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[Ampersand]

Voidmaster, probably. Arch-Militant really requires military service beforehand. However; Dark Heresy characters are permitted with special rules, in which case, the appropriate class would be Scum.

[Archangel]

Thank you, but I meant the others of these questions as well.

From where do you hail?
Forge World - Hive World - Death World - Imperial World - Voidborn - Noble Blood

What path have you walked?
Scavenger - Hierophant - Charlatan - Savant - Desperado - Vaunted

What drives you afar?
Tainted - Criminal - Duty Bound - Renegade - Destined - Zealot

What haunts your past?
Press-Ganged - High Vendetta - Calamity - The Dark Voyage - Shipwrecked - The Hand of War

What fires your soul?
Fortune - Pride - Renown - Endurance - Prestige - Vengence

What is your calling?
Voidmaster - Explorator - Missionary - Astropath - Arch-Militant - Senechal - Navigator

[Keita]

Just played some rouge trader round a friends house. We don't play by the rule book, just take the basic rules and then add our own. so there were 7 crew members and the GM controling the NPC's.

What happens the second we get out of port? Get swallod by warp. Can navigator do his job and guide us safely? Nope.

We end up on a Chaos world full of exploding screamers. 3 people had to drag the rest back onto the ship before we buggered off then got pounded in space by a bloody fleet of warships.

Our GM plays dwarf fortress, I can tell. He said "Well that was fun, well when I say fun I mean in a different way".

We're thinking of having the space battles by merging Battlefleet Gothic with some of the awesome customization rules of the ship section in the Rouge Trader book.

[Ampersand]

Thank you, but I meant the others of these questions as well.

Ahh. Hive world/Charlatan/Criminal/Press Ganged/Fortune or Renown/ and then either Voidmaster or Scum from Dark Heresy.

[Archangel]

Thank you, but I meant the others of these questions as well.

Ahh. Hive world/Charlatan/Criminal/Press Ganged/Fortune or Renown/ and then either Voidmaster or Scum from Dark Heresy.

Thanks.
From where do you hail?
Hive World

What path have you walked?
Charlatan

What drives you afar?
Criminal

What haunts your past?
Press-Ganged

What fires your soul?
Renown

What is your calling?
Voidmaster

[Aqizzar]

Guys, are none of listening to me?  If I'm going to be running a game, I'm going to run it my way.

First, you're bloody Rogue Traders, you can afford almost anything.  I don't give a damn what the book says about "starting equipment", you can just assume you've bought everything else, short of artifacts and shit.

Second, I'm taking the rulebook as more of a guideline, since most people don't have the book.  Ampersand, Cthulhu, stop quoting stuff out of the book, you're just making things confusing and convincing people they need the book in play along, when I specifically want that to not be the case.

By the way, there's some damn cool guns in this book.  Forget using Heavy Bolters on board, you can get a "shot cannon".  Yes, a shotgun big enough to qualify as a heavy support weapon.  What fun.

[Cthulhu]

Darnit, I forgot digi-weapons.

Oh well.

And yeah, even in the rules that's not what you're forced to start with.  You're really only limited by "Can I find this" and "Are the people who own it willing to part with it", within reason.

Anyway, first quarter of college is almost over so I'm going to have six weeks off soon.  I might start a Rogue Trader game of my own (A more rules-centric one, probably using GameTable or something better if anyone knows something), even though I said never again.  Come on, it's Rogue Trader, and I no longer have college to suddenly cut off my planning time and make me forget.

[Kashyyk]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

>Open Ship Roster

>File Ship Roster selected. Enter Query.

>Find Crew Member

>Insert crew member name.

>Cadius, Jonah

>Three (3) matches found. Set specific Parameters.

> Home world Barbarus

> Crew Member selected. Enter Query.

>All

>Name: Cadius, Jonah
>Rank: Brother Captain.
>Legion: Knights of Steel. 2nd Company.
>Home world: Barbarus, Death World. Status: Destroyed.
>Key reasons for Boarding: Vengeance, Vendetta, Duty Bound.
>Equipment: Plasma Pistol. Power Sword. Combat Shield. Power Armour, Artificer Class. Adamantine Mantle. Jump Pack.
>Other Details: Earned Terminator Honors at the siege of Rogal Dorn. Earned Purity Seals at the siege of Baaj. Previously Brother Sargeant of the Chapter Elite Assault Squad.

I think I got this all right.

[WorkerDrone]

Revised. Again

Cromwell Eisenaugre XVII

Noble Blood
Savant
Renegade
Calamity
Fortune
Rogue Trader

Equipment:

Best Quality Plasma Pistol, Best Quality Power Sword, Best Quality Light Power Armour, Captain's Getup (Captainly Coat, Captainly officer hat, tough swabbie kicking military boots, Normal Under Dress) Monoculars, Grapnel, Vox (Micro?)Bead, Data Slate, Heirloom Maps.

TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THAT POWER ARMOUR WHILE I STILL CAN.

[Keita]

ok redoing my character entry, cutting out unnecciesary fluff and changing equip. I don't mind whoeveer else wants to be Explorater be that if I can be head of Engineering. Failing that I'll just be some kind of underling, an assistant maybe?

Spoiler: Backstory (click to show/hide)

Solar was born on Hovener VI, a forge world and temple to the Omnissiah. At first he rebelled against the system and took to the foundations of Hovener VI and spent a long time amongst the filth and the scavenger drones.

But that changed when he happened across an old shrine of the Omnissiah, long abandoned as the new city was built on top of an old one and yet this building still stood and endured many years of dilapidation. As he entered, he heard a voice, not in words but pure logic and Solar had no doubt that it was the Omnissiah. It told him of how he had great things ahead of him, of what he could accomplish in the name of logic. Solar quickly forgot about his passed hate and rejoined the many menials that slaved in the factories of the hive world.

From the moment he joined the ranks of menials, the ideals of the Cult Mechanicus were driven into his mind again and again into he believed every moment was given to him by the all knowing and powerful Omnissiah, a debt that can only be repaid by labouring in it’s name in till his finale breath left his weak flesh behind.

Solar quickly found his area of expertise, star ships. He made many advances in the field including backwards engineering a void shield technology thought long forgotten, easily twice as powerful as the standard units currently used by many of the Imperium’s ship. His work was quickly noticed and was inducted into the ranks of the Tech priests.

Specialising in ship repairs and maintaining of the machine spirits, Solar is an important asset to any captain. Able to repair broken plasma feeds while a ship is in the heated combat and to coax the most stubborn of Machine Spirits into cooperating. His talents also stretch to weapons, whether they are the prow lance batteries of a star ship or the humble lasgun.

He is also able to hold his own in a fight, able to use his many augments to deal death to any one who would mean harm to the Imperium or any of the Omnissiah’s creations.

He thought he was invincible, that the only logical path was for him to be the greatest tech priest to live and that he was one day to become the Fabricator General of Mars and why wouldn’t he? For he had the Omnissiah’s blessing. Maybe he’s ignorance was why it happened, but Solar believes that the Omnissiah wanted to show him what power could do to the mind, how it can dull the sense’s and how he would become useless to the Omnissiah’s plans. For when he was on working his way up the ranks, still on Hovener VI, Solar was working on a powerful crystal matrix that could increase the power of any current passed through it. He became careless and left the device, unblessed and unguarded on a workbench were it was stolen and used by cultist of the Dark Mechainicus, sympathisers to the Powers of Chaos who coupled it the geothermal reactor on a loop were the power was fed back into the machine and if left untended would overload the reactor casing the core of Hovener VI to explode.

The Cultist announced there doings as they took a shuttle off world and headed to the eye of terror with many trinkets. Solar, realising his folly, begged forgiveness from the Omnissiah as he made his way to the reactor as the rest of the world was evacuated. He managed to pry the device off of the machine but not after having his arm blasted with super heated gasses, rendering it useless as the place fell apart around him.

He blames the escape of the Cultists on the Navigators, as they were trained to detect openings in the warp and yet none of them felt the ripple of real space as the Cultists shuttle eased into the warp on its journey to the Eye. He has held a grudge against all of them for having been denied a chance to bring the Cultists to justice.

To this day Solar seeks those priests that turned away from the Omnissiah’s light and turned to Chaos, which lead him into the service of a Rouge Trader as Head of engineering and Explorater

Spoiler: Origin Path (click to show/hide)

Homeworld – Forge World
Birthright – Child of the Creed
Lure of the Void – Duty Bound - Duty to Your Destiny
Trials and Travails – Calamity
Motivation – Vengeance
Carrear - Explorater

Spoiler: Gear (click to show/hide)

Best Craftsmanship Laspistol
Mechanicus Staff (count it as a close combat weapon)
Servo arm backpack
Toolbox (contained in backpack)
Void Suit
Injector
Sacred Unguents
Micro-bead
Combi-tool
Dataslate
Servo-skull – Manipulator/lascutter/pic-stealer/flood light
Bionic arm – good craftsmanship
Bionic eye - good craftsmanship
Bionic chest (lungs and heart included) - good craftsmanship
Mechainicus Cloak
Carapace torso
Flack grieves and vambraces

[Aqizzar]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

>Name: Cadius, Jonah
>Rank: Brother Captain.
>Legion: Knights of Steel. 2nd Company.
>Home world: Barbarus, Death World. Status: Destroyed.
>Key reasons for Boarding: Vengeance, Vendetta, Duty Bound.
>Equipment: Plasma Pistol. Power Sword. Combat Shield. Power Armour, Artificer Class. Adamantine Mantle. Jump Pack.
>Other Details: Earned Terminator Honors at the siege of Rogal Dorn. Earned Purity Seals at the siege of Baaj. Previously Brother Sargeant of the Chapter Elite Assault Squad.

I think I got this all right.

I assume the remaining two answers are Arch-Militant (Marine and all), and Calamity (homeworld destroyed?).  However, I am going to knock down some of that equipment (you're dressed like a damn chapter master), and you'll have to provide a detailed and very good reason for why an apparently ranked, commended, and rewarded Space Marine is out slumming it as a deckboss for a Rogue Trader.

[Kashyyk]

I like a challenge. I'll get right to it.

[Ampersand]

ok redoing my character entry, cutting out unnecciesary fluff and changing equip. I don't mind whoeveer else wants to be Explorater be that if I can be head of Engineering. Failing that I'll just be some kind of underling, an assistant maybe?

As far as I can read from Lore, Explorator's tend to be aboard Rogue Trader ships at the expense of the Rogue Trader, rather than to complement it's crew. While the Explorator has obvious skills that are useful in assisting in the maintenance of the ship, there are other crew members that are dedicated to that, such as Void-masters, possibly minor techpriests, and non-techpriest engineers. Explorators are usually assigned to Rogue Traders because the Trader owes the Adeptus Mechanicus a debt of some kind, their job is not specifically to aid the Rogue Trader except where it furthers it's own goal; that being the collection of Archaeotechnology, research of unknown lifeforms beyond the Imperium's edge, and rooting out Hereteks.

Head of Engineering isn't really something a Explorator would do. Mostly, because it's beneath their capabilities.

Edit: Also, for My Explorator, if you're willing to bend the rules as far as equipment goes, then Definitely give me the best-craftsmanship Archaeotech Laspistol heirloom, and a Medicae Mechadendrite.

[Emperor_Jonathan]

Spoiler: GEAR (click to show/hide)

I dunno what gear I can get but what I basically want is:

Backpack
Crappy LasPistol
A wrench of some sort
Toolbox
A suit suitable for a poor engineer.

[CJ1145]

Redo of my character.

Jess Rullux

Noble Blood
Desperado
Renegade
High Vendetta
Renown
Arch-Militant

Spoiler: Character Bio (click to show/hide)

Born to a high-ranking family, Jess lived a life of peace until a framing for treason made his entire family a target of the Inquisition. Trained in the ways of combat, Jess was able to escape and make it offworld, where he is hoping to find a way to reclaim his family's glory.

Jess is a Deadpan Snarker almost religiously, and only loyal to the emperor in moderation. Devout by today's standards, a heretic by 40k's. Genre Savvy to an extreme, Jess knows every story told in his sector, and all the tropes and cliches are known to him by heart. He can see a plot point coming a mile away, and is keen on not telling a word of it to his crew members just so he can comment on it later on.

I have no idea what to do for stats, so if someone is willing to help me there I'd be quite thankful.

Spoiler: Gear (click to show/hide)

Like EJ, I'm not quite sure what the rules for gear are. My preference would probably be something like

*High-quality armor, maybe something akin to an Imperial Guard's, or a Kasrkin if Aqizzar is feeling generous.
*LasRifle, the deadliest flashlight in existence.
*Backpack
*A nice power sword, for melee.