While creating characters, I like to take advantage of the option to give them any gear of common availability and common craftsmanship. It can help round out the character's inventory and also personality. The guy with 10 packs of Lhosticks is clearly a whole different personality to the guy with none, who only drinks Tranq.
What I'm looking for is a list of all the gear with common or greater availaiblity from the the dark heresy Core Rulebook and Inquisitor's handbook. Is there such a thing? For Rogue Trader purposes the availability is all that matters. I have the rulebooks, but it is timeconsuming to trawl through them each time to picks out 9-70s and sparkrocks and obscure sidearms.
Incidentally for those who use the rule, what kind of extra gear do you like to pick?
I like to go with a silenced stub auto and maybe an overcharged laspistol sidearm, a dataslate or two, and of course frag and smoke grenades. Martial characters usually get a good selection of the infrantryman gear from the warzone section of the inquisitor's handbook, and everyone gets a survival suit and flugs at the very least.