Well your not really much more than a man with a machedentrite (sp) as far as RAW is concerned right now. You've yet to qualify for any of 'The Flesh is Weak' talents to give you the machine trait- your machadendrite is the problem re: void suit.
Edit: However, you actually start with a void suit, so perhaps we can simply assume its customised so you can actually use it.
Even GW isn't really sure what is and isn't 40k canon. Assume that nothing from Black Library is canon, and each edition changes little bits of fluff. Atm, I'm assuming with your low resources, you guys do not have the funds to have the nicer void suits (There are fancier ones, which should give you something to aspire to). It makes sense to me to have them permitted to have armour underneath. Plus, while the suits may be bulky, there's a lot going on under the suit. Regulorum would have access to the Mechanicus which would likely outfit their explorators with suitable void suits for their work. Also, your crew would normally be equipped with lasguns and flak coats. On a note, I'm not above someone questioning my calls. As I've said, it's the first time I've run RT, and no one is perfect, least of all me. If you feel I've made a bad call, let me know and we'll work it out.
Sounds good then. I will just assume my wonderful carapace armor is not available to me for now, and try really, really hard not to die the first fight against that Tyranid/Chaos Daemon/Warp Monstrosity/Eldar Harlequin which will inevitably attack us the moment the cutter flies out of range. :P
EDIT: Or did I read that wrong? Are the larger armors now approved for void suit use?
You didn't read it wrong. Carry on.
I think we can assume that not even the makers of the universe is 100% sure on what is and isn't canon at any given time.
And if they can't know, what chance do WE have eh?
They don't, and they'll admit to it too. Any setting developer will tell you that the longer a setting's around and the more people write for it and do stuff in it, the harder it is to keep it all strait. I've read interviews with some of the Black Library authors who say that it can sometimes be hell trying to sort through it all when researching before writing a new novel.
great to hear that the baby is fine.
Welcome back navigator
You'll find much less of a disparity as we level- your career dictates your access to loads of piloting skills most of us will simply never get access to, and your key stats will be cheaper to level than ours for the tasks your meant to excel at.
Your stats are about average. Most are over the bench line for RT characters (36).
But as Master of Etherics, your perception may as well be 10 higher for auguries, which already puts you above the Lord-Captain's augury efforts.
You'll find much less of a disparity as we level- your career dictates your access to loads of piloting skills most of us will simply never get access to, and your key stats will be cheaper to level than ours for the tasks your meant to excel at.Your stats are about average. Most are over the bench line for RT characters (36).
But as Master of Etherics, your perception may as well be 10 higher for auguries, which already puts you above the Lord-Captain's augury efforts.
I took a look at the advancement paths and I can see that things will change over time and frankly on a d% scale a difference of 7% or 8% is pretty trivial. So I am more amused than concerned.
Just to clarify some of the word choices and phrases I am using in the third person in Reg's posts, they are meant to convey Reg's prevailing attitude. He's rather impatient and a tad intolerant of anything that would be a "waste of his time". I figured it was easier and simpler to post in that fashion instead of long elaborate posts of Reg's inner monologue.
I just want you all to know I am not intending that to be indicative of my own feelings towards your posting or your character's discussion in any way. I enjoy well thought out posts that include long discussion when appropriate, and as you will probably witness, I can become very long-winded myself. :)
Now I realize as grim as 40k is it isn't nearly as hopeless feeling as Fantasy which is just people waiting for the inevitable Chaos hammer to drop, while 40k is all about how the entire Imperium is "certain" of their superiority and eventual domination of the entire galaxy. This leads to some interesting arguments as to what people know v. don't know, but ultimately everyone is still pretty ignorant as they are basically told what to think by the Ecclesiarchy in regards to the Imperium, xenos, and technology. Chaos is, from my understanding, pretty much a need-to-know basis and is otherwise hidden behind basic tenets such as "Suffer not the mutant" and encouragement for the teeming billions to "self-police" with hysteria and fear.
Some of the players (including myself) have bandied around discussion regarding some potential Inquisition-will-investigate-you type things, and while I don't think we have gone too far over the line, I wanted to ask where you would like us to draw it. Having basic knowledge of enemies for the crew of a ship plying the unknown reaches makes sense, but how far should we take it? Sometimes the exposure to things which are "supposed to be" but turn out differently or discovery that faith in the Emperor doesn't always save a person, can be the heart of the Warhammer experience. I would hate to have us rob you of the ability to make us roll insanity and corruption simply because our characters are RP"d as if all this knowledge is passe.
If you wouldn't mind, I am hoping you are willing to lay down where our knowledge of Chaos and other forbidden topics ends, so we can hopefully keep our characters in the proper mood and thus allowing corruption, xenos taint, and insanity to be made a natural progression as opposed to something "hacked" in because it's a game mechanic.
Inquisitors Vs Rouge Traders? There is a reason why the imperial symbol has two heads haha.
Inquisitors Vs Rouge Traders? ...
I'm gonna need a bigger gun.
I suppose I am just thinking statements like, "Scan for daemons," is a very, very unlikely thing to be heard. Something akin to "Scan for xenos taint" or "warp corruption" would probably be something I would anticipate to be more true to the setting. Assuming that such scans are even possible of course.
Not that I am in any way wanting to start a debate there. I just wanted to get clarification from Hector whether it was okay for us to assume our characters are "in the know" just in case he's wanting to spring something on us and say "roll insanity/corruption/fear" and we're like "yeah but we knew about that, so we shouldn't have to." Then it just becomes a game mechanic instead of feeling like our characters have actually evolved and the insanity/corruption/fear is a truly natural thing.
That make sense?
Makes sense and I'm in agreement. As for me, I tend to keep my IC knowledge and OOC knowledge very separate anyway. Alessaunder will be describing Chaos in very vague terms unless he makes a successful check.
Pilot: Spacecraft is for the big-ass ships with crew, so transports and raiders up.
So is that detailed in the core book? I could not find it but then I have missed the obvious before.
Its not spelt out in the Core Rulebook but just looked at Into the Storm page 170 where it strongly implies any ship that can leave atmosphere is classed as a Space Craft after all. Looks like Alessaunder is actually capable of flying shuttles etc. as well then; but i'm happy for him to not be flying this time.
In regards to the character knowledge thing, Most citizens have heard of Chaos, but they only know of it as the big bad evil thing that will kill, mutate, or corrupt you if you don't pray to the Emperor enough. The same can be said of Xenos. Trick is, you all, as rogue traders, know a bit more of the 'reality' of things. You know what the Warp is and that daemons live there. You know that Chaos is a corrupting force. I'll leave your individual opinions of Xenos up to each of you, for as rogue traders, you've more than likely actually met some. And though the Imperium will never admit it to the masses, even it knows that not all Xenos are bad in the strictest sense (they have fought alongside Eldar before). You have probably never heard of the Horus Heresy, nor are you likely aware that Astartes had anything to do with it, or are in fact even capable of falling to Chaos.
The present discussion reminds me to take Forbidden Lore (xenos) when the opportunity presents itself. The RT will discuss with his retinue his plans for revitalizing the Tyr Dynasty which may include initiatives in the direction of the Cold Trade.
I can already see disapproving frowns appearing on the faces of those with Battlefleet backgrounds.
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Well there are at least 2 other players who have it. I will eventually get rather good at it.
I just had the chance to peruse Deathwatch: Mark of the Xenos. Holy crap. That is a must buy if one is running any WH40k RPG. No lie.
Urgh I hate tag along red shirts.
I hope Hector kills them all brutally, slowly... painfully...
Urgh I hate tag along red shirts.
I hope Hector kills them all brutally, slowly... painfully...
Hey when you have a crew measuring in the thousands there is little need to waste time checking for traps. Besides I suspect they will not burden us for long. It is 40k after all.
Do ship light sources appear to be functional?
Of course not its grimDARK.
FYI, My rotational job has started, so for the next 7 days I'll be working irregular and quite lengthy hours. Just so you know that if I don't post for a day or two, I'm not dead and nor have I forgotten about the game, I'm just sleep deprived.
I apologize for the scarcity of my posting over the last week, but I am once again off rotation and things are back to normal.
No worries.
Bear in mind at least 3 of us have the Paranoia talent, by the way (as the GM is meant to secretly test perception to notice threats etc.)
I did. Hand-rolled em. Would you guys prefer I roll them on here and keep 'em spoilered?
Problem is already being highlighted IMO, because Ludicos has posted an action but some kind of 'enemy' action has yet to be posted before his. I doubt he'd be delaying if all the dead in the room started to rise but now he has written that, the GM could update the round before he gets a chance to change his action.
My recommendation and strong preference would be to do initiative in 'chunks'. In this combat we have chunk 1- Alessaunder and Yosarni are up to post. Once they've both got their actions down, chunk 2- the enemy. Then chunk 3- Silas et al. Its only slightly slower and it allows people to see what the enemy do before they act.
Also Ludicos, you need a command roll to actually give your men orders- a half action in this case and affecting up to your FB in people (your FB is 4 or higher so you can affect all of them).
Finally- Lord-Captain; please remember to tell us who is benefiting from your glorious leadership this combat round (+10% on one roll of that person's choice)
Haha, always glad to be able to help highlight the problems...just wish it wasn't because I was causing them.
I think I will suggest to Regulorum to find a way out of the bridge. We don't want to be home alone with this force field generating enemy.
+10 to Regulorum for Tech-use on my turn.
I believe he decides what to spend the +10 on, you decide who to give it to. Your glorious leadership can manifest in an entirely different way than you expect it to ;)
Copy that First Officer. Just dropping the hint to our Magos on what to use that bonus on hehehe
First Officer, do you think it is economically viable to refurbish the Bounty and a commission it as a House Tyr ship? Do you think our PF is enough to accomplish that?
Nope. Not even close.
lol
Its just one Halo Device gentlemen... To thrive as rogue traders, adversity must be turned into opportunity.
Belay that desire to nuke the Bounty!
We will lose credits on that one!
I recommend we find out how to get that thing off the bridge and out of the ship, like tricking it into an airlock or something.
Viral bombing is always preferable yeah? Get rid of all those troublesome squishy things and leave the hard cool resources ready to be exploi...
taken adva...
Gathered for the greater good of the emperor and empire of course sir!
Waiting on Reg and Vorgen. If they haven't posted an action by tomorrow morning my time, I'll NPC their actions for the turn. Vorgen of course has already made his, so should that happen, I'll just stick with that.
Sorry for the disappearance, but I am back and ready to go. Should my servo-skull also get an initiative, or are we just treating him as an ever present sidekick that's there for flavor?
What is it exactly you're wanting me to do? Depressurize the room?