Character creation by the book. The book clearly states that experienced players may make a "free choice row". The Administratum notes that FFG Rogue Trader is without a single confusing rule or piece of information that may need clarification or errata.

Yes. A single "Free Choice Row".

If I take Pride and Heirloom, Can I choose the relic or must I roll?

If it is along a linear path of your Origin Path choose. If it is a "free row of choice" roll.

Pride would be my 'cheat'... With my rolls I'll play it safe as I only like 2 of the options.

I figured. I just much rather see the "free row" column used for character development. Develop Pride into Saoirse character and "choose" your heirloom. Be warned all motivations will be tested and would expect all players to take motivation as a core part of their PC's decision making process.

Shouldn't be too hard to do, she is our Mistress-of-Arms. I don't mean to single you out, I just am not a fan of min/max. If the free column is used just for stats and gear and doesn't match character make up its difficult to sanction a character sheet.
This message was last edited by the GM at 05:28, Wed 11 Nov 2020.

Greetings all. I shall be managing our purse strings and working on us getting our wealth back. Is but a temporary setback.

*points to BQ Wrath pattern plasma pistol* Can I buy one?

;)

The Dynasty is closer to a plasma pattern Wrath BBQ. : )

Here we go folks, my origin path to see what we have to work with.

Home World: Noble Born (Ohmsworld)
Birthright: In Service to the Throne (Born to Lead)
Lure of the Void: Chosen by destiny
Trials & Travails: Dark Voyage
Motivation: Prestige
Lineage (If used): Disgraced

My basic idea is Luther is from a cadet branch of the dynasty who was shipped off to the Imperial Navy in the hope of pruning said branch. Due to his having the cheek to survive, he found himself the holder of the warrant after the Duke's secession and the Empire's subsequent grumpiness. I'm thinking my Dark Voyage could have brought me into contact with Valsharess, not necessarily a dark voyage for her, after all.

Hi all, I'll go ahead an post my origin path as well:

Sebastion Malhammer Voidmaster, Master of Gunnery/Ordinance

Home World: Battle Fleet
Birthright: Savant
Lure of the Void: Duty Bound (Duty to the Throne)
Trials and Travails: Lost Worlds (Beyond the Pale)
Motivation: Fortune

Sebastion Malhammer was tithed to the Battlefleet due to his exceptional mental acuity; logic, reflexes, spatial awareness.  He was indoctrinated into the Imperial military machine and excelled as a Voidmaster both in piloting and gunnery.  While chasing some Reaver pirates into the Warp there was a failure of mere micro-seconds of the Gellar field.  The things he saw that day...

When the Severan Dominate took over and the Dynasty was nearly revoked enitely, Sebastion was aboard the ship and came to the logical conclusion that rebelling against a rebellious authority was the only true way to stay loyal to the Empire and thus joined the Dynasty despite the rumours...

Since we're sharing;

Home World: Ohmsworld (Hive)
Birthright: Tithed (Replaces Child of the Creed)
Lure of the Void: Renegade (Dark Visionary)
Trials and Travails: Press Ganged (Unwilling Accomplice)
Motivation: Endurance

Initial core concept was someone tithed to the black ships from a pleasure world but as the system doesn't have any, opted for a hiveworld. She's spent most of her early years plying charms in the hives and leveraging her psychic gifts before being snatched up, shipped off, and spending more than a few years of being told what and how to do and had, only of late, gotten a taste of freedom under the new administration.

The Dark Visionary component somewhat ties her to the more unpleasant side of being an Astropath and her attempts to better understand the dangers and nature of her gifts... And as we all know, knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Verity Sondar-Torre, Lord-Captain's Confessor

- Child of Dynasty
- In Service to the Throne: Born to Lead
- Zealot: Favoured of the Faithful
- Darkness: Warp Incursion
- Fear: Tormented by the Unspeakable

Raised in the void on a Sondar Dynasty starship, the Gilded Tower, though his mother was one of the Ohmsworld Torres, a high-ranking Creed Temporal house. Called to the acquilla and joined the Ministorum Galaxia first as a preacher and then confessor. Because of his ties, he was posted to the Haslinger Dynasty and 'reunited' with Luther, though he spent time preaching in the Main Hold before moving to the Haslinger Chapel. During these early years, he undertook several missions for the Ecclesiarchy, ferrying messages or relics or passengers.

It was the more recent years that soured, voyages that should him the darkness in the void and the darkness in the veil beyond it. It was with those that he reconsecrated himself, determined to seek out and reclaim the relics of the past as bastions against the present

- Luther: Potentially childhood companions on Ohmsworld, certainly moved in similar circles and their Dynasties were allies
- Sebastion: If your Gellar field failure happened on a Dynastic rather than Naval vessel, then it's possible that Verity's incursion was the same incident. Regardless, you may have sought him out for confession
- Aline: Struggling for an easy hook, but welcome your suggestions? At the moment the only one I came up with was Verity knowing of her from her earliest profession - not as a client, but if she moved in those circles
- Valsharess: Could have been the one who tormented him, or who saved him from the tormentor?

Searlait Saoirse "Banshee", Mistress-at-Arms for the (Ship name) and Captain of the Guard

Homeworld  :  Deathworld
 - Hailing from Forest world of Cuyayale with the arbours and creatures surrounding the villages and towns of the arboreal surface.

Birthright :  Scavenger
 - Having been born an outcast due to her mother being a latent psyker (Iota class) and being suspected herself caused her to be forced to scavenge to survive until she joined the military.

Lure       :  Crusade (Call to War)
 - With such a harsh background she joined the Imperial Guard as soon as she was able to attempt a better life, or at least a quick end.

Trials     :  Hand of War
 - Having fought the (insert enemy here) on (insert planet here) the regiment she was attached to suffered a staggering 91% casualties and the Imperium decided it wasn't worth the effort to reinforce the regiment or collect them so they were mustered them out where many joined the forces of a passing Rogue Trader who also lost significant forces attached to the campaign.

Motivation :  Pride
 - During the conflict on (Planet) Saint (Name) was killed by the (Enemy) and infuriated at the death and the enemies attempts to butcher the remains she gathered a force of guardsmen and fought tooth and nail to get to the body shooting, stabbing and clubbing them until the formed a cordon around the saint's body, killing the enemy. Attached Ecclesiarchy representatives said that a glowing halo of the God-Emperor's light encompassed Searlait as she led the recovery of the saint and was blessed with their repaired and reconsecrated armour.

Career        :  Arch-Militant
 - After several years of serving the Lord-Captain she rose through the ranks to attain the rank of Arch Militant and Mistress at Arms.

Lineage       :  Witchborn - Proven to be Pure
 - Her mother was captured by the Arbites and tested by the Adeptus Astra Telepathica and was taken into custody. Searlait was tested as well and deemed Pi class, non-psyker.

With that consecrated armour and sainted experience, Searlait and Verity will definitely know each

I dont have much of an Origin path but I am up for connections nonetheless.

Verity: If he was already a previous member of the current ship, I could see her as being one sent in to collect Verity from his tormentors, and putting them out of their misery in the same time. She's an attack dog, though more an attack cat. She will do as she's told, if it pleases her.

In reply to Valsharess (msg # 36):

Works for me!

He might have seen things due to that that left.. An impression, let's say.

“Tormented by the Unspeakable” levels of impression? Works well for me, some nice potential to riff between the characters

Sebastion attends masses, gospels, and sermons but has yet to attend to any confession.  He exudes rigid self-control and proper orthodoxy, which is admirable, but perhaps there is something he is struggling with.

Another nice tension to work with :)

Birthright        : Unnatural Origins
Lure of the Void  : Duty Bound
Trials & Travails : Dark Voyage
Motivation        : Pride
Lineage           : Last Child

Being part of a Navigator House meant Ramirez had likely been planned centuries if not millennia in advance.  He was part of a dying offshoot of House Cassini that went to what even among Navigator Houses is considered extreme in genetic manipulation.  While his youth was spent well beyond the Periphery serving the interests of the God-Emperor he was sent to the Calixis Sector when Aspyce Chorda waged her inner-Dynasty war and wiped out a significant number of the House uncaring of the agreements that had been made before.  The Haslinger Dynasty was one of the more powerful ones near the Expanse where they figured that coming into agreements with them would lead to eventual conflict with Chorda where Haslinger victories would also mean Cassini ones.  Unfortunately Duke Severus threw that into the bin when he declared secession from the Imperium of Man.  Regardless of the fact he was the last of his line in the area they had finally recovered a family heirloom from his relatives that had been secreted away before Chorda could have gotten her hands on it and sent it his way as a blessing of sorts...an ancestral seal given to those Navigators that sailed with the God-Emperor himself on the Bucephelus during the first steps of the Great Crusade.

•Luther - I'm thinking that Ramirez has been with you in the minimum since your Dark Voyage that brought you across Valsharess, if not known earlier, as a secondary or tertiary Navigator on a Navy Ship.  Being a Navigator he's got a level of mobility only equaled by a Rogue Trader...cause it's the Navigators taking them everywhere.

•Sebastion - Depending on if there is a loose connection between you and Luther during the time in the Navy there would be a similarly good angle to know you that way.

•Aline - Only easy hook with you would be potentially as one of the Navigators guiding the voidship that took you finally.

•Valsharess - Long as Luther is good with it our first meeting would have been when he met you.

•Verity - Probably a late connection at first glance, around the time of his being saved from the tormentors by Valsharess.

•Searlait - Seems to be a late connection as well.

Sorry everyone, work was frenetic today. I'll get character stuff sorted soon as I can. :)

My choices are:

Home World: Forge World (Ismongerelane)
Birthright: Savant
Lure of the Void: New Horizons (Seeker of Truth)
Trials and Travails: Ship-Lorn
Motivation: Knowledge (Knowledge is Life, Life is Knowledge)

Axiothea is an Explorator and [redacted] whose existence has largely been given shape by her ties to a Magos of some standing, first being raised from relative obscurity by their agents and then over a period of many years brought into their confidence and immersed in their particular doctrine. This certainly isn't her first extended voyage away from Ismongerelane, though with any luck it might go a little more smoothly than the last. Indeed she has something of a mixed reputation back home for managing to save the remnants of her previous expedition (and more importantly some of its discoveries) by employing methods that all but invited censure. Even with friends in moderately-high places she's still had to keep her head down to avoid the worst case scenarios.

I've been thinking of her as someone Luther either "inherited" with his command or who perhaps negotiated passage and ongoing service to escape heat back home; honestly I'm not confident enough with the timeline to be too sure about what fits and what doesn't. She could be a recent pick-up or someone who's known the ship longer than its captain, and I'd be happy either way.

If anyone wants to have a connection just mention here or in PM.

Also do we have an idea on the amount of SP we have and preferences on ships?

There will be 60 ship points to spend.

We will be making the ship collectively. Wanderer and I have decided that each of you will make a single contribution to the ship's choices. You will be told what choice you get to make. The choice is based on your character class.

Once the components have been decided, we will go back and look at it all together to see if you are happy with the ship you have built.

This upcoming thread is the acid test. You will be required to post helpfully as a team. I know you all are very excited, but don't overwhelm the thread with too many posts. That makes it hard for others to follow. Also, don't just ghost on us without notice.

Once the ship is completed, we will be ready to begin the first endeavor.