This will be our out of character discussion thread

Let's have everybody open up with a post describing what your character looks like.

Greetings, mon-keigh. I'll be your shipbound butcher.

... and I the Lord-Captains confessor

I am sure we'll get along just fine.

Greetings all I am Your Arch-Militant, Mistress-at-Arms.

Good evening, I am the master Gunner.  I speak quietly but with great force.  Still working on a description and such.  I look forward to blowing things up with you all.

Morning folks, this is your captain speaking. Play nice and please ignore any rumours about xenos stalking the ship or grisly hidden trophy rooms. This is an Emperor (and Inquisition) fearing ship, totally above board.

Hello! I am your Choir Master and provider of long range communications.

Things are still coming together.

Hi, question for you, would Armour of Contempt reduce Corruption points that you might acquire on your origin path?

It's not for me, I'm asking this for...a friend.

I've not seen anyone try that before but...if a ST was willing to entertain it I'd imagine it would only apply to corruption gained after your picking it up on the origin path.

Also, 'alo.

I'll be your tour guide for the Haunted Warp House for...the foreseeable future.

I would tell your friend his heart is in the right place, very Roguish indeed. You create Characteristics first, then go down the Origin Path, finally spend XP.

So If you can obtain Armor of Contempt on the Origin Path before said Corruption would come into play: Yes. If you can not: No.

My friend would love to hear that.

Armour of Contempt would be granted by the Lure of the Void and the Corruption from Trials and Travails.

I'll let my friend know and modify accordingly.

Hi everyone.

As perhaps the only person on this vessel who understands the arcane science necessary to repair a broken recaff machine, I trust I can expect you all to recognise me as behind only our Lord-Captain in importance to this voyage.

When it comes to fixing the broken Recaff machine you are the MOST important.

Seconded.

All right, listen up! All loyal sons and daughters of the Emperor, take a seat! The rest of you have to stand.

I am the Reaver, and this is the Wanderer. We will be your Co-operative Game Masters for this campaign. One of us is the nice one and the other one hates you.

Wave to the nice people, Wanderer. Wanderer has read the rulebook and seems to have retained most of it, so they're going to be the rules-adjudicator for the first while.

I have been running Deathwatch for the last two years so I have the subconscious belief you are all Space Marines.

TO CREATE YOUR CHARACTERS:

You will generate characteristics by rolling 2d10 + 25, all the way down the line. You may reroll one number of your choice and keep the new result. You may swap one pair of characteristics.

You will select your own options of Origin Path. For your Home World, you will select one of the planets of the Periphery, now known as the Severan Dominate, from the Background thread.

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You will have 500 experience points to spent to increase Characteristics, acquire or improve Skills, acquire new Talents, and so on. You are rank 1 to start with.

Your group's Profit Factor begins at 30, due to your Dynasty's sudden shortfall of credibility and the nationalization of most of their wealth.

Once you have gotten that far, you have some homework for me. Go to the Private Messages thread, and send me a NEW private message on a NEW thread. This will create a thread from your character, which makes it easier for me to send you PMs during the game. The new thread title can be something like

(Character Name) OoC PM thread

which I will understand to mean

(Character Name) does not want to be eaten by a Bloodthirster

Aside from telling me you are done with the initial creation of your character, you have a question to answer. To wit:

The Rogue Trader Luther Haslinger has recently taken command of a new starship. Did you serve with him prior to this change, or were you serving aboard this ship when he came to command it?

Luther, maybe give us some details about your origin to help them make that decision.

We will begin ship creation once the GMs have everyone's new PMs. There will be 60 ship points to spend. More details on that later.

I'm a little confused. Maybe I misunderstood, but I thought The Wanderer had told me in PMs that we were using point buy.

That was a test and you passed. We are going to be using Point buy for characteristics.

Does origin path need to be linear?

Yes the Origin Path must retain a line of some sort from Homeworld to Career.

I presume no free pick row or similiar then on the chart?