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.