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Warhammer 40k: Beyond the Pale - A Rogue Trader Adventure

@TheMagician Would make sense, as the native population was liquidated after Magnus' invasion. Honestly, I'm still not sure why you need to have them attacked on Fenris - if you like that's fine - but it seems simpler to just have him fight alongside the Wolves or some such in a more general setting.

Overall the choice is yours!

Any chance you could pop onto the Discord server? Don't have to, of course.

Warhammer 40k: Beyond the Pale - A Rogue Trader Adventure

@TheMagician Can't see anything egregiously wrong, but there are a couple of things that could streamline it.

Firstly his history - we're in a period where the only living Cadians would be those found on Cadian colony worlds, those that saw Cadia burn either being vastly old or dead. Also, why the connection with Fenris? Why not just have him fight alongside the Wolves against the Sons on another battlefield?

Secondly, while Cadians are excellent infantrymen and specialists, things such as Basilisks and tanks take particular training - so unless Hamilton trained as an artilleyman or tank operative, that's a bit much to shove in his skill; being good with various forms of hand-held weapons, that's fine.

These things excluded, all seems pretty good! Has what I've pointed out make sense to you?

Warhammer 40k: Beyond the Pale - A Rogue Trader Adventure

@TheMagician Here would be ideal, thank you - I may well use some dice rolls, or ask you to, but it will be primarily narrative indeed.

Warhammer 40k: Beyond the Pale - A Rogue Trader Adventure

I would be very keen to join this RP if there are spots available. A couple of questions though:
You posted the discord link, is this taking place entirely on discord once things are set up here?
Is this a freeform play-by-post or are we using rules from one of the WH40k RPGs?
Yeah, that's a couple. All I've really got burning my mind for now

@TheMagician

The Discord group is for ease of communication, and as a central hub for writers to discuss, ask questions etc - the actual writing will be done here on RPG.

Not sure what you mean by your second question... we'll be going by a standard general ruleset I.E. no godmodding, whatever I say goes, if you write your character doing something stupid then they likely will die, and so on.

I would like participants to use their noggins in terms of what they write though, as after laying down a groundwork in a sort of 'update post' to set the scene, it's probable that posts between characters etc will be more free-flowing as long as they don't derail the plot.

Not sure that helps or answers your question though, so feel free to explain to stupid old me if it hasn't.

Warhammer 40k: Beyond the Pale - A Rogue Trader Adventure

@Xenonia@Flagg@Lady Selune@BangoSkank@BCTheEntity@ReedeThe23rd@ReedeThe23rd@Jamesyco@Hank@Searat

You were all in the last iteration of this RP and I failed you, if you would like to join - and give me a chance to redeem myself - then please feel free to do so. Use the same characters or no, I'll leave that to you. If you do not wish to join then I completely understand but thought I'd extend an invitation.

Thank you.

Warhammer 40k: Beyond the Pale - A Rogue Trader Adventure

Beyond the Pale

This RP is NOT accepting new characters

Discord Link: discord.gg/DGvd75YHcZ

Tell us a tale...

Welcome to this role play, another attempt on my own part to see a Trader RP take off of the ground under my supervision- I'll admit it hasn't gone too well thus far, but I like to be optimistic about these things!

I have also decided to 'reformat' this version somewhat.

Rogue Trader Rudyard Falcon-Cook of Praetoria has recently received his families Warrant of Trade, an artefact from a bygone age said to have the text written using the God-Emperors own blood (allegedly), being the eldest son of the Falcon-Cook dynasty he is required to acquire both a vessel and a crew to accompany him on his voyages into the vast and unknown oceans of space.

This is where you come in!

What a character...

Your character possibly already knows Rudyard- in spite of his lack of experience as a fully fledged Trader he is not without connections, and far from some green space rookie, having previously travelled with his father, brother, and sister on expeditions of their own – or they may have been selected by him personally from an assortment of candidates, either way the Falcon-Cooks are a wealthy and well-known family and have wisely put before him a number of skilled prospects.

Meeting on the bridge of the Praetorian Steel, an altered Sword-class Frigate made decidedly more agreeable for commerce and deep-space travel, while still maintaining some ability to fight off adversaries, the selected few are to become the 'bridge crew' so-to-speak of the expedition.

Each character needs to contribute something to the team in terms of skills – a medicae, a record keeper, a tech-priest or biologis, a soldier etc – while still leaving room for development as the roleplay progresses.

It may be proper to think of this as a grim, dark, or even grimdark version of Star Trek in nature, mingled with real-world naval exploration and the like; I intend to be quite 'open' here, with scenarios ranging from simple trades, to spirit/daemon hunts, to possibly even deciding a war, the scales go up and down, I'm also happy to talk paths over with other writers if they think they've got a good idea.

The disclaimer...

Think of this part as a form of unwritten contract, I intend to do my utmost to keep things moving, and to provide what I wish to be an enjoyable experience for all; in order to do this I need writers I can trust to remain onboard and not abandon ship (no pun intended), or at least not without telling me – people have ghosted me and my roleplays in the past (as I have also made my own errors), and this has unfortunately made me quite cynical when it comes to to these things.

If you have questions, ask me. If you need a hiatus for whatever reason, please tell me. If you intend to leave outright for whatever reason, again please just tell me.

In order to make this a continuous, or at least long-term, endeavour and something worth spending a good deal of time on I need to know my fellow writers understand this.

As Hannibal Lecter might say, quid pro quo.

Creating life...

If you're interested, then please post your sheets in a hider in a comment in the OOC tab, NOT the Character tab.

Character Sheet Template

[b]Name:[/b] Your character's name. A pretty obvious one, so enough said.

[b]Age:[/b] Unless you are not human, then please use common sense.

[b]Gender:[/b] Male, female or other.

[b]Race:[/b] Humanoid only, and try to keep them plausible.

[b]Appearance:[/b] A [i]written[/i] description of your character's appearance. No pictures. Please include here any [b]weapons[/b] they may have, and any [b]armour or clothing[/b] as well.

[b]Personality:[/b] What kind of person is your character, what are their motivations etc, and how do they interact with others?

[b]Relationship to the Dynasty:[/b] If any.

[b]History:[/b] A sketch of your character's life and history, preferably until their arrival at Praetoria. Give me three solid paragraphs, at least, please.

[b]Skills:[/b] What skills do they possess, how did they come by them, what have they used/been using them for?

[b]Equipment:[/b] What do they bring with them/carry on their person? Be sensible when deciding, as weight and wealth are both an issue.

[b]Miscellaneous:[/b] Anything you want to mention but haven't been able to cover yet.

And there it is.

So, there we are!

If you have any (all) questions then please do ask me, either here on through Discord, and I'll answer as soon as I can.

Remember, the Emperor protects.