Black Cohort

Ven will take an Agility and a Perception advance. I will get an IC post up tonight or tomorrow.

personally I don't think the rpg community on B&C has ever gotten big enough for that to be an issue. there are usually only 2 or 3 games running at any point, and until recently with some new people joining, only 8 or 10 active people. So new threads in the rpg area aren't common and people tend to notice pretty quickly. A discord adds another location to have to pay attention to and half the point of play by post is so you don't have to be watching stuff minute by minute, which discord kind of pushes towards. And I don't know what the B&C admins/mods would think of an associated but not officially so discord. If we get to the point where there are several dozen people and a dozen games that need may change.

I mean he doesn't wear power armour, and doesn't have the obvious augments most marines would have.

I can see a planet being the new "province" it would be weirdly scaled I think (or the map is insanely huge) for a planet to have multiple provinces. especially since this a new game with a new engine, they probably aren't limited to 4 regions per province anymore

Chaos as pre-order bonus? Or unplayable at launch? It seems crazy to have a 40k galaxy map with 0 chaos.

Yeah it will be open recruitment. If you want a general idea of what I am thinking I have posted some stuff in this thread in the rpg development club

Welcome. At some point in the relatively near future (so months not years), after the current "mission" in Time of Reaving (a "deathwatch" HH game) is done that will probably get paused while I run an arc of a new Rogue Trader campaign set in "current" 40k, though with my take on how it should look, not the dumb GW version of recent events.

sorry for the delay, I have been sick a bunch and needed to finish the first draft of an rpg project I am getting paid for.

"The ion pistol is a powerful weapon, Ashmon Son of Ferrus, perhaps the closest in the standard astartes inventory would be the plasma pistol. Not designed to kill a tank like a melta pistol, but certainly punch through heavy armour. If it has a weakness, it is short range."

In character you don't know what stats they have. You might have to test them. But the Ion pistol looks to be a heavy pistol and the plasma blade looks fairly similar to a power sword in size.

I am happy to continue

"We make for the Forge World of Lucius, perhaps from there to Cypra Mundi. Though if the warp is in as much turmoil as my navigator says it is, it will be a long and indirect journey even to Lucius." As the Rogue Trader finished, the Magos arrived with several servants who are carrying a pair of polished wooden cases and a satchel that clearly has cases of ammo. "The items you requested Rogue Trader. An Ion pistol and Plasma blade."

After sprinting for what felt like a minute, Ven stops suddenly in the trees hoping the dark kin lose track of him with his camoleoline cloak.

The Rogue Trader motioned with her hand for someone to go and get the mentioned items. "Vorr is an old world, settled long before the Long Night by Abhumans. While they lost the ability to navigate the Immaterium when the Navigator House that called Vorr home died out, they maintained an otherwise high level of knowledge and a sub-warp fleet."

The Rogue Trader thought for a moment before beginning to answer the astartes barrage of questions. "There are many worlds the light of the Great Crusade has yet to reach. Some are even controlled by various strains of humanity. A handful of those actually have value or have interstellar ships of their own." She took a drink from her goblet before continuing, "Unlike your legions, we are not front line combatants; we are scouts, explorers, sometimes merchants. And Terra's light is far from here, surely there are closer places with astropaths able to spread word. And while I cannot provide you with warriors for your war, we have gained weapons and gear from afar that few in the Imperium have heard of. They are too few to equip any of the Huskarls with; the mining Kindreds of the League of Vorr provided some particularly interesting items."