A Dynasty Reborn

Creating your character

Character creation will be done as a group, dice will be rolled to determine attributes, players will go through the Rogue Trader Life Path one step at a time, taking turns so that all can see the path the others take, but none may know the destination. The pivotal ship, the Ouroboros has story elements which are tied to it, and as such has been designed by the Game Master.

Preparing for the session

We will primarily be using Discord for the purposes of play, anticipate that as the game progresses, and especially when the time comes for ship to ship combat that Roll20 will eventually also be used.

What Gabriel brings to the table

I will use voices, I am not a voice actor so I cannot guarantee perfect consistency, but past players have had a lot of fun with my efforts. I like to center my games on the characters that my players create, building their backstories into the overall narrative as I try to ensure that ever character will have their opportunity to shine. It is important to me that all of my player characters feel that they have an important position within the party and that each of them has a direct impact on the narrative. I can also provide ambient music if the party would like to have it, some parties I have played with preferred not to have it so this is optional. I will also take this time to mention, this is a Grim Dark game in the Warhammer 40k universe, as such it explores a number of sensitive topics, including xenophobia and the belief that humans are the superior species, while this is not the traditional kind of racism we experience, it may be triggering for some. Beyond that this game will explore many other dark elements, not because we condone them, we do not, but because it can be interesting to examine these horrors with friends we can trust. For this reason I will be offering many safety tools and will remain available after the game for some time to chat. I care about all of my players so I want to be available to provide comfort as needed. Also for this reason there is a lengthy list of content warnings, some of which may never even come up, but I can conceive of how they may.

Homebrew rules

Degrees of success from an attack are added as damage to the attack. Players may always take a half move action for free, a full move will instead cost only a half action, running or charging will still be a full action.

How Gabriel creates a safe table

Lines and Veils will be collected by me from the players without the other players needing to know who sent what, I will post all of the lines and veils to the discord at the start of each session, additionally if a topic comes up that makes someone uncomfortable they can either send an X, or N signal to indicate that something is not appreciated, or if I know something that could be triggering for some is about to happen I will check for O's.