhost was the ships Head Janitor. Possessing a GRIM AND DARK version of the janitor from Scrubs mixed with Scruffy from Futurama. Taking the position because honestly its pretty damn inconspicuous and he can get away with making more than a few bodies disappear (whether or not the kroot is in on that is... debatable)

Seriously with that your ships janitor can be that much of a plot point your doing something right.

>>5504783
Only the venereal ones.

So.. GiR Combat Servitor, Some sort of Preacher, Flesh out a Medic and still the question on (and possible never agreed up on) a Captain.

>>5504810
oh god zoe would be a catachan!

Malcolm could be a retired commissar.

FUND IT FUND IT FUND IT!!!!

>>5504806
That's why you become a drunk old fool when your done; know one bothers killing the drunk old fool when you could just as easily manipulate him and gain millions from his mysteriously thriving rum plantation world.

>>5504811

RT Torchwood.

>>5504638

>My name is Captain Aldo Raine, and I need me eight crewmen.

>We're gonna be dropped into the Tau Empire, disguised as a merchant vessel. We're gonna be doin one thang, and one thang only. Killin' xenos.

>The Ethereals of the Tau Empire conquered their brethren through trickery, manipulation, intimidation, and terror. And that's exactly what we're gonna do t' them.

>We will be cruel to the xenos, and through our cruelty they will know who we are. They will find evidence of our cruelty, in the disemboweled, dismembered, and disfigured bodies o' their brothers we leave behind us, and the xenos will not be able to help themselves from imagining the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands. And our laspistols. And the edge of our chainswords.

>The xenos will be sickened by us, the xenos will talk about us, and the xenos will fear us! Xenos ain't got no humanity! They need to be destroyed! Each and every crewmember under my command owes me ONE HUNDRED! Xenos! Scalps!

>And I want my scalps!

You want me to be your Captain?!

>>5504859
Okay, I'm convinced.

kaylee - MekOrk

jane - Tau Gun-nut.

shepherd - is actually a radical inquisitor in disguise.

river - escaped new imperial assassin cultist prodject

Kroot Cook

Eldar Decadent Junky Psychic Navigator

Jeeves should be in it. Either as a butler or a medical assistance to House.

>>5504714
A approve

As a side note, kroot and ork mercs in Imperial employ are canon.

>>5504876
River - Run away electro-priest/assassin.

>I kinda have the idea of a former sister of battle as captain. At some point she lost her faith most of her hatred, but the latter boils up every once in a while. The tricked out melta she carries around offers her more chances then most to be reasonable, and she's more then battle hardened enough keep those under her in line.

Not bad, the crew need another woman and why not the Captain! Add possible bi/queer elements as well (sorry Cpt. H. of Torchwood).

>>5504817
HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I bow to you and your magnificent Brain for thinking that piece of EPIC AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!

He has a mop with Unholy Runes painted on it!

He waxes everything just to watch the crew slip around and fall over!

He mildly dislikes humans because it was the human Iquisitoin that ruined his last hiding place (they shot the dockyard servitor he was hiding in).

>>5504847

Torchwood is EXACTLY DH with a Radical Inquisitor.

Well then, it seems we've already come up with at least two or three ideas or the Rogue Traders of the Tiji sector.

>>5504898
Oh god. Fuck all the other Captains. It can only be Flashheart. WOOF!

>>5504817

great story element specially if the ship has quite a few random not fleshed out characters.

I'm gonna have so much fun with Rogue Trader.
So.
Much.
Funnnnn.

>>5504913
>the Rogue Traders of the Tiji sector.

Fuck. Yes.

Could use it for Rogue Trader as well as DH.

>>5504923

A ship with a crew of ONLY captains.

>>5504899
Not to mention that he's everywhere; the first couple times the players meet him is in passing in space ports in far flung sectors of the galaxy just working in the background (perhaps one even falls for his wax trap and gets pissed at him).

Next they start seeing him on their vessel; when asked he claims to have been their the whole time (ala Scruffy) and the Captain and Crew will both back him up on that point...

>>5504948
They constantly fight over who gets to sit on the Throne; including when they should be doing other things, like killing Xeno's boarding parties...

>>5504948

Hey it could work. A couple of low level Rogue Traders combine forces to go for a big score.

Captain material or antagonist?

>>5504996
I'm gonna go with all of the above.

There is but one man I trust to be my Captain, the Red Comet himself.

>>5504996

Probably work better as an antagonist. A radical inquisitor who was cast out due to his heretical views out for revenge.

I want Rogue Trader so bad. I want it NOW.

OK how about this.

the Imperium has various anti-drug laws. so does the Tau Empire. so do most other non-imperial human empires and most other people the government over.

the ship is a big greenhouse used for the growing of Marijuana. there is the smooth stuff first grown on the tau Sept world of Da'grag, there is the nightmare halucenegenic clinicaly toxic stuff from Catachan, the week stuf from black market Luna, the warp tainted stuff from Ganymede and a hundred other different strains. each floor is dedicated to growing different breed for different prices, in different flavoures (from feeding he plants different tainted water).

they sell it to tired slaves of the Imperium, they sell it to stressed out Tau, they sell it to the Eldar who use it as a training aid to help the young Seers.

Drug Runner Ship!

>>5505078
Lho-sticks.

>>5505128
I'm pretty sure lho-sticks aren't all that illegal.

Now, obscura, on the other hand...

>>5505078
fucking pot heads, you have to ruin everything don't you.

>>5504970
psykers and Eldar can hear a slight humming if they are near him. think that he has latent psyker abilities.

he has extremely dangerous psyker abilities (Bata-Alpha Level Psyker skills) but can not do anything big or the chaos gods will notice him and send Things after him.

on several ocasion the Captain (may i sugest a Brian Blessed type charecter?) can spot him in the background of a vidio transmition picked up from a planet or another ship. unfortunately you do not realise what you have seen untill sometime afterwards, and you can never find the wretched floor scraper to ask untill after you have forgoten what it is you want to ask.

this thing as the head of xeno-linguistics. he translates everything.

the only known Necron to throw off the shackles of the C'tan.

no one knew what Necrons were when they let him on the ship, all they knew as that the eldar crew member all ran to the other end of the ship.

very dipressed all the time. thinks he is on a ship full of idiots.

>>5505274
Marvin?

This must be worked in, somehow.

>>5505274
maybe he works as the science officer, spending all his time with the servators and machines that don't run in fear of him or crumple and smoosh at the lightest touch from his impossibly strong hands?

>>5505339
i imagine cron rats would be like those ravagers from firefly where if you see them, run and pray they don't catch you.

>>5505387
reavers, they were called reavers.

>>5504456
Here's the navigator and the astropath.

>>5505775

>>5504032
We all knew that when they announced DH that they were being retarded and RT was clearly the best fucking way to RP in the setting.

No ones captured the captain rank yet?

>>5506341
It's the most accessible, especially these days where nobody wants to be the little guy scrabbling for survival against horrible odds. Well, except those guys complaining about the new WFRP.

Some podcast guy put it best. Where before you didn't have a choice between playing a low power, fight for survival game and a heroic, galaxy changing epic you've now got both flavours available. That they're fully compatible with each other is just a bonus.

>>5506495
>No ones captured the captain rank yet?

closest In my opinion is:

>I kinda have the idea of a former sister of battle as captain. At some point she lost her faith most of her hatred, but the latter boils up every once in a while. The tricked out melta she carries around offers her more chances then most to be reasonable, and she's more then battle hardened enough keep those under her in line.

even if I do like me some inglorious bastard, the SoB has some great story possibilities.

GENTLEMEN. YOUR CREW AWAITS!

>Irresponsible Captain
>Captain's Eldar Farseer girlfriend
>Slaaneshi communications officer
>Marines/Boarders are all Orks
>The doctor thinks he's an Ork
>The nurse is a Pariah in disguise
>The helmsman is a Tau not in disguise
>A psyker chief starfighter pilot and his two Blank subordinates
>Commissar Cain-wannabe (or worse, Commissar Cain himself)
>Tsundere Sororitas 2IC overcome by the heresy of it all

>>5506495
How about.......
"HWEE CAPTHORD EET FOOOR KAAAOOOOOS!"

>>5505016

I just tried imagining a cross between 40k and UC Gundam.

I'm not sure I want to continue.

>>5507146
hmmmm, I'm now imagining Cultist chan getting control of a ship now and waffles is her number 1.........

>>5507133
Don't forget the Machine Spirit of the ship. Which the captain seduced.

>>5504341
>>5504572
>>5504600
>>5505016
>>5507133

sure is weeaboo in here

>>5507240

Fuck I forgot that one

>>5503445

I wish Relic had hired you to do the characterisation of orks in DoW.

Gorgutz was so fucking boring

>>5507310

Lies. LIES!

>>5507251

>Weeaboo
>Zap Brannigan

Wat

My nomination for captain.

>My nomination for captain.

"CAW! (tans. He smells like breakfast)" - The Kroot Cook to the MekBoy

>>5507346

animu shit isn't welcome on /tg/, gb2 /a/

what's all this about? rouge trader vidya?

>>5507422
Pen and paper RPG, slowpoke.

>>5507360
SAVIOUR OF THE UNIVERSE

>>5507421

Futurama isn't an anime you fuckwit

>>5507436

Up until Iggy joins. He ends up helping out the Kroot Chef with chopping stuff up and generally scaring a good deal of people around him since he still wears ( reatively old ) skins.

>>5507360

Get the fuck back to /co/ then.

Wonderful. Now my overpriced DH books are useless.

>>5507634

2/10 Too short.

>>5507538

Kroot-Chef finds his new and silent friend entertaining, as he do not smell like food like every one else, and they enjoy playing dress up, in their preys hides, together.

>>5507634
They're still making DH, and RT uses the same mechanics. How does this make your books useless?

>>5507634
Should've bought on Amazon.

>>5507770
Very much this. Both games are also fully compatible in terms of mechanics, they just have different focuses and themes.

>>5507634
serves you well for paying.

so... RT scans when?

>>5508280
as soon as someone buys, unless we have an in-man, then we get pre-prit templates

Bout a month from now at the earliest. Unless a Genconner opts to ruin their copy for the leeches. Heh.

>>5508578
>Unless a Genconner opts to ruin their copy for the benefit of the community which often does the same for him.

Fix'd.

I guess some people don't get the idea of community.

the trouble with my rp group is that we would get into fisticuffs about who gets to be captain and then there would just be a series of mutinies until only one PC remained

>>5508646
npc captain. duh

It's gonna be the same case for DH once Inquisitor's become playable when Ascension comes out.

>>5508605

So, uh, "Everybody hates each other because we're all fags." counts as community?

>>5508646

COMMUNIST COLLECTIVE SHIP!
..or just make the captain a npc.

>>5508678

one of equality by hate and loathing.

>>5507146
>>5507227
Oh god, cultist-chan with a captains hat all askew, with waffles having a corn cob pipe for no reason, and they keep annoying their crew of chaos space marines while they fight the ultramarines lead by her X-boyfriend that wants her back.

>>5508653
>>5508683
We would just mutininy and kill him
>>5508678
No, just a bunch of power hungry violent megalomaniac bastards

>>5507464

Flash Gorden for Captain?

FUND IT!

>>5508833

If the Captain was the ships very sentient MechSpirit?

>>5508878
mutiny, every one of us believes "Your doing It wrong, I would make a better captain"

>>5508914

With that horrible players, please stick to D&D or beter; Paranoia.

Gentlemen, I submit to you that there is but one man in this galaxy that can lead us to victory.

Oh gods, I cant wait until someone remakes Van Cleef's crew from the Deadmines.

>>5508988

I think we've got our man!

>>5508878

Tech-Heresy

>>5509167
>Tech-Heresy

have you read about the rest of our crew examples?

Our captain.

has an intense hatred for four-armed giant xenos

>>5500667
>Origin Path
HALLOWED ARE THE ORI!

>>5504810
>>5504828
>>5504876
>>5505274
>>5509406


FUND IT ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

>>5506259
Thanks ^_^

so far the most entertaining idea i can think of and make work is a heretical (not the typical, RIP AND TEAR, JUST AS PLANNED, FUCK EVERYTHING I SEE twice, DEATH AND DECAY, kind of chaos heretical, just heretical enough) band of mercs put together as an extreme comically functional crew.

The Cook: Kroot named Cookie

The Weapon's Specialist: A tau that was dishonorably discharged for his high resistance to the ethereal caste's mind control, and his unusual capitalistic views

The mechanics: A mekboy and techpriest, the mekboy works on the ship's weaponry, the techpriest works on the ship's general hull

The "janitor": A daemon host that has possesed a ship maintenance servitor

Combat A.I. system: It controls the combat servitor(s), and is called G.I.R. find something that G.I.R. stands for and it's all good

The navigator: A blazed, high, drunk, eldar farseer that was kicked out of farseeing school for his bad habits, still a grade A farseer though, just a wee-bit off at times.

The translator: A seemingly sentient Necron. He has no beef with the eldar but the eldar gets creeped out and moody if he is near. The necron just kind of is along for the ride

The Captain: I like the idea of cultist chan being the captain, just because no one really hates her, she's a kid, and hell, the shits and giggles that would ensue from her being captain would be quite well, shitty and giggly .......

<= THIS IS YOUR CREW!!!
I think that's all I need to say.

>>5511093
I'm pretty sure this is your crew.

>>5511105
Too Sluty, not funny and awesome enough!

nomination for captain!

>>5510640
>Combat A.I. system: It controls the combat servitor(s), and is called G.I.R. find something that G.I.R. stands for and it's all good

Ah the good old mk 37 Generic Incident Repulsion system, quite charming for all its flaws.

>>5504232
Name him Crypto.

Kroot, apparently, have Unnatural Strength, Unnatural Perception, Natural Weapon (beak) and several talents focused around speed.

Another note: most critical ship damage results are disabling in nature, not resulting in the outright destruction of a vessel. Piracy is definitely an option.

Your Rouge Trader campaign should start like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE3J27ApS_8

>>5512946

I'm sorry, but...
RO-guh
just sound it out. It's easy.