Seeing how there is so much interest, I'm throwing my hat into the GM circle. I want to know what you guys are looking for.

1) whose side are you on? Imperium, chaos, Xenos (Tau, Ork, Eldar*)
2) Main focus of the game? War, trading, politics, Military (Ie. instead of someone being a rogue trader you're all serving abaord an Imperial Navy vessel)

Those of you who are interested let me know. I may do 2 crews looking at the interest generated here but more likely will have 1 but allow multiple careers as we will be using the ship roles out of Into the Storm, depending on how many are interested.

If the interest is to play it from the Imperium side, I may allow kroot and Ork as long as there is no issues from the players. It can tend to be a game breaker and I don't want it DOA.

I have the core book, Into the storm, Battlefleet Kronus, Lure of the Expanse and the frozen reaches.

I only ask this, that those who are interested please be truly interested. I'm game to do it as long as there is interest.

* in the case of Eldar seeing how they have no rules for them, you would be trusted mercenaries working for a craftworld. For the tau, you would be humans and kroot. Orks, well you would all be orks.

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I'd like to play in a straight up Imperial out of the book game. I've got back stories ready to go for an RT, an Arch-Mil, a Navigator (I'd need GM approval on the house and mutations).

I'd either want to play a Rouge trader or an arch-millitant.

I say Imperium, Orks while fun would grow quickly into slapstick, chaos is not my forte and Eldar is just to weird to get it right and we don't have rules for them anyway, though Tau could be interesting. But Imperium is best imo.

For characters, I believe you want us to be Navy Ratings?

That could be an option if you didn't want to do a rogue trader based game but a more militant version. You could all begin to work your way up the ranks to the point of captaining your own vessel. It's an option.

I would be up for that, I guess.

Game is up. I will be taking 10 people max, min 8 people to cover all our bases and to have a couple extras. Mature rated game. Only thing I ask is you have atleast the core book. I have into the storm and am willing to look anything up for people who don't have it.

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Going to be using some supplements, but it is there for those who want a more militant game. Rogue trader and crew with strong ties to the Imperial navy. I have a Seneschal and a Rogue Trader to captain the ship. Backgrounds will be worked out a head of the time.

I'm now desperate for a RT game, any GMs out there willing to try one out? :)

Likewise, I and a friend are looking around for one on rpol but nothing seems open for players.

I am having the same problem. Worse, I applied to join a bunch of games and none of the GMs involved have given me a denial or acceptance.
This message was last edited by the player at 04:50, Fri 22 July 2011.

I'll check again, to see if anyone's gained an interest in GMing a RT game.  I think we'd still be very interested in taking part in one. :)

I've posted before and I'll say it here again.  A RT game would be wonderful beyong belief.  Part of me still really wants to try out my Kroot cocnept, provided I can find a GM and crew it works with. :D

At the risk of resurrecting an old thread;

Are there any GMs out there for Rogue Trader?

RT is a myth, nobody runs good games for that :(

Why is that? RT seems to be the least popular of the 40k line and I wonder why. I've played it once and found it very entertaining. Reminded me of some of my old traveller adventures but on a grander scale

I found it fun and entertaining as well but I think it may be something of an issue of scale in the same sense that Only War has an issue getting past regiment generation.

The process of creating a ship, establishing the dynasty and what not takes a lot of time..

And since time can often have people drop out, RT dies often fairly quick.. Or of course you got a case of GM's vanishing.

True I found in most of the only war games I've been in that by the time you've created everything people start loosing interest. Perhaps the only way to do it when gaming online is for the GM to do all the work before hand so the players just do their characters and get started.

If you were gaming round a table I think it would be a bit less problematic.

In reply to jamat (msg # 153):

It is, because you can get it done with in a couple a hours. Or if you don't have the silly long sessions I have with my group. Plan a session for that.

It doesn't help that the odds of getting a good GM who's willing to commit to the game long-term is virtually zero.

I don't think its a case of finding a good gm I just think these rules don't lend itself to online playing unless the design work is done before hand. I would imagine the gm has the best intentions at the beginning then gets as bored as the players over the time it takes to get started

Basically, yes. I've found RT games with at least some initial ground work of the Dynasty in question was laid out because it was important to the over all plot. I don't mind ship building myself so much in PBP play but that's usually cause I sort of want long haul. :P

As a long-time 40K GM with an interest in Rogue Trader, I would say my biggest barrier to running one PBP-style would be that anything and everything would take forever to get done unless I ran a very focused adventure, which isn't what I would want to do with RT. The expansiveness and freedom of the game (which I think is one of its strengths) works against it here, at least when I consider which game to run. I almost have a similar problem with Only War but I think I would personally be more willing to run a directed/focused adventure with that game than I would be with Rogue Trader.

My two gelt.

I think its finding a group and GM willing to stick in it for the long haul and who will accept that things will not always go that fast, given that it is a PBP medium.