Sounds good and with this much interest I will be pushing forward for this game. I will be going for option #2 but will default to #1 if no one takes the RT spot. I'll create a few threads and drop the link.

Howdy Brim!

I for one am interested if you want to have me along for the ride. :)

Lately I have been toying with the idea of running a Rogue Trader game, but one set inside the Jericho Reach and part of the war.  My idea sort of places the Rogue Traders and their ships along the lines of Merchant Marines for the area, but also with the stipulation that the Rogue Traders can still explore, advance and establish trade with planets.  I am curious to see what the general opinion of the player population here is to this concept.  Rogue Trader is still a newer system to me.  The 40k universe is familiar to me as a player of a Deathwing army on tabletop, but obviously this is a different aspect to the universe.

So simply put, what do you guys think of this concept for a game?  My vision would involve a great deal of space combat along with exploration and xeno interaction as I feel the Tau would be the best venue for the Rogue Traders.
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Wow! And I thought we were all in a warp cryogenically sealed tube until next Crazy October, or any movement stern aft.  In reply to KraznyOctober, I have been wanting to play in space with the Emperor off my back since the game hit the shelves, every game PbP unfortunately has crashed and burnt upon take off.)  Even though I still just enjoyed the time we we're playing, I am that sick kind of role-player that only rule is to have fun;)  (Emoticon Overuse Warning System Employed!).  O.K. o.k. alright.

Option one like Jan;)  No harm Brim or anyone RL messes RPoL up big time, back to Option one.  We run KraznyOctober's game.  At least eight players will join in, (my guess, maybe six, a lot of people have spent hundreds of posts in character creation and watched them die.)  It may be more difficult than I first thought, I think disenchanted is probably apropos at this time, that is my estimation and luckily I am wrong 51% of the time, 95% percent of the time.

Option two:  Ifinally get up off my sorry arse and run a game of my own, which I was hoping to kickoff on the 4th.

Option three:  We band together and pool the remaining stragglers out of the warp drowning and run any game, any game.  I will gladly CO-Gm.  I have no problem with playing second fiddle.

Option four:  Everyone who has been playing awesomely that I have played with and yes I know who you are gives the game on RPoL one more chance provided they have the time, energy, mental fortitude and get rid of some insanity points:)  And comes up with a common solution to a common problem!

Option five:  I really like the idea of banding together to run RPoL games, I said it once I will say it again, emphasizing the use of two GM's, plus with the sound of your "setting" Krazy, in the Jericho reach.  I always thought RT was the greatest platform game 40k had.  So what if a Rouge Trader is "confiscated', "bonded", "loaned, "leased", by the long reaching arm of an Commissar leading a group of Imperial Guardsmen for an "ONLY WAR!" mixed in with "Rouge Trader", sounds fun, and something will most likely blow up in less than fifty posts!

Option Six: Def-Con One! Someone else has a brilliant plan about this game called "Rouge Trader", and this thread is taken over by a hostile acquisition.



Post Script:  Excuse the sarcasm it is really veiled tired whiney white collar problems on my favorite and absolutely best 40k forum this side of Koronus.  Good Luck to everyone's running games and blessed be ye bolters and die roller!

Kind of want to play a Rogue Trader game lately...

Lately I've been watching the new Black Sails tv series and it's inspired me to flip through my RT book again... So I was wondering if there would there be any interest in an RT game with a more piratical (I am aware that's not a real word) feel than the usual games.

I'd be down for a RT game.   EVERY one that I have joined has died out way too soon after character gen.  Plus pirates are coool=:)

Well, an RT is just an ethical slip away from being a pirate so why not!

Some piracy would be an interesting adventure.

I'd be interested in some pirating

So would I

Yo-ho, a pirate's life for me!

If I were perhaps maybe to kind of run a piracy game, what would you guys be looking for? Would it just be a crew attacking/looting vessels and adding to their fleet? What else would be involved in the game?

My basic premiss for a game is perhaps less illegal pirates and more Imperial sanctioned privateers, setting the game in either the Jericho Reach or the Spinward front. That would give the players freedom to pursue their own agenda and still having opportunities with the imperial authorities.

There's little real point in adding freighter (the most obvious prey) to a pirate fleet. Or else you're really a trader with a very aggressive acquisition department :) I think a pirate game should also have:

• Some kind of home base were captured ships and cargo (and crew, maybe) can be sold.
• Which immediately opens a lot of adventures in bars and encounters with shady contacts.
• The occasional plundering action against planets, space bases, etc.

That should work well. After all, outside of official Empire territory, the rogue trader IS the law. Almost any action he takes is by definition sanctioned by the Empire... even if said action is preying on local shipping.

Not big into Rogue Trader but I would assume plenty of running from Imperial Fleets, selling said booty, buying more gun, also shore leave, gotta spend that money on wenches and wine after all, maybe some mystery and horror on the ship when something not human gets aboard, maybe even a mutiny if the crew gets uppity. Also lots of scurvy if the players forget to buy citrus fruit while in port lol.

Maybe to fruit with them even more have the Gellar Field crash while in warp muahahahaha.
This message was last edited by the GM at 14:42, Fri 28 Feb 2014.

That's not fruiting with your players, that's killing your players. If you're that tired of the game, just suggest the group switch to something else for a while :)
This message was last edited by the GM at 14:42, Fri 28 Feb 2014.

In my honest, yet unhumble opinion the Rouge Trader "phenomena", is as baffling as the space in which the men with the Warrants of Trade travel.  I remember the excitement of the build up before it came out, seems like longer than 2009.  I do not know of one game here on RPOL that has done very well, but I don't think it is all on the GM.

RT is huge in scope, and I am amazed still at the unique and vastly different feelings and flavors each GM has tried here on RPOL.  I do humbly believe if the game's dynamic is hashed out before RTJ's things might get through the Warp.

Starting with character creation, are you going to do it by the book?  A joint effort could take months and seems to kill games, but the ones that seem to have little character involvement in the building of the ship also do not seem to go over as well.

And who comes down to being the Rouge Trader or How many Rouge Traders are there?  And then the one I think really gets it going south spineward is REALLY what the frakk are we all doing in a 41k starship?

Do you want to pirate or privateer, do you accept Dark Eldar aboard, do any of the characters have any reason really to be with each other at all? These seemingly little things get big when you take on a Warrant of Trade.  And even if it flopped at 100 posts I will throw my Seneschal into the ring again, because it is frakking ROUGE TRADER.  And nothing, nothing is as cool as "Space Gangstas".

Just a reminder that this is not labelled an adult site so keep the language appropriate.  Thanks.

My apologies.

Why those sectors? Especially if the game were more piratical, wouldn't it be better out in the Expanse where there's less Imperial authority and therefore more freedom to pursue a given agenda?



There are all questions I hope to answer before I commit to running such a game. I'm hoping to get answers to the question of "What do you hope to get out of the game?" from the seven or eight people who responded to crownblade's original post.

To give my initial answers (that can be persuaded to change) to your specific questions, though:
1) Character creation would be done as normal but with Motivation as a free-row.
X) Ship creation / starting PF and SP would depend on the answer to question 4.
2) One rogue trader (or pirate captain).
3) The same reason you're all in the same squad, the same DW team, the same warband, or the same acolyte cell - the Emperor wills it. Specifically applied to RT, though, the captain must have chosen each of you for some reason: your connections, your abilities, politics, etc.
4) Pirate or privateer (essentially, pirate or rogue trader) is the real question that needs to be answered.
5) Depends on what the group decides. Xenos are a big part of any game they're included in, and it should be agreed upon by everyone.
6) See number 3.

Why those sectors? Especially if the game were more piratical, wouldn't it be better out in the Expanse where there's less Imperial authority and therefore more freedom to pursue a given agenda?
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Because the war(s) would be a good background for sanctioned privateering as well as allowing for 'regular' piracy.

Looking for ideas on what a ship design would be like for a Missionary RT game. I am far from the finest void craft lather I was looking for opinions on what people here imagined a ship of faith run by pirates might actually go out as. At first I thought a huge ironclad forward cannon behemoth, but is there room for a streamlined dare say craftworld like vessal running on speed and deception. I imagine the game of looting artifacts whilst spreading the holy creed. Indiana Jones meets the Inquistor meets Spelljammer? Thoughts ideas, not much was said of the now complete set of RT that ended with the ecclesiastical. Peace or pieces of it....

Ravenor pulp omnibus foil cover up to 80+ crowns time to cash in on those special editions crafty Rogue collectors stowed away in their own vaults. GW stock up... strange days in the expanse......

I'd think heavy and armored to intimidate the heretics.

This is a problem in Traveller games also due to the sandbox nature. There are some "tools" that can alleviate the problem. The one that has worked best for me is the "Captain's Table" thread.

>Essentially, it's an OOC forum where the players can quickly plan things out without adding fluff.
>Once a decision is made, regardless of whose idea it is, the Captain then posts IC about making the decision.



An Ascension-DH style game I was in opted for this and it worked really well. I was the Inquisitor but basically everyone had a chance to run the show or get their opinion on courses of action without penning some obsequious IC post "suggesting" to the Inquisitor a different plan. Cut down on player conflict and such as well.

And, in reading the IC threads, it presented a cool feel that the Inquisitor was completely in control and decisive... when I basically just let everyone else decide the course of action.