Young Freud posted:

Yeah, I think I'm more accepting of a Chaos Titmarine than a renegade Sister of Battle. A sororita would rather have a Space Marine lube their chainswords with her own blood than go against the Emperor and specifically the Adeptus Sororitas.

WINNERSH TRIANGLE posted:

Liesmith posted:

Bolters have machine spirits, and a high quality astartes bolter might have thousands of machine spirits, each serving a sacred purpose in the gun. They are ludicrously advanced weapons. The only reason they might not be MIU compatible is because they are TOO COOL for your run of the mill MIU and will fry anyone who even tries to link with them unless they are an inquisitor or techmarine or similar worthy. IMO.

Man-Thing posted:

So question about pinning: Our group's Missionary uses a flamethrower, which apparently just werfs flammens, so the opponent makes a dodge roll, rather than him making an attack roll.

When an Explorer is pinned down by surpressive fire, they take a -20 to their BS checks. Does a flamethrower completely sidestep this, by not making BS checks? We houseruled it on the fly to give the other guys +20 to their dodge roll instead, but if someone could quote chapter-and-verse what the actual effects are in Rogue Trader, that'd be .

Mechafunkzilla posted:

Dark Heresy is actually really great for introducing new players to 40k. Right now in the Black Crusade campaign I'm running, the PC's are tagging along on an Astartes Strike Cruiser filled with Slaanesh-worshipping Chaos Space Marines that's trying to assault a Black Ship of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica, while they're accompanying a Skitarii of the Dark Mechanicus to recover a xenotech artifact. I couldn't imagine bringing a player not familiar with 40k into that game and trying to bring them up to speed .

Solus posted:

So I'm shooting my Heavy Stubber with Automated Reload, Tearing and Storm.

It has a Damage Profile of -/-/10 and 1D10+5

If I roll enough to shoot 5 bullets, I know I rolled 5D10. but do I add +25 or just +5

Liesmith posted:

Yeah shooting a navigator is not really justifiable in character, and obviously inter-party conflict should never happen unless all parties are willing, otherwise the arch militant or the ork completely controls the flow of the game and also no one has any fun at all and you lose friends. but more importantly your ship is now adrift and incapable of making its way through the warp. Hope you have enough cryochambers for everyone because this ship is gonna take a couple of centuries before the degenerate tribals that your crew will become can manage to bring it back to port.

kingcom posted:

With regards to late game (not talking Ascension here as that games a big pile of insanity for many reasons) assuming your not doing anything special there are still fairly weighty costs. A heavy bolter costs 2,000 thrones and every single full auto attack costs the player 160 thrones. A rank 8 assassin only makes 216 thrones a month. Saving up for that weapon is a big cost and even greater is the 160 throne fee, almost a months salary to fire it. Thats a fairly big investment, particularly if you can get away with something cheaper.

MaliciousOnion posted:

According to their tabletop codex, they aren't allowed to ally with psykers except Grey Knights. Also, remember that they still rely on Navigators and Astropaths.

Ashcans posted:

Yea, that is one of the things that I am sort of trying to work out. I mean for stuff like technical staff you obviously have an Explorator who is in charge, and then there are whole levels of underlings who are Tech-Priests, Enginseers, down to the guys whose job it is to pour the sacred oil onto the gun tracks three times a day while chanting (or whatever). It's weirder with people like Navigators and Astropaths because they are simultaneously characterized as being extremely rare and essentially irreplaceable, but also apparently needed in fair amounts.

And it's complicated by the fact that the ship is supposed to be a busted-up smuggler that usually runs on regular trading routes within the Imperium, and only takes the occasional, unsanctioned, jaunt to other places - rather than the standard Rogue Trader template. So, for instance, I decided that they probably don't have an Astopath on board - 95% of the time they are operating safely within Imperial space where they wouldn't need one, and when they're off-course who are they going to call anyway? I also thought that because they are mostly on known routes and stuff they could make do with a single real Navigator, and have him supported by conventional chartists and cogitators - it would only be on the off-route travel that he would be doing serious work.

I suppose the ship could have a number of Navigators, even just people with the gene who are still in apprenticeship or whatever? But if the Acolytes execute the head Navigator, it's not like the rest of his family/underlings are going to stay on, and they really can't compel them to (at least not in an Imperial port, if they were jacking the ship in the black it would bea different matter I suppose)

Liesmith posted:

His responsibilites aboard ship have been taken over by an NPC named Cleve who regularly says stuff like "blood for the blood God-Emperor. Skulls for the Golden Throne" and Chunk just tells him to carry on.

Blueballs posted:

We used that link from earlier in my group on Sunday to get some characters together and there is also a ship creator there. One of my friends who has zero knowledge of the 40K universe was tasked with creating the ship. He handed me an extremely badass frigate with no gellar field generator.

B.B. Rodriguez posted:

What about an extra boob/dick from Slaanesh or a giant blade where your arm used to be from Khorne?

Kai Tave posted:

I'd say low on the actual Profit Factor since you're basically giving it to the Navy out of what passes for the goodness of your hearts and since the Navy probably wouldn't be tremendously inclined to buy one of their own (very, very valuable) ships that they view as theirs by right

goatface posted:

There's a lot of handwaving and mysterious artifice to ensure that the appropriate people are present for every fight. Kroot that are heavily implied to have had contact with the Tau are found in the Koronus Expanse - despite it being on entirely the wrong side of the galaxy - so you can argue that there are strange warp-paths that can make travel around the galaxy easier.

goatface posted:

I think it's "rumoured" as part of the Kroot background in Rogue Trader.

SpiritOfLenin posted:

We are going to be meeting it inside some mining facility

MilkmanLuke posted:

Isn't Traveller the GURPS of space games?

Funktastic Dog posted:

What does the inside of a starship look like? Is it just a bunch of different room within that massive thing, or is it more like this http://i.imgur.com/ZVhNFgw.jpg

Ronwayne posted:

Might wanna make it 1d20. 2d10 means results 9-12 will be the most common and 2 and 20 almost never.

Tias posted:

Oh, darn. Math never was my strong suit

Would doing it like so be better?

Funktastic Dog posted:

goatface posted:

It would be an interesting way to insert a few thousand drop troopers. Have the heat shield break away at about 20 km up, let the troops spread out in freefall and drop onto their target. A sort of extreme HALO jump that you start by being fired as part of a macrocannon barrage.

FireSight posted:

Navigators are a weird point. In RT they mutate like mad, but outside of RT, fluff never had them be mutated... fat sometimes, but not mutated. I don't know where that came from. Either way, since they breed true, and stick to breeding in their own Houses, they remain under the Accepted Abhuman umbrella.

Night10194 posted:

I've always kinda wondered why Navigators are PCs in RT. It seems kind of suicidally insane to take the dude who knows how to navigate your ship and send him into a sword fight alongside the bridge crew.